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[08:43:36] <Ingar> Happy Assumption Day! May your local legal system mark this as an officila holliday!
[08:54:52] <Ingar> I think UNIX file permissions are about the only place I ever encountered octal in real life
[08:56:04] <Ingar> Bytram: my parents' first PC had an order of magnitude more memory than that PDP 11/70: 640 KB!! (and 128 KB extended)
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[10:15:53] <janrinok> Ingar - even better, because here it is 'Liberation Day' commemorating and celebrating the liberation of the town on this date in 1944. I attended the formal wreath laying ceremonies in the town centre and this afternoon the parties begin with much beer and wine consumed, live music, dancing, and they culminate in a firework display at 2300 tonight.
[10:18:25] <janrinok> Like Bytram, I had my first taste of octal on the PDP11. I seem to recall also using it on a Vax mainframe a year or two later but only for local scripting. Programs were usual written in a slightly higher-level code.
[10:19:28] <janrinok> Perhaps it was even before the PDP-11 as it was a second hand machine in a training facility.
[11:11:30] <chromas> The early '40s must have been great if they got everyone still celebrating 80 years later
[11:38:08] <Ingar> usually everything looks great before all goes to hell
[11:46:29] <janrinok> On an aside, various places around the town had no parking signs displayed today because of the impending celebrations and events, which included outside the town hall. As those wishing to commemorate the liberation began to assemble there they were impeded by a single car which had ignored the signs. It was a German registered car. The police, having a sense of humour too, surrounded the car with more no parking signs rather than
[11:46:29] <janrinok> issue a ticket.
[11:48:25] <janrinok> The owner of the vehicle who it was widely believed was sat outside the nearby cafe and could probably see what was happening wisely kept his head down. He would have had to move several signs to get his car out from its parking place.
[11:49:55] <janrinok> I suppose I should have written that as "no parking" signs...
[11:51:21] <janrinok> I wonder if he will think it funny when he returns to his home in Berlin?
[11:55:49] <Ingar> I mild case of public humiliation is probably more effective than a parking ticket
[11:55:54] <Ingar> *a mild case
[11:58:54] <janrinok> Everything was done with good humour. The police were laughing as they collect the signs from elsewhere. A ticket would have been too much.
[11:59:34] <janrinok> *collected
[12:00:08] <Ingar> there's a special breed of policemen here, known for there lack of any sens of humour
[12:00:58] <janrinok> I suppose they exist anywhere - but today most people in the town are happy and celebrating
[12:04:42] <Ingar> today I'm lazy
[12:05:11] <Ingar> nevertheless http://ingar.intranifty.net (warning 35MB jpeg)
[12:07:15] <janrinok> WOW!
[12:08:09] <janrinok> obviously a fake - one of the stars is in the wrong place....
[12:09:02] <janrinok> :)
[12:11:02] <fab23> did you spot the T.A.R.D.I.S ? :)
[12:26:48] <chromas> S.T.A.R.D.I.S.
[12:35:36] <Ingar> fab23: I don't haveenough resolution for that :-p
[12:38:40] <fab23> it depends on how far away she is from earth :)
[12:44:42] <Ingar> I am at 1.62 arcseconds per pixel
[12:45:57] <Ingar> fab23: I now expect you to calculate the distance from earth at which the TARDIS would appear two pixels high
[12:46:21] <Ingar> but I'll go easy on you and accept classical non-relativistic solutions
[12:51:29] <fab23> there in the upper right qudrant :)
[13:10:01] <chromas> the distance would be 6 units
[16:44:37] <Runaway1956> Ingar's lens cap has a bit of a hole in the center, and there's a lot of lint inside of it.
[17:07:34] <janrinok> :)
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