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DJonesMorning06:59
AlanBellmorning all07:01
popeyo/07:02
dauberso/07:21
daubersSad day today :(07:22
* daubers puts on foggy mounain breakdown07:24
diplonice and clear here daubers, only a little bit up from you.07:30
diploBBC1 weather lady said it should all clear up again and be 22+ again today07:30
diploand Friday07:31
daubersdiplo: :P It's probably Earl Scruggs most identifiable tune (other than the theme from Beverly Hillbillies)07:31
diploI have a linux server that I want to automount a USB drive on, do a backup and eject, If i remember correctly there was a way with DBUS to do this ?07:32
diploStill none the wiser :)07:32
daubersdiplo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icMTVV5Lwaw07:32
mjean recent ubuntu 10.10 regular update just failed for me with "Setting up mysql-server-5.1 (5.1.61-0ubuntu0.10.10.1) ... Unknown option: i" how might I start debugging this?07:34
mjeUsage: logger [option...]07:34
diploI don't actually mind that sorta tune daubers07:38
daubersdiplo: He passed away last night :(07:39
diploI was about to say that was Steve M ... then noticed the title07:39
diplo:(07:39
daubersSteve Martin's article is all over twitter07:39
daubershttp://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/01/steve-martin-earl-scruggs.html07:39
mjefound it, something had installed /usr/local/bin logger which was being found before /usr/bin/logger07:55
czajkowskialoha08:09
MooDoomorning czajkowski all08:11
czajkowskiello MooDoo08:14
daubersHmm... reseller wants me to go to London today, hasn't told me where, isn't answering any phones08:18
daubersGuess that can wait until tomorrow then08:18
* AlanBell is going to London later08:19
AlanBellthen Reading :)08:19
daubers:)08:19
bigcalmGood morning peeps :)08:31
daubersLooks like I'm not going to London until tomorrow \o/08:32
* popey is looking forward to beer in reading08:33
daubersCan't drink tonight :( Since it's curry night, will have a curry though :)08:35
popeyoooh, curry, yay!08:54
diploAnyone played with udev rules and usb hdd ?08:56
bigcalmNo, but I have a feeling you're about to ;)08:58
bigcalmSorry08:58
daubers*sigh*08:58
bigcalmI just realised that I sound just like the peeps who give flippant answers to my own questions08:58
* daubers goes to London08:58
popeyuhoh08:58
bigcalmdaubers: don't do it! Life is too short as it is08:58
JamesTaitMorning all! :)09:02
arsennothing wrong with london >:(09:14
arsenish.09:14
BigRedSLondon's awesome09:14
bigcalmLondon is too big and crowded09:17
bigcalmI grew up in the countryside09:17
BigRedSOh09:19
BigRedSI grew up in London09:19
BigRedSand consequently the countryside is too big and empty09:19
bigcalm:)09:19
BigRedSThough beer prices are hilarious :)09:20
BigRedSSometimes they begin with a '1' !09:20
bigcalm:D09:21
bigcalmThe ale I was drinking in Wolverhampton last week was 1.60 a pint09:21
BigRedSyeah, that is a very nice thing about being out here09:22
BigRedSthough I was happy with London prices until I got used to these, so now london seems astronomically expensive09:23
arsenI grew up in the Country, deep deep nowhereland, i live/work in the city :P09:24
arsenboth are great :)09:25
BigRedSCoventry's ring road is the scariest road I've ever used09:28
MartijnVdSBigRedS: You've never been to Utrecht :)09:28
BigRedSMartijnVdS: Nope :)09:28
MartijnVdSBigRedS: Three-lane roundabouts with traffic lights on _some_ exits (but not all)09:29
TheOpenSourcererpah - try the main route from Jaipur to Delhi09:29
MartijnVdSBigRedS: dozens of them09:29
oimonwhat is it about these CEOs? shuttleworth into space, james cameron on the sea bed, and jeff bezos wants to dredge the sea bed for some old rocket engine09:30
popeys/CEOs/people with insane amounts of cash/09:34
BigRedSMartijnVdS: ah, that doesn't sound *so* bad09:34
BigRedScoventry's thing is that the left-hand lane is where joining traffic comes in and twenty yards later it's where leaving traffic exits09:34
BigRedSso there's this furious lane-changing going on09:34
gordif i had lots of money, i'd go into space too09:37
BigRedSspace is cool09:38
BigRedSI wanna go09:38
directhexBigRedS, near ikea?09:41
brobostigongood morning eveyrone.09:42
BigRedSdirecthex: hm?09:42
popeyyo09:43
brobostigonhi popey09:44
oimonhow can i get scp to ignore my private key files?09:44
directhexBigRedS, i know i've had to do some "interesting" lane changing when going to ikea in coventry09:44
BigRedSOhhh09:45
BigRedSyeah, I'm not sure what's near there, but I gather it's the same all the way round09:46
dwatkinspopey: the pub you're meeting at tonight is where I used to hang out with people from SGI on curry night, I'll let them know you're there in case some inter-UNIX geekery can be achieved ;)09:54
popeydwatkins: thanks!09:54
dwatkinsI thought it was rather apt you'd chosen Thursday, popey :)09:55
brobostigoncurry night, :)09:56
dwatkins(also, 'fun n frolics' is an inside joke, but I won't bore you with details)09:56
dwatkinspopey: if a tall bloke with long hair by the name of Matt approaches you, it's all my fault.09:58
popey:D10:00
popeydid you tell him to look for elvis?10:00
dwatkinshaha, I shall10:00
BigRedS"Find the most moneysupermarket guy in the pub, it's him"10:00
MyrttiMSN having trouble again? Empathy complains about a "Network problem"10:01
DJonesMyrtti: I#ve got it connected via pidgin on windows without any issues10:04
brobostigoni have it connected with bitlbee also.10:04
Myrttiboo10:04
Dave2Works for me via bitlbee and my phone10:05
Dave2dwatkins: are people going to turn up dressed as clowns then?10:06
Dave2(Although, to return to my previous line, I don't actually talk to anyone on MSN, so it could be broken for all I know.)10:07
Dave2(...nope, talked to myself, all working.)10:08
Myrttiright, I wonder why I'm not logged in then10:09
Myrttiwell anyway, if I put a wrong password in, it complains about that10:13
Myrttiif I put the correct it complains about "network error"10:13
Dave2"Network error", the most frustrating of all Empathy errors.10:14
Myrttiikr10:15
oimontrying to copy some files via expect script, copies first few and then continues with script after only downloading 29% of the 4th file out of 6. any ideas?10:23
MartijnVdSExpect script?10:33
BigRedSusing expect to talk to some client that copies files I'd guess10:35
BigRedShard to debug without knowing what expect is talking to...10:35
bigcalmWhen will I learn to do time sheets at the time of doing something and not a few days later?10:39
bigcalmI hate plucking numbers out of the air10:39
BigRedShaha10:40
BigRedSIt's hard to do stuff here without it getting logged somewhere, so times are easy to find retrospectively10:40
BigRedSthen there's just the "did that really only take forty minutes? Damn." moments10:40
oimoni managed to get ssh keys transferred to the server in question, and did away with the expect scripts :D10:47
oimonweird problem , but no time to investigate and no ssh access on remote server10:47
BigRedSyou were using expect and ftp?10:51
oimonexpect and scp BigRedS10:53
oimonssh disabled using scponly or simliar10:53
BigRedSahhh10:55
BigRedSthat's native in openssh server now10:56
BigRedSwhich is really really nice10:56
BigRedSno more faffing with chroots and fs permissions10:56
davmor2morning all10:57
davmor2czajkowski: hug10:57
czajkowskidavmor2: hello10:57
MooDoohowdy davmor210:58
davmor2MooDoo: on multiple servers now then dude?11:03
MooDoodavmor2: pah shush you ;)11:04
andrewebdevI previously installed GIMP from a third party ppa. A recent update uninstalled Gimp and some dependencies. Now I cannot even install Gimp from default ubuntu sources, even though I removed the ppa. How can I fix this?11:05
andrewebdev11.10 btw11:05
oimonBigRedS, how do you mean, native in openssh?11:09
davmor2andrewebdev: so once you removed the ppa did you do a sudo apt-get update?  if not open a terminal do sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install gimp  and see what happens then11:11
andrewebdevdavmor2, sorry I forgot to mention, yes I did do that as well as upgrade11:12
davmor2andrewebdev: did it give you an error of any sort?11:12
andrewebdevdavmor2, http://dpaste.com/723397/11:13
BigRedSoimon: yeah11:13
BigRedSit's got directives for restricting users to sftp only, chrooted to ~11:14
BigRedSyou can do it by username or group membership11:14
davmor2andrewebdev: looks like it it is still seeing the ppa version how did you remove the ppa?11:14
BigRedSoimon: it's been native upstream for a while but I think it only hit debian in squeeze11:15
andrewebdevdavmor2, I just removed it from my software sources11:16
dutchiewhat twitter client do people use nowadays?11:17
bigcalmTweetDeck on my phone. Don't bother with other devices11:18
davmor2andrewebdev: have a look in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/  and ensure the ppa's .list file is removed, then do sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get purge gimp libgimp2.0 gimp-data && sudo apt-get install gimp11:18
davmor2andrewebdev: if you still get the error then try sudo apt-get -f install gimp11:19
andrewebdevdavmor2, thanks... in progress11:20
oimondutchie, hotot , which is native and also a chrome app11:21
davmor2andrewebdev: cool glad to help11:21
davmor2dutchie: I use 2 gwibber on ubuntu and the official app on android11:22
BigRedSdutchie: Firefox11:22
oimonsoftware center not letting me click "install" again..grr11:23
davmor2oimon: are you connected to the net?11:23
oimoni hope so :D11:24
oimonhave to run software center as sudo to get it to work11:24
oimonknown bug, apparently11:24
oimonend up just using apt-get11:25
davmor2oimon: no it's not known at all,  I work in the software center team I use it all day long and no need for that.  There was ages ago due to the fact that the admin group got removed from precise.  You really need to do a fresh install, that bug got fixed like a month + ago11:26
oimondavmor2, i'm on lucid11:30
andrewebdevthanks davmor2, that seemed to have worked :) ... gimp is now installing11:30
davmor2oimon: hmmm odd do you have the bug number for that?11:31
oimondavmor2, just checking my history11:33
oimondavmor2, is ther a debug mode i can use to get output?11:34
oimonWARNING:root:_on_trans_error: org.freedesktop.PolicyKit.Error.NotAuthorized: ('system-bus-name', {'name': ':1.831'}) is not authorized: org.debian.apt.install-packages11:35
oimondavmor2, bug 78511711:36
lubotu3Launchpad bug 785117 in software-center (Ubuntu) "[MASTER] silently fails to install software after PolicyKit error" [Medium,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/78511711:36
davmor2oimon: thanks11:38
oimonnothing weird about my setup though11:38
oimon10.04.411:38
davmor2oimon: no I was getting mixed up with someone else my fault11:39
=== webpigeo1 is now known as webpigeon
oimonguys, what's the best tool for producing HDR photos on linux?11:51
MooDoooimon: http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20100323145610371/HDRImaging.html/%22%3ERead%20more11:52
oimoncheers MooDoo11:59
oimoni see qtgpqgphqgui wisely changed their name11:59
MartijnVdSidspispopd?12:03
andrewebdevdavmor2, I'm back... gimp installed but I cannot run it now: I'm getting this error: gimp: error while loading shared libraries: libgegl-0.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory12:04
oimonQtpfsgui changed their name to luminance . i was getting confused about hdr tools12:04
davmor2andrewebdev: sudo apt-get purge libgegl-0.0-0 && sudo apt-get install libgegl-0.0-012:07
davmor2andrewebdev: possibly just some extra fall out from the ppa12:08
andrewebdevdavmor2, :( not working... I still get: gimp: error while loading shared libraries: libbabl-0.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory12:37
davmor2andrewebdev: sudo apt-get purge libbabl-0.0-0 && sudo apt-get install libbabl-0.0-012:38
andrewebdevoh right... I didn't notice it's a different package12:39
andrewebdevthought it was still gegl12:39
andrewebdev:P12:39
davmor2andrewebdev: if you get any others after this,  type in lib_whatever and then hit tab and just keep purging and installing and hopefully it will work12:41
popeywhats the best way to get to the pub from the train station this evening?12:43
davmor2popey: walk, that way you are really thirsty and appreciate the beer more12:44
davmor2andrewebdev: any other issues or is it working now?12:48
oimonanyone using gnome-panel in 12.04?12:50
andrewebdevdavmor2, just finished now, and yes, it's working perfectly12:50
davmor2andrewebdev: Woohoo!12:50
andrewebdevdavmor2, thanks for all your help :)12:51
davmor2andrewebdev: np's12:52
oimoni.imgur.com/ZkAxV.png12:55
oimoni'm getting the white application bars on the gnome panel for every app :(12:57
ali1234ls ~13:00
popey.13:00
popey..13:00
popeygoat_porn13:00
MartijnVdS.wav13:02
BigRedSI'm a tad worried by the goat_porn obsession in this channel13:05
MartijnVdSBigRedS: it's just popey13:06
ali1234on a 500GB partition, is it normal that 7.6G is "used"13:06
MartijnVdSali1234: yes13:06
ali1234*empty partition of course13:06
popey5% plus partition tables etc?13:06
MartijnVdSali1234: see "-m" in man mkfs.ext213:06
BigRedSYeah, that includes the 5% for privileged processes only13:07
MartijnVdSali1234: or tune2fs manpage13:07
ali1234but 7.5GB is only 1.5%13:07
ali1234also, reserved is not "used"13:07
* BigRedS fails at maths13:07
oimonrm -f go*13:07
BigRedShaha13:07
ali1234if i run df as root will it show a different amount?13:07
BigRedSthat blasted goat porn keeps cropping up13:08
BigRedSdu might13:08
ali1234i'm about to format this partition anyway13:08
oimonmmm stale niknaks13:09
popeyfeels like friday13:10
Dave2It does. But for me it effectively is.13:10
Dave2As I have tomorrow off. \o/13:10
gordits not friday?! :(13:11
brobostigonit is only vurry and beer thrsday.13:12
brobostigoncurry*13:12
brobostigon:)13:12
oimonfeels like monday13:12
oimonhad yestereday off13:12
oimonlovely day for it13:12
Dave2I had Monday off as well13:12
Dave23 day week \o/13:12
Dave2I am, however, knackered. *wonders if he'll fall asleep at the pub*13:13
ali1234http://paste.ubuntu.com/905577/13:18
ali1234how come the old partition started at 63 but the new one starts at 2048?13:18
davmor2ali1234: because it does,  if you look at the block size it's hugely different13:26
ali1234yeah what really has me puzzled is the partitions are now bigger than before13:28
davmor2ali1234: I'm assuming you did a manual partition last time and had a separate home partition this time you only have 2 partitions not 3 might have something todo with it,  I'm assuming you did an automatic install this time13:32
AlanBellhttp://consultation.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/openstandards/ would be rather good if people could take some time to fill in these responses14:14
popeyAlanBell: website says 19:00 UTC, so we're expected at Pub at 8pm?14:14
* AlanBell set the team timezone to GB14:18
bigcalmWhy would my script in /etc/network/if-up.d not be running once a pptp tunnel is created?14:18
gordha, the video game Goldeneye 007 on the n64 actually has a fully working zx spectrum emulator inside it :D http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/911/14:29
directhexwat14:30
oimonhttp://www.ebay.com/itm/JAVA-RING-RARE-Sun-Microsystems-JAVA-ONE-Promo-/30049537433714:33
oimonwhat to get the geek who has everything14:33
popeysmells like april fool to me14:34
popeyi once typed in a listing from a magazine which claimed there was a BASIC compiler in the CPC 464 ROM and you needed a machine code loader to make it run14:35
popeyyou type in this hex, load your BASIC program from tape and then it writes machine code out to tape. you load that and...14:35
popey    _               _ _    __             _14:35
popey   / \   _ __  _ __(_) |  / _| ___   ___ | |14:35
popey  / _ \ | '_ \| '__| | | | |_ / _ \ / _ \| |14:35
popey / ___ \| |_) | |  | | | |  _| (_) | (_) | |14:35
popey/_/   \_\ .__/|_|  |_|_| |_|  \___/ \___/|_|14:35
popey        |_|14:35
popeyappeared on the screen14:35
ali1234a jumbled up mess of random lines appearedo on the screen? wow14:36
bigcalmHaha14:36
bigcalm:D14:36
oimonin the age of internet, april fool needs to be banned, or removed from the web after 1st april14:36
davmor2oimon: no they are great14:38
ali1234hmm... the patch file at 256kb is big enough for 10 games and the emulator to be entirely within the patch14:40
popeyexactly14:40
popeythats what I think it is14:40
popeythere's no way Rare would put a ROM out with all their old Ultimate games on it, they're very protective of them14:41
ali1234its just about believeable because timesplitters has those minigames in it14:42
ali1234but those are not emulated, and they are available through gameplay14:42
ali1234and they are more or less original games14:42
gordif someone built an n64 spectrum emulator that is just as impressive14:48
oimonwhat's the difference between visiting gmail website in chromium, and adding the gmail app from the chrome store?14:48
gordoimon, its just a link to gmail14:48
gordoimon, same with their "youtube" app14:48
oimonlame14:48
oimonnot an app at all then14:48
AlanBellpopey: annoyingly in edit mode the event talks about local time, and in read mode UTC15:09
popeymad15:11
AlanBellfound ti15:11
AlanBellthe venue was set to UTC15:11
AlanBellnow fixed15:11
AlanBellright, done for the day15:12
AlanBellreading next15:12
popeyAlanBell: what time you going past farnborough north?15:13
popeyI might be able to jump on same train15:13
AlanBelldunno yet, heading to paddington now15:15
popeyAlanBell: ok, lemme know when you know15:15
popeyAlanBell: not all trains stop at fbro tho15:15
popeyso nvm15:16
popeyoh, paddington wont go past fboro, nvm15:16
popey*belm*15:16
bigcalmThink I had too much tuna *burp*15:20
bigcalm:S15:20
davmor2bigcalm: uwwwwww fishy15:20
bigcalmYup15:21
daftykinstime to move some furniture to attack some mould on the walls >_<15:21
daftykinscrikey half 4 already15:21
davmor2daftykins: no it's half 3 you only think it's half 4 cause there is a timepiece tellin you that :)15:24
gordhmmm kindle touch, not sure i want one of those15:24
gordi mean, its an ebook reader, why would you need a touch interface15:24
davmor2gord: so you can elegantly turn the pages like you can on a real book ;)15:26
gordnot really, its still eink ;)15:26
gordyou could pretend to turn a page and it would show a really slow and jerky animation15:27
davmor2gord: yay15:27
daftykinsdavmor2: bah! :)15:28
gordi'll stick with my kindle and its silly and obviously useless in this day and age, buttons15:28
ali1234you just hate change15:28
ali1234anything new is obviously better15:29
ali1234and not forgetting: we have usability studies that PROVE that no buttons is better than buttons15:30
arsenhah hi daftykins15:32
reaper4334Does anyone know if it's possible to create a symbolic link with an incomplete filename using wildcards? e.g. link libexample.so to libexample.so.0.1.2, but where you don't necessarily know it's going to be ".0.1.2"15:53
reaper4334I tried "ln -s libexample.so libexample.so.*" but that doesn't work, it simply doesn't find the lib when trying to link to it15:53
AlanBellchoochoo15:55
AlanBellon the fast train to Reading15:55
directhexreaper4334, yes, if there's only a single result from the wildcard15:56
directhexreaper4334, the wildcard is expanded by the shell, so the app doesn't see it15:56
reaper4334directhex: so "ln -s libexample.so.0.1.2 libexample.so" should work? perhaps I made a typo when trying it.. I'll give it another try now15:57
arseninteresting video if anyone likes buildings! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT4VFGUk-b816:00
reaper4334directhex: Turns out it does work after all, I must have just made a typo the first time. Cheers :D16:01
ali1234arsen: i want to play that game16:02
arsenhit up, reaper4334 - find out what you did wrong :P16:04
reaper4334arsen: It was a simple typo, I just found libexample.os which obviously should've been .so :P I feel stupid for not realising before asking ^^16:13
arsenmeh, i took out the entire office's phones earlier due to a even more stupid typo :P easy to do.16:13
reaper4334yup lol16:15
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daftykinsarsen: hey stranger :>16:22
daftykinshow goes?16:22
AlanBellthat was quick16:26
popeyyou there?16:26
AlanBellyup16:26
arsenyeah all good thanks daftykins  :))16:28
arsenhow you doin? whatcha upto ?16:28
dwatkinsAlanBell: I'm surprise at the lack of response on open standards, as a lot of people have been quite vocal on it16:28
arsenif you're in london - hit me up for a beer :)16:28
dwatkins*surprised16:28
AlanBelldwatkins well there is still time16:29
AlanBellarsen beer is.in Reading toninght16:29
AlanBell25 minutes from paddington16:29
* popey decides to get the 18:02 from farnborough north16:30
ubuntuuk-planet[Martin Fitzpatrick] root.abl.es, eat.abl.es, research.abl.es &..abl.es - http://www.mutube.com/mu/root-abl-es-eat-abl-es-research-abl-es-abl-es/16:31
daftykinsarsen: ooh, yeah i've got a job or two for the boss soon so may venture up to his flat. i'm in Portsmouth at the moment fixing the house up to sell :>16:31
daftykinsnot bad myself - other than being stuck here with no xbox as billy no mates :D16:32
daftykinsjust been snowboarding with mates in Tignes too \o/16:32
daftykinsmy bruises have nearly all gone16:32
arsenarh im already engaged AlanBell :D sorreh16:40
daftykins:O16:40
arsenarh - awesome, i did Jackson Hole this year16:40
daftykinswhat's that?16:41
* daubers decides to get the 18:25 from just outside his front door :)16:41
arsenand you're selling the house?! its awesome!16:41
daftykinshaha yeah but Portsmouth is a hole :>16:42
daftykinsgotta get the fundage to buy on the island or something now16:42
arsenJackson, Wyoming - daftykins  :)16:42
daftykinsno idea what i'm up to in life yet16:42
arsenwho does know :)16:42
arsenim stuck in the city.16:42
daftykinsmust be quite exciting living in London16:42
daftykinsdunno if i could handle it mind, rock mentality 'n' all ;)16:43
* dogmatic69 got his SSD \o/16:43
daftykins\o/16:43
daftykinsSSDs ftw16:43
dogmatic69what to install?16:43
dogmatic69daftykins: its a quick one too :)16:43
dogmatic69Crucial M4 64gig16:43
daftykinsi've a crucial m4 256GB in this laptop i'm on16:43
daftykins:D16:43
daftykinsmake sure you update the firmware first eh!16:43
dogmatic69?16:44
daftykins0009 had a bug16:44
dogmatic69:/16:44
daftykinsyou can do it from flash drive or CD-R16:44
daftykinsarsen: place got broken into end of Jan too! was empty though naturally :>16:45
dogmatic69not updated the firmware on a drive before :D16:45
arsennot cool :( we got broken into last year im summer too.16:47
arsenlost my bike - which i got replaced yesteday finally! :D16:47
daftykinsD:16:47
daftykinsi'm really missing cycling whilst here XD16:47
daftykinsarsen: finally went over to Ireland and met that lovely lady friend o' mine, only 13 years after first talking XD16:47
arsenorly - how'd it go?16:48
daftykinspretty good - though she's a tough cookie to read so i had to find out after i was back that she was thinking of jumping on me constantly -_-16:48
daftykinsalways the way!16:48
daftykinshopefully see 'er again though16:49
dogmatic69daftykins: can you extract the iso to usb stick, or must it be CD?16:49
daftykinsdogmatic69: yeah you can make up a flash drive, use something like unetbootin16:49
dogmatic69ah16:50
daftykinshmm mars bar o'clock16:50
daftykinsthe mould cleaning was successful :D16:50
dogmatic69would it be safe to run 12.x now?16:50
dogmatic69omgubuntu says 'Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 1 offers up a stable and usable desktop'16:51
daftykinsbah, i spoke too soon, mould is still strongly evident16:51
arsendaftykins  - check my desk view :D http://bit.ly/GZBBQI16:54
arsentaken on my i(fail)Phone a few weeks back :)16:54
daftykins:O16:55
daftykinsownies16:55
daftykinsarsen: you still with the data centre place?16:56
arsennono, not these days.16:57
arsenabandoned the hosting world, enough of that.16:57
arsen9-6 these days, techy company doing infrastructure stuffs :)16:58
daftykins:o16:58
directhexi'm sure the name arsen looks familiar17:01
arsenbwahaha :)17:02
AlanBellit is curry club night in the pub17:04
arsensearch for your name on bash.org - directhex  :)17:05
daubersAlanBell: Should be17:08
AlanBelldaubers I am sat in the pub :)17:09
daubersAlanBell: I'll come join you in a minute :)17:10
arsenok17:10
* daubers goes to the pub17:12
arsenright - to the batmobile! have a good pub sesh :)17:13
daftykins>:D17:15
* AlanBell has a pint of Titanic17:28
ali1234not titanic 3d?17:28
AlanBell£2.10 isn't bad17:28
AlanBellthis is a 3d pint17:28
ubuntuuk-planet[Iain Cuthbertson] PPTP tunnels and if-up.d - http://www.myrant.net/2012/03/29/pptp-tunnels-and-if-up-d/17:31
* AlanBell watches popey approach on the maruaders map that is Google Latitude17:37
davmor2AlanBell: yeah you have to wonder who pouched that idea off who :D17:38
OmNomDePlumeAlanBell, my old friend.17:59
MartijnVdSAlanBell: so THAT's where they got their inspiration!18:38
DJonesAlanBell: TheOpenSourcerer http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/29/munich_linux_savings/19:44
TheOpenSourcererThanks for the link DJones - Good story.20:06
ali1234cool story bro?20:07
ali1234is there some tool for sifting through old files?20:11
ali1234i've got a folder called "old" and it's just getting bigger and bigger20:12
ali1234i don't want to delete it in case there is something i need from it20:12
ali1234but i'm too lazy to go through it all20:12
ali1234it's now about 200GB20:12
ali1234i already deleted all the iso files and anything bigger than 500MB20:14
jacobwevenagge20:18
dogmatic69o/20:30
dogmatic69I am busy trying to install 12.0420:31
dogmatic69cant get the stuff to fit on a CD :/20:31
ali1234the performance of copying lots of tiny files really is bad :(20:34
dogmatic69on 12.x?20:34
ali1234on anything20:34
dogmatic69SSD \o/20:34
ali1234i doubt that would help20:34
ali1234maybe a bit20:34
dogmatic69ali1234: I normally zip and copy if its masses of files20:35
ali1234...20:35
ali1234i'm copying from one partition to another20:35
MyrttiI was just informed about the pasty hoarding in UK, I just love you Britons, you crazy wonderful people you20:59
dogmatic69:D21:00
dogmatic69fun fact, windows can not fit 12.04b2 on a cd21:21
dogmatic69its 3mb short21:21
dogmatic69neither can ubuntu apparently21:26
Azelphurwasn't it planned for Ubuntu to drop CDs anyway?21:28
directhexubuntu drops mono, and becomes too large to fit on a cd. coincidence?21:42
bigcalmMono is now too large to fit on a cd?21:44
directhexbigcalm: well the CD was fine when it still had mono on it!21:48
dogmatic69Azelphur: I have read about dvd's not sure what the outcome was21:54
dogmatic69the dl is 699mb, but it will not fit on a cd21:54
dogmatic69I think cds are 700mb * 1000, not 102421:54
Azelphur\o/21:56
shaunodon't the betas usually wander a little astray in size?21:56
dogmatic69I this a crazy idea... Install clean ubuntu with SSD + 40gig for /home, then later on swap the 40 gig home for a raid?21:57
stgraberUbuntu 12.04 will ship on CD and beta2 will fit on a CD just fine21:57
dogmatic69would that be easy to do21:57
stgraberonly oversize media we have for beta2 are powerpc images21:57
dogmatic69stgraber: 3 cd's in the bin says it wont21:57
dogmatic69wrote to dvd first time21:57
dogmatic69shauno: I was thinking it could be a 'bug' not fitting21:58
shaunointeresting that you've over by 3MB.  the page for the daily isos says 703 is their target ( http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ )22:00
shaunowell, not target, but the line at which oversize becomes a bug22:00
stgraberthe CD standard allows for up to 703MiB on a media and that's what we're using now for 12.04. Some old/buggy drives and burning software don't agree with that definition of a CD though and may have problem burning/reading the media.22:00
dogmatic69windows reports it as 716076kb22:01
dogmatic69stgraber: I tried burning with ubuntu, braso whatever its called on a relatively new dvd rw22:02
dogmatic69hehe, 12.04b2 live boot says the disk is 140TB22:03
dogmatic69I wish22:04
dogmatic69any input on swapping partition /home drives after installing?22:11
* popey files bug 96868022:33
lubotu3Launchpad bug 968680 in unity "progress bars in launcher inconsistent with different sized launcher" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/96868022:33
* AlanBell files a bug against ash vale station for being cold and boring22:42
AlanBelloh look a train22:43
bigcalmChoo choo22:44
bigcalmzzz22:44
popey22:48
dogmatic6912.04b2 up and running22:58
AlanBellhome at last23:14
AlanBelland my new passport is here \o/23:15
daftykins=]23:15
daftykinssecond place in the pub quiz \o/23:15
hamitronI assume there were more than 2 teams, to be pleased? ;)23:16
daftykinshamitron: 16 :P23:20
hamitronnice :)23:20
daftykins:D23:21
daftykinsto be fair it's the team i'm in that carried me once again23:21
daftykinslast week we won23:21
hamitronI tend to find that23:21
hamitronmy knowledge on the subjects they quiz people on, is not great23:22
hamitron:/23:22
daftykinsprecisely23:22
daftykinsi'm sometimes of use in the picture round, then in the science round23:22
codeoclockHey :) Anyone know where to buy a pre-built Ubuntu system in the UK? It's not that I don't want to install it myself, it's that I want to get out of having to buy a copy of windows with any new pc.23:29
AlanBellhi codeoclock23:31
AlanBelllinux emporium sells some23:31
codeoclockAlanBell: Thanks very much, I'll have a look :)23:32
AlanBellotherwise your best bet is probably ebuyer, there are some decent blank boxes there23:32
AlanBellI got a Zoostorm desktop for my dad, it works fine23:33
popeymy main desktop is a zoostorm from ebuyer, its fine23:33
ali1234i still think zoostorm is a terrible name23:33
daftykinsthere's always custom building :>23:33
AlanBellwhich is more expensive23:35
daftykinsin my experience custom builds only ever lost out for my clients on the software licensing front, since they were tied to Windows23:35
AlanBellbest way to get a PC exactly how you want it23:35
daftykinsbut i can't say i've looked23:35
AlanBellbut if you want just a desktop that just works it is cheaper to get a generic blank base unit23:36
codeoclockI'd like to try custom building - it's just compatibility issues. I don't want to spend a load of money, then realize something doesn't work with something else23:36
codeoclockblank base units sound cool though23:36
ali1234research23:36
ali1234custom building can be cheaper, depending on your needs though23:36
ali1234if you just want a generic PC it isn't23:37
AlanBellI would start with a pre-built base unit with most of the components you want and upgrade selectively the bits you want to improve23:37
daftykinscompatibility isn't likely these days23:37
daftykinser i mean problems with ;D23:37
ali1234actually i think there's more ways23:37
daftykinssometimes you get RAM that hates working with boards and processors23:37
ali1234you have to get the right CPU and the right RAM type23:38
hamitrondaftykins, "why is this i7 a different shape to my AM3 motherboard?" :/23:38
ali1234and the RAM not only has to be the right type, but it also has to be the right voltage too23:38
daftykinshamitron: who even considers AMD :P23:38
hamitronme23:38
hamitron;/23:38
daftykinsnah voltage is a non-concern23:38
ali1234no.23:38
AlanBelland you have to have space in the case to fit the processor and cooling system and cards and cables etc.23:38
popeyinded, home build is a balls ache23:38
ali1234if you put 1.5V RAM into a motherboard running at 1.3V it won't work properly23:38
ali1234but it will still identify as the higher clock rate23:39
hamitronAlanBell, that is probably the hardest part to research :)23:39
ali1234then you get loads of errors23:39
daftykinsnothing runs at 1.3 with DDR3+23:39
AlanBellhamitron: yeah, you can't really, that bit is trial and error, or buying a bigger box than you wanted23:39
ali1234so you need to either underclock it or increase voltage in the bios... hope you got a board that can can do either of those things...23:39
daftykinsmost RAM that runs higher doesn't even have their higher speeds within the SPD23:39
AlanBellanyhow, night all o/23:40
popeyindeedy!23:40
popeynn23:40
daftykinsnn o/23:40
* hamitron looks at his ITX motherboard in an ATX case23:40
hamitronis it still worth getting a PC with windows installed, to get a cheaper deal with crapware subsidies?23:42
ali1234yes23:42
daftykinsnn all23:42
ali1234plus you get free copy of windows23:42
hamitronyeh23:42
hamitronlast time I get dell for this reason23:42
hamitron:)23:42
hamitrongot*23:42
ali1234then you wipe and reinstall from an msdn disc23:42
ali1234problem, norton?23:43
hamitronnorton?23:43
ali1234i've been shuffling files around for two days now trying to free up a drive so i can reformat it23:46
hamitronsounds familiar :/23:51
hamitronI started trying to sort files when the price of hdd went up23:51
hamitronand I think the price will be back to where it started, before I get sorted23:51
hamitron:/23:51

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