[06:12:10] * Pine offers a cup of tea to heatherw [13:50:24] o/ [13:51:33] (doing more paws / k8s maintainence, expect turbulence for another 30mins) [13:52:12] halfak re: hardware - https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Server_Lifecycle is the doc, has links to request forms and stuff. I'd reccomend waiting for alex to come back - I don't really have the bandwidth to do a good job of helping... [13:52:58] Thanks yuvipanda. Is alex away? I didn't see anything on his calendar and have been looking for him around this time of day for the last few days :) [13:53:59] halfak yes, he's on vacation for another week I think [13:54:26] Gotcha. Thanks. [14:31:04] maintenance complete on paws [17:35:45] Leila, Amir1 said I should ask you about Konkoor [17:35:50] lzia, ^ [17:35:59] :D [17:36:21] it was Konkoor in my university so it was closed everwhere [17:36:26] *everywhere [17:36:34] halfak: :D [17:37:26] halfak: entrance examination to the university. I'm assuming Amir1 is talking about the public university entrance examination, which is a bigger deal in Iran than the private university ones. [17:37:54] yeah, Remind of the stress back in 2011 [17:38:10] we study for a year for this exam [17:38:12] omg, the level of stress for that exam is really bad, halfak. [17:38:26] I have never worked so hard in my life, than the year I studied for that exam. :D [17:39:05] same here :D [17:39:58] Is Konkoor a Farsi word? [17:40:08] no French [17:40:24] but they write another way [17:40:31] let me find the correct spelling [17:40:31] oh, right ^^ spelt "concours" indeed [17:40:43] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_University_Entrance_Exam [17:40:47] Ah ok, I was wondering where the phonetic resemblance to "concours" was coming from :) [17:41:37] a huge proportion of Persian words are loan words from French, mostly name of places, scientific names, etc. [17:42:11] Oh good, that will help the day I want to learn Farsi! [17:42:19] :D [17:42:37] like "Pekan" for "Beijing", "Belzhik" for "Belgium", etc.