The DMZ

Terry Chia

06:06

are you a hardware designer? do you know VHDL or Verilog? implement some CAESAR candidates and get your work cited https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/crypto-competitions/wRZgTRPzziM

Tweeted by veorq on August 30, 2015 at 5:57 AM

Rory Alsop

11:55

@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 :-)

AviD

@RoryAlsop heh, interesting

Rory Alsop

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

AviD

@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...

Rory Alsop

Lol

AviD

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

Rory Alsop

11:59

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

AviD

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

Rоry McCune

@RoryAlsop hows the PC building going?

Journeyman Geek

@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

AviD

no, I meant the caddy

not all cases have them

Journeyman Geek

ahh

Rоry McCune

12:10

^ was my , lack, of view this morning

AviD

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

Rоry McCune

@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!

Rory Alsop

12:24

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...

Rоry McCune

@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?

Rory Alsop

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

Rоry McCune

@RoryAlsop ooh you can rotate them

Rory Alsop

Was a difficult decision

Rоry McCune

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

Rory Alsop

12:30

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

Rоry McCune

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

Lucas Kauffman

afternoon

TildalWave

@RоryMcCune mmmm cobbler! :)

Lucas Kauffman

@RoryAlsop guess what I'm booting :o

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

TildalWave

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

@LucasKauffman DR DOS?

Lucas Kauffman

12:38

@TildalWave alas no cigar

@TildalWave pastebin.com/umhdBsPu

TildalWave

wot da ...?

@LucasKauffman gotta say you have some really odd fetishes

Lucas Kauffman

@TildalWave I love to torture myself with cobol

2

Rory Alsop

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

TildalWave

@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

Lucas Kauffman

13:00

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

Rory Alsop

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

Rоry McCune

@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

Journeyman Geek

13:32

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

Rory Alsop

13:53

Afterwards...

Lucas Kauffman

@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 :(

Rоry McCune

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

Lucas Kauffman

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

Rоry McCune

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

Lucas Kauffman

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

Rоry McCune

14:09

@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

Lucas Kauffman

@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

Rоry McCune

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

Lucas Kauffman

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

AviD

14:25

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

Rory Alsop

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.

AviD

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

Rоry McCune

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

AviD

@RоryMcCune oh crap, didja?

Rоry McCune

@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!

AviD

14:28

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?

Rоry McCune

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

AviD

@RоryMcCune daaaamn

thats higher than mine

Rоry McCune

EY partners eh!

AviD

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

Lucas Kauffman

@RоryMcCune probably around that

AviD

14:31

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

Lucas Kauffman

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

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

Rоry McCune

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

AviD

@LucasKauffman yeah, and still

Rоry McCune

@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

AviD

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

Lucas Kauffman

14:34

@AviD print $CONSULTINGCOMPANY

AviD

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

Lucas Kauffman

ah I see it

Quill

15:49

Sorry there folks

Rоry McCune

16:13

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

Quill

@RоryMcCune BigBrother's always watching ;-)

Lucas Kauffman

16:33

hello

stalking?

Quill

in Ministry of Truth, 9 secs ago, by Quill

2:33:45 BB> Lucas Kauffman joined The DMZ.

Lucas Kauffman

@Quill I see

Quill

I've built a general chatroom monitor

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

Lucas Kauffman

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

Quill

maybe, what kind of code

Lucas Kauffman

16:36

@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

Quill

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

Lucas Kauffman

mmm need to have a look how that one works then

Quill

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

Lucas Kauffman

Ill have a look into it then

I've already indexed most of the dmz

Quill

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

Lucas Kauffman

16:38

@Quill open sourcE?

Quill

yeah, should be

Rоry McCune

17:18

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

have you been commenting on reddit again?

Lucas Kauffman

17:38

@RоryMcCune I deny all involvement

Rоry McCune

[Animation] Ponies With Hats

►

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!

Rory Alsop

18:55

@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"

Lucas Kauffman

19:55

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

Rory Alsop

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

TildalWave

20:20

Llamas with Hats

►

Rоry McCune

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

TildalWave

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

Rоry McCune

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

TildalWave

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

Rоry McCune

@RoryAlsop heh, sorry to Lexie!!

TildalWave

20:26

@RоryMcCune Llamas with Hats > Ponies with Hats

Rоry McCune

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

TildalWave

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)

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