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ubuntuuk-planet[Miia Ranta] Ubuntu 11.10 on an ExoPC/Wetab, or how I found some use for my tablet and learnt to hate on-screen keyboards - http://myrtti.fi/blog/2011/11/06/ubuntu-11-10-on-an-exopcwetab-or-how-i-found-some-use-for-my-tablet-and-learnt-to-hate-on-screen-keyboards/01:06
ubuntuuk-planet[iain woz ere] Goodbye Orlando - http://orangesquash.org.uk/~laney/blog/posts/2011/11/goodbye-orlando/01:06
ubuntuuk-planet[Laura Czajkowski] UDS-P Day 5 - http://www.lczajkowski.com/2011/11/06/uds-p-day-5/02:06
spiritechhello ubuntu-uk03:10
ballDaviey: Does everybody need an invitation for #mythbuntu or did I offend someone?03:47
Azelphurball: think it's everyone, I can't either03:52
ballAh good.  I'd hate to think I'd done something bad without even realising it!03:58
ballAzelphur: It seems to suddenly be #ubuntu-mythtv04:25
sammmOMG I'm so bored!!!!!!104:44
sammmDoes anyone else here like cute ickle bunny wabbits?04:44
ballhello sammm04:50
sammmball: heyyyyy04:50
sammmball: Why are you awake so early/late?04:50
ballsammm: It's 23:51 here.04:51
sammmball: WTF?04:51
sammmball: This is #ubuntu-uk04:51
sammmUK being United Kingdom04:52
ballsammm: I'm British.04:52
sammmball: WTF you have to be British to be here now?04:52
ballI never said that.04:52
sammmball: You implied it04:53
ballsammm: I am not responsible for your interpretation of my comments.04:53
ballhello darael04:53
sammmball: Do you like cute ickle bunny rabbits?04:53
ballsammm: I haven't eaten rabbit for many, many years.04:54
daraelHello, ball.  How goes it?04:54
balldarael: Not too bad thanks.04:54
sammmball: Dude, what the fuck is wrong with you? You don't eat cute bunnies.04:55
ballCorrect. I do not currently eat rabbit.04:55
sammmball: How would you like it if I ate your dog?04:56
ballI daresay my daughter would object.04:56
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AlanBellmorning all09:53
jacobwmorning AlanBell10:02
AlanBellMyrtti: have you tried the version of Onboard in -proposed?10:07
MyrttiAlanBell: yes, with no visible difference10:10
Myrttiperhaps I don't know what to look for10:11
Myrttiand all in all I like Gnome-Shell a tiniest bit more than Unity, and I haven't a clue how to change the keyboards10:12
daubersMorning10:17
jacobwmorning daubers :)10:18
daubersSo, should we run a meeting where we can discuss the UDS stuff that might effect us?10:19
daubersOr how we as a loco can help with any targets/aims that were brought up at UDS?10:20
daubersapparently not :)10:30
MyrttiI'm trying to find a blogpost...10:31
daubersWhich one?10:31
Myrttidaubers: this one: http://lococouncil.ubuntu.com/2011/11/01/loco-council-oneiric-cycle-review/ which baffled me10:32
MyrttiI thought Ubuntu UK was already reapproved on Oneiric cycle10:32
Myrttiright after OggCamp10:32
daubersMyrtti: Yeah, that blog post is a covering of wha the loco team did as part of the oneiric cycle10:32
brobostigongood morning everyone.10:32
Myrttioh, right, misread10:32
daubersWe're now on the "perfect" cycle10:33
Myrttiit does say Oneiric above the list...10:33
daubersYup :)10:33
Myrttiand even in the title10:33
Myrttihohum. a Paracetamol and more tea10:33
Myrttiheadaches in the morning when you wake up would be so much more fun and justified if I had drunk anything stronger than milk yesterday10:33
daubersIck10:39
bigcalmMornin'11:08
dauberso/11:08
* daubers tries to find how the bus stops get their data11:09
SuprEngrdaubers, at every stop the driver gets out and finds a phonebox.  driver then morse codes it in binary by tapping on the mouthpiece of the phone and the driver of the previous bus then paints the time on the next stop11:31
SuprEngro/11:32
bigcalmSounds reasonable to me11:32
daubersSuprEngr: Rumour has it it's either just a big wifi network or wimax11:33
SuprEngr;)11:34
daubersMeh, I'll leave the packet sniffer running and wait for a bus to go past]11:35
SuprEngr[one of the drivers of every route has to be called Max for WhyMax to work effectively]11:36
SuprEngr..and don't ask why Max? [for recursive,see...]11:37
AlanBellMyrtti: hmm, it should be visibly quite different, no title bar and transparent backbround11:38
MyrttiAHHAHAHHAH someone has just made a funneh11:40
Myrttimentioned in the blogpost I'm having trouble right-clicking anything, and here they suggest I right-click the border of onBoard11:41
Myrttibut I suppose they mean I do that after I've installed this hacky thing called twofing11:42
AlanBellDunno, I will look into it later11:44
daubersI hate the smell of electric heaters that have been off for 8 months being turned on again11:45
MyrttiI hate the smell of my bathroom cleaning products11:45
Myrttimy toilet refreshener reminds me of the smell of my bathroom the last time I had a hangover11:46
Myrttiand my bathroom cleaner is just too strong11:46
MyrttiI don't know why I used the latter with this headache11:46
SuprEngrMyrtti, dissolved soda crystals? no smell, just cleaning. rubber gloves recommended though.11:56
MyrttiI think I'll just go buy a 2 liter canister of white vinegar instead and put it in a spray bottle11:58
Myrttithat's what I usually use in UK11:58
SuprEngr...was going to suggest that but that smells [but some,  self included, find it a non-offensive]12:00
MyrttiSuprEngr: it smells differently, which in my experience doesn't induce a headache for me12:00
SuprEngrcorrect - hope head gets better soon12:01
MyrttiI may end up tossing the toilet refreshener12:02
SuprEngr[I'm glad I read that twice]12:02
Myrttihehe12:02
Myrttialso, this whole discussion reminds me that it may be a good idea to have my eyes checked by a doctor sometime soon12:04
SuprEngrwouldn't think eye probs would cause waking up with an ache, *but* eyes are precious, go check12:05
SuprEngralso ask if waking up with low sugar... hmmm headache?12:07
* penguin42 yawns12:31
GentileBenSo, how do ya'll feel about Unity?12:38
penguin42ah throwing a good loaded question in?12:39
GentileBenAre you retarded? Go look up the definition of "loaded question".12:39
penguin42oh I'm sorry12:40
mattt:/12:43
jacobwfriends is so unrealistic13:14
MartijnVdSjacobw: are*13:15
jacobw;)13:16
jacobwenum friends {ross,rachel,chandler,joey};13:17
MartijnVdSah those :)13:17
jacobwi've moved in to a place with sky tv13:20
SuprEngrwhat? sharing with someone called Sky... dodgy!13:21
gorddoes E4 still show friends on basically a 24 hour loop?13:22
gordbeen a long time since i watched uk tv13:22
MartijnVdSnah it has some "celebrity gossip" between episodes13:22
jacobwi'm watching comedy central13:22
gordE4 was the friends channel, then "Bill" or "Jim" or whatever it was, was the top gear channel13:23
jacobwlol, 'Dave'13:23
MartijnVdSgord: it's the Top Gear and QI channel, last time I checked13:23
* jacobw thinks all TV channels should have a familial name13:24
SuprEngrjacobw, the royals already have one... it's called "One"13:25
jacobwHaha13:25
MartijnVdSITV One amirite13:25
jacobwi was reading about the queen on wikipedia yesterday13:26
jacobwapparently until 1964 she appointed the leader of the conservative party13:27
SuprEngrpo.s Dave currently showing "Have I Got News..."13:28
SuprEngravec Angus Deaton!13:28
KrimZondoes she still appoint the presenter of HIGNFY?13:51
jacobwi'm not sure :P13:52
jacobwhi hamitron14:07
hamitronhi :)14:07
penguin42spot the odd one out: http://s0.2mdn.net/viewad/2652468/UK-Grocery-StockShop-300x250.png15:39
daraelpenguin42: Bakers is the only one not intended for human consumption?15:39
penguin42nod15:40
daraelI wasn't sure.  I thought there might have been something more subtle, that I'd missed.15:40
pangolinI bet it's delicious though15:41
pangolin:)15:41
jacobwits probably ok for pangolins too :P15:42
penguin42only imprecise ones though15:43
jacobwof course15:43
DJonesAlthough dog biscuits are healthier for you than normal biscuits15:43
* penguin42 hates to know how DJones knows that15:43
daraelWell, dog biscuits have (legally) to be fit for human consumption.  After that it's just a case of happening to know the nutrition information of each.15:44
jacobwi still won't be having them for breakfast15:45
daraelAnd the fact that the dog biscuits are intended as a major part of a diet, whereas normal biscuits are essentially treats (however much some may disagree) makes the comparison easy.15:45
DJonespenguin42: I've had dogs all my life, you get to know a lot about dog health & nutrition15:45
daraeljacobw: Sounds advisable.15:45
penguin42darael: You mean I'm not supposed to base my entire nutrition around chocolate digestives?15:46
daraelpenguin42: I couldn't possibly comment.  I might say something in favour of such a plan.15:46
matttwhat's a common python module for interacting with remote machines via ssh?16:46
AlanBell!info python-libssh216:46
lubotu3`python-libssh2 (source: pylibssh2): Python binding for libssh2 library. In component universe, is optional. Version 1.0.0-1build1 (natty), package size 85 kB, installed size 732 kB16:47
matttnice 1, thanks alan16:47
andylockranhttp://pastebin.com/kjZySZRk18:10
andylockranyep - well done Virgin Media :(18:10
andylockranHow's things?18:13
andylockranhmm18:17
andylockranvery quiet in here18:17
andylockranelse I'm talking to myself?18:17
MartijnVdS*tumbleweed*18:20
andylockranwas that in response to me?18:21
andylockranI've restarted my irssi client because I wasn't sure I was still connected..18:21
MartijnVdSandylockran: well it's VERY quiet18:21
brobostigoni am playing with android-x86, and am rather impressed on my eeepc, 2.3/gingerbread is working pretty quickly, and resource efficiently.18:22
brobostigonshame connectbot isnt scaling properly, to the whole screen.18:24
andylockranbrobostigon: that's kewl18:39
andylockranbrobostigon: you blogging the instructions ?18:39
brobostigonmaybe. i am making notes.18:39
andylockranthat'd be useful18:40
andylockranwould like to put it on my eee 1000H18:40
andylockranis it easy18:40
brobostigonvery, get the image from android-x86 site, dd or unetbootin to sd. and then boot from, simple.18:40
brobostigonok, bbl, going to the pub, :)18:42
MartijnVdSpopey: http://imgur.com/a/dT6K318:53
MartijnVdSpopey: make any salt shaker into a dalek!18:53
SuprEngrMartijnVdS, but it only takes an upturned bucket & a new born kid sat on top to make a Davros!19:21
popeyEvening all19:28
SuprEngro/19:29
AlanBellevening popey and all19:29
coffeemakerwould people take a tumblr blog seriously?19:38
mgdmwhether or not to take a blog seriously depends on far much more than how it's hosted19:39
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coffeemakergood point19:40
penguin42do not judge a blog by it's cover19:45
MartijnVdSpenguin42: or its style sheet19:51
coffeemakerI've seen the term 'blog' used for when someone talks and no one is listening19:55
coffeemakeror wants to listen19:55
MartijnVdSisn't that "blag"? :P19:56
AlanBellLaney: did you write something about your views on Banshee?20:08
Laneywhere?20:11
Laneyi ranted a bit on some plus comments20:12
popeyAIUI it's not that Mono on ARM sucks.20:12
popeyIt's that Mono on _Linux_ on ARM sucks20:13
ali1234that's the reasoning?20:14
ali1234what will replace tomboy?20:14
jacobwvim + rsync :P20:15
popeytomboy is still available in the repo20:15
popeyas is banshee20:15
popeyall we're talking about is default apps20:15
ali1234what will replace it in the install?20:15
popeynothing20:15
popeysame as gimp20:15
ali1234so there will be no note taking app by default?20:15
popeycorrect20:15
ali1234presumably something will replace banshee20:15
popeyrhythmbox20:15
ali1234and gbrainy should never have been included to start with20:16
jacobwis that still included :s20:16
ali1234it's not in oneiric20:17
popeyWhen pitti announced it at the end of UDS there was a cheer when he said they'd gained 30MB by not having Mono by default20:17
ali1234heh20:17
popeyI don't know if the cheer was 'no mono' or '30MB'20:17
popeyI dont know pitti's position on it20:18
ali1234i only use banshee because of convenience20:18
ali1234i don't use tomboy or any other note taking thing20:18
ali1234i have to say that banshee has been far buggier than rhythmbox ever was20:18
AlanBell21:19 < Laney> never mind, I'll be mailing about this anyway20:19
AlanBellin -uds20:19
ali1234i reported a reproducable crash bug 6 months ago. still not fixed.20:19
lubotu3`Launchpad bug 6 in Launchpad itself ""next 10 entries" at bottom of page" [Medium,Invalid] https://launchpad.net/bugs/620:19
AlanBellI just reported a bug in banshee20:19
AlanBellbug 88690820:19
lubotu3`Launchpad bug 886908 in banshee (Ubuntu) "progress jumps back when scrolling through audio file with mouse wheel" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/88690820:19
ali1234i think the bug has been known long before i reported it too20:19
ali1234ah yeah i get that too20:20
ali1234can't seek in podcasts and stuff20:20
jacobwi noticed that bug before20:20
AlanBellI have not had it spin the processor full speed all cores for a bit, probably because I try not to use it20:20
AlanBellI suspect that is a bug in mono20:21
bigcalmGood evening peeps :)20:21
AlanBellwhenever a UDS session opened in Banshee by accident it was so frustrating trying to scroll to the end of it20:21
ali1234https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62954120:22
lubotu3`Gnome bug 629541 in general "Crashes on changing track with an ObjectDisposedException from HyenaSqliteCommand.Execute" [Normal,New]20:22
jacobwi've been finding banshee buggy since about version 0.1220:22
bigcalmI don't think that directhex is happy at the removal of Banshee et al from the default install of 12.04 :(20:22
ali1234when i was listening to the UDS live streams if it dropped out it would jump to playing the last song i listened to20:23
ali1234and back wouldn't work20:23
ali1234very annoying20:23
ali1234had to use mplayer20:23
ali1234the filesystem queue seems broken, i have a bunch of songs stuck in it20:23
ali1234and it doesn't work properly with the library - if you open a song or album from the dash, you can't get to "other songs by this artist" easily enough20:24
directhexbigcalm: it's not so much that. it's the shambolic way the decision was made20:24
ali1234directhex: i don't remember you complaining about the shambolic decision to include it :)20:25
bigcalmHehe, meow20:26
ali1234the session about about unity user testing was interesting20:28
ali1234seems like nearly all the problems i have showed up in the tests20:28
AlanBelldirecthex: what was shambolic?20:30
ali1234banshee wasn't default in 10.04 was it?20:33
ali1234so LTS users won't even see a change20:34
AlanBellno, just 11.0420:34
AlanBellindeed, LTS to LTS does appear to be part of the decision20:34
directhexAlanBell: two reasons were cited for the dropping of banshee in the UDS logs - the only record that exists, since canonical were far too busy to spend a single minute liaising with upstream regarding their concerns or even to INVITE THE TEAM MEMBER THEY PAID TO BRING TO UDS INTO THE SESSION WHERE THEY WERE TO DISCUSS TOSSING OUT HIS WORK - were "it doesn't work on ARM" which is imaginary (it doesn't work on OMAP4, which is canonical's tar20:35
directhexget ARM platform, but they have never bothered to help provide access to that platform to any Banshee developers, or fix their supposed bugs), and that it's not a GTK3 app (the GTK3 bug is blocking on a single bug which needs help from someone with GTK3 experience, bug canonical's techs are far too busy masturbating onto a biscuit to cooperate with upstream on that one either)20:35
directhexsooooooooo shambolic.20:35
AlanBellthere was someone on the banshee team there who didn't turn up to the defaults session ?!?20:37
directhexbanshee devs have already given considerable (free) help to canonical to help banshee integration in ubuntu, and in return they've read about this on fucking boycott novell rather than via canonical's full-time upstream liaison gimps20:37
ali1234what's up with OMAP4? got some more details?20:37
directhexAlanBell: Laney was shipped to UDS, but never told that he should attend the session where stuff under his remit would be discussed20:38
AlanBellhttp://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-p/meeting/19442/desktop-p-default-apps/20:39
AlanBellhttp://mirrors.tumbleweed.org.za/uds-p/2011-11-02-21-00-desktop-p-default-apps.1.ogg 10 minutes in20:39
ali1234it says he attended?20:40
ali1234where does that list come from anyway?20:40
AlanBellLaney edited the pad after the session had ended20:40
AlanBelland marked himself as attending the session20:41
ali1234but there can be a list of attendees even before the pad is created20:41
AlanBellhttps://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-p-default-apps20:41
AlanBellsubscribers to the blueprint20:41
ali1234regarding that pad, i wouldn't say banshee is unmaintained in ubuntu20:42
ali1234the bugs very much are being forwarded to b.g.o20:42
ali1234but then they just die20:42
directhexthe pad was heavily vandalised after the event.20:43
directhexit's useless as a reference now20:43
AlanBelldirecthex: http://pad.ubuntu.com/ep/pad/view/uds-p-desktop-p-default-apps/latest or http://pad.ubuntu.com/ep/pad/view/uds-p-desktop-p-default-apps/rev.1545 as it was at the end of the session20:44
directhexAlanBell: thanks, i didn't know you could view old revisions with etherpad20:45
LaneyI wasn't aware that subscribing to blueprints was a commitment to attend20:45
AlanBellit isn't20:45
AlanBellbut that is how the field labled "attendees" is populated in summit20:46
AlanBelland it is used by the scheduler to shuffle stuff around so they don't clash with other things too much20:46
AlanBellyou can mark yourself as essential and it will try hard not to put it on at the same time as other stuff you are attending20:47
LaneyI didn't feel any massive need to go to that session, since nobody told me that Banshee was under threat.20:47
Laneythere was another one on at the same time that I felt would be more useful20:48
directhexAlanBell: the diff between those pads is a fascinating snapshot of just how this symbolic victory for the "i can;t program but I HATE THIS PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE RAAAARGH" crowd is being taken20:48
AlanBellLaney: you can also walk out of a session and go to another if you realise you are more useful somewhere else20:48
AlanBelldidn't mean that to sound critical, was trying to be informative20:48
Laneydo you think it would have been reasonable for someone to let me know what was going to happen?20:49
AlanBellyes, I do20:49
directhexthe decision was premade. the community veneer was for show20:49
Laneyalso the reason I have not mailed is because I have been back for all of 4 hours and had other things to do20:49
ali1234directhex: well that i agree with20:50
AlanBellyou first commented on the pad at 17:22 ish local time, about 10 minutes after they started talking20:50
directhexif they spent their money on a pandaboard for upstream rather than shipping laney over, that would have been a rather better use of their money.20:50
directhexbut communities are hard work. if only someone had written a book on the art of community20:51
LaneyI commented when I saw that hyperair's maintenance was being insulted20:51
Laneygotta go out20:52
Laneyttyl20:52
directhexand dnielsen's bug triage20:52
ali1234how much is a pandaboard anyway?20:52
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daubersEvening20:52
ali1234i never had a problem reporting bugs on banshee20:52
ali1234the guide is excellent, was it written by dnielsen?20:52
directhex$174 plus a power supply which is sold separately20:53
directhexali1234: probably20:53
ali1234i must have reported 4 or 5 in the past 6 months20:53
ali1234but they all turned out to be dupes of existing and sometimes very old bugs20:54
directhexi occasionally get pinged about bugs i reported in core ubuntu packages in breezy20:54
ali1234really? shouldn't they all be closed by now?20:55
ali1234i get a couple "we are closing this bug because this version is no longer maintained" emails every month20:55
directhexthey probably should be20:56
AlanBellpopey: I think pitti was the one proposing switching back to Rhythmbox20:56
ali1234bug 857299 (sorry, lazy)20:57
lubotu3`Launchpad bug 857299 in banshee (Ubuntu Precise) "banshee window remain white on startup on armel" [High,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/85729920:57
AlanBelllistening to the audio it does seem to me that the "default apps" discussion would be best done not at UDS20:57
ali1234i don't think it should be done in 1 session20:58
AlanBellit needs a much wider input and more upstream communications20:58
ali1234maybe 1 session on monday and one session on friday when the dust has settled20:58
AlanBellat least20:59
directhexmaybe "we're thinking of dropping app X due to problem Y" should be communicated to the authors of app X. maybe. i mean, call me a whiny bitch, but that seems courteous when the authors of app X have already made considerable accommodations for you20:59
AlanBellthere should be a process for getting on and off the CD21:00
AlanBelldirecthex: much as I would like to call you a whiny bitch, I think you are right :)21:00
ali1234+121:00
AlanBellalso stuff getting on the CD like GBrainy seems random21:01
ali1234as mentioned, it is gone now21:01
ali1234i'd like to make something to replace it actually21:01
AlanBellit is, but how did it get on in the first place?21:01
directhexthe lulzy part is the "let's add sysinfo!" in that log21:01
directhexsysinfo is an old unmaintained mono app21:02
ali1234!info sysinfo21:02
directhexAlanBell: did the Brain Age craze pass you by?21:02
lubotu3`sysinfo (source: sysinfo): display computer and system information. In component universe, is optional. Version 0.7-4 (natty), package size 105 kB, installed size 388 kB21:02
AlanBelldirecthex: my kids play some of those brain things, some friends came round to play it on the WII21:02
ali1234directhex: gbrainy is nothing like those games, it's more like doing an IQ test. the kind people hate.21:03
AlanBellthey all seemed to know what they were doing and tried to pursuade me to join in21:03
AlanBellkept telling them I don't play games, don't care, don't want to participate21:03
StevenRhrrm. so I'm planning on getting a wireless keyboard. However, I wonder how secure they are from folk sniffing passwords from the air. Is there a way I can either secure the wireless keyboard in some fashion, or have a "software" keyboard that works via ssh from another computer? (the pc I want to control wirelessly is my home server/mythbox)21:03
AlanBelleventually they forced the controller on me and I had a go and got the high score :)21:03
directhexStevenR: i think bluetooth keyboards should be considered secure21:03
directhexbut not RF21:04
ali1234StevenR: you can do the keyboard-over-ssh thing with synergy and a ssh tunnel21:04
directhexi'm guessing a bit though21:04
ali1234yes, bluetooth keyboards should be secure21:04
StevenRali1234: really, what I want is enough to type passwords in. For controlling mythtv, an RF keyboard should be fine21:04
StevenRdirecthex: if the pin/key is sufficiently long, yes.21:05
directhexanyway. i need to re-blog my thoughts on the banshee removal. the wordpress app for webos decided to throw away an hour's typing, so i need to redo mostly from start21:05
directhexand i'm too sober to do it now21:05
AlanBellI am a bit surprised there wasn't a whole RB vs Banshee session like there was for the RDP client http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-p/meeting/19614/desktop-p-freerdp/21:05
directhexAlanBell: too much publicity for a premade decision, i expect21:06
ali1234StevenR: RF keyboards have been demonstrated to be insecure. i doubt anyone would use it to hack into your home server though.21:08
AlanBelldirecthex: do you think more publicity would have changed it?21:08
daubersIs banshee going again?21:09
ali1234apparently21:10
directhexAlanBell: no. i think canonical being a free-software community member rather than a pure consumer might have changed it.21:10
daubersIt comes it goes21:10
ali1234not if you're a LTS user21:10
directhexand even if it didn't change it, it would have been polite21:10
directhexali1234: f-spot is coming back?21:11
ali1234no idea21:12
ali1234i never really noticed it going21:12
AlanBelldirecthex: personally I expect one or two people came to that session with the pre-made intention of getting a decision to go to Rhythmbox. If there was a general negative reaction then they wouldn't have been able to carry the decision.21:14
AlanBellI don't think UDS sessions are wide enough to overcome the "one person decides, nobody objects much" system of decision making21:15
directhexali1234: f-spot was the photo app in dapper, hardy & lucid. nobody's saying "zomg can't change app in LTS" to being it back in oneiric. that's a really bullshit line of reasoning.21:15
AlanBellwhich mostly doesn't matter, for most sessions21:15
directhexor evo -> thunderbird21:15
AlanBellI guess if you are going to flip flop it makes sense to arrange LTS to be on a flip to flip cadence21:16
AlanBellor a flop to flop cadence, that would work too21:17
* AlanBell votes for alternating music players in all releases21:18
directhexis it possible to comment on this topic without citing greg k-h's "canonical doesn't contribute upstream" slides?21:18
* daubers just tends to use spotify...21:18
AlanBelldirecthex: the other reason was it is possibly easier to do interesting things with a music lens without the app running with Rhythmbox21:19
AlanBellis that true?21:19
directhexAlanBell: where is that said?21:20
AlanBellhard to get access to the banshee database without banshee running to present an API21:20
AlanBellin the audio21:20
AlanBellrhythmbox is an XML file so a lens can parse it quickly and easily without starting the app21:20
ali1234how do i access the audio?21:20
directhexparsing xml is quicker than sqlite?21:20
ali1234probably21:21
AlanBelldirecthex: I have no clue if it was true or not, hence my question21:21
AlanBellhttp://mirrors.tumbleweed.org.za/uds-p/ <- audio files21:22
AlanBellhttp://mirrors.tumbleweed.org.za/uds-p/2011-11-02-21-00-desktop-p-default-apps.1.ogg < start 10 minutes from the beginning21:22
AlanBelland if you have banshee, don't use the mouse wheel to scroll through it :)21:22
directhexoh boy i have a big surging erection at needing to apply forensics to audio files to work this out, rather than any kind of cooperation with upstream.21:23
ali1234they play directly in firefox :)21:23
AlanBellali1234: yeah, but then they don't save anywhere sensible, and I couldn't scroll through it21:24
ali1234yeah you can scroll21:24
ali1234just grab the little speech bubble thingy21:24
AlanBelloh yeah, that wasn't working for me earlier!21:25
AlanBellno mouse wheel scroll21:25
Myrttigood grief I hate this hardware tweaking stuff22:16
Myrttihours of work and things don't *still* work22:17
ali12341is there any software for bulk flashing usb drives?22:20
bigcalmali12341: up arrow on a dd command?22:24
AlanBellMyrtti: I would like to help you get onboard working nice22:25
ali12341i need something that works in parallel22:25
MyrttiI don't really mind onboard being rubbish22:25
AlanBellI do!22:25
Myrttiit's the magic of not knowing how to rightclick that vexes me more22:25
MyrttiI can promptly move to hating onboard with all my might after I've figured rightclicking22:26
AlanBellhmm, onboard can do that with hover click, but that requires a mouse22:26
AlanBelloh, no it doesn't22:26
AlanBellonboard has a right click button22:27
MyrttiI wonder how much a decent bluetooth keyboard is22:27
AlanBellhttp://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/onboardmouse.png22:30
AlanBellMyrtti: using that layout the second button in the mouse column is to right click, press that then prod the screen where you want to right clic22:30
AlanBellif you can't see that, prod the arrow next to the drag button to show that column22:31
AlanBelltop button is middle click22:32
AlanBellinterestingly they all have tooltips, but you won't see them on a touchscreen22:33
ali12341hmm... if i have 100 identical USB flash drives plugged into a computer with loads of hubs, and one of them is bad, how can i identify which one it is?22:34
ali12341something about the bus topology22:34
AlanBelldo they have activity LEDs?22:35
ali12341i don't know22:35
ali12341let's assume they don't22:35
bigcalmThe hubs or the usb flash drives?22:35
ali12341the usb flash drives22:35
ali12341let's also assume i have 10 identical 10 port hubs and 10 usb ports on the motherboard22:36
AlanBellwhat happens after sdz0 ?22:37
ali12341sdaa i think22:37
AlanBellok, so in software you know that /dev/sdat is giving IO errors of some kind right?22:37
ali12341yeah22:38
ali12341how do i trace that to a physical port?22:38
AlanBellcan you plug them in one by one in order?22:38
ali12341no, i am too lazy22:38
AlanBellso start with 100 empty ports, first one is sda and so on22:38
AlanBellok, so you need to unplug them and report which one is being unplugged as you go22:38
AlanBellbut you won't want to do that either will you :)22:39
ali12341yeah22:39
ali12341well how do i know which one was unplugged?22:39
ali12341this is the actual problem22:39
ali12341i need to copy 10mb of files to 100 flash drives22:39
ubuntubhoyali12341, if it was duff, the system would just ignore it, as it does with a couple of duff SD cards I have22:40
matttevening all22:40
ali12341ubuntubhoy: but that is not helpful, because i don't want to give someone a bad one22:40
ali12341and i don't want to manually check each one one at a time22:40
ali12341i want to plug them all in and run a program that flashes them all and reports which ones are bad22:41
AlanBellthere is information in /var/log/syslog22:41
ali12341usb 1-6.422:42
ali12341that seems to be a fixed unique identifier of the port22:42
AlanBellyeah, just trying to figure out how that relates to bus/device22:42
ali12341since i don't actually have 10 x 10 port hubs22:42
ali12341what i actually want is to be able to plug in drives until i run out of ports, then it says "port 1 is done, plug in another" and have it do that while working on a nother one22:43
ali12341so i can just shuffle drives constantly without having to wait22:43
ali12341so it needs to be able to say which one is done, and whether it worked or not22:44
ubuntubhoybut when you plug in a duffer, it wont mount22:44
ubuntubhoyso you will physically see it22:44
ali12341i won't see anything22:44
ali12341i will see that one of them didn't mount22:44
ali12341but i won't know which one22:44
ali12341because there is 10022:44
ubuntubhoyNov  6 22:43:35 Ubuntu-Touch kernel: [29913.671279] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled sense code22:45
ubuntubhoyNov  6 22:43:35 Ubuntu-Touch kernel: [29913.671285] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb]  Result: hostbyte=invalid driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE22:45
ubuntubhoyNov  6 22:43:35 Ubuntu-Touch kernel: [29913.671293] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb]  Sense Key : Medium Error [current]22:45
ubuntubhoyNov  6 22:43:35 Ubuntu-Touch kernel: [29913.671302] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb]  Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error22:45
ubuntubhoyNov  6 22:43:35 Ubuntu-Touch kernel: [29913.671311] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 0022:45
ubuntubhoyNov  6 22:43:35 Ubuntu-Touch kernel: [29913.671329] end_request: critical target error, dev sdb, sector 022:45
AlanBell!flood22:45
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ubuntubhoythats what I get from one of my duff SD cards22:45
ubuntubhoyand soz22:45
Myrttiuhhuhh22:45
ali12341usb 1-6.3 <- the other port on the same hub22:45
ali12341so yeah that's part of it22:45
AlanBellDevice numbers don't appear to be useful at all22:46
ali12341device node names aren't much use22:46
ali12341i plan to watch for the vendor/product ID22:47
ali12341then remount it, copy files, sync, remount ro, md5sum files, and print success/fail message22:47
AlanBelllsusb -t22:47
ali12341ah that's helpful22:48
AlanBellthose port numbers look useful22:49
ali12341yes that matches up with the 1-6.322:49
AlanBellin fact they look like the 1-6.322:49
AlanBellbus one port 6 then port 3 on the hub22:49
ali12341exactly22:50
ali12341so i can use that to "label" each port on whatever hub i am using22:50
ali12341if only usb had an eject command that actually made the cable unplug itself22:51
AlanBellif only Ubuntu didn't claim it had!22:51
AlanBellbug 76490522:51
lubotu3`Launchpad bug 764905 in Ayatana Design "Drag and drop a USB key into the trash should eject the USB key" [High,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/76490522:51
AlanBellthats what you want, fire the thing across the room with the eject command22:52
AlanBellMyrtti: in onboard preferences you can tell onboard to hide to a floating icon, does that work well for you? looks like it should do for a touch screen.22:56
mattiGuys.22:58
mattiAnybody owns a System76 machine?22:58
mattiI do not want to pay IBM / Lenovo this time.22:58
mattiBut I want a nice, Linux-friendly system.22:59
* matti is looking at reviews etc.22:59
AlanBellUK keyboard?23:00
mattiAlanBell: Hm?23:03
mattiAlanBell: Are you asking me? ;]23:03
AlanBellyes23:03
AlanBelldoes it have/do you want a UK keyboard?23:03
mattiOh.23:03
mattiI am not sure whether it has UK layout.23:03
mattiHm.23:03
mattiThinkPad W520 I want is almost the same as Serval Professional I want ;p23:04
mattiLOL23:04
AlanBellnice laptop, bit heavy23:05
mattiYeah.23:06
mattiIt will be a desktop replacement for me.23:07
* matti has bazillion VMs running things on his old 13" Samsung Q70.23:07
AlanBellI have quite a few on my core i3 samsung R53023:08
AlanBellput 8GB of ram in it23:08
mattiI put 2x 2GB recently.23:09
mattiMax it can take is 4 GB.23:09
mattiIts from 2007 ;]23:09
mattiI really like ThinkPad W520.23:10
mattiBut is darn expensive beast.23:10
mattiNearly 2.5k GBP23:10
mattiToo much.23:10
Myrttiubuntu one setup :-( Y U SO RUBBISH23:11
mattiMyrtti: I lost data with U1.23:11
mattiMyrtti: Nice thing, but ... requires some work ;]23:11
MyrttiI lose my sanity with this tablet23:12
matti:<23:12
ubuntubhoyMyrtti, what tablet you using ?23:12
Myrttiexopc/wetab23:13
ubuntubhoythat has a nearly full Android 3.2 port iirc, have you tried it ?23:14
AlanBellnight all o/23:21
MyrttiI already own an Android device, having another doesnt necessarily make this one more fun23:21
ubuntubhoyMyrtti, its more a convenience thing, I also have a Vega, but would love to get 3.2 working right on my Duo23:22
MyrttiIll just start writing bugreports until everyone at canonical hate me23:27
ubuntubhoylol23:27
Myrttiit's of course a cunning plan to make them hire me.23:28
Myrttianyway, should go to bed so I have energy for tomorrow, for filing those bugreports.23:28

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