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Re: [LUG] new year party thing on IRC

 

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Neil Stone wrote:
> Rob Beard wrote:
>> paul sutton wrote:
>>> Neil Stone wrote:
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>>>> Gordon Henderson wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 31 Dec 2009, Gordon Henderson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, 31 Dec 2009, Paul Sutton wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We are trying to see how many people can join us on the lug irc
>>>>>>> channel
>>>>>>> this evening and stay up till tomorrow morning (new year).
>>>>>> That does strike me as somewhat dedicated to the cause, however I'll
>>>>>> be at Brixham beach, setting some fireworks off and drinking hot
>>>>>> chocolate...
>>>>> So our 9th annual new year visit to Brixham went off with a bang! Our
>>>>> fireworks were good (despite the wind!) - lots to see all round
>>>>> Torbay -
>>>>> a much better show than last year's rainy credit crunch one.
>>>>>
>>>>> Nice spiced hot chocolate too :)
>>>>>
>>>>> Time for bed... Happy New Year, everyone!
>>>>>
>>>>> Gordon
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> *wakes up, scratches self, visits facilities, realises misses 00:00:00
>>>> 01/01/10, shrugs, reads mail, heads to bed*
>>>
>>> ah,  i managed to send a mail to the list and it arrived at my end
>>> with the time stamp 00:00 on 1/1/10
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> happy new year
>>>
>>>
>>> paul
>> So you didn't have it pre-written to send on Big Ben's first bong?
> 
>> Nah, that's too easy, instead I bet you wrote a simple bash script and
>> set it up as a cron job and synced your time with uk.pool.ntp.org.
> 
>> Rob
> 
> 
> 
> cron job
> 
> @yearly echo Happy New Year | mail list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -s "New Year"
> 
> simples


Nope I pressed send when my clock thing changed to 00:00

|I haven't figured out cron properly yet
Paul
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