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daubersMorning08:29
AlanBellmorning08:39
sagacihi08:39
czajkowskialoha08:49
daubersWoot!09:12
daubersAlmost finished my short syncy script to keep a couple of folders of docs in sync with google docs09:13
daubersJust need to give it some intelligence as it assumes everything is a document at the moment09:14
brobostigongood morning everyone.09:24
Laneyhiya09:26
brobostigonmorning Laney09:26
AlanBellpronunciation question for you09:27
AlanBellspd-say "ubuntu"09:27
AlanBellspd-say "oo bun too"09:27
AlanBellor something else?09:27
MartijnVdShttps://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ladkaalcnedlcimjgaldjoeahnklilnk09:29
AlanBelland can you get spd-say to pronunce ocelot?09:36
kvarleyWhat tool should I be using to convert .glade UI's to bash scripts? I used to use gtkdialog but it's no longer in the repos09:41
czajkowskiWhoooooooooooooooooooooooooo10:17
AlanBell:)10:17
* AlanBell thinks czajkowski just beat the aussies10:17
AlanBellspd-say  "ubuntu oh nairic ossselot" < does that sound right?10:18
AlanBellrun it from a terminal10:19
czajkowskiwe did10:19
czajkowski:D10:19
AlanBellspd-say  "ubuntu oh niric osselot" maybe10:19
mattiHm.10:20
gordAlanBell, maybe its my northernness creeping in, but "ubuntu on-eric osselot" sounds best to me11:01
czajkowskiaat least it's geting the Ubuntu right11:08
czajkowskidear gods some folks say it and it's almost cringe worthy11:08
czajkowskiUbuuutu11:08
AlanBellspd-say "oo bun too" I kind of do that a bit11:09
AlanBellspd-say -t female2 "ubuntu on-eric osselot" sounds just like czajkowski :)11:10
AlanBell"ubuntu oh-neric osselot" seems good11:11
MartijnVdSwhich engine does that use?11:12
AlanBellespeak11:12
AlanBellby default, but speech dispatcher is a front end for any back end speech synth11:12
MartijnVdSthat sounds very roboty in Dutch11:12
AlanBellyeah, it isn't great, but it does fit on the disk11:13
AlanBellhttp://mary.dfki.de:59125/ open Mary is much better, but is big and java11:14
MartijnVdSGoogle Translate's "speak" button is good11:14
AlanBellsure, but not really the point11:15
MartijnVdSwell if it had an API... :)11:15
AlanBellthe point being I want to patch orca so that it has a few pre-populated entries in the pronunciation dictionary so it doesn't sound so daft in the 10.10 installer11:16
MartijnVdS11.10, I guess, but good idea11:16
AlanBell11.10 yes11:16
gordunbuntu!11:27
AlanBellspd-say "oh-nigh-ric" has been suggested11:27
geekMePleaseWhat is the dep for non-realtek drivers?11:30
geekMePlease* for natty 11.0411:31
geekMePlease* trying to get usb mini nano wireless modem 802.11 working from Dealextreme11:32
geekMePlease* on Lenovo x6011:32
MartijnVdSgeekMePlease: "non-realtek drivers"?11:36
MartijnVdSgeekMePlease: what kind of chipset does it have?11:36
MartijnVdSgeekMePlease: (use "lsusb" to find out what it reports to the OS)11:36
geekMePleaseMartijnVdS: Bus 001 Device 012: ID 0bda:8176 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.11:50
MartijnVdSAnd it doesn't work out of the box when you plug it in?11:50
geekMePleaseMartijnVdS: does not seem to, see http://pastebin.com/DdvfQW3K11:51
MartijnVdSI see a wlan0 device11:51
geekMePleaseMartijnVdS: it is my computer wlan, not the given wlan device11:52
geekMePleaseMartijnVdS: there should be 802.11abgn11:52
MartijnVdSgeekMePlease: can you pastebin the output of dmesg?11:52
geekMePleaseMartijnVdS: http://paste.ubuntu.com/691478/11:54
MartijnVdSyeah it's not recognised.. hmm11:54
MartijnVdSgeekMePlease: there's a bug about this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/79577011:54
lubotu3Ubuntu bug 795770 in linux (Ubuntu) "Realtek Semiconductor Corp. [0bda:8176] not detected" [Undecided,Incomplete]11:54
MartijnVdSgeekMePlease: it should work in 11.10 -- you can try the latest beta from a live CD11:55
MartijnVdSgeekMePlease: the bug also lists a backport/workaround11:57
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geekMePleaseWhat is the terminal commnad to upgrade to 11.10 beta?12:01
geekMePleasenot apt-get dist-upgrade12:01
geekMePlease- some option misning12:01
MartijnVdSgeekMePlease: it's a beta, it's not quite finished, things WILL break12:01
MartijnVdSbut if you really want to12:01
MartijnVdSdo-release-upgrade -d12:02
geekMePleaseMartijnVdS: Thank you!12:04
isleofmandanGood afternoon. I've just done apt-get upgrade on my Oneric box. Now have a "System program problem detected" dialogue box, that won't stop bugging me. Anyone know how to shut it up?13:11
MartijnVdSisleofmandan: what's crashing?13:11
MartijnVdSit should give you a program name if you give it a password13:12
isleofmandaner, how do it find out? *blush*13:12
isleofmandanappears as soon as I log in13:12
MartijnVdSyes13:12
MartijnVdSand the dialog box has 2 options13:12
isleofmandanit prompts for password13:12
isleofmandanbut then nothing happens13:12
MartijnVdSit should show you a bug report tool with the crashing program's name in it13:12
isleofmandan3 seconds later, a new "system problem..." dialogue pops up. Cycle repeats forever!13:12
MartijnVdSwhat happens if you choose the other option13:13
AlanBellisleofmandan: yes, that is a completel pain13:13
MartijnVdS"cancel"?13:13
isleofmandanit pops up again...13:13
isleofmandan:)13:13
isleofmandanhence my trip here :)13:13
AlanBellyou can turn off apport somehow13:13
MartijnVdSAlanBell: Completel? http://www.completel.fr/? We work with them at work :P13:13
MartijnVdSAlanBell: that still doesn't stop the crashing he's seeing13:14
MartijnVdSAlanBell: if something's respawning and dieing, turning off apport won't stop that, only hide it13:14
AlanBellyeah, I know. Unity is a bit of a crashfest13:14
isleofmandanIf i leave the dialogue open, and hide it behind other windows it's not too bad. I guess that will have to do until the clever people fix it.13:14
AlanBellI was finding the global menu was a bit crashy and respawny13:15
gordhrrm, i put "crewe bus times" into google and it automatically found the bus i wanted... i'm terrified13:19
isleofmandanAh ha. Using xkill on the dialogue box is a permanent fix :)13:19
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shavingtonHi all very quiet today14:11
* AlanBell files bug 85258314:17
lubotu3Launchpad bug 852583 in gnome-orca (Ubuntu) "Orca does not pronounce "Oneiric Ocelot" very well" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/85258314:17
czajkowskiAlanBell: get it to say czajkowski14:17
AlanBellsee zaj kowski14:18
AlanBellspd-say "chycofski"14:18
AlanBelladd a comment to the bug if you want that distro patched in to orca :)14:19
czajkowskilol14:19
czajkowskiI'll be good14:19
shaunocan you install different voices/languages for orca?14:25
StevenRyes14:25
AlanBellshauno: yeah, speech dispatcher is just a front end for any kind of synth14:27
AlanBellyou can use it with hardware voice synthesisers, refreshable braille devices, all sorts14:27
AlanBelland I knocked together a speech dispatcher module that just outputs to a file so you can tail that in a window and I can test things silently and get a full transcript of what it is trying to say14:28
TheOpenSourcererHi AlanBell - Just thought I drop in and say "load average: 75.00," ;-) Now off to make a lasagne. ttfn14:29
AlanBellTheOpenSourcerer: great, hope it crashes soon!14:29
shaunomine handles foreign text better if I use a voice that's intended for that language .. doesn't sound like there's a direct parallel for that tho14:29
TheOpenSourcererlol14:29
AlanBellshauno: speech dispatcher can pass through the language and voice settings14:30
shaunoso it's up to whatever synth you use to do something useful with that14:30
AlanBelltry spd-say français14:31
AlanBelland spd-say -l fr français14:31
AlanBellor even spd-say -t female3 -l fr "je m'appelle issyl0 et je parle français"14:33
MartijnVdSissyl0 is a robot?! :)14:34
shaunohm.  so cz<tab> is much more convincing with -l pl14:36
AlanBellit is indeed14:38
czajkowskieh?14:41
BigRedSwait, you can call *people* with arguments now?14:41
MartijnVdS?14:41
BigRedSIf there's anyone I'd not do that to, it'd cz<tab>14:41
shaunocalling people with arguments is my speciality :/14:42
BigRedShaha14:42
BigRedSOh, I've read back now. That's less fun.14:42
AlanBellspd-say -l pl "czajkowski"14:42
czajkowskiBigRedS: only with rugby14:42
shaunoyeah.  just getting festival to make less of a hash of it by throwing it some hints14:42
czajkowskibest not to argue with me about that14:43
shaunoI've been having to do something similar with mine, but it uses different voices for different languages, which can be rather jarring14:43
mgdmshauno -rf /14:43
MartijnVdSmgdm: now you've shaunoed all over your filesystem..14:47
AlanBellshauno: I would quite like to do an audio irc client as an irssi plugin that assigns a different voice for each person14:47
shaunothe worrying thing is I'd be tempted to use such a thing14:49
BigRedSso long as there's a ranty voice for all-caps words14:49
BigRedSand the bots sound like glados from portal14:50
shaunoI use voice notifications for far, far too many things.  my current irk is that I can't get it to use different languages for specific parts of a message14:54
shaunoso I can either have it mangle their name, or put the whole statement in that language14:54
MartijnVdSshauno: HTML, <span lang=""></span> + fancy speech-enabled web browser?14:55
shaunomy web browser would be on the short list of things that don't talk to me ;)14:56
MartijnVdS.. yet14:56
shaunobut some sort of equivalent markup would be handy, yes14:56
brobostigonok, why would it make any difference, if i can read from an sd card, with a usb adaptor, and cant just putting the sd card, into my eeepc's sd card slow, and then showing ntfs errors. whereas shows none, with the usb adaptor.14:59
MartijnVdSSounds like the SD card and the Eee don't like each other14:59
MartijnVdSthat happens sometimes14:59
brobostigonwhy is the usb adaptor making any difference here?15:00
MartijnVdSit might contain a different SD reader chip15:00
MartijnVdSor non-dusty contacts15:00
MartijnVdSstuff like that15:00
brobostigonok, let me try a different sd card, one moment.15:01
brobostigonweird, that mounted fine.15:03
brobostigonhmm,15:03
MartijnVdScard/controller combination it is then15:03
MartijnVdSis it a very new/old card?15:04
MartijnVdSor a very new/old reader (or Eee PC)15:04
brobostigonthe card is about 3 years old. the usb adaptor i bought last year, and my eeepc is dated, 2009.15:05
shaunolooking at places I've had to override the language, seems my IM client is the biggest offender. I have 'new message from' or 'mesaj nou de la' depending on badly I want the name butchered15:07
shauno'martijn' seems to work fine.  the english voice turns ijn into een.  but icelandic & romanian names in particular, it renders unintelligible15:14
MartijnVdSshauno: try with -l nl15:14
MartijnVdSshauno: that's what it's supposed to sound like (minus the robotness)15:14
shaunoheh, festival doesn't do ijn so well in english :)  (mart-i-gen)15:15
MartijnVdSexactly ;)15:16
MartijnVdSI'm not marty-gen :)15:16
MartijnVdSor marty jen15:16
shaunohttp://oneil.me.uk/martijn.aiff  that's what mine comes up with (osx)15:17
shaunonot sure I have a dutch voice installed to try15:18
MartijnVdScan't play that here15:18
MartijnVdSmartijn.aiff: could not find codec parameters15:18
shaunoseriously?  even my amiga can play those :/15:19
MartijnVdSreally15:19
MartijnVdSeven vlc doesn't work15:20
MartijnVdS(you know it's bad when..)15:20
shaunohttp://oneil.me.uk/martijn.mp315:21
shauno(lame, sox & libaudiofile have no problems with aiff :)  it's this nasty gstreamer nonsense!)15:21
MartijnVdSshauno: file martijn.mp3 tells me it's still AIFF :)15:22
MartijnVdSah: "play" from sox does work15:22
shaunohah, tab fail15:22
MartijnVdSbut it says "marteen", which is WRONG :)15:23
shaunoheh, it's close enough for me :)  (and sounds more natural than marti-gen)15:23
MartijnVdSthat it does15:23
shaunotrying not to install too many voices, because / is on an ssd, and they're 500Mb-ish each15:24
MartijnVdSyike15:24
MartijnVdSthat's a lot15:25
shaunobut names in particular I'm fussy about, else I find myself using the computer's version IRL15:26
MartijnVdSshauno: try on Ubuntu "spd-say -l nl Martijn" and you'll get a good idea :)15:26
shaunoyeah, I did.  the end comes out more like ayn15:29
MartijnVdSish. yes15:29
MartijnVdSWeird Dutch phoneme :)15:30
MartijnVdSwe pronounce "ei" (egg) the same way15:30
shaunowell, no-one ever claimed dutch was normal :p15:31
mgdmThe couple of Dutch friends I have make no such claims :P15:32
MartijnVdSat least it's not Frisian :)15:32
MartijnVdSThat's just English with a bad case of the Scandinavians :)15:33
MartijnVdShttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Frisian_language15:34
MartijnVdS+ #Folklore_about_relation_to_English_and_Dutch15:35
ubuntuuk-planet[Tony] Im a wedding photographer - http://tonywhitmore.co.uk/blog/2011/09/17/im-a-wedding-photographer-in-hampshire/16:11
shaunooh good lord.  good luck with that one16:12
Myrttihe doesn't really need it16:12
shaunoweddings terrify me.  tried it once, never again16:13
MartijnVdSWhat, going to, or participating in?16:13
MyrttiMartijnVdS: photographing16:14
Myrttifor munnies16:14
MartijnVdSah16:15
MartijnVdSI've never cared enough about my pictures to try to do it for money16:15
shaunoMyrtti: 'all of the above'.  but specifically shooting them16:16
MyrttiI don't mind personally16:18
MyrttiI've got good enough camera to enjoy it again16:20
Myrttiwell, photography in general16:20
MartijnVdSOh I like taking pictures16:20
MartijnVdSit's just that when doing it for money, you need (a) skill, (b) some way to write bills (i.e. your own company, i.e. lots of boring administrative work)16:21
shaunoI helped a friend with one in the states.  quickly became apparent that I'm simply not cut out for it16:21
MartijnVdSalso, when you do it for the money, it can take away the "fun" bit16:21
MartijnVdSsame reason I don't code as often as I used to at home16:22
Myrttihaving a sole propri... pro... whatever isn't too difficult in Finland, even easier in UK (I hear)16:22
shaunoalcohol-assisted family feuds are not a conductive place to throw a very quiet geek :)16:22
Myrttiand I like bookkeeping :-)16:22
MartijnVdSsee, I don't :)16:30
MartijnVdSshauno: Are you talking about weddings, or small businesses :)16:30
Myrttidouble-entry bookkeeping is easy as 1-2-3 after a bit of training and proper software :-)16:32
MartijnVdSMyrtti: see, I don't have either16:32
MyrttiI even found a Finnish one with ready made accounts that I does fine in Ubuntu16:33
MartijnVdSthere's a Dutch command line one in Perl16:33
Myrttiledger is in the repos16:33
MartijnVdSif anything, I'd use that16:33
Myrttihm, ledger wasn't the one I was thinking of16:34
Myrttioh well16:36
TheOpenSourcererWill Ubuntu  run on a Pentium PIII?16:41
MartijnVdSTheOpenSourcerer: That's 686, so I think so, yes16:42
TheOpenSourcererTY - A mate just dropped round an old lappy he'd like me to stick Ubuntu on for him. It's a PIII 500Mhz ;-)16:42
MartijnVdSawww :)16:43
TheOpenSourcererNo boot from USB... No CD16:43
Myrttioof16:43
BigRedSso boot off floppy16:43
BigRedS:)16:43
MartijnVdSSBM floppy \o/16:46
penguin42TheOpenSourcerer: Net boot?17:50
MartijnVdSalmost doctor time!17:58
brobostigon:)17:59
* brobostigon expressivly flails his hands into the air.18:00
MartijnVdSbrobostigon: I'm imaging you making a "wubwubwub" sound like Zoidberg ;)18:09
brobostigonlol, no. :)18:09
brobostigonnew dr who :)18:09
* brobostigon gets a beer topup.18:10
* MartijnVdS gets the mint tea18:10
* popey tickles MartijnVdS 18:21
daubersEvening18:30
MartijnVdSpopey: h,18:32
MartijnVdShm18:32
brobostigoninteresting, clearly certain inspiration in this episode.18:38
popeyno spoilers pls18:39
MartijnVdSpopey: of course :)18:39
brobostigoni didnt give away anything, :)18:39
* popey sighs18:40
brobostigonof course, no spoilers, :)18:40
* hamitron pokes Azelphur 18:42
* Azelphur counter pokes18:43
hamitronis IRC up?18:43
Azelphurmine? yea18:43
hamitronI just disconnected from it, and can't connect18:43
hamitronworking again18:44
Azelphur:D18:44
HazRPGHmm, I've just wrote an e-mail to someone who wants to start developing chrome extensions... I'm wondering if I should C&P and put it onto my blog...18:55
HazRPGbecause it's a basic "hello world" extension...18:55
bigcalm_lappy486Always a good place to start19:05
ubuntuuk-planet[Andrew] nVidia GeForce 210 on Ubuntu 11.04 - http://whyareyoureadingthisurl.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/nvidia-geforce-210-on-ubuntu-11-04/19:11
czajkowskidr.who wasn't bad19:20
* hamitron gags czajkowski19:23
MartijnVdSwatching Confidential now19:24
hamitronI got it recorded, but not watch last weeks yet19:24
hamitron:/19:24
hamitronand boxing is on soon19:24
czajkowskihamitron: hurry up so19:24
czajkowskiMartijnVdS: any thoughts on what was behind #1119:28
* AlanBell will be watching Dr Who later19:29
penguin42hmph bbc radio webiste seems to be slow at the moment19:30
mgdmThis Dr Who is rubbish21:04
* mgdm digs out some proper old-school stuff 21:05
bigcalm_lappy486Good evening mgdm21:10
bigcalm_lappy486Said you'd enjoy the zip wire :D21:10
TheOpenSourcereranyone done any netboot installs?21:10
mgdmbigcalm_lappy486: indeed :)21:10
TheOpenSourcererWhat's wrong with this? http://paste.ubuntu.com/691851/21:11
TheOpenSourcerernever gets past pxelinux.021:11
TheOpenSourcereri.e. pxelinux.cfg...21:11
mgdmbigcalm_lappy486: Oddly enough, I was more nervous before my talks at FrOSCon than I was before stepping off a crane 150ft in the air.21:11
mgdmbigcalm_lappy486: says something about my psyche, that does.21:11
bigcalm_lappy486Ah, completely different21:12
bigcalm_lappy486The worst that could happen with the zip line is death21:12
bigcalm_lappy486Yet you could have been humiliated at Froscon21:12
mgdmHeh heh heh21:13
shavingtonWhat version are we up to21:22
ali1234TheOpenSourcerer: ignore logs, break out tcpdump21:23
ali1234most likely the problem is one of: permission error, typo in config file, or completely missing file21:23
bigcalm_lappy486mgdm: how recently have you played with cakephp?21:24
mgdmbigcalm_lappy486: never21:24
bigcalm_lappy486Aha :)21:24
bigcalm_lappy486I got bored again while on holiday21:25
mgdmoh aye21:25
bigcalm_lappy486One of my main client's project is in cake 1.1. So I'm used to cake, but thought I'd take a look at 1.3. Obviously things have changed, but the model/controller creation script seems to have gone. A bit of a silly thing to remove. CakePHP called their script Bake :)21:26
mgdmHeh21:27
bigcalm_lappy486Aye, having another go at my receipt logging app in another MVC, CakePHP this time21:27
mgdmbigcalm_lappy486: the closest I got to CakePHP was a slice of http://www.flickr.com/photos/afilina/5490242693/ in Canada last year21:27
mgdmoops, this year21:27
mgdm(it wasn't actually very nice- the icing was boggin')21:28
bigcalm_lappy486Hehehe21:28
bigcalm_lappy486Do you take your ElePHPant with you everywhere?21:28
mgdmThat wasn't mine21:29
bigcalm_lappy486I was somewhat chuffed when my boss gave me an ElePHPant21:30
mgdm\o/21:30
mgdmapparently you get pink ones now21:30
bigcalm_lappy486A normal sized one. He got one for himself as well as one of the BIG ones for his kids :D21:30
bigcalm_lappy486Ah, I like my blue one21:31
mgdmI have a normal sized one too, got it a few years ago, I believe it's one of the first21:31
MyrttiPINK?!?!21:31
mgdmMyrtti: indeed!21:31
Myrttimmmm cake21:31
bigcalm_lappy486http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigcuthy/sets/72157604110762041/21:31
bigcalm_lappy486Hiya Myrtti :)21:32
mgdmMyrtti: http://www.flickr.com/photos/derickrethans/6123855470/in/photostream21:32
Myrttiawww21:33
MyrttiPHP is actually the language I've managed to get most stuff done21:34
Myrttisurprisingly21:34
mgdmme too21:34
mgdmit pays the bills, and has done for a while21:34
Myrttiha.21:34
Myrttiwhat I mean is that I've actually done more than just a hello world with it21:34
mgdmAh :)21:34
bigcalm_lappy486mgdm: mine appears to have been given to me in March 200821:35
bigcalm_lappy486Despite people bad mouthing PHP, I still do it and it still pays the bills21:35
mgdmbigcalm_lappy486: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mgdm/2197674301/ was not long after I got my SLR, and I had the ElePHPant a while prior21:35
bigcalm_lappy486Aha, so late 2007?21:36
mgdmI suspect so21:37
bigcalm_lappy486I think this one and the next makes me smile the most http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigcuthy/2331031908/in/set-72157604110762041/21:38
mgdmhehe h21:39
popeyebening all21:40
bigcalm_lappy486Evening popey lad21:40
MyrttiI wonder do I still have the code of my homebrewed CMS somewhere21:40
mgdmbigcalm_lappy486: http://t.co/lYbqPCH21:41
bigcalm_lappy486Sounds like a damn fine framework to me :)21:41
mgdmbigcalm_lappy486: (not my elephpant, but my dram :P)21:41
mgdmHi popey21:41
bigcalm_lappy486Just found how to bake in CakePHP 1.3. They had moved things about more than I had expected21:58
bigcalm_lappy486I can actually recommend CakePHP. It's the most dev friendly framework I've been using so far22:14
bigcalm_lappy486-sp22:14

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