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Howdy all:

Just to update everyone, the new server (henfap) has been bought and configured with ILX. It works pretty well, too -- when I'm the only one using it, at least.

FedEx picked it up this morning, and it'll be in Canada by Friday. The new hosts want a couple of days to unpack and dust it off, so we should have full ILX goodness restored next week.

The shipping costs have been met by a generous anon ILXor, although the final bill's not in so we may have a shortfall. In case the bill's huge, there's a mod discussion going on just now about running ads for a short time, or perhaps a donation link or the like.

There is a non-intrusive google ad plan where we can get cash from the google search box results page, which I'll test out here sometime tonight or tomorrow to see if it's shit or not.

As for the new code: Keith can tell you more, but we'll start a beta test once we're sure the new server is as stable as it can reasonably be with ILX on it. Ahem.

Well done everyone!

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link

It's been a terrible ordeal.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.nmpft.org.uk/images/filmimages/dawnofthedead5.jpg

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link

NO ADS! OVER MY DEAD BODY!

no, sorry, joeking. if people (ie you) are gonna end up out of pocket because FedEx are chisellers, i'm all in favour of doing whatever it takes.

hurrah stet. hurrah keith. hurrah all our sinister overlords etc.

― grimly fiendish (simon), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm all in favour of doing whatever it takes

(as a temporary measure, natch.)

― grimly fiendish (simon), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Fear not, all will work out.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link

new server named hen fap?

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

damn straight.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link

ILX Escort Service

― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link

As long as the ads aren't fucking PINK, I don't think people would have much to complain about.

― TOM. BOT. (trm), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Er ... there's now a (temporary) pink box on the real one too. Just so we can tell the difference between old code and new beta, like.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

i'd be fine w/pink ads

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

What can I do if it dies?
What can I do if it dies?
What can I do if it's poxed?
Just the thought fills my board with pink box

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

pink ads, eh?

FOR ALL YOUR GLASWEGIAN SHIRT NEEDS

http://www.se-glasgow.dk/images/thompink070301.jpg

(organic cider-proof protection available at extra cost)

― grimly fiendish (simon), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

little pink boxes
for you and me

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

http://image.listen.com/img/356x237/3/1/4/2/562413_356x237.jpg

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

As long as the ads aren't fucking PINK, I don't think people would have much to complain about.

I bet Carey Hart would complain.

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/030929/185515__pink_l.jpg

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

server name = Aja/Dante finally gets its last laugh.

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

i know that's some real underdog triumphing in the end shit right there

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.zastavki.com/pictures/800x600/Music_Pink_002660_.jpg

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

sry

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't apologise.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I kind of like it here. Will the sandbox be closed? :(

― Servetus (Servetus), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Sandbox = code testing ground. It's not going anywhere.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link

That last P!nk is starting to work on me.

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I had to admit it, but seconded.

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

YEAH! I mean, uh...thirded

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, the ultimate triumph of Aja/Dante would be making ESTEBAN BUTTEZ an admin not giving the server a totally fucking retarded name from one of the more totally fucking retarded memes in history.

I have no problem with ads but I do have a problem with hen fap!

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I want some ice cream.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

How is that Pink strumpet doing these days anyway? That last pic is totally Slums of Beverly Hills.

― Abbott (Abbott), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

She's on her own eating an ice cream! Burn the witch!

(seriously, well done Stet and Keef plus associated others, and even though I am poor I will stump up some more if necessary).

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 7 December 2006 07:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Pink's sloppy ice cream can't hold a candle to this:

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/5/50/Minnie_Riperton_Perfect_Angel.jpg

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 7 December 2006 07:18 (seventeen years ago) link

That's a great album.

― Rodney and His Gang vs. Mr. Tooth Decay (Rodney J. Greene), Thursday, 7 December 2006 07:44 (seventeen years ago) link

update plz

― friday on the porch (lfam), Sunday, 10 December 2006 04:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Server is in Canada and clearing customs, last we heard from FedEx.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 10 December 2006 06:50 (seventeen years ago) link

will they find the ilx fundraising eightball?

― friday on the porch (lfam), Sunday, 10 December 2006 07:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Outlook not so good.

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Sunday, 10 December 2006 07:31 (seventeen years ago) link

OTM, Outlook sucks.

― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 10 December 2006 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

the name "hen fap" was on a watchlist of some kind, so it was taken in for extra questioning.

― grady (grady), Sunday, 10 December 2006 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

ska punk would have attracted no attention. damn.

― jergins (jergins), Sunday, 10 December 2006 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Daft question but don't they sell servers in Canada?

― Blaze the Violet Flame (nu_onimo), Sunday, 10 December 2006 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Sandbox = code testing ground. It's not going anywhere.

Unfortunately, I don't think this sandbox is any use for testing new code, for reasons the ISP are best at explaining.

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 10 December 2006 23:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Gerry: we were getting a discount price with better service and better spec, and it actually worked out cheaper to get it here, especially since we should be able to reclaim VAT (pre-VAT price is cheaper than Canadian one).

The new code will have to be tested on the live server, aye.

― stet (stet), Monday, 11 December 2006 00:15 (seventeen years ago) link

We can just run two tomcats. Likely won't be a big deal.

― KeefW (KeefW), Monday, 11 December 2006 00:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Hello Keith.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 11 December 2006 09:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Presumably the words "Hen Fap" will not appear anywhere visible.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Monday, 11 December 2006 09:45 (seventeen years ago) link

It'll be in a special typeface only visible to hens.

― C J (C J), Monday, 11 December 2006 09:50 (seventeen years ago) link

what, chicken scratch?

― patita (patita), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Hahaha I love the idea of ILX going through customs. There's no way we're making it, people.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

That's okay - ilx aready has sleeper cells all over canada.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 11 December 2006 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

servers can make it thru cavity searches, right?

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Monday, 11 December 2006 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c90/gradygillan/poxy_fule.jpg

― grady (grady), Monday, 11 December 2006 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link

That's about the standard of my photoshop attempts!

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 12:38 (seventeen years ago) link

You couldn't edit the HTML and screencap it? FOR SHAME

― jw (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Nor could you find a serif font? FOR DOUBLE SHAME

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

the real shame is finding 'we want hen fap' that funny in the first place.

― sede vacante (blueski), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

it is always going to be funny

― akm (akmonday), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

sonned.
vvvvvv

― grady (grady), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

crazy old world!

― sede vacante (blueski), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

So, not so much this week then?

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Friday, 15 December 2006 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link

it made it through customs and may be installed this weekend!

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 15 December 2006 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Peter! Hi!

― KeefW (KeefW), Friday, 15 December 2006 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

bump. all i want for xmas is ilx

― substitute, mitya for him (mitya), Thursday, 21 December 2006 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link

all these moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 21 December 2006 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Sometime in '06? Eh? Eh?

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

(Does it really matter?)

(I suppose I can say this so glibly because I didn't donate money.)

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Nu year Nu ILX

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I've been wondering about this myself.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link

EARTH TO CANADA. EARTH TO CANADA. WHERE'S OUR FUCKING SERVER?

― grimly fiendish (simon), Thursday, 28 December 2006 13:18 (seventeen years ago) link

will the new server have some spare CPU for a little IRC server?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 28 December 2006 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Stet is looking into all this. (Minus the IRC part.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 28 December 2006 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

dere stet. please look into the IRC part too. yores, grimly.

― grimly fiendish (simon), Thursday, 28 December 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I wouldn't see a major problem with some sort of IRC, but why not just use a public server?

― KeefW (KeefW), Thursday, 28 December 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

IRC is a bit of a bloody security-hole mess these days and it's still too techy for less-computery ILXors. It'd end up as I Love Arcane Commands. Does anyone know of anything better?

― stet (stet), Thursday, 28 December 2006 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Not that's obvious. I don't follow these things much, though. Others probably do. I could write one; it'd take a bit of time. Might be an interesting thing to do, though. Could link it into ILX too maybe and highlight users that were currently logged into chat.

Still, it's hard to write something that has a kind of zero installation thing, for the non-techy. It could be a web thing, but it'd put a fair bit of strain on the server. Even an applet would have people downloading the latest JDK, though I think at least it'd probably do it for you.

― KeefW (KeefW), Thursday, 28 December 2006 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I think most folks are OK downloading an app. Does Jabber support chats?

― stet (stet), Thursday, 28 December 2006 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Coursre all this academic right now :(

― stet (stet), Thursday, 28 December 2006 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not any sort of Jabber expert, but I think it's an open peer to peer protocol, rather than a client-server thing. Though I'm sure it could be bent into doing this sort of thing, it's hardly worth it, as it doesn't do much for us in this situation.

The protocol itself (in a basic sense) is extremely simple: everything anyone sends to the server gets sent back out to all connected clients.

The trick's in writing something that doesn't use a thread (or worse, a process) per connected client, which means that a fairly limited number of users could use the thing at once, since threads use something like 1MB each.

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 31 December 2006 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually, after discussions, IRC probably does rock. If someone can get the code for Aunt Sadie I'll do it.

But only after the nu-code's running, as two instances of ILX will be enough to be getting on with.

― stet (stet), Sunday, 31 December 2006 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

So what changed in between then and now?

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 31 December 2006 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Madchen reminded me of #sinister -- and if it worked then it'll work noo too. Plus opportunity for aunt sadie to cast aspersions on Grimly Fiendish's sexuality.

― stet (stet), Sunday, 31 December 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

#sinister is on Undernet... I guess what I mean is what were your security concerns?

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 31 December 2006 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Plus opportunity for aunt sadie to cast aspersions on Grimly Fiendish's sexuality.

Who needs Aunt Sadie for that?

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Sunday, 31 December 2006 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

That's a good point!

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 31 December 2006 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I seem to recall having read a whole of vulnerabilites in various servers. I'll need to check it out properly.

On the server front: it should be ours in a day or two!

xposts: DUDES! It's a ROBOT that will do it automatically for me. This is THE WHOLE POINT of computers and automation and stuff. If I could get one to follow him about heckling him as well, that'd be sweet. Keith -- get codin and buildin and that, eh?

― stet (stet), Sunday, 31 December 2006 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Set up a dropcash account for "automaticgrimlyhecklebot" and I'm so in there.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Sunday, 31 December 2006 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I know the very lad:

ihttp://farm1.static.flickr.com/140/339517525_1799f77c60.jpg

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 31 December 2006 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

x-post

On New Year's Day? Does that seem likely!?!

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 31 December 2006 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Anything is possible.

On the server front: it should be ours in a day or two!

:-D

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 31 December 2006 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I see what you did there! I said "likely" and you said "possible"!

Well Stet, we'd better be up at the crack of dawn to start getting stuff on it tomorrow...

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 31 December 2006 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

er ... er, I think the special henfap-is-down holding page (with cute cats on) will be getting a bit of use tomorrow am.

― stet (stet), Sunday, 31 December 2006 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

(Also, unless they've wiped it or something, I've installed everything apart from Tomcat and Keefcode 2000).

― stet (stet), Sunday, 31 December 2006 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Does Solaris support something like LPARs, or multiple OS instances nowadays?

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 31 December 2006 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

behold, the grimbot 2000: programmed to make "wanker" gestures all day long.

http://www.clamlynch.com/blog/uploaded_images/robot.jpg

aunt sadie sounds like a right old boot :(

― grimly fiendish (simon), Sunday, 31 December 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Aye, its implementation is called zones and it is funky. xpost

― stet (stet), Sunday, 31 December 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

What are you lot up to this evening? I've decided to do nothing.

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 31 December 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Can each "zone" be assigned a different IP address?

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 31 December 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

What the bludy hell is Aunt Sadie when its at home?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Aunt Sadie - what is Matt DC?

― Aunt Sarah (Science of Unforunate Events), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Matt: Aunt Sadie is just a "bot" in an IRC room that was set up for the Sinister list many years ago.

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Awwh, Aunt Sadie!

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link

"just"

Yes on the IP thing.

― stet (stet), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I hear that Matt DC is installing your RAM and also a bloke.

― Aunt Pyth (Laurel), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

If all those/us pathetic twee-poppers (Keef and Koogs excepted) could get along with global chat and then mirc and wahtever, fucking ILX can handle it.

― Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

This is bringing about some #sinister nostalgia that I didn't even know I had in me :-(

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey Scottish d00ds, I am seeing on the news that New Years Fun has been cancelled because you're about to be rained away or something, blergh :(

― Sarah (Science of Unforunate Events), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Well that's no fun. :-/

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link

On the bright side, it means they can get cracking on with that code. God bless the weather on the shithole island right now.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link

We can organise fun outwith council-sponsored fun, can't we? (also now no Sandi Thom, hurrah hurrah)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Last I knew it was still on the go in Edinburgh... Has it stopped! I hope so!

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Word is that it's stopped, announcement later apparently. I'm buggered if I'm going out in this, the wind's making our double-glazing bend alarmingly. (Like grimly fiendish does aha ha heh)

― stet (stet), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

heheheh ... HEY!

the wind here on the south side is FUCKING MENTAL. rising to 30mph southwesterly later. FUCK going out. we're cooking instead.

and i'm installing last.fm, as part of my bid to get with this whole web 2.0 shit. (as bonaldi will tell you: the grimly way involves dismissing all new tech as "utter shit", then becoming obsessed by it some two or three years late, just as everybody else moves on). hell, i even just updated my livejournal.

is there an ILX/ILM last.fm group, btw?

― grimly fiendish (simon), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh I see, Glasgow has been cancelled. Is that because it might force Glaswegians out into the rain, where they might accidentally be washed?

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Only joking, of course. It's fucking windy here too.

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

We can organise fun outwith council-sponsored fun, can't we?

You can?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Incidentally, ILX2 will be Web 3.

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link

xposts

Well when us Londoners stumble back we expect a fully functioning auntsadie. Should I download mirc again? I think I still remember the servers :)

It's just rainy and a bit blah here but nothing stopping us moving about for the moment... I hope it doesn't all break at eff knows what in the morning, but seeing as we have the Union til stupid o clock I'm sure we can hole up there safely hooray.

Oh, it's time for Aled Jones on the telly. Party starts now!

― Sarah (Science of Unforunate Events), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

We're braving it because we are ROCK (and we have a bus stop about two minutes from our house to get into the town centre and friends we can stay with if it gets really bad and we can't get home) and also because we're a bit short on booze in the house.

(xpost to Matt, well I CAN, just because actual Glasgow-dwellers are a bit rubbish especially southern jessies like Grimly, doesn't mean that all of Glasgow is rubbish at organising fun. I wish I'd bust out the credit card and come to Big Lunding Town anyway)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, I hadn't actually noticed the scariness of the weather until about now. It was averagely breezy when I went over to the shop for the papers earlier. Now it's like freezy wet blowy hell. Still, a little rain never kept me out of a pub.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

we're cooking instead.
HEY invite me and madchen and p41l over then we've nowt to do and we can eat stuff no probs

― stet (stet), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Though the weather here is great and I've got party plans tonight and all, I admit that having good food and being snug against the winds with kind folk is a fine way to spend New Year's -- I'm kinda jealous!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

incidentally, i am literally in a desert waste now, that bein' the vegas airport. there's this cute kid sitting next to me with his dad, kid's angry cuz he can't gamble. kid is, also, 4.

― remy bean (bean), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Corrupt him. (Wait, so you're going to be back in LA tonight? Come down here and join us if you like!)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link

drop me an email, lemme know whass shakin?

― remy bean (bean), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link

SADIE!!!!!!

sadie, be struan

― CarsmileSteve (Carsmile Steve), Sunday, 31 December 2006 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link

E-mail sent, contact me ASAP.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 31 December 2006 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link

God, I'd forgot about that. Sadie used to do a me...

Can't remember what it said, though... Anyone fancy a pint? Things like that, I think.

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 31 December 2006 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Just going for a cup of tea...

― Sarah (Science of Unforunate Events), Sunday, 31 December 2006 19:11 (seventeen years ago) link

That could be right...

I'm in #sinister now

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 31 December 2006 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, I thought I still had mirc on this here laptop. Apparently not.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Sunday, 31 December 2006 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link

auntsadie, be keith
[auntsadie] Haha KeefW! Cool, I'll be Keith for a bit. Time for a Cup of Tea, Chaps.
* auntsadie is now known as auntkeith
[KeefW] Ha
[auntkeith] How's it going, KeefW, ha are in my cupboard?

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 31 December 2006 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link

i've got teh mirc. auntsadie just called me a hoodrat.

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Sunday, 31 December 2006 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

[mollyd] maybe...
[auntkeith] Maybe Mollyd, maybe, but I really got bevvied last night, Mollyd.
[mollyd] yes!
[KeefW] Haha

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 31 December 2006 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Heh heh what server are you on?? :)

― Sarah (Science of Unforunate Events), Sunday, 31 December 2006 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

i heart auntsadie

― stet (stet), Sunday, 31 December 2006 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Not entirely sure Starry, but any undernet one will do...
So:

eu.undernet.org

and

#sinister

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 31 December 2006 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I can tell that I'm going to install mirc and then see in 2007 in the company of virtual Keef and virtual Stet and getting insults flung at me by a robot. Marvellous.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Sunday, 31 December 2006 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 31 December 2006 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm now quite tickled by the notion that, as if ILXers don't spend enough time insulting one another, you now want to build a robot that does it as well.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 31 December 2006 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

/me forgets how irc works

/invite fishbot #ilx

― Onimo wants ops (nu_onimo), Sunday, 31 December 2006 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Hahah OPS! And / commands!! /me cackles and slaps you all with trout. Yes, THIS is what ILX has been missing.

― Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 31 December 2006 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I keep getting "unable to resolve server" whenever I try to connect. I've just remembered why IRC sucks.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Sunday, 31 December 2006 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Firewall?

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 31 December 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

This might be what Stet was talking about.

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 31 December 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that like a snowball? Don't mind if I do!

(yes, I never thought of that)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Sunday, 31 December 2006 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link

the london undernet server seems to be working. everything else i've tried "cannot resolve."

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Sunday, 31 December 2006 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

i r in sinister irc

― Onimo drank ALL the wine! (nu_onimo), Sunday, 31 December 2006 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I've just been out in the street to catch my bins which were blowing away. This wind is mental.

― Onimo drank ALL the wine! (nu_onimo), Sunday, 31 December 2006 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Ailsa, are you still fucking about?

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 31 December 2006 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, but failing dismally.

(Wind also mental this far down the M8, G)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Sunday, 31 December 2006 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I scrolled down servers to undernet then clicked on "random eu server" i think. Then /join #sinister

― Onimo drank ALL the wine! (nu_onimo), Sunday, 31 December 2006 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm trying random eu server and failing dismally, with or without the firewall bit on Norton turned off.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Sunday, 31 December 2006 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link

fucking hell. i went back and you'd all gone. except for what might have been a robot keith.

i never really got IRC in 1996, and i don't think i'm getting it now :(

― grimly fiendish (simon), Sunday, 31 December 2006 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

You went away for ages, you twat!

Some other time.

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 31 December 2006 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Though you can be my Web 2 Last FM friend, if you like. I'm here:

http://www.last.fm/user/RobotKeith

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 31 December 2006 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I am in IRC right now! Auntsadie knows far too much about me...

― Maaarghk C (Maaarghk C), Sunday, 31 December 2006 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link

cheers, robot keith. i found the ILX group too, incidentally. hurrah!

― grimly fiendish (simon), Monday, 1 January 2007 03:25 (seventeen years ago) link

hi
hello!
l**y a***r!
l**y a***r is, like, a rampant crack whore

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, that came out all wrong because of my pointy brackets, I suspect. The first person was sprog, then me, then sprog again, then auntsadie. Grr.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

seen rjg?
rjg was last seen on IRC 2 years, 212 days, 21 hours, 51 minutes and 58 seconds ago, saying: see ya there

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

auntsadie is just like the enterprise computer but better.

― stet (stet), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I hear auntsadie is like the enterprise computer but better and also a dear.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link

HEY SOMEBODY SAY "LATIGO" AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS! I wonder if she's been de-programmed.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Come and join us and try for yourself! It's like 1999 all over again in there!

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

[madchen] auntsadie, what is latigo?
[auntsadie] madchen: i don't know

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I am lurking there, I think I might catch the etwee.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

whoa #sinister
haha i downloaded mirc just now and was baffled for the first few minutes but it's aaaallll coming back to me now
except can't connect to undernet for some reason (i think the technical reason is: i'm hungover)

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

omg it worked

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Are you oldfolky, Ed?

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

stop lurking! feel the twee!

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Cannot remember what I'm doing. Yikes!

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link

yes (although also discussing Ulster loyalism and football hooliganism with Gareth and Watching Torchwood)

― Ed (dali), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link

haha, i know!
xpost
i just started reading the help file and am going 'oh yeah! right!' every two seconds

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

[madchen] gayometer keith
[auntsadie] keith has a gay-o-meter reading of -31, incredibly straight

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 1 January 2007 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha

― KeefW (KeefW), Monday, 1 January 2007 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link

in my head, all ILX chats look like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUPpcA8Eapw

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 04:45 (seventeen years ago) link

waht

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver (hoosteen), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 04:47 (seventeen years ago) link

MURKED

― amon (amon), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Just how many cats are there?

(I miss poxy fule already.)

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link

okay i was in #sinister for like 2 minutes, but there were actual PEOPLE there! WEIRD

― maunders (maunders), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link

#sinister is great again!

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow, nostalgia.

Laurel, it was "lanugo", not "latigo".

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

THE EXCITEMENT MOUNTS!

― grimly fiendish (simon), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Wowsers!

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/ile.html

Aaaaaahhhhh. Zen.

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

haha awesomely enough the cat that popped up when I first clicked on that was "WAIT, I'll fix it"

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, LANUGO! Thank you. A flake-out on my part. Does it still work?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought that NU-ILX was going to be all jsp based?

― akm (akmonday), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link

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