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dutchieargh00:34
dutchiewhy has bluetooth suddenly stopped working00:34
dutchieand now it's back00:49
dutchieweird00:49
ubuntuuk-planet[Ralph Janke] AskUbuntu reaches 4000 questions - 9000 answers - 6000 users - 40000 votes - http://drupal.txwikinger.me.uk/content/askubuntu-reaches-4000-questions-9000-answers-6000-users-40000-votes06:19
AlanBellmorning all07:39
nigelbMorning AlanBell07:39
daubersMorning07:59
TheOpenSourcererMorning earthlings08:21
daubersAm I the only person who's eying up a tablet as an easy way to get a car pc? All I need do is find a tablet of the correct dimensions08:28
DJonesMorning all & Nanu Nanu to TheOpenSourcerer08:29
nperryMorning all08:31
nperrydaubers: how you planning on fixing it in?08:32
daubersnperry: No idea08:33
DJonesdaubers: I've seen a few suggestions for that idea08:33
daubershmmm08:34
daubersReally do want to rip out my radio and replace it with a small computer08:34
DJonesdaubers: What would you do about a radio then? I know you'd have live streaming, but could be bandwidth heavy for regular use08:36
daubersDJones: I'd stick a DAB radio thing in it. Used to be able to get USB radios for ~£20-3008:37
DJonesEverybody will have to do that in about 5 years anyway when normal radio frequencies get turned off anyway08:38
DJonesAssuming it happens to plan08:38
daubersYup08:40
DJonesI would think the ideal would have built in sat-nav etc which is installed on teh device, rather than downloading maps all the time08:43
nperryNot to sure if it would legal though, as police would class it as distracting you..08:44
DJonesI'm not too sure about that, a few cars have built in car-puters, and people put satnavs in as after market addons, I guess it would depend on how you were using it08:45
nperryMy aftermarket headunit has a bright blue led display, police pulled me over saying that they could see it when they were behind distracing them for driving...08:46
nperryt/for/from08:46
nperryNot to sure if it was an excuse to check my insurance etc, but they seem hung up on it..08:46
nperryThey didn't seem happy with me "go tell kenwood then, I just brought it"08:47
DJonesIs there anyway you can change the display? With things like tablet pc's you seem to be able to change backgrounds, change brightness etc so it shouldn't be as much of an issue08:47
nperryYou could change brightness and the timeout, so screen turns off after 5secs08:48
DJonesRight, not quite as simple with a dedicated unit I would guess08:48
nperryBut on-board computers stay on all the time and are bright in my brothers new astra..08:51
nperryHowever it is at a funny angle, so that may be the soultion..08:51
nperryI could might a joggler load ubuntu on and have it in my car though, would be very nice...08:52
nperryt/might/have08:53
nperryMan, this first coffe this morning hasn't kicked in yet...08:54
nperryAnd our it deparment are annoying me :(08:54
DJonesDon't upset them, they might change all your passwords :)08:57
nperryOur cisco phones are down, and they've got me to unplug it for 30seconds 3 times already... that isn't actually working...08:58
nperryThe normal "have you turned it off and back on again"08:59
daubersnperry: Are they all down?08:59
DJonesTell them its Cisco, _NOT_ Windows XP08:59
nperrydaubers: They are saying the asdl is down, but I'm on the internet... and we can call internally to off site but not got an external line.09:09
nperryt/got/get09:09
nperryGod, I quit typing :(09:09
daubersnperry: Sounds like a switching/routing issue09:13
bigcalmMorning ya'll09:17
popeymorning09:23
czajkowskiGood morning one and all09:25
dauberso/09:26
nperrydaubers: surely if routing was down, the internal calls (which go offsite to ho) will be.09:26
nperryMorning :)09:26
wintellectcoffee time...09:26
* gord wonders how many replies of irssi are going to be sent to the mailing list ;)09:27
daubersnperry: Depends where abouts the router with the issue is09:27
czajkowskiAlans are ye going to http://digitalsurrey.co.uk/events/IdentifyinginfluencersaspartofyoursocialmediastrategyDigitalSurreyevents.php09:28
czajkowskipopey: AlanBell TheOpenSourcerer ^^09:30
popeyi wasn't planning on it09:31
bigcalmCould anybody with ethernet over AC recomend products?09:31
popeydevolo09:31
TheOpenSourcererczajkowski: Yes, I am.09:31
popeyI have 4 of them, work perfectly09:31
screen-xmorning :)09:31
popeythat was @ bigcalm09:31
czajkowskiTheOpenSourcerer: excellent see you there09:32
screen-xbigcalm: anything that supports one of the homeplug standards09:32
bigcalmpopey: my dad is looking at making use of it and has asked me to comment on http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/powerline-home-networking/727_7090_70097_xx_xx/xx-criteria.html09:32
popeyyup, i have the white ones of those09:32
popey200Mb/s09:32
popeyyou need at least two :)09:32
bigcalmIndeedie :)09:33
AlanBellczajkowski: yes, planning to go I think09:33
TheOpenSourcererczajkowski: The beer is being sponsored by one of our customers :-)09:34
bigcalmDamn you for being near London :P09:35
TheOpenSourcererAlanBell: Spaces are restricted so you do need to book.09:35
czajkowskiTheOpenSourcerer: ahh didnt know you had to register09:35
AlanBelljust looking to see if I have09:35
daubersbigcalm: devolo + 109:35
AlanBellhow does one book? just email Abigail?09:35
TheOpenSourcererYes, or tweet @DigitalSurrey09:36
TheOpenSourcererhttp://twitter.com/#!/DigitalSurrey/status/520595516372172809:37
TheOpenSourcererczajkowski: We will be adjourning to the Hop Blossom afterwards too :-)09:38
nperryI use http://www.ebuyer.com/product/150039 bigcalm09:38
nperryWorks in a 150 year old house fine :)09:39
nperryhttp://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/powerline-home-networking/727_7090_70097_xx_xx/xx-criteria.html09:39
nperryWoops wrong button :/09:40
bigcalmUg09:41
bigcalmMy browser was slightly thin due to some other work. Just made it wider while on ebuyer. Instantly felt sick09:42
czajkowskiTheOpenSourcerer: thanks09:42
czajkowskiAlanBell: reminders have been sent re speaking09:43
daubersbah, need moar caffeine09:45
Ngpopey: are the eth-over-power things functionally equivalent to a piece of cat5? i.e. could you put a switch at each end and use the mains to brige the networks together? or is there some higher layer magic that means it's only suitable for plugging a host directly into09:46
daubersNg: Yup, thats how mines setup at home09:47
daubersNg: You can get some that are also switches too09:47
Ngsweet, nice way to get a wired connection for a PC and an access point into a room with sucky wifi09:47
daubersNg: see http://www.ebuyer.com/product/233956 :)09:48
daubersNg: Mine gets t'interwebs to my xbox09:48
Ngdaubers: hey that's a pretty decent value offering, 70 quid for two :)09:49
DJonesdaubers: Have you tried connecting a wireless access point to the switch at the end to improve wireless in the 2nd room09:49
daubersNg: Yup, it's the second thing on my list for xhristmas#09:49
daubersurgh09:49
dauberschristmas even09:49
bigcalmXmas will do09:49
daubersDJones: I did at one point and it was alright (even though the AP was a bit pants)09:49
bigcalmI do like Futurama for renaming it to Xmas09:50
daubersbigcalm: Just don't axe why! :p09:50
screen-xDJones: http://solwise.co.uk/net-powerline-av-pew.htm09:50
Ngdaubers: my parents refused to put cat5 in the walls when they bought their house and had to have every ceiling ripped out to remove asbestos and now they have *awful* wifi range, so all their PCs have stupid hacks like giant USB cables to get a usb wifi stick nearer to the AP. I aim to fix this one way or another and this looks like a great option :)09:50
Ngso thanks :)09:50
Ngdaubers: how likely is doom and failure from multiple power circuits in the house?09:51
Nglike, the upstairs and downstairs might not be connected?09:51
bigcalmThey all go to the same distrabution board09:52
bigcalmThe main thing is that it has to be on the same phase09:52
screen-xNg: I put them in my in-laws house which is extended, so has multiple loops, and they work at both ends.09:52
bigcalmThis means there is the danger of 3 doors down getting your LAN as well09:52
daubersNg: depends on the age of your house wiring I suppose09:52
daubersbigcalm: You can encrypt them09:53
bigcalmdaubers: good09:53
daubersNg: You also have to be aware that if you plug them into an extension lead, they're rubbish09:53
bigcalmInteresting09:53
daubersbigcalm: Mine have a button on the bottom which does some form of automatic encryption09:53
Ngdaubers: ok thanks09:54
daubersHeeheehee09:54
daubersI love Latitudes descriptive phrases09:55
daubers"Show stale friends"09:55
daubersApparentley popey and AlanBell are stale09:55
bigcalmHeh09:55
gordgreat, so it seems that ubuntu and windows are using different audio out ports to do different speakers for this 5.1 setup... thats not a pain and a headache at all :(09:57
popeydaubers: which email address do you have for me on latitude?09:58
nperrydaubers: I have got mine on an extension lead and get high speed connection between the two09:58
kaushalhi09:59
popeydaubers: do I show up now?09:59
kaushalpopey: Thanks for the email09:59
popeynp09:59
kaushalmuch appreciated09:59
popeyvnstat is really nice09:59
screen-xvnstat :)10:00
* screen-x checks his vps has vnstat running10:00
popeydaubers: the reason I show as stale is because latitude on iphone isn't integrated into google maps, so I have to actively start latitude, which I don't do very often10:01
popeyhttps://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2010-November/235439.html  \o/ vnstat10:01
kaushalpopey: is there somesort of threshold which i can set and if certain parameters like packet loss and latency10:01
popeykaushal: mtr?10:01
kaushaland alert me in the form of email10:01
popeynagios10:02
popeyor opsview10:03
popeyor opennms10:03
ian__I have a problem trying to install my printer, in that I'm asked for my admin password and when I enter it, it says that the entry was incorect10:04
ian__help10:04
popeyian__: how are you adding the printer?10:04
popeyian__: also, what make/model of printer10:04
dauberspopey: Yes you do :)10:04
ian__with the disk provide10:04
dauberspopey: I just found the phrasing a bit funny :)10:04
ian__lexmark impact s30510:04
popeyian__: you shouldn't need the driver disk from the manufacturer10:05
ian__ok10:05
ian__then how do I add the printer10:06
ian__please10:06
popeyian__: are you running 32-bit or 64-bit Ubuntu?10:06
ian__3210:06
AlanBellhttp://support.lexmark.com/index?page=product&segment=DOWNLOAD&productCode=LEXMARK_IMPACT_S305&locale=en&userlocale=DE#110:06
popeylooks like someone has contributed a driver10:07
popeyhttp://www.openprinting.org/printer/Lexmark/Lexmark-S30510:07
popeybut it's not been reviewed yet10:07
ian__thanks10:07
popeyian__: is there an apple mac driver on the cd?10:07
ian__yes10:07
popeyhmm10:07
popeyi have had some  success with my printer using the driver from the mac10:08
ian__ok if one doesn't work I can try the other10:08
popeyi had to install it on a mac to unpack it though10:08
AlanBellthe lexmark website has drivers for Ubuntu 10.04 last updated on 16/11/201010:09
popeyi didnt see that10:09
DJonesDidn't somebody mention that Lexmark had gone through a process of releasing drivers for linux for their complete range10:09
ian__thank you, catch you all later10:09
popeyonly fedora and opensuse10:09
DJonesok10:09
AlanBellthe driver without jre is for 64bit only10:09
AlanBellbut the one with jre is i386 lexmark-inkjet-legacy-wJRE-1.0-1.i386.deb.sh.tar.gz10:10
popeyhmm, wonder why I cant see that at the link you gave AlanBell10:11
DJonesThere is http://support.lexmark.com/index?page=content&productCode=LEXMARK_IMPACT_S305&actp=RECOMMEND&id=DR20547&segment=DOWNLOAD&userlocale=EN_US&oslocale=en_US&locale=en with an i386 .deb for up to 9.1010:11
popeywheeeeeee10:12
AlanBellclick for linux downloads, then Printer Driver with JRE for Debian Package Manager based distros10:12
popeynew toy10:12
popeynope, i dont see that, only suse and fedora10:12
popeysilly website10:13
dauberspopey: New toy?10:13
popeyipad10:13
AlanBellhow odd, I see without JRE for debian based distros, with jre for redhat based, with jre for debian based10:14
czajkowskipopey: you should wrap that up adn put it away for xmas10:14
DJonesAlanBell: I see the same10:14
popeyits not an xmas pressie :)10:14
AlanBellQ: how can you tell when someone has an iPad10:16
AlanBellA: they tell you10:16
AlanBellquoting one Alan Pope from Twitter10:16
popey\o/10:17
popeypretty sure it's "they show you"10:18
popeyhttp://friendfeed.com/popey/eea129d0/humphreybc-q-how-do-you-know-when-someone-has10:18
AlanBellthats the one10:19
TheOpenSourcererAnd just think, it used to be all about Golf bores. Now it's iPad/Anything Apple bores... ;-)10:20
popey:)10:20
* AlanBell loves freedom10:21
* popey loves functionality10:21
czajkowskithis discussion is suited to over beers10:21
DJonesI'm waiting for Apple to trademark a "mobile device viewing disablement system" called the iLid10:21
AlanBellan excellent plan czajkowski10:21
czajkowskiI come up with some great plans :)10:22
popeyI have an htc hero with a PAYG sim in it, never used it to make a call, brand new. I have 3 missed calls10:22
popeynobody knows the number10:22
popeyhttp://www.telepest.co.uk/01267+22264010:23
popeythey called me10:23
popeyhttp://www.telepest.co.uk/01267222640 rather10:23
DJonesHave you seen this page about that number http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/0126722264010:24
popeythey're both showing much the same information - evil phone spamm0rs10:24
popeywhat threw me is that the STD code is similar to one near me.. 01276 ~ 0126710:25
StudentSamMy university blocks outgoing SMTP connections, how can I circumvent this block so that I can send mail using Evolution?10:27
StudentSamSending email is quite important to a uni student.10:27
bigcalmUse webmail10:28
directhexgolly, i wonder if StudentSam is the same as Samuel-NotAFK10:28
StudentSambigcalm: Webmail sucks.10:28
directhexStudentSam: use your institution's SMTP server for all outgoing. it will likely require authentication10:28
AlanBellStudentSam: send to an internal smtp server10:28
DJonesI had a couple from an indian call centre at the weekend for a "marketing survey", 1st time said I wasn't interested, 2nd time told themthe number was TPS registered & not interested and if they rang again I charged £150 to answer a survey, if they rang back they were accepting those conditions and could they give me an address to send the bill to.  They didn't ring back :)10:28
StudentSamdirecthex AlanBell: That may work, I'll try it. Thanks. :)10:29
StudentSamdirecthex AlanBell: I think the internal SMTP is only for staff at the uni. :(10:37
directhexStudentSam: i doubt that10:37
StudentSam"Outgoing port 25 (smtp) is blocked. This is to stop mail spammers."10:38
directhexand 587?10:39
StudentSamMaybe my Hotmail will work with 58710:39
directhexhotmail doesn't need an smtp server. it's webmail.10:40
StudentSamdirecthex: I think Evolution only supports port 2510:40
directhexStudentSam: i doubt that10:40
kaushalpopey: is jsvnstat configurable for eth0 and eth110:41
directhexgiven i use evolution on all my machines, via a departmental server on a high port number, i'm pretty sure i didn't imagine the port number10:42
AlanBellStudentSam: there will be instructions from the uni somewhere on how to set up a mail client10:42
AlanBellthe instructions for outlook express or whatever will contain the required information10:42
AlanBellwe are not going to be able to help further as we don't know the internals of your local network10:43
directhexAlanBell: e.g. http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/nexus/email/clients.xml here10:43
directhexwhich includes pine config, but not mutt10:44
popeykaushal: yes11:03
davmor2popey: you got unity on natty to work yet11:07
davmor2popey: I lost window decs and all sorts11:07
davmor2morning all11:08
popeyits not great11:08
popeyits on a spare laptop so i dont mind though :)11:09
davmor2popey: yeah I'm having to run metacity --replace in terminal currently to get the laptop working properly :D11:11
davmor2I was thinking of dropping maverick une on it and upgrading trying that way instead that or just whining at njpatel instead :D11:13
njpateli'm fixing the natty issues today, though I'd really wait 'till A1 is released :)11:13
* popey tickles njpatel 11:19
* czajkowski hugs davmor2 11:21
czajkowskidavmor2: that's your one for the week11:21
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davmor2morning czajkowski what did I do to deserve that?11:22
czajkowskiIt's monday I thought I'd be nice11:23
davmor2czajkowski: going down hill from here then :)11:27
gordtime to put on some soothing jpop and pretend its the future or at the very least, not monday morning11:31
* njpatel sneezes for the 100th time11:34
gordnjpatel, are there periods of the year where you are without a cold? ;)11:36
njpatelgord, there are, they're just few and far between11:36
njpatelCanonical has kept me constantly poorly since joining 2.6 years ago11:36
X3Noh, we recently passed 770 memebers in LP11:38
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kaushalpopey: not sure how do i set it11:44
kaushalI wanted to set both the interface11:44
kaushaleth0 and eth111:44
kaushalsettings.php under jsvnstat does not allow me to do that11:45
screen-xHas anyone noticed the cli "paste" command doing weird things? It seems to be repeating sections of my input files, odd.11:59
kaushalhi12:03
kaushalI am using lightning under Thunderbird12:03
kaushalis there a way to sync up available meeting rooms in lightning under TB ?12:04
kaushalIn outlook its there12:04
screen-xkaushal: are rooms additional calendars that you can subscribe to?12:10
kaushalok12:10
kaushalscreen-x: so i have to import it ?12:10
screen-xkaushal: it was a question... I don't know how your calendaring system is setup, but if the rooms are represented as additional calendars, you should be able to subscribe to them as you would another person's calendar.12:11
kaushalscreen-x: basically we have setup meeting rooms12:12
kaushaland its being seen on Microsoft Outlook Calendar12:12
kaushalnot sure how do i set it up on TB using lightning12:12
kaushalscreen-x: please give me a moment12:15
andylockranhowdy12:22
andylockranthings going well for people12:22
andylockranloving my current setup :)12:22
daubersandylockran: Get your raid thing going?13:07
neurowe've been bought :P http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/broadcom-corporation-to-acquire-gigle-networks-inc-109862534.html13:35
neurolooks like /me will have a new employer soon13:35
czajkowskineuro: ello my dear13:37
neurowhy aye13:37
czajkowskijob going well ?13:37
* screen-x phoned up, waited in queue, then realised he'd called the wrong company!13:50
neuroczajkowski: yeah, ta13:54
neurojust waiting to hear what's happening now we've been acquired13:54
czajkowskinods13:55
czajkowskihopefully all jobs will be uneffected13:55
daubersOoooooh13:59
daubersVue taking prebookings for Tron13:59
bigcalmOooo14:05
bigcalmWe have an odeon, so Wednesdays are busy time. We can go on a Friday or Saturday night and it be faily empty14:06
dauberstempted to go at 00:01 on the 16th14:07
TheOpenSourcererhttp://finance.yahoo.com/news/Novell-Agrees-to-be-Acquired-prnews-3497355694.html?x=0&.v=114:07
screen-xdaubers: it will be cool, but sleep is cooler :)14:08
TheOpenSourcererNovell also announced it has entered into a definitive agreement for the  concurrent sale of certain intellectual property assets to CPTN  Holdings LLC, a consortium of technology companies organized by  Microsoft Corporation, for $450 million in cash, which cash payment is reflected in the merger consideration to be paid by Attachmate Corporation.14:08
TheOpenSourcererProbably some bloody Linux patents in there. :-(14:08
directhexi didn't think novell had many linux patents, but they have some powerful OIN stuff14:09
directhexe.g. novell own patents on ecommerce14:09
directhexowned...14:09
davmor2directhex: mono?  Novell beat SCO on linux, etc, etc, etc14:11
daubersscreen-x: I saw Star Trek at that time, and it was worth it :)14:11
directhexdavmor2: unic xopyrights? dunno what MS would do with those14:12
directhexi'd like to hear details from someone at novell14:12
davmor2directhex: just full disclosure would be good :)14:12
daubersTheOpenSourcerer: Of course, those patents won't be valid in the UK :)14:12
TheOpenSourcererInstead of 247, they'll soon be saying 302 :-) And going after Google/Oracle/RedHat/Canonical...14:14
gordhrm, ethernet over power is being a bit underwhelming, as bad as my wifi so far14:48
directhexi wonder if EoP works over PoO14:50
directhexPoE14:50
gordyou could connect power over ethernet to an ethernet over power device and get unlimited energy?14:50
daubersgord: What rate are you getting on it?14:54
gorddaubers, "not enough to stream hd"14:54
gordi'll give it its own plug socket and see if that helps14:55
Laneyprobably the wiring, get quite decent speeds on ours at home14:55
gordeh its a fairly new house14:55
Laneybelkin summatorother14:55
screen-xgord, "its own plug socket", you had it plugged into an extension lead?14:55
daubersgord: Putting it on a clean socket (no extensions) really does help14:56
Laneyyeah ours are14:56
Laneythink its about 80 meg14:56
gordi'm a nerd14:57
gordplug sockets are in very short supply14:57
daubersgord: Moar extension leads on the other socket :)14:57
daubers's what I did with mine14:57
screen-xgord: EoP adapters with pass-through sockets with extensions plugged in :)14:58
gordah, you make the fundamental assumption that there are two sockets daubers :)14:58
gordi have two sockets at the router, almost everywhere else in my house its single sockets14:59
screen-xWhat I don't understand is why extension leads are so much worse than the split that must occur in the socket box?14:59
daubersscreen-x: Noise, you get all kinds of noise fed back from each appliance that's plugged in15:00
daubersso a 4 way adapter might have 3x more noise than it being on a single thing15:00
kazadeI don't suppose anyone here can recommend me some cheap homeplug-style ethernet over power adaptors?15:01
screen-xhmmm, need a power filter, like audio people use.15:01
screen-xkazade: you seem to have hit the question of the moment.15:02
kazadeI remember seeing someone discussing it in here the other day.. which got me thinking about it :)15:03
screen-xpeople were raving about devolo earlier15:03
daubersdevolo \o/15:03
screen-xgord: has learnt that adapters with pass through sockets are useful ;-)15:03
screen-xand I'll buy anything from solwise.co.uk because their website is teh awesomes.15:04
davmor2screen-x: until you need to pull out the base adapter :)15:04
screen-xdavmor2: hopefully not a frequent occurrence15:05
davmor2screen-x: You'll be surprised15:05
* daubers is looking forward to buying a house next year and (while then ebing overburdened with debt) being able to put structured cat 6 everywhere15:06
DaveMorrisdaubers: thats what I did when I moved15:06
DaveMorrisspent the first day doing it15:06
daubersDaveMorris: Based on some of the discount I get in the office, I'm considering whether it's worth laying a small amount of fibre. Just to critical places like what will become an office/workshop and so on :)15:07
DaveMorrisDaviey: http://davemorris.wordpress.com/2010/11/22/kvm-snapshot-backups-with-qemu-img/15:07
DaveMorrisOn a related note, my feed doesn't appear to be coming through on planet.ubuntu-uk15:07
screen-xdaubers: install the fibre, then wait a while till you can afford the transceivers ;-)15:07
DaveMorriscat6 will allow you to have your adsl modem/phone anywhere around the house15:08
daubersscreen-x: :p Admittedly they are a bit expensive at ~£500 a pop15:08
screen-xdaubers: yeah, but dark fibre is all the rage :p15:08
kazademight get these: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/16066515:09
daubersscreen-x: Exactley! Ii'd lvoe to have the ability to have 10GbE networking throughout my house15:09
DaveMorrisinstall one of these on your master socket http://solwise.co.uk/adsl_splitters-faceplates.htm (ADSL-NTEFACE-SOL)15:09
TheOpenSourcererDaveMorris: That *is* interesting. Was wondering about the various ways to take backups of customers' VMs without stopping them first. Currently we run backup scripts from *inside* the vm, but this isn't quite the same...15:09
DaveMorrisTheOpenSourcerer: yeah I thought people would find it interesting15:10
DaveMorrisI've put that function into my backup script, just finished setting it up to run with a couple of VPNs this week, before I roll it out over all of them.  Not tried it with my Windows VM yet (only buildbot so I could just pause that domain)15:12
balldaubers: I wouldn't mind plenum-rated Cat5e, but the trouble with buying a house is all the stuff you find out about /after/ buying the house15:15
ballIn our case the main beam of the house was broken, so that blew a few grand15:15
ball...then there's the plumbing and electric15:15
daubersball: My boss found out that someone had repaired the ceiling beams by replacing them with fence posts15:15
DaveMorrisoh yeah, allow a budget for things not working when you move15:16
daubersball: However, plumbing and electric should be easy as my old man was an electrician and my uncles a plumber :)15:16
dutchiedaubers: wow15:17
dutchiefence posts15:17
daubersI suspect I'll end up moving walls and stuff wherever I move15:17
daubersdutchie: Yup15:17
daubersHe wondered why it sagged a bit15:17
dauberstook the floor up to look, and found fence posts15:17
dutchiescary15:17
daubersvery15:18
DaveMorrisI re-wired my garage to take the constant load of my computers + power tools, found that the consumer unit had been wired backwards, with the neutral been on the single pole isolator15:18
daubersheh15:18
ballI know my house needs rewiring because none of my "grounded" outlets are and the wiring in the attic has fabric insulation.15:20
daubers\o/15:20
daubersball: Excellent time to lay some structured network cableing then :)15:21
gordmoved plugs, didn't help15:21
MooDoohello all15:21
gordi think everyone must be lying about their speeds, its the only reasonable conclusion15:21
daubersgord: You have disabled the wlan? It's not stil routing over your wifi access?15:21
gordi have15:21
daubersThat one got me for about 20 minutes the other week :(15:22
gordit was the first thing that i did :P15:22
daubersgord: You could try plugging it in closer to the router. See if it's speed goes up. Also, what brand/model are these?15:23
gordplugging it closer to the router isn't really what i would call a solution ;)15:23
gorddevolo15:23
daubersgord: No, but it would identify it being the EoP things are something else in the system15:24
dauberss/are/or15:24
balldaubers: I wouldn't want the Ethernet near the power cables and besides, I can't afford to run either.15:24
gorddaubers, well my wifi is faster and direct ethernet is faster, i wouldn't know how it could be something else :P15:25
daubersball: Ah. I just meant it's easier to do both if you already have the walls in bits to do one15:25
daubersgord: In that case possibly so :) I blame however your house is wired15:26
daubersI get ~180Mb/s across mine15:26
MartijnVdS5ghz++15:27
daubersSaying that, going between the two circuits in the office, I only got 85Mb/s or so15:27
daubersgord: Put fibre in your walls. That'll solve it :)15:28
daubersgord: or! Ignore the fibre completley, ensure your router has LoS to your desk and just use a laser!15:29
ballIrDA++15:29
daubersgord: Or! If no LoS... get some mirrors!!!15:31
daubersEasy this problem solving lark15:31
gordi'm gonna blame the underperforming tech15:31
screen-xBT HID is supported on iPhone4 & 3GS, but not 3G. Isn't supported on any version of android as far as I can tell :(15:45
andylockranhowdy15:46
andylockranis there a way that two users logging onto the same server can both attach to the same screen ?15:47
daubers-X I think15:47
daubersandylockran: byobu seems to do it by default15:48
screen-xI am the way15:48
daubersandylockran: It's -x sorry :) lowercase not capital15:49
daubers"-x   Attach to a not detached screen session. (Multi display mode).  Screen refuses to attach from within itself.  But when cascading multiple screens, loops are not detected; take care."15:49
screen-xandylockran: man screen for the acl stuff15:49
daubersscreen-x: Lovely bug in the current version of screen according to the man page... "A weird imagination is most useful to gain full advantage of all the features."15:50
screen-x:)15:50
gordso yeah, i'm not one room away from the router, plugged directly into the mains and i'm getting 2.6mbit over this thing15:55
gordthis is awful15:55
bigcalmMight be a different ring15:57
bigcalmOr it might even be radial :(15:57
daubersgord: Which devolo plugs have  you got?15:57
gordiruno, 80mb ones15:57
daubersHmm.. your house must have really weird wiring (or something really noisy on that ring)16:02
DaveMorrisgord: you've not got anything special on your wiring?16:04
gordthere are plugs, some of these plugs have appliances, that is the extent of how special my wiring is16:04
gordi'll play around with it more tonight, otherwise i'll return them16:05
DaveMorrishttp://www.broadbandhomecentral.com/bbhl/homeplugconclusions.html16:06
ali1234so before i went away i set "autospawn = no" in my ~/.pulse/client.conf and then forgot about it16:11
ali1234because i was running pulseaudio manually to try to find the bugs16:11
ali1234so when i returned i couldn't figure out why my sound now works perfectly16:12
ali1234the only problem now is that i have to use alsamixer to set the volume16:13
gordgeez, it can't actually play back SD video either16:21
gordhehe i couldn't play back sd video because i was downloading something from the internet, its like the 90's!16:23
ubuntuuk-planet[Dave Morris] KVM snapshot backups with qemu-img - http://davemorris.wordpress.com/2010/11/22/kvm-snapshot-backups-with-qemu-img/17:19
andylockranguys, can't get steam to load CSS on ubuntu 10.10 using wine.. any ideas where to look for help?17:49
gordandylockran, #winehq ?17:51
gordi think that is more for development though17:51
gordthe appdb page maybe?17:51
andylockranAfter November 19 Game update by Steam, the game don't open any more. Also tested with Wine 1.2.1, don't work anymore.17:52
andylockrannice17:52
andylockranif I installed it last week it'd have been ok :p17:52
gordoh thats a shame17:52
gordi mean i hate that particular game and wish a thousand deaths upon it and the people that play it, but still, shame17:52
andylockranI'm not a fan17:52
andylockranjust logged back into my steam account and realised I had it17:53
andylockranprefer Battlefield, was more fun flying the plans17:53
andylockranplanes17:53
gordonly battlefield i ever played was the latest one, had hugely fun multiplayer. single player was awful but yeah i just played the multiplayer17:53
andylockransame17:54
andylockrancan't stand playing it by myself17:54
andylockranbf2 and 2042 were the two incarnations that I played17:54
gordpretty much gave up on the whole gaming on linux thing though, seemed hopeful for a while once wine started getting good, but then all the progress sort of stopped. the one guy that was doing it stopped doing it ;)17:55
jacobwi have an ip address (obtained from whatismyipaddress.com :s), i want to VNC in to this machine, i've set to requisite stuff in remote desktop preferences18:07
popeyopened the port on the firewall?18:07
jacobwhow can i test that i can actually connect to that ip address, i.e. that it isn't just NAT blackhole18:07
jacobwpopey, no i haven't, is that a step?18:07
popeyyes18:08
jacobwah :)18:08
jacobwpopey, have you got any more info on that? i keep hitting the same pages with google18:10
popeyhttp://portforward.com/18:10
jacobwthansk18:19
ballWill Ubuntu run inside VirtualBox?18:52
popeyyes18:53
ballpopey: Thanks18:54
AlanBellball: even with 3d graphics in the VM is possible18:59
ballI'm surprised that's accessible from within the vM18:59
AlanBellyup, it is very cool18:59
ballYeah, remind me not to press that button.19:04
awilkinsOk, someone changed something in the last update and now my wifi light does "blinky blinky" during network traffic and that's REALLY annoying.19:18
awilkinsIt's one of those bright blue ones and it's above the keyboard and close to the screen.19:19
ubuntuuk-planet[Matthew Garrett] Fusion Garage GPL update - http://mjg59.livejournal.com/130174.html19:19
ballpopey: So it does! :-)19:21
ballI'd best go and do some work.19:22
ballBye all!19:22
* awilkins reboots to see if it fixes das blinkenlight19:24
jacobwis there such a thing as a hand free loud speaker than can record the calls it throughputs?19:24
jacobwif not, there should be, so you can listen to calls where you've gone "yeah, yeah" because you were driving19:25
awilkinsThank heavens for that, a reboot has fixed the blinky wifi light19:26
awilkinsAlanBell, Did you find respite for your VB6 ills?19:27
* davmor2 annoys czajkowski and then frolics in the autumn mist in a land called ........19:28
MooDoodavmor2, narnia?19:28
* MooDoo prods czajkowski as he's feeling left out19:29
davmor2hollowlee, hollowley, gallowley something like that19:29
liam_anyone need help19:39
davmor2liam_: normally best to ask your question so people can help you19:51
finelytunedevening all20:09
liam_finelytuned: hey20:11
MooDoohiya20:13
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zleaphello20:43
finelytunedo/20:43
MooDoohello20:44
j0nrello20:53
j0nr\join #ffmpeg20:53
j0nreven20:54
j0nrurgh... broken hands20:54
czajkowskiMooDoo: oi oi20:55
MooDooczajkowski, ello darlin....prod prod :)20:55
danfishevening21:30
popeylo21:33
danfishwibble, flump and blubber21:34
danfishjust a thought21:34
danfishooohh - new website idea - "thought for the day"21:35
danfishubuntu-uk website that is21:36
danfishsorry, wifey's been having her nails painted by a friend in the living room. I'm feeling a bit off from the fumes :D21:38
zleapwhats wrong with the currnet ubuntu website ?21:45
MooDoozleap, nothing why?21:46
danfishzleap: http://beta.ubuntu-uk.org/21:47
zleapoh for uibuntu-uk21:47
danfishaye21:47
zleapthat looks like the viaduct they used in harry potter21:48
danfishI rather think it is - it's on the famous Settle-Carlisle line21:50
danfishthe ribblehead viaduct IIRC21:51
zleapah cool21:51
danfishused to go potholing near there in my youth21:52
danfishI certainly wouldn't fit down any of those potholes now :/21:53
zleapwell there are plety of potholes in the roads round here21:57
ubuntuuk-planet[Jono Bacon] Weekly Ubuntu Cloud Meeting And Q+A - http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/11/22/weekly-ubuntu-cloud-meeting-and-qa/22:19
ubuntuuk-planet[Alan Pope] Planet Ubuntu Facelift - http://popey.com/blog/2010/11/22/planet-ubuntu-facelift/22:19
popeywheeee - recursive blog post!22:20
mgdm\o/22:21
Azelphurpopey: is it all still drupal powered?22:22
popeyno, wordpress22:23
Azelphurah22:23
AzelphurI meant the ubuntu stuff not your site btw :p22:24
popeyoh, planet ubuntu? no thats planetplanet powered22:25
popeynot drupal22:25
AlanBellnice screenshot22:30
dutchieooh, i think i found some diamond ore in minecraft22:49
popey:) dutchie22:53
andylockranhowdy guys22:55
andylockranhow did the podcast go?22:55
popeyhowdy howdy howdy22:55
popeywell I think22:55
popeyand I'm not there :)22:55
andylockranNow I've got my iPod back, I've got them downloaded and listening to them in the car22:56
popeyyay22:56
andylockranWasn't finding the time to fit them in at my PC recently.22:56
andylockranThings ok with you popey - hopefully nothing extraordinary has kept you away from recording?#22:56
andylockranor did you get lost in the space-time continuum of your recursive blog post...22:58
andylockranposted my 3000th tweet without realising it today22:59
andylockrannope, 4000th22:59
andylockrannight all.23:09
* Azelphur just bought a 2TB hdd23:16
Azelphurdamn you, mythtv.23:16
hamitron:))23:16
hamitrondunno how you find that much on tv tbh ;/23:16
Azelphurhamitron: haha, I'll show you in a second, having a minor permissions problem though :(23:19
Azelphurhow do I set the last block of permissions? I know the first set is just +rwx, and the second set is g+rwx23:19
Azelphurbut what's the 3rd set?23:19
popeyw+23:21
popey"world"23:21
Azelphurw is write, I just found it on the ubuntu manpages it's o for other o.O23:21
TheOpenSourcererIt's o, or I just use the numbers, eg 644, 755 etc.23:22
popeyhmm23:22
popeywhy did i think it was w23:22
popeyneed sleep, clearly!23:23
hamitronnumbers are easier than letters ;)23:23
TheOpenSourcererBlimey 11:30.23:23
TheOpenSourcererDoesn't time fly when you having fun ...23:23
TheOpenSourcererTime for bed said zebedee.23:23
Azelphurhamitron: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=9wYDmb29 yarr23:24
TheOpenSourcererhamitron: They are for normal stuff, but I get a bit confused when trying to sgid for example.23:24
Azelphurhamitron: that's how xD23:24
hamitronAzelphur: Merlin and Dr Who... yes23:25
Azelphur:D23:25
Azelphurhamitron: yea doctor who is huge >.<, I have all of them, including the old ones (besides the missing ones)23:25
Azelphurcomes to well over 200GB23:26
Azelphurlots of stargate too, around 150GB worth23:26
hamitronI decided to delete stuff as i watch them now23:26
hamitrona lot of it anyway23:26
AzelphurI like to keep a collection, hdd space is cheap and MythTV makes it look so pretty23:26
Azelphurit's nice for when people come over, I near enough always have something someone likes23:26
hamitron:)23:27
hamitronI'm a sucker for pretty dvd cases23:27
* TheOpenSourcerer might have to invest in a Revo soon - has that got enough grunt for MythTV?23:27
AzelphurTheOpenSourcerer: yes but HD recording might be a problem23:27
Azelphurand commercial flagging isn't really going to happen23:28
TheOpenSourcererty23:28
AzelphurTheOpenSourcerer: are you planning on receiving a TV signal with it?23:28
TheOpenSourcerertime I get round to there'll be quad core atoms with <1W TDP and clocked at 6Ghz I guess.23:28
Azelphur(FreeSat, Freeview, that type of thing)23:28
TheOpenSourcererAzelphur: Quite likely23:29
Azelphurhaha23:29
Azelphurthen yea, MythTV is your best bet imo :)23:29
hamitronis mythtv good for acting like a jukebox?23:29
AzelphurI'd err on getting a real PC though to use as a backend23:29
AzelphurIt eats up HDD space, believe me I know23:29
Azelphurhamitron: music? I've never really used it but it does do it23:29
hamitronI've always felt it is overkill for music23:30
AzelphurTheOpenSourcerer: it's better to have a proper card to recieve the TV signal instead of a USB device, and a real PC would open you up space to add more HDDs, so I'd say use a real PC as your backend if possible23:30
hamitronso not tried it, but everything else is gay23:30
Azelphurhehe23:30
hamitronso was going to code some of my own bits23:30
TheOpenSourcererI have a nice new telly with built in apps (including BBc iPlayer) and a dlna client, but the broadcast recording is done on a failry cheap, but working freeview PVR.23:30
hamitron:)23:31
Azelphurhttp://www.dropbox.com/gallery/3832397/1/MythTV?h=a39715 photos of my MythTV setup :)23:31
hamitronis that a joystick on the keyboard?23:32
TheOpenSourcererNice, ty and nn Azelphur (and everyone else)23:33
Azelphurit's a trackball, mouse23:33
AzelphurTheOpenSourcerer: nn :)23:33
hamitronit is the method of input in the living room, that puts me off the most23:34
Azelphuras you see I have a normal TV remote for it :)23:34
hamitronyeh23:35
Azelphurthat all works, was annoying as hell to make it work23:35
* popey sighs23:35
hamitronbut I want something to queue songs more, like a jukebox23:35
hamitronand searching a lot of songs with a remote I could see as hassle23:35
hamitronpopey: I like to consider these things ;/23:36
popeyit was more your 'gay' comment23:36
hamitronoh, :/23:36
hamitronsorry23:36
hamitronagain23:36
Azelphurpopey++ there :)23:36
* Azelphur works with a few gay people who wouldn't approve23:37
hamitronI have nothing against puffs though23:37
Azelphur:)23:37
hamitronjust a general term everyone uses23:37
popeyoh jeez23:37
popeynow we're on 'puffs'?23:37
Azelphurhaha23:37
hamitronwhat do you call them?23:38
popeyusually by their name23:38
hamitronyeh, suppose I was refering to their kind, rather than any particular one though :/23:39
AzelphurSpeaking of gay people, reminds me of my friend, he was doing a paid job to skin some weapons in CS:S. The guy who was employing him turned out to be a raging homophobe, so he did the skin to spec, but made it pink and covered with rainbows.23:39
Azelphurwas hilarious :D23:39
dutchiethis is so politically incorrect it is painful23:39
Azelphurthe guy got so mad, we was all laughing (He didn't scam the guy, it was payment upon completion so he never got paid, it was purely for the laughs)23:40
hamitronhehe23:40
Azelphurworth it :D23:40
hamitrondutchie: low pain threshhold?23:41
hamitron;)23:41
hamitronbut yeh Azelphur, just the input is my worry23:42
hamitronand ease to find songs quickly23:43
Azelphurdon't get that keyboard, it's horrible23:43
hamitronI'm not a ball kind man23:43
hamitronkinda ;/23:43
Azelphurit looks cool but in practice it continually drops out and the mouse is really dodgy and it's impossible to type on23:43
hamitronmaybe some addictional touch screen device23:44
Azelphurhamitron: I always wanted a touch screen remote, never found anything price worthy that fitted the bill though23:45
hamitronyeh, there are 4 rooms to kit out with it :/23:45
hamitroncould get scarey expensive23:46
ali1234what would be a good frontend for mythtv on a touchscreen device?23:46
ali1234i mean the regular frontend barely supports mouse...23:46
hamitronI wasn't thinking just mythtv23:46
hamitronmore what I want, then find the software to fit23:46
hamitronor adapt/make23:47
hamitrontbh, probably not that hard to make it using a few different libs23:47
hamitronas I can design it strictly for just how I'd want to use it23:48
hamitronsuppose a frontend for that music database backend may be best still23:49
dutchieoh dear23:52
dutchiei have hit some sort of key combination23:52
hamitron:\23:52
dutchieand compiz has gone into crazy zoom mode23:52
dutchieand i can't get out23:53
dutchieaha23:53
dutchiefree23:53
hamitronsuper and a mouse button?23:54
hamitrondon't ask me what super is (apart from me ofc ;)23:54
dutchiesuper and scroll wheel23:56
dutchieexcept scroll wheel is middle mouse button + trackpoint23:56
hamitronsuper is the penguin key?23:56
dutchiewell, windows key23:56
hamitronyeh23:57
hamitroncould bring myself to say it :/23:57
hamitroncouldn't*23:57
hamitronalthough my latest cheap keyboard looks like the flag of St. George more23:57
hamitronreckon I may colour it so23:58

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