[01:25] <shauno> I love when you're trying to google for something, and the results are all people asking "are you too lazy to google?".
[01:25] <penguin42> hehe yes
[01:26] <shauno> it's almost as bad as forum threads that ask exactly what you're looking for, and then the sole reply is "nm found it"
[01:31] <shauno> xbmc's documentation is almost comically bad.
[08:29] <danfish> good moaning all
[08:33] <danfish> projects for today 1) link up raspberry pi XMBC media centre to main tv
[08:33] <danfish> 2) Setup a 'community' drupal 7 server to store dermoscopy images for comparison
[08:34] <danfish> 3) go mental on a tree withh a chainsaw and
[08:34] <danfish> 4) get arm/leg reattached at A&E as a result of 3 :D
[08:57] <popey> morning
[09:02] <daubers> o/
[10:24] <brobostigon> good morning everyone
[10:26] <dwatkins> hiya brobostigon et al
[10:26] <brobostigon> hi dwatkins
[10:26] <dwatkins> I found a webpage, and then I lost it :-/
[10:27] <brobostigon> :(
[10:27] <dwatkins> ages ago I found a page which described minimal power usage circults with a solar panel, capacitor and some kind of load (probably an LED) and the details about how to keep power usage to a minimum, now I can't find that page.
[10:27] <dwatkins> it mentioned shutting down the circuit when not in use, and I'm really curious how it did that, but have looked for ages and can't find the same page.
[10:28] <brobostigon> interesting, yes.
[10:30]  * dwatkins consoles himself by reading about a solar-powered phone charger on Adafruit's website
[10:30] <brobostigon> :)
[10:32] <dwatkins> http://learn.adafruit.com/usb-dc-and-solar-lipoly-charger/design-notes for the curious/lazy ;)
[10:39] <danfish> dwdw
[10:39] <brobostigon> morning danfish
[10:39] <danfish> oops
[10:40] <danfish> morning brobostigon
[10:40] <danfish> dwatkins: www.reuk.co.uk is a good site for info re power/solar etc
[10:40] <dwatkins> thanks danfish :) will have a look
[14:02] <jacobw> afternoonings
[14:14] <DJones> What software would people recommend for setting up a blog system on a home ubuntu server? I was thinking about using wordpress, but wondered if there was a better system to use
[14:14] <popey> I'd use wordpress
[14:15] <DJones> Cheers, that was what I thought would be suggested
[14:18] <AlanBell> DJones: wordpress, and update it every single time it offers you an update
[14:24] <DJones> ls
[14:24] <DJones> grr
[15:56] <b1ackcr0w> ello all!
[15:56] <b1ackcr0w> this should be fun
[16:55]  * AlanBell downloads a raring iso
[16:56] <daubers> AlanBell: Raring to go already?
[16:56] <AlanBell> I upgraded a VM already from Quantal, but I feel like testing the installer
[16:57]  * daubers adds "Made tje
[16:57]  * daubers adds "Made the tumble drier work" to his list of stuff done today
[16:57] <AlanBell> yay
[16:57] <daubers> Should probably find a better keyboard out of the roof at some point
[16:57] <daubers> The one from the old Revo is a bit poo
[16:57] <AlanBell> raring in a VM looks pretty much exactly the same as quantal so far
[17:15] <penguin42> which reminds me, I need to seem if my favorite X crash still happens in Raring
[17:57] <penguin42> yep, still seems broken in raring
[17:58] <AlanBell> bug #?
[18:01] <penguin42> bug 1043513
[18:02] <penguin42> hmm time to make food
[18:03] <andrews> Hello - can anyone advise how to check the permissions of an external hard drive?  Ive had it connected to my Ubuntu system (its normally a windows backup drive) though it wont now let me connect it to my mac as my mac says that the drive is "restricted" which I assume means locked out
[18:11] <DJones> Can somebody give me a bit of help with changing where my home website goes to, at the moment if I type www.mydomain.com it loads the index.htm page in /var/www/ I'd like it to load the default page in /var/www/wordpress/ , I just can't rok out how to get that done
[18:11] <DJones> s/rok/work/
[18:19] <DJones> Never mind, its not where I want it to be anyway
[18:47] <dwatkins> You can setup aliases with Apache, DJones - perhaps that helps.
[18:47] <dwatkins> I tend to have my wordpress installation at example.com/blog, the gallery at example.com/gallery etc.
[18:48] <dwatkins> I just use the top level for a simple homepage, and I don't link the blog from there, to avoid too many unwanted visitors finding it.
[19:18] <AlanBell> DJones: you can set up stuff in /etc/apache2/sites-available/ to point to different directories and serve them up in assorted ways
[19:18] <AlanBell> some people move the whole lot out of /var/www and put in in /srv/domain.name/
[20:12] <andylockran> DJones: easiest way is to set the default page that your server lands at via a sites-enabled/ file called 000-default
[20:13] <andylockran> it reads the vhosts alphabetically, so will load the first one if a GET request is issues for a domain name not mentioned in a vhosts file.
[20:36]  * MartijnVdS returns
[20:42]  * daubers waits for the feeling to return to his fingertips
[20:43] <MartijnVdS> daubers: what did you do to lose it?
[20:47] <daubers> MartijnVdS: Spray painting models in the cold
[20:48] <MartijnVdS> that would do it :)
[20:48]  * MartijnVdS just came back from Birmingham
[20:48] <MartijnVdS> that Christmas market thing was BUSY
[20:48] <daubers> And you managed to get out in one piece???
[20:48] <MartijnVdS> daubers: I only stayed for 24h, so I think the damage is minimal ;0
[20:48] <MartijnVdS> ;)
[20:49] <daubers> :p
[20:49] <dwatkins> 24 hour christmas market? think of the gluhwein...
[20:50] <MartijnVdS> dwatkins: I don't think the market was 24h, we went to the Tattoo for my dad's birthday (he loves those things).. and then we found out there was a German-style Christmas market
[20:50] <dwatkins> oh cool, MartijnVdS
[21:13] <Azelphur> http://i.imgur.com/evRLf.jpg :p
[21:13] <dwatkins> haha, looks like it didn't detect the USB stick after starting the initial boot phase
[21:14] <Azelphur> either that or someone pulled it out and ran away from incoming security personnel xD
[21:14] <dwatkins> yeah, although it's possible something else is attached to the TV
[21:14]  * dwatkins wonders idly if he can boot his TV using the USB socket in the side
[21:14] <Azelphur> haha
[21:15] <dwatkins> I can power my Arduino from it, which is neat.
[21:15] <dwatkins> I can even power a Raspberry Pi from it, which was quite impressive.
[21:15] <dwatkins> Trouble is, when the TV goes into low power mode, the Pi gets turned off.
[21:26] <shauno> it's a shame most those little usb powerpacks I find don't charge & power at the same time, else you could make a pi-sized ups
[22:58] <dwatkins> shauno: you can get charging circuits for Lithium Polymer batteries so you can do that.
[22:59] <dwatkins> https://www.adafruit.com/products/390
[23:00] <shauno> I had something like that, but the battery puffed up like a pillow
[23:00] <dwatkins> I imagine if you cable it carefully, you could also add a USB-B socket to apply power when it's too dark to charge with the sun.
[23:00] <dwatkins> oh dear, that's not good
[23:01] <dwatkins> I've seen a few people suggesting just connecting the panel directly to the battery, which is fine for a few seconds, but if the voltage goes too high you risk the battery being damaged. I assume you had a circuit to monitor the charging voltage, though.
[23:02] <dwatkins> I think you could power a Raspberry Pi for just over an hour with a 1300 mAh battery.
[23:03] <shauno> I'm curious about this CEC stuff that lets devices communicate over hdmi.  if the pi knows the TV's gone to standby, it could shutdown
[23:04] <shauno> you still need some battery to last the period between the signal and the poweroff, but it could be very smooth
[23:11] <brobostigon> is it possible, for people, without an account on an xmpp server, to join a MUC room on said server ?
[23:21] <dwatkins> I don't believe so, brobostigon - in my experience, you need an account to do anything with an xmpp server, but there may be a configuration option to say "let people register and join rooms as a guest"
[23:22] <brobostigon> dwatkins: i have not enabled such an option, i just wanted to be sure.
[23:23] <dwatkins> brobostigon: ah I see, I'm no security expert, but that's how I believe it works
[23:24] <brobostigon> dwatkins: ok, thank you.