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chiltshmmm ... not sure this is true yet : https://twitter.com/#!/packetslave/status/12427041392780902400:14
chiltsbut sad if it is00:14
ojwbsteve jobs has died?00:15
ojwbtoo soon?00:15
ojwbah, yes - sad indeed00:17
ojwbthat took forever to load00:17
ajmitchit's twitter, it's usually slow to load00:17
* ojwb wonders how much data twitter pushes at you to send you 140 characters of "useful" info00:17
chiltsyeah, load a skeleton page, then a tonne of JavaScript, then the real page00:18
chiltsI assume00:18
ojwband the pointless use of #! doesn't help00:19
chiltsone of your bugbears in life :)00:21
ojwbyep00:21
chiltsyeah, it's real - https://plus.google.com/101960720994009339267/posts01:12
ajmitchbut I guess that it won't make the news quite as much as steve jobs did01:15
ojwbslick presentation beats useful content01:15
chiltsyeah, that's sad ... he changed far more lives (for the better) than Jobs did, yet he'll get very little news01:15
chiltsone helped create somethig really useful, the other used much of it for his own gain ... yet it's the latter that'll get more good press01:16
ajmitchof course, he was far more visible01:17
ojwbdennis ritchie used an ipod for his own gain?01:18
chiltsbecause he made far more money I assume01:19
chiltsojwb: volumne gain maybe :)01:19
chiltss/volumne/volume/01:19
ajmitchelky: I don't know why I go in that channel every 6 months...01:38
elkyajmitch, it's called masochism.01:39
ajmitchmust be01:39
ajmitchlike watching a car crash in slow motion01:40
elkyOne does need to remember that having that channel there keeps the majority of flaming turd out of the main channels.01:40
ajmitchtrue01:40
ajmitchI also avoid #ubuntu though01:40
elkyWhich, really, is it's primary purpose.01:40
elkyYeah, the channels are not what they used to be.01:41
ajmitchthat's sort of expected, ubuntu's not what it was 4 or 5 years ago01:41
elkyI'm still waiting for the day I snap and swear off the entire internet based on the ubuntu irc namespace.01:41
ajmitchit's not so bad if you don't deal with users :)01:42
elkyIn theory.01:42
* ajmitch shall probably be asleep at the time that 11.10 is released, and won't really care either way01:44
mwhudsonajmitch: #u-r-p?01:50
ajmitchyeah01:50
ojwb#ubuntu-release-patiently?01:51
ajmitch-party01:52
mwhudsoni loiter, but try not to read :-)01:53
ojwbpresumably more like -impatiently01:53
ajmitchojwb: the most common question being "is it out yet?"01:53
ojwboo err01:53
ajmitch& then various people ranting on about politics01:53
ojwbthis is the only ubuntu channel i spend more than the minimum time required in01:54
ajmitch#debian-devel is so much more fun? :)01:55
chiltsI saw the Ubuntu Monospace font on Google Web Fonts the other day .. I thought it was only for certain people who had registered their interest :)01:55
chiltsI guess someone leaked it01:55
ajmitchchilts: no, released rather than leaked01:55
chiltsah, ok, that's good news01:55
chiltsI'll go and get it :)01:55
ajmitchfont.ubuntu.com looks to be the place for it01:57
ajmitch& it's in oneiric from the look of things01:57
hadsI think I'm actually intersted in grabbing the image this time. Someone gave me a laptop two days ago to install Ubuntu on. Was going to use Natty but I guess I'll use Oneiric now.02:01
elkyajmitch, heh02:01
ajmitchelky: hm? :)02:01
elkyflee02:01
ajmitchyeah I gave up02:02
ojwbajmitch: well, sometimes that's kind of depressing too, but in different ways02:03
ajmitchusually the smaller team channels are more fun, when you get to know the people02:04
elkyDepends which team.02:14
chiltsUbuntu Monospace in Emacs compared to what I've had for years (new one at top) : http://f.dollyfish.net.nz/ac5e3b02:15
chiltslooks quite nice, though I'll have to turn it on by default to get used to it02:15
ajmitchchilts: you've been using a nasty looking font for awhile :)02:15
chiltsyeah02:16
ajmitch:family "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono"02:16
chiltsthough I've been so used to it, I've never switched02:16
ajmitchlooks like that's what I have set up02:16
chiltsnah, I'll just use this Ubuntu Mono one :)02:16
chiltsnow I need to get it into my terminal!02:18
* ajmitch uses gnome-terminal, probably too used to the default font to switch02:18
chiltsI use (u)rxvt, so I'm sure I can switch it02:18
ajmitchI just have to discover where to change the default font in oneiric :)02:19
chiltsI don't use Gnome (as you can see from the screenshot) :)02:19
ajmitchI'm using a pretty default setup with unity02:20
chiltsso I need to figure it out for X I think ... I've tried .Xdefaults but not sure that's the right place02:20
ajmitchfont configuration looks to have been hidden away in oneiric, probably too complicated for people to handle02:21
ojwbchilts: is the lower on GNU unifont?02:22
ojwblower one02:22
chiltsdunno, let me check : this is from my .emacs -> (set-default-font "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-100-100-100-c-70-iso8859-1")02:22
chiltsso who knows02:22
chiltsnow reads : (set-default-font "-misc-Ubuntu Mono-medium-r-normal--13-100-100-100-c-70-iso8859-1")02:23
chiltsso the chars are the same size and therefore so my windows are the same width for 80 or 120 char columns :D02:23
ojwbit's not unifont (the bottom of the y curls up on yours) but it's very similar in look02:25
ojwbhttp://unifoundry.com/bmp-ref/uni00.bmp02:25
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AtamiraMorning all17:48
ajmitchmorning18:31
chiltsmorning18:47
ibeardsleemorning18:58
ibeardsleesigh19:03
ajmitchso everyone's upgraded to 11.10 by now?19:24
ibeardsleewell not the final release19:38
ibeardsleeunless there have been no changes since the last update a couple of days ago19:38
ajmitchthe majority of the changes are going into oneiric-proposed, the others that went into the release look to mostly be installer-related19:42
mwhudsonmorning19:42
mwhudsoni guess i should upgrade then...19:42
ibeardsleedooo eeet19:44
ajmitchmwhudson: I thought you'd have upgraded at beta19:44
mwhudsonajmitch: the policy of 'canonical people upgrade at beta' seems to have softened of late19:45
mwhudsonand i somehow never got around to it...19:45
ibeardsleeI had some fun yesterday before leaving late from work19:46
ajmitchmwhudson: oh well, something to do over the weekend when you're not needing your laptop for work :)19:46
ibeardsleetried to get rid of the need to click and drag rather than click and click19:46
chiltsso are people working in Canonical expected to upgrade with each release?19:59
* chilts is still on LTS and will wait for the next LTS :)19:59
mwhudsonchilts: yes, definitely20:00
chiltsI guess it helps find bugs too20:01
ajmitchnext LTS in 6 months, but I suspect that upgrade notification  from 10.04 might show up by 12.04.120:01
chiltsyeah20:04
mwhudson"about 4 days 19 hours remaining"20:04
mwhudsonhmm20:04
chiltsoh, and to those who chatted about the Ubuntu Mono font with me yesterday, Emacs and my Terminal are now using it ... I'm already used to it and my eyes are liking it very much20:04
chiltsit's very clean and crisp20:04
chiltslove it in fact20:05
mwhudsoni guess i've never upgraded the day after release before20:05
hadsGrabbed the ISO before I went to bed last night. Am about to do an install on a friends laptop.20:05
ajmitchfrom what I saw, nz2.archive.ubuntu.com no longer points to mirror.ihug.co.nz since it was too broken20:06
* ajmitch did manage to track down the mirror admin & he said he'd look at it today though20:06
lifelessmwhudson: tsk ;)20:25
mwhudsonhey maybe pulseaudio will stop segfaulting in oneiric20:47
lifelesshahhahahahahahahahahahahhaha21:33
ajmitchlifeless: you seem to have some doubts about that?21:34
lifelessajmitch: pulseaudio is special21:35
ajmitchoh very special indeed21:35
ajmitchI've frequently had to kill it to get sound back21:35
mwhudsoni wonder if i would be less uneasy about systemd if I didn't know the same guy started pulseaudio21:36
ajmitchbut systemd is awesome & cool & bugfree21:36
mwhudson(it's a bit unfair i guess, it's not like the audio situation on linux before pulse was anything other than terrible)21:37
lifelessmwhudson: its totally fair, because he claims its perfect and Ubuntu broke it21:37
ajmitchthe thing I don't like about systemd is how it's trying to do everything21:38
mwhudsoni see21:38
hadsThat tour is pretty darn cool.21:41
mwhudsonthenewubuntu.com is quite shiny too21:42
chiltsajmitch: I have no sound at the moment, so you recommend just killing pulseaudio and seeing if that 'solves' the problem?21:44
chilts(noting that this happens from bootup everytime)21:44
ajmitchchilts: worth a try, probably won't change anything if it happens everytime21:45
chiltsyeah, that's what I figured, but I'll try anyway :)21:46
chiltsthanks21:46
chiltsnah, didn't work ... I'll keep trying different things when I get the energy21:48
chiltsyou'd think we could have audio by 2011 though :)21:48
lifelesschilts: check its not muted21:50
ajmitchincluding checking with alsamixer that it's not muted & that the right channels have volume set21:53
ajmitchtoo many volume controls gets confusing21:53
lifelessa well known bug in natty was that on bootup, pulse would be muted22:25
hadsI've discovered that if the power goes out on a suspended box when you boot again networking is disabled.23:32
hadsNot so convenient for HTPCs which have no keyboard/mouse.23:33
ibeardsleeneed to buy one of those little keyboard/remote things for it23:38
Ghads: NetworkManager dying or something?23:47
ajmitchor suspending saves some state which isn't being reset on boot23:48
GI know on pretty much every Linux system that does NetworkManager by default, I ditch NM for wired interfaces and just use the old init scripts to manage it23:49
* ajmitch has a manual wireless setup on his laptop as well, with wpa_supplicant & /etc/network/interfaces23:51
GI'm for the most part happy for NetworkManager to admin my Wireless, but yeah23:54
hadsYeah, likely NM doing silly things. It's only happened once in a blue moon so not looked at it.23:55

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