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It's a thing, it's like a plan. Respect the thing

10:56 < Spads> mhall119: is it working like you hoped?
10:56 < mhall119> thanks Spads!
10:57 < mhall119> Spads: so far so good, we'll see if there are any other last-minute 
                  changes
10:57 < mhall119> after all, we still have 2 hours to go :)
10:57 < Spads> mhall119: WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG

Past Quotes

21:15 < tbsaunde> AlanBell: your missing an autoconf m4 macro to check for gobject introspection, not immediately sure what package you need though
21:16 < tbsaunde> AlanBell: do you understand how autogen / autoreconf and configure.{ac,in} / configure work?
21:16 < AlanBell> by pixies
21:16 < AlanBell> and magic elves
21:17 < tbsaunde> no, though the sacrafice of one virgin, two cows and 4 goats is sometimes required to make it work correctly
21:18 < AlanBell> the cows and goats I can find

And I thought they were supposed to be just like bare metal

"No, You '''can't''' flash your BIOS from within VMware" - mjg59 to lamont.

The What?!

"This is the sendmail-in-base BOF, right?" - jbailey to lamont.