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ubuntuuk-planet[Jono Bacon] Canonical Community Team IRC Meeting - http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/11/22/canonical-community-team-irc-meeting/07:13
AlanBellmorning all07:32
danfishmornings08:04
TheOpenSourcererMornign doc.08:06
nigelbMorning UK!08:09
DJonesMorning all08:32
AlanBellyay, fixed my unity3d08:36
MartijnVdS*\o/*08:36
DJonesAlanBell: That'll teach you not to break it :)08:42
AlanBellno it won't08:42
AlanBellI plan to break it again at the weekend08:42
DJonesOh dear08:43
DJonesWith attitude, I think you should change your nick to Azel.phur08:43
DJonesWhat had happened to it08:44
AlanBellI was testing an experimental plugin to tie compiz enhanced zoom to the text cursor position reported by at-spi08:46
AlanBellso you type stuff and the zoom pans along with your typing08:46
DJonesSo that it enlarges the area of the screen you're using at the time? That sounds useful for partially sighted users08:47
AlanBellyeah08:47
AlanBellnice for presentations too08:47
czajkowskimorning08:47
AlanBellhi czajkowski08:48
DJonesThat'd be good my wifes uncle, shame he lives in newcastle so its it a bit far to go & demonstrate08:48
AlanBellgood for quite a lot of people really08:51
MooDoomorning all09:02
AlanBellstill one place left for the London christmas dinner09:04
MooDoowish i could09:09
daubersMorning09:26
kaushalHi09:28
kaushalis there a way to empty file using sudo perms ?09:28
kaushalI do not have root access09:28
bigcalmsudo echo "" > file/to/empty09:29
MartijnVdSbigcalm: : > file_to_empty09:29
MartijnVdS: is the "null" command09:29
daubersAlso, if file_to_empty is owned by root you might want to sudo -i first09:31
oimoncan someone remind me how to make a .deb file when compiling a program?09:31
MooDoohttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Complete09:32
MooDoo:p09:32
oimonthat'll do :)09:32
DJonesDoes anybody know if there's a book/electronics high street store that sells Kindles, Nooks & Kobo e-readers side by side so I can go in and compare them09:43
DJonesI'm guessing that the kobo is only available at wh smiths, so probably just looking for somewhere with kindles & nooks09:44
dogmatic69DJones: have you tried maplins?09:45
daubersDJones: HMV might do09:45
daubers(they're trying to reposition themselves in that kind of market)09:45
dogmatic69my mom got my bro a kindle, but think it was online09:46
DJonesI'll give them both a look09:46
oimonare kindles sold in high st?09:46
DJonesTesco sell kindles in store09:46
DJonesAs does Argos09:46
oimoni guess a trip to one of those bluewater type places would do it09:46
DJonesI'm struggling to find anywhere that sells the nook though09:46
oimoni think it should be legal to own an ebook of a paper book you own :(09:47
ubuntubhoyyou can scan it :D09:49
oimon:'(09:49
oimongetting this error: 'gio-2.0 >= 2.26.0' but version of GIO is 2.24.1- anyone know the package name on ubuntu for this?09:50
JamesTaitGoooooood moooooooornin' all!09:58
oimonah, think is libglib2.0-dev09:58
czajkowskidanfish: http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/11/21/diagnosia-secures-seed-round-to-create-global-drugs-info-search-engine/10:05
czajkowskiAlanBell: http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/11/21/francis_maude_it_procurement/10:12
AlanBellthanks10:15
AlanBell"An average bidding process for a public sector contract currently takes around 200 days to complete." that will be why we don't bother10:15
oimonanyone played zelda skyward sword yet?10:17
czajkowskiAlanBell: seems very long10:18
AlanBellczajkowski: I can totally believe it, seeing as I have been working since May to put in something interesting into the cabinet office for free10:19
czajkowskinods10:21
directhexI think we gave 40 days for ITT response on our supercomputer tenders10:21
czajkowski200 seems excessive10:21
czajkowskibut given it's a government I'd expect it to be greater than 9010:21
oimon200 days for response? or 200 days for the start to finish of the process?10:22
AlanBellI think that is start (internal writing the ITT) to awarding the contract10:22
oimonsounds about right10:23
AlanBellstill not exactly agile10:23
directhexwriting an ITT is hard work10:25
directhexso many cases need covering10:25
czajkowskiAlanBell: aye it does seem long, however given it's a government contract I'd expect it to be thorough which is a pita to SMES10:34
AlanBellyeah, they have the appearance of thoroughness10:41
AlanBellbut there are many many problems with them10:42
AlanBelland with the general processes even outside of procurement10:42
czajkowskinods10:42
AlanBellthere are things like security where the rules are a secret10:43
AlanBellCSG GPG38 is all about guidance for security relating to open source software10:44
AlanBellif you are an existing supplier you can get access to it . . .10:44
AlanBellsame goes for all security documentation, you can't see it if you are not an existing supplier so an open procurement process is a joke10:45
oimoni can't even get to see the tender docs we're sending to companies10:45
czajkowskiAlanBell: do you think they are doing enough to change the process?10:59
AlanBelldunno, they are scared of being sued by the suppliers if they do11:00
czajkowskiwhy would they be sued?11:01
davmor2morning all, czajkowski prod11:02
* daubers will be thoroughly amused by the day that czajkowski goes postal and beats davmor2 to death with a shovel11:04
MooDoomorning davmor211:04
oimonor goes portal and sends him into a wormhole11:05
gordmust sell popcorn to that event11:06
gordwill make a fortune11:06
bigcalmHow will you spend it when you're dead?11:07
oimonthis is the problem all of mankind has bigcalm11:07
czajkowskidaubers: we were very well behaved at UDs, davmor2 even left me alone when he saw how sore I was11:07
AlanBellczajkowski: as Francis Maude said, the UK takes a very strange angle on European Legislation11:07
czajkowskibut I did have bruises on my arm from the pokings11:08
czajkowskiindeed11:08
AlanBelllike we actually do what it says11:08
AlanBellthe rest of Europe treats it like the pirates code11:08
czajkowskihmm11:08
AlanBellmore of a guideline than an actual law ya see, arrr11:09
czajkowskiI'm not entirely too sure that's a fair comment11:09
AlanBellthey are very scared of being protectionist11:09
oimonpoking can be construed as sexual harassment11:10
davmor2czajkowski: it is11:10
czajkowskioimon: it's an ongoing joke it's fine11:12
shaunojust don't poke people you don't know so well.  that can get awkward11:14
davmor2oimon: that's why I prod not poke :P can't be misconstrued as a sexual event then :D11:17
MartijnVdSit could be11:18
davmor2MartijnVdS: you need mind bleach ;)11:18
* AlanBell thinks davmor2 is pure and innocent of mind11:19
AlanBelland further, PHP sucks11:19
davmor2AlanBell: Stop that laughing11:19
MooDooAlanBell: davmor2 pure as the driven snow...........WELL DRIVEN! :)11:20
davmor2AlanBell: no PHP only sucks if you don't know how to program in it backward, forwards and sideways,  then it's the perfect tool11:20
AlanBelldon't eat the yellow snow11:20
MooDooAlanBell: that's a good tip :D11:21
AlanBellthe lack of debugging is annoying me11:21
davmor2AlanBell: don't give out me waiters tip to everyone11:21
davmor2AlanBell: that's cause you're meant to program it right in the first place ;)11:21
AlanBellit should generate an error message saying "no you loon, you didn't close that quote" or "semicolon at the end of line 234 would be nice please"11:22
AlanBellrather than returning a totally blank page with no indication why11:22
MooDoo<?php phpinfo(); ?>  there you go that's the only php code you'll need  ;)11:22
daubersAlanBell: You could turn the debugging info on.....11:22
daubersThought that used to do that11:22
AlanBellit does do some debugging, but miss an end quote and I get the the silent treatment11:23
BigRedSAlanBell: then turn on error display?11:23
BigRedSOhhh11:24
BigRedSHm, I've never seen that before. But I don't write PHP, I just do Bad Things to other people's11:24
daubersAlanBell: odd, it used to whinge at me something cronic11:24
BigRedSyeah, if you set display_error to on, and error_reporting to something fairly verbose i'd have thought it'd complain there11:25
daubersDefault seems to be E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE11:26
daubersMight be a notice rather than an error :)11:26
dogmatic69AlanBell: install xdebug11:27
AlanBellchange from E_WARNING to E_ALL11:27
BigRedSbut not in production11:27
dogmatic69add something like this to /etc/php/conf.d/xdebug.ini http://bin.cakephp.org/view/133952390111:28
AlanBellthat seems better now11:29
AlanBellthanks dogmatic69, I will try that later11:30
TwinkletoesWhat's the easiest way to prevent cron from starting a script if it hasn't finished from the last time?11:30
dogmatic69AlanBell: there are loads of other options in xdebug, one little error is now like 10 pages of debug info11:30
AlanBellTwinkletoes: you can use a pid file, but watch out for stuff crashing and leaving the file behind11:31
AlanBellor just schedule runs further apart11:32
TwinkletoesAlanBell: Ok, so it's not a cron thing then, I just have to manage my scrpts?11:32
BigRedSthe pid file is a pretty good way to detect crashing, too11:32
AlanBellyeah, it should check for the process and the file and deal with that situation ideally11:33
dogmatic69AlanBell: the app you are coding might be overloading the error reporting default also, that will cause white screens11:33
IMLII have dell gx 280.I am using Ubuntu 11.10 but im unable to resize my resolution which is stuck on 1024x786 but my screen resolution is 1280x1024.Is there anyway to resize my screen resolution?11:42
bigcalmimexil: what is the graphics chip in it?11:43
bigcalmnNivdia, ATI, Intel?11:44
imexil???11:44
bigcalmSorry11:44
bigcalmIMLI: ^^11:44
imexil !11:44
IMLII have Intel 915 motherboard and dont have any external graphics card.I am using built in grapihcs11:45
bigcalmIMLI: see if there are any restricted drivers available to install11:46
IMLIThere is no restricted drivers to installed i have already checked11:47
IMLIIntel 82915G/GV/910GL11:48
apwis the monitor directly connected to the machine or via a KVM11:49
davmor2IMLI: I'm assuming you have tried the screen resizing tool correct11:49
IMLIMy monitor is directly connected to the machine.11:50
IMLIIs there anyway to set my screen resolution?11:53
apwIMLI, if the machine is not letting you set the resolution via the normal tools, then likely it is not sensing the capabilities of the monitor correctly, and working to protect it11:54
apwIMLI, the guys on #ubuntu-x may be able to figure out what is up11:54
bigcalmI was trying to work out what country #ubuntu-x was for :S11:55
MooDoobigcalm: doh!11:56
IMLII think my video driver is not supported by ubuntu11:56
davmor2bigcalm: it's the Xiachuan Dao of china I think you'll find11:57
daubersIMLI: it's more liklely that your monitor is not telling your laptop what res it supports correctly. Loads of monitors do that11:58
* daubers has a collection of about 5 monitors all of which incorrectly report their resolution11:58
IMLICan i edit .XORG file?11:59
davmor2daubers: I have a great monitor it reports both it's x and y resolution as 1024x76812:00
daubersdavmor2: Gotta love those "standards"12:01
davmor2daubers: shockingly linux gets it wrong, mind you since I've plugged my win7 box in it I can happily confirm that so does Windows :)12:02
bigcalmchristel: ping12:03
gordtechnically, the monitor gets it wrong ;) reports bad information12:05
christelbigcalm: pong12:06
gordI've seen that happen with less than quality VGA cables - too much interference on the line12:06
davmor2so gord ccsm you love it right? /me heads for the bomb shelter :D12:08
matttwow-wee-woo12:31
matttbusy morning :(12:31
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oimonwith cups server , it used to be possible to unpublish printers via the cups web interface. now i can't see it in the newer versions - anyone know where to find it?12:42
oimonDJones: tesco are selling kindles for £79 with a promo code12:59
oimon you can get £10 off from Tesco Direct using the code TDX-NTRY until Thursday  1 December 201113:00
* penguin42 wants the Fire when they get their arse in gear and start selling it in the UK13:00
DJonesoimon: yeah, I know about that offer13:01
DJonespenguin42: I was tempted by the fire, but the reviews I've read in the last 24 hours aren't very good13:01
penguin42DJones: Oh I don't want it for any of the firmware that's on it.13:02
DJonesYou going to root & install a fresh os on it13:02
penguin42DJones: Yeh, as a cheap dev board it sounds quite nie13:03
penguin42c13:03
ali1234is it the good kindle with the keyboard or the crap new one where you have to scroll through the alphabet to enter any text?13:03
oimondepends on your needs but my missis hasn't required keyboard entry to turn pages in an ebook13:05
ali1234how do you search?13:05
gordi don't think people do.. i know when i buy books for my kindle, i go to amazon.co.uk and let them sync over13:06
oimonshe reads novels, so doesn't do any searching13:06
gordthe physical keyboard with eink is a pain at the best of times13:07
oimonwhat makes me laugh is the price of the case13:12
ubuntuuk-planet[Jono Bacon] Canonical Community Team 12.04 Plans - http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/11/22/canonical-community-team-12-04-plans/13:13
dogmatic69if i am running two drives for a dual boot, if one dies will the other os still boot?13:20
gorddepends on the drive :)13:20
dogmatic69:/13:21
gordif grub is installed on drive a and drive a dies, it won't boot13:21
gordif drive b dies, it will13:21
dogmatic69ah13:21
dogmatic69gord: is there a way to have a setup that is less 'fragile'13:21
gordi think failing drives is your fragile part13:22
dogmatic69ye13:22
oimonwhat's on the 2nd drive?13:22
AlanBellyou can install grub on both13:23
dogmatic69well im thinking ubuntu on A and xzy on B. could be windows or anything13:23
AlanBellthe bios (or uefi) probably won't be that happy about a dead powered up disk13:23
AlanBellbut if you remove it then it should attempt to boot the other, no more primary/secondary dip switches13:24
AlanBellnot even sure how sata chooses which disk to boot first?13:26
gordboot order in the bios13:26
oimonyou can't put kindle books on your wishlist :(13:44
oimonToday i learned that the author of the tripods books wrote a prequel 20 years later in 198813:52
penguin42oimon: Was that around the time of the BBC series?14:09
oimonpenguin42: that came out in 198414:10
penguin42huh ok14:10
oimonso probably was a result14:10
oimoni heard rumours they may be making a film14:10
oimonhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0441811/14:11
oimonpenguin42: are you the right age to remember the BBC series?14:12
oimoni was 9 or 10. it was brilliant.14:12
penguin42oimon: Yes14:12
penguin42I would have been about 1214:13
davmor2oimon: you mean this one http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/tripods/14:15
DJonesWas that the series that they never finished televising, they didn't get the final series made14:17
MooDooblimey i remember watching that14:17
davmor2MooDoo: showing your age now14:18
oimonyeah, no series 3...BBC screwed up14:18
DJonesI thought the code names for Ubuntu where a bit odd, but this is even funnier http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_kernel_names14:19
MooDoohomicidal dwarf hamster lol14:21
DJonesSheep on Meth :)14:22
oimonnot sure if the tripods film will ever be made :(14:22
MooDooboooo14:24
MooDooi suppose we have falling skies :)14:25
DJonesThats reminded me I want to read that 3rd book to find out what happened14:26
davmor2MooDoo: Give me the Jeff Wayne version of war of the worlds any day :)  although tripod was addictive viewing at the time14:27
freakyclownthe tripods was cool14:28
MooDoodavmor2: yeah, you're a tom cruise version kinda guy aren't you ;)14:28
MooDoodid i say guy...what i meant was...... :p14:28
freakyclownthere is a tripod in woking14:28
freakyclownhttp://www.google.co.uk/search?q=woking+tripod&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=h7HLTpGdHdGE-wbVn8jRDg&ved=0CFcQsAQ&biw=1221&bih=57314:28
freakyclowncan also buy the series on dvd http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000R21294/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=aheadofthetim-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=B000R2129414:30
davmor2MooDoo: Note the JEFF WAYNE version bit!!!!  as in the cd with Richard Burton that freaked out the Americans when the BBC played it :)14:30
MooDoodavmor2: i know i know14:30
oimoni worry that watching the DVD would disappoint me. i prefer my 25yr old memories14:31
oimonjust like the grpahics and gameplay of my old 8-bit computer games14:31
freakyclowni watched it fairly recently as in like <6months14:31
freakyclownits REALLY good14:31
oimonbut no series 3 :(14:32
freakyclownthe production value was through the roof!14:32
freakyclownhard to imagine them using life size props of legs etc for todays shows14:32
oimonmaybe the BBC should remake it , rather than that torchwood crap14:32
freakyclownit would be crap cgi at 5xs the price :/14:32
freakyclownoimon: NO they would turn it INTO that kinda crap14:33
freakyclownsame as the new reddwarf will be crap too14:33
DJonesIts amazing how good the quality of a lot of the early sci-fi authors was considering the time the books were written, E E Doc Smith's Lensman series or The Beyond The Blue Event Horizon series14:33
oimonand probably turn it into a love triangle story between the three men14:33
oimonnwew reddwarf?14:33
freakyclownoimon: it would be like the gayification of frodo and samwise14:33
oimonlol14:33
freakyclownoimon: new series being filmed14:34
oimonoh dear14:34
freakyclownindeed :/14:34
oimonhave they learned nothing?14:34
penguin42talking of remakes - there is a remake of the remake of the Thing due out any day14:34
freakyclownyep...people will watch it in hopes and they will get paid and we will have hopes and dreams crushed14:34
freakyclownpenguin42: i bet its cgi too14:34
davmor2penguin42: the first one is still the best14:35
penguin42well, I don't have too big a problem with a bit of cgi14:35
DJonesI wonder how long it'll be before they remake Space 199914:35
freakyclownwhen its used righ its amazing14:35
freakyclownwhen its used to save time building a prop that would look better...no14:35
oimonthe thing was the most gory film i ever saw14:35
oimonwhen the dogs head peeled back like a banana14:35
penguin42DJones: they'll never be able to replicate the tacky technology14:35
freakyclownmoney cant buy cheapness14:36
penguin42(although they did have portable video phones, so they do have to have credit for that)14:36
DJonespenguin42: Probably not, but I could see them doing something similar to the way star trek was done14:36
freakyclownits why enterprise will never be better ST orig14:36
freakyclownyou mean the way they replaced some of the stuff with cgi14:37
oimonbob the builder is CGI now :(14:37
penguin42freakyclown: I liked the 1st series of enterprise, it was all nicely tacky14:37
freakyclownhaving just literally last week finished watching the rejig'd star treks back to back14:37
freakyclowni have to say it wasnt too bad!14:37
DJonesI preferred Star Trek Next Generation to the original series, but DS9, Voyager & Enterprise weren't that good14:38
davmor2I like the new startrek film14:38
penguin42davmor2: Except for Scotty I agree14:38
freakyclownDJones: i bet your about 30ish arnt you?14:38
DJonesI wish14:39
penguin42giggles - yeh determining age by preference of ST series14:39
daubersdavmor2: As did I14:39
DJones30 was a long time ago14:39
* daubers tended to prefer DS914:39
penguin42actually, I prefer NG even though I'm much nearer 4014:39
* penguin42 looks at daubers oddly14:39
freakyclownbabylon 5 was a good use of cgi14:39
DJonespenguin42: I can give you over 5 years then14:40
dauberspenguin42: I like the wild westy "We're stuck in one place for most of it" feel of ds914:40
oimonhow can i use egrep to say look for "word" and either 1 or 214:40
oimoni.e. egrep word | egrep "1|2" file14:40
penguin42oimon: "word[12]" ?14:40
DJonesOne remake/re-imagining I did enjoy was the recent series of "V"14:40
daubersDJones: new battlestar was very good, not seen the new V though14:41
DJonesdaubers: I didn't like battlestar14:41
oimonpenguin42:  what if it's word and 404 or 40114:41
DJonesBring back Sapphire & Stell :)14:41
penguin42oimon: word40[14]14:41
DJonessteel even14:41
penguin42DJones: Hoho - that was odd14:42
oimonhmm..404 or 302?14:42
oimonlast one i promise :)14:42
penguin42(although I can't actually remember the detail of any s&s episode)14:42
DJonesJust looking through this list, some names I don't remember http://totalscifionline.com/features/5769-the-100-greatest-sci-fi-fantasy-tv-shows14:43
penguin42oimon: Hmm word(302|404) seems to work14:43
oimonah, round brackets..14:43
DJonespenguin42: One of the scariest I remember where the Quatermass films14:43
* penguin42 hands DJones a cactus14:44
oimonpenguin42: that might look for word302 and word404, rather than occurences on the line14:44
gordi should really stop writing important things in to tomboy14:45
penguin42oimon: you mean you want something like word.*(302|404) ?14:45
gordshould just be called Write Only14:45
freakyclownhow cow i need a life :(14:45
freakyclownthere is only about 12 or 15 series on that list ive not watched :/14:46
oimongord: what happened?14:46
gordnothing?14:46
oimonpenguin42: seems not to work for me. thanks anway...i'll keep trying14:46
gordi'm saying i don't read the notes i write...14:46
oimonah14:46
davmor2DJones: theres about 12 on that list that I haven't heard of or seen14:46
oimonbetter than writing on post-its i guess14:47
gordpost-its live on the side of your monitor, you do see them14:47
DJonesOoh, must be due for a new series of Sanctuary soon, started premiering in the US in October14:47
gordtomboy lives in a tiny indicator that looks like the email indicator right next to it14:47
oimonand on my phone14:47
freakyclowntomboy++14:48
gordha, that list ranks dr who higher than star trek, twilight zone, xfiles and the prisoner. ignoring!14:48
DJonesgord: And so it should14:48
oimontom baker14:48
freakyclownoh please mccoy14:48
freakyclownif only for alice!14:49
gorddr who has and will always be fairly poor and shoddy enjoyable cult sci-fi - enjoyable but not truly great14:49
DJonesBest doctors... William Hartnell & Patrick Troughtman14:49
* penguin42 rather liked Tom Baker14:50
penguin42anyone for a jelly baby?14:50
DJonesAnd I guess John Pertwee14:50
DJonesI guess pickingthe 1st 3 doctors does show my age :)14:51
oimonfreakyclown: alice? is that sophie aldred?14:52
* penguin42 suspects DJones runs his computer in monochrome14:52
DJonespenguin42: Robot hand attached to the computer that draws on a slate14:53
penguin42nod14:53
oimoneww14:53
freakyclownalice sophie smae thing14:54
freakyclownace was the character14:54
oimonmust have been your hormones awakening or something14:54
freakyclownoh pleasee she was hot14:54
freakyclownwas also in our school sex-ed video nude so that helped :/14:54
MooDooyay ace :)14:55
oimonaghghh14:55
oimonwhat possesses people to star in those school vids14:55
oimoni still refer to my previous hormones comment, especiaally after your revelation14:56
bigcalmSo the gb archive for ubuntu has stopped serving karmic-updates ?14:56
bigcalmThis is annoying14:56
oimon!support14:56
lubotu3`The official ubuntu support channel is #ubuntu. Also see http://ubuntu.com/support and http://ubuntuforums.org and http://askubuntu.com14:56
oimonmeh14:56
penguin42bigcalm: You do know what year it is don't you?14:56
bigcalm:D14:57
bigcalmActually, it's my sources list that's at fault. It should still be pointing at karmic14:57
daubersin inkscape, is there a way of creating a node where two lines intersect?14:58
DJonesDon't you need old-releases.ubuntu.com for karmic now14:59
oimondoes rhythmbox have amazon mp3 purchase support? i guess not15:01
davmor2oimon: not that I'm aware of15:02
oimoneach time started banshee to buy mp3's lately, it's hung or crashes15:02
davmor2oimon: this is why banshee needs to die in the flames of hell15:03
oimoni dislike rhythmbox intensely- am i holding it wrong?15:04
davmor2oimon: it has great features they just refuse to work15:04
oimonhave you ever used the cover manager in clementine? 50x better than banshee's one , since it actually downloads cover art15:06
gordonjcpI've never managed to get rhythbox to work, basically this decade15:06
davmor2gordonjcp: seriously what do you do to it15:06
oimonit doesn't even handle single playing of files properly15:06
davmor2oimon: it does the same thing as banshee imports and then plays or am I missing something15:08
oimondoesn't seem to work for me if i click a file from nautilus which is setup to open with rhythmbox15:08
oimonas i say, i must be using it wrong15:09
oimoni wish i could see a video demo of it , done by someone who uses it well15:09
davmor2oimon: need to wait till they fix up the U1 music shop then I could15:10
gordonjcpdavmor2: no idea15:10
gordonjcpdavmor2: lots of stuff just plain doesn't work15:10
penguin42gah, amazon mp3 won't install these days15:10
davmor2penguin42: you on 64bit?15:10
penguin42davmor2: Yeh but the bigger problem is that it depends on about 50 ancient libboost versions15:11
davmor2penguin42: sadtrombone.com15:11
penguin42hehe15:12
MooDoohttp://tomahawk-player.org/about15:12
oimonu1 music store is ~£1 more per album than amazons15:13
penguin42oimon: Especially since this is an amazon free track15:13
oimonand individual tracks are 99p vs 79p..15:13
oimonand the killer is that half the music i search more doesn't exist there15:14
davmor2oimon: indeed, I have found some cheaper but on the whole not often15:14
oimonitunes has the hipster tax of £1 per album too15:14
oimonMooDoo: any good?15:17
MooDoooimon: not used it, although i believe czajkowski was going to review it, she might be the better person to ask15:18
czajkowskieh?15:27
oimonanyone use a mac with windows keyboard attached?15:36
shaunonot on a regular basis, but I have15:37
oimonuser is complaining that \ key is missing/unmapped in lion15:37
oimonany ideas?15:38
oimonnever touch macs so trying to find out before going in and looking like a chump15:38
shaunothe mac UK layout is very, very similar to a regular US layout.  so most chances they'll find it where # is marked15:38
davmor2czajkowski: who let you out of the play pen?15:38
shaunoif you can find them a US keyboard, they'll fare much better.  otherwise, pretend they're using a US layout that happens to have a fat enter key15:39
oimonugh sounds hideous..i guess most people give up and buy an apple keyboard15:40
czajkowskidavmor2: hush you15:40
davmor2czajkowski: Nope :P15:41
shaunooimon: you can shoe-horn in a custom keymap, eg http://liyang.hu/osx-british.xhtml15:43
shaunoI tend to just ignore it and carry on with life tho.  the amiga-uk layout is different to the pc-uk layout too, and I keep stumbling across US keyboards at work.  As long as no-one puts azerty infront of me, I'm happy15:47
oimonshauno: i found that exact page :)15:48
popeyi used to teach courses in belgium. their azerty keyboard would mess with me all the time15:48
oimonazerty should be banned15:49
shaunooimon: seems to be the least out-of-date I could find.  after that, it's looking for tools to write your own keymap.  and at that point, a new keyboard is cheaper than my manhours15:49
davmor2popey: not that was a qwerty keyboard it's just the alcohol is stronger out there :P15:49
oimonthey mess around with ; and : and , . too15:49
penguin42popey: That's the one with numbers in exactly the wrong place?15:49
oimonah, thats it..shift to get numbers15:49
oimonmust have been designed by government committee15:50
shaunothat's one thing that did trip me up a couple of months ago.  I accidentally managed to put the GBP sign in my password (I wasn't thinking, and just did shift+3 - this keyboard doesn't have the GBP glyph on it)15:50
shaunoand then managed to lock my account by borrowing a machine that had a US keyboard :(15:51
popeyyeah15:51
popeyinsane keyboard15:51
penguin42what ever happened to the magic for typing a character by ascii value on the keypad?15:51
shaunobetween macs and laptops, I've very few machines where that works anymore15:52
shaunobesides, on a sensible machine where the alt key actually provides alternate characters, instead of using win31's braindead move of using it as a menu accelerator, I don't tend to need to remember ascii15:53
Apacheukafternoon everyone16:06
MooDoohiya16:07
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shaunooh no .. just realised thanksgiving is this week :(16:33
gordoh no16:33
shaunoI really don't like working thanksgiving.  we get some of the most idiotic calls16:34
oimondue to american office being off?16:35
shaunoyeah16:35
oimoni got to the mac and realised it is a very unintuitive interface16:36
oimontook me ages before realising how to add a printer. then it failed16:36
shaunosettings -> printers -> 'add' button is unintuitive?16:39
oimondidn't see the tiny + button16:41
oimonand couldn't resize printer list window16:41
shaunoI'm half curious to try it on ubuntu so far.  I'd be highly amused if I finally found something ubuntu did better on the desktop16:42
oimonthis is lion btw..don't know if previous are different16:42
gordhuh, thats interesting, firefox 4 on 11.10 and 11.04 doesn't say ubuntu in the user agent string - no wonder the whole distrowatch thing happened16:43
oimonhttp://www.lboro.ac.uk/it/print/mac-images/print-and-scan.png16:43
shaunoit's about the same .. and +/- controls at the end of a modifyable list are pretty standard elements16:43
oimoni just didn't notice the + for ages...16:43
gordwhy would you add a printer?16:44
gordi just connect the printer, then go to print, then it works16:44
oimonbecause mac didn't know it was there16:44
oimonthen i chose the apple driver and it failed16:44
oimonthen i chose the cups driver and that failed too16:44
gordbaaad printer16:44
oimonbad apple16:44
gordprolly won't work on ubuntu well either16:44
oimoncourse it does16:45
oimonit's supported officially on apple too16:45
oimonit's a standard HP16:45
oimonalso, i went to localhost:631 and added it there, but mac print dialog doesn't seem to use those printers :-\16:45
oimonhad to apologise and leave16:46
popeygord: distrowatch doesnt work like that16:46
popeygord: they look at hits on the page not referrers aiui16:46
oimonways to win at distrowatch.. invent a new OS name and get popular sites to mention it16:47
gordahayzen, thats beyond useless then16:48
gord... ah16:48
gordnot ahtab16:48
oimonlol16:48
oimonihihihhi16:48
gordoh awit its because i did ah, - the comma next to the ah expanded it. lame16:48
oimonah, really?16:49
gorddepends on your client and settings obviously :P16:49
popeyah, yes16:51
indy_hi16:53
indy_how do i fix the ubuntu corrupted recovery screen?16:53
indy_when I load it the screen is garbled16:53
ahayzengord: Hi .... i was like wht is useless? lol :)16:56
geekMePleaseDo you need to check data-roaming if you want to use Mobile Broadband?16:57
dogmatic69no, unless you are not in your home country16:58
geekMePleasedogmatic69: Ok, thanks! Have a few problems in setting mobile broadbank to my ZTE light16:58
dogmatic69roaming is using networks outside your providers network16:58
* dogmatic69 checks the channel topic16:59
dogmatic69nope, its still about ubuntu16:59
brobostigonhttp://code.google.com/p/android-x86/downloads/list  interesting, android 3.2.2 on x86.17:02
shaunodash is seriously interesting.  I can't imagine actually using it, but it's fun to poke at17:08
geekMePleaseHas anyone ever added an external antenna to a tablet?17:09
davmor2shauno: dash is great fun and faster than opening nautilus then finding a file then opening it in an app for example17:09
CreakyBore/help17:15
bigcalmOh dear17:16
shaunoa little bummed that you can't type paths into it if you want to.  and you can't use initials either17:16
MartijnVdSAlso, if you press Enter too fast, some other program might be started on Alt+F217:17
shaunook, that's odd.  this time it did let me write a path.  last time /home/soneil/ opened firefox and sent me to www.home.com17:18
shauno(I don't have a ~ key in my VM, for various reasons)17:19
shaunoah.  if it's invoked with alt+f2, /home/user works.  if invoked with super_L, it doesn't17:21
shaunoone silly question tho .. how do I find out what release I'm on ?17:25
bigcalmcat /etc/lsb-release17:25
bigcalmOr: new_booking.thtml17:26
bigcalmErm17:27
bigcalmOr: lsb_release -r17:27
shaunoyeah I know lsb_release.  I was more looking for the 'about ubuntu' dialog that used to be right beside 'about gnome' in one of the menus17:27
bigcalmThe dangers of having 2 copy buffers17:27
awilkinsshauno, The "System Info" application (how it appears in Dash)17:28
shaunoah, that's more like it - thanks17:28
awilkinsshauno, Seems to be a sub-pane of the new settings widget17:28
_RomanHello I am using Ubuntu 9.10.  I have just tried doing an apt-get update command and keep getting errors like the following:17:42
_RomanFailed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.170 80]17:42
popey!karmic17:43
lubotu3`Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) was the eleventh release of Ubuntu. !End-Of-Life on April 29th 2011, see http://goo.gl/UUTAB for details.17:43
popey_Roman: karmic is end of life so it's not in the standard repositories anymore17:43
_RomanDoes that mean that all the package repositories have now been removed?17:43
popeyno, moved17:43
_Romanwhat do I need to do in order to access them?17:44
popeyto another server 'old-releases'17:44
popeyhttp://old-releases.ubuntu.com/17:44
popeyyou can edit your /etc/apt/sources.list and change 'archve.ubuntu.com' to 'old-releases.ubuntu.com'17:44
Myrttiho-hum.17:46
_Romanthanks, that is working great.17:46
Myrttithere goes shred17:46
Myrtti:-(17:46
popeyshred?17:47
Myrttihave to give my old laptop in at latest next week17:47
popey17:57
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olyanyone got an Andy Pad, thinking of getting one as an e-book reader which does abit more18:38
gordnew japanese candy for gord \o/18:41
kirrusis candyjapan worth it then gord?18:42
gordi think it is, but i'm a giant nerd18:42
gordlots of cool stuff this time - http://i.imgur.com/ptg7X.png18:48
davmor2gord: what the hell is that?18:50
gorddavmor2, candy japan, a club that sends you japanese candy every two weeks - i got pokemon gummies, *three* pikachus in that. i don't know what anything else was. some sticks that tasted like fizzy soda and cola, and some soda chewy things18:52
davmor2gord: madness ;)18:55
gordi'm bring some down to the lighthouse sometime :)18:55
gordwas gonna bring the red bean candy last time but you wouldn't like that... tasted like potatoes18:59
jutnuxMm, doner kebab.19:01
smittixEvening all.19:15
davmor2gord: nice19:17
* czajkowski pokes davmor2 19:23
* davmor2 hugs czajkowski 19:24
davmor2see how many people are paying attention19:24
* czajkowski pours a bucket of ice over davmor2 19:24
* jutnux stabs czajkowski19:36
davmor2jutnux: I don't think stabbing czajkowski is allowed19:37
jutnuxI will face the punishment :'(19:37
czajkowskijutnux: oi19:39
czajkowskithere is no stabbing of me allowed19:39
jutnuxI see no law!19:40
czajkowskionly davmor2 and MooDoo are in the naughty category19:40
jutnuxKinky ^_^19:42
jutnuxSo, what languages do y'all program in?20:43
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davmor2jutnux: there is only one programming language20:54
dwatkinsCOBOL? ;)20:54
davmor2dwatkins: Heretic, Burn the witch!20:55
MartijnVdSdavmor2: brainf***?20:55
davmor2MartijnVdS: See above20:55
MartijnVdSjutnux: I write Perl :)20:56
jutnuxPerl is too old :|20:56
dwatkinsYeah, I was kidding, we all know everyone should program in assembler.20:56
MartijnVdSjutnux: Why? It's on a yearly release cycle now20:56
davmor2MartijnVdS: My heart goes out to you it really does :'(20:56
MartijnVdS5.14 is out20:57
jutnuxMartijnVdS: Is it? Oh, haha.20:57
MartijnVdSdavmor2: it's a lovely language :)20:57
davmor2MartijnVdS: I've seen perl and people who know it I admire but I'll stick to python ta20:58
MartijnVdSdavmor2: I love python too :)20:58
jutnuxdavmor2: What GUI do you use for Python?20:58
MartijnVdSgui?20:59
MartijnVdSpeople use guis?20:59
jutnuxWell20:59
jutnuxwhen you program with it20:59
jutnuxWhen you program a GUI20:59
davmor2jutnux: Gui?20:59
MartijnVdSI just use vim20:59
jutnuxWhat framework20:59
jutnuxArghhhhhh20:59
jutnuxMindfu**20:59
MartijnVdSvim \o/20:59
jutnuxLike wxWidgets, PyGTK?20:59
jutnuxSorry guys, tired.20:59
davmor2jutnux: I don't20:59
MartijnVdSI don't write GUI apps, I do web apps and backend daemons :)20:59
jutnuxOh right.20:59
jutnuxIs Vim any good MartijnVdS?21:00
jutnuxI liked emacs21:00
jutnuxVim I have no idea what plugins to use21:00
MartijnVdSI don't use plugins, I think21:00
davmor2jutnux: I prefer Geany for writing in21:00
MartijnVdSwell a gnupg one21:00
jutnuxI love java either way21:10
funkyHatJava makes me ⢁(21:18
jutnuxJava is sexy.21:22
MartijnVdSJava is way too verbose for me21:23
MartijnVdSYou need to create (anonymous) classes for everything because of the strict typing straitjacket21:23
MartijnVdSyou can't "cheat" if you don't need that level of complexity21:24
funkyHatMartijnVdS: exactly, Java is *horribly* verbose21:30
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Linuxsapienolla23:17
AlanBellhi Linuxsapien23:32
LinuxsapienAlanBell: hi23:46
LinuxsapienI want an ubuntu cloak :D23:47
AlanBell!member23:48
lubotu3`Ubuntu Membership means recognition of a significant and sustained contribution to Ubuntu and the Ubuntu community.  For more info see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership23:48
AlanBell!cloak23:48
lubotu3`To get any kind of cloak (ubuntu member or any other kind) you first need to set up your nick as detailed in this FAQ: http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#nicksetup -  For Ubuntu member cloaks, ask in #ubuntu-irc and provide your launchpad page, for unaffiliated ones, ask in #freenode.23:48
AlanBellyou need to be a member to get an ubuntu cloak23:48
AlanBellnight all o/23:48
Linuxsapienah well, im all signed up for years with my number and everything, thanks :D23:48

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