@kalina I could now start an argument about how it has been sooooo long since we talked privately, but unlike you, I'm not bored enough to do that just for the sake of it. And I actually am leaving. Gotta run.
@TerryChia I don't do an awful lot of desktop apps, so most of it is web programming. Which would bring us back to a previous argument. To which I point at the second half of my last message.
@kalina I could try! And then give up because you'd win anyway.
@kalina Is it ChrisTline that does the wonderful satirical religious stuff?
@Iszi It's one the wife and I watched after too many gins one evening as we couldn't be bothered changing it over. It works on the 'so bad it's good' scale. But I wouldn't watch a sequel
Like most sci-fi channel fare, it was terribly acted, with bad cgi
@Avid, ah, the comic called it an F-14, and additional analysis shows it to be something in between an F-14 and a F-15. knowyourmeme.com/memes/t-rex-jet He should have gone with an F-16. It would have been easier to draw.
@Xander I'm glad someone was more of an aeroplane geek than me :-)
Oh - did I mention here, while at Download Festival, we had an Antonov AN-225 Mriya take off right overhead! First time I have seen one in the air. What a beast.
@RoryAlsop I saw one doing "acrobatics" (within the range of the possible for that thing) at Le Bourget in 1987. The wheels were out -- it has a lot of them.
@ThomasPornin It's still actively used for transport and one of the cheaper solutions for military transport compared to its American counterpart, the C5 Galaxy
the other one was never completely finished, I think they recently started a project at Antonov to see if it's feasable to make the second one airworthy again
@Iszi the Russians did copy it, they also made a copy of the C130, called the AN-12. On the other hand the brittish copied the concorde of the Russian TU-144
I always wanted to jump out of one
I think that if the AN225 does a jump run, the first person would almost already have packed his shute by the time the last one jumps out
I still think one of these beasts is super beautiful:
@LucasKauffman I still don't understand why they needed to build the largest aircraft in the world to carry their shuttle, while we just had to slap a couple of hardpoints on top of a 747 to carry ours. I think theirs may have just looked like a copy of ours. It may have really been built out of lead, concrete, and wrought iron.
@Xander It actually flew to space, so probably not (although the entire bottom of a space shuttle and the buran are made of stone tiles). Probably more a reason of "we can build a bigger one than you"
In all faireness the Russians were a lot better than the Americans when it comes to designing and creating helicopters and airplanes in the late 70's and early 80's :p
@TildalWave Well you can't have that one, because nobody knows how long to freeze the numbers for, and you're a stupid liberal republican commie for asking.
@Xander it's simpler than freezing the numbers first actually ... you use colored marzipan for the number, place all of it upright and pour the raw dough in the baking tray covered with cling foil... shake a bit so it settles, remove the foil and bake, then cut the top so it's flat, and finish it off with decor and cream
marzipan won't rise anyway, but it will want to sink to the bottom, so what you do is use the part you cut off the top and place it under
@Xander you forgot to add "redneck nurd" to the list :P
one other way ... bake normal cake dough ... make a cookie cutter shaped in number 5 ... cut out the middle by pressing the cookie cutter through its length ... take out the middle, use food colors on the middle, wait so it soaks them in, place it back in.
@RoryAlsop yeah event is going pretty well so far, talks have largely been good, caught up with some peeps. Lots of mobile talks, but then i guess we'd expect that at the moment..
Getting spam links that time out these spammers need to put some money into their bandwith ;p (dont worry I do have javascript plugins and cookies disabled)
sadly, it looks like what I was looking for in the logs continues to elude me though
for some reason, every few months my server just decides it is tired. It stops answering most network requests, most services fail, but serial console shows it just chugging along with what appear to be ok resource levels despite having system errors indicating that services didn't have sufficient resources to continue
simple reboot fixes it
but can not for the life of me figure out what is actually happening
"If large chunks of time (more than 5 minutes) are unaccounted for in a log file while the machine was running, it is a safe bet something has happened that someone didn't wish to be seen." - ubuntus didijustgetpwned guide.... because there should obviously be a log entry every 5 mins
@AJHenderson I once had an idea to run a fake SSH service on port 22 that accepted any username and password, and then piped all communication to an ELIZA-style chat bot.
@tylerl There's a fix for that. They've invented a newfangled key they call "caps lock." Check your keyboard. If you're bleeding edge, you might have it.
