Kilos | cremora minora | 05:59 |
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Kilos | Maaz, coffee on | 06:01 |
* Maaz flips the salt-timer | 06:01 | |
Maaz | Coffee's ready for Kilos! | 06:05 |
Kilos | Maaz, thanks man | 06:05 |
Maaz | Kilos It gives me great pleasure to serve a bunch of geeks :-) | 06:05 |
Kilos | morning maiatoday | 06:06 |
maiatoday | hi Kilos | 06:06 |
Kilos | you well maiatoday | 06:07 |
Kilos | we miss you | 06:07 |
maiatoday | fine thanks, have hand in thesis mid march, super busy | 06:07 |
maiatoday | but I'll be back soon | 06:07 |
maiatoday | :) | 06:07 |
Kilos | whew | 06:07 |
Kilos | oh well i spose we will servive till then | 06:08 |
Kilos | bbl | 06:10 |
inetpro_ | superfly: I wonder | 06:17 |
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inetpro | good morning everyone | 06:22 |
inetpro | Maaz: coffee on | 06:23 |
* Maaz puts the kettle on | 06:23 | |
Maaz | Coffee's ready for inetpro! | 06:27 |
inetpro | nice | 06:27 |
inetpro | Maaz: dankie | 06:27 |
Maaz | Groot plesier inetpro my vriend | 06:27 |
nuvolari | o/ mornings | 06:31 |
superfly | inetpro: about what? | 06:53 |
inetpro | 08/02 00:17:41 <superfly> inetpro: what are you still doing up?! | 06:53 |
superfly | ah, OK | 06:57 |
superfly | hehehe | 06:57 |
superfly | morning morgs, kbmonkey | 07:36 |
morgs | morning! | 07:36 |
kbmonkey | hi o/ | 07:36 |
superfly | I wish I could work on OSS full time and get paid for it :-( | 07:37 |
superfly | but, having said that, I'm enjoying working on embedded stuff :-) | 07:37 |
kbmonkey | I hear you superfly :) | 07:39 |
kbmonkey | hi Kilos | 07:51 |
Kilos | kbmonkey, good morning | 07:51 |
Kilos | you see i got the list going | 07:52 |
kbmonkey | superfly I see google sites supports custom domain names, via cname records. | 07:52 |
kbmonkey | neat. | 07:52 |
Kilos | maybe when we through the course my pc will go better | 07:52 |
kbmonkey | If we can get that custom name, za.net for now, it would be helpful :) | 07:52 |
kbmonkey | thanks Kilos! | 07:53 |
kbmonkey | :) :) | 07:53 |
Kilos | hiya superfly | 07:53 |
kbmonkey | your pc will be super beast after this Kilos | 08:16 |
Kilos | lol if i can find that ioctl goody | 08:17 |
Kilos | cant enable dma | 08:18 |
Kilos | methinks i finding something similar | 08:21 |
Kilos | https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hdparm/+bug/257840 | 08:21 |
Kilos | aw they dont get to a cure | 08:29 |
kbmonkey | not sure what to make of that Kilos | 08:34 |
kbmonkey | need to get going, be back later | 08:34 |
Kilos | go safe | 08:34 |
Kilos | i got more info | 08:34 |
kbmonkey | good. ciao ciao | 08:34 |
Kilos | will mail the cure if i find it | 08:34 |
kbmonkey | suggest if you stuck to write down findings and propose it as a question at the Q&A | 08:35 |
Kilos | yip i am saving all of this | 08:35 |
kbmonkey | good :) | 08:36 |
superfly | Kilos: did yo usee my reply to your e-mail? | 08:40 |
Kilos | aw no superfly will check now ty | 08:40 |
Kilos | superfly, i got a ide (pata) drive and i do have /sda | 08:42 |
Kilos | i get same probs as these guys https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/228302 | 08:45 |
Kilos | working my way through it | 08:45 |
Kilos | one guy has a workaround but it changes sda to hda and lotsa other stuff like uuids | 08:47 |
Kilos | i wont try that | 08:47 |
Kilos | these guys found workarounds by fiddling in the kernel and some of their pc's would boot after | 09:18 |
Kilos | im scared to try that | 09:19 |
Kilos | could it be because smart is not active in the bios | 09:19 |
zeref | huuuurrrrmmm | 09:23 |
Kilos | hi zeref | 09:24 |
Kilos | Maaz, lpi manual | 09:56 |
Maaz | http://www.linuxcertification.co.za/lpi-study-manual | 09:56 |
Kilos | how does one know when there is a reply at bugs.launchpad.net? | 10:00 |
zeref-Lap | hi kilos | 10:02 |
Kilos | hi zeref | 10:02 |
Kilos | and zeref-Lap too | 10:02 |
zeref-Lap | ta tumbleweed for the help last night, got it working | 10:06 |
tumbleweed | cool | 10:07 |
Kilos | bbl | 10:13 |
nuvolari | Maaz: tell kilos oom, you are too quick. every time I actually get here to talk you left already :P | 10:32 |
Maaz | nuvolari: Okay, I'll tell Kilos on freenode | 10:32 |
Kilos | ha ha ha nuvolari skuus man | 12:18 |
Kilos | superfly, in another place i looked it says /sdx drives cant be done you gotta make them /hdx | 12:22 |
Kilos | so i give up with that now | 12:22 |
Kilos | not a good start to lpi course but yeah | 12:24 |
* nuvolari sees uncle Kilos is going to beat him at lpi training | 12:27 | |
Kilos | haha nuvolari you missed the meet last night. I told you | 12:28 |
Kilos | you naughty | 12:28 |
nuvolari | ya I know oom :-/ been working on the photography club's website | 12:38 |
Kilos | lol never mind you are forgiven | 12:39 |
Kilos | dont miss the next one on the 14th | 12:39 |
Kilos | hey you clever peeps, i have got stresslinux and dont understand how it can ask for name and password when installing | 15:36 |
Kilos | its like the ubuntucd asking for name and password before it will install | 15:37 |
Kilos | as jy kan sukkel, sal jy | 15:54 |
Kilos | murphy is strong in the IT field | 16:01 |
Mezenir | greetings | 16:05 |
Kilos | hi Mezenir | 16:10 |
Mezenir | whats news | 16:15 |
Kilos | safe stuff different day | 16:28 |
Kilos | lo Squirm | 16:28 |
Squirm | lo there Kilos | 16:28 |
Kilos | you well laddy? | 16:29 |
Kilos | hey sakhi | 16:30 |
Squirm | I am good thanks :) yourself? | 16:32 |
Kilos | good ty. what you doing with yourself | 16:32 |
Kilos | did i see somewhere you studying? | 16:32 |
superfly | maiatoday: ping | 17:16 |
kbmonkey | how is it going Kilos | 19:01 |
Kilos | good ty and you | 19:02 |
kbmonkey | good | 19:02 |
Kilos | what you been doing | 19:02 |
kbmonkey | really wanted a koffie. i made tea against my better want | 19:02 |
Kilos | lol | 19:03 |
Kilos | Maaz, coffee on | 19:03 |
* Maaz flips the salt-timer | 19:03 | |
kbmonkey | was out job hunting today. no luck yet. | 19:03 |
kbmonkey | going through that study stuff now | 19:03 |
Kilos | eish | 19:03 |
Kilos | have you tired employment agencies kbmonkey | 19:04 |
Kilos | i dunno if they do IT jobs but who knows | 19:04 |
kbmonkey | i did before. will try those again but they are pretty bad | 19:05 |
kbmonkey | Maaz coffee | 19:05 |
Maaz | kbmonkey: *blink* | 19:05 |
Kilos | are there any chances in sleepy hollow | 19:05 |
kbmonkey | Maaz coffee please | 19:05 |
Maaz | kbmonkey: Okay | 19:05 |
kbmonkey | no but plenty roadworks going on. maybe i can lay some asphalt | 19:06 |
kbmonkey | sudo make road | 19:06 |
Kilos | hehe | 19:06 |
Kilos | you'll have to add nano as well | 19:07 |
Maaz | Coffee's ready for Kilos and kbmonkey! | 19:07 |
Kilos | Maaz, thanks man | 19:07 |
Maaz | Kilos It gives me great pleasure to serve a bunch of geeks :-) | 19:07 |
kbmonkey | how is all doing today? | 19:22 |
Kilos | who you talking to kbmonkey | 19:22 |
kbmonkey | whoever :) | 19:23 |
Kilos | he isnt here | 19:23 |
Kilos | been a quiet day | 19:23 |
maiatoday_too | hey Kilos kbmonkey | 19:24 |
maiatoday_too | I am waiting for my cousing to finish watchin video on how to go on irc | 19:24 |
Kilos | found bug info saying only way to fix that dma is to change /sda to /hda | 19:24 |
Kilos | hehe hiya maiatoday_too | 19:24 |
kbmonkey | hiya maiatoday_too | 19:25 |
maiatoday_too | he wants to play starcraft and I said maybe someone in here knows how and is awake | 19:25 |
maiatoday_too | I just got him to install ubuntu on his laptop | 19:25 |
Kilos | then gotta change uuid's as well and thats too much schlep | 19:25 |
kbmonkey | starcraft on nix? yes why not | 19:25 |
maiatoday_too | he is young and very keen | 19:25 |
maiatoday_too | let's see if he manages to get in here all by himself | 19:26 |
kbmonkey | hi magespawn | 19:26 |
magespawn | Howdy all | 19:26 |
Kilos | let him use xchat maiatoday_too | 19:26 |
Kilos | hiya magespawn | 19:26 |
maiatoday_too | well he isn't here I talk to him on the phone briefly | 19:27 |
Kilos | aha | 19:27 |
maiatoday_too | we can get him to use xchat, but for now I just suggested empathy, I know it is a dog but he can start with that | 19:27 |
Kilos | young?? | 19:27 |
maiatoday_too | 13 | 19:27 |
Kilos | ah | 19:27 |
Kilos | to me you all are young | 19:27 |
maiatoday_too | hehe | 19:28 |
Kilos | pidgin is better than empathy | 19:28 |
kbmonkey | now now gramps | 19:28 |
magespawn | Young for what? | 19:28 |
Kilos | hehe | 19:28 |
maiatoday_too | yeah I know pidgin is better too but at the moment I don't want to put too many hurdles up for him | 19:28 |
maiatoday_too | if likes to irc you guys can all weigh in and tell him what to use | 19:28 |
Kilos | ok | 19:29 |
kbmonkey | Kilos is our reference guy! | 19:29 |
magespawn | He is 13 probable take about that long in.seconds to work it out. | 19:29 |
kbmonkey | he has a little red book with tricks written down | 19:29 |
Kilos | yeah they quick kids are | 19:29 |
kbmonkey | about the age I started with pc's. didnt have net though | 19:30 |
kbmonkey | so what did we do without the net, you ask? | 19:30 |
Kilos | played games | 19:31 |
kbmonkey | we played snakes! | 19:31 |
kbmonkey | and then made our own. | 19:31 |
* kbmonkey rambling as this green tea is super bitter today | 19:31 | |
Kilos | hee hee green tea | 19:31 |
magespawn | I had a text dungeon hack and slash | 19:31 |
Kilos | sposed to be healthy | 19:32 |
kbmonkey | the Mines of Moria? | 19:32 |
kbmonkey | and Angband? | 19:32 |
Rooitier | ok | 19:33 |
maiatoday_too | hi Rooitier | 19:33 |
Kilos | hi Rooitier | 19:33 |
magespawn | I used to mess around with zx spectrum 28k still have it and it still works | 19:33 |
Kilos | that was quick | 19:33 |
Rooitier | ? | 19:33 |
magespawn | Hi Rooitier | 19:33 |
maiatoday_too | Kilos Rooitier is on in xchat he says | 19:33 |
kbmonkey | hello Rooitier | 19:34 |
Kilos | slim seun | 19:34 |
Rooitier | haha | 19:34 |
maiatoday_too | guys dows anyone know how to get Rooitier sorted with starcraft on his shiney new ubuntu machine? | 19:34 |
Rooitier | wow baie op | 19:34 |
magespawn | Rooitier first time in irc? | 19:34 |
Rooitier | hm yup | 19:34 |
kbmonkey | sure we can have a look | 19:34 |
Rooitier | thanks | 19:35 |
kbmonkey | :) | 19:35 |
magespawn | wine? | 19:35 |
magespawn | 1 or 2 ? | 19:35 |
Kilos | Rooitier, welcome to ubuntu-za | 19:36 |
kbmonkey | do you have experience with ubuntu/linux running windows app Rooitier ? | 19:36 |
Rooitier | nope im trying to run it through play onlinux | 19:36 |
maiatoday_too | yeah I think you have repository version of wine and playonlinux | 19:36 |
Rooitier | but apparently when i try to mount it it state that the file is not found | 19:36 |
kbmonkey | :/ | 19:36 |
maiatoday_too | Rooitier: did the installation work ok? | 19:36 |
magespawn | Could virtual box a whole xp setup? | 19:36 |
maiatoday_too | winehq says it runs gold tho | 19:37 |
Rooitier | ya | 19:37 |
kbmonkey | okay good, just checking winehq now :) | 19:37 |
magespawn | Stacraft 1 or 2? | 19:37 |
kbmonkey | usually they also give install/run instructions there | 19:37 |
Rooitier | 2 | 19:37 |
kbmonkey | starcraft 2 | 19:37 |
Rooitier | yes | 19:37 |
magespawn | Specs are quite high on that | 19:38 |
kbmonkey | wish I can get hold of that ;) | 19:38 |
maiatoday_too | maybe Rooitier should go to the ubuntu hour on saturday | 19:38 |
maiatoday_too | will you be there kbmonkey | 19:38 |
Rooitier | cause first i did via disc but there i could only install on a terminal but if i try to open and mount it shuts down :( | 19:39 |
Kilos | maiatoday, superfly pinged you a while ago | 19:39 |
Rooitier | k | 19:39 |
maiatoday_too | I should mail him, I have been so snowed under | 19:39 |
kbmonkey | no maiatoday_too im back in KZN :( | 19:39 |
maiatoday_too | Rooitier maybe you need to upgrade your wine version | 19:39 |
magespawn | Where kbmonkey? | 19:39 |
kbmonkey | in maritzburg for now magespawn | 19:40 |
Kilos | sleepy hollow magespawn | 19:40 |
maiatoday_too | will you come back to the cape again kbmonkey | 19:40 |
magespawn | Bit south of me then. | 19:40 |
kbmonkey | yes maiatoday_too but I can't say when yet | 19:40 |
maiatoday_too | ok | 19:41 |
kbmonkey | okay Rooitier how did you install the game, from which instructions? | 19:41 |
Kilos | magespawn, there was someone on here a while back that is in eshowe, do you remember | 19:41 |
Rooitier | um yes i saw this one review on opening up a terminal and downloading and restarting but i guess its out dated | 19:41 |
magespawn | Yup Kilos | 19:41 |
Kilos | who was it? | 19:41 |
kbmonkey | if you installed WINE through the software center, you should have the latest repo version | 19:41 |
Rooitier | ok ill quicly check ups | 19:42 |
magespawn | Cannot remember the nick, | 19:42 |
kbmonkey | let's not get into compiling wine just yet, that is for much later ;) | 19:42 |
maiatoday_too | it looks like the default instal is 1.3.28 | 19:42 |
maiatoday_too | and winehq says 1.3.17 ran platinum | 19:42 |
maiatoday_too | oops 1.3.27 | 19:42 |
Rooitier | i got 1.3.28 | 19:42 |
kbmonkey | Rooitier page down and see the section "mounting DVD problems" -- http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=20882&iTestingId=69144 | 19:43 |
Rooitier | thnaks | 19:43 |
Rooitier | *Thanks | 19:43 |
Rooitier | ok no up dates as yet | 19:44 |
Rooitier | though | 19:44 |
Kilos | funny hows peeps pop in then disappear | 19:44 |
Kilos | like pietpompies | 19:44 |
zeref-Lap | like this :) | 19:44 |
magespawn | Good night all. | 19:44 |
kbmonkey | gn magespawn | 19:44 |
Kilos | night magew | 19:44 |
Kilos | sleep tight | 19:45 |
kbmonkey | lol zeref-Lap | 19:45 |
maiatoday_too | night magespawn | 19:45 |
Rooitier | opps on web night | 19:45 |
Rooitier | ok | 19:46 |
Kilos | * services. sets mode +f #wine #winehq | 19:48 |
Kilos | * ChanServ (ChanServ@services.) has joined #wine | 19:48 |
Kilos | * services. gives channel operator status to ChanServ | 19:48 |
Kilos | * You have been kicked from #wine by ChanServ (Invite only channel) | 19:48 |
Kilos | swines | 19:48 |
kbmonkey | really? | 19:49 |
Rooitier | ok kbmonkey | 19:49 |
kbmonkey | wow it's amazing how many howtos and tutorials are in video format now | 19:49 |
kbmonkey | how did it go Rooitier | 19:49 |
Rooitier | it said i must copy it to the hard drive | 19:50 |
Rooitier | did | 19:50 |
Rooitier | it | 19:50 |
kbmonkey | I found steps here: http://www.clockworkhare.com/2010/07/penguin-post-how-to-install-starcraft-2-on-linuxwine-if-you-get-weird-permissions-issues.html | 19:51 |
Rooitier | so now i attempt to download it to my comp | 19:51 |
kbmonkey | step 1 you did by mounting | 19:51 |
kbmonkey | so do step 2 and 3 in that link | 19:51 |
kbmonkey | it copies the installer to your desktop, and runs it | 19:52 |
Rooitier | k | 19:52 |
kbmonkey | hope that works! | 19:52 |
kbmonkey | how far did you get into that manual Kilos ? | 19:52 |
Kilos | isnt that one of them games that play only when cd is in | 19:53 |
Rooitier | ok im going to attempt it | 19:53 |
Rooitier | thanks again | 19:53 |
maiatoday_too | has anybody played WoW through wine much? | 19:53 |
Kilos | page 47 0f 101 kbmonkey | 19:53 |
kbmonkey | nope, not a WoW'er | 19:53 |
maiatoday_too | nor I but I suspect that question will come up as well at some point :) | 19:54 |
kbmonkey | gimme Doom and Quake! (when there's time) | 19:54 |
Kilos | that dma messed the whole day up | 19:54 |
kbmonkey | Kilos don't try fix your pc's dma stuff | 19:54 |
Kilos | na i gave up | 19:54 |
Kilos | by then head was thumpin so i had a sleep | 19:55 |
maiatoday_too | good luck with your dma stuff Kilos, I'll come back here tomorrow and see if I can catch superfly | 19:55 |
maiatoday_too | Maaz tell superfly Kilos said you pinged me, mail me if you like | 19:55 |
Maaz | maiatoday_too: Okay, I'll tell superfly on freenode | 19:55 |
kbmonkey | your pc is working Kilos. that dma stuff is theory. | 19:56 |
Kilos | i gave up maiatoday they say to change sda to hda | 19:56 |
Kilos | ty maiatoday sleep tight | 19:56 |
Kilos | hehe | 19:56 |
maiatoday_too | gonna context switch again, good luck Rooitier | 19:56 |
Kilos | leave well enough alone | 19:56 |
Kilos | dont fix it if it aint broke | 19:56 |
kbmonkey | understand those commands are for certain hardware, that have special functions. | 19:57 |
kbmonkey | your's doesnt but that is fine, your pc still works :) | 19:57 |
Kilos | what i found after hours is one guys theory is that dma setting only works on ide drives if they are hda | 19:58 |
Kilos | there were lotsa peeps complaining | 19:58 |
Kilos | anyway young peeps. i do doodoo now | 20:00 |
Kilos | sleep tight all, see ya morrow | 20:00 |
kbmonkey | nite Kilos | 20:00 |
kbmonkey | have a good nite. hope the head feels better! | 20:00 |
Kilos | ty kbmonkey | 20:01 |
Rooitier | Bye All thnx try again tom | 20:06 |
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