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In your opinion, should putting incoming mail in the right folders on an IMAP server dependent on say, the mailing list it corresponds to, be the job of the MDA or the MUA? (The “server” or the “client”)

There are some strange people on the internet, and most of the time, they can be annoying, but after this

* bod_ has joined #ubuntu-ops
<+Pici> bod_: How can we help you this morning?
<bod_> afternoon here ;~) im fine, just seeing how many ops have a ‘p’ in their name
<bod_> 9
<+Pici> bod_: /msg chanserv access #ubuntu list will give you a list of all #ubuntu ops
<bod_> omg, theres a command for everything,. can i grep for ‘p’ aswell?
<+nalioth> bod_: if there’s nothing we can help you with, /topic
* bod_ runs away
* bod_ has left #ubuntu-ops (”Leaving”)

I couldn’t help but chuckle for a good 10 minutes or so

I managed to dodge most of the photos, however, one person managed to get a non-blurry shot of me.

Online food shopping - oh the joy.

When you shop for food online, generally, something will be out of stock, so you’ll get it substituted for a similar item.  This I can accept.

However, my monthly shopping came last night, and there was one replacement.

This would have been fine, it was a pasta sauce that they simply substituted for another flavour. However, for some reason, they substituted 2 x Flavour I asked for for 3 x Other Flavour.

Considering that the products differ only on their content (the flavour) and are the same price and weight, what makes them think that adding an extra one to my order is correct?

*sighs* I accepted it anyways, as it was actually the flavour I wanted, but couldn’t find on the website.

And on another note, darn Firefox for flagging up “flavour” as a spelling mistake. (even with the language set to en_GB!)

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Hehe. As I’m moving soon, and I’m only going to have wireless internet, I thought I’d sit down and have a look to see whether the D-Link USB adapter I’ve had for about 2 years would actually work with Linux, which, while it had previously picked up details of the networks, never seemed to work.

After reading through a couple of Ubuntu Wiki Pages, I managed to download, compile and install the working module - and guess what - it works!

Now this is great news - I won’t have to go out and search for a new Wireless Dongle/Card, and well - seeing as the end of my ethernet cable is missing the clip, and keeps falling out of the router, I can now use wireless! woohoo! (and it’s even working with WPA!)

Oh, and hello Planet #bitfolk

It’s coming up to that time of year when the London PHP Conference is gearing up and getting ready to go.

Head on over to http://www.phpconference.co.uk/ to book your tickets!

When a few people in IRC noticed Daniel Silverstone’s post about his new phone number, that started a whole conversation regarding whether his number crunching alogorithm was good enough.

I made a lovely script in PHP, which told me the numbers that it could have been.

There are 67786 combinations that it could be, it took me about 27 seconds to find that once I’d written and debugged the code.

It’s an interesting puzzle, so if you’re bored, why not write some code and see whether you can get the same answer?

“I am your father”

It’s official, The President said it

On another note - one heck of a day at work. I need a drink