Notices by Andy C (andyc)

@mike It may be frustrating but hardly unusual. My wife couldn't care less as long as the 'Internet is up' and printing results in pages being spewed out, she's happy. It's not a gender divide either. I have (male) mates who have to call ISP tech support if their router mistakenly gets unplugged 🙂

@bobstechsite We use WebEx for video conferencing but internally you can use whatever XMPP client you choose. Same for email. Which is nice.

I also deleted and completely expunged the Pidgin status of 'Chatty'. I might be 'Awake', I might be 'Alive', I might be 'Online'. I might even be 'Available'. I would never, ever be 'Chatty' 🙂

@bobstechsite Thank <deity> for that 😃

I simply lurve it when colleagues invite me to their weddings, funerals or holdays via a meeting invite. Without fail, I always accept/decline with a comment 'Sorry - I would love to visit Monaco but I don't have enough annual leave left or suffidient funds to allow me to join you on this occasion'.

I also used to customise Pidgin status messages to be, err, amusing. Well to me at least. For example, 'Waiting for a conf call. 15 minute rule will be breached imminently'.

@bobstechsite I once had a Pidgin plugin that actually advertised 'Listening to 'Frances Farmer will have her revenge on Seattle' in my Status etc in a well intentioned effort to educate people about music. Thay way, they knew I was interuptible and not 'On a conference call'.

@bobstechsite A conference call where you contribute nothing apart from humming 'Smells like teen spirit' (or your favourite song). What a stupid thing to say. I'm surprised your management is enlightened enough to permit remote working.

@musicman Yeah. A lot of ex-Ingres folk went to Perforce after the CA takeover.

@musicman No. I was lucky enough to work on the swanky Kings Road office in Chelsea 🙂

@musicman Aha - so you work for Perforce. In the 90'#s, I worked at Ingres. So did Chris Seiwald. I think we used piccolo (or p2) for version control that became Perforce. Small world.

@theru Is it possible to follow mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au from Mastodon ? I have tried and failed...

@dick_turpin ...although that song is not one of my favourites.

@dick_turpin I also lurve The [early] Killers and have used 'nbrightside' as a pseudonym 😃

#listening Gotta love Stewart Lee - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cNk9Phl6MI

Guake window positioning was also fubar which was odd. I was starting to doubt Arch until I realised it was all down to Wayland. Xorg works fine.

Hours spent puzzling over Dovecot issues and it was the Gnus cache and active file that was screwed.

Another sodding 2 hrs tracking down the need for 'LAYOUT=fs' in Dovecot's maildir parameter. I have now printed out a hardcopy, backed it up N time, placed it in Github and carved the entire config into my dense, blank forehead.

Like the AUR in Arch. I can install software like VirtualBox and SQL-developer seamlessly rather than adding custom repos or install from RPM's.

Minor bug in backup strategy. I I use rsync but only use '--delete' manually. A full 2-way sync is desirable before a machine upgrade. Now I have all those emails I carefully purged back in my INBOX. Sighs at my own stupidity.