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amichairfwiw, I recall annoying experiences with MSIE in RTL, where the back/forward buttons were indeed reversed. That is to say, that's how it is expected to be. And it's very annoying.00:09
Riddellah, someone who actually knows about it :)00:11
Riddellamichair: you don't use KDE in Hebrew then?00:11
amichairhell no :-)00:12
* ScottK was going to 'christen' amichair as the Kubuntu RTL expert but then realized that would be wrong on several levels.00:12
shtylmanhahahaha00:12
amichairhehehe00:12
amichairScottK: u usually seem very serious around here... you should make more funnies! :-D00:15
seele_ScottK make more funnies? that wouldnt be very ScottK-like hehe00:17
seele_ScottK: i think the next linux chix meeting is a spa world so unfortunately i dont think i can invite you ;P00:17
* seele_ doesnt think she will go either00:17
ScottKI think I'm funnier in person than I am on IRC.00:17
seele_irc is all business, and you usually only see people you know/like in person so it's easier00:18
Riddellbut preferably not in the area of comparing Abrahamic religions, that way social disaster awaits!00:18
Riddellseele_: ooh, any hot tub? :)00:18
shtylmanI think ScottK is a comedian :)00:18
seele_Riddell: well it is a giant asian bath house so there is a giant hole filled with hot water00:18
Riddellhmm, maybe I should come to DC00:19
seele_Riddell: it's separated, not coed00:19
shtylmanhaha00:19
seele_and i thought you were already coming to DC00:19
Riddelldepends if you'll have me :)00:19
seele_oh? since when am i putting you up? i thought you already made arrangements :P00:20
DaskREEchseele_: They have a single seperated hole?00:20
DaskREEchSounds enlightened00:20
amichairScottK: smileys to the rescue... if u say something with a smile, write it with a smile! it's as close as it gets to communicating attitude and not just words...00:21
* ScottK thinks he's a couple of decades too old for lots of smileys.00:22
amichair'lots' is relative :-)00:22
shtylmanScottK: never to old :) :) :) :) :) :D00:22
alputting smileys behind your jokes means you're either not confident about the joke or the audience :-)00:23
al(choose one)00:23
amichairin person, that's true. in e-communication, it's sometimes just hard to express tiny nuances of voice and gesture... so you're stuck with crude smileys00:24
shtylmanal: what if your arn't confident about both?00:25
shtylmanam I limited to just choose one?00:25
althen you're limited to this smiley :P00:25
shtylmannoted :P00:25
amichairshtylman: was that supposed to be funny? can't tell!00:26
shtylmanhahaha00:26
shtylmaneverything I say is supposed to be funny ... if it isn't I failed :(00:26
shtylmanal: oooo what about the use of frowny faces?00:26
ali don't think i know frowny smileys00:27
* DaskREEch laughs outargeously at shtylman's sad face00:27
ScottK:-(00:28
amichairal: you must be enlightened!00:28
shtylmanthank you.. thank you.. im here all week00:28
* Sput wonders if there is a "linux dude meeting" too00:29
Sputyou know, at some bar where we can run around in underwear and drink beer and fart loudly00:29
Sput:)00:29
ScottKThat's pretty much all of them00:29
Sputnah, there usually is the token girl preventing the men from forgetting all manners :(00:30
QuintasanSput: why don't you start a one? :D00:41
Quintasan"Geek's Hideout" or something like this?00:41
seele_Sput: our "linux chix" group in DC is pretty progressive. men often show up to the meetings00:41
* Quintasan still a minor though00:41
nixternalSput: our LUG had that so-called "Token", but she ended up surprising us all, especially me, and I am a sailor00:42
seele_if it wasnt i wouldnt go.. i dont like uber feminism stuff00:42
nixternalI am with you seele_ on that...my cousin is an uber-feminist, but she is uber-everything she is involved with... vegan, and some other thing she is in to...I try to stay away as like my somewhat open mind00:43
nixternalas I like my somewhat open mind00:43
seele_nixternal: feminist AND vegan? i'm sorry.00:43
* Sput has had too much exposure to feminism (the bad kind) lately00:44
nixternalshe is hardcore feminist though, like I swear, she is one of their extermist00:44
seele_veganism is like vegetarianism + religion00:44
nixternalvegans don't bother me, most of my friends are vegans here in chicago00:44
Sputthank $deity there are a lot of open-minded, smart women in my vicinity.00:44
seele_ah, i have a few vegan friends and they are vegan nazis00:44
ScottKSput: I've been to a DC linuxchix meeting.00:44
nixternalI will be nice and eat whatever they eat, but if any of them start shit, I will order a raw ass hamburger00:45
seele_ScottK: youve been to a few00:45
Sputhm, I didn't know vegans could survive in open air00:45
ScottKseele_: No, just one.  The others were KDE events.00:45
ScottKThat and your birthday party.00:45
seele_ScottK: ah, they all blend together00:45
seele_maybe because most of them are at the pirate bar for one reason or another00:45
Sputnixternal: I have those nice pictures on my cell, showing my plate at a recent slaughter festival00:45
nixternalhehe00:46
RiddellI'd turn vegan just to wind up nixternal, but I'd miss honey too much00:46
Sputor whatever you call that in English where you get basically all parts of a pig in edible form00:46
seele_ScottK: although, i found a much better bar across the street from piratz and they have tater tots00:46
nixternalRiddell: haha, vegans don't bother me, it is as seele_ put it, vegan nazis00:46
nixternalI do the vegetarian thing from time-to-time00:46
* ScottK was really bummed he had to drive home from the birthday party.00:46
nixternalas a matter of fact, at UDS Jaunty I was in my vegetarian mode00:47
* Sput had a discussion with a militant veg* in some other channel recently, he tried talking me into ethics and morales00:47
Sputhe refused to answer why plants should be worth less than animals though :(00:47
ScottKseele_: Really?  Maybe it won't be too scary for Elizabeth ....00:47
Riddellenvironmental arguments would work better I'd think00:47
nixternalany bar with tator tots is the win!00:47
seele_ScottK: yeah, it's just a typical pub. much better beer too00:48
* ScottK used to know a guy who was a vegetarian. It wasn't because he loved animals. It was because he hated plants.00:48
Riddellwhat are tator tots?00:48
ScottK<rimshot>00:48
seele_Riddell: erm.. trying to remember the euro name for it00:48
seele_Riddell: kindof like fried mashed potato balls, whatever those are called00:48
nixternalRiddell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tater_Tots00:48
SputScottK: never having to drive home is one of the advantages of our public transportation here :)00:49
seele_Riddell: except the potatoes are dices instead of mashed and formed into blocks and then fried00:49
Riddellhash browns00:49
nixternalRiddell: right00:49
nixternalbut all mushed together00:49
ScottKRiddell: Similar.  Mostly a different shape.00:49
* Sput loves 24/7 train service in all areas of town00:49
nixternalSput: you would love chicago then :)00:49
seele_Riddell: croquettes00:49
Sputnixternal: nah, I'm fine here :)00:49
Riddellseele_: naw those are all posh with little breadcrumbs and stuff00:50
nixternalseele_: croquettes are similar but different :)00:50
Sputseele_: not quite, at least not if I'm translating the word to German :)00:50
nixternalthose are like potatoes and sometimes meat00:50
seele_nixternal: yeah, theyre like mashed potatoes instead of diced00:50
nixternalthey are damn good nonetheless00:50
seele_nixternal: huh, never had meat ones.. i've only seen them listed as potatoes00:50
seele_oh, wp says crabcakes are considered croquettes00:50
seele_well then00:51
Sputhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KrokettenalsBeilage.jpg  <-- German-style Kroketten00:51
nixternaloh my, crabcakes \o/00:51
nixternalthat is about the only thing I miss from living out there00:51
nixternalor going to the gas station and getting a grocery bag full of steamed crabs00:51
seele_nixternal: almost all the crabs in the chesapeake are dead or growing 3rd claws so it wont be a maryland thing for much longer00:52
nixternallol00:52
ScottK3rd claw just means more to eat.00:52
nixternalhahahaha00:52
SputScottK: so does a cow.00:52
seele_lol00:52
nixternalseele_: BG&E killing the bay?00:52
seele_what's bg&e?00:53
nixternalbaltimore gas & electric00:53
ScottKBaltimore Gas and Electric00:53
seele_ah, no00:53
nixternalat least that's what it was when I lived out there00:53
nixternalor the power plant in pg county00:53
seele_actually, i think theyve determined it is the farms that is the primary problem00:53
ScottKPesky farmers insist on fertilzing their crops00:53
seele_fertilizer runoff is ruining the watch and changing the bio an ph levels so things that should grow wont grow and things that shouldnt grow are growing00:54
nixternalcalvert cliffs00:54
nixternalahh yeah, that was a big thing in southern md when i lived there00:54
Sputthey should just all use Monsanto crops. Problem solved.00:54
ScottKnixternal: No, that warms the water in winter so marine life can flourish year round.00:54
seele_*water00:54
amichairsmileys, funnies, tubs, parties, (vegans), yummies... what a great year! and it's only been 3 days!00:54
nixternalScottK: haha, we used to swim in the outflow of calvert cliffs00:54
nixternala) no jelly fish, and b) it was always warm00:55
Sputguh. jelly fish are the winners of our current water poisoning... and they'll probably come out on top of all the changes we cause in sea life :/00:55
Sputah well, they have been around for 500 million years, so they're doing something right00:57
nixternalman, I just looked at Patuxent River NAS, my last duty station...seems it has changed quite a bit on google maps00:57
nixternalthe burm to the firing range is still there though, but the range itself is gone00:57
amichairis there anyone here from outside us/uk/de?01:01
* ScottK isn't sure how Riddell would answer that one.01:03
ScottKNot sure if he's willing to give that much acknowledgement to the English overlords.01:03
shtylmanhaha01:03
ScottKjussi01 is from .au, but lives in .fi01:03
ScottKtxwikinger is from .de, but lives in .ca.01:05
ScottKrgreening is an actual .ca person01:05
ScottKTm_T is in .fi01:05
ScottKMamarok is from Switzerlan.01:05
ScottKd01:05
ScottKThere are a number that are.01:06
amichairinteresting01:06
Riddellwe'll get our referendum this year, maybe, possibly01:06
amichairwonder why it's mostly the same countries. is it a social norm of giving? high enough pay to afford free-time contribution? too many cs students?01:08
nixternalheh, all I have is free-time, but with 0 pay :(01:09
ScottKA certain proficiency in English is also a requirement.01:09
amichairScottK: good point. although most computer-literates have decent English, I'd guess...01:10
dhillon-v10nixternal, hi :) happy new year01:11
nixternalhappy new year to you as well01:12
dhillon-v10nixternal, so how's it going01:12
nixternalamichair: you would be surprised...most of the people in our LUG here is very computer-literate, but horrid with english :)01:13
shtylmanamichair: I would say it is more related to the technology of the environment around the person than any particular social norms01:13
nixternala lot of Russians here in Chicago for CS I have noticed01:13
shtylmanScottK: do you think of people by their tld names ? :)01:13
nixternaldhillon-v10: it's going :)01:13
amichairshtylman: technology of the environment?01:14
ScottKshtylman: Depends.  Sometimes.  Sometimes I just hate typing more than I have to.01:14
nixternaland the Spaniards are starting to take over CS here, especially at UIC...they get a killer job out of school and then retreat back to Spain after making a couple million, like my good friend Roberto01:14
shtylmanamichair: yea... places with high prevalence of technology are more likely to see people doing open source01:14
shtylmanyou have to be exposed to it first01:14
ScottKshtylman: I do read IRC in the voice of the person who's typing if I've met them in person.01:14
nixternalhe was one of the head developers behind Motorola's Droid...once they released the product, he quit Motorola and moved back to Spain01:14
shtylmanand that is likely to happen with places that are more developed01:14
shtylmanand where you don't have to worry about just getting food and water01:15
shtylmanI would say that free time figures a bit less into it... but obviously does play a major role overall01:15
ScottKnixternal: Clearly Motorola isn't exploiting their workers enough if he could do that.01:15
Nightroseamichair: not too long ago i read about exactly this and they came to the conclusion that people in those countriesare more likely to do volunteer work in a broad sense and therefor also a lot of them go into open source01:15
amichairshtylman: well I'm not talking about 3rd world countries...01:15
nixternalScottK: oh he made a few mil then just took off01:16
Nightrosewhereas it is rather uncommon in for example japan01:16
amichairNightrose: did they cite a reason?01:16
Nightrosei don't remember tbh01:16
amichairI get the feeling it's a social/cultural thing to a large degree01:17
Nightroseyes01:17
Nightroseanyway - time to go to bed for me - nini :)01:18
Riddellnight Nightrose01:18
Nightroseo/01:18
amichairnight rose :-)01:18
ScottKOh, right.  Nightrose is from .at.01:19
ScottKNo, that was apachelogger. Sorry01:19
amichair I tend to mix up at and au. took me a while to get used to ch/cn as well01:21
nixternaleveryone here is from earth01:21
nixternalhalf the time I can't remember which country I am from, so don't expect me to remember what country you are from :)01:21
amichairnixternal: doesn't always seem like it :-)01:22
ScottKnixternal: Except sebas.  He's too beautiful to be a native.01:22
nixternaloh yeah, I am from Chicago, it is so great that it should be a country01:22
nixternalnow that we got barack out of it...we just need to 'sudo apt-get --purge' a couple more politicians and we will be the win :)01:22
ScottKThe list of ones to keep would be shorter.01:23
Riddellsome people also confuse gb/uk, tsk01:23
nixternalScottK: good point01:23
amichairholy begeezes! .gb is a real tld - I did not know that.01:25
Riddellblame ISO01:26
Riddellwell I'm down to 75 unread e-mails, which isn't bad considering I started this evening with > 1500, time to snooze01:27
amichairnight Riddell01:29
Sputamichair: so is .us, a little known fact :)01:31
amichairSput: nah, that's pretty well known01:32
SputI actually know very few .us sites I visit01:32
Sputmost are still .com/.net/.org/.biz etc01:32
ScottK.us is not new at all.01:33
amichairSput: sure, but then that is true worldwide01:33
Sputnot new, but not very common L)01:33
Sput:)01:33
amichairwelp, it's way past my bedtime01:36
* amichair bids a wonderful night to people of all tlds01:36
DaskREEchnixternal: Isn't Chicago BECAUSE of politicians?01:44
Quintasanhmmm01:54
Quintasananyone has problems with kvm?01:54
Quintasanbug #50021802:10
ubottuLaunchpad bug 500218 in qemu-kvm "*** glibc detected *** qemu: free(): invalid pointer: 0x0000000000e44b10 ***" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/50021802:10
Quintasancan anyone reproduce this? So far nixternal and I experience this bug02:11
DaskREEchAhmmm02:30
DaskREEchDoes Konqueror use Nepomuk for history now or something?02:30
ScottKQuintasan: Karmic or Lucid?02:37
QuintasanScottK: Karmic, running lucid guest, dhillon-v10 already told me what's going on and I'm going to learn running debugger etc. to provide him with stacktrace02:38
ScottKWhat did he tell you?02:39
Quintasan<dhillon-v10> Quintasan, I did see a conversation in the upstream kernel about glibc creating invalid pointers at the first available slot in the memory (0x0000000000e44b10) which is basically 0001 and its deleting the memory which causes it to crash, possible to run it from gdb02:39
dhillon-v10ScottK, it may be possible to find more info using gdb02:40
Quintasanoh well, that's me for realising he's here @_@02:41
Quintasannot realising even02:41
ScottKQuintasan: Is this it: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/+bug/42572302:42
ubottuUbuntu bug 425723 in eglibc "kdevelop assert failure: *** glibc detected *** kdevelop: free(): invalid pointer: 0xbfc22c44 ***" [High,In progress]02:42
QuintasanScottK: might be related but I can't say for sure02:42
dhillon-v10Quintasan, alright let's try this out first: gdb -p 12456 where 12456 is the pid of qemu02:43
dhillon-v10Quintasan, you have to start qemu first and then this command in a new tab maybe, then pass in the command that crashes qemu02:44
Quintasandhillon-v10: the problem is that running qemu does nothing and running the command is killing the qemu the next moment so I quiet don't know how to get the pid :/02:45
dhillon-v10Quintasan, give me another moment, let me install qemu and try to see what I can do there :)02:45
ScottKQuintasan: If you are feeling adventurous, dgetlp http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37155676/eglibc_2.10.1-0ubuntu16.dsc will get you the source for the proposed eglibc fix for the bug I showed you.02:49
ScottKDon't blame me if it eats your computer though.02:49
dhillon-v10Quintasan, alright so this is what I did, there are no debugging symbols (sorry) but we might be able to get something: in the first tab of terminal: qemu then in the second tab run ps -A and find the pid of qemu, then in the same tab run gdb -p <pid> then go back to qemu and pass your crashing command02:52
dhillon-v10Quintasan, wait there are symbols, just a sec.02:53
dhillon-v10Quintasan, sudo apt-get install libvirt0-dbg that's the symbols02:53
Quintasandhillon-v10: hmm, can I pass parameters only?02:55
Quintasandhillon-v10: you see, I'm running it like this -> kvm -m 512 -hda /home/quintasan/Sauce/kvm/lucid.img -usb -usbdevice tablet02:56
Quintasandhillon-v10: nvm, used set args02:58
dhillon-v10Quintasan, alright so first install the symbols and I am guessing when you give that command qemu crashes ?02:59
Quintasandhillon-v10: http://pastebin.com/m53bc187802:59
Quintasanyeah, I set the parameters then runned it again with "start"02:59
dhillon-v10Quintasan, :) nicely done, give me another moment and then we can figure out what's causing the issue03:00
ScottKnixternal: Is the powerpc box turned on?03:00
ZoraelWhat package should bugs affecting Solid be filed against? kdebase-workspace?03:02
Zorael(Thought I'd tag LP #362182 with it, since the Amarok crew says it just obeys Solid, and Solid doesn't do fuse mounts.)03:05
ubottuLaunchpad bug 362182 in amarok "Support for iPhone-like devices in Amarok 2" [Medium,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/36218203:05
ScottKZorael: You're much better off filing bugs like that at bugs.kde.org.03:06
Quintasan1hmm03:07
dhillon-v10Quintasan, SIGABRT is signal number 6 which tells the program to abort and release the memory it occupied before, and as you can see the dbg thread (0x7ffff0a90910) was only a few blocks away from the one that crashed. Did kvm/qemu release a patch anytime soon03:07
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dhillon-v10* s/any time soon/recently03:07
QuintasanI wonder03:07
dhillon-v10Quintasan, let me check upstream :) it could be like a bug-fix or an optimization patch that causes this issue03:08
dhillon-v10Quintasan, it says that parts of kvm are already present in the kernel, I don't think we had any kernel updates recently, did we?03:11
QuintasanIn the past month I would say no03:11
Quintasanbut I might have forgotten03:11
dhillon-v10Quintasan, and that's when you started experiencing the crash right03:12
Quintasanlast update is 07 December03:13
Quintasanhmm, that would be somewhere around03:13
* Quintasan got himself together after xmas and new years parties and did some work03:14
Quintasan:P03:14
dhillon-v10Quintasan, alright thanks for that info. I'll need a little more time to check what's going on03:14
Quintasandhillon-v10: sooo it would be good idea to look around and then backport or update the kernel?03:15
Quintasandhillon-v10: no problem, if you need more testing/breaking feel free to poke me03:15
dhillon-v10Quintasan, don't know it could be another library/program installed on your computer that is doing it, sorry I am still looking for the source of this problem03:16
dhillon-v10Quintasan, alright will do :)03:16
dhillon-v10Quintasan, I cleaned the coffee :D03:19
Quintasantook you a while :P03:20
* Quintasan hands cookies with some coffee to dhillon-v1003:20
dhillon-v10Quintasan, I spilled it on the carpet so :)03:20
QuintasanI'm looking forward to breaking debian on KVM ;)03:20
nixternalScottK: no it isn't, want me to turn it on for you?03:25
nixternaloh well, turned it on anyways, should be up in less than a minute03:25
ScottKnixternal: Yes please.  I love it when things get turned on by you03:25
ScottK;-)03:26
ScottKThanks03:26
nixternalhaha, pervert!03:26
nixternalI was watching ricky gervais yet again03:26
dhillon-v10Quintasan, mind if we continue tomorrow, I have to go eat dinner03:28
Quintasandhillon-v10: I'm afraid to be busy, it's sunday 04:30 here :D03:30
dhillon-v10Quintasan, alright I'll email you then when I find a solution/fix for this problem03:31
Quintasandhillon-v10: Thanks.03:31
* ScottK is always tempted to as, "Do your parent know you are up so late?", but then realizes he knows the answer.03:32
ScottKas/ask03:32
QuintasanScottK: Hmm, That's fairly interesting. What's the answer? :D03:33
ScottKI'm figuring the chances they know are low.03:33
dhillon-v10later guys, bye03:33
Quintasandhillon-v10: \o03:33
ScottKOr at least they pretend not to know.03:33
ScottKBecause if the officially noticed, then they'd have to put a stop to it.03:33
ScottKThat's my guess anyway.03:34
QuintasanScottK: Oh well, my father know and I suppose if he knows then my mother knows as well. It's not like I'm sitting to this hour everyday03:34
Quintasanknows*03:34
ScottKOK.03:34
ScottKSo maybe I don't know.03:34
QuintasanI just go and tell him that I will be staying up late cause I have to do $(something) and he doesn't mind03:35
QuintasanI also guess that up to this time $(something) was not trivial03:36
QuintasanSaying that I might go to bed as well.03:37
ScottKSounds like you have a good relationship with your parents.03:37
ScottKGood night.03:37
* ScottK notes Kubuntu Netbook made asiego's end of year KDE summary ....03:44
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seele_AARRGGHH04:59
DaskREEchseele_: indeed05:04
DaskREEchseele_: what's up?05:13
shtylmanour oxygen index.theme file is borked05:19
shtylmanit is missing the 64/actions and 128/actions entries05:19
shtylmanthis is for lucid btw05:20
shtylmanits fixed in kde svn trunk05:24
shtylmanbut just be on the lookout for any bug reports related to icon scaling05:24
seele_wtf how do i edit the TODO wiki page?05:29
seele_i click on edit and it gives me the TOC file05:29
shtylmandid you go to the right todo page?05:29
seele_whatever is in the topic05:29
shtylmantisk tisk... someone didn't read? :)05:29
shtylman"Editing: Make edits at Kubuntu/Todo/Lucid"05:30
shtylmanat the top of the todo page from the topic05:30
seele_oh. duh :)05:30
shtylman;)05:30
ScottKshtylman: Usability bug.05:35
shtylmanhahahhaha05:35
seele_DaskREEch: not much, about to go to bed05:43
DaskREEchseele_: That's a very impassioned to bed rally cry :)05:46
DaskREEchWell I shall follow suit05:46
DaskREEchAARRGGHH!05:47
ScottKBed missing?05:52
* ScottK how now read mail and knows what the argh was.06:25
ScottKhow/has06:26
amichairJontheEchidna: howdy ho13:12
amichairJontheEchidna: any feedback/issues with kubuntu-notification-helper?13:14
jussi01amichair: any further thoughts on my menu system?13:22
amichairjussi01: only that u can use the mouse wheel to spin a circle around if u want to :-)13:23
amichairdid u have any progress?13:24
jussi01amichair: no, havent had a chance to get back to it. However, while I can make mockups and gimp stuff, I still dont have coding skills13:26
amichairit's never too late to acquire them :-)13:26
amichairmaybe u can post them here again (or in the dev list?), get some more feedback from others13:27
jussi01amichair: Ill be honest with you, i have a million things on my plate at the moments, so thats not going to happen (ie. the ircc, work, annoying people about bugs etc)13:27
jussi01amichair: yeah, I think I will tomorrow, might try to get a better mockup done first13:28
amichairand again, kudos for the innovation :-)13:29
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amichairjussi01: I think for a search interface it may be problematic (seele had some good points), but for a fixed or small menu, it can be pretty neat13:31
KOPRajswhere can I find what patches are being applied to sources before compiling packages in the repository?14:24
ScottKKOPRajs: For a core Kubuntu (KDE) package or in general?14:32
JontheEchidnaamichair: I've not seen any so far. I think that I just need to get a second beta out there and get it on the alpha 2 CD14:54
amichairJontheEchidna: cool :-)14:55
amichairJontheEchidna: and how have you been?14:55
JontheEchidnapretty good. slept in this morningt14:55
JontheEchidnastayed up too late watching the last part of the Doctor Who special :x14:56
Quintasan@_@15:09
* Quintasan yawn15:09
Quintasan+s15:09
QuintasanHi by the way :P15:10
KOPRajsScottK: right now I want to know what patches are applied to kwin in my stable Kubuntu 9.1015:18
ScottKKOPRajs: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kubuntu-members/kdebase-workspace/ubuntu/files/head:/debian/patches/15:19
mgraesslinAFAIK there are no patches to kwin15:20
ScottKThat's current Lucid.  You'll be able to see from the history what was there for Karmic.15:20
KOPRajsScottK: ok, thank you very much15:21
KOPRajsmgraesslin: I just wanted to be sure since I cannot find any other reaseon why my kwin ignores UnredirectFullscreen option in kwinrc...15:22
seelei'm sick of feeding the troll.. where are the rest of the council members15:38
shadeslayerhi anyone here?15:54
shadeslayeroh well i just wanted to say that amarok lacks one of the build deps, libssl-dev,its not installed when one does : sudo apt-get build-dep amarok. ive reported a bug : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/amarok/+bug/50262716:04
ubottuUbuntu bug 502627 in amarok "amarok source lacks a build dependency " [Undecided,New]16:04
shadeslayerthanks :)16:04
LureScottK: around? have time to discuss debian-science merge?16:13
shtylmanseele: but if you don't feed them... they starve :)16:14
shtylmanthen PETA might get involved16:15
* jussi01 hugs seele. 16:19
ScottKLure: I'll be around off and on most of the day.16:56
LureScottK: ok: quick question - did you run make dist when doing merge (as it messes the things for me) or did you just manual edit also autogenerated files (like debian/control)16:57
ScottKLure: IIRC I just edited debian/control.16:57
LureScottK: problem is that make dist on lucid messes the control file, making large diff16:57
LureScottK: ok, I thought it might be that - I will then do the same, just to leave the delta to debian to minimum16:58
ScottKIf it's automatic, size isn't necessarily a problem.16:58
ScottKThe trick is if it has to be maintained somehow16:58
Lureit might be that debian also did not run make dist for some time ;-)16:58
LureScottK: the diff is huge and some changes would make it very different than debian package16:59
ScottKThen perhaps not.16:59
LureScottK: this is why I even suspect that Debian did not run make dist recently (but just edited control)16:59
ScottKRight.  I can see that.16:59
LureI will test build and install my merged package now and if I do not get any showstoppers dueitn test installs, will upload17:00
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ScottKNightrose and Mamarok: The eglibc update for your favorite bug is in karmic-proposed and needs testers to try it and say it works in the bug.  See Bug 42572317:29
ubottuLaunchpad bug 425723 in eglibc "kdevelop assert failure: *** glibc detected *** kdevelop: free(): invalid pointer: 0xbfc22c44 ***" [High,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/42572317:29
Nightrosethx ScottK17:29
Nightroseyou rock17:29
ScottKYou're welcome.17:29
LureScottK: this might be also the cause of bug 49756217:50
ubottuLaunchpad bug 497562 in kubuntu-ppa "[PPA] On newest PPA beta (KDE 4.4beta1) digikam crashes every time at startup" [Undecided,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/49756217:50
ScottKInteresting.17:50
LureScottK: digikam is failing with same "free(): invalid pointer" and it is again with kde 4.4 beta packages17:52
LureScottK: have asked reporter to test with karmic-proposed packages17:52
ScottKLure: That's what I was about to suggest.17:52
ScottKJontheEchidna: Is quassel on the list of packages you can upload?17:58
JontheEchidnaprobably. let me check17:59
JontheEchidnayeah17:59
ScottKThere's a patch to do a double build and produce both -qt and -kde packages.  If I sponsor it, I can't New it.  Would you mind having a look (I did not review this version of the change, so it needs an actual review)?18:01
JontheEchidnaI'll take a look once I get this amarok merge squared away18:03
ScottKThanks.18:04
shtylmanScottK: I made a deb package for my ubuntu assistant :)18:12
shtylmanI feel accomplished18:12
ScottKNice18:13
shtylmanso how best do you think it would be for users to discover the ubuntu assistant?18:29
shtylmanthe help menu?18:30
shtylmanor someplace else?18:30
shtylmanmaybe as a default desktop icon?18:30
ScottKI'd think in the help menu18:38
shtylmanis the help menu something we can patch kde to add an item to?18:42
shtylmanI guess it should also go into the kmenu somewhere as well18:42
shtylmanfor non-kde apps18:42
jussi01shtylman: just what is this "ubuntu-assistant"18:44
shtylmanjussi01: http://www.shtylman.com/archives/15418:45
shtylmanbasically... the idea is to give new users a central go-to point for help18:45
shtylmanand from there, they can look for the help they need18:45
jussi01shtylman: Im a little concerned. what does the bot do? does it have any out put in the said channel? how are you deciding which channel the user goes to?18:53
shtylmanthe bot is the one that posts the question to the channel18:53
shtylmanmost likely the bot will post to the main channels (ubuntu, kubuntu)18:54
shtylmanthe bot also does the logging of the session18:54
jussi01shtylman: so, potentially, when we have a 100 people on at once, we will have the bot posting 100 different questions?18:54
shtylmanjussi01: yes, but it only post the question once18:55
jussi01What happens when the user becomes abusive? (which some do), do we ban the bot? how do we stop abuse?18:55
shtylmanabusive?18:55
shtylmanoh.. no the bot doesn't post in the main channel all the time18:55
shtylmanit only post the question in the main channel18:55
jussi01shtylman: as you no doubt have noticed, some peole like to attempt to disrupt.18:56
shtylmanit then makes a temp channel18:56
shtylmanwhere that user can be helped independently of all others18:56
jussi01shtylman: well that breaks half the benefit of #ubuntu18:56
shtylmanjussi01: the point is that IRC can be hard for new users18:56
shtylmanand #ubuntu can be hard to follow18:57
jussi01yes18:57
jussi01shtylman: Have you read the #ubuntu is too noisy to be useful bug?18:57
shtylmana user with a problem isn't gonna want to sit through that..18:57
shtylmanjussi01: nope18:57
jussi01bug #39279918:58
ubottuLaunchpad bug 392799 in ubuntu-community "#ubuntu too noisy to be useful" [Medium,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/39279918:58
shtylmanthe main point is that a new user doesn't want to deal with IRC and it is overkill to solve their problem18:58
jussi01shtylman: So let me probe a little further18:59
jussi01shtylman: What happens once this independant channel is created?18:59
shtylmanfrom the user's perspective its a peer to peer chat they are unaware it is IRC underneath18:59
shtylmanin the main channel.. the question is posted19:00
shtylmanwith a link to the new channel19:00
shtylmananyone who wants to help can join that channel19:00
jussi01shtylman: so we then have potentially hundreds of totally unregulated channels.19:00
shtylmanjussi01: yes...19:01
jussi01shtylman: with users giving out advice that coud be totally suspect19:01
shtylmanum... yes...19:01
shtylmanas opposed to what happens now?19:01
shtylmanthere will be a "report abuse" option19:01
shtylmanbut yea...19:01
shtylmanthe transcripts can be reviewed19:01
jussi01shtylman: do you realise the amount of people we have giving sudo rm... out?19:01
jussi01shtylman: thats little help when the hdd is dead19:02
jussi01erased19:02
shtylmanjussi01: while I realize that may be an issue.... it really isn't different than a user going onto the forums19:02
shtylmanor googling for random stuff and trying that19:02
jussi01shtylman: we put a lot of time and effort into making our irc channels safe for users.19:03
jussi01I really odnt want to see that undoe19:03
jussi01undone19:03
shtylmanwell... these temp channels arn't meant to stay around...19:03
shtylmanalso... its the same users that are in your main channels19:04
jussi01However, if you want to create the one to one chat "feel", why not just have a irc client that ignores _evverything_ except highlights of the users name?19:04
jussi01shtylman: I understand what you are trying to create, and beleive me, we have been trying to create a better #ubuntu experience for a long time. However, I would be very opposed to creating a load of unregistered, unregulated temporary channels.19:06
shtylmanbut just dumping stuff in one main channel like that19:06
jussi01shtylman: I highly recomend a good read of the bug19:06
shtylmanstill makes it annoying for others to help that one user19:06
shtylmanalso... how does that users post go to the right people in that massive channel?19:07
jussi01shtylman: well slightly, but most of the helpers are able to cope with #ubuntu.19:07
jussi01shtylman: have you looked at #ubuntu-meta before?19:07
jussi01its very useful if you want to help ;)19:07
shtylmanjussi01: ubuntu meta might be nice for the helpers19:10
shtylmanjussi01: but all of this still ignores the end user19:10
shtylmanwho doesn't care at all about IRC19:10
jussi01shtylman: yes, it is19:10
shtylmanthe helpers can still use meta19:10
shtylmanit doesn't do away with that19:10
jussi01shtylman: so, as I said, create an irc client that only shows highlights19:10
shtylmanyea.. and there are problems with that19:10
shtylmangoing from the main chat to the user isn't as bad19:11
shtylmanbut going from the user to all the people helping him is19:11
shtylmanlikewise...it becomes more annoying to log the individual "threads"19:11
jussi01shtylman: But please! make sure you work with us ops and IRC Council. we are the ones responsible for making ubuntu's irc sphere a safe, hospitable place.19:12
jussi01shtylman: if you move the conversation to PM, or another channel, you lose a lot of the learning many of the helpers take19:12
shtylmanjussi01: I agree... I don't want to circumvent anyone... but do see it from the point of view of a new user... who has no idea what to do19:12
shtylmanIRC sucks for them19:13
shtylmanthe helpers can all join the channel to watch19:13
shtylmanthey can also read the transcripts19:13
shtylmanand the conversations are then searchable19:13
shtylmanfor users that might come back with similar problems19:13
shtylmanright now... anything that is sent to the tome of #ubuntu is basically lost19:13
jussi01shtylman: I disagree19:14
shtylmanits much harder to search for problem A and see the solution19:14
shtylmanand this doesn't even cover discoverability19:14
jussi01shtylman: discoverability isnt the issue here.19:14
jussi01there are a million and one things we can do re: discoverability19:15
jussi01shtylman: so, lets be constructive here.19:15
shtylmanI do agree the oversight is something to consider19:15
JontheEchidnaScottK: quassell all checks out; uploading it now19:15
shtylmanthe main point I have is that IRC is hard for new users... and not just hard from a technology sense... hard from a keeping track of it.. and using it19:17
shtylmanit provides much more than what a user needs/wants when they have a problem19:17
JontheEchidnaScottK: if you feel like NEW'ing things, k3b and webkitkde could use a push through NEW queue too. It would be much appreciated19:17
JontheEchidnabbl19:17
shtylmanthey want a person to address their need... withouth shifting through tons of other stuff... and just give them some quick guidance19:17
jussi01if we forget about the helpers for a moment, and think of new user A. A needs help with $problem. he opens $chat-client which you created, sees a little welcome message that tells him how to ask, and some links. He then types his question: How do I fix $problem? someone replies with A: go do, this, this and this. A does so, it works and he logs out.19:17
shtylmanI don't deny there are issues to work out19:17
jussi01thats what you are after, correct?19:18
shtylmanindeed... I have a working implementation if you care to try it at some point19:18
shtylmanit does basically just that19:18
jussi01shtylman: what I want to ask, is why does this not work with a highlights only client?19:18
shtylmanjussi01: it can work with highlights going _to_ the user... but the bigger issue I see is highlights coming _from_ the user19:19
shtylmanI have nothing against highlight chats19:19
shtylmanI just think even the helpers will enjoy having the chat topic easier to follow19:19
shtylmanconsider how crazy it will become if one helper starts helping multiple people19:20
jussi01shtylman: which is where #ubuntu-meta comes in, to ensure the helpers see the issues19:20
shtylman(that there is a technocal challenge for the log bot)19:20
shtylmanright... but once they see the issues ... then what?19:20
shtylmanwe still want to communicate effectively to the user19:20
shtylmanand also log the individual topics19:20
shtylman^ this is important for what I am trying to do19:20
* jussi01 wishes he had been approached with this at UDS...19:21
shtylmanso if I can reliably solve those problems with highlight only chat...I would... but I didn't see a reason to initially... it was much simpler without it... but nothing is set in stone19:21
shtylmanjussi01: I had a sessiono on it19:21
shtylman*session19:21
jussi01o.O19:21
shtylmanand we discussed things about the idea and whatnot19:21
* jussi01 is not happy he missed it19:21
shtylman:(19:22
shtylmanI tried to spread the word19:22
shtylmanbut you know how UDS is19:22
shtylmanjussi01: do you want to try the sample implementation?19:22
shtylmanI don't deny there is much work to be done19:22
jussi01shtylman: you currently have a bot in #ubuntu?19:22
shtylmanno19:23
jussi01ok, great19:23
shtylmannever without permission first19:23
shtylmanI always run the bot in a test channel19:23
jussi01sure19:23
jussi01shtylman: so how do I try this then?19:24
shtylmanjussi01: lp:ubuntu-assistant19:24
shtylmangrab the code from there19:25
jussi01are there .debs there?19:25
shtylmanand I can walk you through it19:25
shtylmannope19:25
shtylmanits all python19:25
shtylmanyou can just run it locally19:25
jussi01shtylman: ok, remind me the simple way to get code from there?19:25
shtylmanbzr branch lp:ubuntu-assistant19:25
shtylmanthat command should do it19:26
shtylmanonce you have the source19:27
jussi01Ive got it19:27
jussi01then?19:27
shtylmango into the clients directory in the source tree19:28
shtylmanand run "./ubuntu-assistant qt"19:28
jussi01shtylman: could you PM me the test channel names so I can join with this client?19:28
shtylmanyou don't join with that client19:28
shtylmanthe test channel is #live_assistant_channel19:28
jussi01shtylman: I want to see from the helper side19:28
shtylmanahh right :)19:28
shtylmanalso... you will need python-irclib as a dependency for the client... iirc19:29
shtylmanit should complain about that if you try to run it without it...19:29
jussi01nah, its running19:29
shtylmank19:29
shtylmanand no errors?19:29
shtylmanmaybe you already had it...19:30
shtylmananyhow... yea..19:30
* jussi01 has a lot of strange things ;)19:32
shtylmanhaha19:32
shtylmandid it crash for you?19:32
jussi01no, I exited19:32
shtylmanahh ok19:33
shtylmananyhow... you get the general idea19:33
shtylmanI also plan to have bots that search answers and forums and return relevant results19:33
shtylmanI figure that is useful while the user waits19:33
shtylmanbasically... I want it... in the end... to be the one stop help area19:33
shtylmanevne if a user doesn't want live assistance they can know where to go to get more info and branch out from there...19:34
shtylman*even19:34
jussi01shtylman: Really, I would hate to see that implementation put out there. nothing against you, but you really need to read that bug, and have a chat to us who deal with ubuntu irc19:34
shtylmanbut there are still many kinks to work out19:34
shtylmanjussi01: no offense taken... :)19:34
shtylmanI will gladly have a chat with people who deal with it19:35
shtylmanbut I also keep an open mind about it19:35
shtylmanand not ness caring about always sticking to the norm19:35
shtylmansometimes you gotta just try new things19:35
jussi01shtylman: if you want to have a chat to the IRC council, feel free to drop in and have a word in #ubuntu-irc-council19:35
shtylmank19:35
shtylmanany particular time is good?19:36
shtylmanalso...part of this isn't that it is meant to be IRC only19:36
shtylmanthe backend can be torn out and moved off irc19:36
jussi01shtylman: I agree, but sometimes, its like trying new things with a traffic management system, if you get it wrong, its gonna break a lot moe things...19:36
shtylmanthe reason I picked IRC was that there are lots of "helpers" who have already opted in19:36
shtylmanand I didn't want them to learn something new19:36
shtylmanbut for new users... learning IRC can be overkill19:36
shtylmanjussi01: yea... I don't frown upon talking about it...19:37
shtylmanbut I also don't want to talk it to death :) ... sometimes simple prototypes in the wild do much more than any single conversation ever can19:37
jussi01shtylman: irc council members reside in EU (UK 1, FI 2) and america (not sure, Nhandler and pici), pick a TZ...19:37
shtylmanheh19:37
jussi01shtylman: also, onething while you are testing, you may want to use ## channels as freenodemay get grumbly as #channels are for registered projects.19:39
jussi01shtylman: this session, was it under the community track? or?19:39
shtylmanum...19:40
shtylmandesktop maybe? or qa?19:40
shtylmannot community iirc19:40
shtylmanahh... I didn't know about ## channels19:40
jussi01thats probably why I missed it. probably should have been community19:40
shtylmanmaybe... it was desktop oriented... and all I really know is desktop :)19:41
jussi01argh, looks like gobbby.ubuntu.com is down... do you have the gobby doc by anychance?19:41
shtylmanbut yea... it touches on lots of things19:41
shtylmanjussi01: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopLiveAssistant19:42
shtylmangobby notes at the bottom19:42
jussi01shtylman: do you remeber who was there? were there many?19:46
shtylmanyea19:46
shtylmanthere were quite a few people19:46
shtylmansome of them subscribed to the blueprint19:46
shtylmanso you could look at those names19:46
jussi01got a link for that?19:46
shtylmanhttps://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-lucid-liveassistant19:47
emmaunquery19:52
ScottKJontheEchidna: Let me see what I have time to look at ....20:29
ScottKJontheEchidna: All done.  Thanks.21:15
ScottKJontheEchidna: Up for something else I need help on ....21:27
ScottKRiddell: If you could use your handy dandy kde l10n upload script to reupload 4.3.4 translations to karmic-backports, that would be lovely.21:50
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LureRiddell, ScottK: can somebody review/ack my proposed exiv2 sync+transition: bug 50256523:31
ubottuLaunchpad bug 502565 in pyexiv2 "sync exiv2 0.19-1 from debian/unstable" [Undecided,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/50256523:31
LureI would need ack from core-dev, before subscribing ubuntu-archive for sync request23:32
ScottKLure: Yes.  I'm in the middle of something, so I can't look.  You can also subscribe ubuntu-main-sponsors ...23:34
LureScottK: ok, thanks23:38
LureScottK: I have to hit bed anyhow and I am in no big hurry ;-)23:39

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