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Azelphurali1234: btw fun news, my G19 has started boot looping on a regular basis again, clearly something is loose in there :)00:20
Azelphuronly it doesn't loop any more, it just restarts and reconnects so it's not as annoying00:20
Azelphurwoot woot, just nuked a botnet :D01:59
sebsebsebAzelphur: oh?02:00
Azelphursebsebseb: my friend got infected with a botnet, I grabbed the code off his machine and investigated, found a vulnerability and disabled the entire botnet.02:00
sebsebsebor just his computer as part of it?02:01
Azelphurnah, the infections on peoples machines are useless now02:01
sebsebsebAzelphur: surely they should have a re install of an OS, if been in one of those as well?02:01
Azelphursebsebseb: I mean, I disabled the entire botnet, all the peoples machines that were infected everywhere are fixed02:01
Azelphurabout 150 machines02:01
sebsebsebhow do you know you disabled everyone's ?02:01
Azelphurbecause I took out the C&C and it has no update mechanism02:02
sebsebsebC means?02:02
Azelphurcommand and control02:02
sebsebsebC&C02:02
Azelphurit receives instructions from a server, the address is hardcoded, I got that server taken down02:02
Azelphurso the botnet is dead02:02
sebsebsebtaken down how?02:03
Azelphurcontacted the host02:03
sebsebseboh ok02:03
Azelphurhehe02:03
sebsebsebfound out where the ip address was or whatever, and contacted the host I guess02:03
sebsebsebAzelphur: so your friend has a Mac that got infected :d, uh  I mean uh Windows02:04
Azelphuryea, my friend is on Windows and got hit by a java driveby attack02:04
sebsebsebjava driveby attack?02:05
Azelphurlol02:05
sebsebsebI read about a02:05
sebsebsebsome malware recently that02:05
sebsebsebcan infect Windows, Mac OS X, and Windows02:05
sebsebsebusing untrusted certificates and the Java plugin it seems02:05
sebsebsebWindows, Mac OS X, and Linux, that was meant to say above02:06
Azelphuryea, I heard about that, not really concerned :)02:06
sebsebsebhowever I also read that  what it sends to Mac's, is made for the old Macs, the non Intel02:06
sebsebsebAzelphur: what did you mean by driveby I meant above02:06
sebsebsebI know what Java is :d02:07
Azelphurhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive-by_download02:07
sebsebseband I know what an attack is when talking computers as well or otherwise02:07
sebsebseboh ok so that's what a drive by is02:08
sebsebsebthanks :)02:08
sebsebsebAzelphur: Going to OGGCamp by any chance?02:10
Azelphurnope02:10
sebsebsebI haven't been before, but plan to go this year02:10
sebsebseband if so, I'll probably request to do a talk :D02:11
Azelphurcool :)02:11
sebsebsebAzelphur: yeah got  a distro  to help promote :)02:11
sebsebsebno not Ubuntu02:11
Azelphurah :)02:12
sebsebsebdirecthex: will be an expensive weekend  if going, but got the money02:13
sebsebsebuh wrong person02:13
sebsebsebAzelphur: ^02:14
Azelphurhehe02:14
sebsebsebAzelphur: I guess I am not the only night person around here, or your not in UK for example02:14
Azelphurnah, I'm a night person02:14
sebsebsebyeah same here02:14
sebsebseb,but sometimes got to sleep at night really02:15
Azelphurindeed02:15
Azelphurbeen working on conky today too, https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3832397/screenshots/2012/July/2012-07-13-230914_1366x768_scrot.png02:16
sebsebsebAzelphur: anyway I like  being awake at this time of year, as it's getting light early :d02:16
Azelphurhehe02:16
sebsebsebso in about two hours from now that02:16
sebsebsebAzelphur: or do you mean yesterday :d  I mean it's only been Saturday  here in UK for a bit over three hours now :d02:18
Azelphurtrue, technically yesterday :D02:18
sebsebsebconky yeah that's a nice little program02:19
sebsebsebbut well  have had it installed in distros, and open, and that's it really02:19
sebsebseblet's have a look at your screenshot02:19
sebsebsebhad it installed in distros before above I meant to put02:19
Azelphurhehe02:20
sebsebsebyeah that looks quite inteesting02:20
sebsebsebyour screenshot02:20
Azelphurty :)02:21
sebsebsebUnity looks nice in it as well :d  however every time I try out  Ubuntu since uhmm 2009/2010 I remember why I don't like Ubuntu that much anymore02:22
Azelphurhaha02:22
sebsebsebactually I got Ubuntu 12.04 installed on here as well, but will hardly ever boot that up02:22
sebsebsebI still try out Ubuntu final versions, and that's about it, since used it for years as my distro from the secnod release in 200502:23
sebsebsebAzelphur: Unity and Gnome Shell yeah,  they can  look so nice in screenshots and such, but then when actually using can be a bit hmm, know what I mean?02:24
Azelphursebsebseb: seems fine to me at least on my netbook02:24
Azelphuron my PC not so much, unity disagrees with lots of screens02:25
sebsebsebwhat UNity you mean?02:25
sebsebsebUnity is a intersting project from a technical point of view, since it took features I didn't like as Gnome 2 patches in  Ubuntu 9.04, 9.10 and 10.04,  put in an actsaul interface with other stuff as well, for example and so on02:26
Azelphur:)02:26
sebsebsebalso Unity was oringally going to be for netbooks only,  the 10.10 version was aimed at netbooks only, but could be run on a desktop as well with Ubuntu or Lubuntu that was interesting :)02:27
sebsebsebso yeah it's meant to work quite well on net books02:27
sebsebsebAzelphur: most other distros won't support it though at this time, for various reasons, depending on distro02:29
Azelphur:)02:29
sebsebsebUnity is ok, but not really aimed at me,  I can see why quite a lot of non technical users may like it though.02:29
Azelphuryea02:30
Azelphurthat's something I like about Ubuntu, it's tailored for non technical users, but you can take it as far as you like02:30
Azelphurmy Ubuntu is obviously not very standard :)02:30
sebsebsebfor me Unity when I try it is, just really a dock down the left,  and the  way it shows icons, with some other features,  and a search feature, and that's about it really,  GNOME Shell is like that for me as well, but out of the two, I much prefer GNOME Shell :)02:30
sebsebsebAzelphur: sure,  but I can think of quite a few other distros, that are rather user friendly for new users as well, in cerrtain ways, much more so than Ubuntu or Mint as well really02:31
Azelphursebsebseb: like?02:31
AzelphurI don't think that can be the case really, user base is one of the most important factors of ease of use02:31
sebsebsebcomunity is one thing, but a lot of the smaller distros, have very good communites as well :)02:32
sebsebsebnot as big as Ubuntu's by a long way though02:32
sebsebsebor Mint's even02:32
Azelphursize is important for hardware testing02:33
sebsebsebhardware testing hmm02:33
sebsebsebwell yes distros do hardware support differnetly here and there02:33
sebsebseb,but there are like upstream standards for stuff to do with that a bit more, certain things will be more standardised across distros, which is good :)02:34
sebsebsebAzelphur: by the way even distros, with quite small development teams, can come out with quite impressive releases, and oh I know02:36
sebsebsebhowever yeah the more people the better really in general :)02:36
sebsebsebwhen it comes to development02:37
Azelphuryea, I liked bodhi02:37
sebsebsebright, but that's an Ubuntu based distro02:37
sebsebsebI maybe should have been more clear02:37
sebsebsebI meant distributions that aren't based on another distro02:38
sebsebsebor that were, but are a proper fork of02:38
Azelphurah :)02:39
sebsebseband as  a result ones that don't have another distro as their upstream for packages for example,   so yep that's Mint out as well for example, since they got Ubuntu as upstream or Debian,  however in the case of Mint,  they do some quite impressive interface stuff now days really.  Altough I haven't tried Cinnamon just yet saying that, but Mate yep :).02:39
sebsebsebAzelphur: oh loads of distros can be made, with not htat much effort, that are based on Ubuntu, and well yes loads have been made as a result02:41
sebsebsebforks of distros, or starting a distro 100% from scratch,  now that's another story, and the quite impressive stories :d02:41
Azelphurhehe02:42
ali1234elementaryOS is better than mint02:44
sebsebsebfor example the distro I contribute to do  doing community stuff, is a fork of another distro,  so they had to do nearly everything them selves, when it came to making the distro itself, but of course they had to set up their own iinfrastructe and all that as well,  and it 's all 100% community everyone is a volunteer and all that, but well I didn't come here to promote it.  However it's also one of the distributions with a nice graphical control02:45
sebsebsebcentre,  which makes it  rather user friendly for beginners to expereinced Desktop Linux users.  I wonder why distros such as Ubuntu and Mint are still lacking something like that?02:45
ali1234it depends on your definition of "nice"02:45
sebsebsebthat was for Azelphur02:45
ali1234i can't think of a distro that has a better one than the one in gnome02:45
sebsebsebas for elementaryOS yeah that's meant to be quite a good one as well, but again it's Ubuntu based02:46
sebsebseblike Mint02:46
sebsebsebali1234: I can think of a few :d02:46
sebsebsebplus they have the one that's in GNOME as well of course02:46
ali1234i can think of plenty of worse ones02:46
sebsebseblooks liike we got another night owl here :d  ali123402:47
Azelphurali1234: I killed a bitcoin botnet :D02:47
sebsebsebAzelphur: hmm or maybe your in USA or something, by the looks of your host name02:47
sebsebsebuh for ali123402:47
Azelphursebsebseb: obvious vhost is obvious02:48
sebsebsebAzelphur: bitcoin one hmm?  I read some stuff about bitcoin an alternative way to pay for stuff or whatever, and meant to be quite good, but also not that popular yet02:48
Azelphursebsebseb: yea, I'm big into bitcoin.02:49
sebsebsebright, but  the botnet had something tod o with bitcoin?02:49
ali1234have you seen what happen to solidcoin? i find this hilarious02:49
sebsebsebwhatever that is02:50
Azelphurali1234: what happened?02:50
ali1234price crash. now worth less than litecoins02:50
ali1234and solidcoin 3 is 2 months late02:50
Azelphurhaha02:51
Azelphurwell nobody sane invested in it anyway, solidcoin was made by a retard02:51
ali1234and how about that ponzi pirate guy?02:51
ali1234what's up with that??02:52
Azelphurdon't start on that dude I have like £4000 with him02:52
Azelphurhaha02:52
ali1234LOLWTF02:52
ali1234cash out NAO02:52
Azelphurhe isn't a ponzi :p02:52
ali1234HAHAHA02:52
ali1234ok, if you say so :)02:52
* Azelphur crosses fingers02:53
Azelphurali1234: I did take a huge payout outta that account recently, so he is legit so far02:53
ali1234just the interest?02:53
ali1234no.02:53
AzelphurI put in 400B and left it for a while02:54
Azelphurthen I took 400 out again, then I dumped 100 back in02:54
Azelphurcurrently got 483.98 in there02:54
Azelphurplus a bunch of other peoples money via me02:54
ali1234wow. that's an incredibly bad idea if i ever heard one...02:55
Azelphurpfft02:55
ali1234just ask yourself this question: if he has this amazing system for getting such incredibly high return, why does he still need other people's money?02:57
Azelphurbecause he's making more than 7% on everyone elses money, and on his money too02:58
ali1234that's not a good answer02:59
Azelphurali1234: why not?03:00
Azelphuryour question is pretty much the same for banks03:00
ali1234banks don't pay interest anywhere near what he does03:00
Azelphurthe fact is making 1% on a huge amount of money is better than making 8% on a small amount03:00
Azelphuryea, that's because they pocket it all haha03:00
ali1234no it isn't03:01
ali1234to both03:01
Azelphuryou can't pull 7% on such large amounts of money though, obviously03:01
Azelphurbut banks are continually investing in startups and taking decent rates home03:01
Azelphurmuch more than your getting paid.03:01
ali1234no they aren't03:01
* Azelphur shrugs03:01
ali1234that's not what banks do03:01
popeymorning07:25
AlanBellmorning07:26
popeymight bring wife and kids to the pub this afternoon07:26
popeyAlanBell, do you know if they have a kids menu?07:27
* popey spies new mono stuff from directhex in his updates08:02
directhexpopey: le security update?08:02
popeydunno, bazillion libmono things08:02
popey(not a problem)08:02
directhexpopey: looks like canonical security haven't made any uploads for security yet... you using badgerports.org? i put the security upoad in there08:03
popeyyes08:04
directhexwell, there you go then!08:04
directhex( http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2012/CVE-2012-3382.html )08:04
AlanBellpopey: not sure, but I can find out a bit later08:56
brobostigongood morning everyone.08:58
christelmorning09:07
christelpopey: the mulberry? they do indeed have a kids menu! :)09:08
brobostigonmorning christel09:08
christelhello brobostigon :)09:08
brobostigon:)09:08
AlanBellnot sure whether or not I will make it to the mulberry09:12
* christel gasps09:14
christelbut but09:15
dogmatic69o/09:17
* StevenR wonders if a company's requirement for a "Major Incident Manager" is a good thing or a bad thing 09:28
AlanBellchristel: I will try and join you there, but might not make it for 4pm09:29
StevenR(no idea what the company is - job posting just says "Financial Services")09:29
christel*nod*10:19
christel:)10:19
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* AlanBell rearranges stuff12:16
AlanBellpopey: christel: looks like I will be at the mulberry, with family12:17
popeycool12:17
christelwoo12:23
MonotokoAfternoon fellas12:25
popeyyay, hugo is coming to the pub too12:54
AlanBellfilbert has a spare ticket popey13:27
popeyhugo has one :)13:27
AlanBellcool13:28
Davieythe RAT?13:31
AlanBellDaviey: yeah13:33
DavieyAlanBell: gah, i thought there were no spare tickets.. otherwise i'd have gone.13:38
Davieydammit.13:38
AlanBellDaviey: you have 4 hours to get here ;)13:39
popeythe spare is because czajkowski is ill AIUI13:39
popeyso you'd have to be filberts uhm..13:40
popeyyes, that's the word13:40
Davieyi'd take it like a man13:42
Davieynext time, i am on it, even if i need to kill.13:42
czajkowskipopey: spare is gone13:49
czajkowskibryn is going13:49
popeyahhh13:49
popeycool13:49
psuttonhello#13:55
AlanBellczajkowski: that is great13:56
AlanBellczajkowski: but you need to not be ill next time!13:56
christeli will be a few minutes late as need to grab 1 x Dave2 from north camp and he gets in at 3:5714:21
popeyttfn14:23
AlanBellyay, Dave214:26
bigcalm_laptopAhoy14:32
brobostigonhi bigcalm_laptop14:35
bigcalm_laptopHi brobostigon14:37
bigcalm_laptopAlmost time for burgers, trains and ale!14:42
brobostigon:)14:42
bigcalm_laptopChoo choo!14:57
Seeker`protip: Thumbs and fans don't go well together15:01
AerodynamicHello, Can I get some assitance with a boot issue?15:04
penguin42Aerodynamic: This isn't a help channel, see #ubuntu for that - but we're friendly and bored - what's up?15:04
AerodynamicAre you wanting me to go there?15:05
penguin42Aerodynamic: Possibly best, but go on - ask your question15:05
AerodynamicOkay, Well. I will give more details if needed. But I installed directly to the hard-drive into dual-boot with windows. (My family is unwilling to switch from windows so that was the only option.) It worked yesterday. But now when I select Ubuntu I get a Grub prompt15:07
penguin42when you say a grub prompt, what exactly do you see?15:07
AerodynamicA screen with a black background that says, GRUB >>_                               Or something like that. Then what I type in. It also says that if I press tab it will give me a list of possible commands. And commands are things like, submenu, boot, linux, and other things.15:09
penguin42Aerodynamic: Hmm ok, that sounds like for some reason Grub has lost it's config file that should normally give you a menu and stuff15:10
AerodynamicI could give you some details that might tell you why. My mother was on the computer. She was annoyed by a program that caused a pop-up in her windows user whenever she logged in. A program called 4Sync that was completely useless I installed. I planned on Un-Installing but hadn't got around to it yet. So I went ahead and started the un-install process. I look back at the computer screen while she still had the computer in her15:12
AerodynamicI saw a screen with a black background. With some white text. She pressed enter without me even seeing what the screen said and a great bunch of text scrolled down the screen.15:12
AerodynamicLooked like a normal command prompt screen only without possible commands. Just displayed text. This was after I only started the un-install process. From the normal GUI. I look back and that is what I see..... So she eventually booted back up and everything went as normal until this morning when I tried booting up with Linux and I got this command prompt15:14
AerodynamicThe one I described15:14
penguin42Aerodynamic: hmm, a bit odd - that almost sounds like a grub menu followed by a linux boot with out the splash screen/failsafe mode - but then that shouldn't break grub next time15:15
AerodynamicIf it says anything when I look in the Grub folder it is empty. But this is when I view my ubuntu folder from windows.15:16
penguin42Aerodynamic: If I was trying to fix this, I'd boot off the Ubuntu install CD, mount the hard drive partitions, and reinstall grub15:16
AerodynamicThe issue is that I didn't use a Live CD. I installed from wubi.. Which unfortunately was my only option.15:17
penguin42hmm, I don't know anything about wubi, and if you're using wubi it makes me think perhaps your problem is different15:18
AerodynamicIts done this on two computers already. Its quite annoying15:18
brobostigonthats wubi for you, it is easy to break, considering how windows handles non-windows in the boot in the hdd.15:19
AerodynamicYeah, They seem pretty greedy with holding people down to a windows machine15:20
brobostigonok, nexus7 or playbook ?15:48
penguin42definitely not playbook15:49
brobostigoni would like qnx from the playbook, on the nexus7 hw.15:50
brobostigonthat isnt unless, android has moved along, that much, that it would beat qnx, since android 2.315:52
penguin422.3 is a long time ago16:02
brobostigontrue, but it is the last version, i have had enough time with, to be able to compare against.16:03
brobostigonalso for the nexus, is the spec is higher. and system updates are directly by google, insted of at the descration of other ouside companies.16:06
brobostigonalso android has more sw choice.16:08
BigRedSwhy do you want qnx?16:13
brobostigonBigRedS: i just seems atrractive, from what i have used of it, and read about it.16:14
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SuperEngineerhmmm... popey getting p'g on a RAT, alanbell getting stuffed with oversized burgers,,,, time for some fun?17:12
SuperEngineer*p'd17:18
AlanBellchoo choo18:07
brobostigonslurp :)18:09
* SuperEngineer takes the opportunity of it being so quiet here to go: zzzzzzzzzzzzz [s'ok - nobody's watching]19:59
brobostigonlol19:59
SuperEngineerdamn - I woke someone up!19:59
brobostigon:) hehe20:00
penguin42shhhhh20:06
SuperEngineerok, while we're all awake - why does Alien Arena trigger a temperature alarm on the CPU not the GPU!!!20:07
* SuperEngineer slaps wrist for playing games not working ;)20:08
penguin42well - is the CPU working flat out?20:10
SuperEngineer[should have looked for "Beer Train" game... only, trouble is all the admins have nicked it20:10
SuperEngineerno - I have an "early" alarm set at 70 [real high is 80 - critical at 90]20:11
penguin42laptop or desktop?20:12
SuperEngineerplenty of safety left - just surprised the GPU [nvidia] wasn't doing more of the work]20:12
SuperEngineerPendulum: desktop [old Dell dimension with a couple of added goodies]20:13
SuperEngineerpenguin42: desktop [old Dell dimension with a couple of added goodies]20:13
penguin42SuperEngineer: Well I don't know the innards of the game, but if you're cooling isn't great then perhaps the heat from the GPU is stopping the cooling on the on the CPU being that great?20:13
SuperEngineer[sorry Pendulum]20:13
SuperEngineerhmmm - check out the nickname - SuperEngineer has only recently airdusted and checked all ok ;)20:14
SuperEngineeras in... Super20:14
SuperEngineer[otherwise I would use Supper] ;)20:15
penguin42could try profiling it to see where your time is going, but it doesn't surprise me that a game uses the CPU as well as the GPU a lot20:16
SuperEngineerme neither - but I just wish nVidia would take more of the load [wishful thinking only]20:18
SuperEngineer[still - the game does do quite a lot for an old machine to be coping with20:19
* MartijnVdS installs ICS on his old Nexus One20:19
MartijnVdSafter *shudder* repartitioning the flash20:19
SuperEngineerooops did I say game? [in case any bosses listening in - I meant heavy workload of workstuff only!]20:20
MartijnVdSSuperEngineer: http://xkcd.com/303/20:20
SuperEngineerMartijnVdS: darn - caught me out!  ;)20:21
MartijnVdSSuperEngineer: don't worry, I'm a coder myself ;)20:21
SuperEngineer;)20:22
MartijnVdSanyway20:32
MartijnVdSICS seems to work!20:32
AlanBellhiya21:04
AlanBellstill on a train21:04
AlanBellslighrly intoxicated now21:05
brobostigonchoochoo21:05
brobostigonlol :)21:05
brobostigonhi AlanBell21:05
brobostigongood night everyone, sleep well.21:13
Azelphurhttps://dl.dropbox.com/u/33906036/2012-07-14%2016.01.18.jpg I think we can fix it.21:24
dogmatic69ebay: "like new, minor scratches on the lid"21:27
Azelphurhaha21:27
dogmatic69Azelphur: you shot it to pieces?21:28
Azelphurnah, my friends dad did21:28
dogmatic69ah21:28
dogmatic69in the uk?21:28
AzelphurCanda21:28
Azelphur+a21:28
dogmatic69thought that blue stuff in the background was a bit strange21:28
AzelphurI've got this really old laptop and I'm trying to Lubuntu it, but none of the live cds seem to work, it drops to busybox and says "(initramfs) Unable to find a medium containing a live file system"21:30
AzelphurI've tried this with two different 10.04 LTS disks, and a 12.04 LUbuntu, 8.04 KUbuntu worked however21:31
AzelphuroO, I typed exit and it kernel panic'd21:32
Azelphurlol21:32
directhexmoo.21:41
Azelphurmoo21:41
Azelphurso, got his laptop in busybox again, I can't find the cd drive anywhere in /dev.21:41
Azelphurthis*21:41
Azelphurthis is really weird, it's booting from CD and yet there's no CD drive in /dev at all from what I can see22:17
BigRedSAzelphur: that's not *that* uncommon22:28
BigRedSall it means is that teh BIOS can find the CD drive but the kernel can't22:28
AzelphurI think I might have found it, it may be /dev/sg022:28
Azelphurbut I can't get it to mount :(22:28
BigRedSsg0 might well point at it, but sg* is for esoteric and custom featuresets22:31
BigRedSso not mounting22:31
Azelphurah22:31
Azelphursuggestions?22:32
BigRedSCan the hardware boot off USB?22:32
Azelphurno22:32
BigRedSalternatively stick teh hdd in something else, install, then put it back22:32
BigRedSother than that, I don't know22:32
Azelphurthat could work22:32
Azelphurgood idea22:33
BigRedSyou might be able to create a block /dev/thingie for it, but I wouldn't know where to start22:33
* Azelphur steals mums laptop \o/22:33
BigRedSah, cool22:33
BigRedShaha22:33
Azelphuroh wait, this is gonna be IDE22:33
Azelphurhmm22:33
* Azelphur tries some things22:33
Azelphurwoot, got it mounted on my PC via some cheapo USB chinese adapter22:43
Azelphurnow to virtualbox passthru and install22:43
penguin42sigh, reminds me I need to fix my dads machine - it did an update the other day and now doesn't get into grub22:43
Laneywhat update?22:45
penguin42that, I've not figured out yet22:46
Laneywell, you should. and then you must file a bug and tag it regression-update22:47
Laneyregressions in -updates are a very serious matter22:48
Laney(unless it turns out to be something you did, of course)22:49
penguin42indeed, 1st I need to find out what the heck's going on - I tried a chroot'd update-grub and that hasn't helped22:52
penguin42Laney: Hmm not at all obvious, it had a kernel update at the time it failed, which I guess means it did a grub-update, but it's last grub dpkg update had occurred at the same time as it got it's last kernel update23:38
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penguin42but that kernel works fine23:40
penguin42hmm, working - I think the only thing I can see is that it was the 1st grub update after changing graphics cards - shrug, configured grub into text mode and we're OK23:47

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