[04:09]  * Fudge pokes head_victim 
[04:12]  * head_victim falls over
[04:15] <Fudge> wow must be all this coffee
[04:16] <head_victim> hah in between mowing and washing the car, what can I do for you
[04:16] <Fudge> i was wondering if you know anything about setting up vpn's
[04:17] <Fudge> trying to find info, ive only ever used them once years ago on windows and i installed the client, my bro inlaw gave me the address to connect to and i can see the four computers across australia
[04:19] <Fudge> could, that is
[04:21] <head_victim> From memory that's built into network manager
[04:22] <Fudge> yes yo ucan connect to vpn's from there but does that have to go through some server as a gateway? guess ill keep googling round :d
[04:22] <head_victim> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VPNClient
[04:23] <head_victim> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VPNServer
[04:24] <Fudge> tks ill read those mate
[04:25] <head_victim> Yeah sorry it's not something I've looked into too hard before. Someone else in here might be able to chip in some more links but I'd start with those and start googling the stuff that didn't make sense :)
[04:26] <head_victim> OpenVPN looks like the thing to look into
[08:46] <gggs> why is /tmp a different colour in ls? what does that indicate?
[08:47] <head_victim> gggs: it's been aliased
[08:48] <gggs> aliased?
[08:51] <head_victim> type "alias" into a terminal and it will sho you what has been aliased for you by default
[08:51] <head_victim> They usually alias grepping and ls for some reason
[08:52] <gggs> actually I just figured it out; /tmp is on / and only has 4GB free, so I created a directory in /home with the same permissions, it seems any directory with 777 permissions gets a different colour...?!
[08:52] <head_victim> Possibly, if I ever use a terminal much I try to switch all that stuff off.
[08:52] <head_victim> I find it all annoying, but I'm a bit of a grumpy sort.
[08:53] <gggs> it's a blue fg/green bg
[08:53] <gggs> actually I like colour, makes things more readable
[08:53] <head_victim> I usually use white on black
[08:53] <head_victim> or light grey on black
[08:54] <gggs> same, it's easier to look at and doesn't light up the office
[09:28] <gggs> hey, did you know that when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, he already had three missed calls from CHUCK NORRIS
[09:31] <gggs> Chuck Norris also doesn't have a reflection; there is only one CHUCK NORRIS
[09:37] <gggs> haha, a cop once pulled over Chuck Norris... the cop was lucky to leave with a warning
[10:29] <gorilla> #
[10:29] <gorilla> Justin Beiber screeched like a high-pitched girl the time he saw Chuck Norris. His voice is still up there today
[10:33] <head_victim> gorilla: nice link there http://biebian.sourceforge.net/ I saw that the other day
[10:34] <gorilla> head_victim: that's so wrong :-)
[11:41] <gggs> head_victim: omg omg Justin Bieber Linux
[11:41] <head_victim> I'm more a hannah montana linux fan myself
[11:42] <gggs> sorry room, my new home is #justinbieberlinux-au
[11:43] <gggs> rofl
[12:39] <ikt> justin beiber
[13:27] <kaushal> Hi
[13:27] <kaushal> I have a specific case wherein I have two sources.list one is global and other is local so global is denied when i am in office and allowed once i am out of office so is there a way to switch it automatically meaning once in office point to local and out of office point to global is that possible ?
[13:46] <ikt> hmm
[13:47] <ikt> would be possible to setup a script
[13:47] <head_victim> Can you specify a sources.list in the apt-get command perhaps?
[13:55] <elky> you can put additional sources.list files in the sources.list.d directory.
[13:56] <elky> I don't know that'd override enough for apt to stop crying about the inaccessible ones though
[13:56] <elky> You're probably better off having a hosts file rewrite.
[13:59] <ikt> host file rewrite mmm
[14:01] <elky> yeah. in /etc/hosts have au.ubuntu.com (or whatever) pointed at the office domains. It's going to be a pain if this is a laptop that moves between in office and out of office, but if you have a vpn, it ought to be ok
[14:06] <elky> Regardless, it's easier to edit the hosts file and add or remove a # than copy sources lists around and potentially accidentally overwrite one of them
[14:08] <head_victim> Yeah I looked up some man pages, I was hoping you could use a flag to not use the default sources.list file but apparently that's not an option.
[14:14] <sagaci> http://paste.ubuntu.com/618307/ - doesn't look like an option
[14:15] <head_victim> Unless the config file is useful?
[14:24] <elky> the ideal thing would be to have the office reroute the requests for ubuntu repositories to their local versions
[14:24] <elky> rather than blindly dropping them
[14:26] <elky> this isn't something that apt has been designed for. make a feature request on their bugtracker maybe, but you'll need to use one of the options listed above until that happens anyway.
[16:10] <airtonix> why would you need something like that ? 
[16:44] <ikt> which thing?