/srv/irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/11/23/#ubuntu-uk.txt

hamitrontime for coffee to feed the brain for the task of tackling spam email, brb00:09
ubuntuuk-planet[Alan Bell] Ubuntu IRC Council - http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/11/23/ubuntu-irc-council/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ubuntu-irc-council00:19
=== Craig_Dem_ is now known as Craig_Dem
screen-xmorning early people :)06:33
shaunogrunt.06:34
shaunorather annoying when I can't seem to find seemingly simple things on google.  gasm's comment delimiter did a pretty good job of evading me07:15
AlanBellmorning all07:59
nigelbMorning AlanBell :)07:59
TheOpenSourcerermorning everyone.08:23
DJonesMorning all08:23
diplomorning08:34
AlanBellanyone want the donttellbill.com domain?08:36
DJonesAlanBell: Who was the Bill in the domain name?08:37
AlanBellwe did a little marketing campaign a few years ago around it, but we didn't take it very far08:37
AlanBellhttp://donttellbill.com/08:37
DJonesAh, I was thinking along the line of the British Gas Sid campaign08:37
AlanBellyeah, based on that08:38
AlanBellfree software is great, but shh, don't tell Bill08:38
DJonesAh, I see08:38
DJonesI would have though redirecting to your main website would have been a good idea just in case anybody still has it as a saved link08:39
DJonesStupid windows security, You don't have an antivirus protection enabled, YES I do, its running, ok, I'll pause protection & re-enable, Oh, I do have an Antivirus running now08:42
TheOpenSourcererI have http://dont-tell-bill.com too which auto renewed for 2 years quite recently.08:42
* DJones Has a penny thats just dropped, Bill = Bill Gates .... Doh08:43
AlanBellthis one is expiring soon08:43
* TheOpenSourcerer thinks DJones probably needs more coffee08:43
DJones2nd cup of the day, about to get 3rd08:43
AlanBellDJones: well some people might leap to that conclusion of course, but it wasn't us that said it :)08:43
DJones:)08:44
AlanBellBill is just a fictional character, like Sid08:44
DJonesTo quote Francis Urquat, You couldn't possibly comment :)08:44
AlanBellquite08:44
DJonesHave your Streak's been updated to Froyo yet?08:44
TheOpenSourcererDJones: Nope. They released one for the unlocked devices first. And TBH it sounds like a pile of steaming poo.08:45
TheOpenSourcererhttp://android.modaco.com/content/dell-streak-streak-modaco-com/323607/buglist-and-peculiarities-on-official-2-2-froyo/08:46
nigelbAlanBell: hahahahhahaha, funny site :)08:46
DJonesNot good then, Must admit I'm impressed with 2.2 on my Desire HD, although still seems to be occasional issues with the Calendar hammering the battery08:46
TheOpenSourcererDJones: Yeah - I think it Dell, rather than Froyo.08:46
TheOpenSourcererOhh it's getting closer: http://android.modaco.com/content/dell-streak-streak-modaco-com/323860/eu-00-froyo-is-live/08:47
TheOpenSourcererI'm getting tempted to have a go and install this one instead: http://android.modaco.com/content/dell-streak-streak-modaco-com/322298/streakdroid-froyo-v1-4-2-announcement-thread/08:49
DJonesSounds like its still a bit buggy looking at the couple of comments on that page08:50
TheOpenSourcereryeah.08:50
DJonesI've had more system updates in 3 weeks with this HD & 2.2 than I had in 18 months with a HTC Magic08:51
DJonesMay sound a lot, but it was only one update :)08:52
hoovergood morning folks08:53
daubersMorning08:57
DJonesmorning daubers08:58
* daubers makes the tea08:59
* TheOpenSourcerer goes for coffee #309:00
* DJones drinks coffee #309:00
* AlanBell goes for #209:06
AlanBellerr, coffee #2, not a #2 you  understand09:06
TheOpenSourcererlol09:06
danfishgood day :)09:07
nigelbpopey: poke?09:08
danfishmy mad scientist plan is to create a genetically modified infant with an inbuilt logging system. That way you can run a query along the lines of dmesg | grep "whydidyouwakeup6timesduringthenight" :(09:11
MartijnVdSdanfish: that's a reboot loop, dmesg won't help there09:11
daubersdanfish: But you _know_ the answer would be "because you weren't there"09:11
MartijnVdSdanfish: you'll need a serial port and log from there09:11
danfishdaubers: true09:12
danfishMartijnVdS: nah - inbuilt wifi09:13
gord"Subject: Thank you for your recent [e-mail address removed]" - No problem [company name redacted]!09:13
MartijnVdSgord: are you reading the SCP wiki again? :)09:13
MartijnVdSgord: http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/09:13
gordMartijnVdS, nope, just my normal run of the mill email, just that my email is top secret09:18
ubuntuuk-planet[Alan Bell] The Ubuntu UK Christmas Party - http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/11/23/the-ubuntu-uk-christmas-party/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-ubuntu-uk-christmas-party09:19
czajkowskialoha09:29
dauberso/09:29
popeynigelb: hmm?09:30
bigcalmGood morning peeps :)09:50
popeylo09:51
bigcalmMy Father's laptop has bitten the dust. Time to school him on what makes for a new good laptop09:53
popeymacbookpro09:55
bigcalm<= 500?09:55
bigcalm£09:56
andylockranmorning folks10:00
nigelbpopey: Do you have access to the fridge calender? Diwic wanted some help10:02
nigelb(basically, a meeting added isn't showing on the frige calender for some reason though it was accepted)10:03
gord<gord> http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2 <-- can anyone manage to download the RT2860PCI/mPCI/CB/PCIe(RT2760/RT2790/RT2860/RT2890) option from there? every time i try i get a weird file that bunzip can't handle (even though its a tar.bz2)10:10
gordhad to re-say that because my wifi has gone crazy and need that file to fix ;)10:10
MartijnVdSgord: what does "file blah.tar.bz2" say?10:13
diplograbbing a tar now, will check it opens shortly10:13
gordah there we go, its a gz10:13
DJonesgord: Its downloaded for me on windows & I've been able to unzip it10:13
gordthanks MartijnVdS10:13
diploSame issue, as you10:13
diploah10:13
diplo:D10:13
DJonesgord: Do you want me to .zip it and upload it somewhere so you can download it10:14
DJonesOr at least .rar it10:15
ubuntuuk-planet[Alan Bell] OverView Zoomy presentations with OpenGL - http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/11/23/overview-zoomy-presentations-with-opengl/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=overview-zoomy-presentations-with-opengl10:19
popeybigcalm: thinkpad10:32
DJonespopey: Where is good for cheap laptops now, I seem to remember you suggesting somewhere for thinkpads a few weeks back10:35
screen-xDJones: sterlingxs?10:35
bigcalmDo tinkpads still have nipples?10:37
MartijnVdSeven my Dell has one10:38
screen-xbigcalm: They seem to have both.10:38
DJonesscreen-x: Thanks, they seem to have pretty limited stocks at the minute10:39
bigcalmMy Dell lacks a nipple10:39
screen-xI quite liked the trackpoint on my thinkpad, but I don't miss it much on other laptops.10:40
directhexmy dell is nipply10:41
MartijnVdSI hate my dell.. it's too plastic10:41
MartijnVdSand clunky10:41
czajkowskinext laptop I buy is going to have a long long long batery! and be light!10:42
czajkowskinot asking for much am I10:42
czajkowskioh and not cost a fortune10:42
MartijnVdSczajkowski: and a pony10:42
screen-xMBA 11, though that doesn't fit your last criteria...10:42
czajkowskiright dentist time10:43
MartijnVdSczajkowski: good luck10:43
nigelbczajkowski: You need a zareason10:44
screen-xI played with one the other day, I haven't picked up a small laptop that is so difficult to bend before.10:44
screen-xnigelb: I like the ubuntu key :)10:46
nigelbscreen-x: That I LOVE!10:46
nigelbAnd the tux stickers10:46
shaunorandom question time!  what'd be the easiest way to get apache to accept a http post on any url (existent or not), and store the contents somewhere?10:50
popeyDJones: sterlingxs10:50
popeyoh, someone got it10:51
popeyczajkowski: mbp10:51
DJonespopey: I had a look there, they seemed to be pretty much out of stock of everything at the minute10:51
DJonesJust looking through the links from nakedcomputers10:52
popeyi can't see myself buying anything other than apple laptops in the future tbh, maybe thinkpad, maybe something else if I become a tramp and run out of money10:52
MartijnVdSSonys are nice10:52
MartijnVdSthey're the most apple-y non-apple laptops I've seen10:52
MartijnVdS*pets his Vaio 13"*10:52
popeynah, sony are off the list, have been for years10:53
shaunothat reminds me of the 'just like a Golf' adverts10:53
directhexreally want an alienware10:53
diploFrom my experience, especially older sonys they seem to be noisey and hot10:53
popeyand made of cheap plastic10:53
* diplo running a old ( 3 years ) one now and it sucks10:53
MartijnVdSpopey: why? they used to suck, I agree, but the current models (especially the intel-only ones) are really nice10:53
diploruns @ 60 normally, open anything slightly demanding it hits 90/95 and fans go mad10:54
directhexalienware m11x is what i'd like10:54
directhexif it were up to me10:54
directhex11" netbook with an i7 and a geforce10:55
shaunoI really fancy one of the new macbook airs, but it's gotta wait until I've got a desktop10:55
shaunomy current laptop fits the 'desktop replacement' category, the MBA doesn't really10:55
ubuntuuk-planet[Stuart Langridge] Why I can't have an electric car - http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2010/11/23/why-i-can-t-have-an-electric-car11:19
popeyhttp://www.ebuyer.com/lunchtime-special?hpb=111:25
popey160 quid for a ps311:25
dauberspopey: Shame they're built by sony really11:30
czajkowskipopey: eh no :)11:32
czajkowskiresults from dentist: I need to have my wisdom tooth removed11:33
czajkowskiballs11:33
nigelbouch11:33
screen-x:(11:33
daubersczajkowski: Nasty11:35
daubersczajkowski: Also, sounds expensive11:35
czajkowskiI am less than impressed11:35
nigelbhilarious responses to popey's "what to put in my car"11:35
nigelbCopies of "Art of Community" for fuel :p11:36
popey:)11:36
popeyhttp://www.dicecollector.com/JM/11:37
diploczajkowski, had one of mine out the other day, bar for a bit of uncomfortableness for a few days it wasn't *to* bad11:40
diploAnd i hate going to the dentist with a passion11:40
czajkowskiI can either get it done under local or general11:41
nigelbWho doesn't? ;)11:41
czajkowskiI'm tempted to go generall11:41
nigelbgeneral++11:41
diploI did general a year or so ago, this time i did local11:42
diploWorse part of general was that I felt groggy as hell for 2-3 days after11:42
diploCouldn't really work11:42
diploYou have to get someone to bring you home as well11:43
DJonesPeople always tell me never to have a general for wisdom teeth, the dentist can be a bit rougher than if the patient is awake11:43
czajkowski:o11:45
shaunohm, adding a static eth0 made my nm-applet disappear :(11:45
DJonesczajkowski: I'm not trying to put you off, isn't there somebody who works at a dental practice who uses the channel, they maybe a better person to ask11:46
DJonesThey were working on openmolar11:46
DJones(I think)11:46
davmor2czajkowski: you been to the dentist11:47
czajkowskiDJones: problem is I'm a really really bad patient with a dentist, I've bitten 2 dentists when I was a kid11:47
czajkowskidavmor2: I went!!11:47
davmor2czajkowski: and11:47
czajkowskidavmor2: infection o  widsom tooth coming down, no more room for it to come down, so caused nerves in my jaw to lock up. Need tooth removed.11:48
DJonesczajkowski: My wife is like that, she has a dairy intolerance and had soya milk as a kid, which was heavily sweetened to hide the bad taste, took all most of the enamal off her teeth so they rot quite quickly, when she had fillings the dentist didn't let the anastetic take effect and drilled on nerves & ignored her trying to stop her, she stopped going, eventually went again but had to have sedation just for an examination11:50
nigelbpopey: Is it just me or is width of etherpad sort of messed up?11:50
czajkowskinigelb: click button far right toi make it a full page11:50
czajkowskiDJones: I look after my teeth from fear of the denitist I had braces as a kid11:51
* nigelb hugs czajkowski 11:51
nigelbczajkowski: That worked :)11:51
DJonesczajkowski: She's just started to let a new dentist we've got do work, just had fillings & although nervous, just had normal treetment, no sedation :)11:52
* popey points nigelb to Daviey 11:52
Davieyoops11:53
* nigelb feels pointed out11:53
* nigelb also notes that Daviey broke the default option of being full window or something11:53
nigelbWhatever, another reason to #blameDaviey11:53
DavieyI had a patch to make it go full screen some months ago... can't find the damn thing now, and now finding it a PITA to recreate.11:54
Davieynigelb: it was never default to fullscreen... but i WANT to add that11:54
Daviey(patches welcome)11:54
nigelbDaviey: meh, Java.11:54
davmor2nigelb: no you #blamepopey popey then picks on Daviey till it's fixed11:54
Davieynigelb: actually.... that part isn't11:54
nigelbdavmor2: oh, that's a nice strategy11:54
Davieyit's JS :)11:54
nigelbDaviey: JS?11:54
czajkowskiit's a winning combination11:54
nigelbI'd love to :)11:54
nigelbDaviey: can you edit css for body?11:55
nigelbif so just add a class and it will work I think ;)11:55
Davieynigelb: if only11:56
Davieyserver side JS!11:56
nigelbDaviey: dammit.  Need to see code :(11:56
* nigelb goes to branch from google whatever11:56
nigelbgithub = awesomeness!11:57
nigelbDaviey: Can you point out some starter of where to look?11:58
Davieynigelb: grep for fullscreen :)11:58
nigelbgah, its still branching11:59
nigelbI'm looking at github's web thingy11:59
nigelbhrm, .ejs is java?12:01
popeyHeh, Enterprise JavaScript! :D12:09
nigelbDaviey: I have a one patch for you12:09
nigelbpopey: haha12:09
Davieynigelb: shoot it over12:10
nigelbDaviey: its not a patch, but I'll tell you what to change so that it fixes12:10
* nigelb sends a PM12:10
Davieynigelb: patch pls :)12:10
nigelbDaviey: GAH :D12:10
Davieynigelb: or better, a git tree i can pull from :)12:10
nigelbDaviey: meh, patched already12:12
nigelbDaviey: Link to patch PM'd, go fix it and let me have the satisfaction of having made the world a better place :p12:15
Davieypah12:16
Davieynigelb: you could put it somewhere i could wget the .patch12:16
nigelbDaviey: lazy :p12:16
nigelbDaviey: lemme put it on my people.ubuntu.com12:16
Davieynigelb: applied :)12:17
nigelbDaviey: http://people.ubuntu.com/~nigelbabu/daviey.patch12:18
nigelbGAH12:18
Davieynigelb: lol12:18
nigelbIt works \o/12:18
Davieynigelb: if you propose it for fixing in the mainline on github, i should be able to commit it12:19
nigelbI'm doing that now :)12:19
Davieynigelb: give me a shout when you have put the pull request in12:19
andylockran\o12:20
nigelbDaviey: \o/ Do I hold the record for the fastest bug fix yet? :p12:20
Davieynigelb: maybe :)12:24
nigelbNote to self: Any $blameDaviey ends up with me fixing the bug.12:24
andylockrancrikey - just seen Korea on the news12:24
Davieylol12:24
davmor2nigelb: told you #blamepopey :P12:26
nigelbdavmor2: lol12:29
Davieynigelb: not seeing the pull request..... you lose the prize for fastest resolution12:33
Daviey:((12:33
AlanBellczajkowski: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-1181500112:35
czajkowskiAlanBell: 16 of us that went to college togehter are now left ireland12:36
czajkowskisad :(12:36
czajkowskitrain us up and ship us out12:36
directhexescaped a sinking ship!12:37
hooverre: korea... time to fire up falcon 4 allied force again ;-)12:39
bigcalmL-l-l-l-l-l-l-unch time!12:42
shaunoI wish :/12:42
* daubers beats some scripts to death with a stick12:45
shaunoshould it be a bug if a package fails --configure (leaving dpkg to believe it's broken) if your system doesn't match a hard-coded IP?12:49
DJonesYay...Public holiday announced for 29th April 201112:51
* DJones makes note in diary & wonders whether it'll be warm enough for a BBQ12:53
bigcalmLong weekend :)12:53
bigcalmWill Charlie get any time on the throne before William takes over?12:53
DJonesNot if his mother has anything to say about it :)12:54
bigcalmDoes Queenie actually not him to be king?12:54
bigcalm+want12:55
DJonesShe probably does, but she looks like she'll outlast him12:55
czajkowskiI thought that was a done deal once he married his mistress he'd never be king it would go straight to william12:57
danfishDJones: that makes it a 3 day week :D12:58
AlanBellczajkowski: nope, the impression was that she would not take the title of Queen12:59
AlanBellbut he could be king, with princess consort Camilla12:59
DJonesczajkowski: Thats certainly been rumoured amongst conspiracy theorists, but I doubt it12:59
AlanBellbut there was a stumbling interview last week which has been interpreted by the press to be a change on that13:00
czajkowskiDJones: doesnt really bode well, cheat on your wife for years publically, mdivorce her, she dies, marry mistress and become king...13:00
AlanBellpersonally I think he finds discussion of the succession to be in rather poor taste and just fumbled in the interview13:00
shaunounderstandable.  it pretty much translates to "what do you want to do when your mum dies", which would be grossly offensive in any other context13:01
DJonesczajkowski: True, but then again, how many wives did King Henry have :)13:01
czajkowskiDJones: different times,13:01
AlanBellshauno: exactly13:01
czajkowskiDJones: also, everyone in most counteries loved  princess di13:01
czajkowskihow many feel that way about camilla13:01
DJones:)13:02
DJonesNo comment13:02
czajkowskiand she's not his mum either13:02
czajkowskioh wait nm13:02
czajkowskiwrong son13:02
danfishDJones: beheading your wives is now considered increadibly bad manners these days ;)13:02
DJonesdanfish: Thats unfair, I was thinking about sharpening my axe13:03
* DJones looks around to make sure his wife isn't in the channel13:03
danfishhah13:03
shaunoI don't think the divorce thing should really be an issue.  it's not a standard we hold anyone else to.13:04
* danfish notes that the £80 million cost of the wedding will be met by the public purse13:04
danfishmind you, it would be a bit of an ask on the bride's parents13:05
daubersdanfish: We'll probably make it back though13:05
daubersdanfish: Once you take in account all the oddbods who'll take a holiday to be in London when it happens and all that malarky, I think we'd get that 80mill+ a bit back into the old economy13:06
DJonesdanfish: We only get to pay for the security & transport costs13:06
DJonesThe families are paying for the wedding itself, I wonder if they have to pay a fee to use Westminster Abbey though?13:07
danfishdaubers: prob true13:07
popeyanyone here got an ebay account?13:08
danfishDJones: unlikely - the Queen is the head of the church that owns the abbey13:08
danfishpopey: yup13:08
popeysomeone in another channel just pointed out that they seem to ignore the case sensitivity of the first character13:08
popey(which many people will capitalise to use as their 'mixed case' password)13:08
Azelphurpopey: yea I do13:08
popeytry it :)13:09
popeytry logging on with the first character of your password in the wrong case13:09
popeyI cant because my password starts with a number :)13:09
Davieyhak da planet13:09
dauberspopey: ha, WFM :)13:10
danfishpopey: bug(?) confirmed13:10
Azelphurpopey: seems to not be case sensative at all13:10
AlanBellyup, not case sensitive13:10
bigcalmJust the 1st character?13:11
popeyseems so13:11
bigcalmOdd13:11
Azelphurno, the entire thing isn't case sensative13:11
AzelphurI tried altering the case of my password all over and still got in13:11
AlanBellme too13:11
popeyOH13:11
popeyjust tested that too13:12
AlanBellI would say it is intentional13:12
Azelphurhehe13:12
AlanBellreduces security a bit, and reduces problems from people who leave caps lock on a lot13:12
bigcalmOne of my client's sites drops the case on passwords entered as well. Quite depressing13:14
hooverhello bigcalm13:18
* daubers puts the kettle on13:20
* popey puts Blondie on13:20
* popey considers recording a couple of screencasts13:22
Davieyto the theme of "Denie, Denie"13:23
dauberspopey: "How to sing like Blondie into a hairbrush"?13:23
* screen-x digs out the XSLT book13:29
directhexdaubers: wonder if singstar microphones work on loonicks...13:34
daubersheh, they're just USB mics aren't they?13:38
AlanBellthe PS2 ones are just audio mics with a 3.5mm jack, the dongle is a dual input usb soundcard of some sort13:40
screen-xThis dead tree seems to auto-close itself when I look up, I need a paper version of a bookmark, a real bookmark!14:00
screen-xsounds like a job for... yesterday's train ticket14:01
daubersscreen-x: Or a shoe14:01
* DJones suggests a finger14:02
* gord suggests scanning in all the pages, using OCR to extract the text and convert into your favourite document format14:29
davmor2njpatel: an interesting thing happen yesterday I went to disable the unity plugin in ccsm to find out it already was,  so it's definitely compiz at fault14:32
njpateldavmor2, interesting, did you see if the window decorations plugin was enabled?14:33
njpateldavmor2, in the upgrade some of the settings might have been lost14:33
davmor2njpatel: the decor was in the disabled pile14:33
davmor2njpatel: I moved them all over to the enabled side but to no avail.14:34
njpatelyeah, so I'd recommend enabling: decor, place, move, composite, opengl, static switcher, at least14:34
njpateldavmor2, "enabled side"?14:34
njpatelyour using "compizconfig-settings-manager"'s ccsm?14:35
davmor2njpatel: Yeah for the plugins you have the disabled side and the enabled side under manage plugins14:35
davmor2njpatel: when you enable unity it shows up in the main window14:36
njpatelhuh, interesting,14:37
* njpatel never knew that14:37
davmor2njpatel: yeap Preferences -> Plugin list14:40
DJonesOn a laptop thats previously had nvidia drivers installed, if I want to test the nouveau driver, should I just uninstall all nvidia graphics (nvidia-96 I think) and will that remove the blacklist nouveau from  /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-graphics-drivers.conf14:40
davmor2njpatel: Yay! unity14:41
njpatelsweet!14:41
davmor2njpatel: I was missing the opengl one after I moved the others across last night14:42
njpatelriight14:42
njpatelit's a slightly weird thing about compiz that you can start it up and it can be completely useless14:42
czajkowskiyou don't say14:50
czajkowski:)14:50
andylockranI am absolutely loving the latest vanilla install of maverick14:50
andylockranI normally just apt-get upgrade from old versions14:50
andylockranbut a re-install is quite different14:50
daubersNoooooo!!!!14:52
daubersmy tea went cold :(14:52
andylockranthat's a shame..14:52
bigcalmDown it in one and then make a fresh mug14:52
andylockranI do that far too much when I'm coding14:52
MooDoohello all14:53
bigcalmI find that my mugs never hold enough tea14:53
daubersSat debugging at the moment, got involved and now I need a fresh mug of tea :(14:53
bigcalmdaubers: do you have an underling to get you one?14:55
MooDooAlanBell, are you around14:55
AlanBellfor a minute or two14:56
MooDooAlanBell, can i be picky14:56
AlanBellyes14:56
MooDoohttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/AlanBell - could leave a short testimonial below?   but all of them are above?  or am i reading it wrong14:57
AlanBellreading it wrong!14:57
MooDooah ok i'll shut up :)14:57
AlanBellit is a new testimonials section, as yet empty for the IRCC thing14:57
MooDooah ok14:57
MooDoosorry :)14:58
AlanBells'ok15:00
AlanBellnot sure how to fix that emptyness though . . .15:00
dutchieAlanBell: leave an obviously empty one?15:00
dutchieby which i mean an example15:01
dutchiebrain is fried15:01
daubersbigcalm: Nah, I'm too nice for that15:01
* czajkowski stabs MooDoo 15:02
* dutchie needs an underling15:02
dutchiethey should bring back the days when poor students had to be the others' slaves at oxbridge15:03
MooDooczajkowski, oi that wasn't nice15:03
czajkowskiI get to wipe a Mac and install Ubuntu on it15:04
czajkowskiyay15:04
andylockranwahey15:04
andylockranI have a mac keyboard for use with my Ubuntu machine - win!15:04
TheOpenSourcererczajkowski: I thought you'd be fully in the debian/kde camp by now ;-)15:05
MooDooczajkowski, prod.......:p15:05
czajkowskinope15:05
czajkowskiTheOpenSourcerer: only 1 debian person in here good few KDE and one BSD15:05
czajkowskiMooDoo: oi15:05
* czajkowski stabs MooDoo 15:05
dutchieandylockran: only mac keyboard i have used is horrible15:05
dutchieit is about 7 years old though15:05
andylockranThis is one of them aluminium ones15:06
* DJones takes czajkowski's sharp pointy toys away & replaces them with a squishy, padded toay15:06
DJoness/toay/toy15:06
* czajkowski sulks 15:07
* czajkowski prods DJones oi no fun 15:07
DJonesOw15:07
czajkowskisee stabbing is better15:07
DJonesczajkowski: Perhaps you need one of these http://www.urbancombat.us/store.html15:09
MooDooczajkowski, not liking you at the moment *pout*15:10
xteejxAfternoon all! :)15:14
andylockranhwody xteejx15:14
xteejxI think empathy is playing games again, people not appearing in the users list :S15:15
xteejxandylockran: PS Hi :)15:16
MooDoolets hope sabdfl has a open house warming party :) - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/23/shuttleworth_superior_ink/15:17
xteejxNote this isn't spam guys, but I'm thinking of releasing this 9 second parody in the Ubuntu blogosphere somewhere, can some peeps give me a yay or nay on this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGO18iUpgvQ PS I'm not worried about being flamed by MS users at all15:17
xteejx$31.5million??? Sod the house warming, let's hope that he start dishing out money ;)15:18
ubuntuuk-planet[Ralph Janke] LibreOffice: Document Foundation Steering Committee Public Phone Conference 28-Nov-2010 - http://drupal.txwikinger.me.uk/content/libreoffice-document-foundation-steering-committee-public-phone-conference-28-nov-201015:19
DJonesAnd thats only a weekend home, isn't his offical residence in The Isle of Man15:19
czajkowskiMooDoo: diddums15:19
MooDooczajkowski, stab stab stab :p15:20
czajkowskiMooDoo: you will lose15:20
xteejxSo he's from South Africa but lives over here? Not surprised Canonical's Head Office is in Millbank15:20
MooDooczajkowski, try me :p15:20
czajkowskidavmor2: sort your partner in crime out15:20
xteejxas long as there's no more student loan increases :P15:20
MooDoodavmor2, she's not scaring me today!15:20
davmor2czajkowski: why you started it :P15:20
* xteejx pulls up a chair and grabs some popcorn15:21
davmor2MooDoo: I'd worry if I were you czajkowski has to let her fear angry out on someone (Dentists who needs them.....oh yeah)15:21
MooDoodavmor2, last visit to the dentist i had 3 wisdom teeth out, so pah! she don't scare me :p15:22
* DJones joins xteejx with a chair& gets a large back of Minstrels (other chocolate is available)15:22
davmor2MooDoo: you say that now just wait15:23
xteejxDJones: I'll have a bar of Galaxy if you're offering :D15:23
czajkowskiyeah wait till the pain killers and antibiotics dont work and I get mad15:23
DJonesxteejx: Sorry, I just ate that & fnished off the rest of the chocolate15:23
xteejxDamnit!15:24
* MooDoo ruffles czajkowski hair.....awwwww15:24
* czajkowski takes all your chocolate and gives it away, if I can't have any you can't either 15:24
MooDooczajkowski, being nice for a moment [don't worry it won't last], are you settling into your new job?15:29
davmor2MooDoo: What won't last you not being scared of czajkowski15:39
MooDoodavmor2, me being civil to czajkowski15:39
czajkowski:)15:42
MooDoodavmor2, i'm thankful i'm uunable to make the christmas party though, might get a slapping lol15:43
davmor2I think I'll be in the middle of unpacking at that time so probably won't make it15:44
davmor2we see what I can swing though15:44
MooDoohttp://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/11/kinect-ubuntu-jedi-obviously/ :)15:45
BigRedSI arranged to be working from London the week of teh christmas do :)15:46
BigRedS...but i've since been asked it, since i'm working 'from home', I can be in Dorset the monday and tuesday...15:46
gordhrm, i need some sort of nerdy lamp for my home office, i gets dark whilst i'm working at this time of year... maybe a usb one that i can automatically brighten as sunset approaches!15:48
diploI've got a usb lamp but it's just a switch on and off15:50
Nggord: build an arduino thing to control a normal dimmer switch!15:53
gordNg, you think too small, an arduino controlling one of those lego things that you can control via usb to manually turn a real dimmer switch via some sort of grabber hand!15:54
Ngthat seems prone to unexpected failure ;)15:54
gordwhich is why you build lego units around arudino's powered by solar power charged batteries to function as "helper droids" to right any unexpected wrongs15:57
gordcourse they are gonna need to employ some sort of learning process...15:57
Phineashi guys16:19
Phineassomthing is wrong with my other laptop16:19
MooDooPhineas, that doesn't help lol  :)16:19
Phineasi think it's the HDD16:19
MooDooPhineas, why you think that16:20
Phineasbecause it makes 'squeeking' noises (i have a vid on youtube of it if you want a link) on startup and wont boot16:20
PhineasMooDoo,  want a link to i vid of it (atempting) to boot16:24
Phineas*a16:25
Phineas?16:25
MooDooPhineas, no, but if it's squeeking, something isn't right, does it still squeek if you use a live cd and try to get onto the hdd's filesystem?16:25
gordsounds like a bad battery connection16:25
gordit won't boot because there isn't enough power to boot i'm guessing16:26
PhineasMooDoo,  i think it has bad berings16:26
Phineassounds like theres a mouse in it16:26
Phineastypical toshiba laptop16:27
Phineasgord,  more like a sqeeking mouse (loud) made me say in the vid "holy s**t"16:29
Phineaswhat could have gone wrong also it gives "int test: FAIL" or something like that16:30
Phineasany ideas16:31
diploAnyone here used clonezilla to backup a server and then restore it under KVM ? If so was it an easy process16:31
diploLinux server to be backed up, CentOS 4.*16:32
Phineasanyone knows whats wrong Tosh16:32
Phineas*wrong with16:32
diploHad a look at SMART ? see if it's noticing any issues with the drive ?16:32
diploLog files16:33
PhineasBRB guys16:33
diploQuite often get disc errors wrote to /var/log/messages when they start failing16:33
Phineasdiplo, i can't even get the laptop to boot (just squeels at me). i even made a video on youtube asking for help on what the heck is going on16:39
diploAs MooDoo said, can you boot from cd rom live disc ?16:40
diploif you can't get that far it sounds like a hardware fault somewhere along the line, if it's a battery issue you can try booting up without the batt in and just run it off mains instead16:41
diploworth a try anyhoo16:41
davmor2Phineas: try booting from the live cd if that fails it could be that the boot sector has become corrupted, try removing the HDD and booting from the live cd then16:41
diplomy lift has just turned up so gotta go16:41
Phineasdiplo, yes live cds do boot (with HDD squeeling at me every few secconds)16:42
Phineasdavmor2,  ^^^16:42
AlanBellPhineas: I think a new HDD is what you need16:45
davmor2Phineas: right so try taking the HDD out to double check that it is only the HDD.  With the Hdd out if there is no noise then you hardware is good and you just need a new HDD16:45
Phineasdavmor2,  no HDD noise is gone (possable that the HDD has bad berrings)16:46
davmor2Phineas: yeap which will mean it is not spinning straight and will also mean that the disc is getting slow more corrupted new drive16:47
Phineasdavmor2,  doesn't even want to boot (i have a vid of it trying to boot if you want a link) strangley16:48
Phineasdavmor2,  like you said time for a new HDD. is the HDD replaceable on the laptop16:52
Phineas?16:53
AlanBellPhineas: yes, easy16:54
davmor2Phineas: Yeap you just need a 2.5 inch hdd, and you need to know if it is sata or pata16:54
AlanBelljust don't drop any screws16:54
AlanBelland you could drop in an SSD if you want16:55
Phineasdavmor2,  it it SATA or pata? i dont know16:55
davmor2Phineas: In case you're not sure if you have 2 L shaped connectors on it it's sata, if it is lots of pins it's pata16:55
Phineasdavmor2,  pata, lots of pins16:56
Phineasdo they come cheap16:57
davmor2Phineas: So you just need a 2.5 inch pata laptop drive.  You'll need to remove the outer metal slide house normally 2-4 screws done.16:58
davmor2Phineas: check online16:58
davmor2re price16:58
Phineasi'll have a look some time16:58
AlanBell50 quid or thereabouts depending on size16:59
PhineasAlanBell,  50 quid! *sigh* lucky enough i have other laptops, but still there might be data on the drive17:00
davmor2Phineas: in the meantime if you need to do work etc, you could install on a USB stick with persistence and work from that and save stuff to the persistence section of the usb drive17:01
Phineasdavmor2,  not if the HDD wont boot17:02
AlanBellboot from USB17:03
davmor2Phineas: No it'll all be stored on the usb pen drive17:03
davmor2including Ubuntu17:03
AlanBelldid you try accessing the hdd from the live CD? you might be able to get data off if you can17:03
PhineasAlanBell,  yes and the drive is not there as the HDDs power on test failed17:04
domjohnsonHi17:05
urakenhi how are you17:05
domjohnsonIs there a way to set an external hard drive as the home mount point?17:05
Phineasdomjohnson,  hi17:05
AlanBellPhineas: in which case, chuck it in the bin. There might be ways to recover it, but not at any sane budget.17:06
urakenan external one um not sure?17:06
AlanBelldomjohnson: for just /home ? sure, that should work17:06
PhineasAlanBell,  do you want to watch it boot (i have a vid)17:07
domjohnson*after installation?17:07
AlanBelldirecthex: collabora huh, nice!17:07
domjohnsonAlanBell - how would I change the mount point to the ext. HDD?17:07
directhexAlanBell: if you're well behaved, i'll let you see the announcement blog post i changed my mind about publishing ;)17:07
Phineasdirecthex,  ooh17:08
AlanBelldomjohnson: mounting something basically replaces what was there, so on your internal drive you have /home and then you mount the external one over the top of /home17:08
AlanBell!mount17:08
lubotu3mount is used to attach devices to directories. See also https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mount17:08
AlanBell!fstab17:08
lubotu3The /etc/fstab file indicates how drive partitions are to be used or otherwise integrated into the file system. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab and http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html and !Partitions17:08
urakendoes anyone if there any software that will allow me to create a pdf documetn with editable regions to be able tpo print?17:08
domjohnsonuraken - as in,. the end user can edit it?17:09
AlanBelldirecthex: are you moving towards the other university?17:09
directhexAlanBell: nope, leaving academia for the forseeable future. i need a "real" job17:09
AlanBellyeah, just saw they have a Cambridge office17:10
urakenyes i want to create a document which in the main is a set of questions that the end user answers and then prints but can't save the main doc17:10
directhexAlanBell: i'll need to be in cambs once or twice a week. work from home otherwise.17:10
urakenit needs to be pdf for cross compatability17:11
urakeni was thinking open office and some nice plugin ?17:12
AlanBelluraken: what about a web page?17:12
Phineasdid someone want me17:13
urakenalan thats is a really good idea umm17:13
urakenmay have to think about that one17:14
popeycongrats directhex17:14
Phineaspopey,  didn't see you there17:14
Phineasdirecthex,  Cambridge? UK?17:19
ubuntuuk-planet[Ralph Janke] Is open source under siege? Let's hope not! - http://drupal.txwikinger.me.uk/content/open-source-under-siege-lets-hope-not17:19
bigcalmhttp://act.libdems.org.uk/events/nick-cleggs-lieathon # erm?17:30
danfishsudo apt-get update17:34
danfish#fail17:34
danfish:)17:35
Phineasa thousand wooop17:40
kaushalHi17:46
kaushalAre there opensource project to set up internal chat server and client within an organization17:47
popeyjabber17:47
Phineasjabber?17:48
kaushalok17:48
popeyyes Phineas, jabber.17:48
gingsurely there is an open source irc server17:48
MattJJabber \o/17:48
MattJ!17:48
popeywhy would you use irc over jabber?17:48
gingno instead of jabber17:49
bigcalmging: Hybrid IRC17:49
bigcalmhttp://www.ircd-hybrid.org/17:49
gingeveryone loves irc17:50
popeyging: re-read and comprehend what I said17:50
popeyand for 'over' read 'instead of'17:50
gingoh17:50
dutchieirc and jabber aren't quite the same though17:51
MattJIndeed17:51
popeyyes, jabber is awesome.17:51
gingi've never used jabber so that's why i wouldnt choose it17:51
MattJ\o/17:51
dutchieirc's main priority is groups, jabber's is for 1-117:51
popeyBZZZZT17:51
popeyfail17:51
dutchiejabber is also much more extensible17:51
dutchiepopey: main priority :)17:51
MattJI'm in more Jabber channels than IRC :)17:51
kaushalpopey: Thanks17:56
kaushalI do not see HowTo for setting up jabber17:56
popeynp17:56
kaushalserver and client17:56
popeywhere are you looking?17:56
popey!info ejabberd17:57
MattJPft17:57
lubotu3ejabberd (source: ejabberd): distributed, fault-tolerant Jabber/XMPP server written in Erlang. In component universe, is optional. Version 2.1.5-2 (maverick), package size 1728 kB, installed size 4176 kB17:57
MattJ!info prosody17:57
lubotu3prosody (source: prosody): Lightweight Jabber/XMPP server written in Lua. In component universe, is extra. Version 0.6.2-2 (maverick), package size 137 kB, installed size 932 kB17:57
MattJ;)17:57
popey:)17:57
popeyfirst hit on google17:57
popeykaushal: listen to MattJ, he knows what he talks about17:57
MattJI can help with setting up Prosody too (after using ejabberd, I decided to write it)17:57
MattJand there are lots of clients, Pidgin, Gajim, Empathy, Psi, Swift...17:58
kaushalok17:58
MattJand mcabber and finch for console :)17:58
MattJand some others I can't remember17:59
kaushalso use ejabberd or Prosody as server and use pidgin for client application ?17:59
MattJThat works17:59
PhineasUnity web player for linux is there one?18:01
popeyPhineas: google + unity web player linux = http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/5891-Linux-Web-Player18:03
Phineaspopey,  no help at all18:05
MattJkaushal: if you need any more help btw, #jabber is friendly :)18:06
kaushalMattJ: Thanks18:07
kaushalso ideally setup Prosody18:08
kaushalsince its straight forward ?18:08
MattJSure, at a minimum just "sudo apt-get install prosody" and change `Host "localhost"` in the config to whatever the address of your server is18:08
kaushalok18:09
kaushalAlso does it store the chat messages somewhere ?18:09
MattJFor logging you mean?18:09
kaushaland can it be configured as group chat18:09
MattJIt can18:10
kaushalMattJ: yes18:10
MattJThere's an example in the config18:10
kaushaloh ok18:10
kaushalso once Prosody is setup, which client application would be ideal for connecting to Prosody ?18:10
MattJDepends on your preferences, I use Gajim18:11
kaushalok18:11
MattJEmpathy is installed in Ubuntu by default, and that works too18:11
kaushalMattJ: Awesome18:12
kaushalThanks a Lot18:12
MattJnp18:12
MattJYou'll be wanting http://prosody.im/doc/configure and in particular http://prosody.im/doc/creating_accounts18:13
kaushalAlso can i force use to login as kaushal@example.com ?18:13
kaushaluser*18:13
MattJThat's up to their client18:14
kaushalso its ideal to use Prosody as Server and Gajim as client within the office LAN Network18:15
kaushalsince i wont to prohibit user to use gtalk yahoo ......18:15
MattJIt's ideal to use whatever you find best - if you like Gajim then sure18:15
kaushalwant*18:15
dutchiekaushal: i'd say the easiest way to block other services is not allow connections to chat.google.com or whatever it is18:16
kaushalMattJ: How long it would take to configure the set up ?18:16
MattJA few minutes for the server, a few minutes for the client? :)18:17
kaushal:D18:17
kaushalMattJ: so you are the man18:17
kaushalThanks18:17
kaushalmuch appreciated18:17
MattJdutchie: if you don't want outbound IM it's tricky - you can block major services that way, but you can Jabber/XMPP to any server and any port18:17
kaushalI would start working it from tommorrow18:17
MattJkaushal: np18:18
dutchieMattJ: oh yeah, i did vaguely know that18:18
MattJYay for the internet is what I say :)18:21
marsilainenhi all18:30
marsilainenI see that I can set sshd to listen on more than one port18:30
marsilainenwhat I would like to do is to have different options set depending upon the port18:31
marsilainenso that port 22 will have one set of options and port 97987 or whatever will have a different set of options18:31
marsilainenbut I can't see a way to do that?18:31
danfishmarsilainen: not sure that's possible. I think you could run a second instance of sshd with a different config file18:38
marsilainendanfish: ok, thanks, I might have to resort to that18:38
directhexi believe danfish is correct18:39
directhexi don't think the debian config files allow for that, but you could make your own copy of /etc/init.d/ssh and call it something like privatessh or whatever, and set the new config file path in there18:40
directhexmultiple init scripts is likely the best way to achieve your goal.18:40
danfishonly drawback is any automatic updates to ssh may well undo it all, but that's not the end of the world18:41
Azelphurdirecthex: the other day you said the graphics card I was looking at wasn't that great (The GTX 470) but besides that there's only really the GTX 58018:43
Azelphurdo you think I should fork out for a 580?18:44
directhexAzelphur: given it's not a gaming machine, sod it.18:44
Azelphurlol18:44
AzelphurI max out my 8800 easy18:44
Azelphur(In Linux)18:44
directhex(In Linux)18:48
Azelphurindeed (In Linux)18:48
marsilainendirecthex: thanks, that helps me understand a clean way of doing it18:50
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popeymarsilainen: i run ssh on more than one port19:12
popeyyou dont need to have two ssh daemons at all19:12
popeymarsilainen: just have two lines in /etc/ssh/sshd_config with Port NN and Port MM19:13
popeyone after the other19:13
marsilainenpopey: I understand that I can do that - but I need different settings on the different ports19:13
popeyoh, sorry, misread :S19:13
popeywhat kind of options?19:13
marsilainenpopey: on port 22 I want to allow password login, but on 97897 (or whatever) I want you to only be able to connect with a key file19:14
marsilainenthe higher port will be forwarded through a firewall from outside19:14
marsilainenbut port 22 still open on the lan for convenience19:14
Azelphurpopey: a while back I think you recommended an SSD, the Intel X25-M19:14
Azelphuris that still good?19:14
directhexAzelphur: the x25-m is still a very very good drive... but very expensive19:17
directhexi believe the x25 is still best in *sustained* benchmarks... drives based on a sandforce controller will eclipse it for bursts19:18
popeyi have no idea what ssd's are good and bad Azelphur19:19
MartijnVdSthe PCIe ones are faster19:26
MartijnVdSthat's all I know19:26
Azelphurdirecthex: yea, but atm it's cheap19:27
Azelphuramazon are doing black friday in the UK19:27
Azelphurso £78, everywhere else is like £140+19:28
danfishmarsilainen: you can specify that from within the LAN logins can be password based and from without keys IIRC19:28
danfishforgot an ',' -> "from without, keys, IRRC"19:28
danfishmarsilainen: scrap that - just checked, that won't work :(19:31
marsilainendanfish: no worries, thanks for looking anyway19:35
directhexAzelphur: £78 for which capacity?19:38
Azelphur4019:38
* MooDoo prods czajkowski 19:40
* czajkowski kicks MooDoo in the shins oi behave you19:40
* MooDoo pokes czajkowski in the side, make me :p19:40
czajkowskidavmor2: is easier than this19:41
davmor2czajkowski: Thanks for that now everyone thinks I'm easy :P19:42
czajkowskidavmor2: and this is news?19:45
MooDoodavmor2, come on, you're not very quick at prodding her tonight :)19:45
davmor2czajkowski: see that guy over there in the white jacket and black bowtie serving drink he reminds me of you ;)19:47
MooDooczajkowski, go make me a cuppa ;)19:49
czajkowskiMooDoo: one day you're going to regret saying that19:50
MooDooczajkowski, i'll regret it when Ireland beat England at the world cup...oh hang on, that aint going to happen :p19:52
davmor2MooDoo: it'll be the day she pulverises you into the shape of a cup19:52
MooDoodavmor2, i'm not scared of her any more, i've decided19:52
shaunoMooDoo: the only thing to fear is fear itself.  the pain subsides after a few weeks :p19:54
davmor2MooDoo: Muhahahahahaha foolish mortal :)19:54
MooDoodavmor2, it's coz i'm miles away :)19:55
fearnyHi need some running a racing sim game called rfactor19:55
fearnyits not detecting my on board ati HD 420019:56
daubersEvening19:57
MooDoodaubers, evening19:57
AlanBellLook who the European Commission vice president turns to for advice! http://twitter.com/#!/NeelieKroesEU/status/569294107915059320:02
Azelphurnice20:03
daubersBlimey, that's quite impressive20:03
davmor2MooDoo: Ireland aren't allow to beat England at anything for the next million years, it's in the small print for the bail out20:04
jacobwBah, just spend 75 minutes on the phone with a relative trying to get their email client working and got nowhere20:08
MooDoodavmor2, lol, then again as she's now in the uk, she should support england lol20:08
jacobwis it possible to run a VNC session on port 80?20:09
shaunodon't see why not.  I run ssh on 443.  most things don't care.  it's just a number20:09
davmor2jacobw: are they on Ubuntu?20:10
jacobwFedora, but same difference20:10
davmor2jacobw: get them to share the session via empathy done and dusted20:10
jacobwdavmor2, what protocol?20:11
czajkowskidavmor2: we omt mention the opression so shall we20:11
davmor2jacobw: It just spouts it through the empathy im call20:12
davmor2jacobw: if you can get out through empathy it can get in20:12
davmor2czajkowski: those painkiller are kicking in I see, you can't type any more :D20:13
czajkowskidavmor2: aye took some of my strong ones I take for my back for my tooth plus antibiotic20:13
MooDooczajkowski, did you sort a dentist?20:14
czajkowskiyes see fb20:15
daubers /o\ fb20:15
davmor2MooDoo: czajkowski can't talk,  so yes she did, wisdom tooth coming through and desperately trying to kill her in the process20:15
MooDoodavmor2, last time  had to go to the dentist for an extraction, they took 3 of mine out at once20:16
daubersMooDoo: I'd have done all of them at once, and for half the price!20:18
davmor2MooDoo: Mine feel apart as they grew through I have a lovely scar from the drain they put in for the abscess, oh and nerve damage so I don't feel a great deal in my chin20:19
* daubers wonders where he put those bolt cutters20:19
ubuntuuk-planet[Jo Shields] Always twirling, twirling, twirling towards Freedom - http://apebox.org/wordpress/linux/296/20:19
jacobwdavmor2, so if I register then for an MSN account, I'll be able to desktop sharing with them?20:19
davmor2jacobw: yeap, or gmail if you got one, or jabber20:21
jacobwI can't get jabber working atm20:21
* hippychick kicksh empathy20:22
jacobwOh. It's working :p20:23
hippychickmy empathy on msn doesnt bloody work20:23
finelytunedevenin g all20:25
jacobwevening20:28
davmor2hippychick: there was a work around for that in a bug report I'll try and track it down,  the issue was with MS rather than empathy20:31
daubersWhats the plural of apex?20:32
daubersapexs' or apexes?20:32
shaunoapices :)20:38
davmor2hippychick: sorry I can't find it :(20:38
danfishdaubers: apices20:38
hippychickdavmor2, i found this, http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1583570.html but im getting the same issue as the last people20:39
hippychickand the fix in there is already on my laptop20:39
daubersshauno,danfish: ta :)20:40
davmor2hippychick: I know why mine is working there is a fix in proposed20:41
MooDoohehe john maddog hall just accepted my facebook friend request lol20:45
finelytunedcya all tomorrow21:01
popeybigcalm: google minecraft xray :D21:05
bigcalmOooooo21:06
bigcalmThat's cheating!21:06
* popey presses F4 to highlight diamond on his map21:07
bigcalmpopey: http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_165689&v=v5fS4RF3ht0&feature=iv21:11
popeylol, thats ace21:13
bigcalmNow watching http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtWwkJqrT_4&NR=1&feature=fvwp21:14
bigcalmWhich is, erm, colourful21:14
popeywow21:18
ubuntuuk-planet[Jono Bacon] Tips For ustream.tv Videocasters - http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/11/23/tips-for-ustream-tv-videocasters/21:19
Azelphurdo the linksys wifi cards have proprietary drivers?21:19
Azelphurand by linksys I mean netgear21:20
* Azelphur facepalms on behalf of everyone21:20
suprengrI could have sworn I synchronised my planet's time-counters with your Earth clocks correctly...21:20
suprengr...so what happened to  or: Meeting 23rd November 21:00 GMT in #ubuntu-uk-meeting"21:21
popey"oops"21:21
suprengr[me confused]21:21
* popey pokes AlanBell 21:21
* suprengr poke me21:22
popeylooks like everyone forgot]21:22
AlanBellin another meeting that is running over, and dull21:23
suprengrforgiveness is a gift.. you are forgiven21:23
suprengr;)21:23
AlanBellright, done with the last meeting21:27
AlanBellok, so oops to our meeting, my fault I was chair21:27
AlanBellmea culpa and many lashes with the cilice and all that21:28
AlanBellactually no, that is a wearing thing21:28
suprengrwhatever turns you on21:28
AlanBellok, so rescheduling sounds like a good idea21:29
danfishprob for the best21:29
* suprengr agrees21:29
AlanBelltomorrow?21:32
* mgdm looks at upgrading his MPC-L... which is headless... from Jaunty21:33
danfishAlanBell: ?bit short notice - maybe next Tuesday?21:34
danfishmgdm: DO IT!21:34
* suprengr agrees next week... allows time for rumours to spread21:34
danfishmgdm: can't get my MPC-L to run maverick, but OK with lucid21:35
mgdmdanfish: cool, I'll be happy with Lucid21:35
popeyit wont run maverick because its not i68621:38
gordwow really?21:38
mgdmoh, forgot about that change21:38
danfishoh yeah, me too21:39
marsilainenare those mpc-l things still available to buy? or is there a better alternative these days?21:41
gordi'm waiting for arm hardware to become more prevalent before replacing my low energy stuff with newer low energy stuff. would love to replace my home server with an arm device21:42
AlanBellok, so next meeting Tuesday 30th then21:42
TheOpenSourcererCool - 1st 3D Open Source driver from AMD/ATi : http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/211503/open_source_driver_debuts_for_amd_fusion_chip.html21:43
mgdm\o/ Ubuntu 9.0421:44
mgdm(in screen)21:44
danfishmarsilainen: dunno, but they I think it's fair to say revo's are prob more popular and far more popular for low powered stuff21:44
TheOpenSourcerer"At this rate, it won't be long before drivers and compatibility issues become a thing of the past for Linux users."21:45
danfishbuzzzz. repetition!21:45
suprengrAlanBell: Tuesday 30th cool21:46
mgdmanyone know offhand what kind of drive the MPC-L has inside it? I forget, and I dont have a screwdriver handy21:54
danfishmgdm: 2.5in pata IIRC21:55
Nafallomgdm: dmesg ? :-)21:55
mgdmdanfish: ta21:55
mgdmNafallo: oh aye21:55
mgdmI might get a bigger one21:56
Nafallomgdm: 512GB SSD? ;-)21:56
mgdmNafallo: hah21:58
AlanBellcan popey or someone update the topic please, here and -meeting22:06
AlanBellor that22:06
DJonesGo for it22:06
Nafallohah22:06
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AlanBellsilly paste thing22:07
bigcalmWow, I missed this. It's finally made beta (back in September) http://sparkleshare.org/22:08
* Nafallo ponders how one says that domain ubunt.eu... ubunteeeew?22:08
AlanBellup to 11 for the christmas thing, plus 5 maybes22:13
mgdmthis goes to 11 \o/22:15
AlanBellrock on22:15
danfishgotta work until 20:30 that day :(22:19
jacobwI'm considering buying a VPS to host a website for a business venture22:21
jacobwWhat VPS provider would you guys reccomend?22:21
bigcalmBytemark for me22:21
danfishlinode22:22
AlanBellwe have started using real hardware and running our own vms on it22:22
danfishAlanBell: oooh, who with?22:22
AlanBellhardware at hetzner.de22:22
AlanBellrunning KVM22:23
AlanBelllooked into doing eucalyptus but really KVM is all we need22:23
danfishthat's some serious hardware - which plan are you using?22:24
AlanBellEQ 422:25
AlanBell8 cores, 8GB22:25
AlanBelllooked at the bigger boxes, but I would rather have smaller ones with more redundancy22:25
AlanBell4 cores, hyperthreaded to be strictly accurate22:26
danfishmakes sense22:27
popeymgdm: http://popey.com/~alan/viglen/22:27
popeyhas been there for ooo 2 years :)22:27
mgdmpopey: yay, ta :)22:28
jacobwThe business is a rent-a-villa type deal, I'm planning to use the website to advertise the property and what dates are available for booking, and possibily take bookings22:28
danfishAlanBell: your own mini cloud :)22:28
bigcalmStill running xorg on a viglen?22:28
popeyhah22:28
jacobwI don't think I need a monsterous server for that just yet22:28
popeynot running any viglens at the moment22:28
bigcalmMe neither :S22:28
bigcalmNo idea what to do with mine22:28
popeysomeone should make a ppa for a maverick kernel which is i38622:28
popeyfor the viglen22:29
bigcalmStill want to buy another revo but doubt I'll use it22:29
AlanBelljacobw: no, you don't, really cheap vps from bytemark would work great22:29
* popey looks at his spare revo22:29
AlanBellcould do shared hosting but it is nicer to have root access to your machine22:29
bigcalmIs it worth getting the recent one?22:29
jacobwAlanBell: I agree, I would definately want root access22:29
danfishpopey: could you use a debian i386 recent kernel on the MPC-L and then the rest of the ubuntu 'stack', or am I being dumb?22:30
popeydanfish: probably22:31
danfish:D22:31
popeyunless there are libc differences22:31
AlanBellwe are mainly doing VPS for our consultancy customers, and we are not getting into monthly billing stuff, just 6 or 12 month contracts22:31
danfishsorry - I was assuming the 'dumb' option ;)22:31
popey:)22:31
* bigcalm chuckles22:31
popeydumb is good22:31
bigcalmIt wasn't aimed at me!22:31
popeyi need sleep22:32
popeynn all22:32
bigcalmNight popey22:32
danfishcheerio22:32
danfishAlanBell: I wonder if the G-Cloud will ever actually happen?22:34
AzelphurI wonder how fast Ubuntu would boot on 3 SSD's in RAID522:36
AlanBelldanfish: not sure, now John Suffolk is leaving22:37
AlanBellsomething called the G-Cloud will certainly happen22:37
danfishAzelphur: softraid - not at all - raid5 booting not supported AFAIK22:38
AlanBelland will be pointed to as a success of the strategy22:38
danfishAlanBell: why, oh why did he have to leave. A disaster.22:38
Azelphurdanfish: so I'd need a mobo with real raid to do it22:38
danfishAzelphur: yup22:39
Azelphurthat's a little depressing D:22:39
danfishAlanBell: in my patch we have agreed to start a cloud(y) type system with 'buddy' practices who will mirror each other's data and in event of a failure at on site provide a virtual machine22:40
danfishnot much, but a start22:41
AlanBellnice22:41
danfishAzelphur: the softraid stuff is loads during boot, so you've go to get so far into the boot before that happens22:42
AzelphurIndeed22:42
danfishin an IT meeting yesterday, the local IT manager mentioned open source before I did. He's looking at open(libre)office on new installs.22:44
jacobwwin22:45
danfishjacobw: maybe. The standard doc format within the organisation has been set at .doc with .docx being deemed unacceptable.22:48
siya"fsck: fsck.ntfs-3g: not found"22:48
siyaIs there such a thing these days or do ppl still dual boot for fix ntfs problems?22:49
* siya is dealing with a backup disk that needs to be Win mountable if the day ever came22:49
siyaWould rather not format it FAT... *sigh*22:50
danfishsiya: sorry to ask a stupid Q, but is package ntfs-3g installed?22:50
siyabtw, evening peeps22:50
siyadanfish, yup it is22:50
siyantfsprogs as well22:50
siyaI normally have it mounted and use rsync to write to it22:51
siyanoticed an IO error in my syslog so thought I'd best check the disk22:51
siyaSetup is a Ubuntu server running virtualbox 3.2. Guest OS's include Win2k8.22:52
siyamultiple virtual machines backup to that disk (not all local) hence rsync22:52
danfishI can't say anything good about ntfs22:54
siyadanfish, I'd rather use something else but I also need to have access to it from Windows (others not me)22:55
siyaimho using ntfs-3g for backup purposes in not ideal22:55
BigRedSext driver for windows?22:57
danfish?format as ext3 and then get the windows folks to use the ext3 driver for windows if needed?22:57
BigRedSfor backing up a unixy thing, I'd want a unixy fs, else you'll be forever arsing around with permissions22:57
siyadanfish, urgh22:58
siyakthnx guys. Prolly best I reformat when swapping backup disks next22:59
danfishright. TTFN. Kids will be waking me up in 6 hrs or less.23:01
hamitroncertainly fresh outside ;/23:18
ubuntuuk-planet[Matthew Garrett] Barnes and Noble response - http://mjg59.livejournal.com/130533.html23:19
jacobwDoes anybody use Google Sites?23:29
hamitronyes23:29
hamitronnot much though :/23:29
jacobwI think I'll stick to writing my own HTML etc on balance, at least I'll know exactly how it works23:36
hamitronjacobw: I personally consider it a good fill in till I can be bothered to make something23:46
BigRedSAh, that's what I call html 1.0 style sites23:47
jacobwBigRedS: Google sites are?23:48
jacobwhamitron: I can figure out how to make it do what I want23:48
jacobwhamitron: I'm not quite sure about having a WYSIWYG web page editor inside my browser either23:49
hamitronmy main reason for even looking was the email hosting23:49
hamitron:)23:49
jacobwYeah that is a good reason23:49
hamitronit was part of my drive in life to reduce "maintaining" stuff23:51
jacobwI think that having an integrated email and calendar and everything else would be massively over doing it for what I need23:54
hamitronI just used it to redirect stuff23:54
hamitron:)23:54
jacobwI just need to display a calendar, have a contact form and drop emails to a small number of people23:54
hamitronbut I know there is the functionality there is needed23:54
hamitronif*23:55
jacobwWhich is probably PHP 10123:55
* jacobw needs to learn PHP23:55
hamitronit was not really the setup of what I needed, that worried me23:55
hamitronmore the continual patching if I hosted my own23:56
hamitronand google been free, won me over23:56
jacobwYeah, on the flip side, I will need the ability to maintain this site myself23:57
hamitronI do use google docs though, and have thought it would be interesting to merge it all together23:57
jacobwYeah, I think that would be good23:57
hamitronbut then I come to my main weakness.... I never play with that kinda thing until I need it23:58
jacobwI've never played with a server before, it'll be a learning experience23:58
hamitronso just use what I already know23:58
hamitronyeh23:59

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