--- Log opened Mon Mar 15 10:46:08 2004
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10:46:37 #corewars: < jakub> hello :)
10:46:44 #corewars: < Mizcu> hi j
10:47:02 #corewars: < jakub> hi Mizcu
10:47:17 #corewars: < jakub> I just popped here for a minute, I have computer science now
10:49:07 #corewars: < jakub> teacher is here, bye now
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13:03:04 #corewars: < jaska> i added robots.txt crawler exclusion to the log site due to some crawlers attempting to index them.
13:03:23 #corewars: < jaska> if someone here wants to use wget on them they can just bypass it.
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13:23:44 #corewars: < grabek> gosh
13:27:12 #corewars: < will_varf> hello lukasz
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13:44:09 #corewars: < grabek> hello willvarfa 
13:44:15 #corewars:  * grabek is studying hard!
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16:18:38 #corewars: < grabek> John Morahan, hick
16:19:46 #corewars: < will_varf> ?
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16:53:07 #corewars: < Mizcu> cc
16:53:57 #corewars: < CoreChild> Hi
16:54:06 #corewars: < CoreChild> Did you have a good weekend?
16:54:21 #corewars: < Mizcu> acceptable
16:54:51 #corewars: < CoreChild> Hmmm... I suppose that's good
16:57:51 #corewars: < bvowk> greets Core
16:57:54 #corewars: < bvowk> miz
16:58:27 #corewars: < grabek> hi CoreChild 
16:58:34 #corewars: < grabek> just passing by
16:59:25 #corewars: < CoreChild> Hi Bvowk
16:59:35 #corewars: < bvowk> how's it going?
16:59:37 #corewars: < CoreChild> Hi Lukasz
16:59:45 #corewars: < Mizcu> someone send a couple of tips to Kauka, paralyze(1) has few places that could use improving 
17:01:21 #corewars: < grabek> Kauka?
17:01:35 #corewars: < Mizcu> (see source at cwsf-b archive)
17:01:54 #corewars: < grabek> Oh, I am not up-to-date
17:04:34 #corewars: < CoreChild> brx: when you gonna realise, it's just that the time was wrong...
17:06:20 #corewars: < grabek> Mizcu: why don't you, then?
17:06:38 #corewars: < Mizcu> i would change it too much
17:06:46 #corewars: < grabek> so?
17:07:21 #corewars: < Mizcu> to me the whole strategy is bit of an absurd
17:07:37 #corewars: < grabek> I don't know what the strategy is.
17:07:46 #corewars: < Mizcu> boot 28 suicidal stones -> suicidal stone & suicidal clear..
17:07:47 #corewars: < grabek> Anyway, you may guide him what strategies are viable
17:07:52 #corewars: < grabek> lol
17:08:05 #corewars: < grabek> time i went
17:08:18 #corewars: < grabek> few more things to read
17:08:20 #corewars: < grabek> *sigh*
17:08:26 #corewars: < Mizcu> i have a feeling that i have seen an add.ab #1, 1 , mov bomb, somewhere jmp -2 before
17:09:36 #corewars:  * CoreChild sings "I'm so ugly, but that's okay, 'cause so are you ..."
17:09:52 #corewars:  * CoreChild waves to Lukasz
17:17:20 #corewars: < CoreChild> If we all write an entry for Christian's lexicon, it'll be finished in no time.
17:24:52 #corewars: < CoreChild> Okay, time to go.  Be back later
17:24:55 #corewars:  * CoreChild waves
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18:30:54 #corewars: < Metcalf> Hi
18:32:20 #corewars: < Mizcu> hi
18:36:56 #corewars: < grabek> Metcalf: you naughty boy
18:40:31 #corewars: < Metcalf> Why's that? :-)
18:41:34 #corewars: < Metcalf> Just tried out my new camera http://tinyurl.com/25f6e
18:41:38 #corewars: < Metcalf> Nothing exciting...
18:41:48 #corewars: < grabek> I imagine that once you get home you go to computer and go online just to check whether someone's there
18:42:15 #corewars: < Metcalf> Not using internet at home :-)
18:42:27 #corewars: < Metcalf> But when I have my new place, I will be online from every room!
18:42:37 #corewars: < bvowk> not the bathroom please
18:42:41 #corewars: < Metcalf> (except the smallest room!)
18:42:45 #corewars: < bvowk> that'd be just wierd
18:42:51 #corewars: < grabek> Is it you on the last picture?
18:42:57 #corewars: < Metcalf> No
18:43:14 #corewars: < grabek> Oh
18:43:28 #corewars: < Metcalf> That's a goose!
18:43:44 #corewars: < grabek> Oh number 2
18:43:58 #corewars: < grabek> Damn
18:44:00 #corewars: < grabek> :-)
18:44:21 #corewars:  * bvowk wonders
18:44:44 #corewars: < Metcalf> So now you know what the places I've visited this week looked like.  I resisted taking photos inside the huge bookshops.  (I wish I had taken some now)
18:44:58 #corewars: < bvowk> what kind of camera is that john?
18:45:04 #corewars: < grabek> I wonder how Eglishmen can live in that soaking wet country
18:45:05 #corewars:  * bvowk likes bookshops
18:45:27 #corewars: < bvowk> grab: its a good excuse to stay inside and drink beer
18:45:31 #corewars: < bvowk> its the perfect country :)
18:45:33 #corewars: < Metcalf> They are fantastic.  Lots of floors, hundreds of books. About 150 shelves of computer books.
18:45:46 #corewars: < grabek> It seems that sky is grey and grass is half-brown, half-green
18:45:52 #corewars: < Metcalf> Of course, plenty on the sciences too...
18:45:57 #corewars:  * bvowk is still looking for a replacement copy of "the adolesence of P1"
18:46:02 #corewars:  * bvowk sighs
18:46:24 #corewars: < Metcalf> I bought a copy of "Unsolved Problems in Number Theory"
18:46:30 #corewars: < bvowk> heh :)
18:46:50 #corewars: < Metcalf> Unfortunately Dewdney's "New Turing Omnibus" is out of print, otherwise I'd have that too
18:46:57 #corewars: < grabek> bvowk: this looks like a title of one of books from Secret of Monkey Island 2
18:47:09 #corewars: < bvowk> I almost bought a stack of radio technology textbooks from 1870->1943 in an antique book store..
18:47:14 #corewars: < bvowk> they were very eat
18:47:17 #corewars: < bvowk> neat even
18:47:55 #corewars: < bvowk> grab: no, its a cheezy 1970's thriller about an AI running around computers
18:48:00 #corewars: < bvowk> very ahead of its time tho
18:48:14 #corewars: < bvowk> I always get a kick out of reading it
18:48:22 #corewars:  * Metcalf would like a copy of "Shockwave Rider"
18:48:52 #corewars: < grabek> and me "Life of second cousins of third wife of Henry VIII"
18:48:57 #corewars: < grabek> this must be a killer!
18:49:01 #corewars: < bvowk> I just bought one john :)
18:49:14 #corewars: < Metcalf> Huh :-(
18:49:41 #corewars: < bvowk> it was at the second hand book store right beside my place
18:50:34 #corewars: < Metcalf> Very lucky.  I've been looking for ages.  I've found half a dozen others by Brunner, just never SR
18:51:51 #corewars: < Metcalf> I've got a couple of early 70's books about intelligent computers out of control.  I'll find out the titles
18:53:08 #corewars: < bvowk> I would pay a mint if you could find me that book :)
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18:53:24 #corewars: < joonas> hello all
18:53:27 #corewars: < bvowk> greets joonas
18:53:38 #corewars: < grabek> hi joonas 
18:54:07 #corewars:  * bvowk damages his pancreas with an insanely sweet coffee
18:54:07 #corewars:  * joonas takes passes around his new HD for everyone to see
18:54:10 #corewars: < bvowk> *blech*
18:54:18 #corewars: < bvowk> what'd ya get joonas?
18:54:51 #corewars: < joonas> I said to my boss today that I thought my HD was getting a bit crowded, and two hours later.. bam, here's your new 120GB maxtor
18:55:01 #corewars: < bvowk> maxtor?
18:55:22 #corewars: < bvowk> watch it like a hawk for the first little while
18:55:28 #corewars: < joonas> only small installation problems and a slight panic of "omg, I've killed the mobo," but fortunately I hadn't.
18:55:35 #corewars: < bvowk> they're notoriously bad on the front end of the bathtub :)
18:55:58 #corewars:  * joonas makes a note to stress test it
18:56:01 #corewars: < Metcalf> Hi Joonas
18:56:05 #corewars: < joonas> hey john!
18:56:14 #corewars: < bvowk> disk space should be a human right :)
18:56:20 #corewars: < joonas> lol
18:56:33 #corewars: < joonas> john, heard you'd got "unsolved problems"
18:56:42 #corewars: < Metcalf> Bvowk: I will keep my eyes open when I'm about...
18:56:43 #corewars: < joonas> had a chance to browse it yet?
18:57:01 #corewars: < joonas> any favourites?
18:57:01 #corewars: < Metcalf> Joonas: yes, finally I have my own copy.  Had a look through on the bus
18:57:31 #corewars: < Metcalf> There were one or two where I'd like to try and find a counter example :-)
18:57:58 #corewars:  * joonas 's fave is hunting for odd perfect squares
18:58:01 #corewars: < joonas> ouh, numbers.
18:59:12 #corewars: < Metcalf> Bvowk: cheap 3 million pixels cam, no optical zoom.
18:59:27 #corewars: < bvowk> metcalf: sony?
19:00:03 #corewars: < Metcalf> Bvowk: of course not!
19:00:11 #corewars: < bvowk> heh
19:00:43 #corewars: < bvowk> so what are you going to put in your new 120GB joonas?
19:01:09 #corewars: < joonas> maps. more maps.  so many maps the HD will chooke!
19:01:11 #corewars:  * grabek off
19:01:14 #corewars: < joonas> or choke, whichever comes first. :)
19:01:21 #corewars:  * joonas waves at grabek
19:01:26 #corewars: < bvowk> heh
19:01:28 #corewars: < bvowk> cya grab
19:01:32 #corewars: < Metcalf> Maps? :-) SoM of all the hills? Hooray!
19:01:38 #corewars: < bvowk> lol john :)
19:01:51 #corewars:  * bvowk prods joonas for some automagic som maps for the sal hills
19:02:01 #corewars: < Metcalf> Joonas: what would you need to make a map of the Infinite Tiny Hill?
19:02:15 #corewars: < Metcalf> If you wouldn't mind making one that is :-)
19:02:21 #corewars: < joonas> a win/loss/tie matrix of Warrior vs. Warrior
19:02:23 #corewars:  * Metcalf waves
19:02:33 #corewars: < bvowk> bye john
19:02:34 #corewars: < joonas> or score1 vs. score2 matrix.
19:02:37 #corewars: < joonas> bye john
19:02:56 #corewars: < joonas> preferably in Koenighstuhl format.
19:03:02 #corewars: < Metcalf> Like WarriorName1:WarriorName2:WinsFor1:LossesFor1:TiesFor1
19:03:31 #corewars: < joonas> that'd do.
19:03:33 #corewars: < Metcalf> Hmmm... will have to look what Koenigstuhl format is, and if I can output it from GWBasic
19:03:47 #corewars: < joonas> I have a description somewhere I can send you.
19:03:56 #corewars: < Metcalf> Okay.  Would you mind making a map, if I modify my program to output the info.
19:04:10 #corewars: < joonas> sure, jsut send it to me.
19:04:16 #corewars: < Metcalf> Outputting comma seperated info is easy enough
19:04:42 #corewars: < Metcalf> It will be about a 2 meg file (which is why I don't have that info on my page)
19:05:22 #corewars: < joonas> the koen format is roughly: a warrior info file with author/name/etc. info for each warrior, and a score file
19:05:40 #corewars: < joonas> the score file is a N*N matrix of 16 bit scores * 100 in big endian format.
19:05:54 #corewars: < joonas> scratch the *100
19:06:27 #corewars: < Metcalf> I will take a look.
19:06:42 #corewars: < Metcalf> The matrix bit may be a bit tricky from my current program though
19:06:54 #corewars: < joonas> comma separated is fine too.
19:08:21 #corewars: < Metcalf> Okay, thanks.
19:08:40 #corewars: < Metcalf> I'll rewrite the prog tonight :-)
19:08:59 #corewars: < joonas> can't find the description of koen format any more.
19:09:11 #corewars: < joonas> though will will have it.
19:09:16 #corewars: < joonas> does have it
19:11:00 #corewars: < Metcalf> So, can anyone figure out what "Unknown" is? http://sal.math.ualberta.ca/warrior.php?key=tiny&id=116
19:12:06 #corewars:  * bvowk admits to not trying :(
19:12:37 #corewars: < joonas> interesting
19:16:18 #corewars:  * joonas is amazed how you can, basically, just cp / /newdisk to upgrade a HD
19:16:40 #corewars: < bvowk> what about your device files?
19:17:08 #corewars: < joonas> the -a flag takes care of that
19:17:09 #corewars: < bvowk> you'll likely have to tar cf - / | tar xf -  
19:17:41 #corewars:  * bvowk notes his cp doesn't have a -a
19:17:56 #corewars:  * joonas notes bvowk's cp is a liberated version
19:19:17 #corewars: < joonas> it's all described in the "hard disk upgrade mini how-to"
19:20:02 #corewars: < Metcalf> Does anyone know how I can download all articles from r.g.cw?
19:20:13 #corewars: < Metcalf> I.e. from 1991 to 2004
19:20:31 #corewars: < joonas> a very slow wget from groups.google?
19:20:46 #corewars: < joonas> koth.org has lost its archives. :-(
19:20:55 #corewars: < joonas> but they were incomplete anyway
19:21:09 #corewars: < Metcalf> What's wget?
19:21:16 #corewars: < bvowk> aww
19:21:20 #corewars: < bvowk> wget kicks ass
19:21:38 #corewars: < bvowk> wget -km http://foo.bar.com = webmirror
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19:21:43 #corewars: < Fizmo> hi
19:21:44 #corewars: < joonas> it's a program to download web pages a script
19:21:52 #corewars: < joonas> in a script I mean.
19:21:59 #corewars: < joonas> without opening a browser, that is.
19:22:01 #corewars: < joonas> hi fizmo
19:22:02 #corewars: < bvowk> and it'll rewrite the urls so you can browse the pages offline
19:22:28 #corewars: < joonas> coure with groups.google you'll want the original versions
19:22:31 #corewars: < Fizmo> hi joonas
19:23:35 #corewars: < Metcalf> Hi Christian
19:24:09 #corewars: < Fizmo> Hi John
19:24:18 #corewars: < Fizmo> how are u?
19:25:47 #corewars: < Metcalf> I'm okay thanks, just not glad to be home!
19:26:42 #corewars: < bvowk> not to be home?
19:26:50 #corewars: < Metcalf> Did you have a good weekend?
19:27:02 #corewars:  * bvowk was out at his parents farm this weekend.. they have mud thats knee deep :(
19:27:14 #corewars: < Metcalf> Not glad to be home.  I was away last week, visiting bookshops in lots of different towns.
19:27:14 #corewars:  * joonas went to the zoo
19:27:19 #corewars: < Fizmo> very busy weekend
19:27:41 #corewars: < Fizmo> I had on saturday and sunday league game :-/
19:27:42 #corewars: < Metcalf> Found one book shop which specialises in 2nd hand science / mathematics books.  Spent 2 hours in there in the maths room
19:27:57 #corewars: < Metcalf> Fizmo: football?
19:28:07 #corewars: < joonas> darts?
19:28:16 #corewars: < Fizmo> pool billiard
19:28:27 #corewars: < Fizmo> I am playin' in the 4th german league
19:28:47 #corewars: < Fizmo> still in progress to enter 3rd german league
19:29:40 #corewars: < joonas> last friday was "out with your workmates to play billiard and get drunk night"
19:29:47 #corewars: < joonas> I managed to avoid actually playing
19:30:19 #corewars: < bvowk> did you manage to avoid getting drunk too?
19:30:29 #corewars: < joonas> no, did I say that?
19:30:42 #corewars: < Fizmo> :)
19:31:00 #corewars:  * bvowk wonders
19:31:24 #corewars: < bvowk> my new notebook drive gets quite hot
19:31:30 #corewars: < bvowk> I'm somewhat worried about that
19:31:35 #corewars:  * joonas is off to read CRYPTOGRAM
19:34:34 #corewars: < bvowk> good reading
19:35:54 #corewars: < grabek> i am fuckingly scared
19:36:37 #corewars: < bvowk> oh?
19:37:08 #corewars: < grabek> oh
19:37:22 #corewars: < grabek> yes i am
19:39:59 #corewars: < joonas> what are you scared of?
19:40:32 #corewars: < grabek> the exam
19:41:01 #corewars: < Metcalf> Get a good night's sleep
19:41:29 #corewars: < grabek> I don't think I'll close my eyes for a minute
19:42:43 #corewars: < joonas> you're prepared
19:43:22 #corewars: < joonas> don't try to cram too much tonight -- you'll overload your brain.
19:43:32 #corewars: < bvowk> and then it'll pop
19:43:55 #corewars: < grabek> i don't think I am *that* prepared
19:44:13 #corewars: < grabek> there's a lot of things my knowledge has lack of
19:44:23 #corewars: < grabek> rings, fields, ideals just to name few
19:44:34 #corewars: < grabek> I am not that good at advanced complex functions
19:45:42 #corewars: < joonas> you don't need to know everything.  no-one does.  and if they wanted you to fail, they'd ask you some really hard questions on the edge of anyone's knowledge.
19:45:53 #corewars: < joonas> just remember: they *want* you to pass!
19:46:46 #corewars: < grabek> they want me?
19:46:54 #corewars: < grabek> I hope so
19:47:06 #corewars: < grabek> phew
19:47:08 #corewars: < grabek> enough of this
19:47:14 #corewars: < grabek> I am printing Shreve's book atm
19:47:46 #corewars: < joonas> lol, you're determined to make your brain pop. :)
19:48:39 #corewars: < grabek> erm, no, just few pages about Ito integral
19:48:52 #corewars: < grabek> I am thinking of going out to see my pal
19:49:00 #corewars: < grabek> and to drink few beers and go to bed
19:49:26 #corewars: < joonas> sounds like a plan.
19:50:50 #corewars: < grabek> joonas: you know Norwegian bands?
19:51:01 #corewars: < joonas> only biosphere
19:51:07 #corewars: < grabek> I run across a song "Fruhagen"
19:51:17 #corewars: < grabek> performed by Folk Og Rovere
19:51:36 #corewars: < grabek> question: is it Norwegian indeed or just my imagination
19:52:05 #corewars: < joonas> looks norwegian
19:52:23 #corewars: < grabek> (and it's cool, too)
19:52:35 #corewars: < joonas> though I can't remember whether norrmen use "och" instead of "og"
19:53:30 #corewars: < grabek> don't ask me :-)
19:54:09 #corewars: < grabek> no Norwegian on google
19:54:16 #corewars: < grabek> (google language tools, I mean)
19:56:06 #corewars: < joonas> ok, the nfsnet page quotes being able to factor 953 bit numbers
19:56:47 #corewars: < joonas> say bvowk, what's the size of your public key again?
19:57:30 #corewars: < bvowk> 4096 for the pleasure key :)
19:57:43 #corewars: < joonas> I see.
19:57:56 #corewars: < bvowk> 2048 for the business key
19:58:11 #corewars: < grabek> that's sick :-)
19:58:20 #corewars: < bvowk> but that one is due to expire soon, and it'll be replaced with a 4096 bitter
19:58:32 #corewars: < joonas> I guess you're sufficiently paranoid so that nfsnet can't read your secret recipes. :)
19:58:42 #corewars: < bvowk> heh..
19:59:00 #corewars: < bvowk> I spent quite some time collecting random to seed my new drive
19:59:26 #corewars: < bvowk> so gbde has a nice uniform pile of random to live in instead of some random in a bunch of zeros
19:59:45 #corewars: < bvowk> it takes quite a while to make 30GB of random
19:59:58 #corewars: < joonas> that reminds me: is there a nice hd testing client?
20:00:21 #corewars: < grabek> hehe, one of polish newsgroups is being spammed by confirm posts of winning an auction
20:00:27 #corewars: < joonas> preferably one that works well with hds partitioned hds.
20:00:36 #corewars: < grabek> all of them include *real* address of one whose object was sold
20:01:06 #corewars: < bvowk> bonnie?
20:01:09 #corewars: < bvowk> iozone?
20:01:10 #corewars: < bvowk> dd?
20:01:25 #corewars:  * joonas goes look for bonnie and iozone
20:01:29 #corewars: < grabek> bonnie?
20:01:32 #corewars: < grabek> iozone?
20:01:34 #corewars: < bvowk> dd 20 gigs of zero onto your drive and then check
20:01:50 #corewars: < Metcalf> Time to get going :-/
20:01:56 #corewars: < grabek> funny names
20:02:02 #corewars: < grabek> bye Johnnie boy
20:02:42 #corewars:  * joonas waves
20:02:46 #corewars: < bvowk> cya john.
20:02:51 #corewars: < bvowk> have fun being not at home :)
20:02:59 #corewars:  * Metcalf waves
20:03:53 #corewars:  * grabek waves
20:04:02 #corewars: < Metcalf> Back tomorrow :-)
20:04:09 -!- Metcalf [~John@217.158.137.194] has quit [mov.i #1,1]
20:07:05 #corewars: < grabek> and the ethernal silence falls once again on the #corewars channel
20:07:33 #corewars: < Mizcu> *idle* *idle*
20:08:01 #corewars: < grabek> off to Shreve's book
20:16:21 #corewars: < Fizmo> ok, I am off now
20:16:25 #corewars: < Fizmo> bye all
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20:17:12 #corewars:  * bvowk rattles joonas
20:17:53 #corewars: < joonas> interesting fact: the first number to be factored using nfs was 2^(2^7)+1 on an 8 bit computer with 64K of mem and two 640K disks.
20:18:04 #corewars: < joonas> only took 20 hours too.
20:18:37 #corewars: < bvowk> that is an interesting fact
20:18:48 #corewars: < joonas> that's a 128 bit number!
20:21:56 #corewars: < joonas> takes 1.2 seconds on this aging 750 MHz athlon
20:22:23 #corewars: < jaska> using nfs?
20:22:39 #corewars: < joonas> no. quadratic sieve
20:22:43 #corewars: < joonas> mpqs
20:23:11 #corewars: < joonas> sigh.. as usual it overshoots the number of relations required.
20:24:12 #corewars: < joonas> there must be a way to somehow iteratively keep track of the relations so that it wouldn't need to sieve so much.
20:25:51 #corewars: < joonas> especially for the product of two primes you don't need as many.
20:27:59 #corewars: < joonas> on average mpqs seems to need only a quarter of the relations found during sieving before finding a useful relation
20:33:54 #corewars: < joonas> based on an afternoon of factoring smallish numbers, not as a general statement. :-}
20:39:07 #corewars:  * bvowk factors joonas
20:54:57 #corewars:  * joonas hands his factors to bvowk and heads off home
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21:32:57 #corewars: < grabek> ouch ouch ouch
21:33:12 #corewars: < bvowk> you made your brain pop didn't you/
21:33:35 #corewars: < grabek> lol
21:33:36 #corewars: < grabek> kind of
21:33:43 #corewars: < grabek> I've just call a friend of mine
21:33:54 #corewars: < grabek> (who has the exam passed long ago)
21:34:04 #corewars: < grabek> and he said that this is that kind of exam that
21:34:10 #corewars: < grabek> first, you have to be afraid of
21:34:25 #corewars: < grabek> second, you cannot not pass
21:37:30 #corewars: < grabek> will anyone talk to me?
21:40:20 #corewars: < bvowk> don't worry about it grab
21:40:48 #corewars: < bvowk> you likely can't do anything more now.. so just relex
21:40:54 #corewars: < bvowk> relax even
21:41:04 #corewars: < bvowk> you'll only do worse by cramming or getting upset
21:41:33 #corewars: < bvowk> perhaps you should go get laid or something :)
21:42:24 #corewars: < grabek> get laid with who? :-)
21:42:35 #corewars: < grabek> There's Kongo on TV at the moment
21:42:51 #corewars: < bvowk> hey, I'm not here to solve all your problems :)
21:42:52 #corewars: < grabek> not the best to attract my mind but since it can't be any better...
21:43:07 #corewars: < grabek> I'll post new weblog entry and go to bed
21:43:24 #corewars: < bvowk> what test are you taking anyways?
21:43:30 #corewars: < grabek> test?
21:43:33 #corewars: < grabek> the exam
21:43:36 #corewars: < grabek> master degree
21:48:33 #corewars: < bvowk> bah
21:48:36 #corewars: < bvowk> relax
21:48:54 #corewars: < bvowk> if you've actually been awake the whole time you'll be fine
21:51:32 #corewars: < grabek> what time you have in mind?
21:51:49 #corewars: < bvowk> well.. the time prior to your exam :)
21:53:30 #corewars: < grabek> oh
21:53:36 #corewars: < grabek> I don't know
21:53:48 #corewars: < grabek> I can't be prepared any better, I think
22:01:43 #corewars: < bvowk> well, then don't worry
22:01:46 #corewars: < bvowk> go get laid :)
22:06:02 #corewars: < grabek> yeah.
22:06:09 #corewars: < grabek> good night, Barkley
22:07:04 #corewars: < bvowk> night
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