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[00:00]<lnnzan>I'd never get tires done at a place like Walmart or Costco, tho, their tire monkeys will strip your lugnuts and/or mangle your rims.
[00:01]<lnnzan>they stripped a lug on my wife's newer volvo, and refused to do anything about it, cost us $400 to get it fixed (needed to get a new stud pressed on the rotor, and took 3 hours labor at the dealer)
[00:01]<verse>peerce: i don't have isopropyl alcohol. i do, however, have rarpd, tftpd and nfsd. ;-)
[00:01]<cszzc>Wally WOrld, if you will. not wall mart
[00:01]<verse>peerce: a 'cleaning cd-rom' won't do, btw?
[00:01]<lnnzan>those are a joke.
[00:02]<lnnzan>lens cleaner would work. eyeglass cleaning wet tissues would work.
[00:02]<verse>peerce: hm.
[00:02]<lnnzan>just be very gentle
[00:04]<verse>peerce: ok. just to be sure that it's a cdrom problem - it is impossible to boot 1st install cd (sparc) from cd-r burned at 4x speed; 'boot cdrom' fails with either 'fast data access mmu miss' (this one is rare), 'short read' or 'file looks like a junk' or sth.
[00:04]<verse>peerce: POST with diag-switch? on and test-all shows no problems.
[00:05]<verse>peerce: ah, and it's an ultra 5 with only 64MB ram, and i'm trying to install solaris 10.
[00:05]<lnnzan>diagnostics won't detect a CD optical problem
[00:05]<lnnzan>is 10 even supported on the ultra5?!?
[00:05]<verse>peerce: according to HCL it is.
[00:06]<verse>peerce: ok, i'll try to clean this thing.
[00:07]<mygmmzyvn>I've run it on an Ultra 5 myself, so I can verify that.
[00:07]<cszzc>How could wall mart sell tires?
[00:07]<lnnzan>yeah sunsolve says it is.
[00:07]<cszzc>can someone please tell me
[00:08]<pury>you'll find a hard time getting a sun that won't run 10
[00:08]<lnnzan>the ultra5 uses a standard IDE/ATAPI CDROM drive, I believe, you could cannabalize one off a PC prolly.
[00:08]<cszzc>AJC: "Given enough babies and rubber bands, you can make your own tires"
[00:08]<cszzc>and cats!
[00:08]<lnnzan>ksark; they have a tire department, cmplete with an installation shop at most wallyworlds
[00:09]<verse>peerce: what about block size?
[00:09]<verse>peerce: damn, you are right. it's ide, not scsi.
[00:09]<lnnzan>I don't think there's anything special abuot the drive on those. I could be wrong.
[00:10]<verse>peerce: ok. i'll try this first.
[00:10]<cszzc>AJC: if you ever have a tire with a slow leak, run over a cat
[00:10]<lnnzan>we threw out two ultra5's earlier this year... needed more ram, and it was unobtanium or ridiculously expensive
[00:10]<cszzc>plugs it
[00:11]<pury>10 will run on any sun4u arch
[00:18]<-- svgvsdyzgjvr_ xrs>/dev/null")
[00:36]<2fjgmyn>every time I look at this window, sludge_factory_ has just quit
[00:51]<ygsjgmyr>Luservation, n: Dialogue between two or more lusers about subjects which they are complete ignorant of, and oblivious to. See "blathering".
[00:52]<ajc_z0>and "blithering", as in idiots
[00:54]<ygsjgmyr>hahahaha
[00:54]<ygsjgmyr>"Lotus Notes for Dummies" is surely a single page pull out with "don't" printed on it.
[00:54]<ggjmygmgz>http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1925.html
[00:57]<ajc_z0>Yes, only a completely insance and technologically backward company would keep trying to re-jig a steaming pile of groupware and sell it as any kind of Internet service
[00:58]<ajc_z0>Insane and loaded with more money than many nations
[01:08]<ygsjgmyr>"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." - Charles Babbage
[01:10]<ajc_z0>Arthur C. Clarke answered that
[01:11]<ygsjgmyr>and the answer was?
[01:12]<ajc_z0>Number three. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws
[01:13]<ygsjgmyr>ahhhh
[01:13]<ygsjgmyr>The old "give 'em a Linux box and they think they're Jean-Luc Picard" syndrome.
[01:20]<prffjuv>they start saying shedule (vs. schedule)?
[01:21]<anzjura>blah, motherfuckers!
[01:22]<ygsjgmyr> Dennis Ritchie: "So fsck was originally called something else"
[01:22]<ygsjgmyr> Question: "What was it called?"
[01:22]<ygsjgmyr> Dennis Ritchie: Well, the second letter was different.
[01:22]<ygsjgmyr>
[01:22]<ygsjgmyr>Q&A at Usenix
[01:23]<ygsjgmyr>life ain't nothin' but bitches and money...
[01:28]<zjjvraanss>#420 :-) where grass burns quicker then gas
[01:28]<zjjvraanss>haha
[01:33]<anzjura>DataStream: did you ever watch that movie?
[01:34]<svfs>hello... I just downloaded the Sun Solaris DVD files, unzipeed and joined them and burnt them on a DVD... I'm trying to install now onto a computer that has Linux already. I'm able to get to the point where I select "Standard" or "Flash" installations but when I select "Standard" I get "ERROR: The disc you inserted is an incorrect Solaris OS CD/DVD". Anyone heard of this before?
[01:36]<zjjvraanss>Marijuana... are you getting enough?
[01:37]<ygsjgmyr>I've heard of that.
[01:37]<ygsjgmyr>Put disc 1 in.
[01:37]<svfs>insoNMia: disc 1?
[01:37]<svfs>insoNMia: I only have one DVD
[01:39]<ygsjgmyr>is it the right one?
[01:40]<ygsjgmyr>you sure you didn't put "Freddy Got Fingered" in there by mistake?
[01:40]<svfs>I see the community support for Solaris is not quite up to par with that of Linux
[01:41]<svfs>thanks for taking an interest though
[01:41]<ygsjgmyr>Fuck you and the penguin you rode in on.
[01:41]<ygsjgmyr>The old "give 'em a Linux box and they think they're Jean-Luc Picard" syndrome.
[01:42]<asjpv>insoNMia: lol
[01:42]<ygsjgmyr>dude can't even take a joke.
[01:42]<ygsjgmyr>people can't even take it if you fuck with them even just a little.
[01:42]<ygsjgmyr>they're all, "But, you're supposed to help me!"
[01:42]<ssrd>insoNMia, that was more like a Linux support
[01:43]<ygsjgmyr>ssam: meh.
[01:44]<ygsjgmyr>I do both actually.
[01:44]<ygsjgmyr>Connected to 192.168.100.70.
[01:44]<ygsjgmyr>Escape character is '^]'.
[01:44]<ygsjgmyr>Red Hat Linux Advanced Server release 2.1AS/i686 (Pensacola)
[01:46]<lnnzan>2.1? phew.
[01:46]<ygsjgmyr>tis a stinky pile-o-poo.
[01:46]<ygsjgmyr>don't you download the dvd in chunks and cat >> it together?
[01:47]<ygsjgmyr>perhaps it was catted out of order.
[01:48]<svfs>insoNMia: well, if that was your idea of a joke, I can take it... haha... but I never did say that I "expected" any help here although I was kindof hoping I wouldn't be ridiculed. But I was and so be it... so now, back to the problem, yes I'm sure "Freddie got fingered" is safely put away in the CD rack so that's not what's causing the problem.
[01:49]<ygsjgmyr>[15:43] insoNMia: don't you download the dvd in chunks and cat >> it together?
[01:49]<ygsjgmyr>[15:43] insoNMia: perhaps it was catted out of order.
[01:49]<lnnzan>yeah, its in 5 chunk, a,b,c,d,e, you have to unzip them, then cat them (or, if you download and burn from Windows, copy /b sol-9-u8-ga-sparc-dvd-iso-a+sol-9-u8-ga-sparc-dvd-iso-b+sol-9-u8-ga-sparc-dvd-iso-c+sol-9-u8-ga-sparc-dvd-iso-d+sol-9-u8-ga-sparc-dvd-iso-e sol-9-u8-ga-sparc-dvd.iso
[01:49]<lnnzan>don't forget that /b flag or windows WILL ralf your ISO
[01:51]<ygsjgmyr>dude. I had to sit and think of one of the worst movies ever in order to come up with that title.
[01:51]<svfs>insoNMia: good point, thanks... but unfortunately I seem to have done it in the correct order
[01:51]<ygsjgmyr>I could have picked something clever like "Blade Runner - Director's Cut" or "Clerks" or even some high-toned and fancy film like "Pride and Prejudice"
[01:51]<ygsjgmyr>but I didn't.
[01:52]<svfs>cat sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-iso-a sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-iso-b sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-iso-c sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-iso-d sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-iso-e > sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd.iso
[01:52]<ygsjgmyr>see.
[01:52]<ygsjgmyr>I'm a one-at-a-time kinda' gal.
[01:52]<ygsjgmyr>cat [first] >> dvd.iso
[01:52]<ygsjgmyr>cat [second] >> dvd.iso

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