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1:14 PM

@terdon and you are away now :P

is it safe to delete questions that are closed without any answer ?

@edwardtorvalds what you mean by "safe"?

@Braiam I wont be punished in anyway from this website, I am banned from asking questions on stackoverflow

we don't have quality bans enabled on UL, but moderators can still suspend you manually from asking questions

3:08 PM

> The GNU extension find -perm +xyz has been deprecated, find now exits with an error when this syntax is used. Please switch over to find -perm /xyz which has been supported since 2005

Jeff Schaller

3:26 PM

@Braiam thanks, Braiam! I'm feeling old now, after Stephane separately pointed out to me that head's behavior changed 12 years ago ...

This one is really a must see, if you haven't already:

Toccata and Fugue in DOT minor - Bach on a DOT MATRIX PRINTER

Hi @casey. Seen Anthony around?

@derobert yo.

3:51 PM

Hey

4:25 PM

@derobert Hey. Still alive? Hadn't heard from you in a while.

5:46 PM

@FaheemMitha Maybe. Could have been turned into a zombie by shoveling snow.

BRAINS... BRAINS... STRIKE THAT... SNOW BLOWERS... SNOW BLOWERS...

@derobert Do you have a snow blower, or do you just want one?

@FaheemMitha No, don't have one. Wish I did...

Silly zombies don't call out BRAINS to announce they have one. They want them (to eat, though not planning on eating a snow blower.)

@derobert I suppose you don't get a lot of ice/snow storms where you are, though.

@derobert Zombies don't have enough brain function to say BRAINS, I believe.

The Return of the Living Dead

6:03 PM

The Return of the Living Dead is a 1985 American black comedy/zombie horror film written and directed by Dan O'Bannon and starring Clu Gulager, James Karen, and Don Calfa. The film tells the story of how three men accompanied by a group of teenage punks deal with the accidental release of a horde of brain hungry zombies onto an unsuspecting town. The film is known for introducing the popular concept of zombies eating brains, as opposed to just eating human flesh, like previous zombie iterations, as well as its soundtrack, which features several noted deathrock and punk rock bands of the era. The...

@FaheemMitha Not many large ones, no. Normally get half a foot, not three.

Or the Simpson's Tree House of Horror.

@derobert Well, maybe you could use it to ride around on.

@FaheemMitha A riding snow blower? That's a very large snow blower...

I wonder if they make such things. Normally you have to push them.

@derobert True.

@derobert And, yes, they do.

Hmm, looks like it's a snow blower attachment to a lawn mower.

I have a townhome, so normally I have to clear like 20–30ft of driveway, some sidewalk... Not a big deal with 6 in. Huge PITA with 3ft.

Having said that: grouperpmtech.com/en/self-propelled-snow-blowers.aspx

@derobert Well, with 6 inches, wouldn't it melt on its own.

@derobert BTW, what are you thoughts on digital door locks?

6:10 PM

@FaheemMitha Not if it stays cold.

How's the weather looking now?

Is your camera still up?

@FaheemMitha I have plain old key locks... Haven't used any digital ones except for really fancy ones at e.g., colos

Camera is still up

@derobert So I see. Picturesque.

Still have the every-30s time lapse capture going, too. einstein.derobert.net/tmp/tl

Will probably thin out the melting pictures (otherwise the video will be quite long...)

@derobert colos?

6:12 PM

Colocation centre

A colocation centre (also spelled co-location, or colo) is a type of data centre where equipment, space, and bandwidth are available for rental to retail customers. They are sometimes also referred to as "carrier hotels." Colocation facilities provide space, power, cooling, and physical security for the server, storage, and networking equipment of other firms—and connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers—with a minimum of cost and complexity. == BenefitsEdit == Colocation has become a popular option for companies with midsize IT needs—especially those in Internet...

@derobert Oh, that. Yes.

So, do you ever talk to your neighbors?

@FaheemMitha Every once in a while run into one. The one I actually knew fairly well and talked to regularly moved, unfortunately.

anyone here using arch linux?

@derobert Ah. Well, my (limited) experience of the US is that's it not a terribly social place, in the sense of neighbors talking to each other, at least.

Minor annoyances - people calling RHEL Red Hat. e.g. unix.stackexchange.com/q/4286/4671.

Or maybe I'm just showing my age...

The Red Hat line ended in 2004.

@FaheemMitha Feel free to edit :-P

6:23 PM

@derobert Well, I'm not sure I care that much. And you never know, he might be a time traveller.

RedHat 6 was an annoying half-broken release, if I remember correctly. Would suggest he upgrade to 6.2.

If he's a time traveler. :-P

:-)

@FaheemMitha and I wonder if anyone has actually composed music for a dot matrix printer?

Well, I edited it anyway.

@derobert Seems unlikely.

I donno. It can make music, why not?

6:27 PM

@derobert the ones they use to clean runways are huge machines that drive around. They'll go tandem with a few of those, enough plows in V formation to span 200-300' wide and then the giant snow brushes to clean any ice sticking to the concrete.

@derobert Well, there are machines actually designed to make music.

BAB HIGH SPEED RUNWAY SNOW BLOWER

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overkill for a driveway, but they do exist!

@casey Maybe one day someone will write a sf/horror story about one of them. Though maybe it's already been written.

@casey Something tells me that wouldn't be an appropriate machine to use on my townhome driveway... And it probably wouldn't even fit.

Brownie points for anyone who recognizes the reference. And it's not a Stephen King one.

6:30 PM

@casey I have question on pacman (redirected to you from terdon)

second option to pacman -R are
-s, --recursive remove unnecessary dependencies
(-ss includes explicitly installed dependencies)
-u, --unneeded remove unneeded packages
what is difference between them?

@FaheemMitha Sure, but a dot matrix printer gives you a different sound.

@derobert True, it does.

And that dot matrix printer is now a machine designed to make music... After the PCB mods...

But I doubt it will catch on in orchestras. Though it might be fun to try.

SNOW HOW - this is how you do it!

@derobert no, the probably wouldnt, but there are even bigger ones

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6:32 PM

@casey hah, would figure that airports have some pretty serious snow removal gear

If I tried that on my driveway, it'd probably suck up the adjacent bushes, and eject the whole mess straight through any nearby cars...

@derobert yea, its pretty amazing to see them clear a runway

Those things must have some seriously terrible mileage.

sometimes just to see how much heavy equipment the airport has compared to the rest of a city :)

@casey It's all about the rich people.

@edwardtorvalds i'm not sure offhand what is different about them. I don't have too much experience with arch.

6:35 PM

I doubt you could operate an airport where it snows without a ton of snow removal gear.

Something tells me hitting a snow bank when trying to take off or land would be a very bad thing.

StrongBad

8:54 PM

Anyone know where to report BTRFS bugs? I thought is was Bugzilla, but only 2% of the bugs there are even assigned to anyone and they have "new" bugs from 2+ years ago.