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ginganyone know how to make gnome terminal work with tabs but not switch between them with alt+number ?01:16
gingdeleting all the short cuts worked, but seems the wrong way of doing it01:21
shaunoconfusing the life out of myself with routing this morning.  connecting to my vps with ptppd.  I can resolve & reach (e.g.) google.com.  I know I'm reaching it because I get a '301 Moved Permanently' sending me to www.google.com, and then a 302 Found sending me onwards to www.google.co.uk.  so data is getting back to me06:28
shaunobut I can't load any pages at all.  wget hangs on 'awaiting response'06:29
czajkowskiAloha06:52
daubersMorning06:54
DJonesMorning07:00
shaunohm.  should probably leave messing with iptables until I get home :/07:12
AlanBellmorning07:12
shaunoo/07:12
dauberso/07:14
shaunorather annoying.  don't think I've touched iptables / ufw since I used pptp last.  it just doesn't work anymore :/07:16
* daubers waits for the SEB man to turn up07:28
diploMorning all07:43
hoovermorning all07:48
MooDoohello07:51
bigcalmGood morning you Monday people :)07:58
MooDooWTF is going on, it's manic at work, thought it was supposed to be the summer hols08:04
daubersmeter changed08:04
bigcalmPeople are trying to get as much done before they are forced to take time off with their children08:05
* MooDoo hugs czajkowski as she sounds on a downer x08:24
oimonit's quiet in here, everyone on holiday?08:54
MooDooit's monday....everyone is probably either still in bed or snowed under08:54
* hoover 's playing a game of nethack08:55
hooverthe first time in ages08:55
hooverDL7 in the Gnomish Mines ATM08:55
oimoni was working this weekend for a powerdown/powerup..had lots of issues and feeling rather weary today08:55
MooDoooimon, sounds like you need a kip08:56
oimoni'm at work again08:56
oimontaking wednesday off for my trouble08:56
oimonSAN failed to update and some switches failed08:56
hooverI was on call over the weekend, got woken up 3:30 on Sun. morning by a full /var FS 8-P08:56
oimonhow annoying08:56
oimonwebserver?08:57
hooverna, customers ftp server09:03
hoover1GB /var fs... skanky. ;-)09:03
jpdsWhy have /var on a partition?09:04
bigcalmIf it's a high-write area, it makes sense to have it on a seperate disc09:05
popeyso logs dont fill up /09:05
oimonalso, if logfiles fill your /...yes as popey said09:05
oimonnot necessary on desktop PC, but very necessary on servers09:06
brobostigonmorning eveyrone.09:07
hoovermornin brobostigon, hi bigcalm09:07
brobostigonmmorning hoover09:08
bigcalmHowdy hoovie :)09:08
brobostigonmmorning bigcalm09:08
bigcalmHullo brobostigon :)09:08
bigcalmI wonder if I can get Mondays off from now until the end of time09:08
* bigcalm slumps with his coffee09:09
hooverbiggie, are you on google plus?09:09
bigcalmhoover: http://cuth.eu/+09:09
hooverthx done ;-)09:10
bigcalm:D09:10
brobostigon:)09:11
ubuntuuk-planet[oimon] Remove windows tax before purchase..save £64 - http://oimon.wordpress.com/2011/07/25/remove-windows-tax-before-purchase-save-64/09:14
popeyAlanBell: poke yamatt on irc about camping at oggcamp pls09:14
bigcalm3 weeks to go!09:16
bigcalmOMG09:16
* MooDoo really wanted to go to that :(09:17
bigcalmMooDoo: plan for next year!09:17
bigcalmOggCamp 10009:19
MooDoobigcalm, yeah i'll have to do that.09:21
AlanBellthey have already booked the campsite popey, about 20 people09:21
popeyso i hear09:22
MooDoooooo never thought of camping :)  that's a cool idea09:24
oimonmy dad is in farnham and my in-laws are in guildford :D09:25
* StevenR wonders how to find the dell n series laptops09:28
oimonStevenR: it's possible that they exist too, but you have to ask :-\09:31
StevenRoimon: so nothing on the website?09:32
oimoni think regional dell sites have the choice to display what they want on the site, however it doesn't mean they don't sell them :)09:33
oimonUK site is notorious for it09:33
StevenRoimon: yeah :/   not that I really need a new laptop yet :)09:34
* MooDoo just noticed a small crack on his laptops display :(09:37
oimonMooDoo: :( still in warranty?09:40
MooDoooimon, no about 3/4 years old......it's not bad crack, just something to watch out for09:41
popeyMooDoo: a minor defect on your laptop, you know what that means?09:48
popeyNew laptop time!09:48
* popey wonders what laptop sabdfl would recommend for Ubuntu :D09:48
* MooDoo is thinking of going to popey route...mac09:50
popeyDon't do it man09:51
MooDoopopey, don't recommend macs then?09:51
popeyDepends09:51
popeyMacs are great if you want to run OSX09:51
diplo:q09:51
diplooops09:51
popeyLess great if you want to run Free software OSs09:51
AlanBellI would recommend buying the exact same model sabdfl or silbs has09:52
AlanBellbugs get attention09:53
* daubers is bored of laptops09:53
Laneyi quite happily run ubuntu on my mbp09:53
* daubers wants a desktop that is integrated into his desk09:53
popeyget one thats integrated into your legs09:53
Laneywithout the 'top' then09:54
dauberspopey: I'm not Kevin Warwick :)09:54
MooDoodaubers, one like he had in the original trol?09:54
MooDootron?09:54
daubersMooDoo: That would be cool, but not good for your neck09:55
* brobostigon wants a monitor, the size of a wall.09:55
* MooDoo just wants a desktop pc, had enough with just a laptop09:55
oimonbtw anyone running natty in classic mode? bug 735070 is really annoying me!09:56
lubotu3Launchpad bug 735070 in software-center (Ubuntu) "When installing programs in Software Center, extra debconf window occasionally appears" [Low,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/73507009:56
oimonwonder if it affects everyone09:57
daubersI think the best PC would be a big desktop somewhere, with the input device as a wireless tablet, like the new Nintendo console has09:58
daubersthat would be _amazing_09:58
hooverbrb lunch09:59
oimonmmm elevenses..10:00
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davmor2morning people how was the weekend?10:08
MooDoodavmor2, morning buddy, busy but pleasant10:08
davmor2MooDoo: How's wifey?10:08
popeyA friend of mine says " If anyone knows any good windows admins in Reading who are looking for alternative employment, we've got a couple of positions open"10:09
popeyfollowed by another friend who says "The only good Windows admin is a..."10:09
davmor2oneiric is glitchy but my god the finished product will be much better than natty10:09
MooDoodavmor2, she's ok.....10:09
davmor2MooDoo: good,good :)10:10
gord"alternative employment" sounds scary10:10
davmor2gord: just means different to the employment you are in10:10
Mezgord: espescially combined with "a couple of positions open"10:10
gorddavmor2, yes i was being whimsical :P10:11
davmor2I know I just thought I'd ruin it for you :)10:11
davmor2gord: you got dungeon siege 3?  /me is annoyed that there are no pack animals10:12
gorddavmor2, nope, no good co-op ruins it for me10:12
davmor2gord: I recommend you get it for the single player mode alone when you can get it cheap,  it's a really enjoyable game, although it's slower paced than things like dragon age it's a beautiful and tricky game :)10:14
directhexmoo.10:14
dauberspopey: I might know someone10:14
davmor2directhex: morning good sir10:15
davmor2directhex: are you the mono fan?10:15
directhexdavmor2, maybe. why? /me hides from ninjas10:15
davmor2directhex: there is a new game called spacechem in Ubuntu Software Center that runs on it I was wondering why with crappy gfx mono would use 120% of the cpu but with good gfx it would use 35-50%10:17
davmor2directhex: I'm wondering if there is a bug in there for optimisation maybe?10:18
directhexdavmor2, i suspect it's more likely to come from Tao, which is the library which wraps OpenGL - i.e. it's using your CPU more when you turn down the GPU detail, and using the GPU less10:19
directhexdavmor2, it might also be a GPU driver bug - it's much smoother on my Intel laptop than FGLRX desktop10:20
davmor2directhex: ah see now that would makes some sort of sense.10:20
gordbinary drivers tend to suck at 2d acceleration on linux, i would assume its trying to go down that route10:21
davmor2directhex: possible it was using the built-in nvidia 8100 gfx which has been fine till I've had to start testing the games in USC10:21
directhexdavmor2, i wouldn't trust an 8100 to draw more than a couple of dozen things at once10:21
davmor2directhex: yeah I treated myself to a new amd/ati HD5450 1 gig ddr3 card on saturday much better now10:22
oimondocky is behaving terribly on my new machine, have now disocvered cairo dock...quite nice!10:35
brobostigoni admit to be somewhat amazed by gingerbread on my htc dream. it is so smooth and quick, it is amazing. also, with only the two google services running, over 1/2 the ram, stays free, so nice and low ram usage aswell.10:37
oimonbrobostigon: which version number is GB?10:40
brobostigonoimon: 2.3.*10:40
oimonis your phone also charging quicker?10:40
brobostigonabout the same.10:40
oimoni've noticed that since CM7 my phone charges a lot quicker ...something strange about thatr10:41
brobostigonagreed.10:41
oimonafter a few weeks of use on CM7 i like some bits but also dislike other bits10:41
brobostigonoimon: i like that gingerbread is more battery friendly and process management is better. and also the darker themeing, it is easier on my eyes, closer to how i have gnome-terminal setup, dark background, white text.10:43
oimoncontact management sucks a bit10:44
oimoncompared to sense10:44
brobostigoni have never used sense in full blown, only play, for a few minutes.10:45
brobostigoni tend to use the folders alot, fo filter which kinds of contacts i see.10:45
oimonin sense, i can hit the phone key then start typing the name of the contact rather than the number10:46
oimonon the phone screen10:46
directhexi keep needing to reboot my phone running wp710:46
directhexum, cm710:47
brobostigoni calculated the other day, my battery could last, 28 hours under normal usage now, under gingerbread, which is the best of any android version, i have used upto now, on my htc dream.10:47
directhexrandom stuff stops working - e.g. screen won't update, apps with black screens, status screen won't go away, etc10:47
brobostigonoimon: ah, i see, i have a proper hw keyboard on mine, so can do that, with the standard addr book.10:47
brobostigondirecthex: i have aosp gingerbread here, and have seen nothing like that behaviour.10:48
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Ngdirecthex: you have a windows phone 7 phone?11:03
directhexNg, i meant CM7. i won't buy into WP7 until i can transfer music on via banshee11:04
NgCM7?11:04
brobostigonNg: cyanogenmod 7.11:04
directhexwhich i can't, because microsoft decided the iphone was popular due to DRM, and decided to implement the zune's encrypted audio transfer protocol11:04
Ngoh11:04
andylockranhey11:05
NgI'm just curious that I don't appear to know anybody who uses winphone711:05
Ng*somebody* must have bought one, surely ;)11:05
directhexNg, it's a fringe platform right now11:05
directhexNg, from what i've seen on the web, it's a nice platform. but too locked down.11:05
Ngdirecthex: fringe platforms are the norm around here ;)11:05
oimoni know someone with an HTC phone that runs win phone, ...but he put android on it instead11:05
directhexoimon, has HTC put out a "runs any mobile OS" piece of hardware with windows originally since the WM6.5 based HTC HD 2?11:06
oimoni thinik he has the HD211:06
directhexWM6.5 has as much bearing on WP7 as openmoko does on android11:07
andylockran:D11:08
directhexHTC are the only ones who even made WM6.5 remotely useful for the last couple of years of its life, by replacing pretty much every part of the ui and app stack11:09
oimoni've never seen a zune IRl11:09
oimoni will prob never see a WP7 either :P11:10
directhexthey didn't ship zune in the uk, iirc11:10
directhexwp7 will get more visible when the marketing push from nokia starts11:10
directhexwell that's an unexpected /join11:12
Myrttinot really11:13
Myrtti:-(11:13
Myrttiand :-)11:13
davmor2oimon: You not missing much to be honest :)11:13
oimoni rarely see my own mp3 player tbh...stays in my pocket and never needs charging11:14
Myrttipeople still have mp3 players?11:14
Myrttiwow :-P11:14
oimonto listen via my phone would suck too much battery11:14
directhexyeah. my wife is cross that the supply of good ones has dried up11:14
sabdflhello directhex :-)11:14
directhexnowadays a high-end mp3 player is a phone with the phone part ripped out. which seems pointless11:15
popeyhah11:15
popeyI still use my iRiver iHP-140 on a daily basis :D11:16
popeyLasted well that old clunker has.11:16
popeyMostly listen to HHGTTG in bed.11:16
AlanBellhi sabdfl11:16
oimoni loved my iriver, but it got nicked. however my cowon iaudio is a worthy replacement11:16
davmor2Myrtti: Yes I do it has much bigger storage than my phone and is dedicated to one task and does it brilliantly unlike some3 phones11:16
directhexwife has managed to demolish 3 mp3 players since we started dating11:17
sabdfli haven't yet figure out why xchat-gnome places me in this room whenever i fire it up11:17
sabdflbut i like the chatter here so don't mind :-)11:17
brobostigon:)11:17
oimoncould think of more unfriendly places to arrive at :)11:17
AlanBellit joins #ubuntu-GB as that is the country code and that redirects to here11:17
directhexoimon, imagine joining #ubuntu-fr. it's filled with the french!11:18
oimonmoi, j'aime les francais :D11:18
AlanBelland half of Canada11:18
Myrttidavmor2: alright :-> I'd be listening to mostly audiobooks and I'm not sure if any mp3 player that I'd bother to pay for would work as well as my phone does for those11:18
brobostigondoes xchat do some detection of you ip addr, and works out where you are, and then joins the relevant regional ubuntu irc room ?11:19
davmor2sabdfl: That's cause all the cool kids hang out here so it knew you wanted to be here too :)11:19
AlanBellbrobostigon: no, it is the countrycode of your locale settings11:19
brobostigonAlanBell: ah, ok. interesting.11:19
* TheOpenSourcerer thinks it is time for lunch. Left over boeuf bourguignon, nom nom.11:19
brobostigongood plan TheOpenSourcerer :)11:20
Myrttixchat-gnome is a sad apparatus :-(11:20
* brobostigon gets lunch also.11:20
sabdfli'm going to try #ubuntu-im :-)11:20
directhexMyrtti, we have staff using empathy for IRC. not something i encourage.11:20
davmor2Myrtti: I think mine has a dedicated section for audio books so it would probably do that better too11:20
sabdfljust me in there :(11:21
sabdflsmall island!11:21
Myrttidavmor2: does it had a pause timer? I listen to my books and podcasts in 30 min increments in bed11:21
DJonessabdfl: At least you'll have op's in #ubuntu-im :)11:21
Laneywho wants to lend me some bonjela?11:22
davmor2Myrtti: don't know I've never looked to be honest,  I'll have a look at some point and get back to you11:22
AlanBellsabdfl: http://ubuntu-uk.org/where-are-we/ there is at least one other ubuntu user there11:22
MyrttiI wish I could put two pins on that map :-/11:23
AlanBellMyrtti: does it prevent you??11:23
* oimon tries to find isle of man on a map of GB :$11:24
* brobostigon has lashings of ginger beer.11:24
* Myrtti tries11:24
Myrtti"Duplicate comment detected; it looks as though you’ve already said that!"11:25
AlanBelloimon: in the Irish sea11:25
oimonAlanBell: found it, i was looking there but somehow looking too close to land11:26
AlanBellMyrtti: ok, I will look into that later and remove that block11:26
* oimon looks at the other isle of man ubuntu user's twitter page11:26
* daubers wonders if there's any libraries that do travel routing11:30
oimondell have confirmed that the missing PC i had on order has been "lost" in transit and will replace11:39
oimon:-S11:39
directhex._.11:42
davmor2Myrtti: Yes it has a sleep function that you can set from anything from 1-120 minutes by the look of it, http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=6&ved=0CE4QFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sandisk.com%2Fmedia%2F343157%2Ffuze_um_0809_eng.pdf&rct=j&q=sansa%20fuze%20auto%20pause&ei=p1QtTrKoFtOxhQedvsSqCw&usg=AFQjCNE8NE_HW9HQPbfXyk6Z4kqur3lBRQ11:42
davmor2Myrtti: and when ever it powers off when you switch it back on it's where it switched off11:43
gordi still say someone needs to make a sound font for the kindle, that uses brian blessed's voice to read your books to you11:44
gordwould sell billions11:44
daubersGAH EVOLUTION IS RUBBISH11:46
davmor2gord: the only problem is you'd want to hear him burst into laughter every 2 minutes would kinda ruin the book :)11:46
popeydaubers: is that supposed to be brian blessed?11:46
daubersRight click on a calender to change its pref as you got the URI wrong and it pops up a box telling you it can't connect to the calender!11:46
davmor2daubers: no it isn't at least it shows my all my folders I had to brute force thunderbird to do the same thing11:47
popeyPeople stil use desktop email clients huh? Quaint.11:47
daubersdavmor2: I'm racing my computer to try and click an option before it pops up a box that moves the focus11:47
dauberspopey: Work email :) Useful to have notifications for when people who pay me money need support11:48
davmor2daubers: I got the same thing on thunderbird, it turned out I was using the wrong google calendar link I was using the read only public one rather than the private read write one :)11:48
gordi can't get used to using "applications" in a web browser, no idea why11:49
directhexgord, because unity does a bad job of letting them be applications?11:50
popeydirecthex: http://meow.popey.com/11:50
oimonevolution was a complete fail at calendarnig for me, thunderbird only a bit better, but still needs regular (every few days) restarts or the calendar seizes up11:50
gordwe actually used to have great webapp support, but there are inherent problems with the model11:51
directhexpopey, when my chromium windows don't show up in unity as tweetdeck windows, i'll feel better11:51
gordnamely, that you can leave the webapp and go to google.com or something11:51
Myrttidavmor2: oh so that's one of the mp3 players I actually considered buying at one time11:51
* daubers kicks evolution and gives up11:51
popey"You are leaving this webapp, would you like to open in a new window? (Y/N)  [*] Make this default"11:52
popeysurely thats not that hard?11:52
gordhow do you know you are leaving the webapp?11:52
voidspaceI've created a RAID 5 array (software raid using mdadm) with 3 drives11:52
gordthere is no standard for this stuff11:52
davmor2Myrtti: also supports ogg if you do the firmware update too :)11:52
voidspaceit is now reporting "raid level 5 active with 2 out of 3 devices, algorithm 2"11:52
popeygord: stop talking, fix it!11:52
popey:D11:52
voidspacedoes this sounds right11:52
* gord starts yelling at web developers until they get themselves standardised11:53
gordsee you guys in 10 years11:53
gordmaybe11:53
davmor2gord: only 10 that is optimistic11:53
daubersvoidspace: Is it building the raid still?11:54
voidspaceweb guys are the *most* standardised - they have *lots* of standards11:54
voidspacedaubers: I think so11:54
daubersvoidspace: Can you pastebin /proc/mdstat11:54
daubers!pastebin11:54
lubotu3For posting multi-line texts into the channel, please use http://paste.ubuntu.com | To post !screenshots use http://imagebin.org/?page=add | !pastebinit to paste directly from command line | Make sure you give us the URL for your paste - see also the channel topic.11:54
voidspacedaubers: there is a syslog message that concerns me11:54
voidspacedaubers: DegradedArray event detected on md device /dev/md011:54
daubersvoidspace: pastebin the output from "cat /proc/mdstat", that'll be more informative11:55
voidspacedaubers: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/445959/11:55
voidspacedaubers: the UU_ concerns me11:55
voidspacedaubers: I didn't think RAID 5 had "spare" drives, but striped data11:55
voidspacedaubers: but I freely admit to not knowing what I'm talking about :-)11:56
daubersvoidspace: It's fine :) When you generate a new raid5/6 with mdadm it crates a degraded one and then rebuilds it11:56
daubersvoidspace: raid 5 is striped with a single parity stripe11:56
voidspacedaubers: ah, cool - that was the alternative diagnosis and I couldn't find clear information as to which one it was...11:56
voidspacedaubers: you have put my mind at ease :-)11:56
daubersvoidspace: so 1 disk can fail and you have a lesser chance of  losing data11:56
voidspacedaubers: thanks11:56
voidspacedaubers: right11:56
daubersvoidspace: The wikipedia article on raid levels is quite good :)11:56
voidspacedaubers: hah, yeah - I tried reading that a few times...11:57
daubersvoidspace: You heading to oggcamp?11:58
voidspacedaubers: no :-(11:58
daubersvoidspace: Ah, I'd have been happy to go over it with you with diagrams if it helped :) bit easier in person with props11:58
davmor2Myrtti: I can recommend it completely I've had no issues with it at all :)11:59
voidspacedaubers: yeah, that would definitely help - although the articles I read on RAID 5 showed striped parity data11:59
voidspacedaubers: but I'm quite happy to believe you11:59
voidspacenext question, how do I get my box to broadcast (or be available on the network) by name?11:59
voidspaceI can ssh in by ip address but not by name11:59
daubersvoidspace: The parity is striped in raid5, it's not in raid3 (you have 2 parity stripes in raid6)11:59
voidspacedaubers: right, so the parity data is striped across all the drives?12:00
daubersvoidspace: yep12:01
voidspacedaubers: right, so what does the UU_ from mdstat mean?12:01
daubersvoidspace: That means that it's a degraded array (missing the last disk)12:01
voidspacedaubers: right, but for a new array it's still normal12:01
daubersvoidspace: As above, thats because a new raid set is generated as a degraded one and then rebuilt by mdadm12:01
daubersvoidspace: yes. It should go away in about an hour :)12:02
voidspacedaubers: ok, it just picks the last disk to be the degraded one12:02
daubersvoidspace: Pretty much12:02
voidspacedaubers: any idea about my question on network name? (sorry to pick on you - but you know what the reward for being helpful is...)12:03
daubersvoidspace: That one I don't know :) I'm not sure how the magic distributed dns voodoo works. I just have an old fashioned dns server on my network12:03
voidspacehehe12:03
voidspacehmm... so I can ssh into my Mac by name12:04
voidspaceI wonder if it is running a dns server?12:04
daubersvoidspace: Might be something to do with avahi12:05
voidspaceright12:05
daubersdoes mdns is the magic bit12:06
voidspaceParseError12:06
daubersvoidspace: Whats the output of avahi-browse -a12:09
dauberspastebin it :)12:09
voidspacewell, avahi wasn't installed12:09
daubersvoidspace: Install it and try it. It should do the magic lookups for you12:10
voidspacedaubers: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/445966/12:11
voidspacedaubers: it hasn't completed though12:11
voidspacedaubers: interesting that the ipv4 entry is in ipv6 format12:12
daubersvoidspace: That's the devices mac address12:12
daubersvoidspace: I take it your apple machine is called "bigmac"?12:12
voidspacedaubers: indeed12:12
voidspacedaubers: ooh12:12
daubersvoidspace: try "ping bigmac"12:12
voidspacedaubers: I ssh into bigmac.local12:12
voidspacedaubers: so....12:13
voidspacedaubers: royale.local already works12:13
daubers:) Magic12:13
voidspacedaubers: :-)12:13
voidspacedaubers: thank you12:13
daubersvoidspace: No probs12:13
voidspacedaubers: although I'm going to have to kill avahi-browse12:13
daubersvoidspace: hit q12:13
voidspacehah12:13
voidspaceSIGINT12:13
* daubers ponders adding avahi/zeroconf magic to his storage servers12:14
oimonjust found a bone in my chicken roll, wonder if it was placed there deliberately to make me think the chicken is real12:14
voidspaceI need to install a newer version of netatalk than available for natty12:15
oimonthanks for the tweetmention popey :)12:15
voidspacethere is a ppa with it here12:15
popeynp :D12:15
voidspacehttps://launchpad.net/~bradya/+archive/netatalk/+packages12:15
voidspacehow do I install from there?12:16
daubersewww, netatalk12:16
* daubers runs12:16
voidspacedaubers: hah12:16
daubersvoidspace: I suspect others can guide you through ppa stuff :)12:16
voidspacedaubers: only way to setup a timemachine volume on my server as far as I know12:16
voidspacedaubers: but thanks12:16
voidspacealso anyone want to help me setup LVM on my software raid array?12:18
popeyvoidspace: http://tumbleweed.popey.com/12:28
voidspace:-)12:29
* daubers wonders if he can bully his boss out of a couple of tickets to pycon :)12:34
voidspacedaubers: who do you work for?12:36
voidspacedaubers: see if you can bully them for sponsorship too...12:36
daubersvoidspace: Unlikely that12:36
daubersvoidspace: Only 8 of us in the company12:36
voidspace:-)12:37
voidspacepopey: the HP Proliant Microserver needs a cable to fit anything in the optical bay drive - it seems to require a sata cable for the drive, but provides power via an IDE power socket12:47
voidspacepopey: is that right? so to fit an extra sata drive there I'd need a  sata cable without power plus an IDE to sata power converter12:47
andylockranvoidspace: that sounds like it makes sense12:48
voidspace:-)12:48
voidspacestill not sure *exactly* which cables to get12:49
voidspacealthough this one looks right: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wired--Up-SATA-Power-Adapter-Cable/dp/B000ITL1PG/12:50
* AlanBell just ordered new broadband12:50
AlanBellfibre to the cabinet, 34 meg down, 2 meg up12:50
andylockran£pcm ?12:50
AlanBell£16.4912:51
voidspacenice12:51
davmor2voidspace: you could just go for an esata card with an internal port instead :)12:51
voidspacedavmor2: there's an external esata port12:51
AlanBellshould help get the oggcamp videos up to youtube12:51
voidspacedavmor2: I could just run the cable back inside...12:51
davmor2voidspace: try it out cheaper that messing with conversion cables it'll either be fine or it won't work then it's only cost you time :)12:54
voidspacedavmor2: the adaptor cable I just ordered cost me £0.87 including delivery...12:54
StevenRAlanBell: who's your ISP?12:54
popeyewwwwwww12:54
popeythe microserver has a sata port on the mobo12:55
popeythats the one I use for connecting a drive in the optical bay12:55
AlanBellwhen I first got ADSL I went for a solid business sounding name that I could put through on expenses, they were called IC2412:55
voidspacepopey: yeah, that's the one I'll use12:55
AlanBella week later they rebranded to "madasafish - the friendly ISP"12:55
StevenRlol12:55
voidspacepopey: I was kidding about using the external esata for the internal bay - that would be dumb...12:56
davmor2popey: I'm assuming there is more than one sata port on the mb I'm offering advice on the fact that sound like voidspace has filled them all12:56
* StevenR has FTTC too (34-36 meg down, 1.6 meg up)12:56
popeyI also have an esata card in one because the esata port on the microserver doesn't support port multipliers12:56
popeydavmor2: there isnt12:56
AlanBellbut now they seem to have merged with plusnet and my new account will be a plusnet account12:56
popeythere is exactly one sata port on the mobo12:56
voidspacedavmor2: nah, I filled the four standard drive bays - but the optical bay is still free12:56
oimonyou could replace the optical bay with a card reader, and boot the OS from SD card :D12:57
StevenRAlanBell: good honest broadband from Yorkshire :)12:57
voidspaceoimon: there's also an internal USB port so you can already do that if you want...12:57
oimonvoidspace: oh, sweet12:57
voidspaceoimon: some people do boot from flash drives...12:57
oimonvoidspace: yes, cheap, low power and very replaceable12:57
popeyyeah, the internal usb port is an interesting addition12:57
voidspacethat thing has ports out the wazzoo12:58
popeyhahah12:58
popeyshame the esata doesnt do PM12:58
oimonthe dell poweredge servers have one, and they used to sell servers with free esxi preinstalled on the usb stick12:58
StevenRoimon: some have an SD reader instead now :)12:59
popeyonly issue I have with my microserver is it spends a _lot_ of time in IO wait12:59
* StevenR is considering a 4-bay SATA DAS thingy. 12:59
popeyStevenR: I have an Edge10 one of them12:59
popeyworks really nicely13:00
hamitronDAS?13:00
popeybox with disks in :D13:00
StevenRpopey: yeah, http://www.maplin.co.uk/4-bay-terabox-esata-hdd-raid-enclosure-224358 is what I'm looking at (looks like the edge10, comes with an esata card, etc)13:00
StevenRhamitron: Direct Attach Storage13:00
popeythats the exact one I have :D13:01
StevenRpopey: :D13:01
hamitronit certainly seems the quantity of data we have these days, is greater than the capacity of the average hdd13:01
* StevenR has *only* 168GB left!13:01
StevenR(on the 1.4TB array I have for /home)13:02
* hamitron shamefully checks space free on "C:\"13:02
hamitron;)13:02
* StevenR checks to see if hamitron weighs more or less than a duck ;)13:03
hamitronbut I've decided I won't be putting loads of money into more storage13:03
hamitronjust for my data hoarding tendencies13:03
hamitrongonna actually sort stuff13:04
hamitron:D13:04
StevenRI've got a couple of external disks that I need to clean up13:04
popeyi have retired most of my external disks13:04
StevenRpopey: A microserver isn't really that "micro" :)13:05
popeyit is when you compare it to a "server"13:05
StevenRI suppose that's true13:05
hamitronthe worst thing about a micro server....13:05
popeyis you want one?13:05
popeyenter the competition in the podcast and you might win one :D13:05
hamitronyou get it to reduce clutter, and you end up running that AND the old server13:05
hamitron:/13:05
hamitronat least that is how things work out for me13:06
hamitronbrb, got to move some sacks of plaster before 2:3013:07
oimoni wonder at what point it becomes more cost effective to buy a 500gb disk rather than using 4 80gb disks13:07
popeyI'd say it's cost effective to buy big disks and stop worrying about it13:08
popeyThere's a great note from SAP about swap space, says something like "make swap space super huge because the cost of a consultant to diagnose memory issues is almost always higher than the cost of an extra disk"13:08
directhexswap is useless.13:09
voidspaceon the other hand its cheaper to buy enough memory13:09
popeyheh, not on these servers :D13:09
directhexthe kernel never prioritizes things enough, so if you're touching swap, your system is too far gone to log in & fix it13:10
popeythey have 128GB RAM and ~32GB swap13:10
voidspaceif you have a memory leak then swap becomes a real nuisance13:10
directhexvoidspace, exactly13:10
popeythats not my experience on large systems.13:10
voidspacebut horses for courses13:10
popeyyes, when it swaps a lot you end up in swap death13:10
popeybut it is possible to swap a bit and not die13:10
oimoni used to have machines that permanently lived in swap because people ran too many processes on it13:11
oimontightwad company that wouldn't buy RAM13:11
popeyMem:  132103176k total, 65934456k used, 66168720k free,   376112k buffers13:12
popeySwap: 33554424k total,        0k used, 33554424k free, 50951428k cached13:12
popey:D13:12
oimonpopey: ever fancied getting a linux job? or the SAP money too good?13:12
popeythat is a linux box :D13:12
popeyergo I am kinda doing a linux job :D13:13
oimona real linux job :P13:13
popeyhah, meow13:13
oimonthere's no claws in that paw13:13
oimonjust playing :D13:13
MooDoosaucer of milk, table 1 :)13:13
oimonnot sure i'd survive working in a non-linux world now13:13
oimonwould make my brain explode13:13
popeyI'm probably not skilled in linuxy stuff enough to do a linux job13:14
popeyI do spend all day doing linuxy stuff tho13:14
popeydebugging other peoples rubbish shell scripts for example :D13:15
directhexoimon, i'd need a BIG suitcase of money to not work in linux13:15
oimonmoney to pay for the medical bills though13:15
oimoni get a certain knot in my stomach when windows does its thing13:16
directhexbut tbh i'm not skilled enough on windows to be a windows sysadmin13:16
popeywe have only one app on windows here13:17
popeyand thats because the vendor only ships it on windows13:17
popeyit's a silverlight / .net app ☹13:17
oimonsometimes you get pushed into it. i had to perform winadmin for a year in a bank when the contractor left. i was the solaris admin at the same time13:17
popeyvast majority of stuff is on RHEL13:17
* StevenR supports both windows and linux (centos/ubuntu) stuff at work. Spend much more time making windows do it's thing13:18
oimoni wish i was a better programmer, those guys have a better life than sysadmins13:18
oimoneven though i'm a manager nowadays, i still consider myself an SA13:19
davmor2oimon: but you have more fun honest13:19
oimonhmmm.. i just had to perform a powerdown/powerup at the weekend :(13:20
oimonrewarding when you fix problems , but rather have the easier life tbh13:20
oimonwhen you SAN goes down and all your running VMs lose their disk, requiring fsck on every one, you want to have a little cry13:21
Stockholm_Angelhej13:21
oimonprogrammers can come in at 11am too ..probably not wife friendly though, which is why they all seem to be single ;)13:22
Stockholm_AngelAre flaggs at half mast?13:22
Stockholm_Angelsorry13:22
Stockholm_Angelwrong channel13:22
oimontried out nautilus elementary the other day, seems like an improvement over regular nautilus13:26
popeyhave you seen nautilus in 11.10 ?13:27
davmor2popey: yes13:27
gordthey took away all my precious buttons :(13:28
directhexbuttons are for nerds13:28
gordi'm a nerd!13:28
popeyhttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q3FcVguT_-8/Tg3-9iTxpaI/AAAAAAAABDo/6JU75o4rFdY/s1600/2.png13:28
StevenRgord: gumdrop buttons?13:28
oimontime to get a 11.10 testing box13:28
directhexusing keyboard shortcuts is much more user-friendly13:28
gordif i wanted to use keyboard shortcuts in my file manager i'd use a terminal :P13:29
davmor2gord: I hope the devs fix the zietgiest thing soon though most annoying :)13:29
gordZeitgeist ting?13:30
davmor2gord: just use mc you know you prefer it ;)13:30
TheOpenSourcererpopey: That's horrible! Have you worked out how to change the main panel view or the sidebar view? How do you navigate "back" and "forward"13:30
davmor2gord: I get a bug report popup everytime I start up oneiric13:30
oimoni like the idea of zeitgeist, i've just never seen it working the way they say it should13:30
gorddavmor2, ah right apport, yeah i tell that thing to shut up13:31
gord TheOpenSourcerer back/forward are on the top right13:31
gordTheOpenSourcerer, you can choose between the bookmark thingy view or a treeview13:31
TheOpenSourcererchoose where?13:31
gordTheOpenSourcerer, in the menu i tink13:32
gordthink13:32
gordh key has gone squishy =\13:32
TheOpenSourcererAh yes - forgot about the menus - not moved to unity. Still on 10:1013:32
oimondoes oneiric nautilus have an option for the zoom button?13:33
oimonzoom = resize icons :P13:33
davmor2TheOpenSourcerer: plus to go back an forward you use the breadcrumb trail13:33
gordoimon, pretty much all the options in the previous menus are still there13:34
TheOpenSourcererdavmor2: That isn't really a breadcrumb is it? It just shows your linear position in the tree. Not if I have jumped between non-sequential directories... That;s what the back and forward buttons do. But I missed them on the far right.13:35
TheOpenSourcererHaving to use the menus seems daft... Means I have to drag the mouse to the top of the screen, click on the right menu, click on the option, change something then go back.13:36
gordwell the menus are for one time things13:37
gordnot something you are going to reach for often13:37
TheOpenSourcererWhat like the missing buttons?13:38
gordwhat were the missing buttons? its been a while13:39
TheOpenSourcererI frequently change views in nautilus.13:39
ali1234me toooooooo13:39
oimonicon view/list view13:39
gordah, then you'll want to file a bug with gnome maybe, but well, you'll be fighting design13:39
TheOpenSourcereroh - design seems to have forgotten function.13:40
ali1234it should really be in the right click menu though13:40
ali1234but i expect that will be removed soon too13:40
oimonit's prob under view->13:40
ali1234you mean int he menu that's been hidden away, and will soon be removed also?13:41
gordthe menu won't be removed13:41
gordwhy would you say that?13:41
ali1234because i read it on sabdfl blog13:41
davmor2TheOpenSourcerer: no they haven't this is the dummy's guide to computing they are going from, advanced users only need to know how to open emacs right?13:41
TheOpenSourcerervi FTW!13:42
TheOpenSourcererwq!13:42
oimonZZ13:42
davmor2TheOpenSourcerer has left the room13:43
oimonsadbfl has started writing realllly long blog posts13:43
gordhuh, tere is a vim irc client. of course13:44
directhexgord, pfft, emacs is a  much better irc client than vim13:44
davmor2yay! I've start another vim vs emacs flame war :D13:45
oimonnot long till godwins law is invoked13:46
voidspaceI'd rather crawl over broken glass than use either :-)13:46
voidspaceyou know who else used vim and emacs - hitler!13:46
oimonnobody uses both...13:47
voidspacenobody should use either13:47
voidspacebut nobody isn't around to answer for himself13:47
voidspaceso we shouldn't talk about him behind his back13:47
stuphivi rules!13:47
oimonrules! [new file]13:48
stuphi:-)13:48
oimonwhy did adobe call their latest version of adobe reader version X?13:50
directhexoimon, to sound cool.13:50
directhexsee also: megaman x, mac os x13:50
jpdsXorg.13:51
oimonshame it's just a bloated pdf reader13:51
oimonXcrement13:51
ali1234damn i can't find the comment13:54
ali1234it basically said "we know global menu sucks but it's ok because we're trying to kill the menu entirely anyway"13:54
ali1234oh here we go: "Many modern applications are doing without a menu altogether, so in our  view, this is a step towards the future, and it will encourage  application developers to think about their interfaces and make them  more usable by design rather than depending on the crutch of a menu."14:00
ali1234in otherwords, it's ok that global menu sucks, because we don't want developers to use menus at all14:00
MooDoohi all, how was the books and butties trip yesterday?14:01
gordthats not what that says at all14:01
ali1234sadly i cannot find a direct citation, just this random post on ayatana mailing list: https://lists.launchpad.net/ayatana/msg04830.html14:02
ali1234"Many modern applications are doing without a menu altogether, so in our  view, this is a step towards the future" -> in the future, applications won't have menus14:03
hamitronsimple and less functionality to confuse the dumb user14:04
ali1234so the justification for global menu is not that it is better than what we had before, it's that, in the future, applications won't have menus at all14:04
hamitron;)14:04
hamitronno more "what does this button do?"14:05
hamitron:-o14:05
gordno, you just keep injecting your own words and spin on that14:05
ali1234fine, what do *you* think it means?14:05
gordi think it pretty much speaks for itself14:06
ali1234me too actually14:06
ali1234odd that14:06
gordmark thinks that good design is better than putting lots of options in menus14:06
gordgood design that solves the issue that the option in a menu is preferential to just dumping an option in a menu, but thats a lot of good design needed so menus are not going away any time soon14:07
hamitronI was thinking last night, why do we continue to use square windows/desktops?14:08
ali1234cos our monitors are square, lol14:09
hamitrona round monitor would be cool14:09
hamitron;/14:09
ali1234you can't tile circles14:09
ali1234= bad use of space14:09
hamitronI think I'd maybe had too much booze or something14:09
TheOpenSourcererhexagons are cool.14:09
hamitronbut it made sense at the time14:09
ali1234yes, yes they are14:09
hamitronI like circles!14:10
voidspaceso I've created a raid 5 array using mdadm and it seems to be working fine14:10
hamitronmy visions was a round screen, with a square app that morphed into it14:10
hamitronwith rounded off display with buttons14:10
voidspacebut "fdisk -l" reports that the raid array, and the underlying disks, don't have valid partition tables14:11
voidspaceis that likely to cause any problems?14:11
popeyvoidspace: pastebin?14:11
ali1234gord: so at best he's saying "i don't like menus, but i don't have a better idea, so i'm hiding the menus to force people to think of something better"14:12
voidspacepopey: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/446040/14:12
gordali1234, no, there you go again injecting your own words14:12
popeyvoidspace: what does /proc/mdstat contain?14:13
hamitronI get the feeling it is something a bit different, targeting someone other than the traditional thinking PC user14:13
ali1234gord: so which part don't you agree with? that he doesn't like menus? or that he doesn't have a better idea? or that the justification for global menu is to force people to do something better?14:14
voidspacepopey: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/446043/14:15
popeyvoidspace: looks right14:15
popeyi create partitions and then raid them, rather than raid the whole raw disk14:15
popeybut i guess it makes little difference14:15
popeya few lost sectors for me :D14:16
voidspacepopey: cool - I'm going to partition it with fdisk now14:16
popeywhat are you going to partition?14:16
voidspacepopey: partitioning all the disks and then making multiple arrays seems like more work14:16
voidspacepopey: /dev/md014:16
popeyright14:16
popeyyeah, it is :D14:16
popeyi do it out of habit.14:16
hamitronpopey: your way is fast for RAID 0?14:17
popeydunno14:17
hamitronme neither ;)14:17
popeyheh14:17
hamitronjust sort of like the idea, so could have different OS setup differently14:18
hamitronovercomplicate my setup so it will break.... giving me something to moan about ofc14:18
popeyofc14:18
AlanBellgoogle streetview in 3d is rather awesome14:54
daubersHas anyone written an ldap plugin for apt?14:56
* daubers is bored of changing passwords on half a dozen machines when new password time comes, and is considering a full ldap auth setup14:58
popeywe use ldap for linux auth here14:59
oimonhere too14:59
daubersI'd like to be able to use it like OD in osx14:59
popeyworks well, until one of the boxes gets your pam tally wedged and you cant ssh in15:00
daubersmanage printers and whatnot too15:00
daubersdoes it not just default down to local?15:00
oimonprinters manage themselves when you have a cups server15:01
daubersnot if you add a new printer, then you need to go to each machine and make it work with that one or the wife complains....15:01
oimonlinux clients?15:02
daubersoimon: mostly15:02
oimoncups server manages the printers, cups client on the workstation looks at cups server. no adding printers on workstations required15:02
oimonset the printers on the cups server as shared, and the cups client should be by default set to browse for printers on the network15:04
gordAlanBell, you can get google streetview in 3d?15:11
AlanBellred blue glasses15:11
AlanBellright click a streetview image and choose 3d view15:11
gordah15:11
gordwoo looking at myself, in google street view, in 3d!15:13
gord... easily amused am i15:13
wintellectgord: link?15:14
gordwintellect, http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=nantwitch+road+crewe&hl=en&ll=53.089095,-2.437511&spn=0.003041,0.007988&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=24.651744,65.43457&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=53.08907,-2.437662&panoid=vCnkT-EecrTwkWjiR-XFHw&cbp=12,142.94,,0,24.0615:16
popeyhow did you find yourself on that?15:19
popeyor did you see the car go past?15:20
AlanBellare there any open source licences that require you to publish the source code for changes if you do not distribute or make public the software (i.e. totally internal use, not tripping the AGPL clause)15:21
wintellectgord: as popey said - how did you find yourself?15:22
gordsaw the car go past :) then months later as we got street view i cheked15:23
gordchecked*15:23
andycHi all15:25
popeylo15:25
andycJust wondering if anyone knows of a way to delay pulseaudio output by a set amount of time?15:25
andycIt probably sounds like a stupid idea15:25
popeyjack can probably do that15:26
andycBut I have a sky subscription to watch the cricket, and I want the commentary to be TMS instead of the default commentary15:26
andycBut TMS is ever so slightly faster than the sky stream15:26
andycHmm I'll look into Jack15:26
popeyahhh, cunning15:26
gordis the commentary stream playable with mplayer or vlc?15:27
gordbecause you can delay those in application15:27
andycIt's via bbc iplayer - I believe it's realplayer15:28
andycOr used to be last time I had trouble with it15:28
popeyi suspect its flash15:28
popeyall bbc streams switched to rtmp iirc15:28
andycOK15:28
andycActually I might be able to find an mms link for radio515:29
DJonesI suspect the sound & video would go out of sync fairly regularly though, all it would take is a change in the delay in the picture or sound and it would throw things out regardless15:59
popeyi like the added 30 min delay of your comment DJones16:01
DJones:), time delay, it went via china though16:01
BigRedShaha16:01
DJonesIts like my father in laws driving, lets go from A to B (but we'll go via C, D & E just because he likes the road better)16:02
BigRedSthat's the best way to drive16:02
BigRedSassuming there's time...16:03
DJonesHe does it even whenever there isn't time16:03
BigRedSoh16:03
BigRedSthat's less ideal16:03
DJonesYup16:04
livingdaylightI'd like to ask what the consensus opinion is here on xbox vs wii as we aer looking to buy one or another console. Are they both good and bad or is there a clear overall winner, if one had to get only one of them. Yes, it would be nice to get every video console out there, but that clearly isnto possible for us. Thanks!16:38
AlanBellsmall kids like the wii17:22
AlanBellit has more cartoonish games and the controller works quite well17:22
AlanBelland you can get an infrared pen and make a wiimote whiteboard17:23
AlanBellor do other messing about by pairing the controller over bluetooth17:23
* BigRedS quite likes the wii...17:23
BigRedSit's more 'fun', but less serious-gamey17:24
dauberslo17:31
dutchiehi daubers17:32
jmartinhi17:38
brobostigonevening jmartin17:39
AlanBell!ping17:50
lubotu3Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to respond to factoid requests. Call that job satisfaction? Because I don't.17:50
brobostigon:)17:50
brobostigonmarvin the paranoid android, hhgttg douglas adams,17:51
AlanBellwell I was going to get round to rebooting that machine anyway17:53
brobostigonlol17:53
brobostigon:)17:53
brobostigonhmm17:53
ali1234popey: that free wifi thing is strange to me17:55
ali1234all the settings for windows are the defaults17:55
ali1234they could have listed almost identical steps for mac, but they didn't17:55
ali1234the most likely explanation for this is simply that windows users are more likely to have a work laptop that's been screwed over by the local NT policy setting weird none-default settings for everything17:57
ali1234like, who has dhcp off by default on new connections?17:57
AlanBellthere is an assumption that non windows users know what they are doing17:57
ali1234only insane NT admins17:57
ali1234no, there is more of an assumption that mac users won't have touched any of the defaults17:57
AlanBellwhen I was ordering new broadband today I was asked if I needed new virus software, told them I don't have windows and he said "oh, you will be fine then"17:58
ali1234i would guess the guide started off with almost identical steps for both17:59
ali1234and then windows users with work laptops complained, so they added stuff to it18:00
gordhehe, new virus software. no thanks!18:03
davmor2AlanBell: I went into currys digital to get my new laptop they tried selling me and extended warranty, I sadi no 8 times to that, so they changed tack, you'll want this AV and case for £50 though, nope as soon as I get it home I'm installing Ubuntu Linux, right but you'll want this to protect windows, I said no thanks18:10
gordoh wow currys still exists?18:13
gordi replaced them with amazon years back18:13
directhexgord: dixons became currys.digital, to replace their terrible reputation18:17
ali1234i didn't know currys and dixons had independent reputations18:18
davmor2gord: I only noticed cause the laptop was in the window as we walked passed and it matched the spec of the one from amazon and was £10 cheaper :)18:21
Davieydavmor2: wait, what.. you bought electrical equipment in person?18:27
Daviey@lart davmor218:27
davmor2Daviey: yeap18:27
davmor2Daviey: £10 cheaper was the reason for it :)18:28
Davieyfair enough18:29
livingdaylightthanks for getting back to me on the games question. I was in 'Game' shop on the highstreet, yesterday and one thing I noticed was that most games were cross console. they had versions for xbox, wii and ps3 of the same game, as mario brothers for e.g. made me wonder whether they looked and played the same?18:40
oracologylivingdaylight: apart from the controls being different, the storyline and objectives would be the same of course, but the graphics do differ.18:41
popeybug 816035 is interesting18:41
lubotu3Launchpad bug 816035 in Ubuntu "Memory upgrade makes Ubuntu painfully slow" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/81603518:42
livingdaylightoracology: cheers, siggnificantly, I wonder? or just minor, in which case the cheaper console would seem the right solution. I need to go somewhere where I can see them all side by side and compare and contrast them18:44
Davieypopey: I can't see that being fixed.18:45
popeyodd isnt it?18:45
popeychipset problem perhaps?18:45
DavieyYeah.. i've noticed my boot on oneiric with mbp is much slower than natty.18:46
* popey /5719:17
popeybah19:17
diploEvening all19:35
brobostigonevening diplo19:35
HazRPGevening all20:05
brobostigongood evening HazRPG :)20:06
HazRPGbrobostigon: good evening to you to :)20:06
HazRPGurgh, why is the u1ms always so slow to transfer newly purchases songs to one's account20:17
HazRPGs/purchases/purchased/*20:17
AlanBellhttp://ubuntu-uk.org/free-cds/20:20
HazRPGAlanBell: woot20:23
HazRPG\o/20:23
HazRPGAlanBell: what versions you currently rocking on CD?20:23
AlanBell11.0420:25
AlanBellyes, just updating the image20:25
HazRPGah fair enough20:25
HazRPGhere's an interesting question, has anyone managed to get use to 11.04 yet?20:26
HazRPGI'm still fearful the install it (I don't know why)20:26
AlanBellI picked up the bundle image and only just realised the bundle is 10.10 still http://shop.canonical.com/index.php?cPath=1720:26
brobostigonHazRPG: with gnome3+gnom,e-shell, yes.20:26
HazRPGbrobostigon: is that combo working out well since release?20:27
brobostigonHazRPG: yes, mostly.20:27
HazRPGbrobostigon: cos I recall you using it during the alpha/beta stages of both those20:27
brobostigonHazRPG: quite, and various hurdles.20:27
popeyHazRPG: I use 11.04 daily20:28
HazRPGbrobostigon: bet your looking forward to 11.10 then, since gnome3 shell should be in there :)20:28
popeygnome 3 already is in 11.1020:28
brobostigonHazRPG: i have a testing image on live usb,20:28
HazRPGpopey: that's what I meant ^_^20:28
HazRPGI may have to try out 11.1020:29
brobostigonHazRPG: the best i have tried upto now, i would say is debian sid + aaptpinned with debian experimental, it breaks, but it is upto date, and is as stable and as pure, and i could ask for.20:30
popeygord: is 11.10 Unity 3D broken at the moment?20:31
popeyI keep getting dumped into a 2D session20:31
ali1234surely it's more likely that the graphics driver is broken?20:32
HazRPGbrobostigon: what's aaptpinned?20:32
popeypossibly20:32
ali1234HazRPG: apt pinning is when you lock packages to specific versions20:33
popeyah yes20:33
brobostigonHazRPG: it is using several repos. and having balaence in apt. where and how it chooses package versions.20:33
HazRPGah, that makes sense20:33
HazRPGwell I just recently donated a core 2 duo machine, so I might turn that into a 11.04/11.10 test bed20:34
popeygetting segfaults in unity_support_test20:34
brobostigonHazRPG: ie, i dont always want it to choose packages from experimental, the most unstable, how it is clever, if it needs pcackges from experimental to complete it does so.20:34
HazRPGs/recently/recently got/*20:34
HazRPGali1234, brobostigon: I might have to try out apt pinning...20:36
brobostigonie,i have told apt, to pull gnome-shell from experimental, and follow gnome-shell from experimental.20:36
brobostigonHazRPG: :)20:36
HazRPGsince at the moment, I'm starting to mass add ppa's just to keep up-to-date...20:36
brobostigonand update from experimental.20:36
brobostigonHazRPG: you could use apt-pinning, and tell apt. where and to what degreee it chooses new packaged from those ppa's.20:37
HazRPGI think at some point I need to evaluate what I want in a development system...20:39
HazRPGsince I like certain applications to always be always up-to-date (since new features, bug fixes, etc are always good!), but at the same time I don't want certain things to just randomly break20:40
brobostigoni choose unstable/sid as i figured, most of the debian based development version, will somehow be based on it.20:40
brobostigonand distro's based on debian.20:40
HazRPGtrue20:40
HazRPGI really wish I knew where ubuntu is trying to go at the moment, since I chose ubuntu years ago because it fit my style at the time20:41
HazRPGali1234: hmm, what version are you currently rolling with anyways? Because iirc you mentioned you preferred gnome2's way of working too...20:44
StevenRpopey: was it you with the edge10 DAS?20:44
AlanBellhttp://ubuntu-uk.org/free-cds/ made a few updates, look OK now?20:44
popeyStevenR: yes20:44
HazRPGAlanBell: looks good :)20:44
StevenRpopey: what size drives do you use? Does the supplied esata card work ok with ubuntu?20:45
HazRPGAlanBell: although from a designer perspective, it would be nicer to have all 3 on the same line (cropped to fit on one line), but aside from that it looks really good :)20:45
popeyStevenR: desktop size drives20:45
popeyyes20:45
StevenRpopey: ok.. what capacity drives do you use :)20:45
popey:D20:45
popeycurrently 200GB but have had 4x2TB in it20:45
AlanBellHazRPG: I will make them a bit smaller20:45
ali1234HazRPG: i use 11.04 and unity20:46
StevenRpopey: did it see all of the 2TB drives? (maplin claim it can't... did you buy the terabox/maplin version?)20:46
HazRPGali1234: How's that working out for ya?20:46
ali1234it's pretty horrible20:46
popeyStevenR: I have an edge10 DAS, not from maplin, and it works fine with the supplied eSATA card20:47
popeyno issues at all20:47
StevenRok. (The maplin one isn't edge10 :S)20:47
popeyit looks identical20:47
popeysame case20:47
StevenRthe edge10 one seems to have gone EOL20:47
StevenRyeah, *looks* identical, but with slightly different specs20:48
HazRPGAlanBell: Just had a fiddle with chrome inspect, and seems 245 (roughly) works well for putting all three on the same line20:48
AlanBelltry that20:49
AlanBellI think that is exactly half the native size20:50
HazRPGAlanBell: the number I came up with was 245, 247 (maximum, cos any more and it rolls to the next line)20:50
AlanBelldepending on screen/window size and whether you have unity20:51
HazRPGAlanBell: but either way, looks better now that its on one line ^_^20:51
AlanBell225 is half of the 450 so should rescale better20:51
HazRPGtrue :)20:51
AlanBelland yes I could save bandwidth/peformance by a factor of 4 by rescaling in gimp, but I am hotlinking to the ubuntu store and I don't care20:52
HazRPGhehe20:52
HazRPGI think I prefer the server artwork the most :)20:54
HazRPGbut that's mainly because I dislike len-flare based images20:54
HazRPG(which the others have)20:54
HazRPGAlanBell: I just noticed, the podcast logo that was folded in the top-right of the website wasn't put back in since the beta of the site... any reason why?20:56
StevenRpopey: thanks for the info :)20:57
popeynp20:57
HazRPGooo, I have noticed that the homepage image changes each time you reload, that's pretty swish :)20:58
popeyStevenR: any other info you need lemme know20:59
popeyStevenR: whats the product number on maplin?20:59
StevenRpopey: 21:01
StevenRCFI-B4043ER21:01
StevenRbah.21:01
popeythat doesnt look like a maplin code21:01
AlanBellHazRPG: good point, it was removed because there was no active podcast season and they were rebranding, but they did that, so maybe popey would like some kind of promenent podcast link-love againg21:01
popeyAlanBell: there is a banner available21:02
StevenRpopey: the maplin code is A84HW21:02
StevenR(sorry, thought you meant manuf code)21:02
popeyta21:03
HazRPGAlanBell: Ah, yeah I remember that, I just wondered why it wasn't added back when season 4 started ^_^21:03
AlanBellDaviey: you coming to oggcamp?21:04
* AlanBell fails to find the uupc banner21:05
DavieyAlanBell: should be!21:05
AlanBellcan you bring the tablecloth?21:05
Davieyit does clash with a birthday, making it a little tricky.21:05
DavieyAlanBell: ack21:05
HazRPGAlanBell: your not the only one ^_^21:05
AlanBellsyn21:06
popeyAlanBell: see tonys blog?21:06
popeyused to be at the top of that21:06
brobostigonHazRPG: reminds me of something i need to ask, you offered to give me a lift down to farnham for oggcamp, will you be able to give a list back to banbury?21:06
brobostigonlift*21:06
HazRPGbrobostigon: Hmm, depends on the state of my car21:07
AlanBellpopey: ok, that is just the logo, but an oggcamp banner, also worth adding21:07
brobostigonHazRPG: state ?21:07
HazRPGbrobostigon: going to take it in for a service tomorrow, since it the engine light just recently popped up... and I almost got stuck in on the A6921:07
brobostigonHazRPG: ah, i see, fingers crossed in that case.21:08
HazRPGbrobostigon: but yeah, if all works out okay with the car... then sure thing ^_^21:08
HazRPGwhy banbury?21:09
brobostigonHazRPG: thank you. :)21:09
brobostigonHazRPG: that happens to be where i live.21:09
HazRPGbrobostigon: ah, heh that would make sense... so guessing that's where I'm picking you up from too?21:09
HazRPGbrobostigon: how many days of oggcamp you doing?21:10
brobostigonHazRPG: yes, :)21:10
brobostigonHazRPG: thank you. :)21:10
HazRPGbrobostigon: np, :)21:10
HazRPGjust wondered, cos oggcamp is 2 days isn't it?21:10
HazRPGhaven't decided if I should do both or not yet21:10
brobostigonHazRPG: AlanBell has offered garden camping and facilities, which i thank him for.  so we can do either which fits best for you.21:11
HazRPGbrobostigon: oh, cool!21:12
HazRPG\o/ camping!21:12
brobostigonHazRPG: yes. :)21:12
* HazRPG pokes AlanBell for more info.21:13
AlanBellum, yeah21:13
AlanBellmy garden21:13
AlanBellcomplete with chickens21:13
brobostigonfood, :)21:13
AlanBellwalking distance to the Maltings, BBQ and suchlike21:14
mikeatvillagefresh eggs for breakfast?21:14
brobostigonjerk chicken21:14
AlanBellnot sure if there will be eggs tbh21:14
AlanBellI have one ropey old hen who would be a bit tough to eat and isn't laying21:14
AlanBelland on wednesday I am getting probably 4 new chicks21:15
mikeatvillagepoultry market?21:15
AlanBellthey won't lay for another month or so probably21:15
HazRPGAlanBell: Ah right cool.21:15
brobostigonah, i see.21:15
AlanBellmight just about be starting to lay by oggcamp21:15
HazRPGAlanBell: Room for a +1?21:15
AlanBellsure, I have plenty of room for more tents21:16
HazRPGwoot \o/21:16
HazRPGAlanBell: Much thanks. :)21:16
AlanBellthe chicks are coming from birdworld, they have a kind of petting zoo/farm thing21:17
HazRPGAlanBell: The eggs will be small when they first start laying though, won't they?21:18
AlanBella bit small, yes21:18
AlanBellmight get a bantam too21:18
HazRPGAlanBell: I know someone who recently bought some chicks/chicken. And so far they've had a couple of dozen eggs, but majority of them are small.21:19
* brobostigon cant do eggs due to his allergies, so thus has no interest.21:19
HazRPGbrobostigon: ouch :( *hugs*21:19
brobostigonHazRPG: :( *hugs*21:19
mikeatvillagesorry to hear that brobostigon21:19
HazRPGbrobostigon: if it helps, I don't do bacon... so english breakfast is always a bit plain for me ^_^21:20
brobostigonmikeatvillage: *hugs*21:20
brobostigonHazRPG: maybe, yes, quite, although a good sausage, does replace abit.21:20
HazRPGAlanBell: aww, bantams are cute21:21
mikeatvillagemy chickens seem to have stopped laying... or they've decided to lay in the haybarn instead of the henhouse!21:21
HazRPGbrobostigon: check sausages are my fav :)21:21
HazRPGchicken*21:21
HazRPGironically, very hard to find in these parts though :(21:22
brobostigonHazRPG: yes. i have tried, interesting certainly. maybe we should be planning breakfast with AlanBell ?21:22
HazRPGbrobostigon: maybe!21:23
HazRPGI should really put the details of oggcamp into my phone o.o21:24
HazRPGI keep forgetting when it is21:24
dutchiei should really unbook my oggcamp ticket21:24
dutchie:(21:24
brobostigonHazRPG: once you know if it will be more than a day, so i can plan overnight stuff, and we can confuirm with AlanBell, give me a shout.21:25
HazRPGnoticed that the site still lets you register for tickets still, but the remaining bit shows nothing - so technically its sold out?21:25
AlanBellit is sold out, yes21:25
HazRPGah21:25
AlanBellbut really don't worry21:25
HazRPGoh well, I told my friends if they wanted to go they had to register fast21:26
mikeatvillageTesco do chicken sausages. Anyway, I only popped in here for a quick look. Enjoy your camping, hope the weather stays fine for you.21:26
AlanBellthanks mikeatvillage21:26
mikeatvillagebye21:27
HazRPGmikeatvillage: Yeah, it's the only place that sells them here. And its only found in one column, and every time I go they're either sold out, or there's only 1 or 2 packs left. Always seems to be plenty of beef ones, but again only on one column.21:28
HazRPGbrobostigon: agreed21:28
HazRPGbrobostigon: I think I might as well do more than one day, it's a long trip down for me.21:28
brobostigonHazRPG: very true, for you, yes. ok, i will plan for over night stay then.21:29
HazRPGwow, just checked, 5hrs drive down!21:30
brobostigonouch.21:30
HazRPG5hrs 30mins in fact!21:30
brobostigonwow.21:30
brobostigonHazRPG: also calculate how i csn help with petrol money.21:31
HazRPGbrobostigon: will do :)21:32
brobostigonHazRPG: :)21:32
AlanBellbother, broke my /etc/groups file and can't sudo21:36
AlanBellbother, or shut down cleanly21:36
AlanBellbah21:37
brobostigon:(21:37
dutchieAlanBell: vigrp21:39
mgdmdutchie: only useful if he can sudo21:40
dutchiebit late now, but for the future :)21:40
dutchiemgdm: aye21:40
mgdmbut yes, I do recommend it21:40
mgdmand indeed visudo :)21:40
dutchieand vipw, for the full(?) set21:40
mgdmthose are the 3 I'm aware of, at least21:41
HazRPGbrobostigon: think it works out at about £10-12 each way from yours21:45
brobostigonHazRPG: ok, sounds good to me, :)21:46
HazRPGbrobostigon: so roughly £20 both ways21:49
HazRPGwhich isn't too bad really21:49
HazRPGbrobostigon: trying to work out when I should leave from mine21:51
brobostigonHazRPG: i agree, thank you.21:52
HazRPGbrobostigon: since from mine to yours is about 4hrs, and then a further 1hr 30min from yours to oggcamp21:52
brobostigonHazRPG: yes, that is what i roughly worked out, from mine to there, if i drove it.21:53
HazRPGbrobostigon: I've just been basing my prices using this: http://www.fuel-economy.co.uk/calc.shtml :)21:54
HazRPGand using the average mpg of my car21:54
brobostigonok.21:58
Andres-kaingood night.22:27
HazRPGAndres-kain: nite22:55
Andres-kainyeah.. 2-3hrs past my normal bedtime: going wild!22:56
* Andres-kain learning?23:00
* Andres-kain nods23:00
Andres-kain!pastebin23:01
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voidspacehow do I install a package from a specific ppa?23:28
* voidspace goes to try google23:28
voidspaceah, add-apt-repository23:29
voidspaceso what's the actual ppa url from this launchpad "page"?23:30
voidspacehttps://launchpad.net/~bradya/+archive/netatalk/+packages23:30

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