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scoundrel50ahow do you enable everything?00:00
scoundrel50ais it through compiz?00:00
ali1234it's enabled by default00:00
scoundrel50aoh, ok.00:00
gordonjcp"laptop will suspend very soon unless it is plugged in"00:01
gordonjcpbet it doesn't00:01
ali1234seriously i have no idea what that control panel thing is supposed to be00:01
penguin42ali1234: pretty00:01
gordonjcpnope00:02
gordonjcponce again, it didn't suspend00:03
AlanBellscoundrel50a: you can turn on more bling using ccsm00:04
AlanBellbut you will probably turn on crashes too, and maybe struggle to recover from them00:05
AlanBell!ccsm00:05
lubotu3`To enable advanced customization of desktop effects in Ubuntu: install 'compizconfig-settings-manager' (or 'simple-ccsm' for pre-Oneiric). If you install the latter, a new option will appear in your appearance properties - See also !compiz - Help in #compiz00:05
AlanBellhere be dragons00:05
penguin42some of them breath fire or wobble00:06
DaraelNo, really, they do.  Wobbly Windows, the Burn effect, the Paint Fire on the Screen plugin...00:07
AlanBellwater00:11
AlanBellnight all o/00:12
scoundrel50asorry, was busy, I wont even open ccsm, last time I did, I lost the desktop00:12
scoundrel50aI will leave it, its running ok, without changing things now00:13
czajkowskialoha06:24
AlanBellmorning all07:36
aeroplanezHello07:40
aeroplanezgood morning07:40
DJonesMorning all08:18
FNDgood morning08:24
FNDanyone know when Thunderbird 8 is supposed to land?08:24
diploMorning all08:25
popeyFND: ask chrisccoulson08:29
FNDpopey: thanks for pinging him for me ;)08:32
sagaciif someone here is on oneiric or precise that has xchat installed, could you please check if the menu Settings > Advanced > "Dialogue Buttons", instead of Dialog Buttons08:33
sagacialso check if your language is set to English (United Kingdom)08:33
popeysagaci: xchat or xchat-gnome?08:34
sagacixchat vanilla08:35
popeytestingxchaah08:35
popeysagaci: mine says dialog08:36
daubersMorning08:36
popeysagaci: where are you setting English (United Kingdom) ?08:36
danfishlo08:36
popeylo08:36
sagaciI'd test it myself but language changing is broken at the moment in precise08:36
sagacilanguage support08:36
sagacion precise, up to date08:36
zeemI didn't even mean to come in here - it seems Ubuntu's Xchat is set to this server by default :-D08:37
popeyyeah, it is08:37
zeemI'll hang around for a bit before I start work08:37
popeyhmm, lang support is installing extra stuff08:37
sagaciit's just that the en_GB pot has been done upstream but hasn't changed in ubuntu yet (pot was done mid oneiric cycle)08:38
zeemGot to go, someone just turned up08:38
popeyyup, still dialog buttons08:38
popeyo/ zeem08:38
popeytestingxchaso this is what xchat looks like08:39
sagacino worries, I'll file a bug about it08:39
popeytestingxchaI haven't used this for about 5 years08:39
imexilHi does any one have a clue why it takes so long to get the current TB 8.0 into the oneiric repo?08:50
bigcalmGood early morning peeps :)08:53
popeyimexil: it was built only 12 hours ago by the look of it08:55
popeyprobably a security issue holding it up, as happened with firefox 7.008:55
popey(we didnt ship firefox 7.0, we skipped it and went to 7.0.1)08:55
imexilthanks popey for the info08:56
popeyhttps://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-security/+archive/ppa?field.series_filter=oneiric08:56
popeyyou can see it in that ppa08:56
popeyso I expect it will hit 11.10 soon08:56
FND\o/08:56
FND(normally I wouldn't care, but I figured I should give Lightning a try, which requires TB8)08:57
bigcalmThunderbirds and Lightning, very very frightening to meeeeeeeeeeeeeee08:58
FNDbigcalm: how so? I'd love to hear more about it (personally, I don't like that there's no standalone version anymore)08:58
popeyhahah08:58
popeyFND: think of Queen.08:58
* FND ponders08:59
popeySing what bigcalm said08:59
bigcalmFND: you can ignore my sillyness this morning08:59
FNDI'm afraid I'm horrible with pop culture references08:59
bigcalmOr too young?08:59
FNDthat too08:59
FND(in general that is, given that mentally I'm a grumpy old bastard)09:00
bigcalm!ohmy09:00
lubotu3`Please remember that all Ubuntu IRC channels share the same attitude of providing friendly and polite interaction with all users of all ages and cultures. Basically, this means no foul language and no abuse towards others.09:00
popeyHah, there's a lot of that here09:00
bigcalmBut we are many09:00
FNDis "bastard" considered an offensive word, bigcalm?09:01
imexilyou got to ask lubotu3` this09:01
imexil;)09:01
bigcalmI'd be ok with it if you were talking about a metal file. But it is a term of abuse otherwise09:02
FNDuh huh09:02
AlanBellhappy Friday everyone09:04
MartijnVdSblack friday, as Americans call it09:04
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popey\o/09:04
bigcalmAlanBell: real Friday is FTW!09:04
gordnon monospace font :(09:09
FND*gasp*!09:09
bigcalmUbuntu mono is the only font allowed09:10
gordubuntu mono is great, but i'm reading text here, 99.999% not formatted with spaces text - so it doesn't really make sense09:12
bigcalmAh09:13
* FND also prefers monospace for e-mail (plain-text, natch)09:13
FNDhttp://www.xkcd.com/276/09:15
willcookeDoes anyone one know anyone inside plus.net?  My broadband is playing up and the helpdesk guys don't understand09:15
MartijnVdS"You, like, don't understand, man."09:18
AlanBellwillcooke: ask in the forums09:23
JamesTaitHappy Friday, everyone! :D09:24
AlanBellwillcooke: they have super support people monitoring them and responding09:24
willcookeAlanBell, there's the rub.  My speed it about 500 bps, and they won't do anything until I've run a speed test on the BT web site.  But I can't run a test, because my speed is about 500 bps!09:25
AlanBellwillcooke: turn the fttc box off and on randomly09:27
AlanBellthen it will turn up on their little graph thing like this http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,97734.msg827919.html#msg82791909:28
popeyhaha, excellent09:28
AlanBellall they can see is resyncs happening and the box reauthenticating09:29
bigcalmNice09:30
willcooke:)09:30
AlanBellhere is what I did for a month to stop the box overheating http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,97734.msg827516.html#msg82751609:30
AlanBellbut I had to keep stopping the fan to let the line drop, or they closed it as fixed!09:31
swat___aha, i have figured out how to make my desktop more responsive!09:31
swat___https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq#What_is_swappiness_and_how_do_I_change_it.3F09:31
swat___stop it swapping :)09:31
swat___well, not stop - reduce09:31
awilkinsGrrargh, where are all the reasonably priced laptops that have a screen resolution that *isn't* 1366x76809:33
MartijnVdSawilkins: I have this cheap 800x600 laptop...09:34
awilkinsThe only thing with fewer vertical pixels is a netbook... I've not used a display that rubbish since the 16-bit era09:34
MartijnVdS640x480!09:35
awilkinsBBC Micro - 320x200, 160x256, etc09:36
* MartijnVdS had 720x34809:36
MartijnVdSHercules \o/09:37
popey\o/ Hercules09:37
popey720x350 wasnt it?09:37
MartijnVdSpopey: dosbox does a good emulation of it :)09:37
* awilkins never owned a PC without a 3D accelerator of some kind (even if it was a discrete 3dfx card)09:37
MartijnVdS720x350 physically, but in "graphics mode" only 348 pixels were useable, because that's a multiple of 409:37
popeyahhh09:38
awilkinsI went round the laptop stall at Tesco looking at the display properties (it would be a disaster if they printed the resolution on the spec card, wouldn't it?) and they are all 1366x76809:42
awilkinsMy first work laptop 10 years ago was 1600x120009:42
oimonbet that cost a few quid09:43
awilkinsI have no idea, it was provided by the office09:43
awilkinsBut probably09:43
awilkinsBut I'm prepared to bet it would cost more now. FLipping consumer display industry churning out bazillions of 1366x786 panels for seat back TV and the like09:44
* awilkins shakes his fist09:44
oimonawilkins: wow, you're right. i can't even find display resolution on the tech specs area of the dell site09:44
awilkinsoimon, It's all "WXGA+" and similar crap now09:45
oimonah, they have it09:45
awilkinsoimon, I need to refer to the wikipedia page to find out what they mean09:45
oimon15.6” HD (1366x768) Anti-Glare LED09:45
oimon15.6” FHD (1920x1080) Anti-Glare LED09:45
oimondecent looking laptop if you're not interested in bling: http://www.dell.com/uk/business/p/latitude-e5520/pd09:47
popeyevery laptop I look at now looks rubbish compared to the MBP and thinkpad.09:47
popeyjust looks09:47
popeythe two-tone colour I hate09:48
MartijnVdSI like the looks of Vaios09:48
* FND has a ThinkPad T420 and is less than satisfied09:48
popeythe proliferation of ports09:48
MartijnVdSexcept I've stopped buying Sony stuff09:48
popeyyeah, some of the sonys I saw a year or so back look nice09:48
awilkinsMy memory of Thinkpads is that they are not at all stylish and they give off an aura of robust functionality09:48
awilkinsThey would be on my list to consider for myself... this is for a "family" laptop as a family christmas pressie09:49
popeyat least they're all one colour ☺09:49
FNDawilkins: all I can say of this T420 is that, even though I made sure to get a matte display, the screen is unusable with a bit of (indirect) sunlight09:49
gordpfft the x220 thinkpad has like... a curvy bit. very stylish09:49
MartijnVdSThinkpads that aren't shaped like bricks?!09:49
MartijnVdS</world>09:50
awilkinsAlthough I suppose the Thinkpad line is more likely to run Linux properly09:50
awilkins(is this still true since IBM stopped owning them?)09:50
popeyyup09:50
FNDawilkins: I had trouble with 11.04 (probably due to Sandy Bridge), but the 3.x kernel seems to support it well enough09:50
FNDalthough battery life is "only" ~4.5h09:52
awilkinsMy daughter, bless her, has already formed the impression that Windows is slow and rubbish and Linux is fast from having Windows XP and Ubuntu installed on her netbook09:52
gordsurely for a fair test you'd have to install a linux distro from 2001 ;)09:53
awilkinsOh hell, it's "Black Friday"09:54
awilkinsWhee, 15% off on Lenovo09:55
popeyooo09:55
* awilkins starts to warm up to Black Friday09:55
popeywhere?09:55
awilkinsOn lenovo.com09:56
FNDand so it begins - money corrupts people, QED09:56
awilkinsGreat coupon code - CYBERWEEKEND1509:57
Laneywhat is black friday?09:57
Laneyisn't that an american thing?09:57
Laneyhuh, amazon.co.uk are doing it too09:58
awilkinsYup, but retailers in the UK have decided to try it out this year to stoke up demand09:58
Laneynot going to say no to discounts09:58
awilkinsIt's probably safer in the UK because we queue in a more orderly manner09:58
FNDhah09:59
oimonamazon is recommending "Threads" TV series to me09:59
oimoni remember my parents wouldn't let me watch that when i was 910:00
awilkinsWhoa... a couple of the high-end T520 models are discounted by ludicrous amounts. They're still rather expensive for a family kick-about laptop though10:01
brobostigongood morning everyone.10:06
MartijnVdSUh oh. Someone let Lennart out of his cage again.10:22
MartijnVdSpopey: Prepare for several flamewars :) http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-journal.html10:22
Laneyalready happening10:23
Laneyalso, google multiple sign in is irritating… why can't it remember the account i used last?10:23
MartijnVdSLaney: already happening?10:25
Laneythat journal business has been doing the rounds10:25
MarquessDeBonBonWhat is "The Journal"?10:25
MartijnVdSLaney: even a petition on change.org 8-)10:26
MarquessDeBonBonI'm sure whatever it is, Canonical will find a way to use it to alienate users.10:26
Laneylwn has an article on it10:26
daubersurgh, is there a banshee ppa with a more stable version in it?10:26
MartijnVdSLaney: subscribers only10:26
Laneyhaving one of those is worthwhile10:27
Laneybanshe 2.2.1 is in proposed10:27
Laney+e10:27
MarquessDeBonBonMartijnVdS, is there any semi-reliable ranking for Linux distro market share? Distrowatch doesn't fill me with confidence.10:27
MartijnVdSMarquessDeBonBon: no.10:27
Laneyand updates, but there is an extra patch in proposed10:27
MarquessDeBonBonThat's a shame.10:27
MartijnVdSI have it10:27
MartijnVdSand it doesn't crash anymore now10:27
MarquessDeBonBonI take it user agent strings in Linux browsers don't contain distro info?10:27
daubersHmmm..... could enable proposed10:28
Laneydepends what your problem is10:28
MartijnVdSBut it still doesn't recognise MTP devices (different problem I know)10:28
Laneythere is also a daily ppa and an unstable ppa10:28
Laney(some) mtp devices10:28
daubersLaney: greying out when I load it and just hanging greyed out10:28
Laneymine works10:28
daubersLaney: Mine works sometimes :)10:30
popeyMartijnVdS: yeah ☺10:30
daubersNo idea what it's hanging on10:30
daubersif anyone can tell me how to suss that out I'll happily file bugs10:30
MartijnVdSLaney: My Xoom and Galaxy Nexus don't10:31
Laneybanshee --debug --debug-addins --redirect-log10:31
daubersLaney: Ta :) Will start firing it up with those10:31
Laneypastebinit ~/.config/banshee-1/log10:31
Laney:-)10:31
Laneythere was a guy from ubuntu-uk who started hacking on banshee some time ago and then disappeared10:35
Laneywonder what happened there :(10:35
MartijnVdSLaney: http://pastebin.com/bkpPGyXk10:36
MartijnVdSLaney: it's not detected at all.. nothing happens in the log when I plug in my phone10:36
Laney:(10:37
Laneyall i can suggest is to please file a bug10:37
MartijnVdSLaney: there's a bug on gnome.org which claims it's a bug in gudev10:37
Laneyyou can also look at a picture of my cat wearing a moustache https://p.twimg.com/Ae9uTkaCEAE0Dwq.jpg10:38
Laneyhth10:38
bigcalmAwwww10:38
MartijnVdSLaney: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66068110:38
lubotu3`Gnome bug 660681 in Device - MTP "MTP device detection fails with banshee-2.2" [Normal,Unconfirmed]10:38
MartijnVdSLaney: my bug looks like that10:38
DJonesLaney: What did you use to drug the cat to get it to stay still long enough for the photo10:39
Laneymy sister did it10:39
Laneyhe sleeps like a log10:39
Laney98% of the time (the other 2% are split between eating and making a racket)10:39
daubers\o/ crash it goes10:53
daubershttp://paste.ubuntu.com/749140/10:54
daubersHmm.. not very helpful10:54
* daubers tries it sans galaxy S II10:54
davmor2morning all11:02
davmor2czajkowski: prod, morning11:02
danfishhello again all11:03
awilkinsMorning, danfish11:04
danfishawilkins: how's Leeds these days?11:04
brobostigonmorning danfish11:05
danfishI've got bits and bobs of (rubbish) code and equally rubbish PCB designs lying around on a number of machines etc11:06
danfishhow best to synchronise and version control?11:06
danfishI suppose it's bzr vs git11:06
awilkinsI like both11:07
gorddepends if you really need version control, if its not something your maintaining, you could just throw it in u1/dropbox11:07
gordwhich would be a much much simpler solution11:07
gordi keep bash scripts i use in u1 for example11:07
awilkinsYeah, there is that11:07
awilkinsI currently use Dropbox over U1 purely because the proxy support in U1 doesn't satisfy me on Windows or Ubuntu11:08
awilkinsDropbox's proxy support isn't up to scratch either, but at least you can use it behind a proxy11:08
popeyandroid users.. if you had an app installed and know the name but cant be bothered scrolling, is there a quick search like the unity dash to find stuff?11:09
gordnot that i know of, is a pain11:11
DJonesI can't find a way either11:11
AlanBellalways been surprised at how rubbish searching is on Google's operating system11:11
bigcalmpopey: no11:12
popeythats odd11:12
AlanBellmarketplace search is a bit rubbish too11:12
popeydo the vendors add on frontends which let you do it?11:12
DJonesNot on HTC that I know of11:13
bigcalmNo idea. Though I'm not sure I'd have enough apps installed for it to be quicker to search by name than a quick flick of my thumb11:13
awilkinsI think I may just have to accept that laptop manufacturers don't want me to have a screen with a resolution above 1366x76811:13
oimonadnroid market started telling me i have updates available for apps on different accounts - really annoying11:13
awilkinsGits11:14
danfishawilkins: gord : tx - it's gonna be experimentation time11:14
oimonawilkins: did you see the machine i posted a link to?11:14
oimonthat had higher resol11:14
awilkinsoimon, the dell?11:14
oimonye[p11:14
oimonthere's plenty around11:14
DJonesawilkins: I got a HP with 1600*90011:14
oimonjust not the acer £300 ones11:14
popey1311:14
DJonesawilkins: Not sure what size you're looking for though11:14
popeybah11:15
gordgamer laptops do a bunch of higher res screens, but you won't get more than 5 minutes battery life ;)11:15
awilkinsLenovo don't have anything without a 1366x768 display below £800 base price...11:15
awilkinsNaah, just a "lap" laptop11:15
awilkinsFamily use11:15
awilkinsI suspect the fixation on screen resolution is misplaced11:15
gordi use unity so 768 is fine for me :P11:16
awilkinsHah, I like the way that Dell "Premium Panel Guarantee" only covers pixels stuck on11:17
DJonesawilkins: I got this about 6 months ago, although the i3 version http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5084791/c_1/1%7Ccategory_root%7COffice%2C+PCs+and+phones%7C14418968/c_2/2%7C14418968%7CLaptops+and+netbooks%7C14419039.htm#pdpFullProductInformation11:17
awilkinsWoo11:18
awilkinsEnormous11:18
awilkins1600x900 ... not bad, not ideal, but not bad11:18
DJonesThis is the one I got http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5084849/c_1/1%7Ccategory_root%7COffice%2C+PCs+and+phones%7C14418968/c_2/2%7C14418968%7CLaptops+and+netbooks%7C14419039.htm But seems to be discontinued now11:18
awilkinsI guess you can't get a 4:3 panel at say 1600x1200 anymore....11:18
DJonesI looked for something that sort of size, but didn't find anything11:19
AlanBellawilkins: "widescreen" should really be called "shortscreen"11:20
dogmatic69AlanBell: lol11:20
awilkinsAlanBell, Yeah, where are the panel makers serving the programmer market with high vertical pixel couns11:20
danfishAlanBell: agreed - it's bit daft IMO to advertise a laptop as being widescreen and 'HD ready' when most users are probably going to use them to watch movies for <5% of time11:21
awilkinsDJones, do you not just hate chiclet keys though?11:21
Myrttitrain chochoooooo11:21
DJonesawilkins: Mine has a normal keyboard, not come across one of those11:22
Myrttifree wifi woo11:22
awilkinsDJones, There's one of those i3 models within 10 minutes drive11:22
* AlanBell has a 2048x1152 screen that rotates 90 degrees :)11:23
awilkinsDJones, Bless the Argos stock checker11:23
DJonesawilkins: Mine works fine with Ubuntu 11.10, only oddity is the screen brightness is set to minimum at boot & has to be reset11:23
awilkinsDJones, So the shots on the website are not accurate? They seem to be using the same G Series photo for all of them...11:24
DJonesWhat do you mean by chiclet keyboard, I would describe my keyboard as a normal one11:26
awilkinsDJones, The ones where the keys look like chiclet gum - square with rounded corners, and the edges drop straight off and are not chamfered - flat tops11:26
awilkinsLike a Macbook11:27
awilkinsWhereas I call a normal keyboard one where the keytops are convex, they have sloping sides - like a desktop keyboard but a bit shorter11:27
DJonesPossibly then, I find the keyboard quite good though11:28
oimoni prefer chiclet keys to the thin laptop keys that scrape against the side of your finger a la eee pc or dell keyboards11:28
DJonesawilkins: Might just be worth calling in there and asking if you can look at it before you think about buying it11:32
awilkinsDJones, Yeah, or looking at one in Tesco - I think I saw one on display (may be mistaken, all the panels in there were 1366x768)11:32
awilkinsBut I think over 900 pixels high is too much to ask on the planned budget11:33
DJonesawilkins: My priority was screen size & that seemed about the best for price/specification I could find11:33
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DJonesI'd never been a fan of HP before, but I've been happy with what I got11:35
awilkinsWe have HP units at work and in general I'm happier with them than Dell ones11:35
DJonesAnd it plays minecraft without a dedicated nvidia/ATI graphics card so it does what I want11:36
awilkinsThe one I have has survived 4 years which is a feat given the thrashing that I give it combined with the extra load that ICT install on it11:36
awilkinsEvie likes Minecraft11:36
awilkinsHmm11:36
awilkinsDo you think the size of it would overwhelm a 7 year old :-) ?11:37
awilkinsI suspect table-top would be the best way to go for that purpose11:37
DJonesIt is quite heavy11:38
awilkinsShe's got an NC-10 but the screen is broken ; need to get the parts and fix it11:38
awilkinsAnd it's a bit underpowered for some of the things she wants11:38
DJonesBut I normally have it either on a desk or on my lap when I'm sat on a  recliner11:39
awilkinsIt's a nice little sofa-browser11:39
bigcalmI thought I'd use my tablet for sofa-browsing, but I still appear to use my phone as it's always on11:39
awilkinsOne little gripe about modern laptops - which genius thought it was a good idea to mount the trackpad closer to the left side of the case than the right?11:46
oimonit's under the keyboard11:46
awilkinsI can see it's probably the result of the keyboard and trackpad chassis being re-used from prior models when they nail on a numpad11:46
awilkinsBut really, "yes, I just _love_ to reach across my centre line to use the trackpad"11:47
oimonit's in the centre of where your hands would be, (where the qwertyuiop is)11:48
awilkinsHmm.11:48
awilkinsOk. Maybe I've just not used one. I'm just revulsed by the off-centre-ish-ness11:48
awilkinsDJones, I think that G72 has me sold, TBH.11:50
awilkinsDJones, Esp since I can get the i3 version and pick it up today11:50
awilkinsI don't get how they get away with calling it "super slim and lightweight" in the blurb though.. 3Kg and quite fat, from what I can see11:51
daubersHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA11:52
daubershttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/25/ofcom_customer_satisfaction_report/11:52
daubersVM come bottom or 2nd bottom of satisfaction, but they come out with a statement saying " our broadband customers remain amongst the most satisfied in the market."11:52
daubersMe thinks they don't seem to be looking at the numbers11:53
awilkinsThat reminds me, must pester them to upgrade my bandwidth and downgrade my price11:53
awilkinsTheir !!"%&!"^ web app wouldn't change my package and the last time I rang India they changed my name from "Adrian" to "Andrew".11:54
awilkinsI'm happy with the service - but all I demand is that my connection doesn't drop. It does slow down a bit in the evening.11:54
DJonesawilkins: Hope I haven't pointed you in the wrong direction with the laptop :)11:58
awilkinsDJones, No responsibility implied...11:58
awilkinsDJones, Consumer grade laptops are probably never going to satisfy me entirely, but I'm not going to shell out for a high grade workstation laptop for my family to pound on while watching strictly :-)11:59
gordreally wish websites wouldn't list the size of things in "real" measurements like mm. just say "its as big as three cd cases!" or something else i know the size of!12:02
awilkinsDJones, I like that the Argos reviews reveal the general demographic of the reviewer - like "45 to 54, female"12:02
awilkinsDJones, You can get a sense of what their needs are and the review is more in context12:02
popeyaway lunch12:05
bigcalmOo, now there's an idea12:05
awilkinsgord, or have the product shots taken with Ronnie Corbett, ermmm, some average sized celebrity, and Arnold Schwartzenegger.12:07
gord+amillion12:08
gordamazon should be smart though, they know everything i bought from them already, just show the size of something i already bought and the product size in comparison12:08
awilkinsThat's not bad12:08
DJonesawilkins: I've never noticed that about the demographics12:09
oimonstarted getting awful recommendations from amazon since buying gift certfs12:09
oimonluckily you can disable recommendations for particular items12:09
awilkinsoimon, "Would you like to buy Farmville Cash? Just as good as real cash - after it's accidentally dropped into a volcano!"12:10
awilkinsHmmph, Thunderbird needs to cope better with gmail labels vs folders12:11
awilkinsYou search, it returns each email from every label it occurs in12:11
bigcalmHow are they not working for you?12:11
bigcalmAh12:11
MartijnVdSawilkins: thunderbird doesn't cope with the "gmail-style" of emailing very well12:12
MartijnVdSawilkins: no "Send and Archive" button :(12:12
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gordonjcpthunderbird is generally pretty awful12:27
gordonjcpin ubuntu it's utterly unusable12:29
DaraelThat's not my experience at all.12:30
gordonjcpthe tabs thing is stupid12:31
gordonjcpI've never figured out what the orange scrolly thing at the bottom is for12:32
gordonjcpit's just an annoying pointless distraction, as far as I can see12:32
DJonesI just turned the tabs off12:32
DJonesHave things open in a new window12:32
gordi use the conversation addon12:33
gordbasically turns it in to gmail12:33
gordonjcpalso, is there a way to get it to ignore mail in certain folders?12:35
gordonjcpnothing pisses me off more than having its earsplittingly loud "new mail" sound blast through my speakers and wake half the town, only to find that it's decided to tell me that some more spam has arrived12:35
czajkowskidavmor2: ello12:35
davmor2czajkowski: hello12:36
AlanBellgordonjcp: there is an option to only do it for the inbox12:38
AlanBellthen if your filters are the bypass the inbox type they won't trigger it12:38
gordonjcpAlanBell: but then surely that would pick up subfolders of the inbox12:39
AlanBellno idea12:40
AlanBellnever has it occurred to me that it would be possible to create a subfolder of inbox12:40
DJonesgordonjcp: Thunderbird has a new mail sound? I must have that turned off, not something I've ever heard12:40
davmor2DJones: I'm with you I've never heard it but then I filter mine to hell and back12:41
DJonesI don't have any filtering on mine12:42
gordonjcpDJones: I keep turning it off12:42
gordonjcpDJones: but it keeps coming back12:42
DJonesgordonjcp: Must be some difference between yours & my setups, I've never had any sound from thunderbird12:44
davmor2gordonjcp: I get to things from Thunderbird the annoying login drums when I get the confirmation window cause I really do want to read new mail in another folder and 100% CPU Usage when importing mail first time12:47
les_hhello, i'm wondering how i can tell what driver i'm using for my mouse?13:02
MartijnVdSles_h: there is only one?13:02
MartijnVdSles_h: why do you want to know this?13:02
les_hi have a lenovo tablet and it's got a nipple, a touchpad and a touch screen.13:04
les_hMy problem is that the touchpad has a conflict with gnome13:04
les_hso it works fine in unity or xfce13:05
les_hbut in gone, after a few minutes, it stops responding13:05
awilkinsLaptop : Comes in a BIIIG black box13:05
les_h MartijnVds I'm trying to figure out why my touchpad is conflicting with something in gnome13:06
popeywhat makes you think its 'confliting' ?13:07
les_hpopey: when i start gnome, the touchpad works fine, but after a few minutes, around the time the task bar thing at the bottom gets around to launching, it quits working. it works fine with unity13:09
les_hpopey: this makes me think that one of the gnome apps is killing the touchpad and i'm trying to figure out which one13:10
popeywhat version of ubuntu?13:10
les_honeiric13:10
popeyah, so you're using GNOME Shell?13:10
les_hsorry oeniric with ubuntu studio13:10
les_hyes, i installed gnome 3 and i prefer it, except for this issue13:10
popeyyou mean GNOME Shell.. I can't help, sorry, never used it13:11
les_his the window manager thing called a shell?  This is my first time back on linux since i left slackware for mac in 200113:11
popeythe GNOME one is called GNOME Shell, there are others, Unity, XFCE ...13:12
popeyI thought Ubuntu Studio used XFCE13:12
dogmatic69a shell is generally a terminal, right?13:13
popeyno13:13
popey'generally' a shell is a wrapper around other things13:13
dogmatic69:/13:13
dogmatic69ok13:13
popeyan interface between you and the computer13:13
dogmatic69ah13:14
les_hubuntu studio does use xfce, which is awful. i felt like i had been exiled to windows 9513:14
dogmatic69so by that definition i guess gnome is a shell13:14
les_ha friend of mine suggested that a good place to start would be to check that i was using the drivers made specififcally for my touchpad, rather than generic ones13:15
popeydogmatic69: no, GNOME is a project and a foundation13:15
les_hbut, alas, i'm not sure how to discover if this is the case13:15
popeyles_h: i think thats a red herring13:15
les_hwould counsel messages or something possibly provide a clue?13:16
popeyi dont actually understand what your issue is les_h, perhaps you could describe whats happening13:16
les_hwhen i log in with the gnome shell, my touchpad works normally for a bit and then starts to stutter and then eventually ceases to work at all.13:16
les_hso within about 5 minutes, it stops working to move the mouse pointer or to scroll.13:17
les_hthe other pointing devices on the computer still work13:17
popeyI'd look at /var/log/syslog13:17
popeysee if there are errors13:18
les_hah, thanks for the suggestion!  there's a command tail -f or something that will print that out as it happens?13:19
MartijnVdS~/.xsession-errors as well13:20
MartijnVdStry "xinput -list"13:20
MartijnVdSbefore and after it stops working13:20
MartijnVdSxinput list --long for even more infoz13:20
Darael"tail -f" for printing as it happens is correct - tail -f /path/to/file will print the last ten lines of the file, followed by any more that get appended until it's interrupted.13:21
j0nrDon't suppose any body has swapped from SKY to Virgin? Have opinions?13:24
popeyj0nr: i did13:26
les_hah, thanks for your help.  i'm going to login in gnome shell in a moment and try this out13:28
popeyj0nr: do you want to know about tv or broadband or what?13:28
awilkinsj0nr, Not swapped from Sky, but have been a Virgin customer for 10 years or so13:29
* siriusly is a long-time VirginMedia customer and before that Telewest and before that Cable & Wireless going back to 1996...so there! ;)13:32
siriuslyoh and before that Nynex! lol13:33
awilkinssiriusly, Yeah, I was an NTL customer once13:33
j0nrpopey: Well I obviously like the idea of the broadband, as SKY don't seem to be in a hurry to move to fibre-optic.13:33
j0nrJust not sure whether the choice of channels is as good...13:33
awilkinsI don't watch the TV - I don't even have an STB. Still pay for the basic TV package though, because it works out the same bundling cost (and I used to have it)13:34
j0nrThe boxes seem better? I currently have a SKY+ HD box, which, well, seems a bit buggy sometimes, or at least not very clever and certainly seems to randomnly delete saved programs13:34
popeyj0nr: I have the Samsung HD V+ Box13:34
popeythe Sky UI is better than the Virgin one13:34
j0nrpopey: Is that the TiVo one?13:34
les_h..... of course, now that i'm looking for the problem, it's not happening.....13:34
awilkinsI have more than enough content to push through my eyeballs with the internet and 3 freeview tuners in my MythTV box13:34
popeyhowever there is a new Virgin Tivo box which is ever nicer13:35
popeyj0nr: i might switch to the tivo box, not decided13:35
j0nrpopey: ah, thats the carrot on the end of the stick in my face :)13:35
j0nrplus they are offering a second HD box (non-tivo) for another room13:35
popeyI am on 30/3 broadband13:35
* awilkins has a MythTV box which is probably bigger, noisier, less slick, but does have 1TB of storage and is totally uner my control13:35
j0nrpopey: is that fibre-optic?13:35
popeyits cable13:36
MartijnVdSbut is it a fibre-optic cable? :P13:36
j0nrpopey: so is there cable and fibre optioc available?13:36
awilkinsIt's a copper cable13:36
awilkinsIt's fibre to the local node13:36
popeyI'm sure fibre is involved somewhere but it's a piece of cable to my house13:36
siriuslyI dont watch enough tv to comment on packages but I do have the L for Large tier which is good enough for me....the problem I find with so many channels is that they are in an endless loop of repeats13:36
popeya copper cable13:36
awilkinsIt's a *fatter* copper cable than the phone line13:36
popeyi place no significance in the type of cable13:36
awilkinsSo you can squeeze more bits down it13:37
j0nrso is all this fibre optic just a little bit of marketting bumpf?13:37
popeythe question is how many bits can go down it at once13:37
awilkinsj0nr, It's fibre optic to the local node13:37
penguin42j0nr: Yep13:37
popeyand I've been told my area is getting 100Mb cable soon13:37
j0nrpopey: that sounds good13:37
* penguin42 complained to advertising standards a few years ago and they gave me the brush off13:37
siriuslydoesn't the fibre optic only go as far as the street cabinet?13:37
awilkinsYeah, the 100MB is solely down to newer hardware for squeezing more out of copper cable13:37
popeyhttp://www.speedtest.net/result/1608418806.png13:37
popeythats what I currently get13:37
j0nri like SKY, the TV channels are good, I would have to pay on top of VM TV XL to get the Sky packages (Movies HD)13:38
awilkinsoOh, bigger bundle13:38
awilkinsI'm on the 10Mbit/s down, 1Mbit/s up13:38
popeyi dont subscribe to movie channels13:38
popeyI just pay on demand when I want a film13:38
popeyand it starts instantly13:38
j0nrpopey: yeah I saw they offer a lot...are you doing that via your virgin box?13:38
popeyunlike my old sky box where I had to wait up to 30 mins on some random channel number13:38
popeyyes13:38
popeyV+ box does Iplayer, ITV and C4 catch up too13:39
j0nrpopey: yeah thats another plus13:39
AlanBellhttp://www.speedtest.net/result/1611945327.png popey has got a bigger broadband than me :(13:39
popeyyou can go back and watch whole seasons of stuff with no adverts13:39
popeyand yours really _is_ fibre!13:39
siriuslyI am on 20 megs BB and 20megs is what I generally get...none of this "up to" business13:39
CraigMasonchaps, a quick Q... one of our machines wont allow us to edit network connections13:39
j0nrhmm, my work is surprisingly slow... http://www.speedtest.net/result/1611947863.png13:41
CraigMasonthe adapter doesn't appear in /etc/network/interfaces either13:41
siriuslyhttp://www.speedtest.net/result/1611948464.png13:41
j0nrpopey: whole season from where? Sky Anytime is pretty crap I have found,13:41
popeywhat do you mean from where13:41
j0nrpopey: is it a service VM are providing on the box?13:42
popeyyes13:42
j0nrthat's pretty cool13:42
popeyj0nr: e.g. I watched 3 seasons of The Inbetweeners on 4OD on the Virgin box, no adverts13:42
j0nrpopey: that IS good.13:42
DJonesj0nr: Do you use the Sky Anytime+ service, how well does that work13:42
j0nrnow I am very tempted...13:42
j0nrDJones: not very often really. everytime I have thought to look for something I have missed, it never seems to be on there13:43
j0nrDJones: but there is a lot of something on there13:43
j0nrmovies are quite plentiful13:43
j0nrbut you couldnt catch up on a whole series (I don't think)13:44
j0nrpopey: do VM do the +1 channels?13:44
popeyyes13:44
popeyand HD13:44
DJonesI'm debating whether to connect my sky box up to the router, its not as if it will cost anymore13:44
j0nralthough that's not such a problem, we were told you can record 3 and watch a 4th13:44
popeydunno how many you can record13:44
j0nrDJones: cant remember if I had to pay extra for Anytime+13:44
popeyif I was going for Vigrin now, I'd get Tivo13:44
DJonesj0nr: Supposed to be free anyway13:45
bigcalmTiVo can record 3 watch 113:45
bigcalmV+ can record 2 watch 113:45
j0nrwell they are offering me free installation, free tivo box, free second hd box for another room, plus BB (not sure on speed or bandwidth limit), plus the XL package13:45
popeysweet13:46
j0nrbut tied into 18 month contract13:46
popeytime flies ☺13:46
bigcalmHow much?13:46
bigcalmIt will13:46
bigcalmI expect you'll get 30mb bb13:46
penguin42j0nr: They sound desperate; have you tried asking them for gold bricks, and 'special services' ?13:46
j0nrpenguin42: I guess they are targetting SKY customers. I get offers through the post almost weekly13:46
j0nrbigcalm: think thats about 77 / month13:47
j0nrplus telephone13:47
penguin42j0nr: They bug me about twice a year; I used to be an NTL customer ~10 years ago13:47
awilkins"I want a pizza button. Whenever I push it, a 12" sausage with onions  pizza should turn up within 90 seconds"13:47
j0nrpopey: do you have a bandwidth limit?13:47
bigcalmpopey: that's our package level then13:47
popeyyup13:48
popeysame as what I have13:48
popeybut I dont have tivo13:48
popeybecause I got mine 18 months ago13:48
* popey phones VM13:48
awilkinsj0nr, What they do on the lower tiers, is there is a limit past which they will throttle your connection to 25% speed during peak hours13:48
awilkinsj0nr, The highest tiers have no limits13:48
bigcalmpopey: let me know if you can get TiVo for free ;)13:48
awilkinsj0nr, It's not a limit, per se, it's a "calm down, calm down!!!"13:48
j0nrok, I am very tempted13:49
siriuslybigcalm : http://shop.virginmedia.com/help/traffic-management/traffic-management-policy.html13:49
j0nrawilkins: cool. As long as they don't cut you off or bill you per mb over13:49
popeyno13:49
popeyit just slows down a bit13:49
bigcalmsiriusly: why are you telling me that url?13:49
awilkinsj0nr, Like all providers I'm sure they reserve the right to cut you off, but never heard of it happening13:49
popeyI've never had any snotty mails or anything13:50
awilkinsj0nr, It does make me a bit careful about downloading between 1000 and 2100 but other than that it's not bad at all compared to a hard limit13:50
bigcalmNeither have I. Most connection issues happen during the day time. So it you're out of the house during the day, that won't be a problem for you13:50
awilkinsYou do think "Yay, new game... oh, if I download it now, it will pop my limit and take much longer"13:51
Davieyawilkins: I got cut off by my previous ISP, without notice :/13:51
siriuslybigcalm: sorry that should have been for j0nr13:51
Daviey(or warning)13:51
* awilkins is not a big torrentor13:51
* Daviey neither13:51
popeyawilkins: i never think that13:51
awilkinspopey, You have the 30Mbit package13:52
awilkinsThe limits are rather more generous13:52
awilkinsFor me it's 1500MB between 1000 and 1500 and 750MB between 1600 and 210013:52
bigcalm30mb is the standard13:52
bigcalmI thought13:52
davmor2Daviey: did you demand an explanation and then sue them for being in breach of their agreement13:52
awilkinsI've been on it for a long time ; I suppose they don't offer my package anymore... I should ring up and get changed13:53
siriuslyVM have six BB tiers ranging from S 2Mb to XXL 50Mb13:54
popeyawilkins: i download a lot, i backup remote servers13:54
popeyand grab ISOs etc13:54
Davieydavmor2: yeah, i'll get right on that.13:54
dogmatic69omg13:55
siriuslyI believe 100MB will become available soon13:55
awilkinspopey, That 10GB allocation would seem to be enough13:55
dogmatic69copy something to clipboard and middle click the + tab button on chrome13:55
dogmatic69instant search13:55
davmor2Daviey: this is why they get away with it13:55
Davieydavmor2: I did plan to, but when it came to it - i really couldn't be bothered. :)14:00
davmor2Daviey: haha14:00
AlanBellnice tip dogmatic6914:00
dogmatic69figured it out completely by accident14:01
dogmatic69also if you have many chrome windows open, middle click the bar at the top (not sure what its called)  and it switches windows14:02
dogmatic69'system title bar' but chromes minimal version one14:02
dogmatic69could be ubuntu doing that though14:02
gordonjcpis there a way to stop the annoying message popups in the top right?14:11
popeygordonjcp: sudo apt-get remove notify-osd14:12
gordonjcpI don't really see what the thinking is behind them anyway14:12
gordonjcppopey: righto14:12
popeywhen I am listening to music I get a popup as the track changes so I know what it is, i like that14:12
popeyi hate it when tweets appear, I am never fast enough to read them ☹14:12
czajkowskiMooDoo: you ok ?14:13
gordonjcpyeah, but you can't click on them to make the thing that just did something appear14:13
gordonjcpwhich would make sense14:13
gordonjcpand when empathy pops up a message you can't click on them to reply14:13
davmor2MooDoo: how am ya me olwd mucka14:13
AlanBellgordonjcp: it would, but it they are totally designed not to do that14:13
gordonjcpyou just have to wait for ten seconds until they go away so you've got control back, and then find the thing in the mac doc14:13
gordonjcp*dock14:13
gordonjcpAlanBell: yeah14:14
AlanBellyou shouldn't have to wait for them to go though, they should fade if you mouse over and you can click stuff under them14:14
gordi actually hate the music track changes but love tweets in notify form :P14:16
j0nrpopey: when you pay for a film on demand, can you keep it on your box as long as you want?14:16
popeyno14:17
popeyyou're renting it for 48 hours or something14:17
popeyI watched Tron Legacy 3 times when I rented it :D14:17
j0nrah loved that film, got it on Blu-Ray14:18
gordsilly movie, didn't make sense :P14:18
gordfun to look at though14:18
davmor2gord: It's a film it's not meant to make sense :P14:20
awilkinsMy favourite scene is the bit where Jeff saves the day at the comms tower14:20
awilkinsI love self-sacrifice, honour, and duty. Makes me choke up.14:21
bigcalmI've yet to watch the film14:21
bigcalmWe have it on blu-ray, must find time14:21
awilkinsMy favourite bit of Armageddon is where Bruce pushes the button14:21
bigcalmI fell asleep in Armageddon - in the cinema :(14:21
awilkinsWomen think men are unromantic - we just have a different kind of romance that doesn't involve flowers14:22
czajkowskiAlanBell: http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/UK-government-lays-out-cyber-security-plans-1385358.html14:28
AlanBellgood stuff czajkowski, but not my area14:28
czajkowskiaye not mine either but nice to see their taking the finger out14:29
* davmor2 gave up watching films at the cinema I like to be able to hear the following day oh and the head ache really sucks14:29
AlanBellindeed14:29
czajkowskithere was no cinema in aldershot :(14:29
czajkowskiin dublin I used to have a cinama card, 20 euros a month and unlimated usage, myself and the sister would head there over the weeend for 2-3 films14:30
czajkowskimost weekends14:30
danfishczajkowski: by the time that cyber-security stuff gets implemented it will be watered down to involve a part-time intern and a 2005 copy of norton antivirus ;)14:31
danfishbut still cost gazillions14:31
danfishhow many millions to a gazillion I wonder?14:32
AlanBella squillion I think14:32
danfish:)14:33
RJAHILLHi All. I'm supporting ~450 lucid machines in a few schools and have just found a .desktop file and icon for the delightfully named 'pornview' . I'm going to get rid of it before the students become aware of an app with that name. Is there anything else I should be looking for?14:33
bigcalmPornview strikes again!14:33
bigcalmIt's actually a very good image viewer14:34
MartijnVdSRJAHILL: don't install the package?14:34
AlanBellugh /o\ that app14:34
dogmatic69apt-get remove pornview?14:34
awilkinsHah, yes, it just seems like it's a useful media brower... shame about the name14:34
awilkinsTHe developer probably has no wife14:34
RJAHILLit's not installed - trying to run it suggests I install it, but somehow the  desktop shortcut and png icon file are there14:34
dogmatic69maybe it was installed and then removed14:35
dogmatic69some left overs14:35
awilkinsYou could always do a `locate` on the machine concerned to look for any other remnants14:35
RJAHILLI created the image from a default NBR installer, so I expect it's in the NBR image14:35
RJAHILLa locate only shows the .desktop and the icon14:35
awilkinsNBR?14:36
RJAHILLNetBook Remix14:36
RJAHILLSo I'm going to have a look through to see if I can spot anything else dodgy, but that's a lot of files to wade through and wondered if anybody else had already done this14:38
awilkinsI'm surprised that those files are present...14:38
AlanBellit can pop up in the applications lens in that daft "stuff you don't want" section down the bottom14:38
dogmatic69sudo find / -name pornview14:38
AlanBellRJAHILL: one thing that sometimes happens in schools is the URLs to .deb files for the perfectly innocent libraries liboobs and libsexy get blocked14:39
RJAHILLThanks for the tip Alan. We've got our own repo which is a proxy exception. I've just fond that the same pornview files appear on my 11.10 machine14:41
james_wit's there so that it can be offered for install in software-center14:42
AlanBell"its not mine baby, totally not my bag" ~Austin Powers14:42
bigcalmHehe14:42
RJAHILLah, ok.Do you know if I am I likely to break anything by removing it?14:42
james_wit won't14:43
AlanBellthe only thing you could break is pornview. Go for it.14:43
james_wbut it will come back14:43
dogmatic69lol14:43
RJAHILLthe porn that wouldn't die14:43
james_wyou'll have to remove app-install-data14:43
james_wthen software-center won't work, but you probably don't care about that?14:44
Laneyis the problem with the word 'porn'?14:44
RJAHILLWe haven't given the kids the admin password, so no I don't mind the software centre not working14:44
james_win fact it will remove software-center too14:45
dogmatic69Laney: guess he does not want kids going home and telling the parents about a great new image viewer they found14:45
RJAHILL@Laney: Kind off. It's all about keeping them on topic and not giggling about porn. Or gimp14:45
AlanBellLaney: it is the daily mail headlines about the school that gives porn apps to kids14:45
czajkowskiRJAHILL: I can see how porn would start giggling, but gimp ?14:45
RJAHILLIt's mostly the teachers that laugh at gimp (see Pulp Fiction for more details)14:46
czajkowskiRJAHILL: if teachers start then sure students will to.14:47
awilkinsI'm chuffed that you've got 450 Ubuntu machines in a school14:49
cliftontssame, that sounds like real progress14:52
LaneyI really doubt that worring about a file named pornview.desktop buried deep inside the filesystem is a problem, but if it is then I'd just remove s-c and therefore app-install-data indeed.14:52
RJAHILLthanks. It's a scheme the schools are doing to get the computers to pupils ration down to 1:114:53
AlanBellRJAHILL: where is that?14:53
RJAHILLso they're not just staying in school, they go home with them too14:54
RJAHILLI work for the commercial supplier to the LEA, so we're going to bring it to their attention and get a steer off them14:55
AlanBellwhich LEA?14:56
RJAHILLI'm going to keep quiet on that one, for the moment as I haven't asked them if they mind me telling people - It's in the west midlands14:57
AlanBellok, region is fine, I was wondering if it was a london one or not14:57
AlanBellwest Midlands isn't one I know about, so that is cool14:57
aeroplanezI got my new watch today finally14:58
cliftontsI'm from the west midlands, got dragged down to london by my parents years ago14:58
aeroplanezbeen thinking about buying it for few months now and last week I decided to spoil myself for xmas14:58
cliftontsI keep seeing good things up there14:58
aeroplanezcheck it out14:58
aeroplanezhttp://img338.imageshack.us/img338/2566/asdasdwd.jpg14:58
aeroplanezhttp://img522.imageshack.us/img522/2980/werwerc.jpg14:58
oimonyou can't fool me with goatse images14:59
gordapparently HMV uses ubuntu :) http://i.imgur.com/3OXcj.jpg14:59
MartijnVdSnah Nintendo does14:59
cliftontscool14:59
RJAHILLThe LEA here is really pro-IT and they like to see what else exists other than microsoft. The kids don't care as long as the apps/web sites they want to use work14:59
AlanBellgord: that will be the new BSOD spotting meme15:00
AlanBellRJAHILL: should the LoCo team put on events for the staff in your area? training and such?15:00
cliftontsthat's the point though RJAHILL, the kids aren't set in their ways like the general public15:00
RJAHILLWe've got some ex-teachers who work here who are going to put some training on for the staff, but I need to get them up to speed on things first15:01
RJAHILLAnd then we're going to try to get some sort of community set up on the LEAs web portal for staff/students/parents with ubuntu machines15:02
AlanBellok, cool15:03
AlanBellRJAHILL: want any CDs?15:03
RJAHILLWhat's on them?15:04
AlanBellofficial Ubuntu 11.10 CDs15:04
czajkowskicould be nice to give to students15:04
cliftontsyou love dishing out those CDs don't you Alan?15:04
AlanBellI hold the UK team stock of them15:04
AlanBellI do!15:04
RJAHILLNo thanks, we're on Lucid at the moment15:04
Seeker`he's probably just trying to get some more space back in his house :P15:04
cliftontsI will be taking you up on your offer soon15:05
AlanBellwant to get them all out there before precise comes out15:05
cliftontsgood plan15:05
czajkowskicliftonts: some teams dont get them15:05
czajkowskiit's nice to offer them rather than not get any :)15:05
czajkowskiAlanBell: does a really good job of getting them to folks15:05
DJonesAlanBell: Are they government expenditure, if you've not used them all by the end of financial year/release date, you don't get as many next time round15:05
cliftontswell I'm all ready to launch on Sunday, got the website stocked and the computer fair booked15:05
cliftontsso wish me luck"15:06
AlanBellgood luck cliftonts  :)15:06
cliftontsif things go well I'll have no CDs left at the end of it15:06
RJAHILLAlanBell: the machines in the main are netbooks with 10" screens. The lucid netbook remix is perfect for them. I don't want to think about what happens when Lucid is out of support15:06
ali1234what computer fair you going to?15:07
ali1234(s)15:07
czajkowskiRJAHILL: you mean in april ;)15:07
cliftontsTolworth15:07
oimonlucid is LTS..lasts longer than 12.0415:07
cliftontsbut I'll also be at Bristol and Bracknell as well as others15:07
RJAHILLczajkowski:2013!15:07
czajkowskiah was saying next LTS15:07
czajkowskiyeha you've support for another year after that15:07
oimoni thought they announcned extended support for LTS to 5yr?15:08
RJAHILLThat's for pangolin I think15:08
ali1234i thought it was already 5 year?15:08
cliftontsthey did15:08
cliftontsserver support was 5 yr, desktop 315:08
AlanBellin theory15:10
cliftontstheory?15:10
AlanBellthe repository isnt split15:12
AlanBellno clear definition of what is a server package15:12
cliftontswell that was the announcement as I understand it. I haven't looked into the rocket science behind it15:13
AlanBellyes the announcement was 5 years officially for the desktop15:13
cliftontsUrgh! I've just found Windows 98 on one of my disks. I feel so dirty!15:14
Seeker`why?15:14
cliftontsI haven't used windows by choice for about 5 years15:14
cliftontsbut I'm going through all the kit I've got lying around to prepare it for the computer fair, wiping disks etc15:15
cliftontsI thought the only windows install I had was on this machine, only to be used when I DJ15:15
ali1234AlanBell: there is a clear definition of how long a package is supported, from that you can infer what the package is...15:16
cliftontsThere we go, format to EXT4. That's better15:16
DavieyAlanBell: there is some intentional fuzziness.15:16
AlanBellali1234: where?15:16
ali1234one of the fields on the package info15:17
AlanBellinteresting15:17
DavieyAlanBell: http://pb.daviey.com/cygI/ is a reasonable reference for main stuff, but some crucial stuff which people use will also recieve some love.15:17
AlanBellno openoffice-headless then :)15:18
cliftontsI never realised how many knackered hard drives I've been hoarding until today15:18
gordi have a closet of no return, where i put computer equipment that i might have a use for some day, but never do15:19
DavieyAlanBell: don't quote the list, it's only an indication :)15:19
cliftontsgord, in that case I have a living room, spare bedroom loft and hallway of no return!15:19
ali1234AlanBell: apt-cache show <package> | grep Supported15:20
cliftontsI started clearing out then ran out of time and it's all sat there half way out of the house for ages15:20
AlanBellthanks ali123415:21
Davieyali1234: That isn't exactly safe TBH, at current.15:22
ali1234why?15:22
cliftontsAnyone here know much about hard disk health?15:23
Davieyali1234: That is an indicator, but for some things, will exceed that.15:23
DavieyUniverse packages also do not include the Supported field, but some are kinda supported.15:24
Darael!anyone | cliftonts15:24
lubotu3`cliftonts: A high percentage of the first questions asked in this channel start with "Does anyone/anybody..." Why not ask your next question (the real one) and find out? See also !details, !gq, and !poll.15:24
ali1234kinda?15:24
ali1234should set the field to "kinda" then15:24
Seeker`cliftonts: meh, no reason to feel 'dirty', considering that linux wasn' particularly user friendly in 2004, I don't know what the state of *nix was in 199815:24
cliftontsif a hard disk sounds like it has a bunch of marbles rolling around inside it when it accesses and everything stalls while this is happening yet SMART and fsck insist it's healthy why can't they detect a problem?15:25
ali1234because there isn't one15:25
ali1234some hard drives are just loud, go figure...15:25
cliftontsSeeker, we've finally reached a point where I have no need for legacy windows installs15:25
DaraelThe "everything stalls" bit rather conflicts with that analysis, ali1234.15:25
ali1234not really15:25
ali1234ubuntu stalls on any hard drive activity15:26
ali1234this bug is a couple of years old15:26
Seeker`cliftonts: :) glad to hear it :P Still no need to feel dirty for having old windows isntalls lying around15:26
cliftontsali1234, any drive which goes klunk, klunk, klunk for 5 minutes before it will do anything must surely be dying15:26
ali1234you're probably only noticing the connection because the drive is so loud15:26
Seeker`if you think the drive is dying, back it up and replace it15:26
ali1234that sounds like thermal recalibration15:26
cliftontsno ali, I'm noticing the connection because the drive isn't reading data for considerable time after the request15:27
cliftontsthere's no data on it, but there isn't any way to save the drive is there?15:27
oimonSMART is not a guarantee of health15:27
ali1234i've seen ubuntu stall for over 5 minutes due to hard drive activity15:27
oimonalthough conversely if there is a smart error, then that is useful sign that it will fail soon15:28
cliftontsI know oimon it's just a little annoying that my ears are the only thing that can detect the fault15:28
ali1234look in the smart data at the number of themal recalibrations15:28
cliftontscalibration retry count? or thermal asperity rate?15:29
oimonusually dmesg has some messages though15:29
cliftontsoimon I won't have a lot of data as I'm running off a live disc15:30
DaraelSee what that Win98 install makes of it?  That would at least reveal which it was:  This stalling-on-any-hard-drive-access thing ali1234 mentioned, or a dying drive.15:30
ali1234calibration retry count15:30
cliftontsI know the drive is faulty, the noise is unmistakable15:30
ali1234basically if it's more than 0, drive is dying15:30
cliftontsNormalised: 250 - Worst: 250 - Threshold: 223 - Value 8589934650 - Good15:31
ali1234wat15:31
ali1234how can value be over 8 billion?15:32
ali1234every time it goes KLICK-KLUNK that's a thermal recalibration event15:33
cliftontsdon't ask me, more to the point if aything more than 0 is bad why is smart happy with that figure15:33
ali1234every time it does it more than once in a row, that counter should increment by one15:33
cliftontswell this drive has obviously been dying for a while then15:33
aeroplanezhttp://i.imgur.com/npjWz.jpg15:33
aeroplanezthatll work15:33
oimondoes it make a click click doinnnng noise like a spring against a pinball?15:33
cliftontsno, just the repeted click15:34
ali1234yeah about 200 years if that counter is accurate15:34
ali1234how old is the drive?15:34
oimonmy anti -drop drive used to click occasionally , which was ok. but click click click is bad15:34
cliftontsyou know it feels like that long ago win98 was released15:34
ali1234over ten years though?15:35
ali1234it probably has a poor or non-existant smart implementation then15:35
oimonand is due to die anyway15:35
cliftontsit's a 4.3 gb so not really worth anything. I'm just curious as I'd expected linux to be a bit more accurate in telling me which drives to bin15:35
ali1234smart is implemented in hard drive firmware15:36
ali1234it's just a bunch of counters15:36
oimonok we know jimmy wales is the most annoying thing ever, but the wordpress"browser out of date" is pretty bad too15:36
ali1234has a nyone got a link to the wikipedia screenshot with jimbo's head on an armadillo or something?15:37
cliftontsthe drive does still seem to be working somehow though15:38
ali1234it's quite possible that the little hole to equalise air pressure is blocked up15:38
cliftontsthat's a thought15:39
oimonrun badblocks?15:39
ali1234or maybe the motor/bearings are just wearing out15:39
Seeker`just throw the drive out? :P15:39
oimonagree. must be ridiculously slow15:39
cliftontsoh it's a maxtor, that explains it15:40
ali1234http://www.techerator.com/wp-content/uploads/jimmy-wales-everywhere.png15:40
ali1234found it15:40
ali1234it was a wombat15:40
Seeker`a 4.3gb drive isn't useful, and you've probably spent more time trying to work out whether it is dead or not than you ever will gain from using it :P15:40
oimonali1234: nice15:40
cliftontsguys I like to understand things, don't care about the driv but I've often wondered if there's a way to save a dying drive just like you could in the dark ages with norton utilities15:41
ali1234no15:41
oimoneuthanasia15:41
ali1234(and there never was)15:41
ali1234in the bad old days the filesystem would get corrupted for no reason15:41
cliftontsI din't ever see drives dying like this until the 850mb ones. I bet my old 40mb is still working out thre somewhere15:42
shaunothe goal with a dying drive is to be thankful you've got enough warning to pull data off it.  don't bother trying to save it - it won't return the favor.  it'll just die another day, and take everything it contains with it15:42
ali1234well a 40mb drive is pretty much just 10 floppy disks in a metal case15:42
Seeker`cliftonts: bet it isn't :P15:42
ali1234i've got a 2GB drive that still works15:43
cliftontsspeaking of which shauno I need to finish abandoning ship on my dying 1tb (it took a MAJOR tumble) now I've got a new drive15:43
ali1234it sounds like a powerdrill when it spins up though15:43
* daubers has seen a lot of the new 3TB drives failing recently :(15:43
DaraelFrankly, AHS.15:43
cliftontsthat's worth knowing15:43
oimonwatrer damage15:43
* Seeker` has stopped buying drives for now due to price15:43
cliftontsdo you think the data density is getting too high?15:43
daubersSeeker`: Wish I could do that :(15:43
* daubers has put an order in for £150k worth of drives today15:44
Seeker`daubers: got 6TB of space or so in my mythtv box. That'll keep me gonig for now15:44
Seeker`daubers: ah, you had to buy ~10TB of disks? :P15:44
dauberscliftonts: Nah, they're just too new. That and the factories in thailand being underwater has meant that quality has slipped a bit recently15:44
daubersSeeker`: You joke, I ordered ~10TB of SSD's a couple of weeks ago and that wasn't far off that price15:45
Seeker`if you're buying £150k of drives, they are all probably coming off the production line in sequence, so you'll get all of the bad ones15:45
daubersyup15:45
Seeker`the odds of a consumor / someone not buying insane quantities of them getting a terminal one is quite low15:46
daubersHappens now and again, we see it more or newer drives than older generation ones15:46
cliftontserm..I'm looking at a 6tb drive now - soft read error rate - 15891411253615:46
cliftontsthat's a big number!15:46
Seeker`6tb?15:46
cliftontsoops, gb15:46
Seeker`where'd you get a 6tb drive from?15:46
Seeker`:P15:46
dauberscliftonts: if these are old drives that haven't spun up in a while, the grease will probably have seized up so it won't spin up properly15:46
Seeker`daubers: I bought 8TB storage, 4x2tb disks, each disk was < £100 I think. Looked the other day, ~£200/disk now15:47
cliftontsyou know I think I'm going to have  big box in the computer fair labelled 'knackered crap - no offer refused'15:47
daubersSeeker`: Yeah :( It's rubbish15:47
daubersSeeker`: We were paying ~£90 a pop of enterprise 2TB disks last month, now they're about £150 a pop15:48
Seeker`ouch15:48
cliftontswow! I found a compressed doublespace disk. Who remembers that?15:48
* daubers was glad he stocked up just before the price rises hit15:48
Seeker`like I said, I've got 6TB of space left on my mmythtv box. Will take me a while to rip enough of my dvds to fill that lot15:48
Seeker`~1000 disks.15:48
daubersheh :)15:48
cliftontsthese will all end up in the bin but I need to make sure I haven't stored anything on them first15:49
Seeker`not sure I have that many :P15:49
DaraelTime to jury-rig a setup that takes a disk off a stack, stick it in the drive, rips it, and sticks it on another stack, clearly, Seeker`.15:50
ali1234that reminds me i still need to write that software to flash usb drives15:50
Seeker`Darael: haven't found any dvd rippers I really like on linux that work properly, so ripping on windows and transferring to my backend15:50
Seeker`Darael: transfer speed is more of a bottleneck atm15:51
DaraelAh.  Yes, I can imagine.15:51
Seeker`Need to get a 30m cat 5, then I can transfer stuff over my gigabit network15:52
cliftontsRight, I need to go and collect some kit I'm being given so I'll catch you guys later15:56
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RJAHILLThanks for the help earlier, home time now!16:18
czajkowskihttp://www.apps-world.net/europe/workshops/tv-apps-world  could be interesting if folks are around17:12
danfishme thinks it is now officially BEER O'CLOCK :D17:25
brobostigon:)17:26
* brobostigon awaits loads of pub foursquare checkins.17:26
danfishyou can all go home/pub/both if you live in a pub. I insist.17:26
brobostigon:)17:26
cliftontsAlanBell do you live in this room? Every time I come in here you're online17:36
AlanBellyes17:36
cliftontsit's nice, I like what you've done with the decor lol17:36
AlanBellactually I have irssi and screen so a constant connection running on a server, I connect to that17:36
AlanBellbut yeah, I am kind of here a lot :)17:37
cliftontswell that kit I went to pick up was a weird and varied assortment.17:39
czajkowskicliftonts: a lot of folks in here run screens to they never actually detach18:10
czajkowskibut may not be here18:10
czajkowskiidle times help if you're looking for someone18:10
cliftontsunderstood18:27
penguin42is 'keykoard' a valid word in some language?18:35
KrimZonhttp://translate.google.com/#auto|en|keykoard <- not in the vocabulary that google knows of any language it knows18:37
MartijnVdSpenguin42: it sounds like what we'd call a lanyard18:37
MartijnVdSpenguin42: (yes "lanyard" translates to "keycord" in DUtch)18:37
penguin42hmm, so I have a really cheap Keyboard  that identifies itself as Keykoard, and googling finds lots of people talking about USB keykoards18:37
KrimZongoogle suggests turkish18:37
MartijnVdSnah18:37
MartijnVdSit sounds like a cheap chinese knock-off18:38
penguin42MartijnVdS: Oh very18:38
MartijnVdSthen it's probably just a mis-coptied bit of firmware :)18:38
penguin42MartijnVdS: From the logs I think it's got a personality problem and also thinks it might be a mouse18:38
MartijnVdSyes18:39
MartijnVdSbad firmware :)18:39
MartijnVdSpenguin42: can you pastebin lsusb -vv18:39
MartijnVdSpenguin42: (as root)18:39
MartijnVdSpenguin42: and xinput list --long18:39
penguin42MartijnVdS: http://paste.ubuntu.com/749559/18:42
MartijnVdSpenguin42: it reports as a bus-powered keyboard (HID device).. what's the problem exactly? :)18:42
penguin42MartijnVdS: iProduct                2 USB Keykoard18:42
MartijnVdSpenguin42: yes that's just an arbitrary string provided by the manufacturer18:43
penguin42MartijnVdS: Indeed, a bit odd however18:43
MartijnVdSpenguin42: Cheap Chinese knockoffs often have small quirks like this18:44
MartijnVdSmy brother once got an 8 g_bit_ as an 8 g_byte_ USB memory stick ;)18:44
penguin42MartijnVdS: Nod - I was more surprised by the number of hits I got when googling for keykoard18:44
MartijnVdSexcept the firmware thought it was 8 g_byte_ and trying to access anything beyond 8 gbit broke it18:44
MartijnVdSLaney: I've filed my bug - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/89637618:50
lubotu3`Ubuntu bug 896376 in banshee (Ubuntu) "Galaxy Nexus (MTP, phone) doesn't show up in Banshee" [Undecided,New]18:50
czajkowskiAlanBell: popey http://orgxmas.eventbrite.co.uk/18:57
alexThunderrhi, any steam user from uk here?19:46
Laneyhello hash ubuntu uk22:32
LaneyMartijnVdS: ye beauty, as you reproed it on the daily you can just go ahead and file it on bugzilla if you are up for that22:32
funkyHatHello22:35
jutnuxfunkyHat: Hi22:37
AlanBellI think I have worn out my mouse wheel23:21
AlanBellon the cheapest mouse in the world evar23:21
AlanBellwhat mouse should I get?23:21
funkyHatMS mice are generally nice23:22
AlanBelltry again :)23:22
funkyHat⢁D23:22
jacobwlogitech with back/forward buttons and four way scroll wheel23:24
funkyHatback/forward buttons are soo good23:24
AlanBellhow about a magic touchpad? is that a mouse replacement?23:25
ali1234buy an intellimouse optical 1.123:25
ali1234it's the best mouse23:25
ali1234!best23:26
lubotu3`Usually, there is no single "best" application to perform a given task. It's up to you to choose, depending on your preferences, features you require, and other factors. Do NOT take polls in the channel. If you insist on getting people's opinions, ask BestBot in #ubuntu-bots.23:26
ali1234^ i don't care, it's the best23:26
funkyHatNice preemption ;)23:26
AlanBellthat factoid is the reason I didn't say "what is the best mouse?"23:39
mgdmAlanBell: I know a lot of folk like the magic touchpad, I've not tried one myself but I could see myself liking it23:40
AlanBellnot sure I am after the "best" mouse anyhow23:40
ali1234why would you not want to buy the best mouse23:40
AlanBellI want a pointing device that is good23:41
AlanBellI might want the most interesting good pointing device23:41
ali1234the best is good23:41
mgdmPersonally I fancy one of the Thinkpad keyboards with the trackpoint in the centre23:41
buzz_my mouse was <£023:41
buzz_<£10 even23:41
jacobwha, factoid proliteration is endangering question askers23:41
AlanBellbuzz_: the one with the faily wheel was I think free with a £3 keyboard23:42
jacobwtrackpoints are awesome23:42
jacobwa system76 with a trackpoint would be really awesome23:42
buzz_http://www.amazon.co.uk/Trust-16536-Click-Wireless-Optical/dp/B0028YUK7E23:42
buzz_my mouse23:42
ali1234wireless :|23:42
AlanBellyours has a brand name and everything buzz_23:43
buzz_heh23:43
ali1234brb, batteries are running out in my keyboaaaoaoaoaooooaoaooaoaoaoaooaoao23:43
buzz_i have another trust mouse (wired) that was £5 i think also bought from my loacl wilkinson23:43
AlanBellmine has "3d Optical Mouse" and "Made in China" on it23:44
AlanBelland it isn't wireless23:44
ali1234is it blue with likea trackball nstead of a wheel?23:44
buzz_i wouldnt spend £70 etc on a mouse. i wear them out. i had a expensive mouse before and it lasted just as long as the cheap ones23:44
penguin42Gah! Scan print the 1st four, and 4 from the other end card numbers on their paperwork - that's nuts!23:44
AlanBellali1234: black case, blue illuminated ruberised wheel23:44
jacobw3d mouse makes no sense23:44
buzz_everything was better in 2d23:45
ali1234my intellimouse is over 10 years old and still going strong23:45
AlanBellmaybe I need a 4d mouse now23:45
buzz_10 years? it must look like a mess23:45
ali1234if it breaks i'll buy another one exactly the same23:45
jacobwyou need a 10d string theory ready mouse :p23:45
buzz_i bet your mouse smells of finger cheese23:46
ali1234probably23:46
ali1234it has smooth patches worn into the buttons23:46
buzz_i have one of these http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/1/5/0/8/6/2/webimg/451786345_tp.jpg23:49
buzz_:)23:49
buzz_still in the box..23:49
buzz_and one of these - http://hitchcomcomputers.com/cart/images/commodore%20music%20maker.jpg ;-)23:50
ali1234is that the plastic keyboard that goes over the keyboard?23:50
buzz_yeh23:50
ali1234i used to have one of those23:50
ali1234and the plotter23:51
buzz_i think ive got the plotter in the loftg23:52
buzz_-g23:52
ali1234i had the light rifle too23:53
ali1234got rid of it all when the c64 died23:53
buzz_if my c64 dies, ill get another :)23:54

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