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=== Lcawte is now known as Lcawte|Away
pr0ph3thi all00:17
pr0ph3tI have a problem with the grave key, the one above the tab button. I have to press it twice for it to work, it functions intermittently. Anyone else got this problem?00:18
pr0ph3tI'm running Gnome-shell on ubuntu 12.10 64bit00:18
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Azelphur, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,01:02
daftykins||||||||||||||||||||01:03
daftykins(can y'tell what it is yet?)01:03
* Azelphur has no idea01:09
daftykinsRolf would know01:11
daftykinsAzelphur: how goes the 'office' work?01:11
Azelphurhehe, atm I'm listening to the neighbours music through my feet :P01:12
daftykinsouch01:12
daftykinsis it clear?01:12
Azelphurpretty clear yea01:12
daftykins=[01:12
daftykinssuddenly the cheap rent makes sense01:12
Azelphurlol01:12
daftykinsare you off back to family for the hols at all?01:12
Azelphurno way01:13
Azelphurthe music doesn't bother me too much anyway, I'm always wearing noise cancelling headphones01:13
daftykinshehe01:13
AzelphurI take my headphones off occasionally because I feel the vibration and I'm like "holy shit, that's loud"01:13
daftykinsjust a bit of a rumble comes up then?01:13
daftykinsah01:13
daftykinsmy new place has a little beauticians one side and a house the other, not sure what the neighbours are like01:14
daftykinskeep running into the current owner by accident in town though, he came up and said hi in a pub the other night01:14
daftykinsso no doubt i'll ask if it happens again XD01:14
Azelphurfun01:14
daftykinsbit odd really, heh01:15
daftykinshttp://i.imgur.com/xYphW.gif01:37
daftykinsthat is ace.01:37
MartijnVdShttp://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangerous05:12
diploMorning all08:05
popeymorning09:23
Laneyoh look09:27
Laneymy HDNL delivery lies and says it was delivered yesterday morning09:27
Laneythat apparently means 'given to a yodel driver'09:30
bigcalmHey kids :)09:31
bigcalmAn update on the delivery of my touch screen from Malaysia means little to me other than it's moved?09:32
kvarleyCan anybody recommend any routers for me which meet my needs? I'm in the UK. Has to have: ADSL2+; WiFi N at least 300mbps; dd-wrt or another firmware support. Would be nice to have: Detachable antennas.09:34
brobostigongood morning everyone.09:46
bigcalmHi brobostigon09:47
brobostigonhi bigcalm09:47
bigcalmTum te tum10:02
Myrttikvarley: NO BELKIN.10:21
bigcalmVLC has got its santa hat on :)10:21
bigcalmLots of Google Maps plugins for WordPress - any recommendations?10:25
darren__#css12:53
_serial_hi all, has 12.10 become more stable?13:25
_serial_better  question would be is anyone using 12.10 and how does the stability compare to 12.04.113:25
kvarley_serial_: I've seen a lot of people complaining about graphics card drivers in 12.10 but for me it's way more stable than 12.04.13:30
kvarley_serial_: Try a live disc?13:31
_serial_thank you for replying kvarley :)  I don't have driver issues regarding graphics.  I get frequent "theres a problem with your system" type messages compaired to 12.04.1 but I'm the type of guy who like new and shiny things :)13:32
_serial_fyi i have a samsung rv510 with intel graphics13:33
popeyi see no difference in stability between 12.04 and 12.1013:33
popeyi have a few machines running both13:33
sprmttthis13:34
kvarleyThat's odd, I used to get loads of those app crash dialogues in 1204 but now I don't get them in 1210. I guess it depends on hardware?13:34
popeythose are mostly software related13:34
popeyapps crashing for whatever reasons13:34
kvarleyIn my case I think it was apport13:34
popeyyou can see the crashes listed at http://errors.ubuntu.com/13:34
popeyyes, apport is the dialog13:35
popeywhoopsie picks them up and reports them to daisy13:35
kvarleypopey: Been meaning to ask, do you work for Canonical?13:35
popeyi do13:35
kvarleypopey: :D13:35
ali1234i got the opposite. 12.10 crashes much more than 12.04 did13:35
kvarleyOff topic - Just spotted a package with Ubuntu tape all over it in the mail, guess I know what I'm getting for xmas :)13:36
popeyhah13:36
ali1234apport itself crashes less though so i don't get the "yo dawg we heard you like crashes so we put a crash report about your crash report that crashed" thing quite so much13:36
sprmttI've not had *crashes* in a while13:36
sprmttI say crashes, I mean that it never locks up on me13:37
ali1234i have never seen linux lock up except when i was doing kernel development and did something silly like overwrite random pieces of memory13:37
ali1234actually it used to lock up all the time about 10 years ago but that was due to nvidia driver being awful13:38
popeyi managed to lock up x a few times recently13:39
ali1234i locked up the whole system by trying to use usbip the other day13:40
ali1234it is marked as experimental though13:40
ali1234speaking of bugs i've got bug 1067951 reproduced right now13:41
lubotu3bug 1067951 in compiz (Ubuntu) "Firefox randomly loses window decoration in Gnome Classic (Compiz)" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/106795113:41
ali1234what debugging commands should i run?13:41
Knightwisehey everyone15:12
Knightwisepopey: Do you know anyone in the community who is involved with the "Ubuntu on a nexus 7" project ?15:13
popeyyes15:13
popeyalex chiang15:13
popeyhe's a canonical guy15:13
popeyhe's the best guy to talk to15:13
KnightwiseDo you know where I might be able to contact him ? I would like to have him on the show for an interview15:14
popeyachiang on irc15:14
bigcalmYes, it's a repeat from earlier... Lots of Google Maps plugins for WordPress - any recommendations?15:14
Knightwisethank you ?15:14
KnightwiseI meant thank you !15:15
Knightwise:p Stupid keyboard !15:15
bigcalm?! being next to each other ;)15:16
KnightwiseOf course :p15:19
* Knightwise has a Wookie keyboard layout15:19
=== Lcawte|Away is now known as Lcawte
DJonesUgh, that feels like 3 hours spent twiddling thumbs getting BCM 4311 working on xubuntu16:03
andylockranhey all16:19
andylockranI need an App Development company with a good rep - any recommendations?16:19
directhexwhat kind of app?16:24
andylockraniOS & Android17:00
andylockransorry for the delay17:00
diploXmas hols, may catch you all soon. ttfn17:01
andylockranttfn17:05
=== MrBojangles is now known as GentileBen
Laneyit is now xmas for me too!18:06
Laneyto celebrate: THE PUB18:07
* Laney drapes tinsel and fairy lights on xnox18:07
xnoxLaney: Blobby Blobby Blobby =)))))18:08
daftykinsit comes to something when your own mother's smartphone she just upgraded *away* from is still newer than your own :O19:13
daftykinswhen will this smartphone arms race end?19:13
directhexnever.19:17
directhexfor various raisins.19:17
directhexphones have *always* been an arms race, although specifications didn't matter until the iphone shipped19:18
directhexremember "xelibri", a brand siemens invented to just ship fashion phones every 6 months? you could tell how unhip someone was by the vintage of their phone19:19
daftykinsheh19:19
daftykinsnah i don't recall that one19:19
directhexhttp://www.visionmobile.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/Xelibri%20lineup.jpg19:20
daftykinswow.19:20
daftykinsmy only problem with my HTC Desire is that the apps storage is only 150MB, so you install a few and then your email accounts stop syncing 'cause there's no space left19:20
daftykinsso you move as many as you can onto the SD card instead, but it still trips up when updates come out19:21
daftykinsthat's even rooted with cyanogenmod on too19:21
* xnox will get nexus4 in 4-5 weeks time.19:21
directhexdaftykins, it's a design cock-up of android to have hardcoded partition sizes that cannot be cleanly resized without erasing/recreating19:22
daftykins*nod*19:22
daftykinsi imagine i could get around it if i did some kind of mount change trickery19:22
directhexand vendors being cheap by not leaving *any* headroom on their partitions19:22
daftykinsthis must be a hardware limitation too, 'cause cyanogenmod would've fixed it otherwise19:24
daftykinssurely 0o19:24
daftykinsor perhaps they just don't repartition in their installation i suppose19:24
directhexyes, tiny quantity of solid state19:25
daftykinsjust done df-h in a terminal, my word there are a lot of mounts19:25
directhexheh. webos used to do, like, 5 bind mounts every time you ran an app, but forgot to unmount them. ran out of file descriptors, hence "too many cards" error requiring reboot.19:28
daftykinsah-ha19:29
daftykinshow unimpressive19:29
daftykinsi heard something on an anandtech podcast the other day that said, blackberry phones always boot so slowly because their boot sequence constantly misses timers so it's basically waiting all the time19:30
daftykinspretty shocking given the amount of development surrounding them19:30
shaunoI don't get why everyone picks on RIM.  Surely the decent thing would be to let them die peacefully19:39
daftykinsshauno: haha, fair point. we have to watch them crash and burn in the new year with BB10 first though19:59
bigcalmGood evening peeps :)20:39
daftykinsheya o/20:40
AzelphurAnyone happen to know what the piece I can't identify is on this ikea galant desk? https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3832397/misc/2012/December/0TBfU.jpg20:45
daftykinsnot the screen stand but the sorta, cable trap along the back?20:47
daftykinsoic individual 'models'20:48
Azelphurdaftykins: I mean the big long chunk at the back20:48
Azelphuryea, that's a galant combination desk20:48
daftykinshrmm20:49
daftykinsno idea i'm afraid :( i think getting the traffic lights will be far more important though :>20:49
Azelphurhaha20:53
ali1234looks like a bit of a tv stand20:54
Azelphurali1234: no, I mean, the board underneath it21:03
Azelphurhttps://dl.dropbox.com/u/3832397/misc/2012/December/desk.png that21:04
ali1234it's a piece of wood21:05
daftykinscould almost be shelves even21:08
Azelphurali1234: it needs the subframe under it to mount onto the desk, otherwise it'd just fall down lol21:10
Azelphurunless he did something custom21:10
daftykinsooh a prog called 'data2sd' lets you move your /data partition on android to your SD card :D21:20
daftykinshttp://www.andreagrandi.it/2011/08/13/howto-extend-htc-desire-internal-memory-to-2gb-using-cyanogenmod-7-and-data2sd/21:20
daftykinsvery very handy21:20
daftykinshopefully it doesn't slow the whole phone down to a halt in the process21:21
ali1234well it definitely won't make it faster that's for sure21:23
daftykinsdepends on the stats of the NAND vs. the SD card really21:24
ali1234woah a new humble bundle is up and they have legend of grimrock21:26
ali1234and it's compatible with linux21:26
ali1234yes, do want21:27
daftykinsthat must mean the email is about to do its' rounds to me21:28
ali1234i have nt had the email yet21:28
ali1234it must have just gone up21:28
daftykinsah-ha21:28
ali1234i just went to get my steam keys for the THQ bundle21:28
ali1234because i was going to try to play them in wine21:29
ali1234they seem to have a knack of knowing exactly when i am bored and very likely to buy stuff21:31
ali1234and it's already in the software center too. amazing21:33
daftykins;)21:33
daftykinsi barely touched what i got when i bought one humble bundle21:33
ali1234well the games are a bit hit and miss21:33
daftykinsplayed a little of the 'zen bound' android game21:33
ali1234but i've been waiting for grimrock to properly come to linux for ages21:33
daftykinsand played all of darwinia, as i was stuck away from home on a laptop for a long time21:34
daftykinsah i've not heard of that21:34
ali1234i played zen bound for about 1 minute and then decided it sucked21:34
ali1234nice idea, boring game21:35
ali1234my favourite so far is super meat boy21:35
ali1234i thought i would not like it, but it turned out to be great21:35
daftykins:)21:37
daftykinsplayed the XBLA demo of that, but i don't have the persistence to keep playing something like a platformer these days21:37
ali1234lol, casual21:38
ali1234actually you don't need persistence. it;s not as hard as it looks and it is structured in a way where you can skip levels so you don't have o sit and play it all day if you don't want to21:38
daftykinsah21:39
ali1234it could easily have been a really bad game if the controls weren't spot on or it forced you to do the levels in order21:39
ali1234but it's executed perfectly21:39
daftykinsi seem to recall it was a bit of a pixel-perfect type, i think the demo had a level of spikes on a long falling section that you had to avoid21:39
ali1234the game dustforce was in another bundle i got. it's basically the same game but nowhere near as well executed21:40
ali1234yeah meat boy LOOKS really hard but it is decieving21:40
ali1234the later levels actually are hard21:41
ali1234but there's plenty of gameplay in the early ones. it has a good difficulty curve21:41
daftykinsah-har, the email has arrived!21:43
=== GentileBen is now known as AndreTheProvost
dave101010hi all22:29
dave101010thanks for al the pis so far but i want to add unity themes to 12.1022:29
andylockranyo22:30
dave101010yo22:31
andylockranssh from top of 333 bus...22:31
andylockraninteresting on my android22:31
andylockranvery small22:31
AlanBellhi andylockran :)22:31
andylockranjust popping through brixton. wave if you can see me22:31
andylockranhey alan22:31
andylockranhows things22:31
andylockranyo dave1001010101010122:31
dave101010lol22:32
andylockranalighting bus in 2 ?mins22:32
andylockranand its raining...22:32
andylockranhaving a very very stressful week22:32
dave101010it is raining on and off there in milton keynes too22:32
popeyAlanBell, have you ever considered punctuation?22:36
AlanBellI like commas22:37
dave101010telnet miku.acm.uiuc.edu22:37
dave101010so sad22:37
dave101010it is nyan cat22:38
AlanBellpopey: I can't see any epic sentences, there are commas and full stops all over the place22:38
popeyparagraphs would be nice22:39
popeyit's quite a wall of text22:39
popeynice text though it is22:39
AlanBellparagraph 1 is arguably a longish one22:39
popeyi went cross-eyed reading it22:39
popeybut I found my socks22:40
* AlanBell chops it into 322:40
AlanBellthink I will add some socks too22:42
popeyAlanBell, http://popey.com/~alan/socks.png22:52
mgdmI can recommend the ones third down on the far left22:54
mgdmthey are Warm As Fsck22:54
directhexi have my graphics card back \o/22:55
AlanBellhttp://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/screenshots/socks.png22:55
daftykinsdirecthex: RMA?23:00
directhexdaftykins, yeah. took scan about 7 weeks to issue a partial (£126) refund on a dead 697023:04
daftykinscrikey23:05
daftykinsonly partial? that sounds a bit harsh23:05
daftykinsi've never had much respect for that company since when i phoned up enquiring about VAT removal, they said they'd just charge the exact same value as VAT, for the shipping23:05
daftykinswhen asked 'why', the answer was 'because'23:05
directhexscan only do partial refunds these days, on the basis that they "calculate you've had £X of value from it, so it's only worth £Y"23:17
directhexwhich is bull tbh23:17
directhexso i took their refund to ebuyer and bought a GTX66023:17
daftykins:)23:20
directhexalso just bought her a dell u2713hm as a surprise late xmas present23:21
daftykinscrikey, some high-res for her23:22
directhexwhen her hyundai 24" pva screen died, all we could find that was affordable was a 23" 1080p TN screen, and i was *never* happy with the downgrade23:23
popeyscan sent stolen goods to a friend of mine once23:24
AlanBellBug #109234123:25
lubotu3bug 1092341 in Ubuntu Website "http://people.ubuntu.com/favicon.ico is the old logo" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/109234123:25
daftykinspopey: wow23:26
daftykinspopey: how'd they discover that?23:27
popeywas a hard drive, it broke, they called manufacturer who said "no warranty on those, they're stolen"23:27
daftykins:S23:27
popeyhmm23:28
popeywhy does black mesa not run23:28
popeyinstalled, click play in steam, nothing happens23:28
AlanBellnick hard drive, buy hard drive, RMA stolen hard drive get refund, one laundered drive? or was it in the supply chain?23:28
daftykinssource SDK 2007 base is required?23:28
daftykinsfor black mesa23:28
popeywat23:28
popeyreally?23:28
daftykinsyesh23:28
popeyi thought only a source game like hl2 needed to be installed23:29
daftykinserr, i think some stuff usually pulls in the above23:29
daftykinsi can't be 100%23:29
popeymeh, will play hl2 instead23:29
daftykinsi still remember mooching the leak, ah so long ago23:30
daftykinsthe graphics seemed so good at the time, that when you walked up to an untextured part it was as though the real world was pieced together in a similar way23:31
ali1234AlanBell: i noticed...23:32
directhexi can't get back into the swing of pc gaming, after 2 months off :x23:39
daftykinsi'm losing the interest to gaming in general23:45
directhexfreak!23:45
daftykinsD:23:46
directhexcool kids all play videogames23:47
directhexmy wife is playing one RIGHT NOW23:47
popeynot true23:47
popeyi do too23:47
daftykins;)23:47
shaunowhere I'm from, grumpy old men play video games now23:47
daftykinsah i'm sure you get an honorary cool card, popey23:47
ali1234grimrock is really good23:47
popeynot tried it yet23:47
ali1234i am not disappointed23:47
popeybought the bundle as always23:48
directhexnone of the bundle is on steam for linux :o23:48
directhexsomeone should apply a spanking to valve to they apply a spanking to the relevant devs23:48
ali1234but it's all in the software centre so who cares?23:48
ali1234steam = tf2 launcher23:48
popeyheh, every single game I have, directhex has23:49
popeyexcept one23:49
ali1234let me guess. train simulator?23:49
popeyya :)23:49
directhexali1234, games from software centre SIGNIFICANTLY slow down apt updates23:50
popeyinstall, disable ppa, job done23:50
ali1234hmm yeah i have noticed that actually. why does that happen?23:50
ali1234but i want updates......23:51
directhexali1234, also, i use steam for matchmaking. if you work out how i can play multiplayer dungeon defenders with my friends without using steam invites, let me know23:51
popeyppas are on launchpad23:51
popeyless infra than repos23:51
ali1234just cos launchpad is slow?23:51
popeywell, not lp really23:51
ali1234ok, just cos ppas are slow?23:51
popeyi dont think they scale as well as the repo23:51
popeyi know they've recently thrown more hardware at it23:52
popeybut it's not mirrored like the repo is23:52
popeyso everyone hits them23:52
ali1234considering how often games ppas are (not) updated, you'd think it could just do like a http header check...23:52
ali1234"like http 304 not modified"23:53
ali1234and then not spend ages downloading it again23:53
popeyyeah, apt isn't really optimised for this use case23:53
ali1234it would be so easy to do tho :(23:53
popeythat osx bell sound23:55
popeyi hear it a lot from the imac in the kitchen23:55
popeyit's always a cat23:55
daftykins=]23:56
daftykinsi'm considering whether or not i'm brave enough to do a hard disk -> SSD transplant on a clients iMac right now23:56
daftykinsapparently someone i know has the glass suction cup things :D23:56
popeyoooh, this is very nice23:57
ali1234grimrock is a native port too... that's awesome. is this the first time it's been available on linux then?23:57
directhexyes23:57
directhexdungeon defenders is far more important though23:57
popeyi would like to do that on the imac23:57
directhexunrealengine 3's debut23:58
popeyit's the only upgrade left it can have really23:58
daftykinspopey: what age model is it? this client's is a 3.06GHz i3 from mid-2010, 4GB of RAM at present and the 500GB mechanical23:58
ali1234what famous games powered by unrealengine 3?23:59
directhexmost of them!23:59
directhexhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unreal_Engine_games#Unreal_Engine_323:59

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