--- Log opened Fri Feb 25 00:00:34 2011 00:00 -!- CRasH180 [~CRasH180@pdpc/supporter/silver/CRasH180] has quit [Quit: leaving] 00:05 -!- sync [~sync@c-98-242-80-239.hsd1.ga.comcast.net] has joined #se2600 00:23 -!- forgottenwizard [~none@unaffiliated/forgottenwizard] has quit [Ping timeout: 276 seconds] 01:19 < Mercster> just hit knoxville 01:19 < Mercster> whoo 01:19 < Mercster> pretty good storm 01:24 -!- forgottenwizard [~none@unaffiliated/forgottenwizard] has joined #se2600 01:29 -!- forgottenwizard [~none@unaffiliated/forgottenwizard] has quit [Client Quit] 01:35 -!- forgottenwizard [~none@c-69-180-212-236.hsd1.tn.comcast.net] has joined #se2600 01:35 -!- forgottenwizard [~none@c-69-180-212-236.hsd1.tn.comcast.net] has quit [Changing host] 01:35 -!- forgottenwizard [~none@unaffiliated/forgottenwizard] has joined #se2600 01:37 -!- forgottenwizard [~none@unaffiliated/forgottenwizard] has quit [Client Quit] 01:38 -!- forgottenwizard [~none@c-69-180-212-236.hsd1.tn.comcast.net] has joined #se2600 01:38 -!- forgottenwizard [~none@c-69-180-212-236.hsd1.tn.comcast.net] has quit [Changing host] 01:38 -!- forgottenwizard [~none@unaffiliated/forgottenwizard] has joined #se2600 01:38 -!- forgottenwizard [~none@unaffiliated/forgottenwizard] has quit [Client Quit] 01:56 -!- forgottenwizard [~none@c-69-180-212-236.hsd1.tn.comcast.net] has joined #se2600 01:56 -!- forgottenwizard [~none@c-69-180-212-236.hsd1.tn.comcast.net] has quit [Changing host] 01:56 -!- forgottenwizard [~none@unaffiliated/forgottenwizard] has joined #se2600 02:12 -!- forgottenwizard [~none@unaffiliated/forgottenwizard] has left #se2600 ["WeeChat 0.3.4"] 02:40 < Mercster> Australian species exhibit special structures on the head, which apparently take over certain tasks in transferring sperm to the females. In 02:40 < Mercster> the species Euperipatoides rowelli, sperm is collected by these structures, and, when a female is encountered, the worm inserts its head in the 02:40 < Mercster> vagina. 02:40 < Mercster> :| 02:49 <@Bahhumbug> Talking about your family's reproductive habits? 02:54 < Mercster> how dare you make that connection 02:54 < Mercster> we are *not* australian 03:07 -!- mog [~mog@c-68-62-169-225.hsd1.al.comcast.net] has joined #se2600 03:07 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o mog] by ChanServ 03:58 -!- Bahhumbug [~jrd@unaffiliated/gerdesas] has quit [Ping timeout: 276 seconds] 04:07 -!- Bahhumbug [~jrd@unaffiliated/gerdesas] has joined #se2600 04:07 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o Bahhumbug] by ChanServ 05:19 < Mercster> rungotelldat 06:05 < Mercster> possibly the best music video of all time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpBP9dALcWw 07:28 -!- opticron [~opticron@74-95-48-251-Huntsville.hfc.comcastbusiness.net] has joined #se2600 07:28 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o opticron] by ChanServ 08:22 < Dickie> How the hell does a storm knock over a planter pot and not move a lawn chair? 08:26 <@Evilpig> magic 08:27 * Evilpig waves a wand 08:27 < Dickie> I *knew* it! 08:27 <@Evilpig> okay so this $199 quad core el-cheapo I bought from tiger direct isn't half bad 08:27 <@Evilpig> the onboard video is obvsiously shit. but it does play minecraft well 08:28 <@Evilpig> it is even pretty quiet. with really no fans in it, it should be, but it is also running fairly cool 08:29 <@Evilpig> all the windows performance tests are coming in at 6's except for the video stuff. i'm impressed 09:12 -!- detro [detro@powerprecision.com] has joined #se2600 09:40 < Dickie> detrosexual 09:41 <@opticron> hawt 10:34 < detro> detrosexual is right. 10:34 < detro> unF 10:53 <@Dagmar> Evilpig: I'm still kinda going "WTF, it's quieter than what it replaced" with my quad-core, too 11:41 -!- sync [~sync@c-98-242-80-239.hsd1.ga.comcast.net] has quit [Quit: This computer has gone to sleep] 12:08 -!- sync [~sync@c-98-242-80-239.hsd1.ga.comcast.net] has joined #se2600 12:29 -!- MercDROID [~yaaic@c-71-236-38-82.hsd1.tn.comcast.net] has joined #se2600 12:29 < MercDROID> nomesayn 12:31 < MercDROID> i have a friend, root your droid man! 12:31 < MercDROID> why? 12:34 < MercDROID> didnt i tell ya?! 12:34 -!- MercDROID [~yaaic@c-71-236-38-82.hsd1.tn.comcast.net] has quit [Quit: Yaaic - Yet another Android IRC client - http://www.yaaic.org] 12:53 -!- NotLarry [~NotLarry@c-98-240-87-173.hsd1.tn.comcast.net] has quit [Read error: No route to host] 13:14 < Mercster> git down 13:18 < Mercster> you should sleep late, man, it's just much easier on your constitution 13:19 -!- sync [~sync@c-98-242-80-239.hsd1.ga.comcast.net] has quit [Quit: This computer has gone to sleep] 14:17 <@Dagmar> @#$%! 14:17 <@Dagmar> AGAIN, Comcast has powered off the fucking reciever 14:17 <@Dagmar> Fuck it I'm buying a goddamn choke 14:40 -!- brimstone [~brimstone@pdpc/sponsor/digium/brimstone] has quit [Quit: f'n udev] 14:42 -!- brimstone [~brimstone@pdpc/sponsor/digium/brimstone] has joined #se2600 14:42 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o brimstone] by ChanServ 15:12 -!- ladymerlin [ladymerlin@bbis.us] has quit [Ping timeout: 240 seconds] 15:14 -!- detro [detro@powerprecision.com] has quit [Quit: leaving] 15:25 -!- eryc [~inetjr@internetjanitor.com] has joined #se2600 15:27 -!- eryc_ [~inetjr@internetjanitor.com] has quit [Quit: leaving] 16:00 -!- Shadow404 [~Shadow404@c-76-20-201-88.hsd1.ga.comcast.net] has joined #se2600 16:32 <@Dagmar> The one fucking time in ten years I say "Fuckit" and just hold down the enter key on `make oldconfig` the box doesn't come back from the reboot. 16:32 < Todd> Dagmar: a choke? 16:32 <@Dagmar> Todd; Yeah, to keep Comcast from "updating" my reciever 16:32 < Todd> hmm.. like a filter 16:32 <@Dagmar> Exactly a filter. 16:33 <@Dagmar> I'm using the term "choke" because of how I feel towards Comcast right now. 16:33 < Todd> I hear you. 16:33 < Todd> My cable modem drops its connect a lot. 16:33 < Todd> I need a signal booster. I had one but I dunno what happened to it. 16:33 <@Dagmar> I'd be calling it a "vicious stabbing" but there's no analog to that in RF electronics that I'm aware of. 16:33 <@Dagmar> My cablemodem isn't the problem 16:34 <@Dagmar> The problem is that about twice a week Comcast pushes an "update" to my cable reciever box. 16:34 < Todd> what does it matter if the receiver is off? does it not record your shows or something? 16:34 <@Dagmar> After it's done, it either puts itself on a channel that's not a real channel (which makes firewire stop responding) or turns itself *completely off* (which also makes the firewire stop responding) 16:35 * Todd thought all cable providers disabled the firewire and usb ports by default anyways 16:35 <@Dagmar> Unless the MythTV box can tell it to change channels over firewire, it doesn't record shit 16:35 < Todd> I see... 16:35 <@Dagmar> No, they are REQUIRED by the FCC to provide a working firewire port 16:35 < Todd> ah 16:35 <@Dagmar> The problem is that the FCC didn't define "working" very clearly, so most cable companies have taken that to mean "you can change channels with it" 16:36 -!- hobbes615 [~ryan@173.13.247.210] has joined #se2600 16:36 -!- hobbes615 [~ryan@173.13.247.210] has quit [Changing host] 16:36 -!- hobbes615 [~ryan@unaffiliated/hobbes615] has joined #se2600 16:36 <@Dagmar> The moment I stop being able to record shit is the moment I stop paying them money. 16:36 < Todd> A dvr is like $10/month 16:36 <@Dagmar> I'm basically paying them thirty bucks a month to be able to record about 20 hours of stuff 16:36 < Todd> however.. you don't get full access to the content 16:37 <@Dagmar> Todd: STabbing a greedy monopolist to death is pretty much free if no one catches you at it 16:37 <@Dagmar> ...so why should I pay them $10 a month for a box that can die and take my recordings with it 16:37 <@Dagmar> ...or one that can start showing me more commercials when I try and skip a commercial. 16:37 <@Dagmar> ...or one that shows me commercials when I'm trying to look at a program guide 16:37 < Todd> right right 16:38 <@Dagmar> ...or one that decides I'm not allowed to record a show because some asshole decided I shoudln't be able to 16:38 <@Dagmar> I will especially not pay them one fucking cent for a DVR "service" because of the way they are actively fucking with me right now. 16:38 < Todd> I wouldn't think that they're doing it on purpose. 16:39 <@Dagmar> What's going to happen is they're going to piss me off a few more times, and I'll go buy a card capable of tuning QAM directly, and then I'll go talk to a few pirates who'll tell me how to decode it, and then I'll put together something to let me watch the content I'm paying for, while simultaneously breaking about a dozen really stupid laws. 16:39 <@Dagmar> ...and then I'll tell other people how to do it. 16:39 <@Dagmar> ...except those other people won't be satisfied with just watching the channels they paid for, but that's not my fucking problem. 16:40 <@Dagmar> Todd: If you think they're not above deliberately fucking people over there's plenty of jobs available down at the FCC 16:40 < Todd> no no.. I am fully clear on that fact. 16:40 <@Dagmar> They tried to have it made a fucking *felony* to run your own firewall or router when they rolled those out as managed services 16:41 <@Dagmar> For them to push out updates that turn cable tuners *off* in the middle of the night is a short day's work 16:41 <@sasquatc4> so comcast recievers dont have an on/standby, they can actually turn completely off? 16:41 <@Dagmar> Oh yes 16:41 <@sasquatc4> thats fuckin stupid on a dvr 16:41 <@Dagmar> They do have a standy mode, but it's not what's getting used. 16:42 <@Dagmar> I can flip the things into sleep mode and back out again at will over firewire. 16:42 <@Dagmar> You don't even have to modify 6200ch.c 16:42 <@Dagmar> The Pace boxes they're using here speak the same protocol 16:42 <@Dagmar> ...plus from what I could tell that bit is part of what amounts to a standard for remote control of av devices over firewire anyway 17:13 < Todd> 8 debian dvd's... I'm assuming that's an image of absolutely everything in the repo 17:26 <@Bahhumbug> only the first 1 is; the other 7 are goat porn. 17:29 < Shadow404> any sheep stand ins? 17:31 <@Bahhumbug> ask Mercster 17:56 -!- Shadow404 [~Shadow404@c-76-20-201-88.hsd1.ga.comcast.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 264 seconds] 17:56 -!- ShadowHntr [~sentinel@ec2-184-72-68-47.compute-1.amazonaws.com] has joined #se2600 17:56 -!- ShadowHntr [~sentinel@ec2-184-72-68-47.compute-1.amazonaws.com] has quit [Changing host] 17:56 -!- ShadowHntr [~sentinel@wikipedia/Shadowhntr] has joined #se2600 17:56 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o ShadowHntr] by ChanServ 18:01 -!- ShadowHntr [~sentinel@wikipedia/Shadowhntr] has quit [Quit: End of line.] 18:12 -!- forgottenwizard [~none@unaffiliated/forgottenwizard] has joined #se2600 18:12 -!- forgottenwizard is now known as ZombieChicken 18:13 -!- ZombieChicken is now known as forgotten|mobile 18:13 -!- forgotten|mobile is now known as ZombieChicken 18:13 -!- ZombieChicken [~none@unaffiliated/forgottenwizard] has left #se2600 [] 18:13 -!- ZombieChicken [~none@unaffiliated/forgottenwizard] has joined #se2600 18:16 -!- hobbes615 [~ryan@unaffiliated/hobbes615] has quit [Quit: This computer has gone to sleep] 18:35 -!- Vyrus [~Vyrus001@209.159.137.115] has joined #se2600 18:38 -!- Shadow404 [~Shadow404@c-76-20-201-88.hsd1.ga.comcast.net] has joined #se2600 18:39 -!- Vyrus001 [~Vyrus001@209.159.137.115] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 21:02 -!- CRasH180 [~CRasH180@96.5.81.157] has joined #se2600 21:02 -!- CRasH180 [~CRasH180@96.5.81.157] has quit [Changing host] 21:02 -!- CRasH180 [~CRasH180@pdpc/supporter/silver/CRasH180] has joined #se2600 21:02 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o CRasH180] by ChanServ 21:10 -!- ladymerlin [ladymerlin@bbis.us] has joined #se2600 22:10 <@Dagmar> SEriously? 22:10 <@Dagmar> http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27406 22:10 <@Dagmar> There's a fucking perl package called "version" 22:10 <@CRasH180> lol 22:10 <@Dagmar> ...which is apparently needed by Net::UPnP... 22:10 <@Dagmar> ...and CPAN doesn't figure it out. 22:11 <@Dagmar> I can't fucking believe that's a _package_ 22:12 <@CRasH180> I like this question best, "How can I do that with a server that does not have access to the internet" 22:16 <@Bahhumbug> perl-version is silly, yes. 22:17 <@Bahhumbug> but DA is a pile of fetid dogshit that should be taken out and set on fire. 22:20 <@Dagmar> Holy fuck 22:20 <@Dagmar> http://search.cpan.org/~jpeacock/version-0.88/lib/version.pod 22:21 <@Dagmar> No shit they have that which *used* to only be in CPAN, a "Version.pm" that ships in perl that is NOT it, and that version.pm 22:21 <@Dagmar> 5.8 doesn't have it, 5.10 does 22:21 <@Dagmar> But... one named "version" and the other named "Version"... craaaaazy 22:24 <@Dagmar> If this shit doesn't work I think I'm just going to download MythBuntu 22:24 <@Dagmar> I ran face first into the "MythTV uses a retarded linker path" issue again 22:24 < ZombieChicken> Having problems? 22:24 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o ladymerlin] by ChanServ 22:24 < Todd> what you writing now? 22:25 <@Dagmar> Meh just trying to upgrade the mythTV box 22:25 <@Dagmar> If you compile MythTV while MythTV is installed, it winds up linking it's shit against the _installed_ MythTV 22:26 <@Dagmar> So... once I punched the cable box a few times to turn it back on, I had my new MythTV-0.24 binaries basiscally shit itself and die 22:26 < ZombieChicken> I have never heard of that happening. How can it manage that? 22:26 < Todd> what distro ar eyou currently running it on 22:26 <@Dagmar> ZombieChicken: Because people don't fucking listen to me when I tell them it over, and over, and over in their IRC channel 22:27 < ZombieChicken> My knowledge of linking is obviously lacking. I thought it would link against a specific system lib 22:27 <@Dagmar> Only if you actually change the path the linker uses in the Makefile 22:27 < Todd> I'm considering arch.. 22:28 <@Dagmar> If you're lazy you get $systemdirs:$moresystemdirs:$thenyourshit 22:28 < Todd> but currently my main computer is also my workstation so.. stability is important 22:28 < ZombieChicken> Todd: Arch Linux seems to be OK. Their kernel update system makes me want to puke, but the rest seems sane 22:29 <@Dagmar> I'm just finding that since i'm not in that channel anymore, I could really give two craps about where the coding is going on it 22:29 <@Dagmar> ...which sort of makes it an attractive idea to just turn the whole box into Someone Else's Problem and install MythBuntu 22:29 < ZombieChicken> Well, good luck with it man. Sadly, that does sound like the sane option 22:29 <@Dagmar> Every time upgrading MythTV by hand is a fist up the ass. 22:30 <@Dagmar> Frequently, several fists, in series, sort of like this time 22:30 < Todd> sadly I put ubuntu on all of the machines I want to install an OS on and forget about 22:30 <@Dagmar> I had to upgrade ffmpeg, which now uses the not-actually-version-control git 22:31 <@Dagmar> ...which makes it really hard to number the fucking binary package in any sensible way 22:32 <@Dagmar> 2011-02-25 22:32:24.744 MPEGRec(/dev/v4l/video0) Error: Device error detected 22:32 <@Dagmar> Screw it. Downloading MythBuntu 22:40 -!- ShadowHntr [~sentinel@pool-74-96-235-52.washdc.fios.verizon.net] has joined #se2600 22:40 -!- ShadowHntr [~sentinel@pool-74-96-235-52.washdc.fios.verizon.net] has quit [Changing host] 22:40 -!- ShadowHntr [~sentinel@wikipedia/Shadowhntr] has joined #se2600 22:40 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o ShadowHntr] by ChanServ 23:07 -!- K4k_ [~K4k@c-24-98-78-253.hsd1.ga.comcast.net] has joined #se2600 23:07 -!- K4k_ [~K4k@c-24-98-78-253.hsd1.ga.comcast.net] has quit [Client Quit] 23:11 -!- CRasH180 [~CRasH180@pdpc/supporter/silver/CRasH180] has quit [Quit: leaving] 23:27 < K4k> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXmv8quf_xM 23:27 < K4k> My brain hurts... 23:28 -!- hobbes615 [~ryan@173.13.247.210] has joined #se2600 23:28 -!- hobbes615 [~ryan@173.13.247.210] has quit [Changing host] 23:28 -!- hobbes615 [~ryan@unaffiliated/hobbes615] has joined #se2600 --- Log closed Sat Feb 26 00:00:34 2011