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dogmatic69anyone know how to use 'convert' to keep no background when doing svg -> png?00:06
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selinuxiumwondering of anyone was still up?00:56
DaraelAt least one.00:58
selinuxiumDarael, Morning... :)00:58
selinuxiumI am up late as my Quantal update hasn't gone smoothly...00:59
DaraelOh dear.01:01
selinuxiumyup... fun  fun fun! :)01:01
ali1234barclaycard reasons why PDF statements are better than paper ones: "It's easy to get your hands on if you need to check it or prove your identity."04:52
ali1234so apparently anyone who can make PDFs can now steal my identity. great.04:52
Azelphurali1234 all you need to steal someones identity usually is a bank statement xD04:53
Azelphurpeople keep on asking me for mine and I'm on paperless billing, getting fed up with it I'll probably gimp a bank statement at some point.04:53
ali1234previously that would mean breaking into my house04:53
ali1234they also claim it is password protected04:54
ali1234so how would i show it to anyone?04:54
MartijnVdSprint screen04:55
Azelphurali1234 just found this, figured it might interest you, http://hexgl.bkcore.com/05:17
Azelphurit's open source and on github, seems pretty awesome05:18
ali1234not bad for a browser game05:30
ali1234feels a bit clunky, that might be because of keyboard controls though05:32
ali1234the difficulty is much too high05:32
Azelphurnot at all, I love the difficulty05:33
Azelphurfinally a challenging game, without all this wishy washy crap05:33
ali1234lol05:33
ali1234it's not really challenging though05:33
ali1234you just have to drive slow05:33
Azelphurno you don't, use air brakes05:33
ali1234you still have to drive slow05:34
Azelphurair brakes arn't brakes btw05:34
ali1234i know05:34
ali1234they just make you go sideways really fast05:34
ali1234also, how can you say it's challenging when you can't fall off the track?05:35
Azelphurbecause you have durability, and to beat any of the records will be tought05:35
Azelphurtough*05:35
ali1234beat f-zero x big hand on ace difficulty, then talk to me about challenging :)05:36
Azelphurhehe05:37
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Knightwisemooorrning06:55
theopensourcererMorning earthlings07:00
Knightwisehey theopensourcerer07:01
popeypip pip07:01
Knightwisehey popey !07:01
popeyyo07:01
theopensourcererHow's Denmark popey07:01
theopensourcerer?07:01
Knightwisesudo apt-get install superpowers07:04
Knightwisepackage not found07:04
popeytheopensourcerer, expensive07:04
theopensourcererGosh - already.07:04
popeyarrived, went to the bar07:05
theopensourcererWhat's a pint (or the equivalent) then?07:05
popey~5GBP07:05
theopensourcerer(*&*%&^!!!07:05
popeycarlsberg07:05
Knightwisei remember danish and swedish students visiting belgium07:08
Knightwiseand paying one euro for a carlsberg07:09
Knightwisethey thought they had died and gone to heaven07:09
Knightwisehmm.. lightread is no longer in the repositories ?07:31
Knightwisegot an error on sudo apt-get install lightread07:31
AlanBellhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19976271 I knew I would be fashionable again one day07:36
Knightwisewe shop in a store in Aachen from time to time that actually carries dirndles07:37
popeyKnightwise, 12.04 or 12.10?07:38
Knightwise12.1007:38
Knightwisecouldn't find fogger either07:38
popeydeveloper needs to update it to 12.1007:38
Knightwiseaj07:39
Knightwisetoo bad :(  Loved lightread ! awesome awesome Rss reader07:39
ali1234is the humble bundle stuff updated yet?07:39
Knightwisesoo well built it looks like a mac app07:39
popeythe 12.04 package probably works on 12.1007:40
diploMorning all07:55
Knightwisehey diplo07:55
SuperMattmorning07:59
JamesTaitGoooooooood morning all! :)08:26
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czajkowskialoha08:28
SuperMattheyhey08:30
SuperMattI hate this part in the ubuntu release cycle08:31
SuperMattthere's naff all news08:31
czajkowskigive it a week08:31
popey:)08:32
SuperMattah yes, uds08:34
popeyUDS hotel is nice08:35
popeyif you like ikea08:35
popeyrooms are tiny though.08:35
popeynot that we spend long in them :)08:35
SuperMattI'd love to go to a uds, but I'd have to learn to develop first08:35
czajkowskiSuperMatt: narp! I'm not a developer and I go08:37
czajkowskipopey: that must be a bit awkawrd for some of the larger folk!08:37
popeyhah08:37
popeysingle beds08:37
czajkowskiLOL  can just imagine the comments08:38
SuperMattczajkowski: surely it costs a fair penny though?08:38
czajkowskiSuperMatt: I've been rather fortunate to be sponsored in the past08:39
czajkowskiwhich is open to anyone to apply08:39
SuperMattnice08:39
popeyin fact all the rooms are configured with two single beds pushed together :)08:39
popeyczajkowski, seen the bathroom windows?08:39
popeylike brussels08:39
czajkowskipopey: how could I not not yesterday, anyone on my timeline there has been taking pics and posting :)08:39
popeyhaha08:39
czajkowskiI think blokes are just a little bit more prudish and also more likely to take the piss of someone in there :)08:40
popey</generalise>08:43
czajkowskislightly but tis kinda true of that bunch :)08:44
popeyi dont think prudish is the right word08:45
gordugh they have bathroom windows again? the hell08:45
czajkowskipopey: maybe cant think of a more polite word for irc08:45
AlanBellhttps://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/285747_3881180870491_490360034_n.jpg for those lacking context08:46
popeywe're all mostly kidding about08:46
SuperMattDO NOT WANT08:47
gordthe ones in brussells did not have any visual obstructions and for people on the ground floor, just faced the window people were walking next to outside. and went directly into the shower08:48
popeyits more of a culture shock really, given a large number of people here are brits & americans, we generally never have this in our hotels08:48
gordi just... i don't understand the logic08:48
popeythese have a door08:48
diploThey're like that in the hotel I stayed at in Sweden08:48
Knightwiselooks like a star trek transporter08:50
shaunoI stayed in a hotel in prague that had an all-glass-walled bathroom.  I felt a lot like a goldfish.08:50
popeyyeah, something was materialising in the toilet there08:51
KnightwiseIck ! :^p08:53
Neoti_Desktophey people how things ....09:04
popeygreat!09:09
Neoti_DesktopCool...09:10
BigRedSI'm surely not the only person who finds it crazy that an imap syncing tool can produce the error "No UIs were found usable!"?09:20
SuperMattI have no idea09:20
popey\o/ Danish pastries! Thousands of them.09:28
gordoh my god... its full of pastries09:28
Laneyjealous09:30
* BigRedS can't wait09:30
Laneyis it as close to the airport as it seems?09:30
BigRedSFosdem has waffles, uds has pastries. I need to go to more conferences09:30
christelomnom.09:33
shaunoclose enough09:34
czajkowskipopey: so instead of cat images this week we shall be getting food pics in our timelines :)09:35
BigRedSI've had lots of pictures of showers...09:36
popeyLaney, yeah, 5-10 min taxi ride09:39
popeylonger on public transport I guess09:39
popeybut it's not far09:39
Laneybah, taxi09:39
* Laney will be getting the tube thing :-)09:39
brobostigongood morning everyone.09:42
BigRedSGood Morning!09:50
SuperMattheyhey09:50
brobostigonmorning BigRedS and SuperMatt09:50
Knightwisehey brobostigon  !09:54
brobostigonhey Knightwise09:55
oimonanyone recommend any good flash game sites for toddlers that use keyboard, like cbeebies?10:00
popeycbeebies?10:00
oimonmost i've seen require mouse10:00
popeyoh, why not mouse?10:00
oimoncos munchkin is only 2 yrs old, and is better with arrow keys10:00
oimonlike the pingu and mr tumble hames10:00
oimonhe's not well :(10:00
popeyawww10:01
oimoni've already had the "want to play games" strop that i thought would be a few years yet10:01
christelwe used to do http://www.kneebouncers.com/ a bit when david was younger10:01
christelhowever they now seem to charge10:01
christelhow rude10:01
oimondo the ARM chromebooks have internal storage?10:02
christel(they have a freek 1 week trial mind)10:02
oimonwow, he must be unwell, he's taken himself off to bed10:03
christelawww10:03
ali1234!info libwxgtk2.8-010:04
lubotu3libwxgtk2.8-0 (source: wxwidgets2.8): wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (GTK+ runtime). In component universe, is optional. Version 2.8.12.1-11ubuntu3 (quantal), package size 3235 kB, installed size 8833 kB10:04
ali1234!info libwxgtk2.8-0 precise10:04
lubotu3libwxgtk2.8-0 (source: wxwidgets2.8): wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (GTK+ runtime). In component universe, is optional. Version 2.8.12.1-6ubuntu2 (precise), package size 3177 kB, installed size 8694 kB10:04
oimonat least the puking has stopped for now..until i get it10:04
ali1234why do i have libwxgtk2.8-0 version 2.8.12.1-6ubuntu2.2?10:05
davmor2Morning all10:05
davmor2ali1234: I'm going to guess that you have an app installed that needs it10:06
ali1234how do i tell which one and where it came from?10:06
davmor2ali1234: there is a reverse dep lookup but I've never used it so don't know how to trigger it.  Just google should tell you10:08
ali1234it's from proposed, and has been deleted10:09
ali1234https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/amd64/libwxgtk2.8-010:09
davmor2ali1234: http://blog.hartwork.org/?p=108 second one is the one you want I believe10:12
ali1234it's not installed due to a dependency10:12
ali1234it's installed because i have -proposed enabled and installed wxgtk manually10:12
popeymoo11:52
davmor2popey: Where you at dude?11:54
popeyCopenhagen11:55
Laneyi really want to stuff my face with pastries11:55
Laneycome on sunday11:55
Laney(also, see all of my lovely Ubuntu friends again, of course *cough*)11:56
davmor2popey: oooohhhhhhhhh get you and your jet setting ;)11:56
popeyLunch was interesting11:58
popeythere was a sign next to some food saying... "Ass. Tapas"11:58
bashrc_was it an executive lunch?11:59
Neoti_Desktoplol.11:59
Laneythat hotel loves its ass, it seems11:59
knightwisemust be lunchtime12:36
alkisgpopey: hello, pad.ubuntu-uk.org is down, any ideas if it'll be up again, and when?12:41
popeyalkisg, ask Daviey12:45
alkisgThank you popey... Daviey, any help with that? ^12:45
motters__trying the lubuntu desktop.  Pretty impressive on the CPU usage - or lack thereof12:46
nucc1hi guys, I made the (in retrospect) grave error of installing the "google+ app" when firefox prompted me, and Now I cannot handle the barrage of notifications12:58
nucc1any one know how I can get rid of it?12:58
motters__I had that problem too13:05
Myrttiwell, the webapp extension crashes all the time13:08
Myrttinucc1: uninstall the deb package of it with apt-get13:09
motters__I got fed up with crashes, and have been trying other desktops13:09
Myrttithe gmail one is a bit awful too, I'd really rather have gm-notify, atleast on that I can choose which labels it shows13:09
dwatkinsCan't you simply turn the notifications off?13:09
Myrttinope.13:10
Myrttiatleast I haven't found out how13:10
dwatkinsoh wow, that's surprising13:10
Myrttithe only solution I've found is uninstalling the package and fiddling with gconf to get rid of the constant prompt13:10
AlanBellunity-webapps-gmail is the package to remove13:11
popeybugs filed?13:11
nucc1Myrtti, it didn't feel like an apt-get install. it was a popup in the browser, and I wasn't prompted for any password13:11
AlanBellor tweak the user.js file it installs13:11
nucc1Myrtti, I was under the impression it was some kind of html5 offline storage stuff.13:11
Myrttinucc1: I know13:11
dwatkinsis it an add-on to firefox you can remove from within firefox, then?13:11
AlanBellpopey: the api for the messaging menu got trashed rather than deprecated so everything non-canonical using it got broken13:11
nucc1it doesn't show up in firefox addons13:12
nucc1Myrtti, any idea what the package name is?13:12
AlanBellBug #104025913:12
lubotu3Launchpad bug 1040259 in skype-wrapper "FFE: libmessaging-menu transitions for quantal" [High,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/104025913:12
Myrttinucc1: unity-webapps-googleplus13:12
AlanBelldwatkins: you can turn off the addon entirely, but not per-website13:13
AlanBellthere is a dconf key for it somewhere13:13
dwatkinsAlanBell: ah ok13:13
nucc1Myrtti, thanks. quite a lot of them. I find that using Geary, I don't need any fancy gmail add-ons.13:13
AlanBellcom/canonical/unity/webapps13:14
nucc1on an unrelated note, is there any chance that canonical will reveal any statistics about the "humble ubuntu download" contributions?13:15
bigcalmnucc1: Canonical kept all of the money </troll>13:15
nucc1bigcalm, fair enough IMO. they have contributed greatly to a great OS.13:16
nucc1I just want to know if it has been successful13:16
popeywhat money?13:16
popeypeople didn't pay us, they paid humblebundle13:16
nucc1the contributions that you can now make when you download ubuntul13:16
AlanBellnucc1: I expect they will reveal stats if they are exciting13:17
jpds 13:17
knightwisewhow13:17
knightwisei just saw the demo video of Diaspora13:17
knightwiseGreat cross platform game if you ask me13:17
popeyi dont think we've ever revealed financial details13:17
nucc1AlanBell, oh well, I can live with that.13:17
knightwiseand for zero dinero13:18
nucc1popey, yea, but seeing the way this was promoted, I think it will be helpful to reveal the stats for this drive.13:18
popeyit'll certainly be interesting to see13:18
nucc1by the way, how did firefox manage to install debs without prompting for my password?13:21
davmor2nucc1: Yes it has been a huge success and we will continue to offer support to them and them us ref HIB13:24
nucc1davmor2, I was referring to the voluntary donations you can now make when Downloading ubuntu. I hope that's what your response was for.13:28
nucc1If so, then that is great news. I have always wondered why this was not possible before, being the only real way I can contribute to Ubuntu.13:29
davmor2nucc1: ah sorry I only coped the humble bit13:29
nucc1i only used the word because of the similarities...13:29
nucc1did ubuntu do a gig with the Humble folks?13:29
DaraelThe more recent Humble Bundles have included the capacity to download the stuff through the USC.13:30
nucc1ah, cool13:30
nucc1i'm not much into games myself.13:30
DaraelAlthough I understand none of the games have been packaged for Quantal yet, the bundles having been released before 12.10.13:31
davmor2Darael: the bulk of them are now on quantal13:31
nucc1i've recently returned to ubuntu from an exile too :p, so this explains my lack of info13:32
nucc1I like what the software centre is shaping up into.13:33
MyrttiI should download the latest additions to the latest humble bundle into my Aldiko13:35
AlanBellcan you do ls ~/.cache/at-spi2-* |wc15:33
AlanBelland tell me what the first number is15:33
AlanBellI have 6704 directories in .cache relating to at-spi215:33
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diploAlanBell: Was that a general question asking ?15:42
diploIf so mine = 0 :)15:42
AlanBelldiplo: ok, thanks15:42
AlanBellit was a general question15:42
Laneyquantal?15:43
Laneyhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/at-spi2-atk/+bug/102051215:43
lubotu3Ubuntu bug 1020512 in at-spi2-atk (Ubuntu) "Assistive Technologies is spamming .cache with many folders like at-spi2-AYBRGW for example" [Undecided,Fix released]15:43
AlanBellyeah, quantal, and I use orca sometimes15:43
AlanBellthanks Laney, lets see if they come back again15:43
Laneydid you check if they're still being created?15:44
AlanBellthey don't appear to be15:45
AlanBellI removed them and have run orca with no apparent issues and it did not create new ones15:45
Laneygrand15:46
Laneywish I hadn't commented on that popey status now16:56
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czajkowskiLaney: why?17:08
Laneytoo many notifications :P17:45
brobostigoni just want to know, how popey did that.17:47
brobostigonthere is an android qemu port,17:48
AlanBellI think it is a real install17:51
AlanBellcompiled for ARM and running native17:52
brobostigonwow.17:52
ali1234running ubuntu x86 in qemu on a tablet would not even be worth mentioning17:52
AlanBellI don't see why it shouldn't be, but I want it confirmed17:52
ali1234sure you can do it, but there's no point at all, ever17:52
AlanBellyeah, that would be all kinds of wrong!17:53
brobostigonAlanBell: i want to know how, aswell.17:53
ali1234you can run windows on the N90017:53
ali1234but... no17:53
AlanBellone common way to get ubuntu on an android device is to run in a chroot (compiled for ARM) and get the display via VNC17:53
brobostigondebian would be better, and also a more touch friendly gui.17:53
AlanBellbut I suspect this is a real install, not on the Android kernel and with display drivers rather than VNC hacks17:54
ali1234"not on the android kernel" - unlikely17:54
brobostigonyes, i would agree.17:54
ali1234it will be the android kernel with software X1117:54
ali1234or VNC as you said17:55
* AlanBell thinks a Linaro kernel17:55
ali1234honestly i would rather just run ubuntu on a powerful server and vnc to that from the tablet17:55
ali1234would probably perform better17:55
ali1234there's no such thing as "linaro kernel" and "android kernel" it is all just linux17:56
AlanBelltrue enough17:58
ali1234the nexus 7 thing is going to be a big reveal at UDS? i thought it was just some clever hack someone made18:50
ali1234that's... underwhelming18:51
Azelphurwhat nexus 7 thing?18:51
ali1234http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/10/ubuntu-demoed-on-nexus-7-tablet18:51
ali1234the one AlanBell was talking about above^18:51
Azelphur:o awesome18:52
Azelphurso that's native?18:52
Azelphurnot chroot?18:52
ali1234a chroot is native18:52
ali1234-_-18:52
ali1234it's literally as native as you can get18:52
Azelphurwell, true18:52
AzelphurI already have Ubuntu running in a chroot though18:52
ali1234exactly18:52
Azelphuroldnews is old18:53
ali1234and it wouldn't take much to have it running outside that chroot18:53
ali1234because... drumrolll... it's already native if it runs in a chroot18:53
ali1234yes, exactly my point18:53
Azelphurhehe18:53
ali1234last time around it was ubuntu for android... nearly a year after some hacker did it single handed in his spare time18:54
ali1234suddenly everyone got excited and wanted to buy one... except... you can't18:54
Azelphurlol18:54
ali1234not any more than you could already18:54
ali1234the problem with these demos is that the part canonical makes is trivial18:54
ali1234rebuilding ubuntu for arm? they did that years ago18:55
ali1234the hard part is the hardware adaptation18:55
Azelphurindeed18:55
ali1234and that will only happen if the OEM does it18:55
ali1234which they are not interested in doing18:55
AzelphurI dunno why Ubuntu isn't tablet optimised already tbh, it'd be super easy to do18:55
Azelphurall you need to do is hook when your in a text prompt and show the keyboard much like android does, something like that can't be super hard18:55
ali1234because nobody sells a tablet with ubuntu on it... at least nobody with the piles of cash it would cost when you can't get people to do it for free18:56
AlanBellalready does that18:56
AzelphurAlanBell: it does? cool18:56
AlanBellyeah, onboard does it (and yeah, onboard might not be like most tablet keyboards)18:56
Azelphur:)18:57
ali1234actually i;m being to harsh18:57
ali1234i would rather have a nexus 7 with aftermarket ubuntu than a kde spark, for example18:58
ali1234the nexus actually has decent build quality, that's important in a mobile device18:58
AlanBelland there are high volumes of it18:59
ali1234yes, that too18:59
AlanBellor there will be18:59
ali1234unlike the phone thing, i forgot what it's called18:59
ali1234atrix18:59
AlanBellindeed19:00
ali1234nobody bought it19:00
ali1234nobody actually wants to have to unplug their laptop to make a phone call19:00
AlanBellno fun having an open source community around something nobody has19:00
ali1234it's completely incompatible with sidescreening too19:00
ali1234yeah your mobile can be a TV or a laptop19:01
ali1234but not all of them at once, and that's how people actually use them19:01
ali1234imagine the scenario. you are watching a movie with your friends on netflix, streamed on your atrix which is plugged into the back of your telly19:06
ali1234"hey it's that guy" "look him up on imdb" "hang on i just need to pause the movie, unplug the phone ... plug it in to the laptop shell ... now, what was i doing again?"19:07
ali1234"hang on a sec, someone is ringing me"19:07
ali1234http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-2002693819:12
ali1234i think frank sidebottom has reincarnated19:13
brobostigonwhats the command to pull a git repo, when i have the *.git for it? i cant remember the command.19:32
ali1234git pull19:33
brobostigonptaylor@debian:~$ git pull https://github.com/arduino/Arduino.git19:34
brobostigonfatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git19:34
mgdmbrobostigon: clone19:35
mgdmgit clone https://github.com/arduino/Arduino.git19:35
brobostigonmgdm: let me try,19:35
brobostigonerror: RPC failed; result=51, HTTP code = 019:35
brobostigonfatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly19:36
mgdmtry it again19:38
mgdmthat sounds like a glitch19:38
brobostigonok, one moment.19:38
brobostigonsame result.19:39
mgdmweird19:40
mgdmyou got any proxies or anything in the way?19:40
brobostigonno.19:40
* AlanBell tests19:40
AlanBellCloning into 'Arduino'...19:41
brobostigonmy routers firewall, but i can push to my github repo fine.19:41
AlanBellthat isn't doing anything19:41
mgdmit's working for me, just very very slowly19:41
brobostigonhmmm,19:41
brobostigonlet me try my own repo.19:47
brobostigonhttps://github.com/brobostigon/saab-hybrid.git  i am getting the same result with my own repo, which worked on friday.19:52
bigcalmbrobostigon: could be an ssh key issue20:01
AlanBellbrobostigon: it eventually started slowly working20:01
bigcalmWorked for me too20:01
brobostigonbigcalm: hmm, interesting, even with the arduino repo?20:01
brobostigonAlanBell: ok. i will try again.20:02
bigcalmbrobostigon: taking its time20:02
ali1234hahaha i;m an idiot20:02
ali1234git clone. of course it is. *duh*20:02
* bigcalm frames that20:02
ali1234sorry about that :)20:02
brobostigonbigcalm: it just failing straight out, it isnt stalling.20:02
ali1234can't be ssh if you;re cloning on https20:03
bigcalmbrobostigon: do you have any keys for github.com in ~/.ssh/config ?20:03
bigcalmGood point20:03
ali1234url works for me btw20:03
bigcalmI'm still waiting on arduino, but it hasn't said `no` yet20:04
brobostigonbigcalm: for my repo, yes. yes i can push without entering password etc.20:04
ali1234try cloning "git read-only"20:04
ali1234git clone git://github.com/arduino/Arduino.git20:04
bigcalmAh, here we go20:04
brobostigonAlanBell: that is what i am trying.20:05
brobostigonali1234: that is what i am trying.20:05
brobostigonsorryy AlanBell20:05
ali1234https:// or git:// or both are failing?20:05
bigcalmgit.com is really struggling for me in the web browser20:05
bigcalmI just finished Rochard. Now what? :(20:06
brobostigonali1234: git: is going slowly, as bigcalm described, https: is failing still.20:06
brobostigoninfact git: has stalled.20:07
bigcalmI think they are having problems20:07
ali1234yeah, sounds like it20:07
brobostigonyes, that seems the only answer.20:07
ali1234also, inotool is amazing for arduino development20:07
brobostigonali1234: i was looks at that beta arduino ide, because it works with there new arm based arduino released today.20:08
ali1234ah20:08
ali1234is it revamped at all? i found that IDE painful20:08
ali1234always randomly disconnecting and crashing, and really slow20:09
brobostigonali1234: i dont know, thats why i wanted a look.20:09
brobostigonali1234: slow, i agree, it is java. but i havent experienced those other issues.20:09
ali1234it would alwways get out of sync and stop communicating20:10
ali1234and i'd have to replug the board20:10
ali1234never happened with inotool20:10
brobostigoninteresting, never had anything like that.20:10
ali1234well, i was pushing it, to be fair20:10
ali1234overclocking the serial port to 9mbps20:10
brobostigonah.20:10
Myrttinice, now the notification thing doesn't even show if I've got new unread messages in Empathy20:11
AlanBellMyrtti: I think I know how to fix gm-notify now20:11
MyrttiI think I'll make a backup of my junk and reinstall soonish.20:11
Myrttithis is getting too painful20:12
AlanBelland I made http://ubingo.libertus.co.uk/ have notifications too (probably a dreadful idea)20:12
MyrttiAlanBell: that would be lovely20:12
ali1234Myrtti: is that the xfce notification thing (which i think is actaully te gnome panel applet) or the unity one?20:13
Myrttiali1234: unity one20:13
MyrttiI switched from Xubuntu to Ubuntu about a year ago20:13
AlanBellali1234: there have been several undocumented changes to the Unity APIs20:13
ali1234AlanBell: you made it into a webapp?20:13
AlanBelldocumentation is a pile of fail right now for the messaging menu#20:14
jacobwAlanBell: has any part of Unity ever been documented?20:14
AlanBellyou have to read the source of the canonical produced webapps to find out what the new stuff is20:14
AlanBelljacobw: sure20:14
ali1234web apps has quite good documentation actually20:14
ali1234unfortunately it's all wrong20:14
MyrttiI can't believe it's like that *after* release of Q20:14
ali1234it was right at some point though20:14
MyrttiI would have assumed there would have been some before20:15
AlanBellhttp://developer.ubuntu.com/api/ubuntu-12.04/javascript/index.html <- mostly doesn't quite work any more20:15
ali1234yeah. that page is well written though, i'll give them that20:15
ali1234just needs updating20:15
AlanBellindeed20:15
Myrttior I'll just install 12.04. I liked 12.04. 12.04 was a lovely version.20:16
AlanBellhttp://developer.ubuntu.com/resources/technologies/messaging-menu/ <- works totally differently now20:16
ali1234i'm staying on 12.04 because i have too much customization and i don't want to build compiz from source again20:17
ali12345 years is a long time and hopefully all the hipsters will have gone away to ruin freebsd or something by then20:19
jacobwlol20:21
MyrttiI'm ready to throw the goddamn messaging menu to the sharks.20:23
Myrttiand stomp on it.20:23
daubersMyrtti: Sharks with frikkin lasers on their heads?20:23
MyrttiI ask it to do one thing, show me when there's unread messages in Empathy, since I know it can't show me gmail inbox because the webapp extension crashes.20:24
Myrttiand it fails to do that.20:24
Myrttidaubers: yes.20:24
ali1234pidgin gives me gmail notifications *and* IM notifications20:25
ali1234why do i need webapps again?20:25
ali1234(it also has a functional irc client)20:26
Myrttino, pidgin doesn't have functional IRC client. Especially the Windows one doesn't.20:35
Myrttiit's an insult to all proper IRC clients to call Pidgin's attempt one.20:36
ali1234demonstrably false20:36
Myrttidepends on what you call demonstrably.20:37
ali1234demonstrably in that it supports the full range of what you can do on freenode20:38
ali1234it understands services and supports using a proxy20:41
ali1234when you tell it to open new conversations in a tab not a new window, it actually does it20:42
ali1234it doesn't put everything in enormous speech bubbles, making the scrollback several screens long after a few minutes20:43
ali1234it doesn't use a fixed width font, because we're not talking in assembly language20:44
ali1234it differentiates between inactive, active, and channels where you've been highlighted20:45
Myrttihttps://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/95120:45
ali1234and even channels where someone parted or joined but nobody spoke have a visual ID20:45
ali1234i've been using irc for 10 years and i don't even know what any of those commands even does20:47
Myrtti:-(20:48
MyrttiI've been using IRC for 15 years and I think pidgin is quite sad.20:48
ali1234to my understanding, /who doesn't even work on freenode20:49
Myrttibut to each of our own, if you're happy with pidgin, then who am I to tell you not to use it. I'm sure it fits many people, I just happen to see a lot of problems in using it. Especially one of the Windows versions leaks out information when quitting20:49
ali1234you can't see who is in a channel unless you're in it20:49
ali1234if you're in it the list is right there on the screen already20:49
Myrttioh man20:49
Myrttiyes, /who does work on freenode, what it prints is relative to channel and user modes.20:51
Myrttiit contains more information than just who is in a channel with you, which may or may not be relevant to people using pidgin.20:52
ali1234well, it contains their mode too, which is also visible right there on the screen when you join the channel20:52
ali1234only use case i can see for this (as a user) is if you want to see who is in a channel before you join, because you're avoiding someone. i never part anyway.20:53
motters__what's the best IRC client?20:54
AlanBell!best20:54
lubotu3Usually, there is no single "best" application to perform a given task. It's up to you to choose, depending on your preferences, features you require, and other factors. Do NOT take polls in the channel. If you insist on getting people's opinions, ask BestBot in #ubuntu-bots.20:54
ali1234i never said pidgin was best :)20:54
Azelphurmotters__: if you don't know, xchat is a good starting point20:54
AlanBellbut irssi is good if you have a server to run it on20:54
ali1234it is best though20:55
AzelphurI use pidgin with a bouncer for my daily driver20:55
Azelphurbut if I need poweruser features I just fire up xchat and it auto connects to my bouncer that supports multiple presence20:55
Azelphurso then I get the extra features, too20:55
Azelphurhaving my cake and eating it \o/20:55
AlanBellnom20:55
motters__I knew that there isn't really a best, but was wondering what people would come up with20:55
ali1234i can tell you what is the worst, and it's the one in empathy20:56
motters__havn't tried irssi20:56
ali1234what exactly is bestbot btw?20:56
Azelphurlol empathy20:56
Azelphurbecause nickname and username is the same thing20:57
AlanBellTo use BestBot, type things like "What is the best  IRC client?20:57
MyrttiXChat is ok. I don't recommend any of the IM clients as IRC clients20:57
christleirssi is best.20:57
brobostigonmotters__: irssi is a cli client, that probably why you havent considered it.20:57
Myrttiirssi ♥20:57
AzelphurNINJA CHRISTEL SWOOPS IN20:57
AzelphurxD20:57
brobostigonirssi, :)20:57
motters__heh, you don't know how much I use the cli20:57
brobostigonmotters__: but most people. who ask what is the best, generally have certain experience, in my experience.20:58
motters__I've really only used xchat20:58
brobostigonnever tried it myself, but it seems popular.20:59
motters__in a lot of distros xchat is the default20:59
brobostigoni agree.21:00
MyrttiI actually made the Christmas card for irssi years and years ago21:00
brobostigoncool21:00
MyrttiI still have the file somewhere21:00
brobostigon:)21:00
AlanBellhttp://paste.ubuntu.com/1298594/21:03
brobostigonlol :)21:04
Myrttihoho21:05
bigcalmHaha21:07
Myrttiyeah anyway, some versions of Pidgin leak information on messages/queries/channels open on the moment the client is turned off21:07
Myrttiit's a bit sad.21:07
ali1234"leak"?21:07
ali1234pidgin actually sends every message you send or receive over dbus to anyone that cares to listen21:08
ali1234pretty sure empathy does it too21:09
Myrttithe quit/part message is replaced by a list of pm tabs or channels open.21:09
MyrttiI think we've narrowed it down to Windows versions21:09
ali1234wow, that's weird21:09
motters__how do I connect to freenode in irssi?21:09
ali1234well if you ever see me do that let me know :)21:09
bigcalmmotters__: /server irc.freenode.net21:10
bigcalmOr, irssi -c irc.freenode.net21:10
ali1234it actually tells you when you start it up21:10
Myrttior if this is in Ubuntu machine, /connect ubuntu21:10
ali1234irc.ubuntu.com = freenode21:11
Myrttiyup21:11
bigcalmSneaky21:11
Myrttianyway, it's past midnight here so I should prolly head to bed.21:11
brobostigondoes that only apply to ubuntu desktop, as that isnt here in irssi on ubuntu server.21:11
Myrttishould go vote tomorrow21:11
mottersnow on irssi21:12
brobostigon:)21:12
AlanBellyay21:12
AlanBellmotters: the trick is to run byobu, then run irssi in that21:12
mottersthis would be ok for running on a server21:12
AlanBellthen you can reconnect to it21:12
AlanBelljust ssh in again and type byobu to be back where you were21:12
motterswhat is byobu?21:13
brobostigonbyobu + screen + irssi + bitlbee, :)21:13
AlanBellit is GNU screen or tmux21:13
ali1234tmux21:13
motterssounds complicated21:13
AlanBellnope, not complicated21:13
brobostigonmotters: it is a terminal window manager.21:13
KrimZonbyobu makes screen easy to use21:13
ali1234it's like a shell you can disconnect from and come back to later and the stuff keeps running21:13
AlanBellit is just a session that says alive21:13
mottersah21:13
Myrttitmux > screen21:13
AlanBellit runs forever, unless you turn off the wrong ring main when fixing a fan in the bathroom21:14
ali1234you can also have multiple sessions inside it and switch between them, and multiple people can connect and share the command line (or just watch)21:14
mottersI assume that you can run scripts in irssi21:14
brobostigonlol21:14
brobostigonmotters: yes, perl.21:14
Myrttimotters: yup21:14
motterswhat about python?21:14
ali1234tmux has problems, like you can't start it up without a tty last time i tried21:14
AlanBellF2 to create a new terminal, and F3/F4 to move left and right between them21:15
Myrttimotters: http://scripts.irssi.org/21:15
Myrttialso almost relevant http://irssi.org/themes21:15
Myrttiand yes I should send them new screenshots of my themes.21:15
Myrttithank you for asking.21:16
motterslooks like I may have to learn perl21:16
motterslooks like irssi won't run in an emacs shell.  I guess you can't have it all21:18
ali1234M-x erc-select21:19
brobostigontrackbar and adv_windowlist are useful irssi scripts in my experience, makes things miles easier.21:20
shaunoemacs doesn't have an irc client built-in?21:20
ali1234shauno: it does, see above ^21:21
zleapemacs seems to have everything built in21:21
Laneyyes it does21:21
Laneyerc21:21
zleapit even has a sokoban game21:21
zleaptowers of hanoi and some sort of psycological program21:21
shaunoali1234: sorry, couldn't decipher that one21:21
jacobwit even has a psychotherapist21:21
zleapjacobw, yeah21:21
ali1234eliza21:21
shaunoand tetris iirc21:22
motters-emacsheh21:22
zleapyeah21:22
motters-emacsit works21:22
zleapthat sounds familar21:22
motters-emacsemacs seems to do everything21:22
shaunoI used to use it as an AIM client sometime in the late 90s21:23
motters-emacsI've only been using emacs in the last few years21:24
shaunoI had a variant called memacs in the early 90s, that even had an editor built in21:24
motters-emacsin the late 1990s I used something called microEmacs21:24
AlanBellhttp://www.amigawiki.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/MEmacs21:25
shaunoyup, that's the beastie21:25
shaunoI love that they describe it as 'spartan'.  that may be the only thing I've never called any emacs variant called21:28
ali1234microemacs actually had nothing to do with emacs21:29
motters-emacsit looked similar to emacs21:29
ali1234kinda21:29
ali1234all text editors look kinda the same though anyway21:29
motters-emacsin terms of menus21:30
shaunointeresting.  the amiga wiki calls it a port, wikipedia calls it 'emacs-like'21:31
ali1234yeah, it's not a port21:31
ali1234emacs is written in lisp21:31
motters-emacsI don't know much about the history of it.  It appeared on a coverdisk, and I tried it.21:31
ali1234i doubt an amiga 500 would be fast enough for such a huge program in a high level language21:31
ali1234remember amiga (microsoft) basic?21:32
motters-emacsit wasn't slow at all21:32
ali1234exactly.21:32
ali1234amiga basic was though. famously slow.21:32
shaunonow them's fighting words.  don't make me install netbsd on mine21:32
motters-emacsyes21:32
ali1234you can install netbsd on hardware without mmu?21:33
brobostigoni should have a look at emacs, i tried vi, and it seemed unsuable, then descovered nano on the debian wiki, and it works perfectly, and i can understand it.21:33
ali1234yeah21:33
ali1234one thing though21:33
ali1234when you forget to sudo with nano, what then?21:33
brobostigonali1234: it has never happened.21:33
ali1234i wish it could pop up a requester, like aptitude does21:33
brobostigonah.21:33
ali1234i bet vi and emacs can do that21:34
shaunoI *think* mine will run netbsd because it has an aftermarket cpu board  (but won't in its stock config)21:34
motters-emacsHavn't used other editors much, but with emacs there is an "app" for most things21:34
brobostigonali1234: like gksudo, for gui apps. ?21:34
ali1234brobostigon: no, like when an app requests elevated permissions after you've already run it21:34
ali1234like when update manager asks for your password21:34
brobostigonali1234: i got you, like that gnome popup thingie?21:35
ali1234or when you unlock the users control panel21:35
ali1234yeah21:35
brobostigonali1234: but in cli, that would be interesting.21:35
ormiretI don't think emacs will do that automatically if you don't have write permissions but you can visit files via sudo from a running emacs21:35
ali1234well, i noticed aptitude does it earlier today. it restarts itself though, which is kinda ugly21:35
ali1234but it gets the job done21:36
brobostigonali1234: i was going to say, i have never seen it do that. without doing that.21:36
ali1234just run aptitude as normal user and try to install something :)21:36
ali1234oh you mean without restarting. yeah21:36
brobostigonali1234: i will try it in debian and in ubuntu, and see what happens, i am curious now.21:37
ali1234but the point is i don't have to save to a temp file then restart manually, load the tempfile, then save as21:37
ali1234i'm on 12.04. dunno if it makes a difference21:37
brobostigonme neither, i have never forgot the right permissions that i can remember, weither su or sudo.21:38
brobostigonso never seen that.21:38
motters-emacshave been trying the lubuntu desktop21:39
motters-emacsit's nice.  The CPU is hardly doing anything21:39
brobostigoni am liking the 12.10 gnome remix, :)21:39
ali1234does it still have classic mode?21:40
brobostigonali1234: yes.21:40
ali1234and does it work properly if you force it to use compiz?21:40
brobostigonali1234: gnome-shell fallback.21:40
brobostigonali1234: not tried that.21:40
motters-emacsapparently gnome shell is going to have integration with owncloud21:40
brobostigonmotters-emacs: that would be cool.21:41
ali1234you mean gnome?21:41
brobostigongnome3*21:41
AlanBellit needs some unity integration as well21:41
ali1234most of that work would go in nautilus and gvfs i expect, which all function under classic mode21:41
ali1234and indeed unity as well21:41
ali1234much as u1 integration does21:41
motters-emacsright21:42
AlanBellowncloud does a bit more than filestorage, it is kinda neat21:42
ali1234so does u121:42
brobostigonmusic. contacts, pictures. :)21:42
ali1234none of it really has anything to do with the window manager you are using21:43
motters-emacseventually I'll increase my server storage, and then I might try owncloud21:43
motters-emacsespecially if it gets integrated into the desktop21:43
brobostigonthere are external integration apps for linux, android etc. otherwise it is in browser.21:44
motters-emacsyes21:44
ali1234ooo it's on OBS21:44
ali1234http://software.opensuse.org/download/package?project=isv:ownCloud:community&package=owncloud21:45
ali1234just like a ppa, but not a ppa21:45
ali1234i might have to try this out21:45
motters-emacsit's a ppa, but not as we know it21:45
ali1234it's better than a ppa because it doesn't force opinionated choices on you21:45
motters-emacsnice21:46
dwatkinsmunin works by magics21:46
dwatkinsI tried adding a sensor, but it doesn't change the output of the plugin, it's witchcraft, I tell you! ;)21:47
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Daraelali1234: I'm an hour and several screens of scrollback late, but tmux will start quite happily without a tty: "tmux new-session -d 'command'" will open a session with a window running 'command', detached, and won't care about whether there's a TTY.22:19
shaunolast time I updated my kernel, I had some issues with it not creating a sane grub config.  I really wish I'd written this down now.  250 days uptime later, I figure I really should try to update22:37

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