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07:06 paxed whoops. i guess MARC::Record replace_with replaces the whole field, not just the subfield.
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09:15 rfrasur Happy Monday.
09:21 Dyrcona Email is down. The network is in disarray, but other than that, 'tis a beautiful day.
09:22 rfrasur Dyrcona++
09:23 rfrasur I have nothing good to say although I also have no concrete reasons for having nothing good to say.
09:23 * rfrasur shall operate outside the realm of mood today.
09:23 * tsbere is re-assembling said network one problem at a time <_<
09:24 rfrasur tsbere++
09:24 rfrasur to which I say again...Happy Monday
09:25 Dyrcona tsbere++ #indeed
09:25 rfrasur I really just don't like working in the summer at all.
09:26 * csharp has always worked in the summer since college but still feels robbed somehow when he doesn't have the summer off
09:27 rfrasur man, me too.  hmm, oh...not true.  I worked in the school system for several years, but still had to get a summer job.
09:27 * rfrasur just wants to stay home and play in the yard and go swimming and eat watermelon.
09:27 rfrasur is that so much to ask?
09:27 rfrasur @hate incessant adult responsibility
09:27 pinesol_green rfrasur: The operation succeeded.  rfrasur hates incessant adult responsibility.
09:32 paxed the weather is at least wonderful over here.
09:32 paxed supposed to hit over 30 C later this week.
09:33 rfrasur mmmmmmmm....it's pretty gorgeous here, too.  A little humid but that's my preference anyway.
09:33 rfrasur self basting weather
09:38 rfrasur on another note, only librarians could take seriously a term like "bookgate."
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10:25 paxed ugh
10:25 paxed normalizing names revels all kinds of ugly wrong data
10:25 paxed reveals*
10:26 dbs yes, when faceted interfaces were first unleashed, the horrors were unveiled
10:27 paxed but otoh, it feels to great when you can just whip up an sql query to find out things
10:28 paxed s/ to / so /
10:29 dbs I guess QP should short-circuit on searches for '', rather than generating SQL errors about ':*' not being a valid text search. heh.
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10:43 Dyrcona @hate Java, the language, not the place, nor the beverage, though I'm not too fond of coffee, unless it comes with brandy and ice cream.
10:43 pinesol_green Dyrcona: The operation succeeded.  Dyrcona hates Java, the language, not the place, nor the beverage, though I'm not too fond of coffee, unless it comes with brandy and ice cream..
10:43 rfrasur the whole combination of coffee, brandy and ice cream is almost too awesome to consider on a Monday morning.
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11:13 csharp caveats++
11:13 dbs request open-ils.search open-ils.search.biblio.multiclass.query {} "title: " -- anyone expect that to return results?
11:14 * csharp tries it
11:14 pastebot "dbs" at 204.193.129.146 pasted "Search for title: returns... stuff!? See especially the compiled_search.searches" (36 lines) at http://paste.evergreen-ils.org/22
11:14 csharp dbs: same here (2.3.6_
11:15 pastebot "csharp" at 204.193.129.146 pasted "search results" (67 lines) at http://paste.evergreen-ils.org/23
11:16 csharp oh - I see - your "searches" is empty
11:17 dbs csharp: heh, thanks, but yeah, I was deliberately searching for a non-existent search term
11:17 csharp oh - I can do that too
11:18 csharp hmm - I got results too
11:19 pastebot "csharp" at 204.193.129.146 pasted "what dbs *actually* was doing" (75 lines) at http://paste.evergreen-ils.org/24
11:19 csharp eww - 9180 hits
11:21 csharp working in a consortium like ours is like living in a house where every time you open a closet door, piles of old stuff fall out all over the place
11:21 dbs log is funny for that: compiled search is {"estimation_strategy":"inclusion","skip_che​ck":0,"limit":"1000","check_limit":"1000","c​ore_limit":10000,"searches":{},"offset":0}
11:21 dbs mebbe I can throw in a short-circuit for searches being non-empty :)
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11:37 rfrasur people_who_get_upset_that_we_don_t_keep_an_​entire_print_version_of_the_Indiana_Code--
11:41 bradl csharp: I expected that sentence to end with "hoards of feral cats fall out all over the place"
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11:41 AaronZ-PLS Is there any way to see who last edited a hold? We have a patron who's items were cancled with the reason of "Hold Shelf expiration"~26 hours after they were put on the holds shelf, but the shelf expire time for that library is 7 days (as confirmed by the "Shelf Expire Time" field) and I dont see a "Last Editor" field in the DB
11:43 rfrasur AaronZ-PLS:The "edited by" shown in the Item Status screen should be that last editor.
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11:43 rfrasur You can also see it in the item status screen, I believe.
11:43 rfrasur hmm, -status +attributes
11:44 AaronZ-PLS Hmmm, will have to look in the audit logs as it has goen in transit since then
11:44 AaronZ-PLS *gone
11:44 rfrasur Yeah, you can find it in the item attributes screen, for sure.  Of course, if you have people logging in using a common ID, that might not help
11:46 rfrasur As far as the audit logs go, I'm of no help with that.
11:46 AaronZ-PLS We have a common id (2 of them, a circ and a tech, tech can also do holdings maint stuff), but it lets them narrow it down to the x people who were on the shift at that time
11:46 rfrasur yep
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11:48 Dyrcona AaronZ-PLS: Seeing who edited the copy won't show you who (if anyone) edited the hold.
11:48 Dyrcona AaronZ-PLS: Unless you are logging changes to the holds to an auditor table, I don't think you can see who last touched a hold.
11:49 dbs request open-ils.search open-ils.search.biblio.multiclass.query {} "title: *" -- another fun one. "SHOW ME ALL THE THINGS"
11:49 rfrasur dbs: Is that a real query?
11:50 dbs rfrasur: yeah. you can search for a naked * on any catalogue, and wildcare to abandon
11:50 dbs wildcard
11:51 Dyrcona People do all kinds of ridiculous things.
11:51 * rfrasur is imagining.
11:51 * rfrasur stops.
11:52 AaronZ-PLS Dyrcona: Those are being logged, but it doesnt record who edited the hold. It does show who put the item in transit 2 minutes after canceling the hold though
11:52 AaronZ-PLS :D
11:52 rfrasur library forensics
11:56 AaronZ-PLS The holds were canceled with the reason of "Shelf Expired" at 18:24 and 18:26. The items then went from "On Holds Shelf" to "Reshelving" then to "In Transit" at 18:27 and 18:28. Not enough for a court of law, but close enough to say that the same person probbaly did it and close the ticket.
11:58 rfrasur they cancelled the hold to transet the material to another library?
11:58 rfrasur s/transet/transit
11:58 phasefx with those timestamps you might be able to search actual log files and find something
11:59 paxed hm. what would be the best way to edit config.xml_transform to test something? can i invoke $EDITOR in psql and edit field content?
12:00 AaronZ-PLS rfrasur: They canceled the holds, then checked them in which probbaly targeted the items for holds elswhere. Not sure what the intent was.
12:01 AaronZ-PLS phasefx: We could, but AFAIK they dont have assigned terminals and it was almost a week ago, so its probbaly not worth it.
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12:01 dbs aha. figured out that all those "text-search query doesn't contain lexemes" SQL errors are coming from searches like "big : bad : groovy"
12:02 rfrasur (yes, vendor, I remember talking w/ you - no, vendor, I did not miss you - no, vendor, I won't miss you between now and the next time you call and try to sell me some overpriced junk I could be spending on something useful)
12:03 rfrasur (whatever)
12:06 dbs rfrasur: I am simply an honest vendor interested in selling you bug fixes for the code you received. Surely you want to invest in bug 1194142?
12:06 pinesol_green Launchpad bug 1194142 in Evergreen "Silence uninit var warnings for Search::Z3950" (affected: 1, heat: 6) [Medium,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1194142
12:07 bshum jboyer-isl: Curious, do you folks have any ITG RFID equipment in use in Indiana?
12:07 rfrasur rfrasur: If you begin the conversation with "I'm simply an honest vendor...," and are selling something I care about...there's a possibility.  If you start the conversation with "did you miss me?" the odds are not in your favor.
12:07 bshum Or I guess, open question, is anybody using ITG's RFID equipment with Evergreen.
12:08 rfrasur hmm, bshum, I know some libs in Indiana but not Evergreen as far as I know.
12:08 dbs rfrasur: Also, I am selling these bug fixes at the low, low cost of free :) And only very sporadically could I be called a "vendor" :)
12:08 rfrasur dbs: SOLD
12:08 jboyer-isl bshum: In a way. My previous lib purchased a bunch of equip. from Bibliotheca, then they merged with ITG, and they ran some ITG software with Biblio equipment. I think "ITG" is basically gone now, it's all Bibliotehca.
12:08 * rfrasur will also miss you...a little...except you're here and well...yeah
12:08 bshum jboyer-isl: Sorry, yes, biblioteca-itg or whatever they are now :(
12:10 jboyer-isl We got along with it pretty well. 5 selfchecks were put in before I left, everything seemed pretty smooth. Someone having trouble there?
12:10 bshum jboyer-isl: Oh, just a library buying all sorts of new RFID toys from them and turning around to ask us fun questions about how it's all expected to work (or not) with Evergreen.
12:11 rfrasur nice
12:11 Dyrcona I love it when they do that. "Hey! We just we bought this thing! How does it work?"
12:12 bshum I guess the part I'm trying to understand is that the RFID staff side must either be similar to the selfchecks with some sort of SIP connection?  Or is it some scanner that can tie into the regular staff client?
12:12 jboyer-isl Hah. Mostly not. I haven't seen the latest Biblio software, but the previous version they were selling just "typed" barcode numbers into the current window, and would check over SIP to see if the status of the item changed. On a change it would alter the security.
12:12 Dyrcona bshum: Yes.
12:13 Dyrcona RFID is neither. It's just a "replacement for barcodes."
12:13 Dyrcona Where is sal when you need her?
12:13 bshum Well I know the library is going to use RFID for their materials, but they're still going to need to work with traditional barcode tagging for all their ILL stuff.  Since the rest of CT isn't going to be as awesome as they are, quite yet.
12:14 Dyrcona Of course.
12:14 Dyrcona It's what stops most of our libraries from going with RFID.
12:14 bshum jboyer-isl: Dyrcona: Thanks for the tips, I guess we'll play around once the equipment arrives and the library asks us over for a site-consultation...
12:14 * rfrasur is imagining paying for both RFID and traditional barcodes
12:15 jboyer-isl rfrasur: That's not usually the math that needs done. It's RFID + barcodes vs. Tattle Tapes (or whatever) + barcodes. A decent RFID system doesn't require additional security devices.
12:16 rfrasur We don't have any security ;-)
12:16 Dyrcona "Security" is over rated.
12:16 jboyer-isl I was about to add that libs with nothing in place get the most sticker shock, heh.
12:16 rfrasur jboyer-isl++
12:17 jcamins Dyrcona: also, when it comes to tattletape, mostly illusory.
12:17 jboyer-isl Dyrcona: especially without proper inventory procedures in place. "Is it working?" Well, the gates go off now and then, is that what you meant? :D
12:17 rfrasur Dyrcona: I don't have the experience to respond to that.  I find that people who are going to steal are going to steal and the best security is a good layout and diligent staff and those ink things from JC Penney.
12:18 * rfrasur could easily be wrong, however.
12:19 jboyer-isl Hah, sounds like quite a show. :)
12:19 rfrasur lol, sounds like it could be part of a library obstacle course.
12:19 jcamins jboyer-isl: the assistant dean and I spent several minutes trying it when I first noticed the problem.
12:20 jcamins But if people can manage to steal all the expensive chairs from the library, they can get a few books out, anyway.
12:20 rfrasur they steal chairs?
12:21 jcamins Apparently so.
12:21 rfrasur huh
12:21 * rfrasur is duly impressed and appalled.
12:21 rfrasur we stole spoons in college to use to play....spoons...back at the dorms
12:22 * rfrasur hopes that they got back to the cafeteria
12:22 rfrasur jcamins: that's crazy and if it happened in this lib, I'd go door to door.
12:22 jcamins Heh. Using the cafeteria trays as sleds was popular. Then at the end of the winter, the cafeteria ended up with an extra thousand trays when everyone returned them at once.
12:23 jboyer-isl bshum: Anyway, long story short, I think everything will work out fine, though they may need to call biblio support to get a couple of things setup initally. You shouldn't have to make any changes on your end.
12:23 dbs RFID doesn't require additional security? My tinfoil-lined backpack begs to differ!
12:24 bshum jboyer-isl: That's more or less what I've been trying to tell the library.
12:24 rfrasur dbs++ #hah
12:24 paxed are the facet strings stored in db, or are they generated on-the-fly?
12:25 * dbs throws http://www.omniscienceisbliss.org/rfid.html as a counterpoint to himself
12:25 eeevil paxed: do you mean the labels, or the actual values? (both are in the db, but the values are extracted from the bib records, so not translatable)
12:26 dbs paxed: metabib.facet_entry ?
12:27 paxed dbs: ah, thanks. i guess reingest builds those?
12:28 paxed eeevil: messing with config.xml_transform
12:28 dbs paxed: yes
12:28 dbs metabib.reingest_metabib_field_entries specifically
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12:35 _bott_ Is that the answer to "WTF?"
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12:37 rfrasur _bott_: It's the title of the book - I cringed, ordered, and re-evaluated my decision to be a librarian.
12:37 rfrasur they'll read it as part of my soul dies
12:37 dbs Sounds like a book for parenting teens. Perhaps one I should buy soon.
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12:39 rfrasur dbs: It'd be a GREAT co-read if a parent could stomach it.
12:40 rfrasur unfortunately, I find that most co-reading stops once a kid learns to read fluently (or not) on their own (unfortunately).
12:41 jcamins rfrasur: my parents stopped reading to me when I started reading faster than they did, and asking them if they would turn the page before they had gotten to the end.
12:42 jcamins Actually, that's not entirely true. My mother would read aloud to me and my brothers, but I was required to sit facing her so that I couldn't see the pages.
12:42 rfrasur jcamins: your mom did exactly the right there.
12:43 rfrasur there's benefit to both decoding text as well as listening w/o decoding
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12:47 jcamins I'm trying to remember when my father read LotR to me. I think those must have been the last books he read to me, since there are not a lot of age-appropriate(?) books with a higher barrier to entry for a little kid.
12:48 rfrasur there really aren't.  most things that are written anymore have a really low "reading level" but aren't content appropriate for younger kids.  There are a few exceptions, but not many.
12:53 csharp bradl: heh - yeah - feral cats is definitely accurate ;-)
12:54 * dbs gets rid of bogus searches and empty text-search lexeme warnings, at the cost of the return of "author:ra*" as the last search (leading to "author:author:ra*", etc)
12:54 rfrasur (when I told my staff today should be a slow day - every computer is full and every table in use)
12:56 csharp AaronZ-PLS: late on my response - it sounds like someone clicked Circulation -> Clear Shelf-Expired Holds - which I'm pretty sure will account for what you saw
13:01 jcamins rfrasur: send it to the legislatures with the caption "quiet day"?
13:01 jcamins *a picture
13:02 AaronZ-PLS csharp: The item was made available on the 17th, was canceled as "Shelf-Expired" on the 18th. Per the hold record, it wasnt supposed to be "shelf expire" until the 24th. Pretty sure this one was done by hand
13:02 csharp AaronZ-PLS: ah - gotcha
13:03 csharp AaronZ-PLS: well, we usually have to go to the opensrf logs for the full picture on hold activity
13:03 csharp (general FYI)
13:03 csharp we don't keep auditor tables for holds
13:04 AaronZ-PLS csharp: Thanks
13:16 rfrasur jcamins: that's about right.  But, it's just as well.  Means I get to print off coloring pages and install skype and all sorts of odds and ends that make the rest of lib work less annoying.
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13:48 * dbs running out of brain power for attempting to cleanly solve the problem of "big : bad : groovy" triggering empty text-search lexeme errors
13:48 dbs 8 warnings per such search, good value
13:51 rfrasur dbs: I'd lend you some of my brainpower, but let's be real.
13:53 * dbs generally encounters a brainpower deficit when opening up QueryParser.pm
13:55 rfrasur well, it's a good thing I don't even know how to open a QueryParser.pm
13:55 jeffdavis is there a list of supported browsers/platforms for the TPAC?
13:55 * rfrasur needs what remnants of brainpower that remain.
13:56 jeffdavis or any known versions that are not supported/known not to play nice?
13:56 dbs jeffdavis: TPAC should support everything. albeit text browsers have trouble with the lists functionality
13:57 dbs w3m can actually add to my list / view my list though.
13:58 dbs Basically, if TPAC doesn't support a browser, then it's a bug
14:01 jeffdavis cool, 's what I thought, thanks
14:05 * paxed is somewhat tempted to try IE 6 ...
14:05 rfrasur don't
14:05 rfrasur do
14:05 rfrasur it
14:08 jeffdavis http://www.ie6countdown.com/ <- 24% usage of IE6 in China? ugh.
14:26 Dyrcona tpac doesn't support Cello.
14:42 senator i had to look that up before i could snicker at it
14:43 phasefx did Cello use Trumpet Winsock?
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14:48 csharp can someone explain what the "Fallthrough" flag does when linking a circulation limit set to a circulation policy?
14:51 csharp ah - I see in Open-ILS/src/sql/Pg/upgrade/​0677.schema.circ_limits.sql - "If true fallthrough will grab this rule as it goes along"
14:51 rfrasur what does that do?
14:52 rfrasur you flag a rule with that in case certain things happen?
14:52 csharp well, what I'm trying to do is to limit the number of items per circulation modifier can be checked out at one time
14:52 csharp specifically, DVD, VHS, and videogame items
14:53 Dyrcona csharp: Fall though on a limit works a lot like it does with the circulation matrix.
14:53 csharp so I created a circulation limit set for the dvd circ modifier(s) and set the limit to 15
14:53 csharp and I'm linking that set to the existing circ rules
14:53 csharp Dyrcona: good to know
14:53 Dyrcona For instance, let's say you have DVDs and Hot DVDs.
14:54 Dyrcona You want to limit all DVDs to 10, but you want to limit Hot DVDs to 2.
14:54 Dyrcona Fall through lets you do that and have the 2 from Hot DVDs apply to the 10 for all DVDs.
14:54 csharp oh - awesome
14:55 csharp it would be very useful for us if our libraries had more local configurability (per our policies)
14:55 csharp the rules I'm setting up are for all of PINES
14:58 rfrasur (I know why people hire people to deal w/ getting their kids to college)
14:59 Dyrcona rfrasur: So do I.
15:00 rfrasur wasn't it way easier when we were young?
15:00 rfrasur or was I just oblivious?
15:01 Dyrcona My mother hired a consultant to help me through the process, and that was nearly 30 years ago.
15:01 * rfrasur must have been oblivious.
15:01 Dyrcona If you just want to apply to a couple of local schools, no big deal.
15:01 Dyrcona If you want to get into the Ivy League or a prestigious private school, that's a bit trickier.
15:01 rfrasur Of course, it's also important to note that I also got married, got pregnant, and dropped out sophomore year...in no specific order.
15:02 rfrasur Dyrcona: We're dealing with that w/ the second son.  He's much more intelligent than we have the capacity to deal with
15:03 rfrasur ah well.  it's what we signed up for (or so they tell me)
15:04 Dyrcona When people tell me that, I ask for the contract, 'cause I don't remember signing anything. :)
15:04 rfrasur me either!
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15:24 phasefx if anyone wants to play with pgTAP, collab/phasefx/pgtap
15:27 gmcharlt phasefx: you may want to look at collab/gmcharlt/pgtap
15:27 phasefx indubitably
15:33 phasefx gmcharlt: I think all I need to do is change my extension to .pg and it'll meld just fine with yours
15:33 gmcharlt phasefx: I agree
15:34 gmcharlt shall I just push my patches into your branch?
15:34 phasefx please
15:35 gmcharlt phasefx: done
15:35 phasefx gmcharlt++
15:44 rfrasur hehe, "If you're running EG 2.4, then it could be this bug.....Though if you are running a different version, then it could be something else."
15:44 rfrasur yboston++
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18:51 bshum Sigh, rain. I used to enjoy rain and now I'm just tired.
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19:20 jeffdavis I'm looking at EGCatLoader/Search.pm and seeing that regular search, item barcode search, and MARC expert search all flesh out different stuff (pass a different set of values to unapi.bre's includes param) when get_records_and_facets is called
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19:20 jeffdavis item barcode excludes acp, expert search excludes acp and bmp
19:20 jeffdavis is there a reason for that?
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19:22 jeffdavis finnx: your IRC connection is flapping quite badly
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22:13 JRShaw I'm new to evergreen and Linux and am trying to set up a new system for a small library. In reading through the documentation, I'm finding a bunch of stuff assumed that I just don't get due to my lack of experience. I've done sysadmin stuff in the past, just not Linux. So where do I begin?
22:15 jeff_ JRShaw: Other than beginning with some books / searching on general linux tutorials, you could start with specific questions here or in another more general-linux IRC channel.
22:16 jeff_ The channel's been rather idle for most of the evening, and I'm not sure how long I'll be at the keyboard, but feel free to ask away!
22:18 JRShaw My big thing is configuration issues. I've set up a VM and installed a couple different versions Ubuntu server & ubuntu desktop and starting to work on the pre-installed image under debian. Conceptually I know this stuff. The problem is tranlating it into the Linux language and mindset.
22:20 JRShaw I just want to install the image, edit a config file and run the thing. It seems like there are a bunch of details left out when it comes to configuring a evergreen server.
22:22 JRShaw For example, I installed the 2.4 client.I brought it up and it asked for a hostname. I put in the one for the demo and it didn't work. Now due to my lack of experience I don't know if it is a simple syntax issue or what.
22:22 jeff_ what value did you enter for the server hostname?
22:23 JRShaw Looking that up...
22:24 JRShaw demo.ils.edoceo.com
22:24 JRShaw source: http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/​doku.php?id=community_servers
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22:31 JRShaw Once I found a working site, I removed 2.4 because it was an incompatible client and I installed 2.2. That however would not run hit reurn and it just sat there. so I removed that and am getting ready to reboot so I can clean things up and reinstall 2.4.
22:34 JRShaw So is there a step by step evergreen installation for dummies html file out there for non-linux users? :-)
22:35 jeff_ demo.ils.edoceo.com does not appear to support 2.4 proper. I'll poke the individual who maintains that particular host, and see if it needs to be removed from that wiki page, or have its entry modified / annotated. thanks for letting us know.
22:37 jeff_ The README file in the download is pretty step by step, but perhaps not written for non-linux users. http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/2​.4/_software_installation.html is approximately the same content.
22:42 JRShaw I’ve read a chunk of that already. I'll bounce over to linux sites and such to try and fill in the info gap.
22:44 JRShaw I'll try and pick this up tomorrow when there is more activity. Thanks for your help jeff_
23:05 bshum @eightball To be, or not to be?
23:05 pinesol_green bshum: Maybe...
23:15 jeff_ cute, bot.
23:16 jeff_ bshum: 'evening!
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