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Azelphurgah, royal mail has been down for ages :(00:06
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czajkowskialoha07:35
jacobwmorgen08:23
diploMorning all08:48
mungbeanhow can i check memory usage of firefox tabs?  2596m 1.5g  19m R   73 38.8 975:04.84 firefox09:19
diploabout:memory ?09:20
mungbeanthats what i'm trying: the page has been trying to load for 10 mins :(09:20
mungbeanhmm facebook 800M09:21
diployeah the JS in G+/FB etc make my tabs get huge occasionally09:23
mungbeankilling facebook seems to recover the machine :D09:23
diplo129mb/55mb atm, which isn't that bad for mine :)09:23
mungbeanleft it runnign overnight?09:23
mungbeantrying to switch back from chrome which is killing my machine09:24
mungbeanbut it seems that its just browsers/websites in general09:24
mungbeanneed 8GB instead of 4GB RAM09:24
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BigRedSAnyone got a recommendation for a free softphone for android?09:26
JamesTaitGood morning all! :)09:27
BigRedSGoood Morning!09:27
JamesTaitBigRedS, o/09:27
JamesTaitBigRedS, let me see what I used before I got my phone in a mess.09:28
JamesTaitLumicall or something.09:28
BigRedShaha, I don't want the thing that caused the mess :)09:28
JamesTaitBigRedS, no, that's OK, I'm not for sale. ;)09:28
JamesTaitBigRedS, https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/org.lumicall.android09:30
JamesTaitBigRedS, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.lumicall.android&hl=en09:30
JamesTaitI have to admit I barely used it. I received a couple of calls on it, that's all, but I had no problems with it.09:31
BigRedShaha, that's fine. Hopefully nobody will call me anyway :)09:35
BigRedSthanks!09:35
diploAnyone in here ever use Cisco Unified Communications Server ?09:44
Myrttiwhooooop https://plus.google.com/103583604759580854844/posts/HaHsZCNEr3q10:14
Myrttifinally Google Play gift cards!10:15
bigcalmgit branch -a10:16
bigcalmHumm, not the shell10:16
Laney* master10:39
Laney fix-nasty-bug10:39
bigcalmHeh10:40
bigcalmDid it?10:40
Laneyno it rm -rf my home directory and then insulted my mother :(10:40
bigcalmTrixy devs10:45
SuperMatthas anyone been finding libcolumbus to be... less than optimal?10:46
Laneyit has some kind of matching problem10:46
knightwisehey everyone10:47
Laneywe just discussed that in the desktop channel10:47
SuperMattright right10:47
Laneyspotif -> gedit for me10:47
SuperMattsame10:47
SuperMattI just tried qt creator, and it was on the 4th line10:47
Laneyapparently there is a fix10:48
SuperMattoh the plus side, typing frief brings back firefox10:48
SuperMattwhich is the plan, no less?10:48
kaushalHi10:49
kaushalI have pidgin installed on Ubuntu 11.10. is there a way to integrate it with dash program?10:50
kaushalmeaning lets say if i need to IM person A, is there a short cut?10:50
kaushalsimilar to GnomeDo?10:51
Laneykaushal: you might look for a "pidgin lens"10:56
Laneybut 11.10 is quite old so that may make it more difficult10:57
kaushalLaney: ok10:58
kaushalLaney: any url to know about pidgin lens10:59
bigcalmkaushal: have you had a look in USC?11:02
* Laney just had two blokes and a dog standing outside his front garden staring at and patting the tree there11:05
Laney(in the garden)11:05
BigRedSOooh. All those Jabber accounts I couldn't get into empahy yesterday seem to go in okay if I configure them in pidgin then run an unconfigured empathy and tell it to import from pidgin11:13
mungbeanBigRedS: i have a jabber account that will never work in empathy11:31
mungbeandue to server side bug, apparently. although pidgin always works11:31
BigRedSooh, which server?11:37
mungbeanBigRedS: zimbra version old11:51
mungbeani can't upgrade the company zimbra server just to use empathy :P11:51
SuperMatturgh, t'other day I believe I can across a command which, if placed before another command, will list the files that command is trying to access11:59
SuperMattI could be wrong, but does anyone know what that command might be?11:59
mgdmstrace? which is probably overkill12:02
SuperMattcould be :/12:02
SuperMattit doesn't look right though12:02
SuperMattit doesn't matter12:02
SuperMattit's a means to and end12:02
popeyldd?12:02
SuperMattI could just ask the question that's causing the issue, rather than figure it out myself12:02
davmor2Morning all12:03
mgdmstrace -e open /path/to/your/command12:03
SuperMattno, that didn't work :(12:03
mgdmldd shows the libraries a binary is linked to12:03
popey"doesnt work"?12:03
BigRedSstrace -e trace=file <command>   will list all the files that command is trying to use12:03
BigRedSthere's not much scope for it not doing that, really12:04
SuperMattthanks for the help, but I'm going to AskUbuntu about the underlying problem I'm trying to solve12:04
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SuperMatthttp://askubuntu.com/questions/264680/running-usr-lib-nagios-plugins-check-apt-as-nagios-user-does-not-return-the-cor12:09
diploSeems a permissions issue for apt on the nagios user SuperMatt ?12:30
diploif it works as root ?12:30
diploUse Nagios, but never tried check_apt12:30
diploTried running apt from the nagios user locally on the server that doesn't work ?12:32
SuperMattdiplo: well, that's the thing. the nagios user shouldn't have access to run apt(-get) otherwise dangerous things happen. I think it's checking something else13:02
mungbeananyone tried to sync tomboy notes since feb 28th?13:47
mungbeani'm scared13:47
jpickettwasn't that being deprecated13:48
popeymungbean: backup, sync13:49
popeysee what happens13:49
SuperMattis there any way I can fake a package needing an upgrade?13:49
neurosudo apt-get --lookintotheeyes --notaroundtheeyes abracadabra13:50
SuperMatt¬.¬13:50
SuperMattI see what you did there13:50
neuroI see that you saw what I did there13:51
bigcalmI sell sea shells on the sea shore13:51
neurois the package that's installed out of date?13:51
neuroor are you just trying something funky?13:51
popeythere's a test mode13:52
popeyapt-get install -s cowsay13:52
popeys = simulate13:52
SuperMatthmmm, but that doesn't put it in a perpetual state of "this package needs an upgrade"13:52
popeyoh, thats easy then13:53
popeyfind a package which has been updated via -updates13:53
popeyand then downgrade it13:53
popeyapt-get install packagename=versionnumber13:53
SuperMattwicked13:53
popeyapt-cache policy packagename13:53
popeythat will help13:53
SuperMattnow to pick a random, harmless package that has been updated since 12.0413:53
neurokernel?13:54
popeythats also easy13:54
popeyhttps://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2013-March/thread.html13:54
popeypick one13:54
SuperMattpopey: I'm getting version was not foud when trying apt-get install mountall=2.36.214:09
brobostigon!info mountall14:10
lubotu3mountall (source: mountall): filesystem mounting tool. In component main, is required. Version 2.42ubuntu0.4 (quantal), package size 63 kB, installed size 234 kB14:10
SuperMattsame again with another package14:11
SuperMattgot it! thanks popey14:26
SuperMattI didn't realise the package needed to be not installed first14:26
popeyno14:28
popeyyou can downgrade14:28
directhexhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-2167711914:29
SuperMatthurm, well downgrading didn't want to work14:30
SuperMattso I installed an app I knew had been updated that I didn't have, and that seemed to work14:30
mungbeandirecthex: which OS will it run? or miht it run various OS depending on spec?14:31
popeyit ships with linux mungbean14:37
mungbeandid they confirm for all models? sweet14:38
directhexif it's from valve it'll be linux14:38
mungbeanthats gotta mean a sizeable back catalogue will get ported soon14:38
mungbeanthey gonna be busy bunnies14:39
directhexbusy not working on hl3!14:39
mungbeanstill haven't finished hl214:40
mungbeanstopped when i stopped using windows14:40
mungbeanand got married14:40
mungbeanone of the 214:40
redtape-renegadeAyone noticed the value of Bitcoins has gone through the roof recently ??15:00
redtape-renegade**Anyone .. ??15:01
redtape-renegadehttp://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxGBP#tgSzm1g10zm2g25zv15:02
BigRedSAs in upwards? odd15:02
popeyyeah15:03
redtape-renegadeBigRedS: Lokking at the charts .. It's almost expontial ..15:03
MartijnVdSredtape-renegade: Azelphur must have noticed :)15:04
redtape-renegadeMartijnVdS: Is he a trader ?15:04
redtape-renegade£2 to £32 in 18 months .. that's 1600.% .. even the worst doubt of trading can't fail to notice that !15:06
redtape-renegade**doubter15:06
redtape-renegade. In fact I don't know of better Ret. on Invest. for 2012/13 in  last 18 months , do you ?15:07
BigRedSBlimey. I thought everyone had, in the main, got bored of bitcoin by now15:10
redtape-renegadeBigRedS: Really ?15:10
BigRedSyeah, just not heard anything about it for ages15:11
redtape-renegadeAdmitedly, for a short term trader the returns are closer to 200% month on month, but after you put about 20million in GBP on for an 18 month straight investment.. there's a billion pounds return to consider ..15:13
* redtape-renegade wonders if he can trade in his Tesco vouchers for a bitcoin or two :D ??15:14
redtape-renegadeoh, Actually you'd need £63 million :(   to make a billion (so far)..15:17
redtape-renegadeBitcoin should have ask me last week when I was flush    :)15:18
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redtape-renegadeBigRedS: Your probably right, Only 1 bloke does it in IOM ::: https://localbitcoins.com/15:37
Laneyoho15:39
Laneyrms is giving a(nother) talk in nottingham next monday15:39
* Laney ponders whether to go15:39
redtape-renegadeRMS should dop an interview with Alan Parson's , then.15:40
directhexLaney, do you have any odd jobs around the house to do? spot of plastering, maybe some hoovering?15:40
popeywashing your hair?15:40
directhexpainting, then watching it dry?15:40
Laneypots, almost boiling ones, waiting for them to become so15:41
redtape-renegadeI'd mail yourself a to-do list right away .. it'll take a month to get through !15:41
directhexLaney, sounds much more fulfilling than watching a beardy old man give a talk he wrote in the 1980s15:42
redtape-renegade.. he doesn't even know what we call Gnu-ware on #freegamer anyway !!15:43
mgdmI spotted him at FOSDEM15:43
redtape-renegadeyes, I hurd that.15:44
redtape-renegade.. any picts.. or wasted oppourtunity ?15:44
mgdmI don't generally take pictures of people I walk past in corridors15:44
directhexhe was at fosdem? glad i skipped it this year15:45
BigRedSI didn't notice him there15:45
redtape-renegadehe was in Dublin a day later ..15:45
BigRedSbut it is always full of those free software hippies15:45
redtape-renegade.. I think they had a dinner by G+ invite at the muktware-guy's house together.15:46
redtape-renegadeor so I hurd :)15:46
popeyahh Swapnil..15:47
directhexmuktware is... not a world of quality free software journalism15:48
popeyI have had multiple run-ins with him recently15:48
popeyhttps://plus.google.com/u/0/109027644713767623413/posts/Z9hMvxLKDea being the most recent15:49
BigRedSWell, it's not as if Canonical's particularly concerned about that sort of PR15:50
ali1234tl;dr15:51
AzelphurMartijnVdS: I have indeed noticed, action is being taken :P15:52
popeyhaha15:53
redtape-renegadeopening..15:54
redtape-renegadepopey. looks like he got the last word in, anyway .. Semantic ethics about registered IOM companies bore the hell out of me. ::: Quite simply, I've done that.15:59
* redtape-renegade desperately wants these to run ΰbuntu TV::16:19
redtape-renegadehttp://svn.xtreamer.net/marketing/display.php?M=67415&C=330819bd0ae0fc2919b73b65f51be1ff&S=26&L=2&N=3316:19
jacobwopenstack /o\16:26
Azelphuraww yea, new laptop fits in my pocket \o/16:32
BigRedSHow big is your new pocket?16:32
Azelphurthat's an i7 2.3ghz with GT 650M, in my coat pocket lol16:32
AzelphurBigRedS: still tiny16:32
BigRedSis this a nuc or something?16:33
Azelphurno idea what a nuc is :)16:33
redtape-renegadeAnyone's yahoo.co.uk Email just gone nutz ??  .. I've just had 50 'failure to post' messages in the last 5 mins..16:33
Azelphur11.6", apparently worlds most powerful of that form factor16:33
BigRedSIt's Intel's new diddy computer. A bit bigger than a Raspberry Pi.16:33
BigRedSactually, a lot bigger16:33
BigRedSbut still really small16:33
BigRedSabout half the size of a HDD in an enclosure16:34
redtape-renegade.. was it something I received ??16:35
Azelphurtime for optimus fun I suppose16:35
Azelphuralso, this mir thing seems to fill me with wtf16:38
AlanBelltried running it?16:40
Azelphurnope16:40
Azelphurit annoys me greatly that canonical don't work on wayland16:40
Azelphurand it seems almost naive of them to think that they can catch up with wayland16:41
ali1234they can catch up because they have a specific target16:42
ali1234it's always easier to "just make it work"16:42
SuperMattfrom what I've seen so far, they seem to have already managed to make up a lot of distance16:42
ali1234the cyanogenmod stuff is a great example of that16:42
ali1234puts them far ahead of maemo, meego, mer16:42
Azelphurali1234: not really, CyanogenMod is a modified build of Android16:42
ali1234and it only took what, 6 months?16:42
AzelphurCanonical are talking about rewriting the whole thing, right?16:42
ali1234not really16:42
ali1234wayland needs all new drivers16:43
ali1234that's part of the problem16:43
ali1234mir can use android drivers16:43
BigRedSI thought Cyanogen was way closer to Android than Ubuntu's aiming for16:43
AzelphurI see16:43
redtape-renegadeCanonical: plz add displayport drivers.. pleeeease.16:43
ali1234it's different development models16:43
BigRedSI've not really been following it, though. I'm still a bit overwhelmed at how tall Canonical is heaping its plate16:44
ali1234wayland is rather open ended, designed to be all things16:44
ali1234mir is designed to just run unity plus legacy16:44
directhexwayland can use android drivers.16:45
directhexand mesa16:46
directhexmir is no further ahead than wayland on this16:46
neurohowever, mir hasn't joined up with yutani to try and steal the xenomorphs from LV-426 ...16:50
* neuro is pretty ambivalent about the whole mir/wayland thing at any rate16:51
neuroif there's a possibility of mir offering a better chance for something nicer than unity to be rolled in at a later date, i'm all for it16:52
neuro(nicer = IMHO, of course)16:52
directhexthere are no technical reasons for mir over wayland. there are, however, political reasons for mir.16:53
BigRedSMost of my reservation is that it's really looking like Canonical decides to rewrite something, gets the fun and exciting bits out of the way and then gets bored and decides to rewrite something else16:53
directhexBigRedS, in fairness, lennart poettering does that too16:53
BigRedSwhich is great and all, but I'd really prefer it if the paid devs were forced into solving problems that the free ones don't want to :)16:53
BigRedSdirecthex: that, basically, is how free software in general works16:54
BigRedSwhich is why it's annoying that this is a *company* doing it16:54
BigRedSI mean, it's also entirely understandable, because it's a company that's composed largely of free software developers16:54
jenniehello17:55
jennieanyone from Uk17:55
jennie?17:55
directhexplenty.18:00
bigcalmMostly?18:01
MartijnVdSnot all though18:01
bigcalmEnough18:01
directhexsufficient?18:01
davmor2some18:05
shaunoapparently insufficient18:05
jacobwPerhaps that was a Ukranian18:06
jacobwI haven't seen one in here a while18:06
davmor2BigRedS: let see canonical produce upstart everyone hails it a success then Red Hat say hmmm maybe not and creat systemd.  Redhat however don't get the crap that canonical get for doing the same thing go figure18:06
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jennieanyone from UK ?18:13
davmor2jennie: yes18:13
MartijnVdSdavmor2: Lennart gets all the crap for those things (Pulse, Systemd, ...)18:14
popeya few18:14
MartijnVdSdavmor2: not "big evil Red Hat"18:14
popeyhe's made some very valuable contributions to the linux desktop, that's for sure18:14
MartijnVdSpulse works great these days18:14
popeyyup18:14
ali1234davmor2: red hat got a huge amount of criticism for systemd, everyone hates it, especially gentoo who have forked udev because of it18:14
ali1234davmor2: and upstart was not hailed a success, no other distro than ubuntu uses it18:15
AlanBellit was presented in an entirely different way18:15
davmor2ali1234: there were a whole bunch using it including RedHat18:16
popeyAIUI Lennart contributed to Upstart in the early days18:16
jacobwjennie: this is Ubuntu UK, it's for people from the UK18:16
popeyand offered to do some new features, then disappeared for 6 months and systemd appeared18:16
popeythen it all got acrimonious between him and scott.. the rest is history18:18
shaunoqueue the 'Neighbours' theme tune18:18
popeyI was thinking Eastenders18:18
ali1234*cue18:18
MartijnVdScue queue18:18
popeythats the second time today I've seen someone use queue instead of cue18:18
shaunoglad I could amuse :)18:19
shaunoI'm going to blame it on 40 hours of uptime, and 5 years 'over there'18:19
* AlanBell observes a lack of redhat press release about systemd18:19
ali1234is systemd even in red hat yet or just fedora?18:19
AlanBellhttp://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html appears to be as much of an announcement that there was18:20
shaunothey should just port launchd to linux.  it's pretty awesome having all your config files in something that's close enough to xml to make you hate it, but not close enough that an xml parser comes in handy18:20
MartijnVdSಠ_ಠ18:20
MartijnVdSshauno: Time to reset your uptime ;)18:20
RadiumCat( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)18:20
popeysystemd was basically lennart replicating launchd18:21
popeyas avahi was bonjour18:21
ali1234i do like the feature where it runs services on demand18:21
popeyand pulse was core audio18:21
ali1234and avahi is really good18:21
popeyyeah, systemd has some nice features18:21
MartijnVdSali1234: upstart was supposed to be able to do that18:21
* MartijnVdS remembers Scott talking about that18:21
ali1234i've never heard anyone say a bad thing about avahi, and it just works18:21
popeysystemd will be in RHEL next won't it?18:22
popeythey've moved from upstart to systemd18:22
davmor2ali1234: The Last RedHat was upstart I think the very latest might now be on systemd18:22
AlanBellmir might be really good still18:22
ali1234well, as always... show me it working18:23
AlanBellbut I don't really know if there is an intention for it to be more generic than supporting unity18:23
AlanBellI have it working18:23
AlanBellfor small values of working18:24
ali1234do you have it working with a full desktop environment, to the point where it is equivalent to X11?18:24
AlanBellno, because nobody outside of Canonical does yet18:24
AlanBellit does a scrolly picture of the Mir space station in a green box18:24
AlanBelland there is a flippy scrolly pictures of mir demo18:24
ali1234so it's about where wayland was two years ago then18:24
AlanBell6 months ago I think they said18:25
AlanBellhowever it can do more already18:25
AlanBellbut I think there is a bunch of stuff still to be chucked over the wall18:25
popeythere is?18:26
AlanBellxmir ?18:26
ali1234does anyone remember my 12 predictions for2013?18:26
AlanBella buildable qmir?18:26
shaunowhen was the last time they didn't have something waiting to be 'chucked over the wall' ?18:26
ali1234"tada source"18:27
AlanBellhttp://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mir-team/qmir/trunk/files18:27
AlanBellanyone want to guess what to do with that?18:28
ali1234my guess is it's qt backend for mir?18:28
AlanBellyeah18:28
AlanBellso do I compile the cpp files individually? where do I put the object files?18:29
ali1234so you stick it into the qt5 tree and rebuild18:29
ali1234they call it a QPA - Qt Platform Abstraction18:29
ali1234not sure if this actually is one18:29
popeyAlanBell: i just asked.. "goal is the end of the week"18:30
ali1234http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt-Platform-Abstraction18:30
ali1234looks like it definitely is that18:30
AlanBellso download the qt tarball and find a home for this and build the tree18:30
ali1234how to use it though - no idea18:30
ali1234pretty much yes18:31
AlanBellor get the deb source and rebuild the package18:31
AlanBellpopey: cool, thanks18:31
popeyeverything will go in the public ppa, buildable and available there18:33
popeytaking longer than expected to get it all together18:33
ali1234what puzzles me18:33
ali1234is why keep it secret for a period of time, and then release it when it is barely functional?18:34
ali1234why not either have it open from the start, or do a big release when it is done?18:34
popeywell it was started back before we announced phone and tablet18:35
ali1234so just for the sake of having omething interesting to say at MWC?18:35
popeypeople could probably figure out details from the source, and spoil the "big reveal"18:35
ali1234yeah but the thing is the big reveal was basiclly "we're making a phone, it will be done in two years"18:36
popeyyeah, no18:36
popeyit will be done way sooner than that18:36
popeybut hey ho18:36
ali1234yeah right18:36
popeymeh18:36
ali1234i admire you're optimism18:36
ali1234*your18:36
shauno(your.  since you pointed out the cue thing.  fair's fair)18:37
shaunod'oh18:37
bigcalmLUG TIME! \o/18:44
popeyGLUG!18:48
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redtape-renegadeIs there an Ubuntu TV meeting at the UDS ??20:09
popeyno20:12
redtape-renegadepopey, It's all over, right ?20:15
redtape-renegadeQU. Is The UDS over ??20:35
ali1234yes20:39
AlanBellUDS is over, yes20:39
popeyhttps://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/914b5784e52c5967784eae44e4b138a346b1ff90?authuser=0 \o/20:40
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ali1234google hangouts wants to use my wintv card and will not use my webcam :(21:02
ali1234oh well whatever. i'm mr interference21:03
popeyLaney: ☹  no webcam21:18
redtape-renegadepopey, did the hangout end ?21:26
mungbeani was in a meeting today, and some contractor referred to spacewalk as skywalker. as in "deploy your linux VMs with skywalker"21:27
popeyno21:27
mungbean\o/21:27
popeyi honestly didn't expect ali1234 to have that much hair21:27
ali1234lol21:27
popeyyou also smile more than i expected21:28
ali1234i do need a trim21:28
popeyi expected some level of angry21:28
ali1234i do have pretty much the same reputation IRL21:29
mungbeanwhat was the hangout in aid of?21:29
popeyjust hanging out21:30
popeyusually after UDS sessions we go to the bar and chat21:31
redtape-renegadepopey .. do you see a Lenny in the hangout .. 'cos I get zip.21:34
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popeyyes, arriving, leaving, arriving, leaving21:35
redtape-renegadedont get it ?21:35
redtape-renegadewhat should i do .. never used hangout on this netbook ?21:35
redtape-renegadepopey, did you get that  ?21:44
popeyno, it's not working21:53
redtape-renegadepopey.. I'll try another distro, hangon .. back in 5 mins ..21:55

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