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Azelphurali1234: this is a shame, looks like the gnome15 developer has disappeared, no longer maintaining the project00:12
AzelphurI might fork it00:12
ali1234Azelphur: he put out a new version about 2 weeks ago01:31
Azelphurali1234: huh? no?01:31
Azelphurali1234: he hasn't logged in to his own website in 2 months nearly01:31
ali1234oh ok01:32
Azelphurali1234: hey cool, just found out I got a mention at bitcoin conference http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmPD_YSQ--k&t=18m17s01:54
Azelphurthat loan was me xD01:54
ali1234Azelphur: i've not been online for a week, but last i heard was nefario got in trouble over some thing that was listed02:10
ali1234i think it was a GLBSE stock that wasn't done by him but by a scammer02:10
Azelphurali1234: *shrug* glbse is down atm and theres a lot of uncertainty :p02:10
ali1234lol02:10
ali1234what happened?02:11
Azelphurali1234: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=115669.002:12
ali1234HA02:16
Azelphurindeed02:16
ali1234fail02:16
Azelphuroh the woes of bitcoin02:16
ali1234i have no idea what any of that means02:16
ali1234any update on pirate?02:17
Azelphurali1234: 12th is when that ticks for news02:18
Azelphurhttp://pastebin.com/DVNsx7xz02:18
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christelmorning07:26
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czajkowskimorning07:48
christelHELLO czajkowski!07:54
christelczajkowski: would jon like to be in a shortfilm?07:54
christelwe need some extras for a scene we're filming on the 14th!07:54
christel(in london)07:54
czajkowskiou can ask but unsure08:05
czajkowski*you08:05
* czajkowski is in .IE 08:05
czajkowskiso not in prodding distance08:05
christelaah yes i forget!08:06
bigcalm_laptopGood morning peeps :)08:08
popeymorning08:37
bigcalm_laptopHola popey08:48
AlanBellmorning08:49
bigcalm_laptopHi AlanBell08:49
popeypip pip08:50
rewritableg'day08:51
popeylo08:51
bigcalm_laptopI'm at a conference and yet I'm still on IRC08:54
popey\o/08:54
AlanBellwhat conference?08:55
bigcalm_laptopphpnw1208:58
bigcalm_laptopUp in Manchester08:58
bigcalm_laptopmgdm is here as well, somewhere08:59
AlanBelloh I saw some tweets from lornajane about that too09:00
bigcalm_laptop:)09:00
MooDoomorning all09:01
bigcalm_laptopShe's run off to prepare for her own talk09:01
AlanBellnow I know what the hashtag means :)09:01
bigcalm_laptop:D09:01
bigcalm_laptopAlanBell: time to spam it then ;)09:01
AlanBellhttp://instagram.com/p/Qb1DR9p_4X/ looks busy09:02
* AlanBell plays spot the bigcalm_laptop 09:03
bigcalm_laptopAlanBell: I'm to the far left of that photo09:04
* popey notes it would probably be easier to spot him if they hadn't used instagram to "improve" the picture09:29
AlanBellI don't get the point of instagram09:31
AlanBelllets make pictures square and worse, and sell out for billions \o/09:31
AlanBellhow does that plan ever succeed?09:31
apacheukmorning all, quick question I've been using 12.10 on a laptop (for testing) since the first alpha, performing the updates every day... in the last two days the system has become unstable and crashes shortly afterward, I've submitted the a bug using the automated process but I noticed in the bug info that it still talks about 'alpha' version.... does applying the updates everyday not mean I'm at the latest beta or d09:32
apacheuko I have to dl that?09:32
AlanBellapacheuk: if you have ben doing the updates, then you are up to date09:33
AlanBellbug number?09:33
apacheukAlanBell: OK cheers... I thought so, but wanted a sanity check09:33
apacheuk106274309:33
AlanBellbug 106274309:33
lubotu3Launchpad bug 1033533 in xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu) "duplicate for #1062743 Xorg crashed with SIGABRT: exaMemcpyBox with src=0x0 on nouveau with SW rendering" [High,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/103353309:33
popeyapacheuk, any particular reason you're using nouveau and not the binary nvidia driver?09:35
apacheukpopey: can't honestly remember why... I haven't used it on any of my other systems.... I don't think so anyway :)09:36
popeyis it a mac?09:36
apacheukno, Toshiba P10009:36
popeyI'd install "nvidia-current" then09:36
apacheukdoing so now,09:37
apacheukcheers09:38
brobostigongood morning everyone.09:40
AlanBelldo supermarkets still do printed cakes?09:40
popeyyes09:41
popeyasda do i think09:41
jacobwmorning10:04
brobostigonmorning jacobw10:04
ali1234can they print a cake based on jpeg? because i would love to see marzipan jpeg artifacts10:11
jacobwthat's not a normal wish10:13
AlanBellali1234: I think I will find out what formats are acceptable, I did one ages ago and yes, there were jpeg artifacts10:19
AlanBellit basically gets printed onto a thin icing sheet by an inkjet printer10:20
LaneyGoing out... to buy running shoes...11:45
LaneyI made a rash promise to run a half marathon11:45
Laneyhaving never run more than for the bus in my life, this could be bad11:45
popey:)11:46
jacobwoh dear11:52
LaneyI have a whole year to get fit :P11:52
penguin42there was a thing where Wolfram explained that he had a treadmill positioned where he could type and work on his computer while walking on it; and he had years of pedometer graphs from it11:54
jacobwthat's quite a long time11:54
jacobwi can't imagine wolfram jogging11:55
penguin42jacobw: http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytics-of-my-life/    not sure it was actually jogging11:57
penguin42jacobw: The stats he gathers are amazing; timing of every keystroke he's typed for 10 years11:57
popeyAlanBell, a carton of tomato juice arrived :D12:19
penguin42popey: How much (and how many varieties) have you drunk in the last week?12:43
AlanBellpopey: \o/12:43
popeyonly one variety12:46
popey2L12:46
gord£10 to anyone that can drink a 2L carton of tomato sauce12:54
czajkowskialoha13:20
popeyyo czajkowski hows it going?13:28
czajkowskigood thanks13:34
czajkowskipeople turned up13:34
czajkowskiloved marks talk13:34
czajkowskilots came out going I'm going to try unity and loved the lens13:34
czajkowskias he demoed how to do stuff via the dash and lens13:34
czajkowskitweetng lots :)13:38
czajkowskirelease party for London taking place http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-uk/2006/detail/ open to all to come along14:46
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jacobwczajkowski: the url contains events/ubuntu-uk/2006 ?15:22
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czajkowskiyup15:25
czajkowskievent id15:25
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jacobwwolfram looks like my secondary school history teacher, it's confusing for me :(15:25
penguin42haha15:25
jacobwczajkowski: coincidence strikes again15:25
jacobwunity 6.8 is a performance improvement15:39
jacobwit seems faster to me but not smoother15:40
jacobwhey hamitron, stgraber16:31
hamitronevening16:31
hamitron:)16:31
popeyjacobw, bug reports welcome16:43
ali1234"it seems faster" doesn't sound like a bug to me16:52
jacobwpopey: which package would i file jerky window animations against?17:07
jacobwpopey: as far as i know, the window animations are implemented as compiz plugin, so would that be compiz-plugins-main?17:08
popeyif you can get it on video that would be good, but just file against comiz itself17:09
jacobwok, i'm looking at the screencast instructions now, thanks17:09
popeymight be better with a phone/camera17:09
popeyscreencast might not show it up as well, or may make it worse17:09
ali1234screencast definitely will make it 1 million times worse17:10
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jacobwthe case that can reproduce is probably a caused by terminal redrawing17:18
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popeyAlanBell, can you access the Ubuntu UK G+ page? I used to have access but no longer do17:40
AlanBellyes17:40
popeythe UUPC one has just vanished since the last show17:41
popeyand all the posts have gone17:41
AlanBellwow17:41
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AlanBellwas it attached to your other G+ account?17:42
popeyno17:48
popeyi only have one G+ account17:48
popeyoh, hang on.. it once was17:49
popeyand I disabled that old account, bet that's it17:49
popeyballs17:49
* popey re-creates17:52
livingdaylighthi17:57
livingdaylightis there bbc iplayer for linux; a workaround?17:58
penguin42livingdaylight: Should find it just works in the browser17:58
livingdaylightyes, works in the browser, I mean for downloading and watching later, penguin4217:59
penguin42livingdaylight: Ah there was a get-iplayer a while ago, not sure if it's still available17:59
popeyit still works18:00
livingdaylightit still works? was that command-line only, or was there a gui front-end developed for it too?18:00
penguin42I only ever used the command line one, I think there was a front end though18:01
popeyhttp://git.infradead.org/get_iplayer.git18:01
popeythere was18:01
popeystill is18:01
popeygit clone git://git.infradead.org/get_iplayer.git18:01
popeyjob done18:01
livingdaylightthanks !18:01
popeymight also need rtmpdump if you want HD download18:01
DaraelThe get-iplayer package doesn't include the GUI but does exist, so it may be marginally easier.  I'm sure it didn't depend on flvstreamer before, but it's in the recommends now.18:03
exobuzzyou will need rtmpdump yeh18:58
ali1234any model railway experts here?19:44
ali1234i'm trying to fix an old motor from model railway. it has springs inside the motor to form a connection to power. and i have no idea why. they don't seem to serve any purpose except to fall out and get lost and prevent the thing from working19:47
ali1234which is what has happened, probably 20 years ago19:48
DaraelInside the actual motor, or inside the engine model forming a connection to the motor?  Most models I've seen have internal wires soldered on to the motors.19:49
DaraelBut springs could allow for easier replacement with a non-identical motor?19:50
ali1234Darael: i found a picture of an identical one online http://img441.imageshack.us/i/cimg2935.jpg/19:50
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ali1234you see the two brass "tabs"19:51
ali1234under there is a hole19:51
ali1234in the hole is a small metal peg19:51
ali1234the tab doesn't touch the peg, there's a spring in each hole that maintains the contact19:51
ali1234you can just see a tiny bit of it on the right hand side19:52
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ali1234this is what i have: http://ubuntuone.com/1BLslh5ivgt3oPSS9zwFJ119:55
DaraelHmm.  Something to do with maintaining the contact over things like points and slightly-loose track-connections that cause jolting, perhaps?  But why not just use a solid contact the whole way through?19:56
DaraelNope, no idea.19:57
ali1234i dunno19:57
ali1234i guess it is so you can replace the motor inside without soldering19:57
ali1234"somehow"19:57
ali1234but the spring falls out so easy19:57
ali1234and then you have a broken train. cos you have zero chance of finding it. it is tiny19:57
ali1234well look at that: you can buy replacements for £5 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LIMA-Motor-Brushes-and-Springs-OO-HO-600875-/30068179683319:58
ali1234that's probably more than this thing is worth19:58
DaraelHeh.19:59
ali1234i bet i have a spring likethat in one of my junk boxes actually19:59
DaraelThe thing to do would be to attach one end of the spring more permanently.  Probably the tab end.20:00
ali1234yeah that would be smart20:00
ali1234i bet they get a lot of ... i dunno corrosion from sparks20:00
ali1234so they probably need replacing from time to time anyway20:01
DaraelProbably.  Do the attachment with a tiny bit of solder, though, and one could just melt it off again when replacement-time came.  Might be tricky to get it soldered right in the first place...20:01
ali1234i guess fixing the thing all the time is the most fun thing about model trains. if it just worked and went round and round forever... it would be the most boring hobby ever20:02
DaraelNah, model railways are a bit like gardens: Sometimes finished, never complete.20:02
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Goshawk_Hi there, how do I give myself write permission?20:25
AzelphurGoshawk_: I wrote a blog post explaining permissions, http://blog.azelphur.com/node/29520:27
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Goshawk_Azelphur: cheers for that20:32
AzelphurGoshawk_: welcome :)20:32
brobostigoninteresting, ubuntu-gnome remix.20:42
penguin42?20:42
brobostigonpenguin42: something i just found on the wiki, that is new to 12.10.20:43
ali1234cool i fixed it by making my own spring from a piece of wire20:47
penguin42brobostigon: Cool, I'll try that in my test vm20:47
brobostigonpenguin42: :)20:47
penguin42(although the X server on quantal doesn't really seem to like kvm guests)20:48
* penguin42 wishes he would remember the syntex to apt-key for adding keys, I'm getting better but it still takes a few goes20:50
brobostigonweird thing is though, i have debian unstable running gnome3, and running this of an sdhc, ubuntu-gnome with gnome3.6 seems alittle faster.20:51
penguin42brobostigon: I was impressed in the speed of gnome3 running in a vm, it seems faster than unity these days20:52
brobostigonpenguin42: i havent tried unity in about a year. so couldnt say myself. properly.20:53
penguin42brobostigon: I give it a try every so often20:53
brobostigonpenguin42: i used to use ubuntu woth gnome3 ppa, then went to debian-unstable with gnome3, when that ppa went out of date. so when i found this remix earlier this evening, i thought, yes, it kinda fits better, which what i was looking for.20:54
Goshawk_I'm trying to install a program but it keeps telling me I don't have permission, can anyone help?20:55
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penguin42Goshawk_: How are you trying to install it ?20:56
Goshawk_penguin42: in the terminal20:56
penguin42brobostigon: Hmm, I don't get any new options on login, still just ubuntu (i.e. unity?) or Gnome20:56
penguin42(or gnome classic - hmm what's that)20:56
brobostigonpenguin42: gnome-shell, and then gnome-fallback.20:57
AzelphurI just had a clever idea for my nexus 7 xD20:58
brobostigonpenguin42: but like normal, ubuntu uses about double the ram of debian.20:59
AzelphurMy N7 is usually perm tethered to my S3 to get internet anyway, I wonder if I could run a NFS server on my S3, giving the N7 a boatload of storage20:59
brobostigonAzelphur: yes, that is possible.21:00
AzelphurI'm hunting for an android NFS server now, hehe21:00
brobostigon:)21:00
AzelphurI found a samba server, but this makes me feel sad inside21:06
Azelphurdo ATI cards have a VDPAU equivalent on Linux?21:14
ali1234ugh i just found the instructions that explains everything about the springs + brushes21:16
DaraelWell done.21:17
penguin42Azelphur: What's vdpau?22:25
Azelphurpenguin42: GPU video acceleration22:26
Azelphurso you can play 1080p videos on old crappy processors22:26
penguin42Azelphur: So yes I think they support the Xv stuff and other X extensions22:26
Azelphurfun22:26
penguin42Azelphur: Even the open driver is claiming to have XVideo and XVideo-MotionCompensation - I think there are bits glued into the GLX stuff as well but I don't really know22:28
* Azelphur shrugs22:28
MartijnVdSAzelphur: libva > vdpau22:36
MartijnVdSvainfo tells you what's supported (h264, mpeg2)22:36
MartijnVdSthere's a backend for vdpau and one for intel (and probably ati)22:37
MartijnVdSthere's a gstreamer element, and vlc supports libva22:37
MartijnVdSas does xbmc22:37
MartijnVdSit's the New Hotness©22:38
MartijnVdS®22:38
Azelphurfun22:43
AzelphurI'm planning to start migrating all my stuff away from nvidia, I've had enough of them :p22:43
Azelphurlooks like my netbook handles N64 emulation with no issues22:46
Azelphurwell maybe a little choppy, probably needs some config22:46
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matttheeeeeelp23:01
mattthad this annoying cold for near on 7 days now :~(23:01
penguin42mattt: Ah, you to23:01
penguin42mattt: Started really badly last saturday, I've managed just about to work the week and still feel crap23:04
popey yeah, wifey has had that too23:04
Azelphurhow do I tell if I'm running fglrx or not? jockey seems to be a bit confused23:07
ali1234if opencl works you're using fglrx23:12
ali1234well if it works and doesn;t say "CPU"23:12
ali1234i'm sure you;re familiar with that stuff :)23:12
ali1234the opencl stuff is built in to the newest drivers in ubuntu i think23:12
ali1234i had to go through and fix that up. you don't need the app-sdk any more23:13
Azelphuris there not a command I can use to check? I'm not after setting up opencl stuff on here23:13
ali1234clinfo23:13
ali1234it's incuded in fglrx driver now iirc23:13
ali1234you can also look at xorg.0.log23:13
ali1234look for catalyst/fglrx references23:13
Azelphurnope, no such package, xorg.log has some fglrx stuff so I guess I'm running proprietary even though jockey says I'm not \o/23:14
ali1234hmm23:15
ali1234it's real easy to mess up catalyst drivers :(23:15
ali1234i think i too am going to put the 5870 into my desktop and give up mining when bitcoin subsidy cut happens23:16
ali1234though nvidia might win me back if their new xrandr stuff is good23:16
Azelphurali1234: I got pissed off with nvidia big time now over the multi monitor thing23:18
* Azelphur is in full anti nvidia PR mode now :p23:18
ali1234it always worked fine for me23:18
ali1234about 3 people have >2 monitors23:18
penguin42Azelphur: I'm told nouveau is getting a lot better, certainly for 2d use and multiple monitors23:18
ali1234nouveau still doesn't support my card23:19
ali1234it crashes within 20 minutes every time, and is marked as "unsupported, please don't report bugs"23:19
Azelphurali1234: they implemented >2 monitor support23:19
penguin42erk23:19
Azelphurthen they bricked it to only allow 3 monitors23:20
Azelphurto try and force quadro cards and GTX 680's onto people23:20
Azelphurthat made me mad.23:20
ali1234Azelphur: yeah i heard about that. but only about 1 person has >3 monitors23:20
* Azelphur shrugs23:20
ali1234buy a quadro card23:20
Azelphuror just buy an AMD card, they don't brick the software as a marketing tactic, and they work with open devs too \o/23:22
ali1234unfortunately that does not mean the drivers are any good :(23:24
Azelphurindeed, hopefully they will be soon23:27
ali1234http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-1985724323:29
penguin42ali1234: Yeh, that looks 'fun'23:29
ali1234is that the one that's supposed to be secure because "we keep all your details on our secure server"23:29
penguin42ali1234: I don't know23:31
ali1234i wouldn't be surprised if it was related to the apple udid thing23:32
penguin42why?23:34
penguin42ali1234: I mean a trojan'd phone or phished account is the most likely rather than something specific to that23:35
ali1234i suspect that the implementation is broken, hence them taking it offline for updates23:35
ali1234just reducing the daily limit is changing one variable23:36
penguin42and that's connected to the apple uuid how?23:36
ali1234that doesn't require taking the service off line. scrambling to fix a broken protocol that authenticates against udid however...23:36
ali1234like, suppose you only need the udid + 4 digit pin and there's no rate limiting on wrong attempts23:37
ali1234you take the list of udid and try every one with the same pin. that way nobody's account gets blocked. and sometimes you get it right the first time23:37
ali1234so there's no record of invalid attempts against that account23:38
ali1234in fact a guy demonstrated this exact attack against telephone banking service in india23:38
ali1234let me find the video23:39
ali1234http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y7aIKLgMoM23:40
penguin42haha that's dumb23:42
ali1234so yeah basically just them taking it offline makes me really suspicious that there's a serious flaw in the implementation that can't be trivially fixed23:44
brobostigon[A23:45
brobostigongood night everyone, sleep well.23:45
penguin42ali1234: Watching that talk, it's just dumb - I mean using your normal pin on a phone bank app is just plain stupid23:51
ali1234yeah. he does some more interesting stuff with SQL injection over speech recognition later, but that is not relevant23:52
ali1234to what i am saying. all i'm saying is we know it's stupid. that doesn't mean it doesn't happen :)23:53
ali1234using just the pin is obviously stupid. but combining it with the udid of the user's phone looks like it adds security. until all the udids get leaked.23:53
ali1234"it's Ok to use the PIN, because nobody else would have access to the user's phone anyway, so it doesn't matter"23:54
ali1234or rather "they would need physical access to the phone and they need to know the pin, therefore this is two factor" - but really it isn't23:54
penguin42ali1234: Yeh I think any app can read the udid so it doesn't take much, but fi you've got a good trojan'd app then it could take the pin anyway23:58
ali1234yep23:59
ali1234and it's probably a combination of all these things.23:59
penguin42ali1234: I actually suspect it might be more of a simple phishing type case - there is a lot of phishing going on, and I've been getting lots of Natwest phishing mails recently23:59

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