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ubuntuuk-planet[Jono Bacon] New Ubuntu Patch Pilot Scheme - http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/11/20/new-ubuntu-patch-pilot-scheme/00:17
finelytunedo/08:37
popeymorning slackers08:49
finelytunedmorning popey08:49
danfishI would say lo but I'm too slack :)09:00
* AlanBell just woke up09:06
MartijnVdSnothing wrong with that, it's the weekend :)09:06
winniesunhello everyone09:06
AlanBellhi winniesun09:07
winniesunAlanBell:I am from China09:08
AlanBellgreat09:08
AlanBellthere is a china loco channel too09:08
AlanBell!cn09:08
lubotu3For Ubuntu help in Chinese 您可以访问中文频道: #ubuntu-cn 或者 #ubuntu-tw  或者 #ubuntu-hk09:08
winniesunwell,just practise my English,thanks09:08
AlanBellthat is fine, you are doing great so far, much better than my chinese09:09
finelytunedAlanBell: second that09:09
winniesunyou are so kind09:10
danfishI thought openvz was effectively dead, but someone's ported it to a relatively new kernel09:15
danfishhttp://forum.proxmox.com/threads/4974-KVM-0.13.0-for-Proxmox-VE-1.6-(for-2.6.32-and-2.6.35)-pvetest-repository09:16
* danfish likes openvz09:16
* MartijnVdS hates it09:22
* popey is ambivalent09:23
MartijnVdSSysadmins at work are in love with it, but all I get (as a user of their servers) are slowdowns and "lag peaks" (a few seconds where nothing happens, then everything continues as normal)09:23
danfishMartijnVdS: what are you running on them?09:25
danfishblender?09:25
MartijnVdSdanfish: gvim (X11 forwarding), NFS homedirs, and an unused apache09:25
danfishnot an awful lot then. If you (or rather the sysadmins) mess around with some of the backend settings too much, like tinkering with the backend counters, you can really stuff things up :(09:30
danfisheasier to put it in the hands of something like proxmox09:32
MartijnVdSor just use a supported virtualization tech09:33
danfishby supported I assume you mean kernel native, like kvm?09:36
kazademorning all09:36
MartijnVdSyes09:38
MartijnVdSsomething that people still work on09:38
danfishthe proxmox team still do09:40
MartijnVdSI hope it won't turn into our previous "adventure"09:45
MartijnVdS(still running some pre-war version of FreeBSD on some boxes)09:46
danfishheh09:50
loobahi09:50
kazadepopey, just uploaded screenshots of my level editor: http://kazade.imgur.com/platformation :D09:52
czajkowskic10:15
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jacobwhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1326604/Living-slow-lane-Hundreds-orphaned-sloths-given-new-lease-life-Costa-Rican-sanctuary.html?ito=feeds-newsxml11:35
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jacobwcan data be recovered from a CD with a small crack?14:55
BigRedSjacobw: generally not AFAIK14:55
jacobwthe CD in question has a small crack about 1.5cm originating from the centre14:55
jacobwBigRedS, :(14:55
BigRedSYou might be able to get some stuff from the outer portion of it, but I don't think there's any sort of data redundancy for that sort of instance14:56
penguin42I suspect the big problems are 1) Making sure the drive goes slow rather than trying to go at a high speed and 2) the tracking probably goes14:56
BigRedSso if the bits themsevles cannot be read, there's no way to calculate what they should have been from the rest of the CD14:56
stuphiddrescue -b 2048 /dev/cdrom cdimage logfile14:57
stuphiFound that at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery14:57
jacobwthanks14:59
stuphiHope it helps :-)14:59
OmNomSequiturjacobw: depends on how long the crack is, if it unbalances the disc...15:11
OmNomSequiturYou'll lose all data from the tracks over the crack.15:12
OmNomSequiturSo a crack going up 1cm from the centre means you lose all data up to 1cm from the centre.15:12
jacobwi guess i'll find out with this ddrescue thing15:13
stuphiOnce you do the ddrescue, you can mount the image on a loopback device and play around without damaging the disk any more.15:14
jacobwhopefully :) i could be in trouble for losing the holiday photos :o15:23
danfishrecipe no2 added to the new website http://beta.ubuntu-uk.org/2010/11/20/a-spanish-twist-on-a-yorkshire-classic/15:24
jacobwi've got a very simple receipe.. cashew nuts and sweet chilli sauce mixed together in a bowl15:29
penguin42what is this? An Open sauce movement?15:39
jacobw;)15:42
stuphidanfish: So you have given us the source code, when can we sample a pre-compiled version? :-)15:47
jacobwi've just joined twitter, i'm looking for people to follow, any suggestions?15:49
jacobwhttp://twitter.com/jacobw015:49
kaushalhi16:04
kaushalhas anyone tried searching @domainname.com in the search bar inside gmail ?16:04
danfishstuphi: there's some leftovers in the bin - I'll post them to you :D16:05
kaushalis that possible ?16:05
BigRedSkaushal: it's possible16:11
BigRedSit's just a full-text search for that string though16:11
Azelphurgot a player who can't connect to my game server, http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=PsAMhhtp16:32
Azelphurlooks like a pretty broken tracert that :(16:32
Azelphurany idea how he'd approach getting that fixed?16:32
cprofitthello beginners team -- say hello to my class16:36
jacobwhallo class16:37
AlanBello/16:37
finelytunedo/16:37
Pendulumo/16:41
Pendulumalthough last I checked this was #ubuntu-uk, not the Beginners Team16:42
popey:)16:44
BigRedSAzelphur: can you get to him?16:44
BigRedSas in traceroute to his IP16:45
AzelphurBigRedS: dunno16:45
AzelphurI'll find out16:45
BigRedSbut I'd blame hisIP16:46
BigRedSISP16:46
AzelphurBigRedS: I don't even get first hop on my way to him16:48
ali1234looks like intermittent connection16:48
ali1234that would explain the on-off dns and the random stop in the tracert output16:49
Azelphurif I don't even get first hop from the datacenter to his IP doesn't that mean some form of filtering is going on?16:49
popeyhello ali1234, not seen you for a while, welcome back16:49
ali1234popey: i was at meego conf :)16:49
popeyahhh16:49
ali1234ironically i hate mobile computers16:49
ali1234so i didn't go on the internet for a week or so16:49
ali1234Azelphur: filtering at your end, yeah :)16:50
Azelphurhmm16:51
ali1234Azelphur: you know how tracert works right? packets have a maximum hop, so it sends a packet with a "max hops" of 1, then 2, then 3... and sees who reports an error. "max hops" also known as time to live. but some routers will silently drop those errors.16:51
Azelphuryea I know that16:51
Azelphurhow would I check that my server hasn't somehow firewalled him?16:51
AzelphurI've never touched iptables so it shouldn't be that16:52
ali1234i doubt it would accidentally filter one guy16:52
BigRedSif it was a firewall error, he'd get almost as far as you16:53
ali1234but it can be hard to figure out what your firewall is really doing16:53
ali1234that his DNS is intermittent suggests a intermittent internet connection16:53
Azelphurstill even if he had an intermittent connection or was completely unplugged, I should still get past the first hop right?16:54
ali1234yeah but that is unrelated16:54
Azelphurit is?16:54
ali1234yes16:54
ali1234presumably16:55
ali1234i mean his DNS path goes nowhere near your server16:55
ali1234if i were him i would do a ping -nt 204.145.82.242 and leave it going for a while16:56
Azelphurhe's on windows16:56
ali1234windows has ping16:56
Azelphurok :p16:56
ali1234i dunno if -n is right though16:56
ali1234but whatever one makes it not look up ips16:56
ali1234it's just ping -t16:57
ali1234doesn't resolve by default16:57
ali1234if that works ok i would start poking the dns servers16:58
Azelphurhe randomly left after 30 minutes of debugging anyway \o/16:59
Azelphurgotta love the ask n runners16:59
ali1234randomly, or his connection went totally kaput17:02
Azelphurlike he quit :p17:02
ubuntuuk-planet[Dean Sas] Married - http://www.deansas.org/blog/2010/11/20/married/17:17
popeyhow was meego conf btw ali1234 ?17:25
ali1234very technical, nokia played it very low key as well17:26
ali1234possibly because they don't want to take the blame for meego handset being totally unusable :)17:26
popeyheh17:27
ali1234that and there is no official hardware to run it on17:27
popeyhelpful17:27
popeyis there an x86 port?17:27
popeyor is it arm only?17:27
ali1234of handset? yeah17:27
ali1234there's even an x86 phone that runs it, called avaa or something17:27
ali1234not available to the public though17:27
ali1234they wouldn't even let people take photos of it at the conf17:27
popeyi guess they're using reference hardware?17:27
popeynot actual phone shaped things?17:28
ali1234the avaa is phone shaped17:28
ali1234most community developers are using the n90017:28
ali1234it's not officially supported for for end users but nokia are putting some resources into the port17:28
ali1234but it will never be an official upgrade17:28
ali1234they gave us all ideapads though... netbook that transforms into a tablet17:29
ali1234so it has a touch screen... so we can develop meego touch apps17:29
popeythe lenovo thing?17:30
ali1234yes17:30
popeynice17:30
popeywell, is it a nice device?17:30
popeyor are you under NDA and cant say? :)17:30
ali1234no NDA, it's not exactly new hardware either17:30
ali1234been out for like a year17:31
ali1234it's alright, i mean i can't really complain for free17:31
popeysure17:31
ali1234it's not as nice as that new dell thing though17:31
ali1234build quality... is a bit wobbly17:31
ali1234i wouldn't buy one for the price they normally cost... i'd get the dell instead17:31
nucc1erm, if apache simply says "fail" on the terminal when I try to start it, where can i find out why its failing?18:24
penguin42isn't there an apache log somewhere?18:37
nucc1penguin42, there is. thanks. thought there was some way of getting the daemon to spit out the errors it encountered18:51
popeyevening18:54
issyl0popey: evening :)19:01
jacobwevening19:03
czajkowskibah19:11
ubuntuuk-planet[Alan Pope] The Etherpad Foundation is Hiring - http://popey.com/blog/2010/11/20/the-etherpad-foundation-is-hiring/19:17
DJonespopey: Have you seen the email re changing the /topic for the new log location? Looking at the wording on jussi's email, its not going to fit.  Any suggestions, or just change the log location part & miss out the acceptance of terms section19:28
jussiDJones: please use the chanserv message ;)19:28
DJonesjussi: ok, cheers19:29
jussiDJones: as listed here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/Bots19:29
jussiDJones: theres no need for it to be in the topic if theres an entry message19:29
DJonesjussi: Yes, thats where I'm looking, thats fine, solves the problem19:29
jussiexcellent :)19:29
DJonesIs it just the owner that can set entry messages, or anyone with ops19:30
jussianyone with +s19:30
DJonesmsg ChanServ SET #ubuntu-uk ENTRYMSG Welcome to #channel. This channel is publicly logged at irclogs.ubuntu.com. Use of this channel implies acceptance of the terms at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/TermsOfService19:31
Azelphurderp :p19:31
Azelphuroh dear not an entry message19:31
Azelphurthose are silly19:31
jussiDJones: you need to fix the #channel19:31
DJonesYup, should have it now19:31
Azelphurjussi: entry messages are silly, that's what the topic is for :(19:31
jussiDJones: great :)19:32
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jussilol19:35
jussinot quite ;)19:35
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Azelphurchristmas party :o19:37
czajkowskiAzelphur: where you been :)19:37
Azelphurnowhere :D19:37
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finelytunedevening all20:31
AlanBellevening all20:55
finelytunedhi ya20:57
dutchie hi AlanBell and finelytuned20:58
Pendulumhiya21:00
AlanBellhttp://beta.ubuntu-uk.org/todays-chatter updated with the new log location21:04
finelytunedis there another alternative program to wine?21:15
Azelphurfinelytuned: there are forks of wine, there's also virtual machines21:15
Azelphurbesides that no21:15
dutchie"windows"21:15
* AlanBell is loving wine21:17
finelytunedi love a type.......... just not the computing type :021:17
AlanBellI am using python under wine to access a clunky old win32 api that extracts stuff from a document management system21:18
AlanBellthen stuffs it into Alfresco via CMIS21:19
AzelphurI wish my TF2 would stop playing up under wine21:19
AlanBellabout 140,000 files totalling 40GB or thereabouts21:19
AzelphurAnyone happen to know what this is about? http://pastebin.com/hQdE57SL21:20
finelytunedbrb21:20
dutchieAzelphur: wine devs probably would if you filed a bug *cough*21:20
Azelphurthe stuff line 33 onwards looks like the breakage21:20
Azelphurdutchie: I don't think it's a bug21:21
dutchiewhat is it then?21:21
AlanBellit is a bug, unless it also breaks in windows21:21
AzelphurI have no idea, I have one wine bottle which can launch tf2 but the other can't21:22
AzelphurI wonder if it's an account thing...21:22
finelytunedi think i have it working21:22
Azelphuryea I get that wined3d stuff in my second wine bottle but the game still starts21:24
zleaphi tombrough21:37
zleapis the new desktop going to be using unity or wayland21:53
AlanBellzleap: unity21:55
zleapah21:55
dutchiezleap: it's not an either/or21:55
zleapso what is wayland,21:55
AlanBellwayland is a long term possible replacement for X21:55
zleapah, so unity will sit on top of X21:55
AlanBellso one day it might be Unity on Wayland rather than unity on X21:55
zleapso is wayladn similar to X as in client / server type thing21:55
dutchiehttp://wayland.freedesktop.org/architecture.html21:56
AlanBell(or gnome-shell or traditional gnome panels if this funky new hotness isn't as hot as hoped)21:56
zleapah21:56
AlanBellzleap: less network transparency and more OpenGL21:56
zleapso that means games are easier to write and other software that needs OpenGL21:57
zleapso less network transparency means more secure right21:58
AlanBellnot sure it will make much difference to writing stuff that needs openGL21:58
zleapbut it means more stuff like compiz etc21:58
AlanBelland I wouldn't think it is particularly more secure21:58
zleapok21:59
zleapso what does that mean then21:59
AlanBellmight be better performance21:59
zleapah21:59
zleapsounds good22:00
tombroughwill wayland support the X networking protocols?22:00
zleaplooking at the link posted earlier yes,  as its going to be backward compatable22:01
zleaphttp://wayland.freedesktop.org/architecture.html22:01
zleapso is the switch to wayland ubuntu only or part of a longer term stragegy across distros22:24
dutchieso far, i think it's only ubuntu out of the major distros that have said they are considering wayland22:27
popeyfedora have too22:27
zleapah22:27
popeyand mint say they'll wait and see22:27
zleapmaybe there could be a wubuntu that can be a test bed for wayland development22:27
popeyi dont think that would be helpful22:27
zleapah22:27
popeyit should be in the main distro so that its exposed to more people22:27
AlanBellit is not ready for anything yet22:28
popeyindeed, this is all some way off22:28
zleapah22:28
zleapsounds good though22:28
AlanBellhttp://beta.ubuntu-uk.org/2010/11/20/christmas-party/23:05
dutchiewhen is that going to stop being beta.?23:05
dutchieand i like the "no sprouts" rule23:05
AlanBell"soon"23:06
finelytunedhow do i take ownership of a folder containing multiple files thats been given to me23:07
penguin42finelytuned: chown -R yourusername directory23:17
finelytunedpenguin42: ty23:18
finelytuned:)23:18
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