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DeathSlingnight all00:31
AlanBellmorning all06:30
ArigeadAlanBell: morning back to you. Bit of an early bird but then that depends on where in the world you are.06:44
MartijnVdSmorning everyone08:07
diplomorning08:08
DJonesMorning all08:19
TheOpenSourcererGlowing bio-LED trees could replace street lights: http://is.gd/hp3zP Is that cool or what?08:51
finelytunedo/08:53
MartijnVdSwould be annoying though08:53
MartijnVdSyou can turn off street lights if you have to08:53
finelytunedMartijnVdS: i'm gonna do some more study today... so might have some newb problems i'll need help with if your on here08:54
BigRedSbioLED? where's the 'd' bit?08:54
screen-xmorning :)08:56
finelytunedmorning screen-x08:56
TheOpenSourcererBigRedS: Dunno. Maybe each leaf is a diode?08:59
BigRedSTheOpenSourcerer: Haha, perhaps. I suppose 'led' has come to mean 'modern light source' rather than, well, LED...09:00
czajkowskialoha09:06
TheOpenSourcererafternoon czajkowski09:06
czajkowskiAlanBell: ping free for a call later on09:10
matttsoooo tired09:11
TheOpenSourcererczajkowski: AlanBell is out at the moment, networking in Godalming09:11
czajkowskiwhere?09:14
TheOpenSourcererin Godalming09:14
czajkowski*googles* doesnt sound like a real place09:15
TheOpenSourcererIt is a very nice small town not far from Guildford.09:15
czajkowskiahhh09:16
czajkowskiok thanks09:16
czajkowskishall poke him later re some event09:16
czajkowskithank you09:16
TheOpenSourcerernp09:16
AlanBellback now09:19
TheOpenSourcererthat was quick09:19
TheOpenSourcererNice - Francis Maude: "I want to personally encourage the army of armchair auditors to look at  this information, scrutinise and question us and ensure that every penny  of taxpayers money is being spent judiciously."09:21
TheOpenSourcererhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/nov/19/francis-maude-government-data-published09:21
AlanBellyes, didn't hang about today, had to get back for the piano tuner09:21
TheOpenSourcererOur came last week09:22
TheOpenSourcerers\Our\Ours09:22
AlanBellwe have *very* different pianos09:22
popeymorning all09:22
TheOpenSourcererlo popey09:22
finelytunedo/ popey09:22
AlanBellmy piano is not finelytuned09:23
finelytunedouchies09:23
finelytuned:)09:24
czajkowskiAlanBell: when is good for a call re event today?09:24
AlanBellany time this afternoon09:25
* popey notes that working around the nasty work proxy is useful09:29
popeyunfortunately once co-workers know about it I end up having to print stuff like this http://www.curchods.com/display/104703?n=709:29
popeybecause the estate agent links their pictures directly to IP address hosts, not hostnamed hosts, so thats blocked09:30
MartijnVdS*facepalm*09:34
* screen-x is moving forward in the queue and will be connected to an advisor shortly09:37
popeyooo reminds me, need to call apple09:38
gordhttp://www.ebuyer.com/product/229961 huh, £55 for a hd media player - interesting machine09:39
popeythat is an interesting device gord09:43
screen-xgord: no NIC, but maybe could do something with that usb socket..09:43
* popey has an apple usb to ethernet device09:44
popeyand a nintendo one :)09:44
screen-xpopey: you have an MBA as well?09:45
MartijnVdSdo they work in Ubuntu?09:45
popeyno09:45
popeyMartijnVdS: yes09:45
MartijnVdSpopey: with or without dirty hacks?09:46
popeyjust works09:46
jpdspopey: Do you find that it adds overhead?09:46
popeydo i find what adds overhead to what?09:46
gordto the giggybytes?09:47
MartijnVdS"is it laggy"09:47
popeynot sure what you mean09:48
MartijnVdSpopey: well, with some USB disks you notice it's USB because it is (or "feels") slower09:49
MartijnVdSWe're wondering if that's the case with usb-ethernet as well09:50
gmbCan anyone recommend a good DAS unit that supports RAID0,1, has a FireWire 400/800 interface and either comes with (at least) 2x1TB drive or is an empty shell which will happily support up to 2x2TB?09:50
MartijnVdSgmb: and a pony?09:50
gmbMartijnVdS: And a plastic rocket.09:50
popeygmb: EDGE1009:50
gmbpopey: I thought that was USB and eSATA09:50
popeyoh, duh, sorry09:50
popeybuy my drobo off me then :)09:51
danfishmorning09:51
gmbHahahahaah.09:51
kazademorning all09:51
popey(it has fw)09:51
screen-xgmb why fw?09:51
gmbpopey: Between you and Drew Gardner I've been absolutely convinced not to do that.09:51
popeyexcellent, good man09:51
popeymorning kazade09:51
kazadepopey, https://launchpad.net/platformation09:51
popeyMartijnVdS: not noticed, but not tested very much, will test later tonight if you remind me09:51
gmbscreen-x: MacBook Pro has USB or FireWire, no eSATA. And I need to shift large amounts of data (images and video) at speed.09:51
kazadeGot round to registering it just now :)09:52
popeyyay09:52
MartijnVdSpopey: did you manage to fit all the snow-preparation stuff in your car btw?09:52
screen-xgmb: that's the only time I've used fw800 :)09:52
MartijnVdS;)09:52
MartijnVdSgmb: gig-e ;)09:52
MartijnVdSgmb: macbooks also have that09:53
gmbMartijnVdS: True, but I'd like to not have to upgrade my somewhat crappy network infrastructure whilst I'm at it.09:53
popey:) MartijnVdS09:53
dauberso/10:02
screen-xmorning daubers :)10:02
daubersgmb: NFS is your friend in that situation :)10:04
* daubers quite often shifts data around at 108+MB/s10:06
MartijnVdShmmmm data10:06
gmbdaubers: See above re: crappy network. But point taken.10:06
daubersgmb: Take a small shuttle PC with a 2/3disk raid to the desk, crossover between them, NFS to it, move on :)10:07
daubersIf ones a MBP you can actually make it a firewire target10:08
* popey coughs up a drobo10:08
daubersgmb: Hold down T while it's booting, it'll become a firewire target10:08
gmbdaubers: I like your thinking :)10:08
screen-xtarget disk mode.. why on earth is that in firmware rather than OS?10:08
daubersscreen-x: I'd imagine it's something on the board that does it. Part of the EFI somewhere10:09
popeygmb: setup a new network? buy a GbE switch and just have the storage and the mbp on it10:10
screen-xdaubers: would useful if you could do it from disk utility10:10
shaunoI'm not sure exporting the entire physical disk as a read-write target would be sensible while there's an OS running on it10:10
screen-xshauno: yeah, but you may have another disk you want to export10:11
popeyin a laptop?10:11
screen-xor partition etc10:11
popeyunlikely on a mac10:11
dauberspopey: Mac Pros do it too10:11
popeyyes10:11
popeythats what I'm saying10:11
popey10:11:04 < screen-x> shauno: yeah, but you may have another disk you want to export10:11
daubersmac pros can take 4 disks by default, come with caddies too10:11
popey10:11:12 < popey> in a laptop?10:11
screen-xmaybe partition wouldn't work10:11
popeyoh, desktops?10:11
dauberspopey: I think we've moved away from gmb's specific case10:12
shaunoI'm sure there's 101 ways to export a filesystem or block device over a network.  having target-disk being no-os has saved my skin many times10:12
* popey considers himself shutup10:12
dauberspopey: Yep, mac pro, not macbook pro :)10:12
gmbIf anyone has a Mac Pro they want to give me, I'm open to it.10:12
daubersgmb: What are you taking the data too off the MBP?10:13
* screen-x imagines some trade show booth giving away branded mac pros10:13
daubersscreen-x: Razorlab laser etches the,10:13
daubersthem10:13
daubersscreen-x: http://www.razorlab.co.uk/itattoo/10:14
Daraelost of Linux  |10:14
DaraelWhat?10:14
DaraelWhoops.10:14
DaraelSorry.10:14
gmbdaubers: I'm not sure I understand your question.10:18
daubersgmb: Is this a one shot thing or something that will become regular?10:18
daubersgmb: Also are you going from MBP -> ? or ? -> MBP?10:19
gmbdaubers: Regular. Basically I'll be dumping large wodges (4GB+) of data (images, videos, audio) onto it and then editing them from the MBP.10:19
popey10:11:12 < popey> in a laptop?10:19
popeyoops10:19
daubersgmb: What data rate video (also, welcome to my office :) )10:19
daubersgmb: Also is this a company thing or a personal thing?10:20
gmbdaubers: Personal. We're talking video from a 5D or D7000, so it's about 38Mb/s, I'd expect.10:22
gmbI'm taking a punt on the bitrate of the D7000, but it's a reasonable ballpark.10:22
daubersgmb: A lot of people in your situation use something like http://www.lacie.com/uk/products/product.htm?pid=11142 but in a post house they'd use either a fibre san (depending on no. seats) or a nice big raid connected over nfs10:22
gmbdaubers: Yeah, as a one man op the LaCie is tempting. I've heard bad things about noise levels from it (which is irritating if you're recording VOs)10:23
daubersgmb: RAID is normally on it's own isolated network to reduce traffic and switches coughing at latency10:24
gmbdaubers: Right. A crossover is about as isolated as it gets :)10:24
daubersgmb: If you're looking at spending £lots you can build a small linux box with 4/5 disks in raid 5, you'll easily saturate GigE over NFS10:25
popeyhow portable does it need to be?10:26
gmbdaubers: I think I'll start with £NotALot :)10:26
gmbpopey: Not very.10:26
popeystudio based?10:26
daubersgmb: But if the data is coming off a different machine, get a firewire cable and hold T when you boot the MBP, that makes the MBP into a firewire drive10:26
gmbdaubers: Noted, thanks.10:27
daubersgmb: You can then transfer stuff onto the MBP from $another machine10:27
gmbpopey: No, but I've got other plans for portable storage (i.e. I'll mostly edit at home anyway, but the RAID is going to be the canonical place for data to live).10:28
popeyI'd still get an edge10 and GbE10:28
gmbpopey: Maybe that's the way to go. After all, I've had this router since 2003 and that's the bottleneck on the network.10:29
popeyi have cable modem -> router/wifi -> GbE switch, everything is plugged into that.10:29
popeyjust an el-cheapo blue netgear one10:29
gmbpopey: Ah, yes, that would work, too.10:30
popeyhttp://www.ebuyer.com/product/12922010:30
gmbTa10:32
* gord presses his face against the window again waiting for the postman to come give him his networking shinys 10:32
popeyi love my edge10 box10:32
popeynot as well built as the drobo, but its lovely10:33
daubersgmb: Personally I'd (very biasedly) recommend http://gblabs.interads.co.uk/?q=node/13 but that's cause I built it10:33
popeyalso gmb you could get an esata pci express card for the mbp could you not?10:33
popeyhaha, overkill :)10:34
dauberspopey: For his case, very much so :)10:34
popeyis that a standard case?10:34
popeyor custom10:35
popeyalso, get whoever makes that host to setup drupal correctly so you get nice urls10:35
popey?q=node/13 is fugly10:35
Phineashi guys10:35
popeyhello10:35
daubershalf and half, starts life as a standard one, then get's attacked with a cutting torch10:35
popeyhah10:35
dauberspopey: I know :( The web dev is on holiday so I can't get it fixed10:36
Phineashe he10:36
Phineasweb dev?10:36
daubersweb developer10:37
gordthe difference between a good url and a bad one, i navigate launchpad entirely by fitting the right verbs and nouns into the right places in the url10:37
gordi navigate the rest of the web with google10:38
Phineasoh i see10:38
daubersgoogleh is teh w3b!!!!10:38
Phineasquite right comes in pretty handy sometimes10:40
Phineasdaubers:  comes in handy good 'ol google10:42
Phineas!ping10:42
lubotu3pong10:42
gmbdaubers, popey, screen-x: Thanks for the suggestions. Of course, I basically want to have enough money (and need) to have Chase Jarvis's setup (http://bit.ly/8YyY2V), but I'm British, so I'll scale it down a bit.10:46
popeyam I the only one who hates that effect of jump zoom10:47
gmbpopey: Yeah, but they're limited to what they can do when they're shooting on DSLRs. Whip-pans don't work because of the rolling shutter, so it's either jump zooms or Star Wars-style wipes.10:50
MartijnVdSgmb: star wars-style wipes rock though10:50
daubersgmb: You using FCP?10:50
gord*always* star wars wipes. never use anything else.10:50
MartijnVdSgmb: well that or jump zooms10:50
gordno, i'm with popey, i hate them10:51
gmbdaubers: I'm experimenting with both FCP and Premier Pro CS5; Haven't decided which I prefer.10:51
daubersgmb: (FCP is much nice on storage....)10:51
gmbdaubers: So I hear :)10:51
gmbAlso, it crashes a damn sight less often.10:52
popeyI also dislike the guy in that video even though I have the volume muted :)10:52
popeyirrational, I know10:52
gmbpopey: Which guy?10:52
gmbThere's more than one.10:52
daubersgmb: Yeah, there is that. I quite like the UI in FCP tbh, didn't really get on with CS510:52
popeythe main guy, not the big lad10:52
popeyhe is too attractive :)10:52
popeyannoyingly so10:52
gmbpopey: This has been noted in our house.10:52
popey:)10:53
czajkowskiso the wrong time to look back at this screen11:01
gmbczajkowski: Why? Was it our A/V data nerdout or was it popey dissing Chase Jarvis for his looks?11:02
czajkowskithe latter11:03
popeyfelt compelled to check him out huh?11:03
shaunoI wish people wouldn't use shortners in contexts that don't require brevity.  saves me the let-down of discovering it's a site that's blocked at work :(11:06
andylockranhowdy guys11:07
andylockranis it possible to install ubuntu to a separate partition using wubi ?11:08
andylockrani.e. if I partition 200GB for Windows, I'm going to leave 300GB left on the disk for ubuntu..11:08
andylockranwould I be able to install that using wubi11:08
BigRedSI imagine it'd have trouble online resizing ntfs11:08
BigRedSoh, pre-partitioned11:09
andylockranjust a wubi question rather than ubuntu one11:09
andylockranas I can install using ubuntu usb, but wondering if wubi was capable11:09
popeywhy use wubi?11:10
andylockrangood point11:10
andylockrandidn't have a CD drive this morning11:10
andylockranbut just nicked one from next door11:11
andylockrantherefore, the point is moot11:11
popey\o/ petty theft11:11
andylockrancheers popey11:11
popeynp11:11
AlanBellshauno: use ubunt.eu \o/11:11
andylockrannext door = colleagues PC11:11
shaunoAlanBell: it was the destination (youtube) that's blocked, not the shortener :)11:11
popey\o/ bypassing proxies11:12
gord\o/ toast11:12
daubers\o/ coffee11:13
AlanBell\o/ bourbon biscuits to go with coffee11:13
gordwhat? no. why would you buy bourbons when you could get custard creams?11:14
popeyoooo ooo!11:14
popeyI know this!11:14
popeychocolate11:15
popeyalso.. custard digestives..11:15
shaunoI try not to push my luck with proxies too much .. I dread the day they notice that I stay connected to 443 for 12 hours at a time11:15
andylockranhmm, I'd quite like a custard creme at the moment11:16
andylockrangood call11:16
andylockranlooking forward to the ubuntu monospace font11:16
* popey listens to a bit of ELO11:16
andylockranspend over 60% of my time in the terminal, so that'll make a nice little difference to me11:16
popeychaps..11:17
popeywhat shall we talk about on uupc on monday11:17
popeywe have no segments lined up11:17
andylockranme11:17
popeyneed two 15min segs11:17
popeythats 10 seconds sorted11:17
popeyhow about the other 29 mins and 50 seconds11:17
matti;]11:17
BigRedSThis super phoronix patch and how it's going to cure the common cold11:17
BigRedS;)11:17
popey:)11:17
popeyhttp://www.linuxjournal.com/content/readers-choice-awards-2010  is a possibility11:17
X3Nhum, just did a dist-upgrade and now all my notes are missing... :\11:18
BigRedSpopey: how unity's not as bad as everyone thinks it is? I've not listened for a little bit though, that might've been covered already.11:19
popeyhttp://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/SegmentIdeasFromTheCommunityForUUPC is also available :)11:19
AlanBelltalk about winter survival11:19
popey:)11:20
shaunoI'm trying to avoid the unity topic until they've changed whatever 3d framework it's using11:20
X3Nit's using compiz now11:21
popeybarely11:22
shaunothe version in 10.10 puts more load on my video card than civ4  (based purely on how obnoxious the fan is)11:23
popeyouch11:23
shaunoI believe there's changes expected there, hence the 'wait and see' :)11:24
danfishpopey: openrespect.org as a segment?11:24
AlanBellThe christmas party is more news than a topic of conversation really11:27
popeyooo yes, will add to events11:27
AlanBellincidentally, only 8 people signed up so far, come on people: http://ubunt.eu/c211:28
* daubers added it to the official "Matts allowed to do this" calender last night11:28
AlanBelland bringing Mrs Daubers too11:32
daubersAlanBell: Indeed11:32
BigRedSArgh. It feels like Thunderbirds deliberately being obtuse with its 'sensible' defaults11:32
* X3N feels he is going to be representing the youth of today again at The Hub11:33
davmor2Morning all11:33
popeyincoming!11:33
davmor2BigRedS: no it's just out to annoy you is it working?11:33
AlanBellI am not doing so well at getting wifey along to events. "will it be all your geeky friends" "yes" "I will give it a miss" :(11:34
popeyAlanBell: i find it helps if i mention other non-geek women will be there11:34
AlanBellyeah, tried that too11:35
finelytunedmy wife still struggles with the fact that i talk to people on irc about a os........ dare i tell her about the pod cast??11:35
* davmor2 decides to nice to czajkowski causes it's Friday :D11:35
popey:)11:35
* popey collapses11:35
shaunoI always had that problem trying to explain why I was laughing at lugradio11:36
davmor2popey: I'm feeling Good so I'm spreading the feel good feeling11:36
MartijnVdSdavmor2: neutral good, chaotic good or lawful good?11:37
davmor2popey: mind you it could be the new pain killers11:37
daubersAlanBell: The missus came to the RAT and quite enjoyed herself11:37
davmor2MartijnVdS: Generally good :D11:37
popeyAlanBell: does your missus work?11:37
AlanBellpopey: a few days a month at a local school11:37
popeyah excellent!11:37
popeymy wife works at a school11:38
popeycommon interest :)11:38
AlanBellso it is11:38
AlanBellI will try again, we are owed loads of babysitting so that isn't an issue11:38
BigRedSdavmor2: it's doing its job wonderfully :/11:41
* czajkowski pours a bucket of ice cold water over davmor2 11:46
davmor2czajkowski: Ah can't ruin my day :P  /me gives czajkowski a hug11:48
andylockranwhat's the default virtualisation platform on ubuntu11:49
andylockranneed to load up a virtual image of centos on my machine, and wondering what to use11:49
MartijnVdSkvm11:49
andylockranok, thanks .11:49
X3NThere isn't a default is also the answer11:50
AlanBellVirtualbox if you want accelerated graphics11:50
AlanBell!kvm11:50
lubotu3kvm is the preferred virtualization approach in Ubuntu. For more information see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM11:50
AlanBell^^ preferred11:50
popey^^ AlanBell11:50
danfishvirt-manager is a reasonable GUI for KVM11:50
andylockranlooks like it needs hardware support11:51
daubersYour machine does need to support virtualisation at the HW level for kvm to work11:51
andylockranin teh cpu11:51
andylockranwhich unfortunately mine doesn#t11:51
daubersandylockran: Virtualbox11:51
danfish:(11:51
danfishnot :( to virtualbox btw11:52
andylockranthough vbox + oracle = future pain?11:52
* daubers is currently installing an OSX server into VirtualBox11:52
daubersandylockran: You could use qemu if it still exists11:52
andylockrandaubers: is breaking license conditions ?11:52
daubers!qemu11:52
lubotu3qemu is an emulator you can use to run another operating system - see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsXPUnderQemuHowTo11:52
daubersandylockran: It's on a mac!11:52
* TheOpenSourcerer has OSX in VBox :-)11:54
* AlanBell likes virt-manager +KVM for remote machines and virtualbox for local ones11:54
* AlanBell now has a tuned piano11:54
* DJones wonders if the piano player has also been tuned?11:55
DJonesAlanBell: My wife is having lessons, we've got a piano downstairs which she practises on during the daytime, but evenings when I'm home, she uses a keyboard with a set of headphones (she says so I can't hear how bad she is)11:56
jpdsHmm, piano lessons: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JQOSB8TeAs11:57
AlanBellDJones: I was planning to get a keyboard with headphones but was feeling poor and got a piano on ebay for free (buyer collects)11:57
AlanBellapparently it is pre- 1935 with art-deco legs11:57
DJonesAlanBell: Yeah, our keyboard was free from my Gran, and the piano came free from a friend who needed the space11:58
danfishAlanBell: nice - who's it made by?11:59
czajkowskiwell that's a bit bloody annoying few free events I want to go to in london and trying to register for them and the website is being a brat!11:59
TheOpenSourcererThey know who you are czajkowski :-D12:01
danfishAlanBell: if it's a Steinberg or Steinway from 1930's they can be v valuable12:02
andylockranYeah, they're lovely.12:03
andylockranI have an old Zender of a great-great aunt.12:03
andylockranNothing quite like an old piano.. heavy like you wouldn't believe though.12:03
TheOpenSourcererlol: http://blogs.techworld.com/on-the-frontline/2010/11/cisco-machismo-and-the-lan/index.htm12:04
danfishooh ooh! Have a good old fashioned Cockney knee's up at the XMAS party :D12:04
* TheOpenSourcerer 's wife's piano is a 1903 Bechstein parlour grand12:05
DJonesdanfish: Our church got rid of a steinway grand piano earlier this year for £2K, it was ruined by cold/damp etc, needed £25K of refurbishment and would be valued at £35K in good condition, we didn't have the £25K for refurb, so got rid before it rotted even more12:05
czajkowskiTheOpenSourcerer: :(12:05
hooverhi folks12:05
awilkinsOk - evangelism opportunity here ( to a large gov dept! ).... our current software project has now breached the limit of the 32-bit JVM on windows for heap space ... so line manager has asked me to prepare some 64-bit Ubuntu LiveUSBs with the software installed to run on our nice beefy 4GB laptops ; I've already customized the iso and added a JDK so the software will run ; I've partitioned the thumb with a casper-rw12:06
awilkins ; now I just need to know how to i) Set the keymap to uk on boot ii) automatically choose the new "persistent" menu config I stuck in the isolinux menu instead of the fancy try/install graphical prompt you get when you boot the maverick LiveCD.12:06
danfishDJones: bummer :(12:06
DJonesdanfish: Not so much, we didn't have anybody that could play it anyway :)12:06
danfish:)12:07
danfishawilkins: first things first - clone that line manager and send him my way12:07
czajkowskiawilkins: nice12:07
awilkinsdanfish, Heheheh. I used to know how to do this too when the isolinux menu was all you got - the pretty gui is stumping me.12:08
danfishawilkins: does the usb disk creator in ubuntu do the persistent bit for you when you load in the iso?12:09
AlanBelldanfish: it is a Rudohf Schuman which neither me, the piano tuner, or google have ever heard of12:09
AlanBellwhich either means it is a rare and valuable antique, or old and rubbish12:09
danfishhah12:09
awilkinsdanfish, the USB disk creator makes a loopback file ; I want a native ext3 partition (which I've done)12:10
awilkinsdanfish, The persistent bit works, just want to not have to manually do anything.12:10
danfishah ok12:10
awilkinsI don't even want to see the try/install prompt because some numpty will push "install" and trash his laptop12:11
awilkins(horrible full-disk encryption, lots of explaining to ICT services)12:11
gordload a translation that replaces install with "launch angry godzilla bee's"12:11
danfishunderstandable12:12
danfishputting a postit note on the screen where the "install" button appears probably isn't going to work either12:13
gordhonestly the live stuff is a tricky thing that you need specialist knowledge on, best asking the guys that build the cd12:13
awilkinsDo you know which channel they hang out in?12:14
danfishawilkins: I might be missing the point, but why not just do a full install onto a usb stick then clone the stick?12:15
awilkinsdanfish, this may also be an option.12:15
awilkinsProbably runs faster.12:15
gordawilkins, i'm being told that #ubuntu-release is the best place to ask, its where the release team live, they set up the iso so they know whats going on12:17
czajkowskigord: you're rather useful to have in here ;)12:18
awilkinsgord, Thanks for asking for me12:18
andylockrangord is a useful person to know.12:18
andylockraninstalling maverick on my desktop for the first time12:19
andylockranlike the new installer12:19
awilkinsI like the way it downloads updates in the background12:19
andylockrancan't help but notice it's taking quite a bit longer than older versions though - or maybe that's just me12:19
awilkinsandylockran, Are you running it from a CD or a USB?12:20
* awilkins remotes the sensitive Windows drive from his laptop to prevent grub-related accidents to the encryption bootloader12:21
andylockranawilkins: CD12:24
danfishawilkins: they are installing that junk here next week :(12:24
awilkinsdanfish, Lucky you. The encrypted usb thumbs are rubbish too - all done in software. Cost extortionate money.12:25
andylockrangot a mac keyboard, and bought a new mouse this morning12:25
andylockranlogitech mx512 or something like that12:26
andylockran51812:26
awilkinsThe only advantages are someone to blame and central key escrow.12:26
danfishawilkins: already got one of those. £120 I think for a 2gb drive12:26
andylockranjust ordered an entropykey for more entropy on my virtual servers12:27
awilkinsdanfish, Whhhhhhhhaaaaattttttt. They must hit you with more of a markup12:28
awilkinsdanfish, Our internal purchase form says £65 for those, I've heard verbal quotes of £9512:28
awilkinsMy price ; 5 quid for a 2GB USB stick, nothing for Truecrypt.12:28
andylockranhmm, uptime on my maverick install has just hit 60 minutes :s12:29
awilkinsI might charge oooh 15 quid if I wrote a few scripts to automate formatting them and copy the keyblocks to an escrow server.12:29
danfishawilkins: yup - our it guys seem to take the list price, double it and pass it on12:29
danfishawilkins: having someone to blame is the name of the game alright12:30
awilkinsdanfish, My assertion that they are rubbish is based on ; they consist of two partitions, one unencrypted that contains a small util that mounts the encrypted partition. One encrypted.12:30
danfish...and they can't be read in linux12:31
danfishAFAIK12:31
awilkinsThey do not have hardware encryption like an Ironkey.12:31
awilkinsYou must install drivers for them because non-admin users cannot load drivers in Windows12:31
awilkinsSo they are equal to truecrypt in most respects12:31
popeyhttp://www.ebuyer.com/product/23658012:31
popeyooooooo12:31
awilkinsperrty12:32
awilkinsI think they also charge a per-seat license for the driver that stops you writing to unencrypted USB thumbs12:32
andylockranmy install appears to have hung :(12:33
danfishironkey should have got that contract tbh12:33
awilkinsdanfish, Seeing the prices of Ironkeys on Dabs, I'm not sure they make enough margin to proffer a really effective bribe.12:33
danfishawilkins: so you have to pay to have functionally removed from your PC. Craziness12:34
popeyhttp://www.ebuyer.com/product/23657912:34
popeywith no windows 712:34
awilkinspopey, Wow, a price differential that actually reflects the price of an OEM windows license12:35
danfishpopey: that's more tempting12:35
awilkins"Linpus linux"12:35
awilkinsSounds like an infection12:35
awilkins"Sorry, can't come into work today, I'm oozing linpus12:35
andylockrannope, unhung now... gd gd12:36
andylockranweird.12:36
andylockranno action for circa 20 mins12:36
danfishawilkins: from where ? :D12:36
awilkinsMine just crashed because of a disk failure... given it's a flash drive, that does not full me with confidence12:37
awilkinsEl-cheapo 8GB flash drives are cheap for a reason, it seems12:37
finelytunedpopey: to the unknowing public who might look at them 2 pages, they could think that they are getting so much more with the windows one, due the the amount of stuff listed under software12:38
popeythey get a bigger disk!12:38
awilkinsfinelytuned, This is part of what produces a higher return rate for Linux machines - shame that MS like to yell about what is effectively uninformed buyers12:39
awilkinsI suppose Windows needs a bigger disk12:39
awilkinsI find a 60GB partition barely adequate for Vista and up12:40
directhexawilkins: windows 7 is about 10 gig smaller than vista12:40
awilkinsdirecthex, Or does it just report disk consumption better - I know a lot of the apparent consumption is actually hardlinked files12:41
popeyhttp://www.xda-developers.com/android/ubuntu-running-on-galaxy-tab/12:41
directhexawilkins: i think it's actually smaller. vista carries LOADS of duplicate libraries with slightly different versions, 7 has a clever way to make one lib with multiple overlays12:41
awilkinsShiny. Shame the Tab is so expensive12:41
awilkinsdirecthex, I had the RC version until they canned it12:42
awilkinsdirecthex, I liked it better than Vista - but not enough to pay for 712:42
directhexi thought it was worth £4012:43
awilkinsdirecthex, Plus all the hassle of reinstalling it, a lot of your games, etc. I only really use it for games now.12:44
awilkinsSteam games are fine but a lot of them whine and moan when their DRM components disappear12:44
awilkinsExcellent, my parcel is here12:45
awilkinsIncluding complete Farscape box set.. there goes my productivity for a month or three12:45
danfishincluding the peacekeeper wars?12:47
awilkinsIndeed12:51
danfishsweet12:52
awilkinsPlus ; displayport / VGA adapter. No longer will my Linux system at work be relegated to a mere 1 monitors.12:52
awilkinsAnd ; fast kettle. Because waiting for tea is wrong.12:53
finelytunedthis is a ramdom question but does anyone know how many schools run open source software?12:58
popeynope12:59
popeyhow can anyone possibly know12:59
popeywell, other than asking them all :)12:59
finelytunedlike i said totally random13:00
DJonesThis is not on, BBC headline "Gentoo penguin born in Australia", Never mind that, where's the Ubuntu penguin born in South Africa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11796080?13:04
directhexhttp://i.imgur.com/iq6Fu.jpg13:05
bigcalmpopey: I blame you for getting me interested in minecraft. I'm still in bed, playing on my laptop13:05
popey:)13:06
DJonesdirecthex: My parents have just come bax from Oz, they've got an even better picture than that, looks like its the same animal, just even more gross13:06
DJoness/bax/back13:07
gordgeez13:11
* popey tickles gord 13:11
gordroyal mail tracking has three states, "we do not have your item" "our item is somewhere in our network" "we delivered your item"13:12
screen-xgord: so your powerline ethernet adapters are still in state 2?13:13
gordyes13:13
screen-x:(13:13
gordlast updated three days ago, it doesn't take three days to go from wales to crewe13:13
czajkowskiwow13:14
czajkowskigord: perhaps they opened the package saw how much fun it was and decided to keep it13:14
awilkinsI think this USB drive is a pile of rubbish.13:14
* screen-x is also attempting to leave wales13:15
awilkins'cause now installs are failing because perl is broken.13:15
evilchristelaww why would you want to leave wales?13:15
czajkowskibut the welsh are nice13:15
czajkowskiwell the accent more than anything really13:15
czajkowskiand  RUGBY :D13:15
gordnevermind, i now have a mince pie and Hey Eugine by Pink Martini playing, everything is well again13:15
awilkinsKnew a girl from North Wales at med school. Could only understand her when we were both drunk.13:15
screen-xawilkins: haha13:16
czajkowskiawilkins: lol13:16
evilchristelhaha13:16
screen-xI do know plenty of nice welsh people, I'm just having issues with a few troublesome ones :(13:16
czajkowskiI just nod and smile it's a lovely accent13:16
czajkowskievilchristel: hello darling13:17
screen-xhaving said that, the trouble is in wales, that doesn't necessairly mean the trouble makers are welsh..13:17
gordnever had any trouble with welsh accents myself, its nice :)13:17
kazadefunniest picture ever: http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbfzyy2oc61qzlfumo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1290256133&Signature=W7ToDAICiEYXDm4l%2BVPg08FVxzc%3D13:28
kazadesorry, had to share that :)13:29
BigRedSkazade: That's awesome!13:29
evilchristelheya czajkowski me love! a letter arrived for you!13:30
czajkowskiohh13:31
czajkowskievilchristel: can you open it and let me know what it is please.13:31
czajkowskican't be a bill :)13:31
andylockranwahey - maverick installed13:32
andylockraninternet connection here is awful mind13:36
shaunosometimes I swear the ladies in the canteen are trying to fatten me up13:40
jpdsshauno: Yes, they're trying to feed you.13:40
andylockranany ideas13:41
andylockranwill just stop during download13:41
andylockranif I cancel and restart then it'll be fine13:41
kazadeanyone know of a program that can shove (L)GPL headers into a directory full of source files?13:41
popeycp13:41
andylockrankazade: sed ?13:41
BigRedSsed?13:41
kazadeheh13:41
kazadewell, ok that would do it13:42
daubersWhat they sed13:42
popeyThat's what she sed.13:42
* kazade doesn't really know how to use sed13:42
* daubers gets his coat13:42
jpdskazade: cat lgpl-template.txt sauce.cpp > result.cpp13:42
* AlanBell tickles czajkowski 13:42
kazadejpds, oh cool13:43
BigRedSfor i in `ls`; do cat boilerplate $i > tmp ; mv tmp $i; done13:43
BigRedSperhaps with the semicolons in different placesi13:43
kazadethx BigRedS I'll try taht13:44
kazade*that13:44
=== denny- is now known as denny
kazadeBigRedS, worked a charm!13:49
czajkowskino tickles13:51
BigRedSWow. I got bash right first time! :)13:51
kazadeBigRedS, http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kazade/platformation/trunk/revision/2813:52
BigRedSkazade: I expect to see my name under 'contributors' ;)13:54
kazadeindeed ;)13:54
andylockranevolution on maverick is just unusable.13:58
gordit is?14:00
gordseems fine here14:00
gordare  you using imap+? if your not using imap+ you should be using it14:00
andylockranI'm using imap14:01
andylockranwil l switch to imap+14:02
andylockranwhat's the difference?14:02
daubersawesumsauce14:03
daubersimap+ is threaded (I believe... certainly acts that way)14:03
* BigRedS still wants an imap client that lets him instruct it to only download the latest X messages14:03
BigRedSWell, I have one. But it's quite clunky. More imap clients should honour imap14:04
popeydoes gmail support imap+ ?14:08
andylockrancheers for that tip Gord - really improved it! :)14:10
davmor2popey: try it :D14:16
shaunoI didn't think imap+ was something that needed to be specifically supported.  just a better rewrite of the imap module for evo, but they haven't expired the old one (yet) because it's tried & trusted14:17
popeyMy bosses wife is pregnant with their 9th child.14:19
awilkinskazade, Extra tip - sponge14:19
awilkinskazade, cat license.txt source.cpp | sponge source.cpp14:19
finelytunedwow 9 children........ i have 3 they keep me busy all the time lol14:19
dauberspopey: 9????14:19
popeythey want 1314:20
daubers13???14:20
popeyyup14:20
popeywell.. _she_ wants 1314:20
daubersDo they want to generate some kind of family choir in the hills of austria?14:20
czajkowskiwhat14:20
popey:)14:20
czajkowskisweet jebus mary and holy saint jack daniels14:20
danfish13 - rugby league team14:20
finelytunedis it for a family football team or something?14:20
shaunocztab .. well there's names for half of them14:20
czajkowskipopey: were any of them twins or anything14:21
popeynope14:21
daubersshauno: Hugh, Pew, Barney, McGrew, Cuthburt, Dibble and Grub?14:21
shaunosomeone really should take mercy on them and buy them a TV14:21
kazadeawilkins, ah cool thanks14:25
kazadeawilkins, so no need for the tmp file with sponge I assume?14:25
awilkinskazade, Nope, I did exactly the same top-license-shoving exercise with it a few days ago14:30
andylockranyo.14:36
andylockranwhat's the view called where all the windows get tiled next to each other14:36
andylockranand how can I get that setup?14:36
andylockranhostname14:37
andylockrandmesg14:37
andylockranoops14:37
awilkinsandylockran, try win-E14:41
andylockraner.. that's not so good with 16 virtual desktops :p14:42
awilkinsHeh, I put them in more than one row and it improves14:42
andylockranbut yeah - thanks :)14:42
daubershmmm... just found all the tapes with oggcamp stuff on them14:45
* daubers really wants a tapeless camera14:45
evilchristelczajkowski: its a questionnaire from your bank wanting your feedback on your experience of opening an account with them!14:50
evilchristel(how peculiar, my bank never sends me questionnaires like that) :(14:50
czajkowskievilchristel: oh good I can tell them they told me I wasn  set up for online banking and I wasn't which was rather confusing14:52
czajkowskievilchristel: thank you14:52
evilchristel<314:53
ikoniaevilchristel: 2 days on the trot.....what a treat15:02
lowrrhi15:06
lowrrfor mail/web servers  does ubuntu auto configure it for you15:06
lowrror it needsto be done like in fedora and stuff15:06
popeydepends what config you want :)15:06
screen-xlowrr: some config is done through the package manager, some will have to be done with an editor.15:07
lowrrbut usually is it all set15:07
=== OmNomSequitur is now known as GentileBen
screen-xlowrr: for example, when apt installs apache it is all ready, but you'll have to create config files if you want virtual hosts.15:08
lowrric15:10
screen-x555?15:10
screen-xscreen-x: http://tumbleweed.popey.com/15:14
AzelphurAnyone on Ubuntu care to click "I have this problem too." https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/765355 ?15:15
AzelphurIt really makes Firefox unusable, it's been a problem for ages too -.-15:16
BigRedSAzelphur: that's also a long-standing brokenness on tbird15:18
Azelphurgod alone knows why they don't fix it :(15:18
AzelphurBigRedS: evolution has it really bad too15:19
Azelphurchrome works fine \o/15:19
diploSubmitted :)15:19
BigRedSI'd imagine it's only an issue on Ubuntu's dark themes - I think everybody else still uses light coloured themes15:19
Azelphurindeed :p15:19
BigRedSbut I don't want FF to stop using the GTK theme, I want it to use the whole of it15:19
davmor2Azelphur: doesn't effect me15:19
BigRedSboth background *and* foreground15:19
Azelphurdavmor2: are you using a dark theme?15:20
Azelphurdavmor2: by dark I mean black background white text15:20
davmor2yeap15:20
Azelphurwhat theme?15:20
davmor2Azelphur: the default theme15:20
Azelphurthat's not a dark theme15:20
davmor2Azelphur: How's it not dark?15:21
Azelphurambiance is light15:21
Azelphuruhh, because it's ~80% white?15:21
Azelphurand the text is black?15:22
davmor2Azelphur: then you'll need to give an example15:22
Azelphurhttp://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Divinorum?content=65533 is dark15:22
Azelphurhttp://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Slickness+Black?content=73210 also dark :p15:23
davmor2Azelphur: Try with Epiphany if that has the same issue it's a fault in GTK and not firefox15:23
Azelphurdavmor2: chrome doesn't suffer from it, trying epiphany now15:24
Azelphurdavmor2: yea epiphany suffers but differently15:26
davmor2Azelphur: then it is likely to be GTK and not FF that is at fault15:26
Azelphureven though chrome doesn't have the problem?15:27
evilchristelikonia: i just cant keep away15:27
Azelphurdavmor2: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3832397/screenshots/November%202010/2010-11-19-152908_1266x1143_scrot.png15:29
davmor2Azelphur: Epiphany is as close to gtk as you can get.  all the other browsers use aspects and modify things to suit their browsers so are 3-4 + layers away from gtk so it will either magnify a fault or get rid of it depending on how they twist it.15:29
gordMidori is just gtk + webkit like ephinany too i think15:29
davmor2Azelphur: so what you'll find is that Chrome is blatantly ignoring the gtk element for everything other than the title bar iirc15:31
Azelphurdavmor2: it should do, otherwise you end up with a completely broken experience as you can see15:32
Azelphurgord: midori suffers from the problem too :(15:32
davmor2Azelphur: again the issue is with gtk,  if gtk fix the issue their end it fixes it for user across the board15:33
Azelphurdavmor2: it's not, the problem is that gtk applies the theme to the page, and then the css in the page has it's own style too15:33
Azelphurat least I think15:33
gordAzelphur, run firefox in wine ;)15:34
Azelphurhaha15:34
davmor2Azelphur: Yes so if GTK fix things their end it won't effect the browsers anymore,  there is a whole heap of these minor issues that annoy the living daylights out of users,  I'm hoping that GTK+3 will put pay to some if not all (It would be nice)15:36
AzelphurI guess15:37
DJonesOoh, UbuntuOne for Windows beta testing16:02
popey.net 4 :S16:03
DJonesIt'll be interesting to see how it compares with dropbox once it gets a final release16:05
* czajkowski hugs davmor2 16:07
davmor2czajkowski: Why what did I do?16:08
popeyDJones: "not as good" is my generaly opinion16:08
gord.net seems like an acceptable tech if your on windows16:09
DJonespopey: That wouldn't surprise me with dropbox having a significant head start, but hopefully there'll be a good attempt at it anyway16:09
gordwindows does install .net for you now right? you don't have to go off to some website to download it16:10
Phineashi guys16:10
popey*shrug*16:10
danfishgord: w7 yes, xp no16:10
Phineashave i spelt my nick right16:10
DJonesPhineas: Nope, thats not how you spell "nickname" :)16:11
gordi don't have a reason to use ubuntu one on windows, so i guess this is the first beta of ubuntu one that i won't take part in :(16:11
PhineasDJones,  i mean my nickname , Phineas16:11
shaunono mac client?16:12
gordnot yet16:12
Phineashave i spelt my nickname right as in my nickname Phineas16:13
* AlanBell just made a 29GB zip file from 140,000 files totalling 38GB16:13
AlanBelland nothing broke16:13
gordAlanBell, okay now lmza it!16:13
AlanBellI was going to encrypt it with rot1316:14
popeyor lzma16:14
* Phineas made one totalling about 56GB16:14
gordlamaz! whatever :P16:14
Phineaswhat its true16:15
Phineasbrb16:16
ubuntuuk-planet[Ralph Janke] LibreOffice: Document Foundation Steering Committee Public Phone Conference 20-Nov-2010 - http://drupal.txwikinger.me.uk/content/libreoffice-document-foundation-steering-committee-public-phone-conference-20-nov-201016:17
TheOpenSourcererOoooh ZBosons observed for the first time at the LHC: https://twitter.com/#!/CERN/statuses/565317859069952116:20
Phineasdid my away message work16:20
AlanBelland issyl0 gets applauded at European level https://twitter.com/#!/NeelieKroesEU/status/565114171504230416:21
Phineasdid my away message work16:22
Phineas?16:22
AlanBell!away16:22
lubotu3You should avoid noisy away messages and -nicks in a busy channel like #ubuntu, or other Ubuntu channels; it causes excessive scrolling which is unfair to new users. Use the command "/away <reason>" to set your client away silently.  See also «/msg ubottu Guidelines»16:22
issyl0AlanBell: I know, I just saw that! :O16:22
popeytest your away messages elsewhere Phineas16:22
davmor2Phineas: I don't know you're not away16:22
AlanBellPhineas: didn't see anything16:22
AlanBellissyl0: told a customer about govspark last week16:23
issyl0AlanBell: oh?16:23
Phineaspopey,  sorry if my away message is 'noisy'16:23
popeyPhineas: i havent seen any away message from you at all, lets keep it that way16:24
czajkowskipopey: AlanBell http://ossg.bcs.org/2010/09/30/open-source-as-open-innovation-creating-and-capturing-value-in-value-networks-london-021210/16:24
Phineaspopey, :)16:24
popeythanks czajkowski16:24
* popey is going out in london that evening16:24
czajkowskiahh16:24
czajkowskisaid I'd go it's free event and looks interesting16:25
Phineassounds intresting16:25
* AlanBell checks diary16:27
Phineasaparently there are no guidelines in this channel16:28
popeyfeel free to test that theory Phineas16:28
czajkowskiPhineas: what kind of guidelines?16:28
davmor2Phineas: yes there are the same as every other channel related to Ubuntu16:29
DJones!guidelines16:29
lubotu3The guidelines for using the Ubuntu channels can be found here: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/Guidelines16:29
Phineasoh i see16:29
gordhuh, i calculated that its gonna take 13 days of constant uploading at my max speed before my ubuntu one music will finish =\16:31
* gord cherry picks instead16:31
popeygord: go somewhere with free wifi?16:32
gordi don't actually know anywhere here that has free wifi, everything is pay for and slooooowww16:32
AlanBellgord: Millbank!16:32
AlanBellalthough that isn't *here* for most values of here16:33
gordmaybe i could just take a usb drive and give it to the folks at millbank and tell them "this is what i want on ubuntu one, its quicker than syncing"16:33
DJonesgord: How much have you got to upload?16:33
davmor2gord coffee shop16:33
gord8gb, i have slow internet16:33
DJonesheh, that could take a while even with faster broadband16:35
gordhonestly cherry picking makes sense.like the rest of humanity 70% of my music collection is stuff i stopped listening to years ago16:36
davmor2DJones: 8gb is about 40 minutes16:36
gordjust copying 500mb over wifi is gonna take ten minutes :(16:38
gordit is not uncommon for people to have better internet connections than i do wifi16:39
danfishwhere are the actual servers that serve ubuntu one? Just curious16:39
gordI imagine its a cloud tech that uses wherever is closet to you16:40
gordclosest*16:40
danfishok16:40
popeygord: could you move y'know, closer to the access point?16:41
* gord points its *there*16:41
* popey hands gord a cable16:41
gordright, i could of just ran some cable for a few minutes then got rid of it again, stop making me look stoopid :P16:42
Phineasgord,  makes me look smart16:42
awilkinsI find that sometimes, uploads to DropBox happen faster than physically possible - I figure this is because someone already uploaded a file with the same SHA-1 hash16:44
awilkinsI reckon that Ubuntu One could probably use the same thing with the music files16:45
gordisn't that... dangerous?16:45
awilkinsIf it does, you could upload your music collection in seconds16:45
awilkinsWhy is it dangerous?16:45
andylockranguys, any recommendations for a current affairs podcast16:46
gordits not completely infeasible that two files can share the same hash16:46
awilkinsgord, True, but what about the same hash and same byte count? Or same MD5 and SHA-1?16:46
popeyyup, they do that16:46
awilkinsI'm assuming, like rsync, it does a cheap check backed up by a sure check16:46
gordmakes sense, until sha1 is broken, but then we all have bigger problems ;)16:48
dauberssha1's been broken hasn't it? Isn't there someone who can break a sha1 in 15minutes or seomsuch?16:49
awilkinsVaries depending on your meaning of "broken"16:49
daubersWell, easily brute forced in a reasonable time frame16:49
popeyhmm, can you edit a shell script whilst its running?16:50
awilkinsBroken as in "given an arbitrary sense document, find another with the same SHA-1" - pull the other one.16:50
popeyand expect the line you change to be used? like in a dos batch file?16:50
danfishawilkins: the *real* reason dropbox is so fast is because they copy all your data when you first install it and then put a '.' in front of the file/folder name to hide it16:50
popeyor does the file get fully read at start?16:50
gordpopey, not unless the file is re-read, ie its been called again by another shell script or cron16:51
popeybum16:51
gordre-reading all the time would make it slooow16:51
popeysee dos batch files :)16:51
daubersawilkins: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/18/amazon_cloud_sha_password_hack/16:51
Phineaspopey,  bum?16:52
popeynvm16:52
gorddaubers, given enough monkeys you can crack anything relatively quickly16:53
gord(see what i did there?)16:53
awilkinsdaubers, Yes, but he was "cracking"  hashes of unsalted 6 char passwords.16:54
daubersgord: If I had an infinite number of monkeys on an infinite number of typewriters, I could make a killing in the fertilizer business16:54
daubersawilkins: Didn't really read it that carefully..... obviously misunderstood what I did read16:54
gordbasically, you can always defend against brute force attacks easily when doing online communication, to the point where it can be ignored16:54
awilkinsAnyone who uses an unsalted 6 char password hash in their implementation should not be writing security systems16:54
awilkinsWhat the story is is really "man demonstrates that renting enough computers to calculate a rainbow table really fast is possible"16:57
* awilkins now has a ludicrous amount of storage because he bought a new drive because he thought the old one had failed when it was the power electronics in his external caddy17:00
awilkinsWhat to do with 3.5TB of disk...17:01
directhexawilkins: you can now do GPU-powered cloud machines, not just regular VMs. someone used a GPU-powered password cracker on a cloud box, for very little money, storming through all passwords up to X characters long17:01
awilkinsdirecthex, Mmmm, CUDA. Tasty.17:02
gordstill have yet to find a real use for cuda outside the specialist market. would love to use it for something day to day17:04
popeyffmpeg17:04
popey(I would use it if it supported ffmpeg)17:04
popeyor vice versa17:05
Phineasff hujamaflip17:05
Phineasoh that converter thing FFMPEG17:08
directhexomg it's gohometime17:11
Phineasis it?17:11
awilkinsHere in the UK, yes. Unless your boss is a git.17:12
awilkinsWhee, I like eSata17:14
finelytunedpoets day surely today17:14
popeyi like esata when it isnt a cheap crappy nvidia chipset17:14
awilkinsAh. I have an MCP5517:14
awilkinsIs that bad?17:14
gordnvidia do esata?17:15
gordcrazy world we live in17:15
awilkinsWell, it's not esata as such17:15
awilkinsIt's an eSata blanking plate attached to my internal SATA controller17:15
awilkinsWhich is the integrated nVidia one17:15
TheOpenSourcererJavascript Q: How to I get a result set, returned to a callback function, back to the original function that called the callback?17:16
awilkinsI had problems writing large files to it last month but figure it was down to the same thing that brought the drive to a halt this month - failing power electronics17:16
awilkinsI shall have another go at writing large files and see if I get the same errors17:16
awilkinspopey, Aaand, there you go17:22
awilkinspopey, Yes, same thing. Lots of ata3.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED17:22
TheOpenSourcererFunny, but a pretty big whack, whack ooops at the same time: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Free-ClamWin-virus-scanner-moves-most-of-Windows-into-quarantine-1139430.html17:22
awilkinsPeople will be making a joke of that for aaaages - "ClamWin thought Windows was a virus! Chortle chortle, etc"17:24
shaunoTheOpenSourcerer: closed: notabug17:24
Phineasbye17:30
Phineasbye all17:30
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awilkinspopey, I think your assesment is correct, the nVidia SATA controller can't cope with eSata drives now, can it.17:41
awilkinsA good job these have USB ports too17:42
* awilkins crawls under his desk to rewire stuff17:43
* awilkins is mumbling, Yosemite Sam style17:43
danfishI've an esata port on my samsung nvidia lappy. Seems to work ok so far.17:44
Ngesatap!17:45
Ngawesome idea, only saw it today, want it!17:45
jpdsI keep readind "esatap" in Spanish.17:46
jpdsLet's just invent esata-ng.17:46
* Ng does a :( at jpds 17:46
Ngliterally17:46
jpdsNg: I saw that!17:47
Nggood!17:47
* popey tickles Ng 17:47
Ng!17:47
jpdspopey: Not literally though.17:47
popeyNo, _actually_17:47
popeybah17:47
* popey farts on apple17:47
* awilkins removes a hard drive from some gravy17:47
awilkinsHappily, not enough gravy to enter any orifices17:48
popeymmmm gravy17:48
popeyhttp://drool.popey.com/17:48
* TheOpenSourcerer is shocked to hear popey scorn the Apple.17:48
NgTheOpenSourcerer: it's ok, I've alerted Cupertino, the turtleneck ninjas are on their way17:48
TheOpenSourcererBangers and Mash for Dinner here :-) With Gravy no doubt.17:49
TheOpenSourcererAnyone??? "Javascript Q: How to I get a result, that is returned to a callback function, back to the original function that called the callback?"17:49
awilkinsI find it discomforting that the "safely remove drive" option in Ubuntu so often throws an error17:50
awilkins"Safely" and "Bad stuff happened" are incongruous17:50
jpdsawilkins: Was the drive in gravy at any point in its life?17:51
awilkinsjpds, Very few of the drives I've seen that option throw an error with were ever in gravy17:52
awilkinsOf course, the best ones come in a sealed ziplok bag of the gravy from Mr Brains Faggots.17:52
* awilkins now has 3.5 TB of storage hooked up to his USB ports17:53
awilkinsBwahahaha, etc17:53
danfishpopey: talking of food, how's the recipe section on the website going?17:55
* BigRedS pictures a vast auditorium with a single door leading into/out of it17:56
popeyheh17:56
AlanBelldanfish: ooh, contributions please17:56
AlanBellCircle of Food17:56
danfishnp - is a logon needed?17:56
* AlanBell will create a danfish logon17:57
danfishyeah!17:57
danfishI'll put tonight's experimental chorizo sausage toad in the hole recipe on :)17:57
AlanBellI think we should have an ubuntuish theme to the recipes17:58
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TheOpenSourcererdanfish: http://www.opensourcefood.com/people/opensourcerer/recipes/sunday-roast-toad-in-the-hole-and-roast-potatoes17:58
AlanBellso something including a circle of friends17:58
popeyhttp://beta.ubuntu-uk.org/category/recipes/  AHEM!17:58
AlanBellor the colour #dd481417:58
jpdsTheOpenSourcerer: Should of been opensaucefood.com.17:58
danfishpopey: that can be desert 2nite17:59
AlanBellthat is an awesome recipe popey17:59
danfishTheOpenSourcerer: nice. The chorizo may add a certain 'je ne sais quoi'18:00
danfishor it'll probably just bollocks up a nice dish18:00
TheOpenSourcererIndeed danfish, indeed.18:00
AlanBelldidn't know chorizo was made of them18:01
awilkinsI never know how to partition external drives.18:01
TheOpenSourcererPerhaps a big knokwurst would be better?18:01
awilkinsAs long as it's not the one you store the Fallen Madonna in18:01
TheOpenSourcererwith ze big ...18:01
danfishAlanBell: only the best spanish bollocks of course ;)18:01
awilkins... dumpling18:02
awilkinss18:02
danfishgerman market coming to town this year. Sausage stands everywhere normally.18:03
awilkinsThere's one in Leeds too18:03
* AlanBell may try to make the popey cake in an oggcamp mug for photographing18:05
TheOpenSourcererPut the camera in the microwave for the best images :-D18:05
awilkinsI have a nice Ubuntu mug it might go nicely in18:06
Mezdamnit - memory is failing me.18:06
MezWhat's that famous geek toy/gift/etc site?18:06
AlanBellthinkgeek18:07
awilkinsthinkgeek.com?18:07
Mezthats it :D18:07
BigRedSthere's a uk one, too. firebox?18:07
* Mez had a brain fart18:07
BigRedSsomething like that18:07
TheOpenSourcereriwantoneofthose.com?18:07
MezBigRedS: firebox is my company's main competitor.18:07
awilkinsReplica batmobile : £120,00018:07
awilkinsA biiiit much18:07
MezBigRedS: and they don't do the cool stuff that thinkgeek do (I'm remembering the mana potions)18:08
AlanBelland unicorn meat18:08
MezAlanBell: yeah - unicorn meat got me dumped :)18:08
AlanBellhttp://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/wacky-edibles/e5a7/18:08
MezAlanBell: when you give unicorn meat as a present to your vegan, animal loving girlfriend... it doesn't go well.18:09
Mez"But you like Unicorns, right - and it's not like they're real"18:09
Mez:)18:09
Mez(yes, I was purposefully trying to get dumped)18:09
Mezaw what?18:11
MezThey no longer ship caffeine outside of US ? :(18:11
AlanBellhttp://www.thinkgeek.com/blog/2010/06/officially-our-bestever-cease.html18:11
danfishAlanBell: login received :)18:11
MezAlanBell: old.18:12
AlanBellI am18:13
TheOpenSourcererThat is a somewhat relative statement AlanBell18:13
awilkinsThe stuffed dismembered unicorn in the can is genius18:13
AlanBellTheOpenSourcerer: true, I am not *that* old :)18:14
TheOpenSourcererThanks. :-(18:14
TheOpenSourcererTime for bangers, mash then Pub!18:15
docsyanyone about had issues with flash since updating recently (updates within 10.10 x64bit)18:33
finelytunedok gotta do dinner bbl o/18:54
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ubuntuuk-planet[Ralph Janke] Libreoffice Beta-3 now available on Debian experimental repositories. - http://drupal.txwikinger.me.uk/content/libreoffice-beta-3-now-available-debian-experimental-repositories19:17
danfishlistening to the radio on the way home Ireland are trying to ease the fiscal problems by sending out free cheese. czajkowski - you're away for a week the the place falls apart ;)20:05
czajkowskiugh don't get me started20:06
jpdsIt's too late for that..20:07
danfishwhere did they get the money to buy all that cheese?20:09
Azelphurdanfish: I feel the need to post http://www.splicd.com/2YEfXE2tzyg/46/4920:09
danfishheh20:09
Azelphurdrunk on cheese \o/20:09
DJonesdanfish: Makes you appreciate the value, we (UK etc) lends Ireland £xB, they lend us czajkowski, I would say thats money well spent20:11
DJonesWorth every penny/cent20:12
danfishDJones: davmor2 may well disagree.20:12
KrimZonhow do i set up my wireless card on ubuntu server?20:13
KrimZoni think the drivers ought to be working but it doesn't seem to want to connect20:14
DJonesdanfish: Thats just bloody mindedness :)20:14
danfishDJones: true. Mind you he's been nice recently20:14
danfishKrimZon: what wireless card? also using WPA etc?20:15
KrimZondanfish: asus pci-g31, wpa-psk20:15
KrimZonwpa2 rather20:15
KrimZoni can iwlist scan and get stuff20:16
KrimZonjust can't yet ping anything20:16
KrimZoni want to get it bridged with the ethernet eventually20:16
danfishKrimZon: my advice would be to check out wicd-ncurses20:17
KrimZonwhat's that?20:17
danfish!info wicd-ncurses20:17
lubotu3Package wicd-ncurses does not exist in maverick20:17
danfishnuts20:17
KrimZonoh, i'm using lucid still20:17
danfishwicd is an alternative network manager20:18
danfish!info wicd-curses20:18
lubotu3wicd-curses (source: wicd): wired and wireless network manager - Curses client. In component universe, is optional. Version 1.7.0+ds1-5 (maverick), package size 68 kB, installed size 236 kB20:18
danfishthat's better20:18
KrimZonwill it support bridging?20:19
KrimZonand will it work on a server with nobody logged in?20:19
danfishre bridging - not sure20:20
danfishit does work with no-one logged in20:20
danfishmind you, I've never had great success with getting wireless working on a headless server, but it's been a while since I last tried20:21
KrimZonhmm, can't get wicd-curses to ask for the passphrase20:32
KrimZonah, wicd doesn't support vpn either, which i need20:33
danfishDid you set the password for the individual network using the right arrow and enable encryption?20:35
danfishooh - trailer for xmas dr who on children in need. nice20:56
AlanBellwho brought these last year? http://picasaweb.google.com/alanbelltolc/UbuntuUK#541842966304599681821:10
finelytunedevenong all21:11
finelytunedevening even :)21:12
danfishAlanBell: the recipe/technique needs to be on the website21:14
AlanBellit does :)21:15
AlanBellI think the recipe is: purchase mince pices, add sugar and cinamon using a circle of friends cut from paper as a mask21:16
danfishchorizo toad in hole got 9/10 from the wife - will post recipe 2moro21:16
KrimZondanfish: i couldn't see any options - need to get it on again21:17
danfishthey do look a bit too perfect to be homemade21:17
evilchristelpff shop bought!21:21
* AlanBell looks forward to sampling evilchristel's home made mince pies then21:21
danfishKrimZon: I think your requirements are beyond wicd. CLI config I think. Not really a personal strongpoint with wireless :(21:21
evilchristelAlanBell: :D21:21
evilchristeli shall make mince pies21:22
KrimZonmaybe i'll just need to ask my landlady if i can get another phone socket fitted in the computer room21:23
NafalloKrimZon: will you connection saturate the power plugs network then? :-)21:43
KrimZonpowerline stuff is still expensive looking, but it's an option21:44
KrimZonmaybe then i could try running a soft-ap from the server and route a firewalled guest wireless network21:45
KrimZoni've got it pinging the adsl router over wireless though21:45
KrimZonactually, full internet21:45
KrimZoni just realized, the whole lot doesn't have to be bridged - the bridge is only needed for the vpn to talk to the games machine22:22
danfishadios!22:24
KrimZonwell... i've got it transfering files nicely23:07

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