[00:11] sunshine in kelburn, but big black clouds to the south [00:13] it's a pretty random day, cold, snow, sun, snow, sun etc :) [01:02] i'm seeing network issues accessing the rest of the internet. i'm thinking that people are clearing the snow of their rooves [01:06] and it's snowing again [01:07] there are signs of much network boo-boo about atm [01:12] ibeardslee: so it's not just dunedin? :) [01:13] * ajmitch lost connectivity at home from about 12:30, modem is stuck on trying to reauthenticate [01:13] local shop didn't have eftpos working [01:17] anybody have a hosting company they recommend for hosting a small asp.net site? [01:44] I recommend Rimuhosting .. I would assume the can do asp.net stuff [01:45] I've been here before - i was looking at their vps offering [01:46] a little while ago [01:46] can't see anything to do with asp but i'll send them an email [01:46] my ADSL was out for a while [01:47] (hutt valley) [01:51] seems that it was a telecom fault [02:27] snowing in the auckland cbd lol [02:28] http://tsai.net.nz/fun06/P8150040.jpg mt albert [02:49] Anyone need a USB DVB-T tuner that half works? https://nicegear.co.nz/dvb-cards/technotrend-t1900-usb/ [02:51] nope [02:52] would be interested if I knew it worked with linux, and knew that my netbook cpu & ram could handle it [02:56] I've tried a couple of them .. not sure if it is .. [02:56] 1/ don't deal with linux very well [02:56] 2/ don't deal with my CPU, RAM video very well [02:57] 3/ Shite reception [03:17] hads: how does it half work? [03:18] sounds like SD but not HD [03:19] which might be OK for a second tuner, but would irritate if it's the only one your have [03:22] depends on how much you care about tv [03:26] well, if you care enough to buy a tuner... [03:53] ibeardslee: Everything we sell is tested with Linux [03:54] ajmitch: Yeah, what ojwb said. It won't record HD so you can't record TV1, 2 & 3. Good for someone who wants to test, rip EPG etc. [03:54] Not good for real use. [03:59] 3+1 appears to be all SD though, at least currently [04:13] Yeah, even though the individual programs are marked SD/HD, they broadcast the entire channel in either HD or SD and upscale/downscale to suit. [04:17] so it wouldn't be useful for the usual channels? [04:26] ajmitch: you couldn't get TV1 or TV2 at all with it [04:28] not so tempting a buy then :) [04:28] i'd guess all the mainstream channels will be HD eventually (perhaps once analog gets switched off, if that spectrum hasn't just been flogged to mobile phone companies) [04:30] * ajmitch wonders if tv will be broadcast over the fibre network to homes in coming years [04:34] probably [04:35] some ISPs already do some bundles with iSky [04:35] ajmitch: Not super useful no, but cheap :) [04:38] All the major TV studios all transmit their live feeds to each other over fibre [04:38] the super clean HD feeds [19:44] morning [20:12] morning [21:12] morning [21:26] morning [21:29] I have my coat on in work again [21:29] :) [21:29] it's actually fairly warm here [21:29] how's bizdojo, warm enough? [21:29] right [21:29] chilts: yes [21:29] chilts: had they had the heatpumps put in when you came around? [21:29] that lady never did send me back info about a day a week thing [21:29] dunno [21:29] oh [21:29] i'll poke her then [21:29] I'll ping her sometime [21:29] nah, no worries [21:30] okidoke [21:30] I'll send her an email .. prolly won't want something for a month or so anyway and then it might change again :) [21:30] heh yes, don' [21:30] heh yes, don't want to over-plan i guess [21:30] yeah, was certainly curious at the time though :) [21:31] in other news, has anyone used Go(Lang) much? [21:31] I've been hacking some stuff together over the past wee while and am really enjoying it :) [21:31] there are a couple of people at canonical who are pretty keen on it [21:31] I had a little romp with it [21:31] yeah, been chatting to Gustavo - to add some more AWS services to his goamz library [21:31] it does seem pretty interesting from afar [21:31] I gave him a small patch yesterday [21:31] chilts: ah, yes, i mostly meant him :-) [21:32] heh [21:32] I'm mostly a pythonista (although PHP by trade), but I like go :) [21:32] it's certainly interesting - between that and NodeJS I'm having a right ball playing with concurrency/event driven stuff [21:32] anyone interested in a Go User Group in Wgtn? [21:32] * chilts is thinking of starting one [21:33] interested in principle, i guess :) [21:34] ok, 1 maybe then ... I'll be asking other people too and will probably post to the various other user groups when I know I have something :) [21:34] am just thinking about general numbers, not specifics, so I won't hold you to it [22:15] morning [22:16] morning [23:01] hey guys, any other language specific user groups in Wellington I should tap-up for interest in a Go User Group - I have Wgtn.pm and NZPUG for now [23:01] I think there is a PHP one somewhere [23:02] maybe WellyLUG too [23:03] can some .deb util do this? https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/wiki/ConvertingPython [23:07] python-stdeb [23:08] timClicks: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/stdeb has some good info about using it [23:08] ajmitch: jolly good, ta [23:15] chilts: there's the functional programming group too [23:16] ah yeah, I was trying to remember that but forgot it's name - for some reason I was thinking they called themselves the 'strange languages' group or something :) [23:16] thanks [23:16] it used to be something like "erlounge" [23:16] but an erlang group was too narrow I guess [23:18] right, yeah [23:18] * ojwb is interested in go, but then I'm interested in most things [23:19] yeah, same [23:19] though I think this one will stick (along with NodeJS) :) [23:19] I think the approach to concurrency is very interesting [23:22] ojwb: for Go or Node? [23:22] Go [23:23] I certainly like how the chans work, with all the message passing [23:28] yes, it seems to neatly address some of the problematic issues with threads [23:30] yeah [23:31] I've read a few other libraries too (like the memcache one) and it's so small that you can learn a little something each time :) [23:31] I find it very enjoyable [23:31] and it kinda suits my way of thinking - but then so does node and they're very different, but both really cool [23:32] I refactored my queue thing in Node last week ... with more features to come: https://github.com/appsattic/sensi [23:32] (just a learning thing)