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hamitronAzelphur: the dude is on the same /8 network00:03
Azelphurhamitron, ?00:03
hamitronclass A00:03
hamitronis he not?00:03
hamitronI did a traceroute00:04
Azelphurhamitron, you mean on stevo from my server? he was connected through a VPN otherwise he wouldn't have been able to be connected XD00:05
hamitronhe said what IP range he gets on his ISP00:05
Azelphuroh yea ok00:06
Azelphurand yea, he says his entire range is dropped00:06
Azelphurand a few of his friends can't get on00:06
hamitronand that is the same network as the router that is your first hop iirc00:06
Azelphurhamitron, yea, I get theplanet for that IP00:08
Azelphurhamitron, his IP ( 69.119.15.146 ) is weird, if I put it in dnsstuff it redirects to a completely different IP o.O00:08
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Canaimero-e8dquayudame para intalar Adobe Flash Player05:01
Canaimero-e8dAdobe Flash Player05:02
ali1234advent vega: is it any good?06:07
ali1234http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYtWxTGevO806:10
ali1234why does every version of ubuntu insist on making it impossible to tell which window is focused?06:33
Myrttixfce ♥06:36
ali1234yes, xfce too06:36
Myrttialthough I thought the window borders and titles do change colour in Ubuntu too when focused?06:36
ali1234title bars of focused/unfocused windows are exactly the same06:36
ali1234they don't even *have* borders any more in ubuntu06:36
ali1234xubuntu has borders, but they don't change in any way when you focus a window06:37
Myrttithen you've got something misconfigured06:37
ali1234i just installed xubuntu 11.0406:37
ali1234i literally logged in about 2 minutes ago for the first time after rebooting from the installer06:37
ali1234i have not touched any config at all yet06:38
ali1234everything uses this greybird theme where everything is grey06:38
ali1234*everything*06:38
Myrttimeh, I don't even have time to dig configs for you, need to go to the doctors to learn how to inject myself :-/06:41
Myrttistupid Klexane, stupid transatlantic flights06:41
ali1234damn06:44
ali1234i thought i got rid of global menus06:44
ali1234but apparently virtualbox has them hardcoded somehow06:44
ali1234well that sucks06:49
ali1234in xfce you can't turn off icons in application menus without losing icons on the start menu06:49
ali1234you can turn off icons in the start menu and have icons in app menus though06:50
* gord has started counting the number if times i have to sleep before i can go home07:06
TheOpenSourcererThat good eh gord ?07:09
TheOpenSourcererMorning BTW07:09
gordTheOpenSourcerer, UDS is good! i have just been here for a week already is all :) i miss all my stuff07:10
Pendulumgord: did you remember to bring tea this time/07:11
Pendulum?07:11
gordnope! but cztab reminded me so managed to bring some07:12
Pendulum:)07:15
gordPendulum, enjoying the uk? hoping the sun has lasted07:15
Pendulumwell it's rained for part of the day the last 2 where I've been07:15
Pendulumbut it looks at least somewhat sunny atm07:15
gord:( it was so sunny when i left07:17
czajkowskigord: i have a use07:19
Pendulumgord: I think it might be where I am, don't worry :P07:19
Laptop11-04hello i have a problem with my wireless card. when i installed ubuntu the card was set as UNCLAIMED under "lshw -C network"  i cant seem to get it to work, i even tried to install a windows driver on it with ndisgtk  but that failed. this card works under other linux distros. why wont ubuntu use it  ??07:32
ali1234well xubuntu was a waste of my time07:40
ali1234ok, according to firefox "reminds" isn't a word07:48
Laptop11-04what do you mean according to firefox07:49
ali1234firefox has a spell checker07:50
ali1234it rejects "reminds"07:50
Laptop11-04not here07:50
gordkeynote time - not sure if we are live streaming it this time07:54
Pendulumgord: chatting in #ubuntu-uds says yes07:54
Pendulumor at least that it's supposed to07:55
ali1234http://video.ubuntu.com/live/ ?07:55
gordwhen it starts i would assume08:00
DJonesMorning all08:46
DJones\o/ New PC at work08:47
DJonesI'll have to have a day off more often08:47
BigRedSwhoo!08:48
DJonesNow to finish installing all my non-work related apps08:49
Neotiok so i upgraded to ubuntu 11.04.... and since then... internet browsing is slow..... also when my screen saver comes on and i VNC in to this computer from another location sometimes the computer just freezes up and i have to reboot it ... even if i go back in front of the computer i move the mouse it moves but the screen is still just frozen on the gnome foot screen saver.... .... any one else experianced this ?09:03
Laptop11-04hello i have a problem with my wireless card. when i installed ubuntu the card was set as UNCLAIMED under "lshw -C network"  i cant seem to get it to work, i even tried to install a windows driver on it with ndisgtk  but that failed. this card works under other linux distros. why wont ubuntu use it  ad how can i fix this  ??09:07
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wintellectMornin all09:17
_serial_morning fellow virginmedia user09:17
wintellect:)09:17
wintellectYou happy with their service _serial_ ?09:18
_serial_its not bad on 10Mb but i hear bad things about 30Mb superhub thing09:18
wintellectreally?09:18
_serial_are you?09:18
wintellectNo, I'm 10Mb and happy with it09:18
_serial_yeah, something about there firmware not being up to scratch09:18
wintellect:(09:19
_serial_http://m.forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2011/02/22/virgin_media_superhub_fail/ if your interested... theres a little section on el reg but i cant find it @dmo09:20
popeyI have a superhub09:20
popeyworks fine09:20
wintellectpopey: what's the upload speed on those?09:20
_serial_did you have to update the firmware a few times to get the download speed they offered?09:21
popeyI am on 30Mb/s down, 3Mb/s up09:21
popeyno09:21
_serial_one of the rare few according to the www...09:21
wintellectnice, 3Mb up   -   popey can now be a Ubuntu mirror for me :P09:21
popeyhah09:22
_serial_:D sounds like a good idea winintellect09:22
wintellect:D09:22
wintellectwell, it'll stop me asking popey "Is it libe yet" on release days :P09:22
wintellectlive*09:22
Neotiok so i upgraded to ubuntu 11.04.... and since then... internet browsing is slow..... also when my screen saver comes on and i VNC in to this computer from another location sometimes the computer just freezes up and i have to reboot it ... even if i go back in front of the computer i move the mouse it moves but the screen is still just frozen on the gnome foot screen saver.... .... any one else experianced this ?09:23
Stealthyhow do i install a driver on ubuntu 11.0409:40
wintellectStealthy: which driver do you want/need?09:40
BigRedSStealthy: it depends upon the driver09:40
oimongrrr the hinge has snapped on my dell laptop and dell won't replace it despite being under warranty09:41
Stealthywintellect   ndiswrapper -a 168c:0013 ath5k    it says ath5k isnt installed properly09:41
wintellectdon't know about ndiswrapper, sorry09:41
wintellectoimon: :O   bsd dell! Bad, bad dell!09:41
oimonthey are asking £85 for a replacement09:46
popeyClutch on my car has gone phut09:47
oimonbroken things suck :(09:57
oimonhow much for the new clutch popey?09:57
BigRedSI've spent the past few years earning a living off of people having broken things...09:57
popey300 quid he reckons09:57
Stealthyoimon unless its a vacuum cleaner :P09:57
oimonbtw i bought a casio f91w recently too! there seems to have been a bit of a run on them since the news article, loads of geeks born in the 70s realised they were still being made and bought one09:58
popey:)09:59
ali1234being an 80s child i always wanted the casio calculator watch10:00
oimoni have a posh watch but never wear it10:01
oimonthe casio fits my needs exactly10:02
oimona real mans watch10:02
* oimon buys a screen hinge for 10% of the price dell were asking10:02
TheOpenSourcererThe garage collected my Volvo this morning for its service and MOT. Bloke reckoned my car was only worth £500 :-)10:08
dogmatic69what Volvo is that?10:08
TheOpenSourcererV70 2.4Turbo10:08
dogmatic69how old is it?10:09
TheOpenSourcerer"V" reg approx 120K miles10:09
dogmatic69like 20 yo?10:10
dogmatic69should have taken the 500 and run :P10:10
TheOpenSourcererNah 1999/0010:10
dogmatic69ah, second time round V reg10:11
dogmatic69loads on the net for ~ 2k10:13
popeyTheOpenSourcerer: I'm thinking of getting a new car10:13
oimonany car with an MOT is worth £25010:14
AlanBellworth that without an MOT actually10:14
oimoni gave my gold away when it got to that stage10:15
oimongold=golf10:15
AlanBellI got £232.50 selling my Avensis by weight for scrap10:15
oimonwow10:15
AlanBellvolvo would be at least £4567898765.00 on that scale10:15
dogmatic69lol10:15
oimoni was very sad to sell my last year because it worked great but was too small for a family :(10:15
oimoni had a seat ibiza since brand new, although i have a focus estate now, and pretty happy with it10:16
simondbullMy friend has a 1996 Ford Escort white van which he claims to be the best vehicle around, and the fastest, best ting ever !! lol10:20
ahayzenLol ... thts crazy10:22
simondbullyh, its a wreck!!10:22
ahayzenhaha10:22
simondbullwhy are we on irc when we are right next to each other!?10:23
ahayzendunno ..lol10:23
ali1234i downloaded the alternate cd instead of the desktop cd for xubuntu10:24
ali1234i wondered why it used the text installer when i installed it in vb10:24
oimonis there any news about that bug regarding power issues in natty? i don't know the bug #10:26
ali1234bug 76013110:27
lubotu3Launchpad bug 760131 in linux (Ubuntu Oneiric) "Power consumption raised significantly in natty" [High,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/76013110:27
popeyits an upstream kernel bug10:27
popeyAIUI10:27
oimonboo10:27
oimonbug '76013110:27
ahayzenThere was an article here as well...http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_natty_power&num=110:27
oimonbug #76013110:28
oimonthe bot is sleeping10:28
popeyjust type the number10:28
oimon76013110:28
popeyno need for other characters10:28
popeywith bug10:28
dogmatic69:D10:28
oimonpunches himself in the face10:28
oimonbug 76013110:28
lubotu3Launchpad bug 760131 in linux (Ubuntu Oneiric) "Power consumption raised significantly in natty" [High,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/76013110:28
ali1234my experience of xubuntu so far has been quite poor10:30
oimondefault theme?10:30
ali1234the default theme sucks yes10:31
ali1234but then so does the one on ubuntu10:31
krimzon2shame the shortcuts was an ordinary panel that you have to manually add launchers to10:31
oimonlucid default theme is only 5 minutes work though10:31
oimonkde 3.5.x used to be a weeks work10:31
ali1234the thing at the bottom? deleted that straight away10:31
oimonswitch the panel with docky et voila10:32
ali1234unfortunately you can't customize the menu10:32
ali1234docks are crap10:32
ali1234if i wanted a dock i would use unity :/10:32
oimonthats a launcher :D10:32
ali1234no, it's a dock, on the side10:32
krimzon2i'd like a dock but only if it only showed the currently open apps on the current workspace10:32
ali1234you can tell it's a dock because it has that broken behaviour of using the same icon for launching and switching between apps10:33
ali1234actually yes, only showing current workspace would be a huge improvement for unity10:33
ali1234probably the easiest to implement change with the biggest result10:33
oimonthat's funny since i use the dock for the opposite10:34
ali1234the most anoying thing in unity is when you are doing something with a bunch of windows and you want to do something else10:34
ali1234so you go to a new workspace and click for a new terminal10:34
ali1234but it just zaps you back to the one you were just using10:34
oimoni keep liferea on another workspace,  but i don't siwtch workspaces manually, i just click the icon on docky10:34
krimzon2yeah, that's really annoying10:34
ali1234i don't use lifera or any of that junk10:35
krimzon2gnome 2 has a single panel icon that pops up a list of everything on all desktops for that kind of thing10:35
ahayzen@ali1234 you know that if you middle click on the icon in the launcher it will open a new window of that item...10:35
ali1234ahayzen: yes i know, so now i only ever middle click10:35
ahayzenrather than switching to it10:35
oimonunity desperately needs the right click option to choose which window from a list e.g. if you have 20 terminals , you don't want expose view, you want to look at a list instead and choose one10:35
ahayzenlol10:35
ali1234but this means i have to way of switching between windows10:36
ali1234*no10:36
ali1234usually i have 3 or 4 terminals, 1 or 2 firefox windows, and maybe a gedit on each workspace10:36
ali1234anyway i'm not testing unity today10:36
ali1234i'm testing replacements10:36
ali1234starting with xubuntu10:37
ahayzensame.. it doesn't usually seem to bad...10:37
oimoni'd like to try a really customized kde sometime10:37
oimoni never know where to start customizing kde410:37
ali1234i tried customizing KDE for like a week10:37
ali1234i got it to almost usable10:38
ali1234but there are some things you just can't fix10:38
oimonamarok :(10:38
krimzon2trouble with kde is I always start with trying to change the window border to one I like10:38
ali1234lol, yes, amarok being one of them10:38
oimonwhat a shame about amarok - summed up the whole kde4 thing really for me10:38
ali1234i managed to get windows, menus, icons, and theme to be quite nice10:38
ali1234oimon: it sums it up so well that i trot out a screenshot of it any time someone says they like KDE10:39
popey:)10:39
ali1234and i'm about to do it again right now10:39
popeyI recall that screenshot10:39
ali1234http://al.robotfuzz.com/~al/random/kdefail.png10:39
popeyhere it comes10:39
popeythere it is!10:39
oimonugh my eyes10:40
ali1234to be fair it's nowhere enar that bad any more10:40
oimontoo late though10:41
oimonamark 1.4 was a joy to use10:41
oimoni still use k3b on gnome10:41
ali1234i think i am coming around to some features of unity you know10:41
oimonhad some disasters with brasero10:41
ali1234the dash (searching) is quite good10:42
ali1234and i like the way it puts everything in the top bar when you maximize10:42
MartijnVdSExcept it never finds what I'm looking for10:42
krimzon2searching is handy but sometimes I know which app I want and just want to launch it with a click or two10:42
oimonbono ^^10:42
ali1234yeah i agree10:42
ali1234but with kde and xfce i really miss having the three menus10:43
oimoni imagine new users will feel like i do when i have a use a mac10:43
ali1234apps places settings10:43
ali1234i don't like having to drill through the extra level of menus when they just have the single top level button, which they all do10:43
* wintellect finds the app "dmenu" very good in his minimalist window manager10:43
ali1234i especially don't like the new "control center" thing where you have to go through a bunch of menus, and then you get a new app with all settigs ever10:43
ali1234and a weird fowards/backwards thing that isn't like any other apps10:44
ali1234i always close the damn thing by mistake and then have to launch it again, because the settings are never divided up in a logical way so i have to keep switching between two sub panels10:45
krimzon2I like centralized settings10:45
ali1234of course you can;t have more than one copy of it open, that would be too easy10:45
oimoni find the dash super ugly10:45
oimoni thought the grey and huge icons were just placeholders for the duration of the beta10:45
krimzon2I don't get why it doesn't use the whole screen at first until you click the thing in the corner10:47
ali1234yes, it should rembber if you maximize it once10:47
ali1234but i can see that it does have some improvements now10:48
ali1234ok rebooting in to xubuntu live cd...10:49
ali1234oh wait, i should copy it to usb first :)10:49
ali1234oimon: here's my configured KDE: http://imagebin.org/15247310:56
oimonali1234: interesting10:56
ali1234that's using qtcurve theme and a huge amount of customizations to turn off the worst of kde10:57
ali1234i never figured out how to make font rendering not suck but i think that's down to opensuse more than anythign else10:57
oimoni was wondering about the font10:57
oimonlooks a bit...weedy10:57
ali1234i had to download ubuntu font manually and install it10:58
oimondoesn't look right10:58
ali1234yes, their font hinting doesn't seem to be configurable10:58
ali1234there's a config window, but it doesn't do anything10:58
oimoni don't know what apple do but their fonts and windows always look crisp10:58
ali1234if you make the font 1 point bigger then it gets really heavy10:58
ali1234so heavy in fact that there's no different between bold and normal10:58
ali1234it's all about font hinting10:59
ali1234there'sa good website that explains it10:59
ali1234it explains why everyone but apple sucks at it10:59
oimonali1234: which version of kde4?10:59
ali1234that's 4.6.3 i think10:59
ali1234oh no, 4.6.010:59
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oimon"To sum up, in Qt 4.5 we should honor more of the font config settings, including lcd filter and hinting style. However, unless you explicitly change the LCD filter or hinting style things should look basically the same as in Qt 4.4."11:00
oimonhttp://labs.qt.nokia.com/2008/09/01/subpixel-antialiasing-on-x11/11:00
ali1234http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/06/whats-wrong-with-apples-font-rendering.html11:01
ali1234lol11:01
ali1234nothing is wrong with it11:01
ali1234those screenshots... the apple one clearly looks a lot better than the ie7 one11:01
oimoni'm not sure if a screenshot like that helps11:02
oimonit's out of context11:02
ali1234here you go: http://antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/11:03
oimonwindows 7 is terrible at it. one of my staff moved onto win7 and said there was a problem with his new 22inch monitor, could he have the old 17inch one back11:03
ali1234most detailed treatment of the problem i've seen11:03
oimonturned out it was windows7 putting a shadow behind text on the desktop shortcut names etc - it looked terrible and unreadable11:03
ali1234see especially the "gamma does not work" part11:05
ali1234ok xubuntu time11:06
gordthis hotel is big, still, its too small for this UDS. too many people in too small rooms11:06
ali1234do you all have rooms in the same hotel as the conf?11:06
ali1234cos that's like, luxury, man11:07
ali1234normally i have to walk for half an hour to get from hotel to conf11:07
gordalways, hotels with conference centres11:07
popeynot always :)11:07
popeyGoogle.11:07
ali1234i must be going to the wrong confs11:07
gordalways in the last few years :)11:07
popey:)11:07
gordnow Mariana is in charge. it makes sense11:08
gordall the rooms here sound like ikea names, no chance i'm ever gonna be able to join the channel name for each room11:08
gordoh, bt sent me an email saying that infinity is in my area. tempt me not foul beast.11:10
oimonchromium have nasty fonts in some text entry forms - firefox looks nicer11:13
ali1234pidgin by default... that's worth some points11:15
ali1234but how do i get dual head to work?11:15
oimonxubuntu?11:15
ali1234i mean it works but both monitors show the same thing and there doesn't seem to be any way to change that11:15
oimonlol11:15
ali1234yes11:15
oimonthe problem with xubuntu is that i've never tried it on a decent machine11:15
ali1234lol. it detects both monitors, even lets me change the wallpaper independently11:18
ali1234the problem is it draws everything from both monitors on both monitors :(11:18
ali1234jockey doesn't offer me nvidia in xubuntu? how odd11:21
ali1234installing it manually, maybe it will help11:22
ali1234all the fonts are really tiny11:23
DJonesIf ali1234 was still here, I'd have said, isn't that to be expected for a smaller /lighter distribution :)11:32
TommehSo, today I've switched back to using Unity11:34
TommehAs I apt-get autoremove'd and didn't notice gnome-shell (and deps) getting uninstalled.11:34
TommehSo haven't got a lot of choice :)11:34
BigRedSI'm mulling an upgrade to 11.0411:34
TommehBut, I'm not hating it quite as much as I was....11:34
BigRedSGnome 3 was irritating the hell out of me yesterday11:34
TommehIt's pretty bare11:34
TommehI was happy enough using it but..11:34
TommehMy chief bugbear with Unity was the awkward behaviour when switching between workspaces with a mouse11:35
ali1234ok getting somewhere... nvidia driver is working, dual head is working correctly11:35
TommehBut I've noticed that I just have to get used to click on the app I want to find on another workspace, rather than just click the workspace.11:35
TommehLike that .. It's better.11:35
ali1234unfortunately there is no interface to configure it in xfce11:35
oimonstill thinking about that £15 raspberry pi device that i read about last week...hope it comes to fruition11:36
ali1234Tommeh: it fails quite badly when you have 5 terminals open on each workspace11:36
ali1234ha ha fruition11:36
ali1234iswydt11:36
oimon:D11:36
Tommehlol, haven't quite got there yet. I tend to keep one terminal window open and have multiple tabs :)11:36
ali1234it fails fairly badly when you have exactly 1 terminal open on each workspace, tabs or not11:36
oimonali1234: someone will write a tweak soon to allow choosing terminal from a list then will all be happy11:37
ali1234well as long as it works for all apps11:37
ali1234cos firefox has the same problem11:37
Tommehali1234: and I have (currently) no common use-case scenario where tabs aren't an option in one terminal window.11:37
TommehWhich is what I'm getting at11:37
ali1234then you have no use for workspaces either11:37
TommehHowever I hope that the situation you're describing gets fixed.11:37
Tommehali1234: whatever :)11:37
ali1234it's just as bad with firefox11:38
oimontabs in terminals suck11:38
ali1234especially when you click it, and it takes you to the @downloads@ window11:38
ali1234cos that's the only @firefox@ window you have open11:38
oimonespecially when you are comparing data in 2 or 3 terminals11:38
ali1234that's going to bug people who don't know about middle click11:38
ali1234cos the download window doesn't have a menu wth @new window@ in it11:38
ali1234btw sorry about @, stupid live cd has american kb layout11:38
ali1234yes tabs are useless when you need terminals side by side11:39
ali1234i open and close terminals often to terminator isn't an option either11:39
ali1234ugh... put panel on second xfce display, mess up icons on first display11:41
ali1234this is not polished11:42
ali1234i don't have much faith that xfce can properly handle dual head :(11:44
ali1234oh well pressing on11:45
ali1234lets see how it handles fullscreen apps11:45
ali1234hmm... noticable lag when resizing windows11:45
ali1234odd because it's the same gtk11:46
ali1234must be a sucky windows manager i guess11:46
ali1234"you don't have mpeg2 decoder, get lost"11:46
ali1234doesn't seem to have any codecs at all in fact11:47
ali1234i guess it's cos it's livecd11:47
ali1234that's good... panel doesn't overlap fullscreen windows11:50
ali1234of course, the UI gets completely messed up11:50
ali1234never thought i would miss totem11:50
kazadeHaha just got this error while trying to package an app of mine: debuild: fatal error at line 1337:  <<<11:51
oimonwonder what my chances of also getting this patch of dead pixels fixed: http://i.imgur.com/UtzIK.jpg11:54
TommehGahhh11:59
TommehAnd now Unity freezes on me.11:59
TommehBleh.11:59
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oimonseem to have had some success with dell :D although the guy in the indian call centre would not replace the broken part, the girl in the irish call centre did :D and will replace my LCD screen too because of dead pixels12:54
oimonthats consistency for you12:54
dwatkinsI know the feeling, sadly, oimon13:24
dwatkinsI had to send my ASUS Eee back to ASUS for the screen to be replaced. The reseller refused to do anything because it wasn't bad enough.13:25
Laneyi swear linaro speaks a different language to me13:35
ChrisKenyonx event13:35
bigcalmOn a client's server...13:47
bigcalm]$sudo su -13:47
bigcalmSegmentation fault13:47
bigcalmSomething fall down go boom13:47
Laneysudo -i13:48
Laneyinstead of that ;-)13:48
bigcalmSegmentation fault13:48
bigcalmEven 'su' gives a segfault13:48
Laney:S13:48
ali1234HazRPG: what file did you edit for flash fullscreen hack in chrome?13:54
andylockranguys13:57
andylockranif I was maxing out network bandwidth between a mysql server and apache server (separate machines) - would you expect mysql not to open any more connections and handle the max bandwidth itself, or would there be errors?13:58
bigcalmOh flip. Not only the segfault on sudo, but the client's email sending queue has backed up to about 2,200 emails13:59
diploTime outs I'd think andylockran14:00
diploapache box trying to connect to mysql server14:00
BigRedSthe mysql client would produce errors14:01
BigRedSand whatever's using that will deal with them as it wishes, normally just complaining of an inability to connect14:01
andylockranyep - thanks14:03
davmor2moo14:18
gordno cows.14:19
gorddavmor2, i haven't seen you here yet, have i totally blanked you whilst walking past? i do that sometimes14:20
czajkowskigord: ya cause yer rude14:20
czajkowskibooo14:20
gordi prefer "deep in thought about 'portant stuff like badgers and ants forming a super creature"14:20
davmor2gord:  I don't think I've spotted you either but then there are a couple of other people here,  I'll meet you at the greet and meet latter maybe14:21
* czajkowski stabs davmor2 14:22
ubuntuuk-planet[Jonathan Riddell] Qt 5 Coming... - http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/442614:22
gordtoo many here this time, or maybe the venue is too small, but too crowded for sure14:22
AlanBello/ ChrisKenyon14:22
czajkowskigord: i'm not there :(14:24
davmor2yay! czajkowski is back on form14:26
czajkowskidavmor2: no i;m cranky14:26
czajkowskijust got 3 job rejections one after another14:27
DJonesczajkowski: Are you planning on staying this side of the water or looking to head back home14:30
czajkowskistyaing here if i can find work14:31
DJonesRight14:32
davmor2czajkowski: AH nevermind someone will realise their mistake I'm sure14:34
gordhttp://www.canonical.com/about-canonical/careers is always a good browse for those looking for employment :)14:35
czajkowskigord: done14:35
gordfrankly, HR is almost always backed up with canononical, so its more of a long term solution...14:36
DJonesczajkowski: If we could justify it, I'd recommend you for IT support where I work (apart from the fact its all windows), but we're too small to have a full time IT support person/department, we just pay outside companies as & when needed14:38
czajkowski:)14:39
bigcalmWindows IT support? Is there a worse tech job?14:39
kazadeDOS tech support?14:39
bigcalm:P14:39
kazade:)14:39
DJonesI was off on Friday and while I was away, I had new PC installed, the guy that did it spent half a day setting it up & then wasn't able to install the program I use the most (well work related program anyway)14:41
czajkowskithat reminds me14:42
Psychobudgiebigcalm, Windows IT support is a great job, usually involves getting users to reboot14:42
oimoni think being a pit crew engineer is the worst job14:42
czajkowskineed to ring the nice gp and chase up on mro14:42
czajkowskimri14:42
oimonyour performance is judged on 5 seconds work and everybody will hate you if you delay it by 1 sec14:43
DJonesIt wasn't his fault, my predecessor or the one before that had hidden/lost the installation cd's, all I had were two updated versions which it turns out aren't compatibe with the program I use 2nd most often14:43
PsychobudgieI would think cleaning raw sewage or being a fluffer would suck pretty bad14:43
PsychobudgieI'd hazard a guess that they are way worse than anything you can come up with in IT14:44
DJonesPsychobudgie: Either way, whether its cleaning raw sewage or supporting Windows, you need some form of protective clothing :D14:44
DJonesHmmh, Installing update 18 of 88 (Windows Live essentials) Restart now/later? Ermmmm. I'll wait until all 88 have been installed thank you very much14:46
czajkowskigord: see pm14:47
oimonfacebook can't rotate my uploaded videos :(14:52
bigcalmTurn your monitor on its side14:53
popeyno14:53
popeyturn everyone elses14:53
bigcalmAh14:53
oimon"something's gone wrong with rotating the video, we're fixing it as soon as we can"...that was 6 months ago14:55
dwatkinsPerhaps it's still rendering.14:55
hamitroncan't you just rotate before uploading?14:55
oimonit's a .3gp video...so no14:57
oimonalso if i rotate on youtube i get massive vertical black bars on either side14:57
dwatkinsIsn't that to be expected when rotating video?14:57
hamitronit owuld annoy me more if it stretched it14:58
hamitronwould*14:58
oimonit should crop it surely?14:58
hamitronbut then you have missing bits14:59
hamitron:/14:59
oimonnot sure if i'm the only one with the facebook rotation problem14:59
hamitronwell, I don't use facebook, so can safely say I don't have the problem ;)14:59
oimoni don't know whose idea it was to have .3gp files in the first place15:01
ali12343gp is actually just mpeg15:01
MartijnVdSali1234: mpeg415:02
MartijnVdSali1234: with a special audio-codec sometimes (AMR)15:02
oimoni think it's the amr that causes the problems in lucid15:03
arsenanyone know any wiki software that supports drag&drop out of the box?15:03
BigRedSdragging and dropping what?15:04
BigRedSNot that I'm likely to know, I'm just intrigued15:04
arsenie drag files/images into a wiki page15:04
arsenfor upload/attach15:04
BigRedSoh wow, surely that's a bit dependent upon browser support?15:04
MartijnVdSit is15:04
arsenwell yes it would be, but it also relies on the sofwares ability to handle it15:04
oimonarsen:  like this? https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/DND/Drag+and+Drop+Attachments+for+Confluence+and+JIRA+(Firefox)15:05
oimonit's a firefox addin15:06
arsenthat relies on everyone running firefox though15:06
arsenhtml5 supports this stuff15:06
oimonhttp://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+3.5+Release+Notes#Confluence3.5ReleaseNotes-DragandDropforHTML5Browsers15:07
LaneyNOT CANONICAL!15:27
ali1234why not?15:29
oimonBBC4 are showing the Tom Baker Dr Who classic Hand of Fear 4 part series - starting tonight15:29
popey:D15:31
* Laney strokes popey 15:33
Laneysomeone accused me of being a Launchpad developer earlier15:33
DJonesAnybody in Swindon interested in a coding challenge http://www.museumofcomputing.org.uk/events/5-current-events/90-bedroom-programming-challenge15:33
popeyhaha you deserve to be the on the team then Laney !15:35
HazRPGali1234: /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome15:41
ali1234HazRPG: cheers15:43
HazRPGali1234: http://paste.ubuntu.com/605248/15:43
HazRPGali1234: that's what I changed in mine15:44
ali1234can you pastebin the whole thing please?15:44
HazRPGjust before: exec -a "$0" "$HERE/chrome" "$@"15:44
HazRPGsure15:44
HazRPGali1234: http://pastebin.com/M7SFvKbv (paste.ubuntu.com was being too slow)15:46
ali1234ugh why does pastebin.com have flash objects on it?15:46
ali1234never noticed before i started using flashblock15:46
HazRPGit does?15:46
HazRPG*shrug* I'm using flash block too15:46
ali1234oh it must be how they make "copy to clipboard" work15:46
HazRPGah heh, yeah it is15:47
HazRPGjust noticed it at the top xD15:47
hamitronisn't it just adverts?15:48
HazRPGhamitron: pastebin doesn't have adverts15:48
hamitronit doesn't?15:48
hamitron1 top, one right, one bottom15:49
ali1234i;ve often wondered...15:50
ali1234why do some channels get shirty if you use the wrong pastebin?15:50
hamitronunless they want you to use theirs, with advertising on........ I dunno15:50
hamitron;)15:50
oimon!info pastebinit15:51
ali1234i can understand it for ##C, their pastebin can actually compile and run the code, it's very clever15:51
lubotu3pastebinit (source: pastebinit): command-line pastebin client. In component universe, is optional. Version 1.1-2 (maverick), package size 22 kB, installed size 404 kB15:51
oimonshouldn't the bot be talking about natty packages now by default?15:51
oimon!info pastebinit natty15:51
ali1234http://ideone.com/15:51
lubotu3pastebinit (source: pastebinit): command-line pastebin client. In component universe, is optional. Version 1.2-2 (natty), package size 30 kB, installed size 480 kB15:51
ali1234oimon: yes, it should15:52
hamitronis there a !info specially for lts?15:52
hamitron!infolts nano15:52
hamitron!ltsinfo nano15:53
ali1234!info pastebinit lts15:53
lubotu3'lts' is not a valid distribution: hardy, hardy-backports, hardy-proposed, jaunty, jaunty-backports, jaunty-proposed, karmic, karmic-backports, karmic-proposed, kubuntu-backports, kubuntu-experimental, kubuntu-updates, lucid, lucid-backports, lucid-proposed, maverick, maverick-backports, maverick-proposed, medibuntu, natty, natty-backports, natty-proposed, partner, stable, testing, unstable15:53
hamitronty ali15:53
ali1234well i guess that answered the question anyway15:53
hamitronyeh15:53
ali1234would be nice if lts was synonym for whatever is current lts15:53
hamitronyep15:53
ali1234maybe whoever is in charge of the bot could implement that when they fix it for natty :)15:53
reaper4334Hi15:54
hamitronI suppose another thing is, if you have loads of synonym, it takes more keeping uptodate15:54
ali1234yeah15:54
ali1234looks like there are no synonyms in that list so maybe it's not even possible15:54
oimon!help15:54
lubotu3Please 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. :-)15:54
hamitron!help help15:55
ali1234try msging it15:55
oimongo west: it is dark here; you were hit by a grue15:55
ali1234or perhaps go ask in #ubuntu-bots15:55
HazRPGoimon: xD15:56
DJonesWhat is it you're trying to get out of the bot15:56
hamitrontbh, I think there are more worrying things than updating the bot15:56
HazRPGI might have to try pastebinit15:56
hamitronDJones: blood!15:56
oimonDJones: the !info command returns info on maverick packages by default instead of natty15:56
DJonesAh, not good15:57
hamitronlike there is plenty of out dated documentation :/15:57
hamitrontoo much of it too :D15:58
ali1234!info pastebinit $curLTS16:01
lubotu3'$curLTS' is not a valid distribution: hardy, hardy-backports, hardy-proposed, jaunty, jaunty-backports, jaunty-proposed, karmic, karmic-backports, karmic-proposed, kubuntu-backports, kubuntu-experimental, kubuntu-updates, lucid, lucid-backports, lucid-proposed, maverick, maverick-backports, maverick-proposed, medibuntu, natty, natty-backports, natty-proposed, partner, stable, testing, unstable16:01
ali1234curses16:01
ali1234the instructions lied to me16:02
DJones!info pastebinit16:04
lubotu3pastebinit (source: pastebinit): command-line pastebin client. In component universe, is optional. Version 1.2-2 (natty), package size 30 kB, installed size 480 kB16:04
tsimpsonali1234: !info and !find are not part of Encyclopedia16:05
oimonhp are making me hate them with their stupid cashback schemes16:07
oimonblip tv doesn't show how far into the video i am , and it permanently shows a pinwheel in the middle of the screen :(16:26
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aerocamlovin 11.04... new to ubuntu too. Very impressed.17:25
hamitronbbl, thunder and lightening17:28
mang0Guys, I'm dual booting windows and ubuntu on two differnat HDDs. Grub lists windows, but if I try to boot it, I'm stuck on the underscore.....(white underscore on black background). Why is this?17:28
aerocamnot sure...maybe grub is looking at a wrong drive17:30
mang0aerocam: sudo update-grub right?17:36
mang0to reconfigure it17:36
AlanBellanyone good with blender?18:18
andylockranxit18:27
andylockranexit18:27
ali1234AlanBell: i'm quite good with it18:47
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jacobwevenig19:00
jacobw+n19:00
zleapdo i need a specific package for a brother printer to display ink levels19:40
zleap?19:40
MartijnVdSmaybe19:41
MartijnVdSmy HP shows them in the standard CUPS screen now19:41
Seeker`hai20:05
jacobwo/20:10
MartijnVdShowdy20:10
Seeker`Cameras are dangerous20:11
Seeker`they empty your bank balance20:11
MartijnVdShaha20:11
Seeker`Just bought a Canon 55-250mm lens20:12
MartijnVdSSeeker`: ah, yes, that will drain it a bit ;)20:12
* MartijnVdS is looking for something at the "short" end20:13
MartijnVdS(my 18-55 broke, I'm left with a 35, 50 and a 75-300)20:13
Seeker`I've got the 18-55 kit lens, and a 50mm 1.820:16
MartijnVdS35/2, 50/1.4 and the cheap 75-30020:18
MartijnVdSthe kit 18-55 broke20:18
Seeker`could always buy a new version of the kit lens?20:19
Seeker`What camera do you have?20:19
MartijnVdSa 350d and a 50d20:20
MartijnVdSyeah, but I want something "better"20:20
* Seeker` has a 500d20:21
MartijnVdSI'me thinking of getting the 20 f/2.8 or 28 f/2.820:22
Seeker`looking for a prime specifically, or is a zoom possible20:22
MartijnVdSI love primes20:23
MartijnVdSMy 50/1.4 is almost welded to the 50d body :)20:23
Seeker`Canon EF-S 17-55mm f2.8 IS USM ?20:23
MartijnVdSI've seen that one20:24
MartijnVdSSeeker`: it's a bit expensive, that one20:25
Seeker`will do the job of several cheaper primes though20:26
MartijnVdSthe 10-22 looks nice20:26
Seeker`thats not much cheaper than the 17-55 :P20:27
MartijnVdSit's not :(20:28
Seeker`Also getting a lowepro fastpack 250 so I can take a camera with me wherever I go20:29
MartijnVdSSeeker`: http://www.flickr.com/photos/treenaks/20:30
Seeker`cool20:30
zleapsorry MartijnVdS got distracted20:33
MartijnVdSzleap: np20:34
Myrtti♥ Olympus Pen E-PL1 ♥20:34
zleapi am trying to research what i need toget the ink level monitor working20:35
zleapi can seeit, just does not show ink levels20:35
MartijnVdSzleap: you need to get a "proper" PPD that explains to CUPS how to ask the printer for ink levels20:36
zleapok i have the proper ppd file from brother,20:37
MartijnVdSzleap: then brother might not have added that feature20:37
MartijnVdSah.. my printer is HP, and the HP driver is special/smart20:39
MartijnVdSno idea about generic postscript drivers20:39
MartijnVdSor a Brother driver20:39
zleapah20:40
zleapi know brother is pretty well supported20:40
zleapdrivers at least20:40
MartijnVdSyou might have to write some code (release it!) to query ink levels20:41
zleapok20:41
gordmy printer has a meter on the hardware that tells me the ink levels, i just use that, never thought of looking on my computer20:41
MartijnVdSno idea :(20:41
zleapmy brother printer does too20:41
zleapit would just be nice to have it working20:41
MartijnVdSgord: I saw an ink level display on a coworker's mac20:41
gordi wish you could tell the uds scheduler "there is nothing very interesting this our" so it could do a better job of keeping things interesting20:42
MartijnVdSit's integrated into the "PRint" dialog.. so you can see you need to add more yellow ink when you're printing a document20:42
zleapplus windows users would expect it to work20:42
gordMartijnVdS, i believe you, i would assume its on windows too, i wouldn't think of looking for one on those platforms either, i look on the hardware20:42
MartijnVdSzleap: try figuring out how CUPS gets ink levels20:42
MartijnVdSzleap: plug into that20:42
MartijnVdSgord: no on WIndows printer drivers are 2GB and are all different20:43
MartijnVdSthey all come with manufacturer-specific apps20:43
zleapi havce no idea how to do that20:43
MartijnVdSzleap: http://cyberelk.net/tim/2009/01/14/reporting-ink-levels/20:44
zleapLibinklevel20:45
MartijnVdSdoes that integrate with cups?20:46
zleapnot sure researching now20:46
zleaphttp://www.linux.com/archive/feature/12373420:46
MartijnVdShttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/system-config-printer/+bug/59926920:47
lubotu3Ubuntu bug 599269 in system-config-printer (Ubuntu) "use libinklevel for reporting toner levels" [Undecided,New]20:47
zleapi am not sure if brother is supported not listed20:51
MartijnVdSprobably not20:52
MartijnVdSunless it's a networked printer which does SNMP20:52
MartijnVdS(like my HP)20:52
zleapit is networked20:52
zleaphowever as its still not listed i will look for something that may work20:52
MartijnVdSis snmp enabled?20:53
zleaper20:56
zleapnot sure20:56
Myrttinice, ISP sent an SMS to warn that they're updating my ADSL settings and that my connection may drop21:05
zleapcool21:05
NET||abusewow, main #ubuntu is noisefull21:34
NET||abusehaving trouble with my theme after update from 10.1021:35
NET||abusei'm stuck using what looks like clearlooks icons and color in the top bar, but i have selected ambience as the overall theme21:35
NET||abusei tried selecting the icon set in the customize optino for ambience, but they don't seem to have any affect.21:35
NET||abusealso, tomboy won't use alt+F12 for it's menu shortcut key, although that's been a problem for me since 10.1021:37
NET||abuseat least on this machine21:37
NET||abuseD   E  D, the channel is dead, rest in peace :P21:41
mgdmCLEAR!21:42
mgdm*BZZZZZT*21:42
NET||abuseheh, there's gotta be some geek style eulogy21:43
NET||abusewith irc references,,21:43
NET||abuse  NET||abuse has left #life and shall forever idle in #afterlife21:43
NET||abuseso, back to Unity,, i kinda like the change.21:44
NET||abusei thought i'd hate leaving the comfy utility  of gnome..21:45
NET||abuse i'm not missing it the way i thought i would, a day in and the freshness of the change is still enjoyable.21:45
NET||abusehaven't looked gnome shell direction at all yet21:46
NET||abusei liked the idea of coding up my widgets myself in javascript, but i also hate the idea of javascript being what native applications were based on.21:46
NET||abuseneed the speed of C darn it.21:46
mgdmWell21:46
mgdmJS is much easier to code in than C21:46
NET||abusespecially on my netbook, thing really crawls along these days21:47
mgdmand the runtimes are getting a *load* of attention from the browser vendors21:47
mgdmso I'd say it was a reasonable choice21:47
NET||abuseyeh, of course, js, python, qtml, all a nice choice for easy entry to development21:47
gordjavascript, python, C, C++, it all ends up being the same work anyway21:48
gordsoon as you hit "oh, i can't do this with what is already made for me..."21:48
NET||abuse..... gord,, yeh, what you drinking?21:48
Seeker`NET||abuse: huh?21:49
NET||abusethe point of failing utility is a different issue, if you code an app using js that doesn't have say, api access to your disk's SMART interface, then sure, you gotta drop to a lower level language.21:50
NET||abusebut for 90% of the applications you want to build, the dynamic languages like python or multi paradigm-ness of js will ease the burden of the sheer weight of coding the basest component parts of your applicaiton21:51
NET||abusei don't envy C devs buliding their structs for every type they need to define.21:51
NET||abuseno thank you :P21:51
Seeker`Languages are tools. They each have their uses.21:52
mgdmdidn't you just turn 180 degrees and start arguing the opposite point to what you started with?21:52
NET||abusemgdm, nope, i just said i like the speed21:52
NET||abusedidn't say i wanted to build them :P21:52
gordyou are over-simplfying the issue - it all ends up being the same work because the same work ends up being done, you may prefer one language but i know for example, i can code way faster in C than i can in JavaScript because thats what i know21:52
NET||abusei like the idea of the ease of building my own widgets in JS,21:52
mgdmThere are a bunch of things that are going to be not-all-that-much-faster when you drive them from C than when you drive them from JS/Python/Ruby/LOLCODE21:53
mgdmanything involving the disk, network, etc21:54
NET||abusegord, hmm, well, if the precedent were set, then why don't more people don't build webapps etc in C :P21:54
gordNET||abuse, because browsers provide one language option21:54
gordjavascript21:54
gordits the standard21:54
NET||abusegord, we were beyond the js onhly argument, discussing the polyglot options21:55
NET||abusewhen coding in any language, operations in memory will always be faster in C21:56
gordyou suggested webapps, webapps can only be coded in javascript21:56
NET||abusegord, .... that's a very ambiguous definition of web apps.21:56
mgdmI'd consider what I do at work to be webaps, and they're in PHP...21:56
gordthat would be a backend21:57
NET||abuseyup, PHP and pythong for me :)21:57
NET||abusegord, yes, but the webapp needs a backend,21:57
popeypythong th th th thong!21:57
NET||abusewhoop whoop21:57
NET||abuseshake that python21:57
NET||abuseshake that pythong21:57
mgdmback end, yes, but the front end has no JS for quite a lot of it, but it's still a web app :) </pedant>21:57
mgdmI'll shut up now21:57
gordpeople code backends in C, not everyone, but some people, if it suits them - more power to them21:57
gordit all ends up being the same work.21:57
NET||abusethat statement irks me21:58
Seeker`It all ends up as assembly21:58
NET||abuseoh god, the lack of nuance, somebody shoot me21:58
* Seeker` shoots NET||abuse 21:59
* NET||abuse escapes happily in death21:59
Seeker`interpreters don't have to be slow21:59
NET||abuse</obstinance>22:00
Seeker`some languages have more overhead than others22:00
Seeker`but they can all be compiled down to assembly if you wish22:00
gordyou can make the case that mono is actually faster than compiled code22:00
NET||abuseanyway, my theme is broke, anyone know how to get the icons/top bar back to ambiance defaults?22:01
NET||abusemine seems stuck by some pre-existing config from gnome of something22:01
NET||abuseweird that unity is affected this way.22:01
gordwe just grab the current theme to theme the panel, chances are gnome settings daemon dyed22:03
gorddied22:03
WinterWeaverIf I create a cronjob with @hourly, when does that hour cycle start? The moment I save the crontab, or exactly on the hour?22:04
mgdmon the hour22:04
WinterWeaverthx mgdm22:05
NET||abusegord, not sure if that's the case, i created a test user, loged in as that user, all the theme's work correctly, then logged back in as myself, and the same issues remain on my pre-11.04 user account (updating since 9.10 i think)22:05
NET||abuseand still i can't use alt-F12 for tomboy,, gosh darn it!! :P22:06
popeyoooo22:07
popeynever noticed that22:07
popeyis there a bug filed?22:07
NET||abusedunno, haven't searched for it yet.22:07
NET||abusewill do now though22:07
NET||abuseshould that be under unity or tomboy though i wonder.22:07
NET||abusethat said, now unreproduceable due to upgrading, but i was having the same issue during my 10.10 gnome sessions22:08
NET||abusemy netbook is too slow :(22:08
NET||abusehmm, there's a question, are the shortcut keys gnome only, so the unity has it's own settings manager22:19
gordwhich bit is the bit with the question?22:24
popeygord has been on the beer, he's edgy tonight.22:24
popeySorry, I mean feisty22:24
mgdmgutsy, even22:25
gordno no, i mean, i didn't understand the question22:28
gordrephrase and i can potentially help :)22:29
Azelphurhmm, in GIMP when I rotate a image, it messes up the colors. How do I stop it from doing that? :S22:36
Azelphurlike if I rotate a white line, it becomes grey and faded :S22:36
mgdmit's antialiasing it22:36
mgdmI expect22:36
Azelphurfun, I wonder how I'd stop it from doing that22:37
Azelphurmgdm, got it, there's an interolation dropdown xD22:38
Azelphurpopey, if your interested, I'm trying to do something like this http://blog.brixandersen.dk/wp-content/uploads/conky.png for the M1730 :D22:38
mgdmAzelphur: ah, cool22:38
mgdmand, shiny22:38
mgdmdo one for a Thinkpad R500? :P22:38
Azelphurhaha, I didn't draw the original, and I'm actually a terrible artist this is the first thing I've actually drawn...well ever xD22:39
Azelphurbut it's coming out quite nicely22:39
Azelphurmgdm, I just took a photo of my laptop and started going over the edges in gimp with the line tool, http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3832397/screenshots/May%202011/2011-05-09-224028_1920x1200_scrot.png22:41
Azelphurmgdm, then you just toggle visibility of the layer with the photo in it, and you get http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3832397/screenshots/May%202011/2011-05-09-224020_1920x1200_scrot.png22:41
mgdmAh yes22:42
Azelphurit's coming out way better than I thought I'd achieve, haha22:42
mgdmI've done similar things in Inkscape22:42
gordinkscape is prolly better suited for line drawing22:43
Azelphurfun22:43
Azelphurbut yea just gotta go painstakingly over each and every key xD22:43
Azelphurand then it should look good \o/22:43
gordinkscape does have a trace thing that can create a line drawing of images, but its way more sketchy than you might like i think22:44
mgdmAzelphur: for amusement value, try duplicating that photo layer and run the Canny edge detector on it22:45
Azelphurthat's interesting, I'll try that and see what it comes up with, maybe I could touch it up :p22:45
* mgdm wonders if tha'ts what GIMP calls it, it's certainly the name of the algorithm22:45
Azelphurhaha, no idea how to do that22:46
Azelphuryw to a copy of the photo if you want it xD22:46
mgdmAzelphur: aye, go on :)22:47
Azelphurmgdm, http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3832397/Photos/May%202011/IMG_20110509_005536.jpg22:47
mgdmHmm, GIMP doesn't call it that22:48
* mgdm does some C and some OpenCV22:48
Azelphuro.O22:49
Azelphurgord, do you know where the inkscape trace thing is?22:49
mgdmdarn22:49
mgdmcan't ind the code I need22:50
mgdmnever mind :)22:50
Azelphurlol22:50
mgdmInkscape can probably do something better itself22:50
AzelphurI assume it's a filter, there's so many xD22:50
Azelphurwoa22:51
Azelphurinkscape does do a surprisingly good job of this22:51
mgdmI was trying to find the thing that did http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/198522_10150151425792297_514797296_6723701_2092911_n.jpg22:51
mgdmAzelphur: aye, it's usually a good start, needs a little tidying though22:51
Azelphuryea it would need a lot of tidying22:52
AzelphurI might try and steal it's representation of the keyboard, that'd save me a lot of time :P22:53
mgdmhehe22:53
mgdmg'night22:53
Azelphurnight xD22:54
Azelphurgord, inkscape doesn't seem to support saving as a format that would be loadable as a wallpaper, :(22:55
gordAzelphur, svg is loadable as a wallpaper. but if you export you can save as png22:56
gordsvg is just nicer because its resolution independent22:57
Azelphuroh, I see :)22:57
AlanBellSVG is sort of loadable as wallpaper22:59
AlanBellyou can request an SVG as wallpaper and it converts it to a PNG of some resolution that doesn't neccessarily match your screen and displays that23:01
AlanBellit doesn't actually render SVG on the background23:01
gordwell it does :) svg is an xml file, rendering it is the process of turning it in to pixels. but it used to match screen resolution, i guess it doesn't now?23:02
gordbeen a while since i have done that, but it certainly used to23:02
AlanBellsvg does funky stuff like javascript and animations :)23:03
AlanBellI haven't tried it for a while I think it got the resolution based on the declared size of the SVG in inches or something23:05
gordyeah you can, interesting that no one has really ever done that23:05
AlanBellI just realised once that you could do an svg wallpaper, but it turned out to be a less exciting discovery than I had hoped23:06
gordted gould has a cool inkscape -> web page presentation tool, so instead of using boring OO.o for presentations he gets these nifty svg+js animated ones23:06
AlanBellI think DoctorMo's dynamic wallpapers were based on that23:06
AlanBellyeah, I have seen that23:06
AlanBellbut the dynamic wallpapers only update on restart or daily or something23:07
AlanBellheh, fun discovery with unity :)23:10
AlanBellI have a laptop (screen1) with unity sidebar23:10
AlanBellI have a monitor (screen2) to the left23:10
AlanBellto pop out the sidebar on the left of screen 1 I have to hold the mouse at the left edge of screen2 then race 2048 pixels over to the right before it fades again23:11
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AlanBellactually it doesn't fade while I am to the left of it23:12
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gordheh yeah23:13
gordwe don't really support having the monitor on the left of the springboard23:13

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