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mattt*yawn*06:03
christelbigcalm: the only place i have stayed is the bishops table in town, which is nice (and does nice food) -- bar that i have no idea (though i am sure the two of you can stay at ours if you like) :)06:42
Myrttibigcalm: we actually stayed in the swing hotel for oggcamp, it was a nice hotel07:03
DJonesMorning all07:16
AlanBellgood news everyone! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-1751101107:54
TheOpenSourcererlol07:54
diployeah and one sentence mentioning the amount of sugar07:56
diploGotta love those studies07:56
popeymorning08:04
bigcalmchristel: Myrtti: thanks :) Plenty of time to find somewhere. This year's oggcamp will be another drain on the wallet, fun though :)08:24
bigcalmMorning all08:25
Myrttibigcalm: I don't know if I can justify this years, on the weekend before I'll be attending my birthday present of participating to an archeological dig in the Fens08:29
bigcalm:O08:29
bigcalmWhat a cool present08:30
bigcalmMyrtti: how young will you be?08:30
Myrttihttp://digventures.com/2012/03/04/venturer-profile-miia-myrtti-ranta/08:31
Myrtti3208:31
bigcalmYay08:31
Myrttiand also the engagement ring will be a bit more than we planned so I'll try not to suggest overly expensive stuff for him to get for a few years08:32
Myrttibut it will be amazing so it's ok.08:32
Myrtti:-P08:32
bigcalm:)08:33
gordwow thats a great gift idea, more dig sites should do it08:59
JamesTaitMorning all! :D09:02
bigcalmMorning09:02
Myrttiwhut "Rovio (demoscene company, Angry Birds) buying Futuremark (demoscene company, 3DMark etc) - great news =)"09:03
BigRedSparse error: unexpected ) on line 109:04
Myrttidotwaffle isn't online09:05
MartijnVdSBigRedS: ...09:05
Myrttihttp://www.rovio.com/en/news/press-releases/147/rovio-entertainment-acquires-futuremark-games-studio09:05
BigRedSMartijnVdS: I tried to do the maths in that sentence and my brain didn't like it09:05
BigRedSI've no idea why I presumed it was maths09:05
brobostigongood morning everyone.09:06
oimonwhy is it good news?09:06
popeyMyrtti: rovio was born out of the demoscene?09:11
gordI'm really not sure what to think about the guys that made second reality working for angry birds...09:12
gordwithout second reality i wouldn't have half the skill set i do09:12
Myrttioimon: quote from dotwaffle's tweet09:12
oimonMyrtti, ah09:13
Myrttipopey: everything <25 years old is born out of demoscene here pretty much, in one way or another. All selfrespecting geeks attend Assembly Summer at some point and make contacts with people there09:14
gordeverything < 25 years old here is born out of kids making zx spectrum games for £200 a pop09:15
Myrttigord: in here the kids went to Assembly and displayed their stuff there09:15
Myrttiand in fact, they still do!09:16
popey\o/ Bassetts_09:16
Myrttihttp://pouet.net/party.php?which=709:16
Myrttiwell, <20 years09:17
gorddemo scene is different these days, computers are way too powerful ;)09:17
oimonnow that oggcamp is in liverpool , any suggestions about a similar alternate event in the south that i can attend?09:17
gordonjcpoimon: oggcamp is in the south09:19
BigRedSgordonjcp: no it isn't09:19
BigRedS:)09:19
oimonnot this year09:19
popeyhere we go09:20
gordonjcpoimon: it's in Liverpool, it's well south09:20
oimonsouth of the north pole, yes09:20
BigRedSLiverpool's way north!09:20
BigRedSit's past birmingham!09:20
Myrttiit's in westcoast.09:20
gordonjcpBigRedS: that's hardly any distance at all09:20
Myrtticase closed.09:20
oimonif (talkfunny) then location=north09:20
BigRedSoimon: or location=westCountry09:20
BigRedSBasically, once you go North out of the M25 you're in "The North"09:21
BigRedSthat's what the signs on the motoroway say09:21
oimonwhat's worse, my wife says i should be taking her to paris instead now. all because of oggcamp09:21
gordonjcpParis is good09:22
popeys/worse/better/09:23
DJonesWhich venue has been selected for Oggcamp09:23
popeysee oggcamp.org09:23
popey(scroll down)09:24
DJonesAh, I looked at the page, didn't think to scroll down, just thought it was a static page with a picture on it09:24
Myrttipopey: http://www.gigantti.fi/search?WFSimpleSearch_NameOrID=nokia+n909:24
Myrtti:-P09:25
popeyheh09:26
DJonesHmmh, I might manage that depending on holidays, only 30 minutes from home :)09:26
gordonjcphm, okay, okay09:28
Myrttinice, Finland is becoming the dumping ground of obsolete mobile phone platforms.09:28
gordonjcpso this year Oggcamp is closer to me than it is to the Farnham Contingent09:28
bigcalmHeh09:28
MyrttiBlackberry is going to start shipping to Finland.09:28
Myrttiyay.09:28
oimonbit late for that09:28
gordonjcpMyrtti: you can desolder the chips and use them in proper phones09:28
Myrttilol ok so a carrier that no one has ever heard of before will start importing09:32
Myrttinevermind then09:32
oimonsaw a nokia advert the other day on telly, looked like a MS advert09:44
directhexMyrtti, why do you want blackberries?09:45
oimonto organise riots09:45
MartijnVdSಠ_ಠ09:46
MartijnVdScrackberries09:46
Myrttidirecthex: I have *no* idea why *anyone* would want one09:47
oimonmy 24-month contract is due to end in a couple of months, and i don't want to change phone yet - any recommendations for sim only deals that offer good mobile internet?09:48
gordoimon, three are pretty good, 15 quid a month or so, unlimited internet09:48
oimoncurrently pay £15pm for 300mins/300texts and 3GB mobile internets09:48
* popey wonders how mpt got a canonical logo next to his name on reddit09:48
oimonbut i hardly use the phone09:48
oimonto make voice calls or texts09:49
brobostigon£15pm, 3000 sms, 300 mins, no fup unlimited internet.09:49
gordpopey, i have one also ;)09:49
popeyoooh09:49
oimonwas hoping for cheaper munny09:49
popeyhow?09:49
directhexvirgin used to do decent internet-mostly sims, but they stopped09:49
directhexso three09:49
gordpopey, www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/l5b3x/members_and_canonical_employees_claim_your_flair/09:49
oimonsuspicious of three09:50
directhexwhy?09:50
oimona few years ago my friends all bought 3 because they were cheap, then realised the reception was terrible09:50
directhexif only orange/t-mobile reception was as good as three, tbh.09:50
oimonand couldn't get out of the contract09:50
shaunoI think when my contract ends, I'm going to get a 3g dongle, pull the sim and ditch the dongle.  the data plans work out much better (here) if they don't know it's going in a phone09:50
oimondirecthex, i get terrible tmob reception on my train journey09:50
directhexwife always has 3g everywhere. i rarely get more than 1 bar of gprs anywhere09:51
oimonmaybe i'll get a 3 sim and try it out09:51
directhexoimon, get a PAYG sim, try it for size?09:51
gord3 reception is pretty good i find, used to be terrible years ago, but not anymore09:51
directhexoh, there's also "giffgaff" which is some bull web-only thing on o209:51
brobostigonagreed, three reception, is very good here, only one blackspot that i know of.09:51
oimongord, my bias is based on 5yr ago09:52
gordhttp://www.three.co.uk/_standalone/Coverage_checker_mobile - found that to be pretty accurate09:52
directhexphysics says o2/voda reception is better than orange/t-mobile09:52
directhexwavelengths matter, kiddies!09:52
oimonvoda = £ usually09:52
directhexvoda is crap for data09:52
directhexcrap crap crap09:52
oimoni'm happy with dodgy reception from t-mob if they offer me a ridiculous deal to stya though09:52
brobostigonso was o2, last time i tried o2.09:52
AlanBellgiffgaff is a better way to get O209:53
* oimon is cheapskate09:53
* AlanBell haz giffgaff promo code probably09:53
oimonif i leave my current tmob contract, i'll prob lose my 3gb internet09:54
oimonsince new customers only get 250 or 500mb i think09:54
AlanBellhttp://giffgaff.com/orders/affiliate/ainebell09:54
directhexoimon, they'll offer to keep you. you're paying how much?09:55
oimon£15pm09:55
directhexand you want to pay less than that?09:55
oimonyes, coming to end of contract09:55
oimondon't use my minutes09:55
oimon3 mobile have a £10 pm09:56
oimon1 month rollling09:56
AlanBell£10 for unlimited internet on giffgaff09:56
oimonAlanBell, any mins/texts?09:56
AlanBell250 minutes, unlimited texts09:57
oimonsounds good09:57
oimonhowever i'm also considering ditching my landline if poss to do so while keeping broadband09:57
oimonmy father-in-law recently got virgin fibre and no phone line was required09:57
oimont-mob need to match giffgaff and 3 or lose me then09:58
brobostigoni would also be concerned, especially with internet, if there is a FUP.09:59
davmor2morning all09:59
davmor2czajkowski: hugs09:59
oimoni hate that you have to have a phone line to have broadband10:00
AlanBell"Is unlimited really unlimited? The answer is yes, we are unlimited for personal mobile use - but not for commercial and automated use."10:00
oimonhave to = get stiched up otherwise10:00
BigRedSbrobostigon: the alternative, though, to a FUP is being affected by somebody else's monopolisation of the connection10:04
brobostigonBigRedS: monopolisation of connection ?10:05
bigcalmHoliday for 17th & 20th August has been approved for Hayley and myself. Yay for geeky socials10:05
BigRedSyeah. At some point any given connection needs to join the rest of the Internet10:05
BigRedSif someone's maxing out that connection all by themselves, anybody else sharing it suffers10:06
popeyWhat do we think of the HTC Sensation XE?10:06
brobostigonBigRedS: good point, so why do three do unlimited internet, without fup. in that case.10:07
davmor2finally no more blue indicators woohoo!10:07
BigRedSwell, either it's actually limited, or there's no guaranteed level of service10:07
BigRedSyou can't have both10:07
JamesTaitpopey: Hi!10:07
popeyyo JamesTait10:08
brobostigonBigRedS: i have read, the conditions, and beleieve it to be fully unlimited.10:08
gordi'm fairly sure that 3g speeds are low enough that abuse isn't a large concern10:08
AlanBellBigRedS: who does a guarunteed level of service?10:08
JamesTaitpopey: I just remembered I wanted to ask you something - the EeePC(s?) you upgraded to Precise recently, what model & spec were they?10:08
popeyJamesTait: Eee 900, 900MHz celeron, 2GB RAM, 16GB SSD10:10
JamesTaitpopey: And it runs well? Unity 2D I presume?10:10
brobostigonsame model as my eeepc.10:10
JamesTaitpopey: The reason I'm asking is I'm intending to upgrade my wife's EeePC 1005 (or something) with 1GB RAM.10:11
popeythe 1005 will be ATOM won't it?10:11
brobostigonJamesTait: yes, unity-2d works well, infact, so does unity-3d, but alittle on the slower side.10:11
JamesTaitpopey: Correct.10:12
popeyi have 12.04 on a 1008HA too10:12
MooDoohello all10:20
popeyyo10:20
davmor2MooDoo: me owld mukka where ya bin10:21
MooDoodavmor2: how do, was on a different IRC server checking it out...10:21
diplooimon, you about ?10:21
iclebytehas any one ever seen 'rt6_redirect: source isn't a valid nexthop for redirect target' in syslog? I can only seem to find references to the kernel source where the message is and other people asking the same question. I have no way of working out which node is causing this.10:22
davmor2MooDoo: server or client and what excuse either way is that to not be in here any how10:22
MooDoodavmor2: i was in the smugmug chat room on a different server and yes i know, no excuse10:23
davmor2MooDoo: you know the amazing thing about computers is they can do more than one thing at a time,  you can even be in 2 that's right count them 2 irc server at the same time ;)10:25
MooDoodavmor2: couldn't be bothered to run another screen session with another client....sorry lazy mode off10:26
davmor2MooDoo: Why 1 client can connect to multiple servers unless of course irssi is really sucky but I can't see that being the case at all10:28
MooDoodavmor2: well i'll be10:30
oimondiplo, yes10:35
diploI remember us having a chat about CentOS repos10:36
diploJust wondering what versions you run10:36
oimongo on, may jog my memory10:36
diploAnd size of the repo ?10:36
diploJust trying to work out size requirements to host10:37
popeydavmor2: i am on 4 networks in irssi10:37
MooDoopopey: me being thick, didn't realise you can /connect to multiple servers10:38
popeyyeah, its not intuitive10:38
oimondiplo, do you mean mirrors, or custom repos10:38
diplomirrors sorry10:38
oimoni'll check10:38
oimoni run sl5 and sl610:38
oimonso not exactly centos but similar10:38
MooDooi use dag and rpmfusion and a few others i think10:38
diplook, we are just about to move to 6 but we are going to have to mirror 4.8 for customers that will not upgrade10:39
oimon6.x mirrors are 20G, 5.x mirrors are 50G10:40
oimoni may have excluded isos10:40
oimon/usr/bin/rsync -avzlH --delete --exclude=sites/Fermi --exclude=archive/debuginfo --exclude=archive/obsolete --exclude=iso rsync://rsync.scientificlinux.org/scientific/55/ /mirror/install/mirror55/10:40
diploYeah I am going to as well10:40
diploah top man! :)10:41
diploSo why do you use SL over Cent ?10:41
oimonits an educational institution10:41
oimonseems slightly more scietific and research focused10:41
oimonnot much difference though10:41
diploah right, so more for basic install of pacakages etc than they are better overall10:42
oimonthere's not much in it really, but the mailing list is more intelligent10:42
diploheh, I don't use Cent's ML and there irc channel is either full of ignorant people or why are you running that blah blah10:43
diploI use the web for 95% of my answers i suppose10:43
oimonSL is mostly mailing list, but there is a forum i don't really use much10:43
oimonmost SL users seem to use them as server10:43
oimoncentos can be a mixture, including a bunch of numptys10:44
oimonwhen centos delayed, i saw a lot of numptys come to SL10:44
diploMy biggest issue is we have customers that will not upgrade the OS10:44
diplobut want to run our new app10:44
oimonreason?10:44
diploBut it's dependant on php5.310:44
gordas a test i've been not using menus at all for the past 2-3 weeks or so, just using hud. not sure hud can replace menus fully yet, but for 99% of stuff i found it way easier to use the keyboard :)10:44
diploIt works is the main reason and they don't want to spend money10:45
diploThis is a rather tight trade to work in...10:45
diploOur software now runs on Cent6, but the customers ask why do we need to upgrade if it still works10:45
popeygord: when i installed hud I realised about a week later that I almost never use menus ☺10:46
popeyi had to do some fuzzing effect in gimp the other day and went "oooh ooh! I can use hud for this!"10:46
popeyand did10:46
gordpopey, yeah i find that too, apart from indicators10:46
popeyi forget to use hud for indicators10:46
* Laney can't see any menus atm10:47
Laneyfirefox, terminal, emacs - all hidden10:47
popeyi want to do "alt, play" and it play rhythmbox10:47
gordcould you not press the play button on your keyboard?10:48
* oimon notices for the first time he has a play button on his keyboard10:48
oimondoesnt work :(10:48
popeyi get a "no entry" type sign pop up10:49
popey(rb isnt open)10:49
gordyou need to have rb already running i think, or something else that accepts the key10:49
popeyi just pressed play on the sound menu and it opened rb10:49
popeybut doesnt play anything10:49
popeythat doesnt seem right10:50
davmor2popey: it does here10:50
gordheh, spotify has its own indicator, so if you run that you can alt play :)10:50
popeynot if rb is closed10:50
popeywell, not if rb has never been opened10:51
* AlanBell presses play10:51
popeyi.e. do that from a clean boot10:51
oimoni also have a music symbol key10:51
AlanBellRB starts, but nothing plays10:51
davmor2popey: I went to the indicator and click play it started playing the first track in my music lib10:51
popeyyes, if you have previously had rb open it does davmor210:51
popeybut not if it's clean boot10:51
davmor2popey: ah right with you sorry10:51
* AlanBell presses play again and some stuff starts10:51
* popey files a bug10:51
gordwow spotify isn't crashing for me10:52
gordits failing to log into facebook so i guess that has something to do with it10:52
davmor2popey:  it could be that it open RB see no music and decides to wait till you decide what to play maybe as it builds the lib once it is open and not before iirc10:52
popeyI dont care why ☺10:52
davmor2popey: I know you don't I'm just giving a possible cause so you can add it to the bug :P10:53
gorddoes spotify work off recommendations? ie what you have already listened to? i fear i may be biasing it by testing it with eurovision tracks10:53
davmor2gord: possibly10:56
JamesTaitpopey: Sorry, I got dragged into a Mumble call. :)  The 1008HA is atom-based too, right?10:56
bigcalmgord: I've not linked my fb account to spotify. Refuse to10:57
gordi've degraded my facebook account to just being a contact point for apps now really, apps connect to it, i never go to the website10:58
bigcalmFair enough :)10:59
gordi'm sure everyone else i know gets spammed with stuff my apps are saying ;)11:00
popeyyes JamesTait11:00
popeyJamesTait: basically all asus 1xxx laptops are the same11:00
popeyminor differences here and there11:00
popeythere's a couple of newer models with the pine-trail cpu which is better on battery, but they're all 1.6GHz atoms11:01
popey(except mine which are 900Mhz Celerons)11:01
JamesTaitpopey: Cool.  So I'll upgrade her RAM and go for it I think.11:01
popeyyeah, 2GB would be good11:01
popeyit's a massive balls-ache to do btw11:01
popeywell, the clamshell one wifey has is11:01
popeyI switched the disk for an SSD at the same time11:02
popeygave it a new lease of life11:02
bigcalmI installed 12.04 on my eeepc1000, think it might be too much for the poor thing11:02
JamesTaitI actually had 2GB in there at one stage, but I think it was the wrong type - I put the DIMMs from the EeePC 701 in it, and it didn't like it.11:03
JamesTaitSo I changed it back to 1GB and now it's swapping a lot. :-/11:03
davmor2JamesTait: watch the youtube video, iirc it is remove screws, remove keyboard, remove top cover, remove wifi, remove mobo add ram reverse to put it back but popey can possibly confirm11:03
bigcalmUpgrading the ram in my 1000 wasn't difficult. Or I don't recall it being difficult11:04
JamesTaitpopey, davmor2: This one is quite easy, it has a little hatch on the bottom. :)11:04
* JamesTait blinks at the chuffing great military helicopter that just flew over his house.11:05
BigRedSBewitched style?11:08
popeybug 96613211:09
lubotu3Launchpad bug 966132 in rhythmbox (Ubuntu) "Rhythmbox doesn't play when started from indicator" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/96613211:09
popeyplease to be confirming11:09
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gordpopey, can't confirm =\ from a cold boot, hadn't loaded anything, took a second or so to load my library but then started playing music11:15
popey11:16
ali1234also cannot reproduce11:16
ali1234however11:17
ali1234searching u1 music from the dash still doesn't work for me11:17
popeyhmmm11:17
gordsearching u1 music has always been a bit flaky, server side is slow =\11:17
ali1234it works until i click on a result11:18
ali1234then rhythmbox loads up and gives an error11:18
ali1234"Error while getting credentials:11:18
ali1234The '/org/freedesktop/secrets/collection/login/6' object does not exist"11:18
ali1234known bug?11:18
gordah, no idea, maybe ask the u1 peoples11:19
ali1234bug 96614411:27
lubotu3Launchpad bug 966144 in rhythmbox (Ubuntu) "U1 music store: Error while getting credentials" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/96614411:27
* popey confirms11:31
* popey pokes aquarius 11:31
* bigcalm misreads that as porks, sorry :(11:34
directhexsure, blame aquarius for every u1 bug11:34
bigcalmdirecthex: isn't that what he's here for?11:34
popeyyes11:35
popeywhat's the best android phone to get these days?11:35
bigcalmSGS311:35
bigcalmBut it's not out yet11:35
popeyhah, what about is ou11:35
popey*out11:35
bigcalmSGS211:36
bigcalmThis is my problem, I want the SGS3, but my contract is due for renewal 6th April.11:37
bigcalmSGS3 it rumoured to be out 22nd May (or reviled at least)11:37
popeyso wait?11:39
ali1234you don't have to renew contract same day it ends you know11:44
popeybug 96615111:45
lubotu3Launchpad bug 966151 in linux (Ubuntu) "Kernel oops when unplugging USB devices" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/96615111:45
popeynice11:45
ali1234well11:45
ali1234if the keyboard had already stopped responding11:46
ali1234then likely the bug happened much earlier before the oops11:46
aquariuspopey, pong11:46
* popey points bug 966144 at aquarius 11:46
Dave2I used to get a kernel panic when unplugging  power after unplugging my network cable11:46
lubotu3Launchpad bug 966144 in rhythmbox (Ubuntu) "U1 music store: Error while getting credentials" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/96614411:46
gordmy keyboard stops responding all the time, have to unplug and replug, very annoying11:46
popeyor vice versa11:46
aquariuspopey, you wanna talk to dobey about that11:46
* popey points ali1234 at dobey ☺11:46
ali1234https://launchpadlibrarian.net/98525892/CurrentDmesg.txt <- popey, your dmesg is spammed with errors11:47
popeyyes11:47
ali1234likely the real bug scrolled off the end :(11:47
popeythe keyboard failing11:47
ali1234you should check in the /var/log/messages or whatever it is called these days, in case there is anything else relevant11:48
ali1234/var/log/syslog maybe11:48
bigcalmali1234: I don't know how these things work11:48
bigcalmI have discounts on my contract I don't want to lose11:48
ali1234you won't lose anything11:48
ali1234you might have to negotiate11:49
popeyyou'll just carry on paying what you were paying11:49
* bigcalm reluctantly waits11:49
ali1234no you won't11:49
popeywhy not?11:49
ali1234you will pay "standard price" until you renew the contract11:49
ali1234then you will pay your cheaper negotiated rate11:49
popeythats not what happens in my experience11:49
bigcalmT-Mobile11:49
ali1234yes, i use t-mobile11:49
bigcalmFriend's and Family half price line rental11:50
ali1234what11:50
bigcalm:)11:50
ali1234never heard of it11:50
ali1234this is a mobile contract right?11:50
bigcalmI don't think it exists any more.11:50
bigcalmNo, it's a discount11:50
bigcalmA friend of mine used to work for T-Mobile11:50
ali1234how can you have half price line rental?11:50
bigcalmShe got me that discount back when I would keep the discount even if she left11:51
ali1234how much is full price line rental?11:51
bigcalmGood question11:51
bigcalm35 quid I think11:51
ali1234so you're paying 17.50 per month *just* for having the contract, plus whatever extras?11:52
bigcalmAnd it gets applied to any other contract I renew with (iirc)11:52
bigcalmThat includes a handset11:52
ali1234i pay £10 a month and that includes a handset11:52
ali1234and "unlimited" internet11:52
bigcalmHo hum11:52
ali1234basically i think your "discount" is so old it is no longer a discount11:53
bigcalmWhich tarrif is that?11:53
ali1234i dunno, the cheapest one obviously11:53
bigcalmWhat handset did you get with it?11:53
ali1234a very cheap one11:53
bigcalmI don't want a very cheap one :)11:53
ali1234lol nokia lumia 710 is FREE11:54
ali1234oh wait, US store11:54
directhexthe lumia 710 is currently the lowest-end lumia11:54
directhexit's a £280 handset, so free is a normal price to charge on a contract11:54
ali1234yeah all the phones are free11:55
bigcalmFrom the t-mobile site, the cheapest 18 month contract with 750mb/month is 26quid11:55
ali1234no11:55
ali1234you are reading it wrong11:55
ali1234the cheapest if £15/month11:56
bigcalmAnd to have the sgs2 on that would be an extra 150 quid11:56
ali1234then you get £5 off for renewing11:56
bigcalmWhy can I never remember my t-mobile login?11:57
bigcalmGrr11:57
bigcalmSo you think that I can leave everything alone until the sgs3 is out?12:01
ali1234no probably not12:01
bigcalmGrumble12:01
ali1234so let me get this straight12:02
bigcalmI'll pop into a shop at some point soon to check what the score is12:02
ali1234under your current contract12:02
ali1234you pick the £36/month contract, get the free phone, but then only pay £18?12:02
bigcalmI checked my account, it's 29.79 with a 14.90 discount12:03
bigcalmThat includes 180 quid of credit to use on calls and texts12:03
ali1234the plans are totally different now12:04
bigcalmMy last bill was 17.87, due to vat12:04
ali1234if you let the contract expire you can do this12:04
ali1234get a 24 month, £36/month contract, with internet, 600mins/600texts, get £5 off that for renewing, and get the SGS II for freeeee12:05
ali1234so assuming the SGS3 is same price you could do that12:05
bigcalmThat would double what I'm paying already and lock me into 24 months12:06
ali1234so12:06
ali1234you have to renew then12:06
ali1234also who cares about 24 months?12:07
ali1234it's only an extra 6 monthsa12:07
bigcalmOnly 6 months? Do you know how painful it is for a gadget freak to wait a few days?12:07
ali1234if you renew a legacy contract they quite likely won't give you a new phone12:07
bigcalmThey did last time12:07
ali1234also i would point ut that if you had got the 24 month contract last time you wouldn't have this problem12:08
bigcalmI already had my Nexus One, so I let Hayley pick a phone she wanted - HTC Wildfire12:08
bigcalmNo, I'd still be stuck with my Nexus One12:09
ali1234w/e let me know how it works out anyway12:09
bigcalmWill do :)12:09
ali1234i need to renew in june i think12:09
popeyUhm, is it just me or does the term "Software updater" sound wrong12:13
bigcalmHow so?12:13
bigcalmMaybe it's the er re12:13
popeyno, it's just the word "updater"12:14
popeyit looks and sounds wrong12:14
popeylike something my 5 year old would say12:14
bigcalmShould it be updatr?12:14
popeynvm12:15
bigcalm:D12:15
bigcalmMy dad has a WordPress site he's been working on and needs to show it to a committee in an off-line situation. Which would be better, a) set up a apache, php and mysql on his windows laptop or b) install Ubuntu in a vbox?12:20
MooDoobigcalm: put it on a live server and just password protect the folder using .htaccess12:21
bigcalmMooDoo: you didn't read the part where I said it was in an off-line situation12:21
bigcalmNo internet access12:21
bigcalmThe site is already being hosted on my bytemark server12:22
MooDoobigcalm: i did read that part it just didn't compute lol12:22
bigcalm:)12:22
ali1234virtualbox will be easier to set up and significantly easier to remove afterwards12:23
ali1234don't try to use the packaged wordpress though, it's anightmare12:23
bigcalmali1234: the site already exists (I set it up and used wordpress.org for the tarball). I think he just wants a way of demoing it.12:25
bigcalmI'll walk him though a few things and then do the rest via ssh to his machine12:27
shaunoIf its already being hosted on an ubuntu server, I'd just build the same thing up in a VM. Less chance of surprises12:27
MartijnVdSGAH12:29
MartijnVdSKernel security update -> 650034983 emails on the security-announce list12:29
MartijnVdSone for every flavour of arm12:29
bigcalmThe hardest part will be walking him though setting up port forwarding on the router12:29
bigcalmHehe, nice12:30
gordbuying ebooks really isn't that convenient when you have to turn the house over trying to find where you put your kindle after purchasing the ebook12:56
dwatkinsgord: perhaps you should put one of these on it ;) http://www.amazon.com/FINDER-LOCATOR-WHISTLE-LIGHT-CHAIN/dp/B001DVS8T012:59
dwatkinsthat reminds me, I was going to try and build one of those which works with a very narrow range of frequencies so it doesn't get set-off by just talking.13:00
gorddwatkins, it turned out to be in a drawer that i put all my computer stuff, i think the problem isn't the kindle but rather me ;)13:02
dwatkinsgord: why solve a perfectly normal psychological issue of forgetting where you put things with better organisation, when you can get out the soldering iron and ignore the fact you're forgetful? ;)13:03
AlanBellhttp://www.barsoho.co.uk/13:04
gordit would be fun to make a kindle dock of some sort that it can be thrown in to charge13:04
dwatkinsgord: yeah, I made a Lego stand for my phone with the charging lead held in the bottom13:04
daubersgord: Or just do it wirelessly like the palm pre's did13:05
gorddaubers, wirelessly?13:05
gordlike that magnet thing?13:05
daubersgord: The magnet touchstone thingy13:05
dwatkinsmy previous toothbrush charged with magnetic induction13:06
BigRedSI'm sure that's supposed to be mainstream by now13:12
BigRedSI'm really hoping it gets into the iPhone513:13
popeyʘ‿ಠ13:13
gordseems like its still pretty inefficient13:14
gordwould be nice to have it built into a table though13:14
AlanBellhttp://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-uk/1624/detail/13:14
DJonesSheesh, just been told that there a queues a mile long for local petrol stations and the tesco petrol station ran out of fuel early morning13:15
directhexDJones, threat of strike?13:15
DJonesdirecthex: seems like it13:16
directhexhm13:16
DJonesListening on the radio last night, they weren't planning anything until the easter weekend at the earliest, so the people filling up now will probably run out before then anyway13:16
popeyDJones: I won't ☺13:19
AlanBellprobably people topping up with £10 of fuel13:19
AlanBellthey should impose a minimum £50 spend at the pumps to discourage timewasters13:19
DJonesI need to fill up tomorrow for work, and then again over easter for a drive down to minehead13:19
BigRedSMy bike can only take £30!13:19
AlanBellwith exceptions for bikes :)13:20
DJonesAlanBell: The exception for bikes being only applicable if they've got pedals13:20
BigRedS:(13:21
directhexAlanBell, erm, great... know how hard it is to empty my tank enough to take £50 of petrol?13:24
gordopen tank, turn bike upside down13:24
directhexit's a 1.4 tonne car13:25
dwatkinsmy Peugeot 306 costs 60 quid to fill when I let the diesel tank get to just under 1/4 full13:27
dwatkinsAlanBell: what about if you run out of petrol and have to fill a petrol can?13:27
christelthen you had better have a very large can!13:28
directhexchristel, on wheels!13:29
DJonesAdd an engine & steering and you've got a 2nd car :)13:29
directhexdwatkins, i'm paying about £48 when i let the tank go down to 1 bar out of 1013:29
directhexthe only lower value is flashing warning light13:30
dwatkinsdirecthex: what kind of car?13:30
directhexdwatkins, prius13:31
dwatkinsI assume my tank is somewhere around the 70 litre mark13:32
dwatkinsperhaps only 60, actually13:33
popeyMine costs ~100 to fill up ☹13:34
directhexdwatkins, 2nd gen prius has 45L tank.13:34
dwatkinswow and wow13:34
popeyVolvo V70 Diesel13:35
directhexso in theory a £62 fill from dry13:35
popeyif it's completely empty it's about 100 quid13:35
directhexnever let it get empty enough to pay that13:35
directhexdon't want to find out how well the electronic doodads react to loss of power13:35
DJonesJust worked out, mine will cost about £85 to fill from empty13:38
Nafalloare you talking about bandwidth to fill each persons favourite external hard drive?13:39
* quackers car is a 4.4 litre v8 BMW - not cheap to fill up13:39
Nafallooh. cars. blah.13:40
DJonesquackers: 4.4L V8, How many gallons to the mile do you get out of that13:40
quackers3 :-)13:40
quackersin its whole life it is averaging just under 22 mpg13:41
DJonesThat has got to be painful running, I got rid of a Kia Sedonna that averaged about 25-30 because it was too expensive to run13:42
quackersIt's getting on a bit now and would cost more to change than it costs to run13:42
quackersdon't do too many miles nowadays13:42
quackersgolf club and back and weekly snooker matches13:43
DJonesSounds a relaxing life (apart from the golf)13:45
quackersnot working atm but too skint to play golf every day, sadly13:46
DJonesI always remember what my Grandad said about golf "Why spoil a long walk" and he played golf13:46
selinuxiumAlanBell, Yay! Party!13:47
quackersit's true13:47
BigRedSselinuxium: but on a thursday!13:48
selinuxiumBigRedS, Aren't they always on a Thursday?13:48
gordonjcpquackers: that's pretty good, I had a Citroen XM that got around 24mpg if you stayed out of the second half of the rev counter13:48
quackers:-)13:49
BigRedSselinuxium: possibly. I remember having this surprise a few times ebfore13:49
gordonjcpsince in top 2700rpm equated to 80mph this wasn't terribly hard13:49
gordonjcp*70mph13:49
selinuxiumBigRedS, You going? Been a while sine I have seen you13:49
selinuxium*since13:49
gordonjcpquackers: on a slight downslope it would touch the rev limiter at 6500rpm, and 6000 on the flat13:50
BigRedSselinuxium: yeah, I think we meet at release dos :)13:50
BigRedSI'll try13:50
gordonjcpquackers: I'll let you do the mental arithmetic13:50
BigRedSI work in The North now...13:50
BigRedSso I need to arrange to, er, not13:51
gordonjcpquackers: it wasn't doing 24mpg any more by that point ;-)13:51
quackersno, definitely not :-)13:51
oimonmy first game of drawsomething..user resigned. meh13:52
gordonjcpmy mate had an E32 735i that would actually get about 22mpg around town13:52
gordonjcpthirsty, but what a way to go broke13:52
popeyyou were at the last one iirc BigRedS13:53
gordonjcpquackers: especially since he was unemployed ;-)13:53
gordonjcpinsurance was about £200 a year even in Glasgow, it's too old to go on the sliding scale tax13:54
BigRedSpopey: yeah, I've been at the last few13:54
quackers540 mine, but similar engine13:54
quackersgood fun :-)13:54
gordonjcpquackers: thing with the old ones is, they're so easy to get bits for and relatively cheap to ensure13:59
oimonanyone play draw something?14:00
quackersyes, mine's not old enough for the really cheap insurance yet, but it's not too bad. Parts yes, they're all still available14:01
selinuxiumBigRedS, LOL14:06
bigcalmWalked into town and back for lunch as it's such a lovely day. Should have taken a watch with me, whoops14:09
davmor2bigcalm: 2 hour lunch break again14:10
bigcalmI did read some work emails at subway14:23
bigcalmSo that counts as a working lunch14:24
quackerssound like a lawyer :-)14:24
Nafallohmmm. subway...14:36
Nafalloit's been too long.14:36
TheOpenSourcererYay! Release Party!, Followed by Beerex, Followed by Beerex. Blimey - going to be a hard & extended weekend for my liver14:48
popeyfollowed by flight to america14:49
popey14:49
davmor2popey: dead liver and jetlag nice combo14:50
popeyhah14:50
gordpopey, you spending the entire week at uds?14:51
popeyyeah14:53
popeytwo weeks14:53
gordouch14:53
gordoh is this your first two week uds? you'll be a zombie like me!14:53
gordyaaay zombies14:53
Laneywhat happens the week before?14:55
directhexall hands meeting?14:55
TheOpenSourcererTalking of Beerex and drinkies.14:55
gordits convenient to structure sprints around uds, we have the hotel, people are flying out anyway, so there are sprints beforehand14:55
TheOpenSourcererpopey: AlanBell we have one ticket left - assuming it is popey +1.14:55
popeyshould be14:56
popeyi can check with him14:56
TheOpenSourcererAlanBell: Anyone you want to invite>14:56
TheOpenSourcerers\>\?14:56
christelmeee15:02
christeldon't forget meee15:02
MooDoochristel: no one could forget you15:04
popeybug 13836515:09
lubotu3Launchpad bug 138365 in ubiquity (Ubuntu) "release notes link fails to link" [Medium,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/13836515:09
AzelphurGah, trying to put the Joli OS image on my joggler, but it runs out of space dding to my 4GB usb drive :(15:17
ikoniadirecthex: ping15:35
directhexyo15:35
ikoniayo !,15:35
ikonia30 seconds to drop you a quick pm15:35
directhexgo ahead15:36
Myrttihuuu15:37
Myrttiis the openid at launchpad down?15:37
Myrttioh it was only a glitch15:38
Myrttigot worried there for a while15:38
oimonsurprise, surprise, the bottom fo the ocean is dull15:38
quackersHas anybody else noticed that the Ubuntu root file size increases every day in Precise? Recently mine's gone from about 4.7G to 5.7G and I've cleared out all old kernels. Is it just mine?15:39
popeyits wet too15:39
popeysudo apt-get clean15:39
popeypackages in /var/cache/apt/15:39
quackersis it safe on testing Precise?15:39
popey/dev/sda1            216G  171G   35G  84% /15:39
popeyalan@deep-thought:~$ sudo apt-get clean15:39
popey/dev/sda1            216G  170G   36G  83% /15:39
popey\o/15:39
quackersHa! clean got rid of 850M, thanks popey15:41
popeynp15:42
quackersmuch leaner now :-)15:42
Azelphurmgdm: could you perhaps take a look at my attempt at lartc? http://pastebin.com/tbb31t3B15:45
Azelphurthe goal being to limit all traffic from the www-data user15:46
Azelphuror besides that, does anyone know how I might make a clone/something of a network interface? the goal being to put the webserver on that interface, and then rate limit just that interface15:48
popeyyeah, you can create aliases and give them IPs15:53
popeyand then bind the app to that IP only15:54
popeylike eth0:1 and eth0:215:54
Azelphurpopey: tell me how and I'll love you forever, I've been trying to put a rate limit on my webserver for about 10 hours solid.15:54
popeyseparate stanzas in /etc/network/interfaces15:54
popeylinux15:54
popeybah15:54
popeyhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/ubuntu-linux-creating-ethernet-alias-for-eth0-network-device.html15:54
Azelphurhow would that work? would I have to port forward?15:54
popeythat kind of thing15:54
popeyyou'd get a new IP on the network15:55
popeyso apache would be on a different IP which you could rate limit with tools like wondershaper15:55
Azelphuryea, wondershaper is exactly my plan15:55
Azelphurbut this is for my dedicated server I don't have any available IPs15:55
Azelphurplus my server seems to do some dark magic involving one interface having multiple addresses, not quite sure how that works15:56
Azelphurpopey: http://collabedit.com/p5u9s like that15:58
Azelphurhaha, someone likes collabedit, it's multiplayer notepad :)16:00
mgdmAzelphur: I'll look, but it's years since I did that - that page was just the first hit for 'nginx traffic shaping' in google16:01
Azelphurhaha \o/16:01
Azelphurmgdm: better than nothing, the lartc irc channel is dead in the water16:01
Azelphurpopey: ah, I bet I can just use that article you linked, create a fake interface on a local like 127.0.0.2 then just forward port 80 to it with iptables, rate limit, and solution \o/16:04
mgdmcareful, aliases in iptables don't quite work as you'd expect16:05
Azelphuroh?16:05
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Azelphurwell I'm guessing this wouldn't even need to be an alias16:06
oimonoverheard somebody referring to "macintrash". cant take him seriously16:06
mgdmyou can't do 'iptables -A INPUT -i eth0:1', it doesn't know about eth0:1 from what I rememeber16:06
Azelphurmgdm: ah, but it could probably do it to the IP address16:07
AzelphurI'm testing on my local machine, so no need to worry too much about breaking things16:08
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Azelphurmgdm: having any luck? or should I start bashing at t he alias thing \o/16:32
MartijnVdSmgdm: the :1 bits are aliases, used for iptables16:32
MartijnVdS"ip" and "iptables" don't want/need them, use the IP instead :)16:33
Azelphurgah, I can't wondershaper an alias16:36
Azelphur:'(16:36
popeycan you wondershaper an IP?16:36
Azelphurpopey: nope16:37
AzelphurI think my only option for doing this is running the webserver inside a VM and using wondershaper inside the vm...crazy :/16:40
popeyor rate limit the webserver itself?16:44
popeyapache?16:44
Azelphurnginx is amazingly the only webserver without a setting for that16:44
popeyhttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/131681/apache-rate-limiting-options16:44
Azelphurtrust me, I've looked16:44
popeyoh16:44
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Azelphurit has limit_rate but that's per connection rather than globally :(16:45
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Azelphurapparently because it forks itself into separate threads it can't do it16:45
Nafallojust plug in another network cable ;-)16:45
AzelphurNafallo: fly to new york...break into data center... :p16:45
Nafallohmmm16:45
Nafallohere's an idea... ask for a tagged vlan on your port and try if wondershaper works on the virtual interface? :-)16:46
Nafalloactually. I'm not at all sure it would :-P16:46
Nafalloand it would be messy regardless.16:46
AzelphurI've tested locally by creating eth0:1 and as soon as I applied wondershaper, it rate limited eth016:47
Nafalloheh16:47
Azelphurit ignores the alias and just rate limits the "upstream" interface16:47
Nafalloexcellent.16:47
Nafalloit works on a lower level then :-)16:47
Azelphurindeed16:47
Nafallojust get another server ;-)16:47
Nafallomove the site16:47
Azelphurspend all the monies \o/16:47
Nafallowho needs them anyway? ;-)16:48
Azelphurme :D16:48
Nafallothey are just going to sit there using fields in your banks databases :-P16:48
Nafallosave the bank some bytes!16:48
Azelphurhaha16:48
Nafallohard drives are expensive damnit16:48
mgdmMartijnVdS: I know what the aliases are17:22
mgdmI've been using them for *years*17:22
mgdmI also know that the iptables command doesn't work with them, it just sees 'eth0' and gets on with it17:22
Azelphurmgdm: indeed, I'm back to stuck then17:33
MartijnVdSmgdm: yeah.. I've stopped using them :)17:51
MartijnVdS\o/ ip addr17:51
ali1234Azelphur: just get another IP like you had before18:03
ali1234you used to have like 3218:04
Azelphurali1234: I can get IPs I can't get interfaces18:04
ali1234problem?18:04
Azelphurproblem, wondershaper can only shape an interface18:04
ali1234don't use wondershaper jeez18:04
Azelphurwould love some suggestions18:04
AlanBellhttp://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-uk/1624/detail/ 16 people coming already :)18:05
MartijnVdSAzelphur: http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.qdisc.advice.html18:47
MartijnVdSAzelphur: One simple TBF should do18:48
MartijnVdSAzelphur: "To purely slow down outgoing traffic, use the Token Bucket Filter. Works up to huge bandwidths, if you scale the bucket."18:48
MartijnVdSAzelphur: http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.qdisc.classless.html#AEN69118:48
AzelphurMartijnVdS: I've been down this route, I wrote some tc stuff and it just won't work :(18:48
Azelphurand the mailing list / irc channel for it is dead.18:48
AzelphurMartijnVdS: in fact, I've even found various examples of tc usage online, and none of them work either.18:50
MartijnVdSAzelphur: http://www.funtoo.org/wiki/Traffic_Control ?18:50
Azelphurdoesn't display any information at all about why it's not working, it just silently fails :(18:50
MartijnVdSAzelphur: tc -s qdisc ls dev eth0 (or whatever device)18:51
MartijnVdSAzelphur: that should list the qdiscs you've defined + how often they're used18:51
MartijnVdSAzelphur: class = filters = "if this matches, do something"18:51
Azelphurwell, that's even more fun18:53
Azelphurit sees my limits, it even catches the packets absolutely correctly18:53
Azelphurit just doesn't impose the limit.18:53
Azelphurhttp://pastebin.com/tbb31t3B is what I'm doing18:53
Azelphurhttp://pastebin.com/YdUV5bck is the info18:54
AzelphurMartijnVdS: ah, ok...this is really odd18:56
Azelphurif I request http://192.168.1.10/ and it loads my local drupal install, the filter catches it18:57
Azelphurif I request my large test file, http://192.168.1.10/10g.img it doesn't.18:57
MartijnVdSis drupal running as a different user?18:57
MartijnVdSor the apache?18:58
MartijnVdSor whatever you're using18:58
AlanBellthings you can do with big phones http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBrmaE82uY4&feature=colike18:58
MartijnVdSAzelphur: what if you use output + source-port?18:58
AzelphurMartijnVdS: well, it's targetting the www-data user, so unless apache is spawning another process to serve static files that isn't www-data :S18:58
AzelphurMartijnVdS: I could do that18:58
MartijnVdSit shouldn't be doing that (spawning) but you never know :)19:00
AzelphurMartijnVdS: do you know the iptables foo for that? I'm unfamiliar with everything :(19:02
mgdmI didn't think iptables could do anything user-specific19:03
mgdmnever tried, mind - that's somewhere off in "weird stuff" land19:03
MartijnVdSAzelphur: iptables -t mangle -A OUTPUT  -p tcp --sport 80 -j MARK etc.19:03
MartijnVdSmgdm: it can do so.. but it eats CPU a lot19:04
MartijnVdSAlanBell: If only Ubuntu released 2 weeks later :)19:06
MartijnVdSAlanBell: (then I'd be at the release party)19:06
AlanBellaww19:06
AlanBellAzelphur: maybe something with bridged networking to put the web server on a different logical interface, then slow down that interface19:07
Azelphurif I can get the webserver onto it's own interface, that would indeed work as I could wondershaper that interface19:08
Azelphuralso, the whole thing appears to have grinded to a halt and I can't detect any packets any more :(19:08
daftykinsAzelphur: cor no luck so far eh?19:11
Azelphurdaftykins: nope, I spent 9 hours on this yesterday too19:11
Azelphurridiculously difficult \o/19:12
daftykinsouchies19:12
daftykinsthey're annoying those tasks that should be simple but then clearly aren't once you get going19:12
Azelphurindeed19:13
daftykinsthe worst is when you break something that worked normally before19:13
daftykinsi did that a lot when trying to learn to lockdown a friends VPS19:13
Azelphurand of course the "this is easy on windows" thing >.<19:13
daftykinstrying to get multiple apache processes running as different users etc.19:13
Azelphurwhich is annoying because I hate windows in general lol19:13
daftykins:D19:13
AzelphuroO, I found an example of exactly what I want to do, and it's in the lartc documentation19:16
Azelphurinb4 it doesn't work19:16
daftykinsAzelphur: doesn't work?19:20
daftykinshow cruel19:20
Azelphureven better, I seem to have crashed gnome-terminal19:22
daftykins\o/19:22
daftykinsAzelphur: is your display setup bug free these days? :)19:22
Azelphurwell, that caused the entire OS to freeze19:25
Azelphurmanaged to drop to a TTY and get it back19:25
Azelphurdaftykins: same as usual :)19:25
daftykins:O19:26
daftykinsfun times19:26
daftykinsno progress made eh?19:26
MartijnVdSdoes anyone know of a good "solar battery charger" (charge thing in sun, later: attach thing to phone, charge phone)19:26
mgdmthere was one called a Freeloader a while back tat I used19:27
mgdmit was OK, from what I remember19:27
diploEvening all19:28
daftykinsheya19:28
MartijnVdSmgdm: most that I'm finding have tiny panels19:28
MartijnVdSmgdm: which probably means they take ages to charge19:28
daftykinsi read that as "tiny pedals" first :D19:30
mgdmMartijnVdS: there's one with an extended pair of panels that folds out, which wasn't too bad19:30
mgdmit was being used on a yacht19:30
Azelphurdaftykins: lol wow, pidgin locked up for like 5 minutes19:31
MartijnVdSmgdm: I'm planning on using it while riding a bike around the Netherlands :)19:31
Azelphurbut yea, no progress made, detects packets but doesn't limit.19:31
MartijnVdSAzelphur: did you read the entire funtoo article? It set up multiple root/child qdiscs19:31
AzelphurMartijnVdS: I've literally found an example on the official documentation that is supposed to "limit webserver traffic to 5mbit", I copy and pasted it exactly, ran it, it ran successfully, the queues have been created and are detecting traffic, I'm still able to download at some 25MB/sec19:33
Azelphurtc either doesn't work or the documentation is wrong, I'm guessing the first since I've tried so many things with it19:33
daftykinsis this all local host?19:33
daftykinson your testing still?19:33
Azelphuryea19:33
MartijnVdSAzelphur: try from another host19:34
MartijnVdSAzelphur: localhost might be special19:34
daftykinsAzelphur: i bet it's cheating by going loopback19:34
AzelphurMartijnVdS: I'm trying to http://192.168.1.1019:34
daftykinsthus missing your modifications, if they're interface driven19:34
MartijnVdSAzelphur: try from another machine19:34
Azelphurok19:34
Azelphuranother machine inside LAN? or outside19:34
daftykinsinside should be fine19:34
daftykinsso it goes over the configured interface19:34
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Azelphurdaftykins / MartijnVdSstill nope, inside the network and it's doing 11MB/sec19:37
Azelphurthe example I'm using is on http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.qdisc.classful.html do a ctrl+f for webserver19:37
MartijnVdSYou'd have to ask a Linux networking guru19:38
MartijnVdS:(19:38
Azelphurindeed, I've been trying to find one but not having much luck19:39
MartijnVdSmaybe it only really limits once it's saturated?19:39
daftykinshttp://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2011/01/0219:39
MartijnVdSso if the link is 100% full with "other" traffic, only 5 mbits will be taken from the 100% to go to the webserver?19:39
AzelphurMartijnVdS: I thought about that, so I changed all the 100mbits down to really low, but still nope19:40
daftykinsAzelphur: i'd probably wimp out, VM it and restrict the interface of the VM :D19:42
daftykinsbut then that's easy for me as my web server *is* a VM19:43
Azelphuryea, I think it's the only way to do it which is really annoying :/19:43
Azelphurwhat would you recommend VM wise?19:43
daftykinsin terms of?19:43
daftykinsthe product?19:43
Azelphurin terms of I run a dedicated server and I'm probably going to need to bottle my webserver19:43
MartijnVdSwhich vm tech19:43
Azelphuryea19:43
daftykinsah not sure, i'm running vmware atop windows 7 on my file server19:44
AzelphurI quite like virtualbox for desktop but dunno how well that'd work on a server19:44
Azelphurhaha19:44
daftykins:D19:44
daftykinsin fact i'm typing right now SSH'd from England via the VM that sits next to it, dedicated to irssi XD19:44
daftykinsmy laptop here has virtualbox on, first time i've used it practically, not sure what networking controls it has19:45
daftykinsAzelphur: the other thought i had is that maybe you could do something with bridge utilities to tap a fake interface into your LAN, then speed limit that19:45
daftykinsbut i don't even know if that's possible, thats a total guess19:45
Azelphuryea, I had that idea too but no real idea on how to do it or if it's possible19:46
daftykinshmm19:46
MartijnVdSit _is_ possible19:48
MartijnVdSI've done it19:48
MartijnVdSAzelphur: there's a bandwidth limiting bit in iptables as well19:49
AzelphurMartijnVdS: :O where? that would be great19:49
AzelphurI've tried to find something like that but I found nothing19:49
MartijnVdSoh it's only connection rate limiting I think19:50
MartijnVdSmax X connects/time unit19:50
Azelphuryea that's all I could find :(19:51
MartijnVdShttp://luxik.cdi.cz/~devik/qos/htb/manual/userg.htm ?19:51
daftykinsthe sound is really carrying from the Portsmouth stadium19:51
daftykinsmatch on tonight ;/19:51
AzelphurMartijnVdS: I really think at this point that tc is broken, my rules are clearly in place correctly, it's catching the packets, but it's not rate limiting at all19:52
MartijnVdSAzelphur: http://www.wlug.org.nz/TrafficControl19:52
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Azelphurthe mailing list for it has been dead for years and the IRC channel is just full of idlers...it's dead19:52
MartijnVdSAzelphur: it's not19:52
MartijnVdStc is not dead, it's alive and well19:52
AzelphurMartijnVdS: I've literally been trying any old example I can find online, none of them work any more19:52
AzelphurI can't seem to find a single sucessful tc use case, at all19:53
daftykinsodd stuff19:53
Azelphurindeed19:54
MartijnVdSAzelphur: there's something in those HOWTOs about "the kernel only talking to root" and "qdiscs being local"19:54
Azelphurit could be something wrong with my system19:54
MartijnVdSso I think it's a theory problem19:54
Azelphuro.O19:54
MartijnVdSas in "We all know too little of the theory behind tc"19:55
mgdmI once mistyped the limit in wondershaper, and ended up limiting the internal interface to 500Kbit/sec19:55
Azelphurperhaps19:55
Azelphurmgdm: did it actually work?19:55
mgdmI got a phone call within 5 minutes to tell me that my script was working "very well thanks, now please turn it off"19:55
Azelphurhaha19:55
Azelphurdon't suppose you have a backup of that script19:56
AzelphurI'd really like to test it, just to see if any form of tc limiting at all actually works, I really think it's broken somehow19:56
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mgdmthis was a couple of years ago and I no longer work there19:56
MartijnVdSAzelphur: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-traffic-shaping-using-tc-to-control-http-traffic/ ?19:56
mgdmbut it was just the wondershaper script with a couple of things fiddled19:56
AzelphurMartijnVdS: one of the many pages I've tried the exact example from, so I know that one don't work :)19:57
MartijnVdSAzelphur: it shows "add a 200ms delay to all traffic" rule that should be testable with ping19:57
MartijnVdSAzelphur: I'm trying it now19:57
Azelphurah19:57
AzelphurI'll try that too19:57
daftykinsooh19:57
Azelphuryep, the latency one works...holy crap something actually works.19:57
MartijnVdSthe ping delay works19:58
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Azelphurlemme have another try with the http outbound example19:58
MartijnVdSthe cyberciti one has explanations of what each command should do19:58
MartijnVdSthat's helpful :)19:58
MartijnVdSyou need to define both a rate and a ceil, and a total rate for the parent I think?19:59
AzelphurMartijnVdS: woo, I think we're in business20:00
MartijnVdS*\o/*20:00
Azelphuryea, it's working...haha20:00
MartijnVdSSee, it's a problem of us all not knowing the theory behind it :)20:01
Azelphur\o/20:01
* Azelphur hugs everyone for helping with that20:01
daftykins:O20:01
Azelphurbeen driving me up the wall big time not being able to do it20:01
daftykinswas anything different?20:01
AzelphurI have no idea20:01
MartijnVdSAzelphur: now send a thank-you email to the author of that page :)20:01
daftykinsnow document it in your logbook!20:02
daftykins:)20:02
AzelphurI'm adopting a "For the love of god don't touch it, EVER." policy on that script20:02
Azelphurhaha20:02
daftykinsXD20:02
MartijnVdSAzelphur: still, bookmark that page just in case20:02
Azelphuryea, I will do20:02
MartijnVdSAzelphur: better: save a copy locally (you know how these blogs bitrot over time)20:02
AzelphurI'll put a link to it in the header of my script too20:02
Azelphurarchive.org *shrug*20:02
daftykinsspeaking of which my Guernsey domain is up for renewal soon20:03
daftykins£45 for a year =|20:03
daftykinsrip. off.20:03
MartijnVdSdaftykins: wht's the extension?20:03
daftykins.gg20:03
daftykins:>20:03
MartijnVdSgg20:03
daftykinsone can't buy wp.gg :(20:03
MartijnVdSe.gg20:04
AlanBellwant20:04
mgdmo.gg20:04
daftykins;)20:04
daftykinsJersey's is .je20:04
daftykinsi tried to buy www.jeje.je20:04
* mgdm has hebrid.es20:04
MartijnVdSdaftykins: that's actually "you" in Dutch :)20:04
daftykinsooh nice20:04
mgdmnot used it for anything yet, though20:04
mgdmand as I don't live there any more... well20:05
daftykinsMartijnVdS: :D in that case me.je20:05
MartijnVdSOoh.. "haat.je" is not registered. (hate you).. "ik@haat.je" would be "I hate you"...20:06
daftykins:>20:06
daftykinsfancy not using love as an example20:06
MartijnVdSdaftykins: that would be more than one word :)20:07
daftykinsit would?20:07
MartijnVdSwe're more efficient haters than lovers ;)20:07
daftykinslmao20:07
daftykinsdutch love eh, harder to say20:07
MartijnVdSdaftykins: "ik hou van je" vs "ik haat je"20:07
daftykinsdo the two parts make sense on their own? as in, is there a literal translation to each half?20:08
MartijnVdSwell "Ik" = "I", "haat" = "hate", "je" is "you"20:08
AzelphurMartijnVdS: hmm, I don't think that's matching quite right, the rules are affecting my ssh connections o.O20:09
MartijnVdSand "hou van" is a verb in two parts (verb + preposition)20:09
MartijnVdSAzelphur: then you're marking it using iptables :)20:10
Azelphuriptables -A OUTPUT -t mangle -p tcp --sport 80 -j MARK --set-mark 1020:10
Azelphuris all I have20:10
MartijnVdSiptables -t mangle -L20:10
daftykinsMartijnVdS: but "hou" and "van" ?20:10
Azelphurhttp://paste.ubuntu.com/902764/20:10
daftykinsoh you said20:10
MartijnVdSdaftykins: separately, they mean something different ("to hold" or "to keep") and "from"/"off"20:11
daftykinshmm interesting20:11
MartijnVdSmore "of" really20:11
MartijnVdSStrange language is strange.20:11
daftykins:>20:11
AzelphurMartijnVdS: the second example on that page works better :)20:13
AlanBellthis glass is as empty as the bottle :(20:15
daftykinsAlanBell: boo20:16
daftykinsi'm on no kind of sauce tonight20:16
daftykinsin fact boredom is fast approaching20:16
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Azelphurhas anyone seen buzz (the joggler guy) recently?20:41
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bigcalmAww, poor gary20:55
daftykinsnick-denied :<20:56
daftykinsor password forgotten20:56
jacobwevening21:08
daftykinsheya21:09
daftykinshow do?21:09
jacobwok21:09
jacobwyou?21:09
daftykinsnot too bad thanks :) electrician got all my jobs done today so making some progress slowly but surely21:10
daftykinsfixing up a house in England to sell right now21:10
daftykinsvery slow going :(21:10
daftykinsi could be back in Guernsey playing Mass Effect 3 with friends online ;)21:10
daftykins(srs bsns)21:11
jacobwthat sounds fun21:11
jacobwi miss playing games with friends21:12
daftykinsyeah online multiplayer can be good fun, plus it's a good way for those of us that don't live on the island anymore to keep in contact :)21:13
jacobwit can be hard to keep in contact21:19
daftykinsyep21:19
daftykinsooh my, tired already21:19
daftykinsso glad the time change is here giving sensible sunset times21:20
jacobwha21:20
jacobwi noticed it was very light last night this night and didn't make the connection21:20
daftykins:D21:21
daftykinswoohoo more sun for free \o/21:21
jacobwthe sun on sunday :p21:22
daftykins;)21:24
AlanBellhttps://plus.google.com/u/0/21:33
AlanBelloh that won't help much21:33
AlanBellhttps://plus.google.com/u/0/109175303602657131317/posts/ey258aucuqF21:34
AlanBelltry that one :)21:34
popeymoo21:37
bigcalmOom21:37
bigcalmI guess I should listen to the last podcast :S21:37
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Davin66server irc.dwc.za.net23:30
ubuntuuk-planet[Stuart Langridge] This time, more than any other time - http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2012/03/27/this-time-more-than-any-other-time23:31
mgdmpopey: is the oggcamp website meant to be quite as massively low-contrast? I can't read any of the links23:33
mgdmI suspect having to hit ctrl-a is not by design23:34
AzelphurI just went a bit crazy...found a bitcoin investment fund, bought...the whole thing23:36
Azelphurlike...the whole fund, every share o.O23:36
mgdmbitcoin :(23:36
Azelphurhaha23:36
mgdmI only ever hear about it when another exchange has been destroyed by a security problem23:36
mgdmnever bothered to get into it myself23:36
Azelphurhehe23:38
popeymgdm: complain to fab ☺23:51
mgdmpopey: I shall :)23:52

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