I hope no-one's missing me...

molnir: ~> slrn
slrn 0.9.7.4 [2002-03-13]

Reading startup file /user/eesf/eesridr/.slrnrc.
Using newsrc file /user/eesf/eesridr/jnews.rc for server
newshost.brunel.ac.uk.
Connecting to host newshost.brunel.ac.uk ...
Failed to initialize server
Reason: 400 No space (spool inodes) [innwatch:39] 0 lt 200
slrn fatal error:
Failed to initialize server.
[Hm, that's a new one. I've been getting timeouts or connection refused
since last weekend. I'd think it a hopeful sign except that it's now
Friday night...]
molnir: ~> motd
Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.5.1 Generic May 1996
EASTER BREAK: Services unattended: 11 Apr, 1700 until 19 Apr, 0900.
Round-the-clock facilities: normal arrangements apply.

 

Dr Ivan D. Reid wrote

Nobody even noticed you weren't here so I can't see how we could be
missing you. Are you *osming?

 

Pint of Breezy Badger, you old twat.

 

Speaking of Ubuntu, BB comes with DMA set to off on the DVD drive making
playback a little jerky. If you intend to play DVDs with Ubuntu, TURN
DMA ON. DAMHIK,IJD,OK? Other than that, I've had no problems with it.

 

prawn scribbled on the back of a napkin:

Dapper Drake does the same - AFAIK it's because some of the supposedly
DMA-capable CD & DVD drives aren't.

 

that's the combined power of reading up about linux distros and
Tanqueray Ten for you. I /meant/ to ask for a pint of beer, not linux.

 

No. Just got roped into a month at CERN...

At least the newshost is mysteriously up & running, but their
article numbering is fscked -- it reports that it holds ukrm articles from
1 to 1805412 for example...

I'm pleased that darsy cared enough to reply.

--
Ivan Reid, Electronic & Computer Engineering, ___ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

Is there anything left at your house worth stealing anymore ?


It does appear to be the norm when you announce on public forums that you're
away !!

 

Yeah, I know, which is why I tend to be slightly cryptic about details
lately. We have a new RA starting tomorrow, the timing's just about right
for him to "borrow" my house while I'm away, to give him a bit more time
to find a place of his own (He's Brazilian, with a wife doing a PhD
somewhere on the Continent; he's taking two years off from being the head
of a University Computer Centre to take our job and be closer to his wife
and daughter).

--
Ivan Reid, Electronic & Computer Engineering, ___ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

I don't care - I was pissed.