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02:03
Chatty bunch today, eh?
lol
Just got into work ;)
Even so, this is probably the quietest it's been all year!
lol
We seem to have periods of quiet
People getting busy ;p
I spent a good part of the weekend helping out my mom and dad with stuff, and mucking around with the new display
I spent all of Saturday in the garden.
My back and shoulders are killing me today.
I gamed a bit (playing the dishonored dlc, and taking my time. Its one of those games I just don't feel right playing agressively)
pity there's no non lethal takedown from above.
Bob
Bob
02:30
@JourneymanGeek ^ can no-one read? -_-
Bob
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This is a different store!
Why does everyone transcribe the whiteness incorrectly?!
Ok, that's 8 reams ordered. Now I just need to find a way to get them home :P
@JourneymanGeek Yea... I tried a ghost run. Then about an hour in I accidentally a guard then went Rambo.
Easiest mission to ghost run in the original game is the one at the party
especially if you get the one with the stalker.
Bob
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@MichaelFrank Ah, yea... you need to avoid accidentallying guards.
The worst is when I drop on em by accident while blinking
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The two conversation streams are meshing in weird ways :P
(don't drop the bricks!)
DON'T BLINK
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hm... I think I passed
one more semester to go
and the dreaded management & ethics course
yay!
management... and ethics. Oxymoron? ;p
@Bob That should be "management || ethics" instead.
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> morality of breaking the law
O_O
(I did my degree at an aussie uni. Management major too)
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'tis a required course for compsci
I suddenly approve of this.
@Bob: how about plagiarised notes about ethics and plagiarism?
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02:40
> The software project is a major component of the course and should take 40-50 hours per person for planning and execution.
ow
 
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04:27
!!tumbleweed
@allquixotic Cavil needs a kick
04:46
yay
Roomie's tick fever test came in
He's negative for the really bad strain, so we just need to keep/finish the current course of antibiotics
Bob
Bob
05:18
holy fucking shit illustrator is fucking ridiculous
I've spent 20 mins trying to get a fucking black fill on a fucking rectangle
(as you may have noticed, I'm currently rather annoyed)
OH GREAT IT'S IN OUTLINE MODE
@JourneymanGeek Hope your dog (your persona 😛) is fine
Two spam questions got through in a row
05:39
They're gone.
@DragonLord: doing significantly better
no cheese for a month tho ;p
Bob
Bob
Satoru Iwata (Nintendo CEO) passed away :(
@JourneymanGeek Erroneous flag on superuser.com/a/939740, please disregard
05:55
"Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network." Google robot check, WHaaa , just becase i searched for something 2 million other people didnt. Argg, now i forgot what my next search was going to be.
I am not the damnable robot You are !
@DragonLord: Its really good news. The strain we were worried about is often lethal. Ash lost something like 1/8th his body weight in a few weeks so... yeah
we got a really good vet (luckily) who's been personally following up on him
Sorry, but I've determined that this answer is spam. The linked page and the page at the URL in your profile are copyrighted to the same person. More information: How to not be a spammerDragonLord 1 min ago
Does he deserve the -100 reputation penalty?
Found this going through the 10k new answers to old questions list. The "enter link description here" placeholder text was suspicious and triggered further investigation.
@JourneymanGeek: what is the best way to handle this situation? Both answers have been flagged as spam.
06:19
@DragonLord: that seems wierd
deleted both answers
I (or another mod) or a CM prolly will need to take a look
A suspension may be the right answer.
Oh, is it him?
I checked the Internet Archive Wayback Machine and found that the profile URL is the same as before, which indicates a compromise is unlikely.
I did suspect an account compromise.
I'd rather toss him a warning
06:23
which I've done
(I donno. One does not always have to use the rolled up newspaper, big stick)
I was thinking 2-day suspension
If i'm going to throw someone a suspension, might as well do it for a week.
I might be a bit too zealous fighting spam.
I suppose this will change as I gain more experience.
Four years on the site, nearly 2000 flags, and I still don't feel like I can use the tools correctly. 😔
If its a Real Person, the idea is to try to steer them in the right direction first
mercilessness is for bots ;)
especially for participating humans, vrses drive by ones
06:26
yup
The fact that he's a user with some history here, and its his site, means I'd rather tell him where he's going wrong.
The reason I discuss this is a matter of readiness. There are so many little subtleties in moderation I still don't get.
If I'm to be elected as a ♦moderator, I'd better learn to use the tools correctly before the next election.
Well. a lot of stuff is handled in community
and well
I'm afraid that by the time I get the diamond, I'm going to be doing it wrong.
suspensions are actually pretty rare
Getting ♦mod experience without being an actual ♦mod. 😃
06:29
suspentions are for 1) people worth the energy suspending 2)is an actual user 3) hasn't suspended himself
and quite a lot of stuff is handled before it even reaches us
say auto-suspensions and a good chunk of flags
3 mins ago, by DragonLord
I'm afraid that by the time I get the diamond, I'm going to be doing it wrong.
This matters a lot to me.
I don't want to be elected, then get stripped of the diamond because I'm being too heavy-handed.
Suspentions are for arguing with mods :-)
which has happened
That's why I'm constantly discussing the right way to handle these situations now.
but here's the thing. I never thought about all this when I became a mod
(hell, I was on vacation most of the elections ;))
06:35
Even though I try to be nice, my personality is very intense otherwise and it shows here.
I've been working to change that for many years.
I think the way I handle problem content is overzealous.
Laying down the banhammer immediately does not make sense on a user with an established record of positive contributions who suddenly begins posting spam.
@DragonLord that only happens after the 2nd tripple mocca chino with super caffiene blaster foam on top :-)
No, I didn't go to Starbucks today and I didn't drink an unusual amount of coffee today.
@DragonLord: If it had been a compromised account, I'd have referred it to a CM
@DragonLord So where are the pics you take with your camera?
@Psycogeek huh?
06:42
I say post one of your well done camera pictures.
I don't post a lot of my images, but you might want to see my Flickr photostream
@DragonLord: That's why I try not to mod at work, especially when its something ambigious like this ;p
If its spam, I just whack it with a spam flag, destroy the user and move on
@DragonLord you got a dog? or a duck :-)
@Psycogeek No, I don't presently have a pet.
...and it's a wolf at the zoo, not a dog.
Oh i see it says that (turned on scripts)
Where do you visit to get your OC data? from reading sites or visiting some OC forums?
06:49
@Psycogeek Reading user reports, reviews, forums
@barlop: superuser.com/a/168241/10165 check the date on that answer. That had me seriously confused ;p
I use GOW nowadays anyway
I used to hang out at 2CPU, when i had two physical AMD things. then went to overclockers.com/forums , then overclock.net which is huge loads of people of all variety.
overclock.net requires transfer of copyright and attempts to impose fines on users copying content off their site
I think this is a bit excessive
hmm
I'm wondering if I can pick up one of these and use it just to switch keyboard and mouse dx.com/p/…
(its VGA only but meh. I'd rather use synergy but I'm having some issues with it)
@DragonLord I tend towards the forums as that is the real people with real experiences, vrses reviews and stuff which can (at least be) people getting stuff for free, AKA being lobbied :-)
06:59
ahh
same issue
@JourneymanGeek synergy sounded awesom. but so to did AHK which every freaking time had some minor issue too. So what are synergies minor issues?
@Psycogeek: mouse goes missing when I try to switch from the 4K display
So I need 2 keyboards and mice rather than sharing one between systems
If i had issues like those, and solutions like that, i would uninstall and forget to re-install it :-)
ahh, i only keep stuff that isnt more problems than its original value :-0
Needing to switch between keyboards is a pain, and it makes sense for me to run dual boxen with different OSes with my home workflow ;p
I even outright abandon some things that are totally cool, but Meh , when you finish it , i will be back. but do they ever finish , NO!
07:10
Well it comes down to "does the potential gain outweigh the annoyance?"
and looking at options/alternatives in terms of time and money cost
That's the one
so getting a cheap KVM could be an option, but if I can do something similar in software it would be ace
heck, could slave it to a macro key
Or as Dear Abby would say " are you better off with him, or without him " :-)
And what about the effects of a KVM, the computer and the monitors reaction to having the connections pulled?
(the input devices usually dont mind much)
oh, just need it for a keyboard and mouse
Each computer has its own screen (and I'm fine with that)
oh then you just need a KM :-)
07:14
I think I linked a picture of my current setup the other day?
yeah, if there's such a beast, and cheap
I just need a USB switcher ;p
funny thing is, higher end dells supposedly do that.
I used an AirMouse for a while to the other puter. I would think any wireless could be side by sided too, mice is easy.
well, I'd like to use my wired stuff. The wireless gear is specifically meant as a spare ;p
eventually i realised i cant really keep 2 computers quad CPUs at 100%, unless i did some really redundandt (booring) stuff. like had one search for aliens, or alien coin
That also included Using one for the downloads, at the point where download speed was faster than my organisation rate.
but would probably never include a server.
Bob
Bob
07:23
@JourneymanGeek wait what happened
@Bob: ash was sick for a few weeks. I mentioned it here ;p
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@DragonLord he edited in the disclaimer 4 mins ago
Undelete? Gotta get to bed, good night.
@Bob: 4 sticks 2 + 2 + 1 + 1
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07:24
@DragonLord Better to warn/suggest improvements first whenever possible.
@DragonLord: I suggested he improve and flag for reopening
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Remember we're trying to help.
@Bob: my big concern was an account compromise
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Downvoting/deleting non-obvious "spam" doesn't help much.
1 hour ago, by Journeyman Geek
(I donno. One does not always have to use the rolled up newspaper, big stick)
1 hour ago, by DragonLord
Four years on the site, nearly 2000 flags, and I still don't feel like I can use the tools correctly. 😔
Bob
Bob
07:25
Assume the best of people (e.g. ignorance and not intentionally skirting rules) whenever possible and you'll probably be happier :)
57 mins ago, by DragonLord
I'm afraid that by the time I get the diamond, I'm going to be doing it wrong.
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@JourneymanGeek o.O I don't remember seeing anything...
@Bob Please pin this.
@Bob: I mentioned it in passing a few times
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@JourneymanGeek I'm surprised any DDR2-era machine supported that much
07:27
didn't want to drama, even if Ash is a bit of a root access mascot.
48 mins ago, by DragonLord
Laying down the banhammer immediately does not make sense on a user with an established record of positive contributions who suddenly begins posting spam.
@Bob: Well, I don't think mine does 2gb sticks, but they do exist
I'll see what I can do here.
course, mine's an older, lower end model
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@DragonLord Even a brand new user who isn't full-out bullshit-spamming might be teachable, though in that case it might not be worth it.
07:28
I'll learn to assume good faith as things progress.
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I'm pretty sure we've converted a few product-promoters to helpful members :P
@DragonLord: lawing down the banhammer on anything short of incorrigble spammers isn't done.
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@DragonLord That's why I don't like how the spam flags instantly downvote.
Better to apply the auto-downvote when enough people agree.
The path to becoming a mod is far longer than I ever thought it was. My personality is all wrong and I must change that now.
Bob
Bob
Otherwise a single flagger can ruin someone's day.
07:28
@Bob: basically roomie was a bit worn out seeming when he came back from the pet hotel from when my parents were away cause my grandma died.
I'm just not qualified to be a mod.
then started shaking and not eating properly
I was actually expecting some "smarter" spammers to eventually exist , gain rep first in an attempt to beat the system.
@Psycogeek: requires actual effort
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@DragonLord You don't necessarily need to change your personality.
07:29
the whole economics of spamming is on it being cheap
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But SE isn't really a place for totalitarian mods.
in Ask a Super User Moderator, Mar 20 at 23:53, by DragonLord
You have much more experience than I do. I don't quite think I'm qualified to get the diamond :\
Bob
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Mods are not expected to lay down the law (usually).
It's (supposedly) mostly community-run.
Jeff Atwood on May 18, 2009
We believe deeply in community moderation. That's why we appoint Pro Tempore Moderators and, ideally, democratically elected community moderators for every site in our network. But what do community moderators do? The short answer is, as little as possible!
At te end of the day, mods handle stuff that the system dosen't know what to do with
07:30
yanno the flag you said was invalid? Handled in the queue before I got to it.
I've been doing this wrong for the last several months.
Mar 30 at 7:22, by DragonLord
Does a moderator who goes through hundreds of review items a day risk getting his/her diamond revoked for abuse of power?
Mar 30 at 7:18, by DragonLord
in Ask a Super User Moderator, Jan 14 at 23:14, by DragonLord
The first few days after I had suddenly stopped, I noticed the size of the review queues jumped over 1000 for the first time in several days.
@DragonLord: happened to a SF mod
Mar 30 at 7:25, by DragonLord
I'm worried that my recent conduct and attitude can ultimately lead me to commit this sort of abuse if and when I get the diamond.
I'm well aware of this.
Bob
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I remember @JourneymanGeek complained a few times about the forced-binding-close-vote :P
07:33
Mar 30 at 7:28, by DragonLord
I'm worried about seeing myself that by the time I'm elected, I start trying to clear the entire close votes review queue, instead of leaving most of the work to the community as was intended by the designers of Stack Exchange.
Bob
Bob
@JourneymanGeek That edit wasn't really necessary :P
@JourneymanGeek Ouch...
At least he's better now :)
yeah
No cheese for a month tho
@DragonLord not to worry if you piss off everyone, they wont elect you :-)
that's annoying ;p
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Bob
...I fail to see how cheese has anything to do with it :S
07:35
Mar 30 at 7:12, by DragonLord
I will stick with my core value of delivering the highest quality contributions, and will stop abusing the tools like I have been these past few months. It really makes me look like a power-monger (even if this isn't my goal).
@Bob: the antibiotics commonly given to dogs do not react well with dairy
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@DragonLord Different mods do different things, though.
It's still an ongoing issue, hence all the old chat messages.
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I always thought SE policy was for more hands-off moderation. But some mods don't do that.
Sometimes, that works.
Sometimes, that's necessary.
Especially on the smaller sites.
depends on volume and kinds of issues
07:36
Seeing this is what makes me fearful of this issue:
Mar 30 at 7:13, by DragonLord
I think my conduct is growing increasingly evil as a result of my pursuit of the diamond.
I keep forgetting the role of moderators as "human exception handlers", and I fear I might commit abuse as a mod.
@Bob: and for tick fever, even the lesser sort he has, its a 3 week course.
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@JourneymanGeek Weird...
I should probably review more, actually...
But at this point I'm mostly dropping in on SU now-and-then and not spending much of my mostly-nonexistent spare time browsing it :P
That's why I panic like this every time I make a mistake of this sort during routine moderation tasks.
Heavy-handed moderation.
Bob
Bob
> tetracycline

any of a large group of antibiotics with a molecular structure containing four rings.
hm.
07:38
Just plain wrong and not how Stack Exchange is supposed to work.
@DragonLord: That's why metamoderation is never unilatral
I suspect I may need a break.
and we'd rather play it safe sometimes
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@DragonLord Don't stress too much over it.
Everyone makes mistakes, and whether this is even a mistake is somewhat subjective.
@DragonLord: Other than account destruction, most actions on SE are reversible.
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07:40
@JourneymanGeek On the other hand, remember you're dealing with real people.
And real people don't take downvotes/suspensions out of the blue all that well.
@Bob: yup. That's why we can't automate everything. ;p
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That is not reversible.
You can reverse the actions, but you might leave the person on the other end rather unhappy.
Yeah
Which is why one can never moderate in haste, and soft skills are super important
@JourneymanGeek What do I need to learn in this regard?
@DragonLord: soft skills by nature are hard to define
07:46
Soft skills have been a huge weakness of mine for many, many years
Funny thing is? My offline social skills are crap
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^
:P
My online social skills are good ;p
(well, more arkward than brash. Unless I'm talking about computers ;))
Let me cut to the chase: I am autistic and have been fighting these issues for a very long time.
My social skills aren't great.
I've got social anxiety. it isn't crippling but its a pain in the ass.
07:49
I can generally function in everyday interactions but things can break down quickly under certain circumstances.
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@JourneymanGeek Seems to be a common theme with tech-y people :P
Put me face to face with someone, heck, even over the phone and I have no idea what to do.
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...honestly, I spend far too much time thinking of what to write too, when it's about personal issues.
Something technical, though? I could (accidentally!) write an entire essay.
(and have done so several times in this chat...)
lol
That's why I stopped blogging ;p
I mean personal blogging. I need to do a product review for my blog again ;p
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Hmm... Amazon is taking a while
@JourneymanGeek I still need to get a blog started, but that's so far down my list of things to do right now...
Need to get the damn server up first.
07:53
lol
Mine's up on the new server
(tho moving ttrss/wallabag/znc over's been delayed cause lazy)
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@JourneymanGeek My server is up and running happily with ZFS, but I need a good virt solution.
I really want to use lxd but that's (a) not really supported on Debian and (b) rather experimental
linux-vserver is too much manual work... I don't want to recompile the kernel manually on every update!
OpenVZ... bleh.
@Bob: I'm using KVM since I run it at home and can use the same console.
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I'll be using KVM for Windows, but I don't really want to use it for Linux guests.
Hey yall
less efficient, I guess
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07:55
Hm... how long should I wait for Amazon to ship out before contacting them to ask?
Usually it's within 24hrs.
@djsmiley2k hey
but meh, I have processor power to spare
So glad I'm working from home today
Daughter kept me up though the night D:
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@JourneymanGeek Definitely, but it still seems iffy to run another kernel.
Not to mention it takes far longer to spin up a new VM
@djsmiley2k ...high?
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@djsmiley2k Don't fall asleep :P
07:57
@Bob why not? :P
@Bob: well, I'm not going to be spinning up VMs that often ;p
at home, sure
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It'll probably make @allquixotic sad, but I wonder about running Ubuntu in a VM and running lxd on top of that for the quick experimental VMs :P
lol
Would be a good way to get familiar with setup
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That's probably the way I'll go.
I do this (or spin stuff up on a spare system)
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08:04
Then I'll know what to do with lxd when it finally supports Debian.
I mostly want lxd for the ease of spinning up containers, not for any savings on overhead.
I can live with a 1% VM overhead. Heck, I can live with a 5-10% overhead - I've got a rather powerful Xeon CPU there, and basically nothing intensive running.
Ok, todo: learn kvm
@Bob: I just use virt manager to manage it
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Didn't @allquixotic have that nice web interface?
(which is why I've been running fedora as a base OS)
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Though, for security I probably want to keep it locked behind SSH.
@JourneymanGeek Why does that require Fedora? o.O
@Bob: oh, they have more recent packages
and some stuff as a result is simpler.
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08:15
@JourneymanGeek :\
Debian might come back to bite me in the arse.
Though, Jessie is fairly recent.
And I can always use backports.
yeah
Specific features that I wanted was KVM working reliably with bridgeing
(that's worked since F19)
dosen't look too bad ;p
I use virt manager for management
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The only one I actually know is ESXi
well, running on a server
used VBox and VMware Workstation on desktops/laptops
Well, I got mine set up pretty easily
In the context of SNMP, when an interface utilization is measured in "octets" what does that mean? Bytes?
kinda?
An octet is a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications that consists of eight bits. The term is often used when the term byte might be ambiguous, as historically there was no standard definition for the size of the byte. == Overview == The unit byte is platform-dependent and has represented various storage sizes in the history of computing. However, due to the influence of several major computer architectures and product lines, the byte became overwhelmingly associated with 8 bits. This meaning of byte is codified in such standards as ISO/IEC 80000-13. While to most people...
08:27
I guess so, but then why aren't they just calling them bytes?
Seems pedantic
Ah, smart move ;D
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@OliverSalzburg Because a byte is not necessarily 8 bits.
Ah, sweet, thanks guys :)
what does roaming profile mean in a windows pc?
08:29
@deostroll The roaming profile can roam (move) between workstations
You're on an AD and your profile is stored centrally.
does it also mean on a single workstation multiple people logging in?
nope
WIndows calls that concurrent sessions
in the context of windows application development - what is its significance...roaming profiles?
some example would suffice
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yay, got my results... nothing failed :P
08:41
yay!
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@deostroll If you save something in the roaming profile, they can access it from every computer they log in on.
That includes settings.
%AppData% is roaming by default.
User-specific settings should go there.
@JourneymanGeek They came early... were due 9am tomorrow :S
ahh
did the servers accidentally get DDOSed?
(happens in india. The results sites wierdly work fine from outside so my cousin called us up and asked us to check her results XD)
09:16
Capcha makers can't go to hell, because they came from there.
. . . and nobody there will allow them back.
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@JourneymanGeek nah
marks were scheduled for 9am tomorrow by email, 6pm tomorrow by website
the enrolment site did get DDoSed two years ago, but they improved it :P
09:58
ahh
emailing people is sensible
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