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exobuzz2:20am morning to all02:19
Azelphurmorning :p02:21
exobuzz<dangerous political content not suited for channel>the recent media hype over the danger of the leak with vital places for security is interesting. the way it has been mentioned that it could help terrorists. a terrorist would never guess an oil/gas pipeline is important .. nor would they think to use a search engine which would give more information than the leak itself... </this isnt real xml. so i dont care>02:27
exobuzzsorry.. i just felt like unloading that.. .. im finished now02:28
exobuzzbuffer mpty02:28
exobuzz^e somewhere.02:28
exobuzzi probably broke some terms of service, but then i did plan to stick ubuntu in the above rhetoric  somwhere, and then forgot02:30
exobuzzin other news.. ubuntu users are happy and ubuntu is working (excluding netbook users who tried to use unity) :)02:31
kaushalhi06:37
kaushalGood Morning Everyone06:37
kaushalHow do i know my underlying hardware is 32 or 64 Bit ?06:38
kaushalis it known via dmidecode ?06:38
=== monsterkiller is now known as MonsterKiller
AlanBellmorning all07:19
AlanBellkaushal: it is in /proc/cpuinfo07:19
AlanBellhave a look at the flags, if they contain LM then you should be 64 bit capable07:20
kaushalAlanBell: Thanks07:26
kaushalmuch appreciated07:27
=== MonsterKiller is now known as monsterkiller
nperrymorning  o/08:31
selinuxiummorning o./08:38
selinuxiumo/08:38
selinuxiumhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1-Q_8EbB8A08:39
Flashtekkaushal: grep lm /proc/cpuinfo08:52
screen-xmorning :)09:00
BigRedSGoooood Morning!09:00
screen-x\o BigRedS09:00
* screen-x is a temporary member of the work-at-home club09:01
* BigRedS waves a mildly frosty hand09:01
BigRedSAh, I did that last week. It was wonderful!09:01
screen-xThat depends on how well NX holds up for me..09:01
* screen-x experiments: does killing gdm, kill an nx session..?09:05
hoovergood mornin09:07
screen-xmornin hoover :)09:07
czajkowskialoha09:10
daubersMorning09:18
screen-xipmi is awesome :)09:18
screen-xand hi daubers09:18
daubersscreen-x: heh, literally just using IPMI to fix someones box09:19
hooverhello screen-x09:24
nperrycurl http://ryanak.ca/files/holiday-motd09:26
popeymorning all09:35
hoovermornin popey09:36
nperrymorning mr popey09:37
AlanBellwhat is impi?09:41
daubersAlanBell: Pure win!09:42
nperryimperial pie :/09:42
AlanBellhttp://www.canonical.com/news/impilinux09:42
screen-xAlanBell: inteligent platform management interface09:42
daubersAlanBell: IPMI09:42
BigRedSAlanBell: not that09:43
* BigRedS is late to the party, clearly09:43
screen-xAlanBell: its a spec for secondary CPUs that can be used for out of band management.09:43
dwatkinsI thought AlanBell meant IPMI at first, then re-read the original line...09:45
dwatkinsIPMI is really useful for accessing systems on their serial port, remote rebooting etc.09:46
* AlanBell misread it09:46
daubersdwatkins: Or for using as a remote kvm :)09:46
AlanBellso basically a built in remote kvm09:46
dwatkinsNot all IPMI interfaces will do forwarding of the graphical output of the display, but yes, that is very handy too.09:47
screen-xwith power control09:47
screen-xand remote virtual media09:47
dwatkinsThe Intel ones tend to just allow serial with ipmitool, whereas the SuperMicro ones have a web-interface with a java console applet, and you can even mount an ISO as if it were a CD or USB device you'd attached09:47
dwatkinsI don't know about other manufacturers, though.09:48
AlanBellI remember having a serial port one on an HP box a long time ago, was quite cool, but not very practical, if you were standing within serial port distance then you could do whatever you needed anyway09:48
dwatkinsI used to support SGI systems which use those two in their clusters.09:48
dwatkinsAlanBell: we also used to sometimes have a laptop or other PC with a serial connection to the server, so you could ssh to the laptop and do stuff via serial on the bigger machine09:49
AlanBelldwatkins: this was back when laptops were *very* expensive!09:49
directhexthere are a lot of terrible ipmi implementations though09:49
directhexthe chip on sunfire x2200 m2's is awful09:49
dwatkinsAlanBell: ah right, those were probably the days you could buy a 'L3 controller' - a separate PC to control your cluster/mainframe from09:50
dwatkinsI suspect I should be glad I never encountered it, directhex09:50
directhexdwatkins: ipmi chip stops listening to any commands until power cycled about 1 time in 4 when issuing power commands to the chassis09:51
directhexas in "ipmi chip is power cycled"09:51
directhexas in "unplug server, wait, plug in server"09:51
dwatkinsdirecthex: upgrade its firmware09:55
dwatkinsdirecthex: I saw a lot of that sort of problem with these systems, often it was a bug in the BMC firmware; check the version with ipmitool, chances are there's a newer release09:55
bigcalmHidyho!09:59
hooverhey biggie09:59
bigcalmSup, hoovie?10:00
hoovernot much mate, yourself?10:07
hooverMachines, servers and PC's seem to break at the touch of my fingers at the moment10:07
hooversometimes even a remote ssh login seems enough ;-)10:07
Flashtekhoover: don't touch then10:07
hoovereasier sad then done when you're an IT engineer ;-)10:07
Flashtektake a day off10:08
Flashtekhide in the loo10:08
hoovera day probably won't suffice... I'm feeling more like in the three-months rage10:08
hooverrange even10:08
hooverjust the right time for the annual performance review today 8(10:08
Flashtekneed someone with a fixing aura to visit ?10:08
* BigRedS imagines a three-month rage10:08
BigRedSnot pretty10:08
Flashteklol10:09
hoovercertainly not... I cannot even type anymore it seems10:09
screen-xhoover: you'll be ok, just don't leave r00t terminals lying around..10:12
dwatkinsI like that Fife Council have a list of currently open schools, as opposed to ones which are closed - it's probably shorter.10:18
hooverhehe10:21
hooverScotland snowed in ATM?10:22
dwatkinshoover: it's more "iced-in" here in Edinburgh10:22
dwatkinshttp://rowla.dyndns.org/gallery/v/blog/ice.jpg.html is a picture of a metre-high pile of ice I had to dig out from in front of my car to be able to move it this morning, for example10:22
hoovernice10:25
hoovernot quite as bad here in .de10:25
dwatkinsI imagine it's warmed-up a little now, it was -9 C this morning.10:26
hooveralthough the north has been hit rather hard by snow10:26
AlanBellhttp://rowla.dyndns.org/gallery/v/blog/P1000268.jpg.html10:27
bigcalmI think that mainland europe know how to deal with seasonal weather10:27
bigcalmThat's the difference, we only know about rain10:27
bigcalmAlanBell: mega cute10:27
dwatkinsAlanBell: http://rowla.dyndns.org/blog/2010/06/27/best-penguin-ever/10:28
AlanBellhttp://rowla.dyndns.org/gallery/v/blog/IMG_3049.html oh my10:28
bigcalmOh gawd10:28
bigcalmWHo is that?10:28
dwatkinsAlanBell: yeah, a friend of mine whose nickname is "Beerman"10:28
bigcalmDamn, I wanted to point and laugh10:29
dwatkinsIt's not me, no.10:29
Flashtekthats cool..10:30
nperryReally wish the Nexus S was a dual core cpu :(10:36
bigcalmSame cpu as the One but more ram. Quite a dissapointment10:37
nperryNot really an upgrade in my mind.10:37
popeydunno, that ram comes in handy for 2.210:38
* MartijnVdS waits for 2.3 on the Nexus One to decide if he wants the Nexus S10:39
bigcalmThe tracker ball on the N1 is very handy for presicision text editing, why don't more phones have one?10:39
screen-xbecause they get knackered in pockets10:39
bigcalmI can see that happening without a cover. I keep mine in the neoprean pouch10:40
screen-xsensible10:40
bigcalmWish it came with the Wildfire that I gave to my GF10:40
* popey does precision editing with his finger10:40
bigcalmSome of us have banana fingers10:41
MartijnVdSscreen-x: not mine..10:41
popeyhttp://twitpic.com/photos/popey  does that work for any of you?10:41
MartijnVdSWaiting for twitpic.com....10:41
bigcalmI see popey10:41
Flashtekwaiting for twitpic.com10:41
screen-xpopey: nope10:42
MartijnVdSah it works now10:42
bigcalmpopey: wfm10:42
MartijnVdS"Photos from popey" + your face10:42
bigcalmJust slow to respond10:42
bigcalmWhich I blame VirginMedia10:42
screen-x"There was an error loading this page, please try again."10:42
Flashtekyup, wfm now10:42
MartijnVdSso.. why aren't you all out storming the place where Assange is being held? ;)10:42
popeyyeah, I'm getting all kinds of errors10:42
Flashtekpopey: refresh10:42
popeyMartijnVdS: we're british10:42
popeywe don't storm10:42
Flashtekhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/flashtek-uk/10:42
popeyFlashtek: I know how to operate a browser, thanks :)10:43
Flashtekpopey: ;-)10:43
nigelbpopey: so, what do you do instead of storm? ;)10:43
AlanBellwe tut dissapprovingly10:43
popeyhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/flashtek-uk/5240316743/ awwwwwww10:43
MartijnVdSdrink some more tea10:43
popeynigelb: we tut10:43
AlanBellwhilst drinking tea10:43
nigelblol10:43
popeyalso.. paddington hard stares10:43
bigcalmAwwwww10:43
AlanBellPBHS!10:43
Flashtekyou like that ?10:44
popeyI like cats :)10:44
bigcalm<3 cats10:44
davmor2morning all10:44
bigcalmHi davmor210:44
Flashtekbigcalm: there are more photos10:44
* nigelb sneezes.10:44
bigcalm\o/10:44
* davmor2 I like big cats10:44
nigelbToo many cat lovers here :p10:44
daubersMartijnVdS: Also, rape is a serious crime, so he should stand trial (even if he is innocent, in which case he has nothing to hide really does he?)10:44
bigcalmdaubers: I think the rape charge was dropped10:44
bigcalmSex without a condom10:45
AlanBellthis is somewhat offtopic10:45
bigcalmJust a little10:45
MartijnVdSyes, it is. sorry about that.10:45
bigcalmBack to cats!10:45
AlanBell!politics though10:45
Flashtekwhat, where did that come from ?10:45
MartijnVdSAlanBell: !wikileaks? )10:45
AlanBell!politics10:45
lubotu3Please take political discussion to ##politics-uk. Thank you!10:45
Flashtek!cats10:45
AlanBellyeah, there is #wikileaks10:45
davmor2bigcalm: popey: http://picasaweb.google.com/davmor2/TigerTrip2010#547998249440881859410:46
bigcalmcat /dev/random > /dev/dsp10:46
bigcalmCatting is fun10:46
Flashtekbig kitty10:46
bigcalmMew10:46
Flashtekthat's such a fake.. it's ben photoshopped you can tell.. the shadows are all wrong..10:47
Flashtek;-)10:47
popey:)10:47
screen-xhmm he doesn't looked best pleased10:47
Flashtekfar from gruntled10:47
Flashtekscreen-x: probably find someone took his fristies away10:48
Flashtek*frosties10:48
screen-xnooo! must have have cereals10:48
popeybah10:48
popeyi am about to eat my lunch10:48
screen-xpopey: you can make it till 1210:48
* popey just has chocolate10:48
czajkowskipopey: no marmite...10:49
MartijnVdSpopey: just tell people you're on CET10:49
MartijnVdSit's almost lunch time here :)10:49
davmor2http://picasaweb.google.com/davmor2/TigerTrip2010#5479985077104213714 this is my favourite though he's a gentle giant unless he has some food.  He's upto 15 feet long really big kitty10:49
FlashtekI'll bet10:50
czajkowskievil cats10:50
davmor2czajkowski: take it back, take it back now!10:50
* Flashtek glares at czajkowski 10:51
screen-xczajkowski: allergies?10:51
popeyheheh10:51
popeyczajkowski doesn't like kitties10:51
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Flashteklol10:51
czajkowskibold popey10:51
czajkowskiscreen-x: i don'10:51
davmor2hahahahahahahaaha10:51
czajkowskiscreen-x: i don't like them, but always seem to come to me. most weird10:52
bigcalm:D10:52
screen-xczajkowski: they know10:52
bigcalmThey want you to love them10:52
czajkowskiok the accent on the guy talking now in the session is rather shrill. new york accent.10:52
czajkowskibigcalm: no. never10:52
bigcalmNo ney never no more10:52
bigcalmWill I play the wild rover, no never, no more10:53
davmor2screen-x: No czajkowski is just pure unadulterated evilness, anything the masses like she hate, except for chocolate and crisps and beer10:53
screen-xI'm not sure thats fair davmor210:53
BigRedSThere's not a lot else that the masses as a whole like, really10:53
czajkowskidavmor2: you forgot rugby.10:53
* AlanBell hates hate itself10:54
davmor2czajkowski: yeah but you support the team :P10:54
screen-xooh meta hate10:54
* BigRedS enters an endless loop 10:54
* AlanBell disappears in a puff of recursion10:54
davmor2naff team even10:54
screen-xAlanBell: at the risk of being philosophical, is there nothing evil enough to be worthy of hate?10:55
FlashtekMicrosoft ?10:56
bigcalmHumm10:56
bigcalmMS haters gonna hate10:56
nperryMore snow :(10:56
bigcalmYay10:57
bigcalmBright and frosty here10:57
bigcalmI should take some photos10:57
Flashtekwhere is bigcalm ?10:57
bigcalmNear Telford10:57
Flashtekyay10:57
FlashtekI was up near there recently..10:57
FlashtekOswestry10:58
bigcalmAye10:58
FlashtekI was also in Telford for another meting a few months back10:58
bigcalmGF and I were there last night, visiting GF's brother who is in hospital there atm10:58
Flashtekand I will be in Oswestry again next month10:58
nperryMost pathetic snow though, very slightly10:59
nperrybigcalm: I can't see 4ft infront of me, stupid fog :(11:00
spritesit closer to the screen11:00
Flashtekturn on the windscreeen heater..11:00
bigcalmFog was here over the weekend and yesterday. Really clear today11:01
screen-xwhats tcp/555 dsf?11:01
Flashtekfreeciv5556/tcprptp# Freeciv gameplay11:01
Flashtekfreeciv5556/udp11:01
Flashtekrplay5555/udp# RPlay audio service11:01
Flashtekscreen-x: thats all i have..11:02
popeyscreen-x: printing11:02
Flashtekpopey: on 555 ?11:02
popeyyes11:02
screen-xah ok, thanks.11:03
* davmor2 prods czajkowski for not taking part in the kittylove11:04
* Flashtek strokes his wifes kitteh11:13
bigcalm!ohmy11:16
lubotu3Please remember that all Ubuntu IRC channels share the same attitude of providing friendly and polite interaction with all users of all ages and cultures. Basically, this means no foul language and no abuse towards others.11:16
bigcalm:)11:16
Flashtekwhat ?11:17
FlashtekI said kitteh11:17
Flashtekit's on topic11:17
AlanBellit is11:18
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Flashtekthats fowl..11:18
screen-xhahahha11:18
bigcalmBah!11:18
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screen-xastronomy?11:19
Flashtekyay, generic love11:19
popey\o/11:19
bigcalmWild love?11:19
Flashtekor asterisk11:19
nigelbno no11:20
nigelbthat's wrong11:20
nigelbit should be ^(.*)Love$11:20
czajkowskithis channel gets stranger and stranger11:20
nigelball inclusive love :p11:20
Flashtekindeed11:20
screen-xnigelb: who said it was a regex rather than a glob?11:20
nigelbscreen-x: regex makes it geekier :p11:21
bigcalmGreat big globs of love11:21
screen-xthough if its a glob, the ! will have strange effects11:21
bigcalmczajkowski: isn't it lovely?11:21
nigelbheh11:21
bigcalmAnybody here recomend qnap for some simple nas? I need to provide off-site backup for my parents11:24
* popey hugs edge1011:31
popeythat was a recommendation for bigcalm btw :)11:38
* bigcalm googles11:39
diplopopey, they don't have ethernet by the looks of things, so basically just a large storage device and that's it ?11:39
Flashtekbigcalm: how much data ?11:39
bigcalm1tb will be more than enough for them11:39
Flashtekget the same router I have, it has a USB slot on the back for storage arrays11:40
bigcalmI'm thinking of a device with 2 bays so it can either be a raid or extended later11:40
diploI suppose I could connect one to my miniitx box11:40
Flashtekbigcalm: usb hub..11:42
Flashtekumm.. my kitten likes marmite11:42
bigcalmI've had problems with USB drives not reconnecting correctly after a power outage, or just randomly dropping11:42
screen-xbigcalm: what are you going to use as a backup agent on your parent's machines?11:43
bigcalmJust downloaded the photos from my 350D and have actually shocked myself with the quality of some of the shots11:44
bigcalmscreen-x: rsync11:44
Flashtekbigcalm: good or bad ?11:44
bigcalmFlashtek: good11:44
Flashtekbigcalm: might you want to use rolling backups ?11:44
bigcalmPossibly11:44
Flashtekas i've used rsiff-backup with great success before11:44
Flashtek*rdiff-backup11:44
bigcalmThe main bulk of their data are photos11:45
dwatkinsrsniff...? ;-)11:45
bigcalmFlashtek: that looks perfect. Thanks :)11:46
* screen-x uses rsnapshot11:49
Flashtekbigcalm: n/p11:53
* hoover uses bacula11:54
* jpds uses rsync11:57
bigcalmSo, that's the backup method sorted. Still need to decide upon a physical device now12:05
bigcalmThis goes to show how much I've been able to take my camera out or bother to upload to flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigcuthy/archives/date-posted/2010/12/07/12:08
screen-xbigcalm: pretty frost12:09
bigcalmYep yep12:09
screen-xbigcalm: do you have always on machines at home? or do you need a NAS so that you don't have to leave a machine on..?12:09
bigcalmscreen-x: I do have a machine on all the time. But I'd like for things to still work if that machine were to fail12:10
bigcalmBut I guess that might cost more than its worth12:10
popeydiplo: yes, they do12:10
screen-xIt does increase the cost significantly12:10
popeydiplo: depends which model you get12:10
bigcalmAha! I have a viglen doing bugger all atm12:11
Flashteki was thinking a service like dropbox might do the job..12:11
bigcalmCould set that up in the office again and hook some storage up to it12:11
bigcalmFlashtek: slow and limiting12:11
screen-xbigcalm: swirlly pebbles make my head hurt12:11
bigcalmscreen-x: :D12:11
bigcalmscreen-x: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigcuthy/203335702/in/set-72057594070877691/12:13
screen-xbigcalm: should do that with a tripod :)12:14
bigcalmscreen-x: na, it's more fun to make yourself dizzy ;)12:14
bigcalmIt's more organic like this12:15
daubersbah, why can't shotwell filter by filetype :(12:15
davmor2daubers: file a bug so it can in the next release12:15
daubersdavmor2: If I have a chance later on I'll fix it12:17
popey\o/ jabber12:26
MattJJabber \o/12:26
BigRedSThere's nothing pecular about dual booting windows 7 with Linux is there? As compared with, say, XP. I recall stories of weirdness when Vista came out..12:44
Flashteknope12:45
bigcalmBigRedS: I have win7 and ubuntu on my laptop. No problems at all12:45
FlashtekWFM12:45
dogmatic69BigRedS: just install linux first iirc12:45
bigcalmOtherway around12:45
dogmatic69ha12:45
* bigcalm tuts :P12:45
dogmatic69i know one makes your life hell :/12:46
bigcalmGrub will see windows and add it to the boot loading screen12:46
Flashtekas opposed to windows seeing grub and telling it to sod off12:48
TheOpenSourcereryum - oxtail soup.12:49
Flashteknice12:49
peter_can someone tell me how to make wine recognise i have a disk in the drive?12:58
screen-xwow! I just winged at transtec about a faulty server, they have dispatched replacement parts for everything in the machine, and organised for an engineer to come tomorrow. We don't even have a maintenance contract with them.13:13
Flashteksweet13:17
nperryIf my face is tiggling, do you think its time to turn the convector heater off? Which is pointing directly at my face13:21
screen-xnperry: or point it away from your face?13:22
nperryThen I'd be cold again, plus the big warehouse door is open.13:22
nperrySo i need it pointing to my face else I wont feel hot13:23
screen-xpoint it at you from further away? or turn it down?13:23
screen-xput a fine mesh between the fan and your face, to act as a diffuser..13:24
nperryIts either on or off on this thing.13:25
dwatkinsnperry: how about putting on an extra layer of clothing?13:36
daubersnperry: Or close the door?13:36
dwatkinsthat's far to simple a solution, daubers ;-)13:37
dwatkins*too13:37
daubersdwatkins: Some kind of arduino based thermostat that opens the doors when it's too hot and turns on the heater and closes the door when too cold?13:40
* screen-x spies a security risk13:40
daubersOoooh... Tron soundtrack is out13:42
daubersand only £5 on U113:42
* daubers downloads13:42
MartijnVdSdaubers: I recommend Last.fm "mix radio" for hackathon music :)13:43
screen-xMartijnVdS: similar artists akufen has been expanding my mind a little recently ;-)13:44
MartijnVdSscreen-x: good, good :)13:45
MartijnVdSminimal++13:45
MartijnVdSscreen-x: also try Plastikman13:45
screen-xok :)13:46
* daubers waits for U1 to download13:53
MartijnVdSdaubers: plastikman? akufen? :)13:53
screen-xtron..13:54
daubersMartijnVdS: Tron Legacy soundtrack by Daft Punk :D13:54
* daubers notes it's not actually downloaded anything yet...13:57
blutackAny python hackers in today?13:57
MartijnVdSdaubers: try restarting your ubuntu one  daemons13:57
AlanBell!ask| blutack13:57
lubotu3blutack: Please don't ask to ask a question, simply ask the question (all on ONE line and in the channel, so that others can read and follow it easily). If anyone knows the answer they will most likely reply. :-)13:57
* screen-x thinkgs that blugybe would be a great nick13:59
MartijnVdSscreen-x: why?13:59
screen-xbecause gybe is the opposite of tack.14:00
blutackWhy is this happening? https://gist.github.com/73180414:01
blutackbluduck14:01
MartijnVdSBlut-Ack -- it's German14:02
blutackIs it?14:02
screen-xhaha14:02
MartijnVdSBlut, German for "blood"14:02
screen-xblutack: what do you expect to happen?14:02
blutackNo output for values less than 0.1?14:03
blutackHave I done something totally stupid?14:03
screen-xint(d) ?14:03
daubersblutack: Your testing a string against a float which may cause an issue14:03
daubersscreen-x: i'd hav gone for float(d) :) as they're <114:03
screen-xah yes14:03
blutackAh-ha14:04
blutackForgot I switched to the csv reader, which doesn't cast14:04
blutackThanks guys!14:04
daubers:(14:05
screen-xsup daubers?14:05
* daubers prods U1 some more14:05
screen-xah14:05
dauberswoot, got one file14:06
blutackThanks daubers: http://imgur.com/jfO3014:06
screen-xooh wassat blutack?14:06
blutackLBM Unsteady Flow simulation - orange thing is a cylinder in the middle14:07
daubersblutack: pertty14:07
blutackNeeded to cap the velocities above 0.1  to get the colour scaling right!14:07
* screen-x appreciates that in chrom(e|ium) you can reload while viewing source. 14:18
MartijnVdSscreen-x: the new chromium in natty has a VERY nice trace/view source/etc. panel14:45
screen-xMartijnVdS: which version? I'm on 9.x14:46
MartijnVdSscreen-x: 814:46
MartijnVdS7 on maverick, 8 on natty14:47
mlkaaahello there15:59
mlkaaahow to unistall plymouth ?15:59
mlkaaaanyone there16:01
mlkaaa?16:01
screen-xyep, but can't answer your q unless its apt-get remove plymouth-stuff16:01
mlkaaado you know the package ?16:02
mlkaaaplymouth16:03
screen-x!info plymouth16:03
lubotu3plymouth (source: plymouth): graphical boot animation and logger - main package. In component main, is required. Version 0.8.2-2ubuntu5.1 (maverick), package size 110 kB, installed size 436 kB16:03
screen-xlooks about right, but won't take all its deps with it when removed.16:04
mlkaaavoila as it doing dirty things on my server, how to unistall plymouth ?16:04
screen-xplymouth gets installed on servers?16:05
Phineasexobuzz, do you remember yesterdays issue we discussed?16:05
mlkaaano never by default i got that package16:05
Phineasi have returned16:06
screen-xmlkaaa: yeah, I meant its odd that the server images should include plymouth.16:06
exobuzzPhineas, which issue. the mystery cassette ?16:07
Phineasexobuzz,  yeah that one16:07
mlkaaahow to unistall plymouth ?16:07
exobuzzwhat was the issue again? :)16:07
Phineasexobuzz,  i don't know what it is for16:08
screen-xmlkaaa: http://staff.adams.edu/~cdmiller/posts/Ubuntu-Lucid-server-disable-plymouth/16:08
Phineasexobuzz,  all i know is that it is space invaders16:09
mlkaaai don't want to disable, i just need to unistall16:10
mlkaaais that possible ?16:10
screen-xmlkaaa: have you tried removing the packages?16:11
Phineasexobuzz,  but what is it for?16:11
popeyPhineas: please stop trolling16:11
Phineaspopey,  seriosly i don't know what the tape is for16:12
popeyPhineas: seriously stop trolling16:12
Phineaspopey,  i just asking a question16:12
mlkaaahow ? screen-x16:12
screen-xmmmm time to do an online LV expand, will it be simple, or will it b0rk everything...?16:25
daubersscreen-x: They tend to be simple :)16:26
daubersscreen-x: Whats the FS on it? XFS?16:26
screen-xext316:26
screen-xsometimes causes issues with nfsd16:26
daubersCan you online expand ext3?16:26
screen-xyep16:26
daubersNever knew that16:26
screen-xbut you cant do online shrink.16:27
screen-xthis box isnt running nfsd, so chances are good :)16:27
* screen-x taps fingers16:29
zertyihi all16:34
zertyii got a central server with one IP, and i got 5 domains, what i want is that the 5 domains name display 5 different web pages and getting information from my server16:34
zertyithe server is running on ubuntu16:34
zertyiwhat are package i have to install ?16:35
screen-xzertyi: apache2 probably, read about apache virtual hosts.16:35
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screen-xzertyi: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/name-based.html16:37
zertyiwhy virtual hosts ?16:39
screen-xzertyi: because you want to point multiple domains at the same IP.16:39
zertyifabulous16:42
zertyiso it is possible16:42
screen-xyep, gets complicated if you want to use ssl.16:42
zertyino ssl16:44
zertyithanks a lot screen-x16:44
exobuzzPhineas, the tape is for some old computer. unknown what. if you dont know what it is for, i wouldnt worry about it. just put it beack on th eshelf and forget about it :)16:58
exobuzz-typos16:58
Phineasexobuzz,  i just managed to load it on my old ibm :)16:58
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exobuzzPhineas_, what ibm model ?17:00
Phineas_exobuzz,  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer#PC17:01
exobuzzwell. not quite the answer i was after. i was after 4860 or 5150 etc. anyway. not hard of many of those with cassettes. most people who had the money for an ibm surely got the disk configured model :)17:03
exobuzzheard17:03
Phineas_exobuzz,  mine was seccond hand17:04
exobuzzyeh, but i just meant the cassette configuration isn't common..17:06
exobuzzat least according to interwebs.17:06
Phineas_exobuzz, yeah17:07
Phineas_ow!17:09
Phineas_!ping17:21
lubotu3poing17:21
Phineas_i'm back online, i will never do that again17:21
screen-x\o/ online resize finished successfully, with no known disasters resulting :)17:27
Azelphurexobuzz: the newer image of your unr works on my microsd card reader btw :D, so it must have been a size problem :)17:29
exobuzznice17:29
exobuzzyeh. it seems 4gb for flash stuff doesnt mean 4gb. but something a little under 4gb17:30
exobuzzstill some people have problems. one person seems to have a usb stick that is about 50mb less than 4gb.. :/17:30
Azelphurhaha :/17:30
exobuzzi can just keep making the images smaller and smaller but i wonder if its old/damaged sticks with blocks marked bad ?17:31
exobuzzso they get smaller over time.17:31
Azelphurmaybe17:32
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exobuzzAzelphur, since unity doesnt work, i might do an update with the old netbook interface on this perhaps. i heard on ubuntu-uk that someone (I think popey) had done this, and it seems like a good idea. or else i just should make it a desktop edition image perhaps17:44
popeynot i17:44
popeymark17:44
exobuzzaah k17:44
Azelphurhehe17:44
exobuzzideally, id like to have every single joggler change, all managed from the ppa, with packages for all configs etc, and a single joggler meta package that i could update to include new packages. then i wouldnt need to make new images the whole time. but a lot of work to make all the debian packages17:45
exobuzzthere is a not sure i can be ar*ed  issue with this.17:46
popeyheh17:46
popeywould indeed be nice17:47
popeywhat kinds of things need packaging?17:47
exobuzzdefault config changes for gnome stuff, the upstart script for the eth mac address, X11 config, other misc /etc/ configs , modprobe stuff, the kernel of course, some udev bits, some initramfs changes17:49
exobuzzetc17:49
exobuzza lot of this could be in a single "joggler" package, of course..17:50
popeylots of little fiddly bits17:50
popeyor a new distro!17:50
popey:)17:50
popeyjogglbuntu17:50
exobuzzgreat idea.. when will you start on it? :-)17:50
popeywhen I finish my current distro idea :)17:51
exobuzzwhat are you working on ?17:51
popeyit is but an idea17:51
exobuzzsure.. im interesting though to hear :)17:51
popeyclubuntu17:52
exobuzzis that club - untu, or get a clu - buntu17:52
exobuzz:)17:52
jacobwubuntu for cavemen?17:52
exobuzzheh17:53
exobuzzeither popey is typing a long description, or hes just going to leave us guessing! :D17:53
popey:)17:53
popeycommand line ubuntu17:54
exobuzzaaah.17:54
popeyso no gui whatsoever17:54
popeybut lots of productive apps17:54
jacobwah, that'd be awesome17:54
exobuzzfor amiga ubuntu it would be clibuntu17:54
jacobwbut isn't that what nubuntu was supposed to be?17:54
popeywe did start on this about 3 years ago17:54
Hornethttp://firefoxlive.mozilla.org17:54
popeynever heard of nubuntu17:54
exobuzzpopey, how would it differ from a base debian. just nicer default configs ?17:54
popeypreinstalled stuff17:55
exobuzzand meta stuff including a better default set of tools17:55
exobuzzaah nice17:55
popeyyeah17:55
exobuzzid be interested in something like that17:55
popeymaybe even stuff like libmobileblah to manage music to iphone type devices17:55
popeypulse etc17:55
exobuzzthe one thing that has got my goat about ubuntu server edition, has been the lack of support for mdadm. in the next release it will be the first time for 2 years ubuntu ships with an up to date mdadm package.. they forked debians. then let it rot :17:56
exobuzz:/17:56
popey:(17:56
popeythats sad17:56
popeyi love mdadm17:56
exobuzzi was using my own build of mdadm for some time. i recently put it on a ppa https://launchpad.net/~jools/+archive/mdadm17:57
exobuzzbut finally mdadm had some love from ubuntu, so should be sorted for natty17:57
exobuzzmdadm is great. software raid on linux is excellent these days. thanks to neil brown17:59
exobuzzrecent kernels + mdadm had support for moving between various raid levels, so reshaping 1 to 5 to 6 etc. but a mismatched kernel and mdadm as has been the case in ubuntu, meant none of this could be used18:00
* jpds hugs hardware RAID.18:00
exobuzzheh18:00
* exobuzz likes the idea that hes not tied into a specific hardware raid vendor, and if his motherboard dies, he uses another one and raid still works18:01
* BigRedS likes the fact it's the same tools on each machine, irrespective of the hardware18:02
BigRedShe says searching for a matching replacement hw raid card18:02
exobuzzheh18:02
* exobuzz likes his home fileserver.. pic http://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/File:Aerocool_server.jpg18:03
exobuzzvery pleased with how it turned out.. including being quite cheap to build.18:03
BigRedSmy home fileserver is a powermac G418:07
BigRedSit's not very big, but it is shiny18:07
exobuzzhehe. shiny.. very important :)18:07
BigRedSand turquoise. It's just the right colour for fileserving18:07
exobuzzthats important too yeh18:07
exobuzzof course, my fileserver is just full of linux isos.. suprising how much the collection has built up over the years18:07
BigRedSAh, I stopped keeping them when I realised I never really wanted old ones, and new ones are so quick to get18:08
exobuzz:)18:08
BigRedSand I rarely want particularly new ones, too. Generally I'll use a 50mb debian netinstall, or whatever the last ubuntu that came on a magazine was or something18:08
popeyexobuzz: i want to implement drobo like features in my own ubuntu system18:08
popeyreshaping from 1 to 5 to 6 _and_ back down again18:09
exobuzzi dumped all my dvds to it, so that i can have them on xbmc with box artwork and meta data.. people have called that lazy, but why get up from the sofa unless you need to!18:09
popeydamn straight!18:09
exobuzzpopey, drobo seems clever. is it only done on block level? i did read about it at some point.. mixed sized disks etc18:09
popeyyeah18:10
popeyits incredibly slow though18:10
popeylooks like it uses reiserfs internally18:10
popeyI yanked a brand new disk back out of a drobo and fiddled with it for a bit18:10
exobuzzwhat about a filesystem level raid. with a per file type parity thing. wonder if that would work18:10
popeythats similar to what windows home server does/did18:11
exobuzzreiserfs.. sounds like a killer filesystem.18:11
BigRedSthat concept rings a very vague bell18:11
popeywhich they have withdrawn18:11
popeyexobuzz: http://joke.popey.com/18:11
BigRedSah, whs. that might be where the bell is18:11
exobuzzpopey, sorry :)18:11
exobuzzheh18:11
jpdsexobuzz: Well, btrfs should do that.18:13
exobuzzpopey, you have a drobo then ?18:13
popeyyes exobuzz18:13
popeyjpds: btrfs lacks an fsck, which is kinda fundamental to me18:13
popeyzfs looks interesting18:14
exobuzzjpds, eventually :-) .. ..18:14
jpdsAll good things take time.18:14
exobuzzbtrfs seems to have sped up recently, but its very slow progress a lot of the time.18:15
exobuzzi like the whole idea of it though.18:15
dutchiepopey: "an fsck"? you are missing all the fun of saying "fussck"18:15
exobuzzthere is a btrfsck now, but its odd. i mean its decided not to use any of the same parameters as any other fsck.. so a pita to put root on it. (i had to patch btrfsck to ignore -a for example)18:16
exobuzzjools@travelmate /home/joggler/overlay $ btrfsck18:16
exobuzzusage: btrfsck dev18:16
exobuzzBtrfs Btrfs v0.1918:16
exobuzzseems a bit "incomplete"18:16
exobuzzand whether if it hits a problem in a btrfs, i have no idea if it can fix it..18:17
moreatiAnybody using Natty in VirtualBox, is 2.6.37-8-virtual booting okay for you? Mine won't find the root partition, but only the -virtual kernel does it.18:34
davmor2moreati: I'm using it on my laptop seems fine let me double check for you18:49
moreatidavmor2: in virtualbox, with the -virtual kernel?18:50
davmor2moreati: nope I'm just checking that it boots on real hw, to help rule out a faulty kernel, boot issue.  So this is just vm that is effected.18:51
davmor2moreati: booting up fine here on HW.18:52
moreatidavmor2: ys, that's why I was specifically asking about -virtual the generic kernel is okay for me, I'm trying to tell whether I've done something wrong or there's a bug w VirtualBox/-virtual kernel18:54
moreatithanks for checking18:54
Paul2I have a laptop with a screen plugged in. I would like to be able to close the laptop lid and continue to use the external monitor18:55
dogmatic69change the power settings18:56
Paul2You would have thought this was a fairly common and easy thing to do, but system->preferences->power managerment doesnt have that option18:56
dogmatic69normally a laptop goes to suspend18:56
Paul2it's blank screen/suspend/hiubernet etc18:56
dogmatic69ive done it on mine, what version18:56
Paul2(it duel boots to windows and does it fine, so cant be hardware)18:56
dogmatic69there is three options, default, power, battery18:57
Paul2er yup all three are set to blank screen, but it balnks both screens :(18:57
Paul2using 10.0418:59
Paul2another problem: alt+keys in terminal switches terminal tabs, unticking these options in edit -> keyboard shortcuts... doesnt stop it doing that19:05
moreatiPaul2: I just checked Gnome Terminal in Ubuntu 10.10. In Edit -> Keyboard Shortcuts I was able to delete the shortcut keys for Switch to Tab 1..10 (so it read Disabled next to each) and the Alt + <n> doesn't switch tabs.19:09
moreatiPaul2 does your Dialog say 'Disabled' next to each 'Switch to Tab <n>'?19:09
Paul2how do you make it say disabled?19:10
Paul2new accelerator...19:10
moreatiYes, and then I pressed backspace19:10
Paul2ah was trying backspace19:10
moreatiIt's not a good UI to be honest19:11
Paul2ah thanks done19:11
moreatiThe screen blanking i can't help with I'm afraid19:11
Paul2mmm19:13
nperrygoogle chrome web store, how long before apple makes there version and locks it down :/19:25
Azelphurdoes anyone know how to use ubuntu-bug to catch an X crash and the backtrace?19:27
Azelphurpopey: maybe? ^19:32
Paul2http://www.wireshark.org/download.html#development_release no linux packages prebuilt for dev :(19:33
popeyAzelphur: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Backtracing19:40
Azelphurexcept that page says nothing about ubuntu-bug :)19:41
popeyyou presume that you need to use ubuntu-bug19:42
popey(incorrectly)19:42
Azelphurpopey: bryce harrington said use ubuntu-bug :)19:42
* Azelphur tends to listen to him19:42
popeyhe probably meant apport-collect19:42
popeybut hey ho, ignore me19:42
MartijnVdS/ignore popey all19:42
MartijnVdSOK :)19:42
Azelphur(23:08:10) bryceh: Azelphur, file it with ubuntu-bug.  If possible, repro the issue, reboot, and then file19:42
Azelphurpopey: how do I do it with apport-collect?19:42
popeyAzelphur: I'd direct you to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport19:43
Azelphurty19:43
popey(linked from the xorg page I mentioned before)19:44
Azelphurpopey: uhh, I don't think that's going to work. It's a GUI tool which will no doubt crash when X crashes :s19:44
popey"its a gui tool", what is "it"?19:45
Azelphurapport19:45
MartijnVdSno, apport isn't a gui tool :)19:45
popey*sigh*19:45
popeyno, it isnt19:45
MartijnVdSit drops a file in some /var dir19:45
MartijnVdSthen on restart/re-login you can upload the crash dump19:45
popeyapport has lots of stuff in it19:45
AzelphurI see19:45
popeythere's also lots of documentation on catching xorg failures on that page, whether bryce says "use ubuntu-bug" or not19:46
Azelphurso long story short, sudo service apport start force_start=1, reproduce crash, check /var/crash/ for the report19:46
MartijnVdSAzelphur: apport-the-gui-app does that by itself19:49
MartijnVdSAzelphur: or ubuntu-bug can use the data in /var/crash to create a new lp bug19:50
AzelphurMartijnVdS: so after re-logging when X crashes it'll do it all itself?19:50
Azelphurcool19:50
MartijnVdSit'll prompt you about "found a crash dump"19:50
MartijnVdSOR you can use ubuntu-bug --something-or-other19:50
Azelphurfun :)19:50
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Azelphurexobuzz: do you happen to know of a way to turn the cursor off btw?19:57
Azelphurthat's always bugged me with the joggler, it's touch screen it doesn't need a cursor :p19:57
MartijnVdSif it's X you can set it to some empty cursor font19:57
AzelphurI tried that approach, didn't manage to get anywhere with it :-(19:58
MartijnVdSlook at how mousetweaks does it then :)19:58
MartijnVdSit turns off the mouse cursor while typing in Ubuntu19:58
AzelphurMartijnVdS: ah, that stuff just puts the mouse into hidden mode and it gets reactivated on move19:59
Azelphurmuch like unclutter does19:59
AzelphurI have unclutter atm which turns it off as soon as it's moved, but I want it completely gone :p19:59
MartijnVdSwhat happens if you make the time-before-hide 0? :)19:59
Azelphurit flickers on for a second and then goes away19:59
MartijnVdSgreat.. another postal strike here.20:15
daubersGAHHH20:18
selinuxiumEvening!20:23
selinuxiumo/20:23
czajkowskiselinuxium: aloha20:24
selinuxiumczajkowski: How is Aldershot this eve?20:24
czajkowskiselinuxium: in stuttgart20:25
selinuxiumczajkowski: Of course... :/20:26
selinuxiumBigRedS: you on FB?20:26
czajkowskiselinuxium: having cider in the3 irish pub while chairing the emea membership board meeting20:26
selinuxiumczajkowski: All go... :)20:27
czajkowskiaye20:28
czajkowski:)20:28
czajkowskiback tomorrow night though20:28
selinuxiumczajkowski: I kept trying to get involved about 5 years ago when I had much more time...20:28
czajkowskiselinuxium: now you're just too busy for us20:29
czajkowskiI see20:29
selinuxiumczajkowski: Now you konw that is not true. :)20:29
selinuxiumczajkowski: Spent ages trying to get a mentor in MOTU...20:30
czajkowskiwhat happened?20:30
selinuxiumczajkowski: brick walled....20:31
czajkowski:(20:31
czajkowskicare to try again20:31
stgraberhey everyone20:32
selinuxiumczajkowski: Possibly, may try to find another way to contribute... like the Ubuntu in Business event...20:32
czajkowskistgraber: meet selinuxium he didnt get much help in trying to go down the route of motu can you help put him in contact with someone who WILL mentor him20:34
stgraberczajkowski: sure20:36
stgraberselinuxium: what kind of packages are you interested in ? also, are you interested in helping with merges/syncs, new packages or bugfixes ?20:37
exobuzzAzelphur, maybe easy eay is invisible cursor theme ?20:37
Azelphurexobuzz: yea, I did some googling but didn't get far with that20:38
exobuzzi like seeing the pointer personally, as i can see where i click and where it thinks i cliced20:38
exobuzzwhich dont always match :)20:38
czajkowskiselinuxium: oi oi don't run away now20:39
selinuxiumstgraber: I am interested in audio production apps, games, also kvm et al.. Would need a gentle intro. quite happy to get involved with any low hanging fruit...20:39
exobuzzAzelphur, do you run squeezeplay ?20:39
selinuxiumczajkowski: I am still lurking...20:39
Azelphurhehe20:39
Azelphurexobuzz: nah, I use mine as an alarm clock20:39
Azelphurdon't actually know what squeezeplay is20:39
czajkowskiselinuxium: talk to stgraber20:40
selinuxiumczajkowski: I have, or do you mean sin PM?20:41
czajkowskimissed that20:41
Azelphurexobuzz: good news! I broke it.20:41
exobuzzAzelphur, saw this on a forum http://pastebin.com/a5tD8HEN btw about cursor20:41
Azelphurexobuzz: http://pastebin.com/8EdzZ3jc \o/20:42
exobuzzAzelphur, squeezeplay is a server client music thingy.. useful to use joggler as a client to play your music collections around the house etc20:42
Azelphurexobuzz: cool, I'll try it20:42
exobuzzrm /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-calibration.conf20:42
Azelphurexobuzz: I see :)20:42
exobuzzyou can recreate the file with the calibration script20:42
exobuzzi did a build to run on maverick recently. its described on my joggler page . updated it yesterday or so20:43
* daubers kicks drupal20:43
daubersDone!20:43
* exobuzz hugs drupal20:44
Azelphurexobuzz: haha, I can just fix the file, it just has "ion" at the end of the file on it's own line for some reason...20:44
Azelphurweird20:44
exobuzzyeh odd.20:44
daubersWhy people feel the need to do in a video what could be described in a dozen or so lines of text I don't know20:44
exobuzzpart of "Section" . but how it got like that. hmm20:44
MartijnVdSdaubers: because videos are cool!20:44
daubersMartijnVdS: Hmmmmmmm20:44
Azelphurexobuzz: I ran the calibration thing on the desktop and followed the instructions, besides that havn't really done anything with it20:45
exobuzzdaubers, your last comment could be read out of context20:45
exobuzzheh20:45
exobuzzweird20:45
Azelphurdaubers: all my stuff is drupal powered :D20:45
exobuzzplease try it again and cat that file and see if its the same20:45
nucc1I've got a host behind a virgin media gateway I need to be able to access from outside, so i enabled port-forwarding on the router for port 22. I still get 'connection refused' when i try to connect, so I'm guessing i need to make my machine listen on some IP, any hints?20:46
Azelphurexobuzz: http://pastebin.com/Gzgi5dxc broke it another way now :(20:47
exobuzzive eaten too much curry. just wanted to share that20:47
exobuzzerk. wtf20:47
Azelphurlol20:47
Azelphurexobuzz: I have a reputation of being able to break anything :(20:48
exobuzzyou lost your initramfs or kernel perhaps ?20:48
Azelphur*shrug*20:48
moreatinucc1: possibly dumb question, are you running an ssh server? i.e. can you ssh into the machine at all?20:48
Azelphurexobuzz: I did the thermal.psv thing, maybe I messed up20:48
exobuzzmount the usb stick on a pc. mount /dev/sdx3 /mnt mount /dev/sdx1 /mnt/boot chroot /mnt then "update-initramfs -k 2.6.34.7joggler4 -c" and check there is the kernel image file in boot also20:48
* Azelphur looks in the config file20:48
exobuzzplease paste me the contents of /boot/grub.cfg20:48
nucc1moreati, he he, yeap. ssh on the machine works fine, i think the ssh server just finds my public IP to be unknown.20:49
Azelphurexobuzz: yea...that's what I was about to do...only, it's gone20:49
nucc1i'm searching to see if sshd has something akin to apache's 'listen'20:49
Azelphurwhich makes absolutely no sense20:49
exobuzzon partition 1. if you mount that somewhere. sorry if this is known/obvious to you :)20:49
MartijnVdSnucc1: check /etc/ssh/sshd_config and its manpage20:49
exobuzzwasnt unmounted safely after writing ?20:49
exobuzzill give you a config. 1 sec20:50
moreatinucc1: have you reserved an IP address for the ssh server, or otherwise given it a static IP?20:50
Azelphurexobuzz: yea maybe, the only thing I've done unsafely was pulled the plug after it finished booting, because X didn't start I had no way of controlling it20:50
exobuzzgrub.cfg http://pastebin.com/YH0HazVJ20:50
nucc1moreati, yes. MartijnVdS i'm looking now, thanks20:50
Azelphurty20:50
exobuzzcheck you have in boot initrd.img-2.6.34.7joggler4, vmlinuz-2.6.34.7joggler4 also20:51
DJonesHas anybody been offered a Chrome Netbook? If I can provide a US Postal address, I'm eligible to receive one20:51
ali1234specs?20:52
nperryDJones: poke jono bacon?20:52
Paul2Why does installing ubuntu from scratch take an order of magnitude less time than upgrading 10.04-10.10?20:52
Azelphurexobuzz: nope, in /boot I have nothing, only grub.cfg20:52
MichealHWhy cant the people in soaps call a fire bragade sheesh!20:52
ali1234because installing from scratch is essentially nothing more than a dd operation, and apt is hella slow20:52
MichealH;)20:52
exobuzzerk..  cant be gone. you are looking on another machine ?20:53
Azelphurexobuzz: yup20:53
exobuzzboot is partition 1, did you mount that. if you mounted root (partition3). it will be empty20:53
DJonesnperry: Nice idea, if they only deliver to the US, probably no use to me, but possibly he could use it20:53
exobuzzboot is partition 1 - fat32 filesystem, mounted on top of partition3 in /boot when you boot. on another machine you can mount it separately whereever20:54
Azelphurexobuzz: ohhh, yea wrong partition, I have a /media/linux-boot/vmlinuz-2.6.34.7joggler420:54
Azelphurand initrd too20:54
exobuzzok cool20:54
Azelphurwas looking in /boot/ on the root partition :x20:54
exobuzzyeh. thought so :)20:54
Azelphurhehe20:54
exobuzzso you just need to fix the grub.cfg in there20:54
DJonesNot much detail about the machine http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/37185/chrome-os-notebook-hardware-detailed20:56
DJonesHmmh, have to fill in a survey before being eligible as well20:57
Azelphurexobuzz: there we go, boots now ty :)20:57
AzelphurDJones: what conditions do you have to fill to be able to get one? :)20:57
exobuzzcool20:57
evilchristelAzelphur: http://www.google.com/chromeos/pilot-program-cr48.html20:58
exobuzzyou using thermal.psv then ? or just testing to see ?20:58
Azelphurexobuzz: I'm using thermal.psv20:58
AzelphurI have it set to 80 :)20:58
evilchristelAzelphur: thats where you can ask to be considered for one :)20:58
Azelphurhehe20:59
nucc1MartijnVdS, i can't seem to find an option that looks like what i want. there's BindAddress but it only takes one IP address20:59
exobuzzAzelphur, cool. warms the house up nicely then..  dont sue me if your joggler fries.. :-)20:59
Azelphurexobuzz: haha, I will :p20:59
Azelphurexobuzz: do you run at 80?20:59
DJonesAzelphur: Pretty much what type of user are you, what do you do, what do you use, whats your shoe size etc20:59
exobuzzyeh.. ive tested getting it even warmer too20:59
AzelphurDJones: yea, I probably won't be getting one, I'm not much of a fan of android (although I have an android as it's the best option atm) and no doubt I won't be much of a fan of chrome os :p21:00
AzelphurI don't like the limits, I'd be more of a maemo/meego person21:00
Azelphurexobuzz: fun :)21:00
exobuzzAzelphur, i think 80c wont be a problem.. critical point is set to 100 at which point it should halt/stop anyway. i believe the atom z520 has a hardwar thermal protection at 120c where voltage gets removed from the cpu before the silicon fries21:02
Azelphurhehe21:02
ali1234it's not android, it's chrome21:02
ali1234chrome os is just fullscreen chrome21:02
Azelphurali1234: I know, I'm just saying I wasn't much of a fan of their first OS so no doubt not much of a fan of their second :)21:02
Azelphurhaha, exactly21:02
Azelphurlimitations :(21:02
ali1234literally, there is nothing else21:02
ali1234i'm not sure if you can minimise it, but if you did there would just be a blank screen21:03
Azelphurhaha21:03
evilchristelyeah, one of the questions is basically "what makes you ready to submit to browser and web app only computing" (paraphrased)21:03
AzelphurSeems silly to limit it tbh, chrome os is Ubuntu based, why take away everything that's great about Ubuntu and then cram it into a browser21:04
ali1234chrome os is not ubuntu based21:04
Azelphurali1234: it isn't? I heard it was21:04
jacobwwell the answer is obvious isn't it? Google dominates web apps21:04
jacobwall these things are about 'owning' a use case21:05
jgjonesIt's an experiment - most people already use web apps - such as gmail (or others) for emails and so on, so it's probably to encourage greater uptake of Google Docs etc21:05
jacobwin my opinion21:05
Azelphurhehe21:06
jgjonesone example...I have a friend who's a noob with computers. He wanted a drawing program for his Windows.21:06
jgjonesWent into Google and googled for drawing programs21:06
jgjonesall top results for him was all online apps for drawing and that's how he've been doing his "drawing" - online.21:07
jgjonesno software.21:07
Azelphurhehe21:07
jgjonesChrome OS - the same thing for him, but better security than Windows ;-)21:07
Azelphurtrue :)21:07
jgjonesso I can see it working for some people that don't need much21:08
Azelphuryea, I can see it working for a lot of people21:08
jgjonesInterestingly enough - on one forum I did see a Windows vs Linux thread - surprisingly no flaming etc in there...very rare I know...21:09
Azelphurhaha21:09
exobuzzi dont like the whole idea of not owning/running software on my comuter and turning computing into rented home terminals .. people with those ideas often want to do things with the internet, so you buy like a tv package and get google, bbc news. package 2 if you want youtube21:09
jgjonesit was mainly focused on ease of use - with most saying Ubuntu et al was focusing more on doing thing more easily21:10
exobuzzits for them to maximise profit and control, and not for our benefit..21:10
jgjonesfor example software installation was much easier21:10
Azelphurjgjones: yea, I generally stick normal users on Ubuntu, unless they are gamers21:10
MonsterKilleris rsyslogd meant to be using 191880 kB or RAM? :o21:10
MonsterKillerof*21:10
jacobwI'm provisioning a computer for a novice relative, I'm not confident about getting everything working with Ubuntu21:11
jgjoneswhereas windows' "ease of use" depend on their market share - nearly everyone have used Windows - but they was looking at *newbies* so for them, ubuntu/OSX is better.21:11
AzelphurMonsterKiller: probably not :p21:11
MonsterKiller:P21:11
exobuzzrsyslogd does lots of funny things.. the config file format was made to be unreadable too21:11
MonsterKillerwell it is21:11
MonsterKillerD:21:11
jgjonesHowever I think Ubuntu in some area is easier than OSX esp for software installation/updates.21:11
AzelphurMonsterKiller: fun :p21:11
jacobwdefinately jgjones21:11
MonsterKillerAzelphur, http://monster.pastebin.com/Z8ifGxhe21:11
MonsterKiller:P21:11
jgjonesexobuzz - I agree...I would prefer my own localised computer/software21:12
AzelphurMonsterKiller: ah, I'm not 100% sure but I think ps includes easily-freeable memory (such as cache and buffers) in that count.21:12
jacobwspeaking of Drawing, Inkscape is a really great program :)21:12
exobuzzrsyslogd also is a bit weird. they have about 7 ongoing developed versions. talk about confusing21:12
jgjonesjacobw, I base it on how I've seen people use OSX's installation...some newbies was downloading dmg's and then opening that and then running apps directly from the finder window that opens!21:12
exobuzzjgjones, yeh me too. and the freedoms that come with that21:12
jacobwIts very fustrating trying to support people using Windows, because I keep thinking "well, I know how to do that in Ubuntu"21:13
Azelphurjacobw: indeed :P21:13
jgjonesunless it is like Firefox or Opera where it have a background picture showing that you need to drag and drop it in applications.21:13
AzelphurI refuse to support Windows now unless they have a good reason for being on Windows (gamers)21:13
MonsterKiller*shrug* :P i got that output from webmin21:13
exobuzzAzelphur, nethack isn't enough for them ? :)21:13
Azelphurhaha :D21:14
Azelphurexobuzz: I actually game in Ubuntu, but I'm crazy21:14
jgjonesNow Apple's doing App Store for OSX - obviously it show that having a Software Centre is easier for end users.21:14
jgjonesBut I'll prefer Ubuntu's implementation - I know i can add PPA's if I wanted extra software not provided by core Ubuntu repo's21:15
exobuzzAzelphur, hehe.. i subscribed to cedega some years back.. but i never got anything working. due having an ati gfx card that had sh*t drivers. in the end i decided to end my subscription to them.. still on the same laptop. i must be mad. its now 5 years old. and the screen starts up red as the backlight is on the way out21:15
jgjonesand without the restrictions that Apple will obviously slap on their App Store.21:15
jacobwAt the same time, I just seem to run in to problems like Evolution won't send email and I can't solve these problems remotely21:15
Azelphurexobuzz: cedega are lame :/21:15
jgjonesI just use wine.21:15
jacobwvery lame21:15
jgjonesIt works just about well enough by itself.21:16
exobuzzyeh.. since then i have used wine for some stuff that has worked ok21:16
Azelphurexobuzz: cedega took a fork of wine before they decided to license it under GPL and started selling it basically21:16
exobuzzbut its just easier to dual boot and use windows.21:16
Azelphurcedega be evil21:16
jgjonesalthough I've not gotten Civilization V (via Steam) working on Wine yet :(21:16
exobuzzAzelphur, yeh.. i think there was a specific game that worked better in cedega than wine which was why i subscribed21:16
Azelphurif you want paid/premium support for wine, go with crossovers21:16
Azelphurcrossover are <3 :D21:16
exobuzzfreelancer... which works on wine ok now21:16
Azelphurhehe21:16
jgjonesCrossovers now do games AND they contribute back to wine.21:16
Azelphurexobuzz: I play Alien Swarm, Burnout Paradise, CS:S, HL*, NFS Undercover, L4D(2), Portal, Supreme commander 2 and TF2 in wine :)21:17
exobuzzi spent a lot of time with wine last night.. hence my hangover21:17
Azelphurhaha21:17
dutchieL4D2 \o/21:17
Azelphuralthough I don't play much of most of em, I mainly hit up NFSU Burnout paradise and TF2 :D21:17
jacobwi've given up on PC for games21:18
exobuzzAzelphur,  impressive... i got my wii.. and my xbox1 with emulators. thats about as much gaming as i get time for. and ive hardly used the wii too21:18
* jacobw brought a PS3 a fortnight ago21:18
Azelphurhehe21:18
Azelphur..21:18
Azelphurblast, I need to do something about hitting my numpad when I reach over to play piano21:18
jacobwthat sounds like a trivial problem Azelphur !21:18
AzelphurI hit the del (.) and ins (0) and then end up hitting the numpad enter and sending weird stuff to IRC :P21:19
exobuzzAzelphur, id like to play some more games. i really miss all that..21:19
Azelphurexobuzz: haha, I do lots of TF2 related stuff, run a very popular server :)21:19
exobuzz Alien Swarm looks like fun21:19
AzelphurI recently moved my server so my popularity rank went down, I was 99th percentile, I'm 96th now.21:20
exobuzznice.. this is fps stuff. im out of touch. team fortress 2 ?21:20
Azelphuryup :)21:21
Azelphurexobuzz: I do server side development for it too which is fun21:21
exobuzznice21:22
andylockranguys, ipvy621:22
Azelphurhttp://azelphur.com/project/sourceirc \o/21:22
andylockranipv621:22
exobuzzwill check21:22
Azelphurexobuzz: it's pretty fun, I implemented the IRC protocol server side, so the game server itself connects to IRC as a client and relays stuff :)21:22
exobuzzaah. to control via irc ?21:22
Azelphuryup21:22
MonsterKillerhttp://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/change-ubuntu-server-from-dhcp-to-a-static-ip-address/ im using this to setup static ip and im not sure what i need to put for broadcast or network21:28
MonsterKillerdo i just take them out?21:29
AzelphurMonsterKiller: nope, it won't work without them21:29
AzelphurMonsterKiller: is this on your VPS?21:30
MonsterKilleryeah21:30
MonsterKilleri got the other ones21:30
MonsterKillerjust dont know what to put for those21:30
Azelphurah you have other IPs21:30
* Azelphur looks at how I did it on mine21:30
MonsterKiller:P21:30
Azelphursudo ifconfig eth0:0 204.145.82.243 up21:31
AzelphurI just do that, kinda cheap and doesn't take effect on startup21:31
MonsterKilleri know the address, netmask and gateway for that21:31
AzelphurMonsterKiller: I didn't set any, I assume they are autodetected from DHCP21:32
MonsterKilleryeah21:32
MonsterKillerwanted to get rid of it to save memory21:32
MonsterKiller^^21:32
Azelphurwanted to get rid of dhcp?21:32
MonsterKillerwanted to use static instead21:32
Azelphuryou won't save memory by removing dhcp21:33
Azelphuryou'd save more memory switching to a lighter weight OS, but even then what ever you do your not going to save more than about 10MB21:33
MonsterKillerlol21:33
MonsterKillerdhclient3 was just using a fair amount that was all21:34
Azelphurthe basics of ubuntu server only use 16MB of memory so there's no point in trying to cut down on that really21:34
AzelphurMonsterKiller: shouldn't do :p21:34
MonsterKillerjgeboski suggested going to static21:34
MonsterKillerwell21:34
MonsterKillernot loads21:34
MonsterKillermeh21:35
Azelphurlol21:35
MonsterKiller6548 kB21:35
AzelphurMonsterKiller: that doesn't sound right, your probably getting the max allocation space for the app or something21:36
nucc1wow, i don't know what the name of the ssh daemon is on my machine21:36
MonsterKiller799 root 6548 kB dhclient3 -e IF_METRIC=100 -pf /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid -lf /var/lib/dhcp3/dhc ...21:37
AzelphurMonsterKiller: what command are you running to get that?21:37
MonsterKillerAzelphur, webmin output21:37
Azelphur\o/21:38
MonsterKiller'Running Processes'21:38
MonsterKiller:P21:38
MonsterKillerAzelphur, is there a better way to get how much memory its using?21:39
AzelphurMonsterKiller: yea, run ps aux21:40
MonsterKillerxD21:40
AzelphurMonsterKiller: or if your looking at saving memory, run top and hit > it'll sort everything by memory usage21:40
Azelphurso you can see what's using all the memory21:41
MonsterKiller%MEM 0.121:41
Azelphuron?21:42
MonsterKillerdhclient321:42
Azelphurhow much memory do you have?21:42
MonsterKiller512 with 512 swap21:42
MonsterKiller:P21:42
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marsilainengodaddy seem to have standard SSL certs for ~£8 atm21:43
marsilainenanywhere else I should consider?21:43
MonsterKillerthey do21:44
MonsterKillero.O21:44
Azelphurmarsilainen: http://nodaddy.com/ :p21:44
MonsterKillerlol21:45
marsilainenI've never used them21:45
marsilainenare they bad?21:45
Azelphurmarsilainen: or in summary, godaddy are about as easy to social engineer as a gullible 4 year old, they give domains to thieves all the time and suspends accounts without due cause or fine you21:45
marsilainenshould I avoid?21:45
Azelphurindeed, avoid21:45
marsilainenok21:45
MonsterKillerlol21:46
Azelphurthe minute someone pipes up and says your wrong, godaddy will act21:46
marsilainenwhere is a good place to buy ssl certs then?21:46
Azelphurthey don't verify anything21:46
Azelphurmarsilainen: check if namecheap.com do them, that's where I send people who want domains21:46
Azelphurnamecheap are good :D21:46
marsilainenseems like namecheap do rapidssl certs for $10.9521:50
Azelphur:D21:51
Azelphurmarsilainen: when I had problems with yahoo domains they helped me get away and I've been with them for a couple years, all been good21:51
marsilainenok, thanks21:52
marsilainenI guess I'll give them a try21:52
marsilainenand sue you if it all goes wrong :)21:52
MonsterKillerhehe21:54
ubuntuuk-planet[Jono Bacon] Unity Bitesize Bug Report for 7 December - http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/12/07/unity-bitesize-bug-report-for-7-december/22:04
ali1234heh, my bug report is in that ^22:05
matttevening all22:05
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* daubers considers replacing a couple of convection heaters with oil filled heaters22:16
ali1234those are good those are22:16
daubersPretty sure it would be cheaper to run....22:18
ali1234i dunno about that, it's still a heating element at the end of the day22:27
andylockranIf I have the following IP address on my server.. 2001:ba8:1f1:f015::2/64 can I use this as a tunnel for my desktop device? I'm using OpenVPN22:27
jgjonesdaubers - They're probably a bit more efficient in heating (oil hold heat longer) but it's still heated using electricity but still better than convection heaters.22:34
ali1234the thing about oil heaters is the element can get much hotter, therefore you can actually properly heat a room with them, instead of just having the fan heater blowing on you 24x722:35
ali1234but of course it uses way more electricity22:35
ali1234consider that any heat the oil stores is heat that isn't heating up the room22:35
ali1234oh yeah, they are quiet too, unlike a fan heater22:36
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daubersali1234: We've just got convection heaters (not fan heaters)22:38
daubersJust want to reduce the £300/month leccy bill a bit really22:38
ali1234put on a hat and scarf22:39
jgjonesactually - oil and convection heaters use same power - ie if you get a 1000W heater then it's 1000W22:39
jgjonesregardless of oil or convection.22:39
daubersjgjones: Well, yes, but the frequency of the element coming on should be less with an oil heater (in theory)22:40
ali1234might be a bit more efficient due to higher temperatures involved, but probably not much22:40
jgjonesdaubers - I know how it feel...my last place's heating was so crap, I only got lukewarm temps at best in house with a giant bill.22:40
daubersStupid convection heater comes on and off about every 30 seconds22:41
ali1234if the element is on less it produces less heat... thermodynamics :)22:41
urakenhello all does anyone of a really good internet filtering system i can use for my children?22:41
jgjonesdaubers, I think oil is probably more efficient but I have no idea to be honest. Gut feeling say oil. Can't find any tests otherwise.22:41
jgjonesuraken - I use OpenDNS22:41
ali1234if there is a difference it's going to be a few %22:41
jgjonesuraken - www.opendns.com22:42
daubersali1234: Yes, but it depends on how efficiently it's transferring that heat to the medium around it, and how quickly that moves away22:42
urakenis this content filtering? jg?22:42
ali1234all the heat is going to move into the room eventually, or else the heater either switches off or catches fire :)22:42
jgjonesuraken, you can use OpenDNS to filter out specific areas you don't want your kids to access such as porn, games, and whatever else - quite a choice really.22:42
daubersali1234: Yup, but air is a pretty rubbish conducting medium (for heat)22:43
ali1234it doesn't matter22:43
urakenperfect exactly what i am after, is it a download or do i point my dns settings there?22:43
daubersTempted to get one and just measure it22:43
jgjonesdaubers, when dealing with crappy heating in my last place, I just bought plenty of heavy duty but nice blankets and laid them over sofas etc22:43
daubersjgjones: Heh :)22:43
ali1234the oil heater will heat the room faster, but it will use almost the same amount of electricity22:43
jgjonesthen when watching tv etc, put them over - works quite well :)22:43
ali1234snuggy22:44
ali1234it's on my xmas list22:44
daubersShall sleep on it I think22:44
daubersNight all22:44
jgjonesuraken - just point your DNS to openDNS - and for your IP - if you have dynamic IP's you'll need their OpenDNS updater to keep up to date.22:44
urakenbrilliant many thanks JG really appreciate your help i will go take a look and seehow i get on take care and thanks again22:45
jgjonesuraken, have a look at their site and play with a new account - it's all free so there's no harm in trying it out. If it doesn't meet your needs, then just change DNS settings back to normal.22:45
urakeni will do thanks :)22:46

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