| bigcalm | mgdm: gphoto2 --filename foo1.jpg --capture-image-and-download | 00:05 |
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| bigcalm | mgdm: works perfectly :D | 00:05 |
| daftykins | happy christmas to any and all who are awake o/ | 00:41 |
| penguin42 | hey daftykins | 00:42 |
| daftykins | \o | 00:47 |
| daftykins | just been playing with some data recovery for a friend | 00:48 |
| daftykins | clickety click goes the click of death :D | 00:48 |
| penguin42 | oh dear, what drive? | 00:59 |
| daftykins | an ancient 40GB PATA WD :) | 00:59 |
| daftykins | it would've been in storage for years doing nothing | 00:59 |
| penguin42 | ah right, sometimes they just plain seize up | 01:00 |
| daftykins | ja | 01:00 |
| daftykins | another is a laptop form factor SATA 250GB, from an ancient laptop of my friends | 01:00 |
| penguin42 | if it's a 250GB it can't be *that* ancient | 01:01 |
| daftykins | it totally freezes my OS when connected so i started playing with a DOS mode program | 01:01 |
| daftykins | in hardware terms i consider it ancient :) | 01:01 |
| * penguin42 tosses his 64MB 5.25" FH ST506 drive at daftykins | 01:01 | |
| daftykins | :) | 01:01 |
| penguin42 | a 250GB SATA should be able to give you SMART data and logs etc | 01:02 |
| daftykins | yeah | 01:02 |
| daftykins | i'll give it another go at some point, the program i used didn't like my desktop's BIOS | 01:03 |
| daftykins | possibly due to the SATA port mode, which i didn't think of at the time | 01:03 |
| penguin42 | what does Linux make of it? | 01:03 |
| daftykins | didn't even try | 01:03 |
| daftykins | i'd imagine it'll just stream many errors in the logs :> | 01:03 |
| penguin42 | there is a modified dd somewhere that can skip badblocks | 01:04 |
| daftykins | ja dd-rescue | 01:05 |
| penguin42 | that plus smartctl is a good start, although I'd probably try it on a minimal linux, you don't want anything trying to mount it or anything | 01:06 |
| daftykins | yeah, would be nice to image it up first | 01:07 |
| === Lcawte is now known as Lcawte|Away | ||
| * penguin42 wonders if it's possible to get Amazon to give you the intersection of it's recommendations for you and a price limit | 01:40 | |
| daftykins | penguin42: as in, show you your recommendations with an upper bound? | 01:42 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: Yeh, show me stuff that matches my recommendations and is dirt cheap | 01:42 |
| daftykins | :D | 01:43 |
| penguin42 | 'Far Cry 3 (Xbox 360) Because you purchased.... Vax S6 Home Master Steam Cleaner' | 02:17 |
| daftykins | O_O | 02:20 |
| daftykins | that's a good one :> | 02:20 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: I like the way Amazon lets you tell it that you're not interested, but it won't let you say why | 02:22 |
| daftykins | :> | 02:22 |
| daftykins | i spent a fair few minutes on that once saying "own this, don't want that, blah blah..." | 02:22 |
| penguin42 | right, so it can say because you own it, but they don't have a way of saying 'it's just a bad connection with the other item' or 'I'm not interested in bluray' | 02:25 |
| daftykins | idd | 02:25 |
| ali1234 | is anyone's TV broken? | 02:34 |
| ali1234 | i can'tpick up any channels at all on freeview | 02:34 |
| ali1234 | and i've tried 4 different tuners | 02:35 |
| ali1234 | so eithermy aeriel is broken or it's the transmitter | 02:35 |
| dwatkins | ali1234: tried http://tvcatchup.com/ ? | 02:36 |
| ali1234 | no | 02:36 |
| penguin42 | ali1234: Tis OK here; Winter Hill transmitter | 02:37 |
| ali1234 | i'm not sure what tx i am on but it is either nottingham or sutton coldfield | 02:37 |
| daftykins | ITV was doing funny things earlier today when my parents were watching TV | 02:38 |
| ali1234 | dvb-apps initial scanning files are so out of date it's not even funny | 02:38 |
| daftykins | lots of blank black screens for some time | 02:38 |
| ali1234 | i have absolutely no signal at all for the past hour or so | 02:38 |
| daftykins | impressive | 02:39 |
| ali1234 | i'm guessing someone is going to have a fun day climbing a transmitter on christmas | 02:39 |
| ali1234 | either that or squirrels have chewed through my aerial cable | 02:39 |
| daftykins | at least TV is dire so you're not missing anything :> | 02:39 |
| dwatkins | how to climb a transmission tower: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbEqnLjHyf8 | 02:39 |
| ali1234 | i know right but i wanted to record lord of the rings | 02:39 |
| daftykins | record ;x | 02:40 |
| penguin42 | ali1234: https://faq.external.bbc.co.uk/templates/bbcfaqs/emailstatic/interferencePage | 02:40 |
| daftykins | srs? | 02:40 |
| ali1234 | yes i record films off tv because it's easier than pirating them | 02:40 |
| ali1234 | penguin42: yeah it says no problems | 02:41 |
| daftykins | go lurking for neighbour TV sounds :> | 02:41 |
| penguin42 | ali1234: I bet it's that clumsy santa knocking your aerial | 02:41 |
| ali1234 | i really don't see how it can be my aerial | 02:41 |
| penguin42 | why? | 02:42 |
| ali1234 | because i would have heard a noise | 02:42 |
| penguin42 | why? | 02:42 |
| ali1234 | i mean it was literally working one minute and then dead the next | 02:42 |
| ali1234 | and the aerial is attached to the wall right outside the room i am in | 02:42 |
| penguin42 | hmm, could be a busted lead | 02:43 |
| ali1234 | i have tried several different one | 02:43 |
| ali1234 | three tuners | 02:43 |
| ali1234 | and a STB | 02:43 |
| ali1234 | it's not the lead or equipment | 02:43 |
| penguin42 | I meant the lead from the aerial | 02:43 |
| ali1234 | well | 02:43 |
| ali1234 | it's not raining, snowing, windy or anything here | 02:44 |
| penguin42 | nod | 02:44 |
| ali1234 | and the lead has worked fine for 15 years | 02:44 |
| ali1234 | so it's picked a funny time to break | 02:44 |
| penguin42 | ali1234: I think that's what they said about the o-rings | 02:44 |
| dwatkins | some cowboy went up on our roof fitting an aerial (block of flats) and dislodged some tiles, apparently. | 02:44 |
| ali1234 | if only they still had analogue tx | 02:45 |
| ali1234 | you can tell when that is working or not | 02:45 |
| dwatkins | yeah, a poor signal will give you an indication of the signal strength and you can still see/hear something | 02:47 |
| dwatkins | seems Netflix is down in the US, too. | 02:51 |
| daftykins | lawl | 02:52 |
| daftykins | just in time for holiday surprises | 02:52 |
| dwatkins | “We continue to work on resolving issues with the Elastic Load Balancing Service in the US-EAST-1 region. Traffic for some ELBs are currently experiencing significant levels of traffic loss.” | 02:53 |
| penguin42 | and this is why I wish sysadmins a 'Quiet and uneventful christmas and new year' | 02:53 |
| dwatkins | I'm glad I'm not working today. | 02:54 |
| daftykins | eh it's no biggy if you've no family | 02:57 |
| dwatkins | true, I just like having a day off ;) | 02:58 |
| dwatkins | I was on call this weekend, too. | 02:58 |
| daftykins | =[ | 02:58 |
| dwatkins | thankfully it wasn't busy | 02:59 |
| daftykins | \o/ | 02:59 |
| daftykins | ali1234: any change in the state of play? | 05:07 |
| AlanBell | morning all | 08:58 |
| AlanBell | happy christmas/festivus/winterval | 08:58 |
| brobostigon | happy christmas everyone. | 08:58 |
| brobostigon | morning AlanBell | 08:58 |
| SuperEngineer | & a happy whatsits to you all as well | 09:00 |
| shauno | happy whatsits all round :) | 09:00 |
| solarcloud | Morning Sakamoto .. http://open.spotify.com/track/17oLsEzzlGFlrBKViCzmGc | 09:01 |
| brobostigon | :) | 09:01 |
| daftykins | libations for everybody \o | 09:03 |
| * penguin42 jingles to all | 12:28 | |
| dwatkins | merry Tuesday :) | 12:29 |
| penguin42 | indeed, a very merry Tuesday it is | 12:33 |
| === GentileBen is now known as DrZoidberg | ||
| === DrZoidberg is now known as RaycisCharles | ||
| DJones | Does anybody know anywhere selling cheap external USB 2 external hdd's? Currently looking for something that beats this deal http://www.maplin.co.uk/750gb-core-external-desktop-usb-2.0-hard-drive-682549 | 20:35 |
| MartijnVdS | DJones: beware that cheap = fails fast | 20:35 |
| DJones | Yeah, something I'm wary of, reviews of that model seem quite good though | 20:36 |
| penguin42 | does say it's a grade-b - whatever that means | 20:51 |
| dwatkins | I bought a 3 TB USB disk, it had been dropped by the courier. Unsurprisingly, it didn't work. | 21:01 |
| dwatkins | B-grade can mean any number of things, unfortunately. | 21:01 |
| penguin42 | yeh | 21:02 |
| DJones | Could just be old stock as well and replaced by a newer model | 21:39 |
| DJones | None of the branches are holding stock | 21:39 |
| penguin42 | DJones: The other thing to do is get a USB<->sata cable and a drive | 21:40 |
| DJones | They seem to work out more expensive when you add in the cable, plus they're not as neat | 21:43 |
| penguin42 | yep | 21:45 |
| dwatkins | I tend to buy enclosures, as I replace drives in laptops occasionally, so have smaller capacity ones spare. | 22:19 |
| === Lcawte|Away is now known as Lcawte | ||
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