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BigRedSyeah, one morning I woke up incredibly hungover in Wales and decided to put the telly on. About an hour in someone pointed out that everyone was speaking Welsh00:00
mgdmheh heh00:00
bittinhttp://derpy.me/nxk9U00:03
shaunookay, perhaps not that mesmerising00:07
mgdmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-5hII715_s00:10
shaunonow I feel old.00:11
AlanBellmorning all08:19
TheOpenSourcerermorning08:19
* TheOpenSourcerer just added another applicant to our HR system.08:20
AlanBellyay08:20
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Azelphurdumb question, what's the format for having an item delivered to an apartment? is it like "Flat 3 Number 14 London Road" or "14 London Road | Flat 3" ?08:21
Azelphur| being a newline :p08:21
popeydepends what the form will let you fill in :)08:23
Azelphurtypical address line 1 / address line 208:23
christelGOOOD MORNING08:24
AzelphurAmazon is being a bright cookie08:25
TheOpenSourcererAzelphur: I think the general style is to put the smallest object first. So the Flat Number, then building number08:25
Azelphurit corrected Flat 2, 10 blah road, to "Flat 2 5", sense makes none08:25
AzelphurTheOpenSourcerer: fun :)08:25
popeymorning btw08:25
Azelphurmorning :)08:25
TheOpenSourcererlo popey08:25
Azelphurhttps://dl.dropbox.com/u/3832397/Photos/2012/November/2012-11-05-082554_1184x188_scrot.png08:29
* Azelphur facepalms08:29
Azelphuralso for anyone who hasn't seen the 24 hour super computer build, It's pretty cool http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k32Bwy9rha408:33
BigRedSTheOpenSourcerer: Aha! Cool!08:53
TheOpenSourcererwhat? BigRedS08:53
diploMorning all08:54
andycSilly question: When does rc.local get run?  Is it after all other upstart scripts?08:54
andycAnd morning all!08:54
BigRedSTheOpenSourcerer: your hiring08:55
TheOpenSourcererah, thanks08:55
BigRedSandyc: it's after  all the othher init scripts traditionally. I guess thatt in an  upstart syysttem it'ss after all teh upstart stuff08:56
andycBigRedS, thanks08:56
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mungojerrygot no data services on o2/giffgaff at the mo09:16
mungojerryanyone else?09:16
AlanBellmungojerry: o2 is fine09:26
mungojerryoh :(09:26
mungojerryrebooted my phone09:26
mungojerrystill no data09:26
AlanBellwell I am tethered to my phone in basingstoke right now09:26
mungojerryit's not a local issue since i travelled into london09:27
diplomungojerry: Anything specific, will test now09:33
diplohttp://community.giffgaff.com/t5/Help-Ask-the-community-got-stuck/How-is-the-Service-where-I-am/ta-p/564347209:35
mungojerrya colleague has working GG and is next to me09:35
diployeah mines connected, albeit only getting gprs ( but that could be my office, only use wifi here so never checked before09:35
diplo)09:35
JamesTaitGood morning, all!09:54
BigRedSGood Morning!09:57
mungojerrydiplo, i downlaoded the giffgaff apn app from play store, and now fixed :D10:00
Laneyhow does facebook know where i've been?10:06
Laneydoes the android app report my location to it?10:06
diploLaney: Isn't that an option in the settings to turn that off10:08
Laneyno idea10:08
diploah yes I've had to reset mine before I think10:08
Laneyi'm new to this10:08
* diplo checks10:09
diployeah menu -> settings10:10
Laneyi found some options10:10
diploMessenger Location Service ( Location is on ) on mine10:10
Laneygps and wifi location10:10
BigRedSLaney: there's 'tinfoil for facebook' for the paranoid-but-still-using-facebook, which I gather sandboxes it and prompts you before telling it anything10:13
LaneyI'll be alright without it knowing my location10:13
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BigRedSAnyone know if there is some sane way of having a computer keep updated with googlebot's IP addresses10:42
popeyrun apache on it and grep the logs :)10:43
BigRedShaha10:44
directhexgooglebot has more than one IP address10:44
dwatkinshttp://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=8055310:44
dwatkinsdoesn't give you a way to track it, but at least reverse lookups can be used to verify it's 'genuine'10:44
BigRedSyeah, I'm looking at mod_evasive exclusions10:46
BigRedSI was hoping for an A record with all the currently-valid IPs in it or something, but I think there isn't one10:47
dwatkinsif you're lucky they might all be within a particular network/subnet10:47
BigRedSI think I was up to seven subnets the last time I had to do this10:48
dwatkins(considering Google's diverse geographical locations, however, I doubt that)10:48
BigRedSAh, right, that page says at the bottom that there's no official list posted by google10:49
BigRedSBah. Bad google! Making me do work10:49
dwatkinsI'm curious, what do you want to do with its IP address ultimately, BigRedS?10:50
BigRedSa customer wants to whitelist all of them in mod_evasive10:50
dwatkinsAll I can think of is grepping historical server logs.10:52
BigRedSyeah10:53
BigRedSI think I'm going to craft a cronjob to do that on a few shared servers10:53
BigRedSit's bonkers that there's no official list. Doesn't play well with my laziness10:53
dwatkinsperhaps they move the daemon around, too - it might run on the same servers as the other stuff they run on their hardware10:54
dwatkinsI like that they have a battery on each one, makes a lot of sense: http://www.epanorama.net/blog/2009/05/07/google-efficient-data-centers/10:55
dwatkins(I'm guessing most people here have seen this already)10:55
BigRedSI've long wondered why we don't all do that11:06
BigRedSBut then I've rackmounted a laptop before, so I'm suspicious of my DC-related ideas :)11:07
dwatkinsMy server at home is a netbook, although it has external disks which aren't powered by its own built-in battery.11:07
popeyI'd love to see those new samsung arm chromebooks as builders11:08
ali1234builders?11:13
ali1234like package building? or kits?11:13
AlanBellBigRedS: rackmounting laptops makes perfect sense to me11:14
TheOpenSourcererJust saw that czajkowski has been in the UK for two years. Is that all? Seems like much longer than that ;-)11:15
christelhaha11:15
czajkowskioi11:16
czajkowski:)11:16
czajkowskiyup 2 years ago, christel came to LHR and collected a very jet lagged me and brought me to farnham11:16
AlanBelland you have picked up the cockney accent already11:17
czajkowskieh no11:17
AlanBelldwatkins: I have no idea why all servers don't have a UPS on the low voltage side11:20
dwatkinsAlanBell: good question, as I implied, I get around this by using a netbook ;)11:21
christel:D11:21
AlanBelljust seems nuts that they are all on the mains side, massively more complicated and inefficient11:21
dwatkinsI can understand using a UPS if there are many diverse devices which need to be kept powered, I guess.11:21
dwatkinseven then it's a single point of failure, though11:22
AlanBellyeah, but the standard use-case is to keep stuff spinning when someone pulls out the wrong wire, for long enough to put it back in again11:22
AlanBelland external UPS doesn't actually help with that much, just makes more wires11:22
ali1234well here's a thing11:22
ali1234if you have a laptop with external drives and the power goes out, what happens when you have a powered netbook with unpowered drives plugged in on the IDE port?11:23
ali1234on old PATA motherboards the answer was the drive attempted to pull all it's current through the IDE cable, resulting in smoke11:24
dwatkinsI don't have a PATA port on my netbook. Sounds painful.11:24
ali1234i expect SATA is immune to this11:24
ali1234but it's worth finding out11:24
ali1234i hope you at least removed the battery from the netbook anyway11:25
shaunointerestingly, this is the design google uses; 12V battery on each node11:25
shaunooh, and scrolling up, I discover I'm already redundant.  nm me then11:26
AlanBellshauno: yes, it is the obvious thing to do really11:26
shaunoI don't know.  they're big, heavy, and don't tend to enjoy the heat.  but it has always puzzled me why we don't use DC for the last-leg distribution11:27
ali1234cos DC is very bad over more than a couple of meters11:27
shaunowell, for instance, we have a ups sat in the bottom of each rack.  so it's doing ac->dc rectification for the battery.  and then dc->ac inverter & pump because it's of that particular design.  and that AC only has to reach the top of the rack at most, before the load turns it back into 12V again.11:29
AlanBellshauno: my laptop battery is not big, heavy and is fine with moderate heat11:29
BigRedSali1234: yeah, so you do do your ac/dc in the middle of the rack11:29
shaunoseems like many wasteful steps11:30
BigRedSwastes 1u but so much heat generation happens there, so you can cool it more efficiently11:30
AlanBelloh, 12v from the UPS to the servers would make sense too11:30
AlanBellgiven you are not pushing too many amps over it11:31
BigRedSbut the problem is that few people design whole racks11:31
BigRedSso you have to assume that it's some standard coming in, and the only real standard for powering servers is a mains supply11:31
BigRedSbut if the UPS in the rack only had to power the computers, and not a conversion to AC and then back again a meter later you'd probably get a noticeable increase in uptime on battery power11:32
shaunoright.  higher efficiency, and you'd get to move a heatsource & fan out of each node11:34
shaunoit's a very typical design (well, 24V I think) for telcomms, but IT hates it11:34
dwatkinsI think some of SGI's racks are entirely 24 Volt.11:37
shaunoas BigRedS said, it's just trying to get too many people to agree on one scheme.  we have enough fun with cisco doing cooling right-to-left instead of front-to-back.  no-one agrees on anything11:42
bigcalmGood morning peeps :)11:47
BigRedSG'morning!11:53
bigcalmAhoy11:54
bigcalmMy my. That pot noodle has helped me get my mind back on track. Might have added too much tobasco sauce though11:58
BigRedSHm. I think my caffeine dependency has snuck up on me again :(12:12
mungojerryhas anyone run mdadm /dev/md0 --remove detached before?14:02
mungojerryi.e. disk has been marked failed, but has been pulled14:02
mungojerryso cannot remove from array14:02
popeymungojerry, not sure, I have added and removed disks lots from md arrays14:11
popeybut not anymore \o/ btrfs14:11
xnoxmungojerry: there is an option to "fail" a removed disk.14:12
* xnox recalls it was as if --fail14:12
mungojerryit was on a live server, i was scared14:12
mungojerryi've done it14:12
mungojerrythe disk got pulled after it was failed but before it was removed from the md14:12
mungojerryso the remove instruction failed because /dev/sda no longer existed14:13
mungojerryit worked14:13
diplopopey: Do you recommend btrfs ? About to buy 2 more disks for my micro box and going to do it all over again14:50
xnoxdiplo: advices against btrfs in precise. The one in quantal is up to date.14:51
diploWant to reinstall the Micro server as well, running natty atm14:52
diploDo I go for precise for long term or quantal for newness :)14:52
popeydiplo, I use btrfs with 12 disks on my microserver on 12.04 using the 3.6 kernel14:55
popeyLinux homeserver 3.6.0-030600rc4-generic #201209011435 SMP Sat Sep 1 18:36:00 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux14:55
popeythat one14:55
diploNo issues ?14:56
xnoxpopey: did you compile btrfs-tools from source?14:57
mungojerryanyone know how i change the flame logo for xscreensaver ?14:57
mungojerrywhen i'm unlocking the screen14:58
diplodirecthex: More that cat pic is doing my head in :D14:58
directhex:D14:58
diploNo new tweets to scrool it down :P14:58
directhexi am the master of cat gifs14:58
diploscroll*14:58
directhexyou should retweet it.14:58
diplohah, and then it'll be in my feed for longer14:58
diploWell at least it'll annoy someone else :D14:58
popeyxnox, I used to, now I use the package in quantal which was backported14:58
directhexdepends on your client14:58
popeyxnox, i rarely use the tools though14:58
directhexthe main thing is how crazy my feed looks with multiple synchronized retweets14:59
xnoxpopey: they are used to boot the box ;-)14:59
diploDone14:59
popey 15:01:15 up 25 days,  4:20,  1 user,  load average: 2.69, 2.98, 2.8614:59
popeylike I say.. rarely14:59
xnoxpopey: kursk:~$ uptime14:59
xnox 14:59:37 up 278 days, 55 min,  3 users,  load average: 0.08, 0.03, 0.0514:59
diploblimey, my load is always 0.*, what do you use yours for ?14:59
popeyits doing backups15:00
xnoxpopey: =))) i am actually scared to reboot. Cause I don't have console access.15:00
popeyheh15:00
diployay new tweets.. no more cat.gif15:03
diplo:P15:03
popeyhaha, love that gif15:04
gordi like this gif https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-g6qJ8ljFMpw/ThpukKr9hrI/AAAAAAAAEyo/vrI1lrAblxo/Oprahs-Bees.gif15:11
dwatkinsgord: a friend of mine says 'bees' when she says goodbye, as in byee[s]15:12
dwatkinsI shall send her that next time she says it15:12
diplonot seen that one before gord :P15:13
ali1234lol that's amazing15:13
BigRedSthat gif makes no sense to me. Is there a reference I'm not getting?15:13
ali1234makes no sense?15:14
BigRedSoh good15:14
ali1234there's nothing to explain. it's just oprah releasing bees on the audience, and the audience crying in fear while oprah does an evil dance.15:14
ali1234it is what it is.15:15
BigRedSAh, good15:15
BigRedSthat's sort-of what I got out of it15:15
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mungojerryits brilliant15:24
mungojerryi can't imagine any other situation where you'd see those scenes unless a load of bees had been released15:25
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Guest71979hello16:15
popeyhi16:18
SuperMattword.16:26
SuperMattooh, the oxford circus light are going on in half an hour and I'm stuck in my office only a 2 minute walk away16:26
dwatkinsooh, I wonder if they're turning on the lights in Edinburgh today too16:27
shaunolights?16:27
SuperMattchristmas lights16:27
dwatkinsah, 29th Nov here in Edinburgh16:27
dwatkinsI guess it must be darker down south ;)16:28
mgdmthey're putting Xmas lights on on the 5th of Nov?16:45
mgdmWTF?16:46
SuperMattthis is london16:46
mgdmloonies16:46
SuperMattit's the centre of commercialism for the country, they have to get in there early16:46
gordits below 10 degrees, must be xmas16:48
mungojerrybecause halloween is finished16:49
gordmost people tend to wait for fireworks night to be done with at least16:49
SuperMattweeell, it's fireworks night tonight, technically, but most places did their stuff on saturday16:51
directhexargh, fireworks night /o\16:51
SuperMattso it makes christmas fair game16:51
SuperMattaccording to oxford circus16:52
mungojerrypeople forget that fworks night is about the death of a terrorist and the aversion of a plot16:53
SuperMattit's about standing up to corrupt governments16:55
SuperMattit can be seen many ways :P16:55
daubersmungojerry: remember remember the 5th of November16:57
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* daubers intends to sit down with a bag of popcorn and V for Vendetta this evneing16:58
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popey:)17:01
brobostigonwhat is the syntax for using pastebinit, to pastebin the output from apt-get? i cant remember.17:03
mgdmapt-get install blah | pastebinit17:04
mgdmI would guess17:04
mgdmapt-get install blah 2>&1 | pastebinit17:04
mgdmmight be better17:05
brobostigonok, thank you mgdm17:05
brobostigonmgdm: that is showing me no output, is that normal. ?17:08
brunogirinbrobostigon: that's probably because all the output was redirected to pastebinit17:09
brobostigonbrunogirin: i never understood all this properly.17:09
brunogirinbrobostigon: the pipe redirects all output of the command before it to the input of the command after it so what you see is the output of the last command in the chain, in this case pastebinit17:11
mgdmso pastebinit should just ive you a URL at the end17:12
brobostigonbrunogirin: ok, ummm,17:12
brobostigonmgdm: yep, it just has.17:12
brunogirinand 2>&1 redirects standard error to standard output so that both are combined hence everything is given to pastebinit17:12
brobostigonah.17:12
brunogirinso now your pastebin should have everything17:13
brobostigonhttp://paste.debian.net/206675/  thats the error output i am getting, it isnt ubuntu, it is debian, but someone might know.17:14
brobostigonbrunogirin: it did yes, :)17:14
brunogirin\o/17:15
AlanBellevening all17:17
brobostigonevening AlanBell17:17
AlanBellare people exploding things today?17:17
brobostigoni think the most that will be exploding here, is the fizz, out of a beer bottle.17:18
Laneyexplodingly fizzy beer?17:20
Laneysounds not very nice :(17:20
* brunogirin contemplating opening the bottle that's in the fridge when back home17:20
brobostigonthats not quite what i meant, i just meant the fizz coming out of the bottle when opened.17:21
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zleapAlanBell, just wondered if you have sent any cd's yet,  if I get some before friday I can take em to the next exeter lug meet,  no rush though ?  If they are en route i know to also expect a parcel from the postman :)18:45
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AlanBelloh, erm I posted all the envelopes on release day19:13
AlanBellhope they have not gone astray19:14
zleapok19:16
zleapme too19:16
zleapi know they charged me for a parcel to send that large packet back, which they didn't before,  i am sure if they had squashed it a bit more it would have gone through their envelope measuring thingy19:17
zleapand fallen under letter packet19:17
zleapi will check to see if the cheque has been cashed too, if not my packet went astray, which is annoying if it was en-route to you19:20
AlanBelloh, hang on, that was the one with the cheque for postage, I probably put that to one side . . .19:21
zleapyeah19:21
zleapok np :D19:21
zleapat least you got it :)19:22
ali1234should have used bitcoins19:22
zleapbitcoins ?19:23
AlanBellthe year of bitcoin for buying stuff is scheduled to follow the year of Linux on the desktop19:23
ali1234actually the hardest part is getting bitcoins at the moment19:24
AlanBellhave they all been found yet?19:25
ali1234they will never all be found19:25
ali1234reward decays exponentially19:25
zleaplooks interesting btw19:25
zleapso its like paypal only using  open standards19:25
AlanBelloh, ok19:25
AlanBellnot like paypal19:26
ali1234no, it is nothing at all like paypal with open standards. that's called open transactions19:26
zleapok19:26
AlanBellit is like pounds but based on nothing, unlike pounds which are based on gold that we used to have, but sold19:26
ali1234it's even less like that19:27
zleapok19:27
bootlkjkgfAlanBell, Any chance that you've got any stickers or release DVD's left ?19:27
AlanBellloads of release DVDs19:29
einonmali1234: I believe there is a date for all bitcoins being found, it's sometime in the next century though. So get them while they're hot19:29
ali1234the rate will drop to a negligable amounteventually19:30
bootlkjkgfCool . what was the company website ( and thereby address to send a return envelope) ??19:30
AlanBellhttp://ubuntu-uk.org/free-cds/19:32
AlanBellzleap: I will send you a stack of them tomorrow19:32
bootlkjkgfAlanBell, One problem :; attaining UK stamps ?? ( IOM uses the wrong stamps for this )19:35
AlanBellerm, interesting question!19:36
* bootlkjkgf hears the columns of ubuntu-uk free software distribution quaking.19:36
ali1234bitcoins19:36
AlanBellbootlkjkgf: just email me your address and I will sort it out19:37
bootlkjkgfscrew bitcoins I use paypal or direct transfer .. anyway this is a stamp faire now.19:37
bootlkjkgfOh Ok/..19:37
bootlkjkgfthanx <- Manx hack19:38
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zleapAlanBell, thanks20:07
Myrttino postcard yet?20:12
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bootlkjkgfHey the guy is a Pro ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTnfpcMiuww&feature=endscreen&NR=122:51
dogmatic69I guess the US election is settled then.. bookies have Obama 2/9 vs Romney 3/122:59
shaunooh that's tonight?23:00
dogmatic69tomorrowish23:00
shaunoah, of course, broken timezones23:02
mgdmnot broken any more, no23:05
mgdmit's no longer daylight saving time23:05
shaunooh, I consider most timeszones broken23:06
shaunofancy having to wait until 4am for Homeland just because the americans haven't figured out how London Time works ;)23:06
mgdmheh23:09
mgdm4am? Isn't it broadcast on C4?23:09
shaunosilence may be my best policy there.  or mumble something vague about the channel lineup in the republic23:11
mgdmhehe23:13
AlanBellwe find out the US election result on wednesday morning right?23:34
ali1234lolno23:36
ali1234if it's a landslide then maybe23:36
ali1234but it's likely they'll be doing recounts for days if not weeks23:36
AlanBelloh probably, plus legal challenges23:37
shaunothe beeb are using the term 'cliffhanger'.  which usually means messy23:37
ali1234but yeah the voting will be done by wednesday morning23:37
AlanBellI vote we get Obama if America doesn't want him23:38
shaunoI'm glad NJ isn't a 'battleground state'; they've implemented voting by email in a very short timespan, which is a fascinating precedent23:39
shaunothat'd get dragged through the courts for months if it was actually a crucial vote23:40
ali1234i can't see mittens winning23:40
ali1234i think turnout will be low23:41
shaunolow turnout is rarely a good thing23:41
ali1234sure. but i think more Rs will stay at home than Ds23:42
shaunoif all the extremists show up with no sane people to counterbalance, that's a blessing for Romney23:42
bootlkjkgfSOME GUYS DONT VOTE FOOLS !!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd7c5tQCs1I23:54

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