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slangasekcody-somerville: I see bug #220899 has been milestoned for 8.04.1; is someone working on this bug?01:04
ubottuLaunchpad bug 220899 in xubuntu-default-settings "[Hardy] Wrong default image browser" [Medium,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/22089901:04
cody-somervilleNot particularly at the moment.01:07
slangasekcody-somerville: ok; I'm targeting it to hardy then, but dropping the milestone01:12
cody-somervilleCan using the power adapter for another laptop with the same volts and amp out damage my laptop?03:09
RAOFcody-somerville:03:13
RAOFcody-somerville: My thinking would be no.  And you only really need to care about the voltage (the ampage will take care of itself).03:14
RAOFcody-somerville: But IANAEE03:14
cody-somervillewell, this used, apparently "almost never used" laptop has its battery in ubuntu reporting at 31% capacity.03:15
* cody-somerville is wondering if he caused it03:17
RAOFProbably not03:17
pwnguinlaptop batteries go over time03:18
pwnguinbut i'd be careful about using adaptors across laptops03:19
pwnguinif the wiring's backwards, dun dun dun03:19
danshearerhello all03:30
danshearerI'd like to know more about the server team in launchpad03:30
danshearerhttps://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-server/+packages and https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-server/+projects don't have anything listed03:31
danshearerspecifically, when I go to bugs.launchpad and want to report a server-specific bug, I 'Select one project' and then03:31
danshearerlook through every project for ubuntu-server or similar. There's nothing there. So what's the recommended way to do this?03:32
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wgrantdanshearer: File it against Ubuntu, like any other Ubuntu bug,.03:41
JohnPhysmy apologies if this is better asked in #ubuntu, but part of the question is ubuntu development related.  Is there any way to use the kernel ntfs (read only) driver to mount ntfs partitions, without using ntfs-3g/fuse?  I ask because I would like to do so to rescue ntfs partitions that ntfs-3g cannot mount, but both /sbin/mount.ntfs and /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g point to /bin/ntfs-3g, and I cannot seem to find a command that03:45
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pwnguina philosophical question: if you use a program to suggest ways to fill out a block of code, and it gets its ideas by reading tons of GPL'd code, is the code you wind up writing derivative of GPL?06:22
Martfor some reason when i create a dynamic tunnel and then change firefox's socks config accordingly i can visit "what's my ip" sites and see expected result, but when i create a local tunnel (like: ssh -L 1080:myip.dk:80 me@server.com) I get unexpected results (usually error pages or blank pages) when i try to brows to localhost:108006:22
lifelesspwnguin: no06:36
pwnguinlifeless: what if, say, you're after a sequence of steps to go from one object type to another, and google code search for results. would lifting any one result be derivative?06:39
lifelessuhm06:39
lifelessso this is basic copyright law right?06:39
lifelessanything less than ~ a paragraph is usually not copyrightable anyway. call it 4-5 lines06:40
pwnguinreally06:40
pwnguinso small patches have no copyright?06:40
lifelessIANAL etc etc06:41
lifelessthey are derived works, but below a certain point its very hard to claim (c) on them, yes06:41
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lifelesslike06:41
lifeless"I am superhuman" (c) Robert etc06:41
lifelessnot copyrightable go away :)06:42
pwnguinalright; if intepreted that a single liberation of code is fine, i wonder if you use such a tool repeatedly, whether you might cross the line06:43
lifelessI would expect so06:44
lifelessso06:44
lifelessliberating a single line from a copyrighted work is different06:44
lifelessbecause the whole work is copyright06:44
lifelessits fair use that allows you to do that06:44
lifelessrather than the content not being copyrightable06:45
pwnguinits just a bit interesting because i just watched a google tech talk where a guy proposes a tool that basically does all this06:45
lifelessand to add confusion, a patch has a dual, which is the entire derived work06:45
lifelesssay I have a 1000 line program06:45
lifelessand you add 2 lines06:45
lifelessyou now have a 1002 line program06:45
lifelessthats copyrightable06:46
pwnguinim a bit curious whether lifting large blocks of code (smaller than a file, smaller than a function even) without caring about the origin is a good idea06:46
lifelessbut a patch describing just your work isn't. seriously confusing :P06:46
pwnguinthe speaker didnt say a word about copyright or license06:46
lifelessbad idea06:46
lifelessyou might liberate bad code :P06:47
pwnguinand nobody asked, so either it's obviously not a problem or obviously nobody cares =/06:47
pwnguintheir idea is really to poll lots of open source projects for use of APIs and let it do stuff like suggest exception handling or tranforming object types to meet api requirements etc06:48
pwnguinmany of which probably aren't GPL'd, some of which are probably poorly licensed period06:49
pwnguinbut its not too hard to imagine a distant future where larger portions of programs are written by agents trained on GPL'd software06:49
pwnguinand suddenly I'm glad I'm mortal, because I'd hate to see the day where a copyright case comes down to whether or not a program intelligently synthesized ideas as an expert, or stole existing practice06:51
pwnguinback to something productive, like tablet keys and xev06:52
pwnguinthe title of the talk though was data mining open source; quite strange that he never mentioned open source at all06:52
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Hobbseewoot.  <3 listadmin with filters10:15
wgrantHobbsee: Hm, I've not used filters with it before. How does one do that?10:23
Hobbseewgrant: they're documented on the manpage.10:23
wgrantAh, that would make sense.10:23
Hobbseeoddly, yes.10:24
emgentmorning :)รน10:29
sistpotylamont: could you take a look at https://answers.launchpad.net/soyuz/+question/34821 please? the build-depends-indep thingy is really puzzling me13:42
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Le-Chuck_ITAplease someone take a deeper look at https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/15218721:20
ubottuLaunchpad bug 152187 in linux "Serial Wacom tablet fails to return from ACPI suspend to RAM" [Medium,In progress]21:20
Le-Chuck_ITAthere is an user (Tom) who provided lots of patches for toshiba and looks like nobody is taking care of his work21:20
Le-Chuck_ITAsomeone of the bug squad might perhaps try to convince developers to take a look21:21
Le-Chuck_ITAthanks a lot and bye21:21
emgentheya21:24
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