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AlanBellmorning all09:24
daubersmorning09:35
MartijnVdShellos09:35
popeymorning all09:55
christelmorning -uk :)09:57
dauberswoot! Another OU assessment done10:15
bigcalmGood morning my fair people10:17
awilkinsThis church has surprisingly good mobile signal. Would have thought all the lead on the roof would block it.10:26
ali1234probably been nicked10:26
awilkinsThe organ pipes must be like a phased-array antenna or something.10:27
awilkinsOr sold off by the vicar and replaced with three sheets of Mylar10:28
awilkinsOh great, a smoker sat near me10:28
awilkins2nd hand smokestench for 2 hours :(10:29
MartijnVdSanother reason for atheism :P10:29
ali1234wait are you ircing from a sermon?10:29
awilkinsAs if you hadn't guessed, am here to avert emotional blackmail repercussions.10:29
awilkinsWifelet is a godbotherer10:30
ali1234that's not very pious10:30
gordonjc1pipe organs are the best thing about churches10:31
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gordonjcpa pipe organ is the best way to get serious bass10:32
gordonjcpall the dubstep kiddies are Doing It Wrong10:33
bigcalmMmmmmmmm, bass10:33
awilkinsAnd they were mentioned in Cryptonomicon which makes them practically geekchic10:33
bigcalmI do like to hear an organ being played when I stumble upon a church or cathedral (usually on holiday and visiting something grand))10:34
bigcalmawilkins: so you'll be off to midnight mass?10:34
awilkinsNot catholic10:36
awilkinsWifelet and child are singing10:36
danfish_awilkins: wifelet? Are you Lord Bath? How many have you got?10:37
danfish_morning btw10:37
bigcalmFreecycle is the best source for new and weird words. Somebody is offering a roof rack that is "adjusterable"10:37
MartijnVdSbigcalm: Adjustissimo!10:37
gordonjcpbigcalm: hah10:37
gordonjcpyou know what I don't quite get about freecycle?10:38
MartijnVdSthe 'free' bit?10:38
gordonjcpthe sheer number of people freecycling breast pumps10:38
bigcalmGiving stuff away?10:38
bigcalmHaha10:38
gordonjcpjust... what?10:38
gordonjcpwhy would you want a used one?10:38
gordonjcpis it some sort of code for something?10:38
shaunoyou should try to find out.  see how many you can collect before something strange happens.  I'm sure it'll make an interesting story one day10:41
shaunoI can understand the motivation tho.  it's a bit of kit that they've considered foodsafe for however long, probably hopefully) sterilized on a disturbingly regular basis, and then retired at a relatively young age10:44
shaunobut the moment it's second-hand, it's haraam10:44
ali1234i should put all my junk on freecycle10:46
awilkinsSo far, we've had : wrath, hegemony as reward for child-murder. Who knows whats next?10:53
awilkinsIgnorance of basic biology!11:01
shaunoto quote the internet, "you're doing it wrong".  you're meant to suspend all logical analysis at the door.  otherwise you'll only end up in tears.  and possibily mildly offended11:03
MartijnVdS\o/ CHDK11:29
brobostigongood mornign everyone.11:31
MartijnVdShi brobostigon11:32
* MartijnVdS is making a time-lapse video of the sky11:32
MartijnVdSnice dramatic hail clouds :)11:32
brobostigonhi MartijnVdS11:32
zleaphello11:40
brobostigonMartijnVdS: cool, sounds interesting. :)11:40
MartijnVdSLightning!11:41
MartijnVdSbrobostigon: If you have a Canon point&shoot camera (Ixus, Powershot), look up CHDK11:41
zleapthats the calender and to do list add on for TB iirc11:41
MartijnVdSbrobostigon: it's a custom firmware that runs in the RAM of the camera only (so no warranty issues)11:41
brobostigonMartijnVdS: ah, interesting, i will have a look, didnt know that was possible.11:42
MartijnVdSbrobostigon: and it's scriptable using Lua or Basic11:44
brobostigonMartijnVdS: interesting,11:46
MartijnVdSI've set mine to do a shot every 4 seconds11:47
MartijnVdSso every minute I get 1 second of 12 FPS video11:48
MartijnVdS(below that, it loses smoothness)11:48
zleapwhat do i need to restore the boot loader on a computer that was dual boot winxp and ubuntu but a windows re-install has trashed the boot loader i have booted a 11.1012:03
MartijnVdSzleap: grub-install12:06
zleapthanks12:06
zleapdo i need to specify the first partition on the drive e.g sda12:10
zleapor what ever it is,12:10
MartijnVdSno12:10
MartijnVdS/dev/sda is good12:10
zleapok12:10
zleapand grub should find where ubuntu is installed to12:10
MartijnVdSzleap: it knows :)12:10
zleapok12:10
zleapok that fails12:17
zleapas I am used to 11.04, how do I from a live cd mount the windows hard disk12:17
zleapin 11.04 theres a places menu12:17
MartijnVdSopen nautilus, then click on it?12:18
zleapok12:18
MartijnVdSheh12:26
MartijnVdSencoding h264 video12:26
MartijnVdSat 0.25 fps12:26
MartijnVdSusing all my CPU cores12:26
penguin42how many?12:26
MartijnVdS4 cores12:26
MartijnVdSmaybe it's 2 + hyperthreading12:26
penguin42which CPU?12:27
MartijnVdSmodel name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU         530  @ 2.93GHz12:27
MartijnVdSthe i3 bit might be the issue12:28
* MartijnVdS is saving money for an Ivy Bridge i7 in April-May12:28
MartijnVdSthat should be able to hardware-encode h26412:28
penguin42MartijnVdS: http://ark.intel.com/products/46472/Intel-Core-i3-530-Processor-(4M-Cache-2_93-GHz)   2 cores, 4 threads12:29
penguin42still, I'm surprised it's that bad - what res video?12:29
zleapok typing grub-instlall results in it saying it can't find a device, is /dev mounted12:31
zleapi will just re-install its easier12:31
zleapthere used to be a gui tool for this, but it's gone12:31
MartijnVdSzleap: you have to chroot into the installed path12:32
zleaphow do i do tjhat12:32
MartijnVdSzleap: (also, bind-mount /dev and /proc and /sys)12:32
MartijnVdSzleap: 1 moment12:32
MartijnVdShttps://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows12:33
MartijnVdSpenguin42: those new Ivy Bridge i7 CPUs are supposed to have 6-8 cores with 2 threads/core12:35
penguin42MartijnVdS: In the single socket ones?12:35
penguin42MartijnVdS: You can get a 6 core i7 now I think (core extreme something or other)12:36
MartijnVdSpenguin42: yes.. but I don't have enough money yet ;)(12:36
penguin42yeh, they're not cheap12:36
MartijnVdSpenguin42: hm.. Ivy Bridge "Performance" will be 4 cores/8 threads12:36
zleapok, given there is nothing important on that partition,  and alli wanted to do was restore grub so i could boot into ubuntu to make a live cdrom I(wndows sucks at that)  would it be easier to simply make a usb flash disk boot with 12.04 and do it that way just reinstall with 12.0412:37
MartijnVdSzleap: Windows 7 can burn ISOs straight out of the box12:38
MartijnVdSzleap: also, unetbootin :)12:39
penguin42zleap: Hmm remember 12.04 is in alpha - anything may break and you might need to recover12:41
zleappenguin42, i know its on a 2nd system anyway12:46
MartijnVdS2nd system effect?12:47
zleapi have a 2nd pc which iks space hence i have it dual boot with windows and ubuntu, so its for messing around with anyway12:47
zleapis spare12:48
MartijnVdSbrobostigon: http://youtu.be/B9fyGO2i6Fk12:53
zleapok windows xp sucks at that12:54
brobostigonMartijnVdS: looks good, :)12:55
zleapok i am off to have a play with 12.04 which looks good in virtual box btw12:58
MartijnVdSbrobostigon: making a new (longer) one with more cloud coolness13:39
brobostigonMartijnVdS: :)13:41
MartijnVdSeven the import in shotwell looks amazing :)13:42
brobostigon:)13:42
MartijnVdSit's going to take a bit longer to encode too13:43
MartijnVdS(more images)13:43
brobostigonyes.13:44
MartijnVdSuploading.. :)14:06
MartijnVdS(8 minutes remaining)14:06
brobostigonhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cVKL9XWZMM&feature=related :)14:13
MartijnVdShey that's the background/intro music for the radio version :)14:13
brobostigonalso the film, but yes originally the radio series. :)14:14
MartijnVdSbrobostigon: http://youtu.be/5Idee9HRQrc (will be online shortly)14:14
brobostigonMartijnVdS: ok, let me look in a mo.14:14
brobostigonMartijnVdS: i like that piece of music, just the banjo, and pretty much nothing else, it is amazing really.14:15
MartijnVdSI think my dad might have it on vinyl - he has loads of Eagles on vinyl14:16
brobostigonMartijnVdS: it is by no band. it was made for that, by the band that did the music for the radio series, if memory serves.14:17
MartijnVdSbrobostigon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbhAf62wfgE14:17
MartijnVdSbrobostigon: it's by the Eagles14:17
AlanBellmy fingers hurt14:17
MartijnVdSAlanBell: what did you do?14:17
AlanBellI need to be better at not picking up soldering irons from the wrong end14:17
brobostigonMartijnVdS: wow, interesting, i did not know.14:18
AlanBellbut on the plus side, the robot circuit board is complete and ready for testing14:18
MartijnVdSAlanBell: A coworker has a t-shirt "If it smells like chicken, you're holding it wrong"14:18
AlanBellI was teaching the kids how to solder safely :)14:19
brobostigonlol :)14:19
SuprEngrhi all.. and AlanBell ... try it when working in a friends garden... burn causes a drop of iron onto wire - daft instint makes you turn around and put one hand on ground - other on wire....  ffffthcccchhhh = ouch - bang - burn14:21
SuprEngr*instinct  ;)14:22
SuprEngrAnyone know of a way to get Rhytjmbox [in 10.04] to open in Podcast view rather than music view.  gconf no help.14:36
czajkowskialoha15:06
penguin42dal.net is really unhappy today15:44
matttpeople still chat on dal.net?16:18
penguin42mattt: There is a #science that I occupy; it's not particularly busy but I don't know of another16:30
mgdm#occupyscience16:39
penguin42it's difficult, if you claim to be the 99% they ask you to prove it16:44
mgdmheh heh16:44
popey17:20
mgdmಠ_ಠ17:21
popeylike that one17:21
Nafallochristel: the good glögg is gone, and they haven't got any more ☹17:25
christelNafallo: aww :(17:51
Nafallochristel: now I've got three bottles of 10% vinglögg instead of the 21% cognac laced one :-P17:54
christelaww17:54
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* czajkowski tickles christel 18:00
* christel bites czajkowski 18:02
* Nafallo orders chinese18:02
czajkowskioi cheeky18:04
czajkowskichristel: how goes it my dear?18:04
czajkowskiMooDoo: like the pics? very hit and miss but a good work shop all the same18:04
Nafalloomnomnomnomnomnom glögg ♥18:05
* bigcalm waves some wine around (not the same but trying to blend in)18:07
christelczajkowski: not bad! not done with my christmas shopping yet mind :s18:10
czajkowskichristel: oh dear what's left?18:10
Nafallogah. stupid candle18:11
czajkowskiNafallo: are you drunk ?18:16
Nafalloczajkowski: not yet/anymore18:17
Nafalloczajkowski: it's tagged as taken at "Grenwich", which is what I'm referring to.18:19
czajkowskifixed18:20
Nafallo\o/18:21
Nafallothe rejoicing can commence18:21
christelczajkowski: inlaws!18:35
czajkowskiah lovely18:38
christeli just haven't a clue what to get them18:39
Nafallocamels18:41
Nafallono one else would have given them camels18:41
Nafallohmmm18:41
Nafallothat's not a bad idea that...18:42
Nafallobah. damn orange messing up my google search. wrong kind of animal to pay for...18:43
djonesANybody picked up on this http://goo.gl/5VXaB Interesting review/comparison of Unity, Gnome 3 and KDE desktops, ends up putting Unity 2nd after KDE20:10
zleaphi20:19
* zleap now has 12.04 dvd ready for testing20:20
popeyAlanBell: you about?20:49
popeyAlanBell: one person is getting cruddy audio from your mumble server, can't figure out why20:51
AlanBellhi20:52
shaunoare they on the same client/platform as everyone else?  Most problems I've run into with that sorta thing, have been the availability of various codecs in various implementations20:53
popeywe're both on 11.1020:54
zleaphi22:12
zleap12.04 looks pretty cool22:12
brobostigongood night everyone, sleep well.22:41
les_hanyone here have any samba wisdom? I can't figure out what's going wrong23:06
gordonjcpdon't ask to ask23:07
les_hI'm afraid my question really is that vague. It's not working and I don't know how to proceede23:09
gordonjcpwell without a crystal ball it's hard to know where to start23:09
gordonjcpwhat have you tried? what happened when you tried it? what did you expect?23:09
AlanBell!samba23:10
lubotu3Samba is the way to cooperate with Windows environments. Links with more info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MountWindowsSharesPermanently and https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/windows-networking.html - Samba can be administered via the web with SWAT.23:10
AlanBellmight be some troubleshoting info there23:11
les_hI followed the how-to instructions ( http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/install.html ) and also created a guest share.  testparm says it's ok and i can connect with smbclient to localhost and it's advertised on avahi and shows up on my mac, but when i try to connect there, i get a connection failed23:11
les_hnmblookup -d 2 '*' returns a bunch of lines of tdb(/var/run/samba/unexpected.tdb): tdb_open_ex: could not open file /var/run/samba/unexpected.tdb: No such file or directory23:12
les_hand the log file for it says [2011/12/18 22:11:30.116959,  0] nmbd/nmbd_subnetdb.c:250(create_subnets)23:13
les_h  create_subnets: Waiting for an interface to appear ...23:13
les_hi suspect i may be barking up the wrong tree, though23:13
les_hdefH0j1423:22
ubuntuuk-planet[Gareth France] Today Britain! Tomorrow&..well, Britain I suppose& - http://cliftonts.co.uk/cubuntu/?p=2323:31

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