IRC log for #brlcad on 20080903

00:07.47 mafm well, I'd better go
00:07.49 mafm good night!
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03:26.45 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r32570 10/brlcad/trunk/src/libged/ (nfind.c nfind.h): (log message trimmed)
03:26.45 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: Beginnings of work on the new find command - intention is to have (insofar as it
03:26.45 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: makes sense) the full power of the standard Unix style find command available in
03:26.45 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: BRL-CAD. Eventually this will replace the existing find.c file, but as it is
03:26.46 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: nowhere near ready for primetime keep it elsewhere for now. DO NOT ADD to
03:26.48 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: makefiles. At this stage the effort is to get very basic functionality working,
03:27.13 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: then build from there. If substituted in correctly this version can see objects
03:27.34 starseeker decides that's as good a stopping point as any and heads home for the evening...
03:41.19 louipc yar glad to have BRL-CAD working again
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11:12.48 ``Erik starseeker: tcl sucks, but if you look at it the right way, it's almost like a shitty lisp with horrible syntax... it has a fair number of the simple concepts
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11:55.41 andrecastelo good morning :D
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14:36.01 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03bob1961 * r32571 10/brlcad/trunk/ (20 files in 6 dirs): Added ADC (angle distance cursor) functions to libged. Added ADC drawing to libdm. Added ADC command to libtclcad.
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19:07.05 starseeker woot! Go Malamud!
19:11.13 ``Erik malawhat?
19:13.17 starseeker Carl Malamud - putting all kinds of public law and code online for free
19:13.28 starseeker sometimes in defiance of claimed copyright by states
19:13.48 ``Erik ah, that project, yeah, sounds cool
19:13.57 starseeker it's awesome
19:14.12 ``Erik that fucktards are trying to exert IP crap over public law is bull
19:14.17 starseeker can't wait until someone gets public law organized into a subversion or git repository :-)
19:14.35 ``Erik heh, cvs diff ftw?
19:14.42 starseeker exactly :-)
19:14.52 starseeker finally make sense out of US law :-)
19:15.07 archivist_ub not possible
19:15.15 starseeker submit diffs to your congresscritter ;-)
19:15.30 ``Erik cvs ann, acquire pitchfork and torch
19:15.33 ``Erik :D
19:15.34 archivist_ub compile a lawyer
19:16.21 starseeker Now that hard disks have caught up, there really is no excuse for not having all public law in the united states available as a download
19:16.30 starseeker heck, all public works
19:16.52 ``Erik I think the capacities were there a decade ago
19:17.07 starseeker <snort> not sure about that, ever seen a law library?
19:17.23 ``Erik um, had one in my posession about ten years ago :D
19:17.42 starseeker with case history and everything?
19:18.18 ``Erik law firm sold their old server to upgrade, had a stack of scsi cdroms and 3.5" floppy with netware on it, with a single nic
19:18.26 starseeker lol!
19:18.40 ``Erik we think the company didn't realize the $10 'puter we bought still had their $10k of cd's in it
19:19.16 ``Erik the neat thing was the floppy was mounted in the lower hard drive things, facing inside, so you had to disassemble the machine to eject the disk :D
19:19.40 ``Erik we slapped a drive in and installed I think suse at a luc
19:20.00 starseeker did they ever ask for the disks back?
19:20.10 ``Erik d'no, I wasn't there at the purchase
19:20.10 starseeker saw systems like that in libraries, come to think of it...
19:20.28 ``Erik they drug it to the luc meeting and we tore into it
19:20.52 starseeker heh
19:22.58 starseeker always found law very boring, but access to the whole of it and applying analysis tools to make sense of it is something else again
19:24.13 archivist_ub I bought an Altos386 for work and it had case details still on it
19:28.18 starseeker eek
19:30.03 archivist_ub it was at a time in the UK when lawyers were miss selling mortgages and were being struck off, they didnt get time to clear the disk
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21:28.54 mafm hello
21:54.36 mafm congrats to all gsoc students, I think that we all passed the evaluations :)
22:06.32 louipc nice
22:07.53 mafm now time for the mentors to go to the parties ¬_¬
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23:41.05 andrecastelo hello folks
23:41.09 andrecastelo congratulations to everyone :D
23:41.27 andrecastelo and a very big thank you to brlcad and ``Erik :D
23:46.58 mafm hi andrecastelo :)
23:47.02 andrecastelo hey mafm
23:47.06 andrecastelo >)
23:47.11 andrecastelo :)*
23:47.45 mafm well, I better go to finish some things and sleep
23:47.50 mafm see you :)

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