@AviD - turns out that it doesn't require a tray. It sits in the slot and a screw holds down the other end. It's just a small board with ICs on it :-)

@RoryAlsop heh, interesting

Kenorb is persistent. Reckon he just has a bee in his bonnet about having some questions closed on Sec.SE?

@RoryAlsop either that, or he just wants to "own" an SE community.

should tell him that it's not all its cracked up to be...

Lol

I think he just doesnt get how SEs are run, thats why he's upset about questions being closed.

Yeah - actually that sounds about right based on many of his comments

HE WILL FREE US FROM THE TYRANNY OF A WELL-RUN SITE!

@RoryAlsop hows the PC building going?

@AviD: Newer cases just let you screw it in at the bottom of the caddy

3.5 inchers are tool free

Unless you mean M2

no, I meant the caddy

not all cases have them

ahh

^ was my , lack, of view this morning

I cant see what you're talking about, it is obscured by all that fog

@AviD precisely, that's the cobbler we took a walk up this morning

about 4.5 hours all in

so that's my excercise for the day done!

The case does allow for an ssd to fit in at the bottom, if it is one of the normal ones

I am existing delivery of some of the essential parts (cable adapters etc) to let me finish the build next week

And the new monitors should arrive before the weekend - then Claire is away for a week, so I will have time to finish up rearranging my office

The Cobbler looks interesting - a bit like the first view of the alien ship in Alien...

@RoryAlsop yeah it was nice, we were up early (Started at 7ish) but by the time we came back down it was mobbed

views were a bit come and go..

@RoryAlsop which monitors brand/model did you go for?

Asus PB287Q 28 inch Widescreen Ultra HD 4K LED Monitor (100M:1, 300 cd/m2, 3840 x 2160, 1ms, DP/HDMI/MHL)

@RoryAlsop ooh you can rotate them

Was a difficult decision

@RoryAlsop yeah there's a ton of models out there hard to know what to pick

The ones I really wanted have a 144hz refresh rate

But they were a bit expensive

Find one that looked great but eventually discovered they only did 30hz - which I couldn't cope with

@RoryAlsop yeah that'd be a bit lame..

afternoon

@RоryMcCune mmmm cobbler! :)

@RoryAlsop guess what I'm booting :o

@RoryAlsop I'll give you a hint: ipl a80

@RoryAlsop hehehe true, I was wondering what it reminds me of

@LucasKauffman DR DOS?

@TildalWave alas no cigar

@TildalWave pastebin.com/umhdBsPu

wot da ...?

@LucasKauffman gotta say you have some really odd fetishes

@TildalWave I love to torture myself with cobol

@LucasKauffman - on a Sunday? Heh - I remember when that would take all Sunday

@LucasKauffman I see :) I'm glad to report that I haven't had the chance to do that since college

@RoryAlsop I hear there's crap weather up north of the continental Europe

so maybe that was intended?

still, he's online so it's not really armageddon

beautiful sunny 30°C here tho :P

which makes me wonder what the heck am I doing here? LOL

beer time... baiii

@RoryAlsop it's still loading, fortunately it's running in a docker container so I can leave it unattended

Weather here is beautiful @TildalWave. Was outside at the cricket club gala yesterday (much cider was consumed) and today I have been outside in the sun for 7 hours so far

Loving the weather

I accidentally got reading one of Claire's romance novels (as there was nothing else to hand) and the lead characters just had to bring back a mainframe and 60 circuits to replace a drowned telco...

They IPL'ed in under an hour.

Not sure I believe the story any more

@LucasKauffman ha! see I've converted you to the wonders of docker. you should upload to the hub once you've built it! I'm sure IBM won't mind :op

@RoryAlsop: did they do hot torrid things in the server room?

Afterwards...

@RоryMcCune well I already made a hercules image, the z/OS files I will keep for myself :P

@RоryMcCune It's too bad IBM doesn't give out free images to play around with tho :(

@LucasKauffman It's flipping ridiculous and a large part of why there's no software community for z/OS

@RоryMcCune that and the fact no one likes COBOL or PL/1

@LucasKauffman ahh PL/1 there's a way to stump people, ask if they can do a nice PL/1 code review

@RоryMcCune you're laughing, I actually have one coming up

@LucasKauffman actually I'm remembering that about 10 years ago I had to sort one out, ended up finding an EY senior Manager in South africa as the only person who could do it

@RоryMcCune We actually were in a situation where the only person having the competences for a source code review ended up being Ken Allan, but the client didn't find his rate acceptable

@LucasKauffman someone needed their sports car stress tested? :op

@RоryMcCune no some specific mainframe thing, Ken was the only profile who had listed it as a competence

@LucasKauffman of course, everybody else was smart enough to erase that

Lol - I remember you doing that search @Rоry. Very similar to that Kiwi we were going to use for COBOL until we agreed I should just learn it.

@RоryMcCune hey now, I've already become an expert in 4GL....

@AviD good point, I've endorsed you for that on Linkedin :op

@RоryMcCune oh crap, didja?

@RoryAlsop @LucasKauffman don't forget to endorse @AviD for 4GL on linkedin...

@AviD but of course :) knowing how much you love it, how could I not!

jeezus maaan, you really did it

you maniacs!

@RоryMcCune ya know what, I'm willing to do it too, and for not much more than Ken Allan's rate.

@LucasKauffman what is Ken's rate?

@AviD these days it must be over £800/hour

@RоryMcCune daaaamn

thats higher than mine

EY partners eh!

@RоryMcCune yeah well they dont really do code reviews, do they

@RоryMcCune probably around that

I'm surprised he even has an hourly rate, and not just charge for full days

one hour of a partner = 1 day of a junior consultant

@AviD it's because they almost never book full days

@AviD ah no they charge for partners reviews on jobs, which are generally shorter than one day

@LucasKauffman yeah, and still

@AviD it made doing small jobs as EY almost impossible, 'cause every job had to budget for at least one hour of partner time for review

sure. when I was at $CONSULTINGCOMPANY it was pretty much the same, though obviously to a lesser extent.

@AviD print $CONSULTINGCOMPANY

@LucasKauffman you're on my linkedin, look it up

ah I see it

Sorry there folks

@Quill no problems, we're fine with people having scripts for stalking @LucasKauffman :)

@RоryMcCune BigBrother's always watching ;-)

hello

stalking?

@Quill I see

I've built a general chatroom monitor

You happened to be the unfortunate soul at the end of it's barrel

@Quill oh, maybe you can help me actually with a piece of code I still need?

maybe, what kind of code

@Quill I've not yet looked into it, but by any chance do you have a listener in python (or other language) which captures the messages live in a chatroom?

@Quill Im building a system to display statistics about what's being said in the dmz with Spark and an Elasticsearch backend

There's a JavaScript listener you can run for these rooms

mmm need to have a look how that one works then

I think there was a Python listener on StackApps, although I don't have it favourited

Ill have a look into it then

I've already indexed most of the dmz

I do believe Tavern On The Meta's resident bot runs on Python

@Quill open sourcE?

yeah, should be

@LucasKauffman reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/3iy6df/hes_teething_and_loves_hands

have you been commenting on reddit again?

@RоryMcCune I deny all involvement

I bet you had nothing to do with that either

I bet @kalina would not be happy to see that

^^^ oh NSFW in case anyone didn't realise!

@RоryMcCune you have given my entire family (except Lexie, who loves ponies and that sort of thing) the happies! Absolutely brilliant.

The only downside - Hamish is now repeating "LYRAaaaaaa"

@RoryAlsop excellent, I can feel the darkness building inside him

Dies it make me sad that I want them to do all twelve episodes?

@TildalWave aye it's a spin off of that... you have watched all 12 episodes of llamas with hats haven't you?

I was in the DMZ for the past few years haven't I? :D

@TildalWave sure I just wanted to check, what with you @ 'in the original..

it's like asking me if I watched all the short clips from Friends there are on YouTube

@RoryAlsop heh, sorry to Lexie!!

@RоryMcCune Llamas with Hats > Ponies with Hats

@TildalWave well the pony thing was quite funny, seeing as how they're generally a very light sweet kind of thing (AFAIK)

sure, then they bite you hand off :))

was that a straw man argument? LOL

> Sep 01 - Moon Occults Uranus

ROFLMAO (sorry, not related, I just saw it when checking what's happening in the coming days)