| Swathe | just got the ok to use linux as the OS on my work PC | 03:32 |
|---|---|---|
| Swathe | hooray | 03:32 |
| bradm | yay, 8.5m | 03:37 |
| bradm | we're actually not in major flood anymore! :) | 03:37 |
| blahdeblah | Swathe: cool! | 04:05 |
| blahdeblah | bradm: \o/ | 04:05 |
| bradm | heh, I have to use Linux on my PC at work ;) | 04:06 |
| blahdeblah | bradm: Where are you based? | 04:06 |
| bradm | blahdeblah: Rockhampton | 04:06 |
| blahdeblah | Coming to LCA2011? | 04:07 |
| bradm | unfortunately, no, I couldn't organise it | 04:07 |
| blahdeblah | :-( | 04:07 |
| blahdeblah | Understandable given the circumstances, though | 04:07 |
| bradm | yeah | 04:07 |
| bradm | it would have been good, the last LCA I got to was the one we ran in Brisbane last time | 04:07 |
| blahdeblah | yeah, me too | 04:09 |
| blahdeblah | Been to the last couple of OSDCs in BrisVegas, though | 04:09 |
| blahdeblah | bradm: Are you full time with Canonical? | 04:24 |
| bradm | blahdeblah: sure am. | 04:26 |
| blahdeblah | Got a minute for a | 04:27 |
| blahdeblah | private message? | 04:27 |
| bradm | sure | 04:27 |
| gggs-mobile | Ubuntu/X just halted completely, how can I get to a console? | 06:18 |
| gggs-mobile | the old ctrl+alt+bkspc doesn't work anymore | 06:19 |
| elky | ctrl+alt+f1 not working? | 06:21 |
| blahdeblah | gggs-mobile: They disabled ctrl-alt-backspace a couple of revisions ago - much to the chagrin of many people who used it | 06:22 |
| gggs-mobile | elky: nothing's working atm, everything's halted. I had internet radio streaming through Firefox, and it's looping ~2 sec of audio | 06:23 |
| gggs-mobile | strangely enough my caps-lock light is flashing on/off consistently | 06:24 |
| gggs-mobile | blahdeblah: ah | 06:24 |
| blahdeblah | gggs-mobile: Caps Lock flashing means a kernel crash | 06:25 |
| gggs-mobile | blahdeblah: that's a smart idea, I never knew that. I have mounted volumes & I don't really want to reboot, doesn't look like I have much choice | 06:27 |
| * blahdeblah hates it when there's no choice but to reboot | 06:27 | |
| blahdeblah | The flashing caps lock doesn't happy with every crash | 06:28 |
| blahdeblah | s/happy/happen/ | 06:28 |
| blahdeblah | I don't know whether if there are rules which govern it, or if they just give it their best shot, but it happens to me about 1 in every 4-5 crashes | 06:29 |
| gggs | really? this is actually the first time Ubuntu's ever crashed, I have a feeling it might be VirtualBox's fault | 06:32 |
| blahdeblah | gggs: You've been lucky | 06:32 |
| blahdeblah | :-) | 06:32 |
| blahdeblah | Or not trying hard enough | 06:32 |
| gggs | blahdeblah: both, I think | 06:34 |
| gggs | where's the crash log stored? | 06:38 |
| blahdeblah | If it crashes that badly, i don't think you get a log | 06:38 |
| blahdeblah | Check /var/log/syslog, though | 06:38 |
| blahdeblah | Or /var/log/kern.log | 06:39 |
| gggs | I can't find anything, is there any way to determine the cause of the halt? | 06:41 |
| blahdeblah | Try to reproduce it is about it. | 06:41 |
| blahdeblah | sorry - that's not accurate | 06:41 |
| blahdeblah | There are tools to troubleshoot, but they're usually a lot of hassle to set up and run. | 06:42 |
| gggs | fair enough, I thought it'd drop back to a console and give a reason | 06:46 |
| head_victim | nisshh: you be around for the next meeting on the 8th Feb? Or should I chair that one? | 09:12 |
| Swathe | anyone using thunderbird with exchange | 09:18 |
| nisshh | head_victim, no. i should be around | 09:18 |
| Swathe | evolution worked fine for me at work today but i hate it | 09:19 |
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| * iflema poor evolution....... | 09:26 | |
| head_victim | nisshh: no worries, I'll leave it up as you chairing then. | 09:34 |
| nisshh | head_victim, ok, cool | 09:35 |
| Swathe | i like thunderbird a lot better but hey worth the price to use linux at work now | 09:36 |
| blahdeblah | Swathe: Just use Thunderbird with IMAP and use all the other stuff via OWA | 10:43 |
| Swathe | yeah i tried it multiple times and it just wouldnt take | 10:48 |
| Swathe | mind you i didnt set up the exchange server so there might me something a miss | 10:49 |
| blahdeblah | Swathe: define "just wouldn't take" | 10:50 |
| blahdeblah | I've never found a mail server i couldn't bend into shape with Thunderbird | 10:50 |
| Swathe | wouldn't authenticate | 10:50 |
| blahdeblah | which options did you try? | 10:50 |
| Swathe | kept failing an i have no idea why | 10:50 |
| Swathe | well it was set up using ssl | 10:51 |
| blahdeblah | Yep | 10:51 |
| Swathe | tried username, username@domain, domain/username | 10:51 |
| blahdeblah | hmmm | 10:51 |
| blahdeblah | Googled it? | 10:51 |
| Swathe | i only used imapi with evolution | 10:52 |
| Swathe | yep | 10:52 |
| Swathe | gonna give it another go monday | 10:53 |
| Swathe | been a long week and i just wanted it up and running befor ei knocked off | 10:53 |
| blahdeblah | yeah | 10:53 |
| Swathe | i'm sure i'll get it | 10:53 |
| blahdeblah | I'm sure it can be done | 10:53 |
| Swathe | yeah i have seen it working | 10:54 |
| blahdeblah | This might be useful: http://davmail.sourceforge.net/ | 10:54 |
| Swathe | i will have to go through the exchange server settings | 10:54 |
| Swathe | hmm nice thanks | 10:55 |
| Swathe | i might give that a go | 10:55 |
| blahdeblah | This page seems to indicate it's pretty trivial with a bare username: http://www.ehow.com/how_6455696_connect-thunderbird-microsoft-exchange-server.html | 10:55 |
| Swathe | yeah that's why i couldnt understand why it wasnt working | 10:56 |
| Swathe | we are virtualising the environment and migrating to server 08 so everything will be done from scratch anyway | 10:56 |
| Swathe | so i should be doing the exchange server this time so can be sure evedrything is right on that end | 10:56 |
| sagaci | Hi | 12:24 |
| nisshh | yo sagaci! :) | 12:25 |
| sagaci | Do you use encryption on your hard drive | 12:26 |
| dns53 | i do | 12:26 |
| blahdeblah | i do | 12:28 |
| sagaci | Full disk encryption or a third party tool like truecrypt | 12:28 |
| nisshh | sagaci, i dont, but only because my main drive is an IDE and it would be horribly slow | 12:30 |
| sagaci | Is it dumb not having encryption or just an extra layer of security | 12:31 |
| nisshh | sagaci, depends, if your the only one who has access to your computer, and you dont think itll ever get stolen/lost, i wouldnt | 12:33 |
| nisshh | otherwise i would | 12:33 |
| nisshh | for instance, i will probably not encrypt my desktop's hard drive | 12:33 |
| sagaci | I just set it to autologin | 12:38 |
| nisshh | sagaci, ah right, i dont, since my sister's like prying :) | 12:39 |
| Swathe | auto login? ewwwww | 12:40 |
| nisshh | my mum's computer got formatted because she had it to auto login | 12:40 |
| nisshh | and my sisters played with it | 12:40 |
| Swathe | how? | 12:40 |
| nisshh | Swathe, from what i could gather, they did the whole, right click the drive, click Format, thing | 12:40 |
| sagaci | Well i autologin but i have a startup bios password | 12:42 |
| nisshh | sagaci, meh, ive never trusted BIOS's since all you have to do to get around that is remove and replace the CMOS battery and it resets the BIOS :) | 12:44 |
| sagaci | There is no one within a 200km radius who would even think of doing that | 12:46 |
| nisshh | sagaci, yeah, but it is that easy, is what im saying :) | 12:47 |
| * iflema try that one on a (good) laptop = tears + photos and notes =) | 12:47 | |
| Changlinn | sagaci: can they google... | 12:47 |
| nisshh | iflema, hehe | 12:47 |
| sagaci | Yes, but i'm willing to take that risk | 12:47 |
| nisshh | sagaci, fair enough, just letting you know its about as secure as a windows PC :) | 12:48 |
| * iflema wonders if anyone here know of the grub(2) little (big) problem..... | 12:49 | |
| nisshh | iflema, which problem? | 12:49 |
| iflema | nissh adding rw init=/bin/bash in boot string = reset password | 12:50 |
| * iflema or anythong for that matter | 12:51 | |
| sagaci | I switched over to 64 bit today | 12:51 |
| nisshh | iflema, nope, never heard of a problem with that, then again, i never tried that either :) | 12:55 |
| iflema | nisshh: is the same as the recover option basically.... select that and change (su, root) passwd = pffff | 12:58 |
| nisshh | iflema, ah i see | 12:58 |
| nisshh | sagaci, yeah? howd it go? | 12:58 |
| sagaci | Good, no hiccups yet | 13:00 |
| sagaci | Weird seeing amd64 in apt-get | 13:01 |
| nisshh | heh | 13:02 |
| nisshh | sagaci, flash working fine? | 13:02 |
| sagaci | Yeah, so far | 13:03 |
| nisshh | cool | 13:03 |
| nisshh | flash is usually the one that screws itself on 64bit | 13:04 |
| nisshh | but it seems to be better now | 13:04 |
| sagaci | Have you tried natty | 13:05 |
| nisshh | sagaci, no, refused to run properly when i tried alpha 1 | 13:07 |
| sagaci | I installed it fine, reboot fine them second reboot it had a graphics issue, so wasn't in the mood to fiddle with a broken system | 13:08 |
| sagaci | Won't try it again til the launcher is happening | 13:09 |
| sagaci | Vertical dock hasn't sold me | 13:12 |
| nisshh | sagaci, yeah | 13:13 |
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