=== Faqtotum is now known as DonkeyHotei [03:27] Is Mark bringing the penguin suit? === dedalux is now known as Decheverris === Decheverris is now known as DEcheverriS [06:19] bkerensa, how did yhou block your website? im looking to shutdown my wp hosted site today [06:21] [Mon 2012-01-16 05:26:12 PM PST] [06:22] i need to do that on my wp site i beleive [06:22] you're late [06:22] wikipedia is already blacked out [06:22] no im not. here in california its the 17th [06:22] i know that [06:22] aren't they going by utc? [06:23] or at least est [06:23] est [06:23] washington dc time ;) [06:23] yeah, but i made my script to do pacific [06:23] im lame like that [06:23] my wp theeme doesnt support pluggins, so im gonna switch [06:24] no google's main page today is what's lame [06:33] my wordpress site doesnt support plugins :( [06:41] http://philipballew.wordpress.com/ down [06:42] * philipballew_ signing out [07:11] philipballew: Not sure which one there are many [07:12] :( [07:12] my net is really broke atm so I cant even check [07:12] bkerensa secretly moved to kenya to replace grantbow and didn't tell us [07:12] why is your internet so terrible? :) [07:14] well [07:14] the main Access Point went down [07:14] and I cant access it at all [07:14] its not responding to ping, telnet, http nothing [07:14] main access point? [07:15] Yeah I live adjacent to one of the hotels I do wifi for [07:15] ah [07:15] so I have to wait maybe till tomorrow for our maintainance guy to come out and go on the roof and take down the AP so I can reset the device [07:15] or potentially replace it [07:15] fun [07:15] and its snowing [07:15] so idk [07:15] :( [07:15] I want snow [07:16] I dont [07:16] but I have to say, it is cold [07:16] * bkerensa_ sends to California [07:16] 38F! [07:16] actually getting below freezing in the north bay this week [07:16] anyways yeah I cant get this AP to respond for the life of me its not broadcasting at all :( problem is it uses POE [07:16] I think to replace it might cost $1000 [07:17] eek [07:17] maybe I will go get Clear tomorrow :) === DonkeyHotei is now known as iScream === iScream is now known as DonkeyHotei [14:01] anyone having internet issues? [14:01] in Central Coast? [17:02] boo, not sure my chumby8 will be here before I leave [17:04] supposed to get here tomorrow, but mail comes late, I might need to leave before it arrives [18:18] Nice! [18:18] Wikipedia is down [18:19] :D [18:20] has been for ages [18:20] just noticed that it's down in protest to SOPA [18:20] I'm thinking that is going to be one of my hot topics for this weekend. [18:22] it's already been a hot topic in this channel for more than 24 hours [18:23] i'm proud to report that i was the one who brought it up here first [18:26] Weird, I've been doing a bunch of wikipedia lookups this morning and they've been working here. [18:27] wikipedia still works unfettered if you are a user of NoScript, sadly [18:27] ah [18:28] yeah, they just use javascript for the "blackout" [18:30] Maybe I should feel guilty that the net's still working for me. :) [18:32] yes. BURN, WITCH! j/k [19:08] There we go... blacked out my site. [19:25] Looks like the presenter system for Ubucon is running precise nice and easy. [19:26] The presenter system being laptops provided in the rooms? [19:27] akk: The presenter system being my personal desktop computer with a Velociraptor hard drive donated for the weekend by a coworker, tha I lug to the conference. [19:27] s/tha/that/ [19:27] ah, your presenter system, thought you meant something conference-wide [19:28] Ubucon-wide. :) [19:28] ah [19:29] Between the Velociraptor drive and backup thumb drives, should be perfect for presentations. [19:45] It's booting pretty slow, though. Might drop back to oneiric (or dual boot). [19:55] That's a bummer, if boot time has gotten slower. [19:56] BTW, I installed oneiric last night on the ExoPC for the booth. [19:56] It's pretty much ready to go, but it has some issues -- like Banshee keeps popping up every minute or two, I have no idea why. [19:57] Booth people are more than welcome to configure things to make it work better. :) [19:58] akk: when I unplug the network cable it drops from 49s bootup to 14s bootup. So It's probably just a work-in-progress sort of thing. [19:59] Disable network boot in the BIOS [19:59] As I'm auditing the boot process from bootloader to desktop, I doubt that is applicable. [19:59] Oneiric hangs for 3+ minutes at boot if there's no network available. :( Pangolin probably does too. [19:59] ahhh [20:00] akk: opposite for me! [20:00] I can't imagine who thought it was a good idea to make boot dependent on configuring the network, on an OS that can run on laptops. [20:00] Well, with precise, anyway. Oneiric doesn't care. [20:01] i run oneiric and wifi connects only after the desktop appears, pretty quickly [20:01] If there's an entry in /etc/network/interfaces that involves DHCP, then the boot will wait on DHCP for minutes. [20:01] Hmm, that's odd. [20:01] Seems like that should background. [20:01] You might think. [20:02] bug [20:02] Unfortunately the networking stuff isn't scriptable to the extent where I can just edit /etc/init.d/networking and add an & after the dhcp [20:02] (the dhcp is coming from something deep inside ifconfig or ifup or some other C program) [20:03] I should probably add something to /etc/init.d/something-called-early that does a rm /etc/network/interfaces. [20:03] not if there's something in there you want [20:04] yeah, but at least I can always copy something there later [20:04] though I like having the network available early if it's actually there [20:05] At SCALE I'll probably have to have networking turned off anyway, unless they have a WPA network available (nobody seems to know). [20:06] scale connectivity was never good [20:07] I wasn't able to get a signal most of last year ... I think I got one for a few minutes at a time, a few times [20:07] but my new laptop doesn't seem able to talk to open/802.11b networks at all (Broadcom, probably a bug in the driver?) [20:08] I ordered a new Intel wifi card, but I'm a bit nervous about opening up my laptop for the first time a day before a conference [20:08] so I might chicken out on that. [20:09] there are several competing drivers for broadcom, so try a different one [20:10] I thought there were several drivers because there were several chips? Didn't know I could use a different driver with this chip. [20:11] (brcm80211 is the driver, I think) [20:11] depends which chip it is [20:11] some have more than one driver and some don't [20:12] I think it's a brcm4313 [20:12] follow the dmesg-brick road [20:12] (or maybe 3413, I get those confused) [20:14] akk: nothing like upgrading a computer the day before an important conference to get the adrenaline running! [20:16] DonkeyHotei: dmesg doesn't actually give a model, just "Broadcom BCM43xx" [20:17] bah [20:17] not on any line? [20:17] I've grepped -i broadcom and -i brcm [20:17] try grepping 43 [20:18] I knew you were going to say that [20:18] though, not every model in the 43xx line actually begins with 43 [20:19] The only thing 43 matches that wasn't shown in the other lines is: "Applying 4313 WARs" [20:19] which I suspect is the chip just because grepping for broadcom linux finds a lot of 4313 references [20:20] though I don't know what a WAR is in that context. [20:20] In A.D. 2101 war was beginning. [20:20] (war is not an easy thing to google for :) [20:21] definitely not a song by edwin starr [20:21] I also never found a way to google for "my broadcom works on WPA but not on open networks" [20:22] Lots of pages contain both words WPA and open, or 802.11b and 802.11g -- the trick is googling for cases where one works and the other doesn't. [20:35] http://thedailywtf.com/ good sopa page [20:39] heh [20:40] That bit about the joys of discovering a new phone number -- that even applied to the early web (pre search engines). [20:42] I remember URLs got passed around word-of-mouth -- "Hey, there's a BOOKSTORE on the web now!" "Oh, yeah? Cool! How do I see it?" [20:44] pre-working search engines i suppose :) === dedalux is now known as DEcheverriS