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diploMorning all07:39
MooDoomorning all08:20
JamesTaitGood morning all, happy Play Your Ukulele Day! :-D08:21
MooDooWhen I'm cleaning windows....08:24
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brobostigongood morning everyone,09:02
MooDoomorning09:03
brobostigonmorning MooDoo09:03
davmor2Morning all09:58
brobostigonmorning davmor210:00
MooDoomorning davmor210:00
davmor2morning brobostigon MooDoo10:01
mungbeanmorning11:00
mungbeanlooks nice again outside11:01
brobostigonafternoonings mungbean11:01
brobostigonprediction for the local elections today, the lib-con vote will decline, badly.11:02
mungbeanthere's elections?11:05
brobostigonyes.11:06
Myrttiin some places11:06
mungbeancouncil ones outside london i guess?11:06
brobostigoncouncil and a by-election in south shields.11:08
brobostigonyes.11:08
MooDooyes we've got elections in nottingham as well11:09
* brobostigon has already done his vote.11:09
mungbeancouncils =/= parliament though11:10
MooDooi'm doing mine tonight11:10
mungbeanpeople protest vote and ruin their local area11:10
brobostigonMooDoo: i think 22:00 is closing for most11:10
MyrttiI just find British elections highly confusing, too little to choose from11:11
brobostigonthree big parties, a splattering of independents, and then a few tiny parties like, monster raving loony.11:12
mungbeanand the whip ensures MPs generally toe the line even if they disagree11:13
MooDoobrobostigon: yes I finish at 5:30 so i'll be ok11:13
brobostigonMooDoo: thats why, i have noticed, there are tons of independents.11:13
brobostigonMooDoo: yes, :)11:13
brobostigonmungbean: thats why, i have noticed, there are tons of independents.11:13
brobostigonsorry tab fail, on the first one,11:13
MooDoomy friend is trying to be elected.11:14
brobostigongood luck to him.11:14
mungbeanunless he's a jerk , then .. :P11:14
mungbeanan independent or party drone MooDoo ?11:15
brobostigonmonster raving loony candidate?11:15
MooDoomungbean: conservative11:20
brobostigonmore luck needed, that being the case.11:20
* brobostigon shakes his fist, at unannounced silent calls and not so silent calls, 11:44
brobostigonalso arent they distinctly illegal, unless you have a preior relationship with said company, ?11:47
mungbeanTalktalk got done for doing it to their own cystomers12:49
brobostigonyes, i heard about that, they got fined twice, if i remember.12:50
mungbeanredhat's logo is called shadowman. i find that creepy12:51
BigRedSit's certainly not as happy-clappy as "circle of friends"13:31
amayerhave there been any updates to 13.04 since it was released?14:05
andylockranWell my #nexus4 arriced today14:07
brobostigon:)14:07
diddledan__flashed it with ubuntu touch yet?14:09
diddledan__:-p14:10
brobostigonlol, i just checked my long-not-updated blog, brobostigon.wordpress.com which i havent updated in atleast a year, and this year 28 people have looked at it, amazing.14:16
diddledan__28 real people?!14:16
brobostigonseems so.14:16
diddledan__you're more popular than me.. I don't think I even know that many people :-p14:17
jussiandylockran: as did mine!14:17
brobostigoni last updated it on 27/03/2011, so over two years. not one.14:17
diddledan__I dread to think how long I've let my site dwindle14:18
diddledan__although I did add a couple of password-protected portfolio items yesterday - first time I've looked at the site in ages14:19
AlanBellbug 1131646 is very annoying14:55
lubotu3bug 1131646 in Unity "alt-tab: cursor keys to navigate switcher are counter-intuitive" [Undecided,Incomplete] https://launchpad.net/bugs/113164614:55
diddledan__sorry about the noise15:06
diddledan__was trying to work out emacs and erc. I decided that emacs keybindings are evil15:07
diploGuys, easiest way to check a web hosting company has an outgoing port blocked ?15:07
BigRedSAlanBell: yeah, the alt-tab thing isn't quite insane any more, but it's still fairly broken15:07
diplotelnet to the ip / port of the service you are trying to connect to ?15:07
diploMine is SOAP related, running on 873315:07
BigRedSyeah, and also from a host where you know it's open, to demonstrate that it's not the remote host blocking it15:08
diplook yeah tried that15:12
diplota15:12
AlanBellBigRedS: yeah, it is almost back to as good as it was when it was a window switcher15:13
BigRedSI can't think of a way for a nonprivileged user to determine where the block happens15:13
BigRedSAlanBell: but I still frequently alt-tab to the desktop by mistake15:14
AlanBellI am annoyed that the gnome-shell implementation of the same thing feels much more logical15:14
BigRedSGenerally, gnome-shell seems to be done better than unity15:14
BigRedSespecially when it's not running in Ubuntu15:14
ali1234bug 117405415:14
AlanBellup and down cursors actually do the same kind of thing, but they *look* like they are going to do it15:14
lubotu3bug 1174054 in unity (Ubuntu) ""Always on top" breaks spread/expose" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/117405415:14
BigRedSyeah, I can't remember what the unity one looks like now, but the gnome one made instant sense to me15:15
czajkowski BigRedS any idea where else we should promote http://hackntalkjune.eventbrite.com/ to ?15:16
czajkowskihate spamming lists15:16
AlanBellunity displays the window thumbnails in a 2d collection for the app concerned, but you can't navigate up and down, just left and right, and you can't start by going right15:16
czajkowskibut be nice to let others know about it15:16
AlanBellhttp://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/screenshots/alttab.png15:19
AlanBelllooks like that15:19
BigRedSczajkowski: gllug? Not sure otherwise. I'll mention it at nerdy events I find myself at15:23
BigRedSThough that sort-of requires that I pull my finger out and start going to more of them15:23
BigRedSgllug's probably quiet enough that they'd appreciate the traffic :)15:23
czajkowskiBigRedS: yu on the list15:24
BigRedSyeah, if you're not I'm happy to post to it15:26
BigRedSI don't think I've mailed it this decade, though :)15:26
czajkowskiBigRedS: yes that would be great please15:27
czajkowskithank you15:27
czajkowskimight let you off giving a talk now :p15:28
BigRedShaha, I don't do interesting things, I've nothing to talk about :)15:28
BigRedSHave you mailed any other lists? I just tried to plagiarise your ubuntu-uk post but there doesn't seem to be one15:29
BigRedSYou've not even blogged yet! Tsk tsk. http://hackntalk.org/ :)15:30
mungbeananyone on centos6 can give me a centos extras repo file please?15:37
MooDoomungbean: hang on15:39
MooDoomungbean: damn where is it?15:41
neuro /etc/yum/yaddayadda?15:41
MooDoomungbean: only got these in yum.repos.d CentOS-Base.repo       CentOS-Media.repo  epel.repo15:43
MooDooCentOS-Debuginfo.repo  CentOS-Vault.repo  epel-testing.repo15:43
neuromungbean: this what you're after? https://gist.github.com/evilneuro/550312915:44
MooDoolol just pasted him that :)15:44
neurohaha15:44
MooDoothats for 5 though not 6 :)15:44
neuroyeah, i only have immediate access to 5.9 hosts15:45
MooDoonot that there is much difference15:45
neuro(hosts that i'm trying desperately to burn off the face off the earth and replace with 12.04.2)15:45
MooDoolol15:45
BigRedSneuro: haha, we're going the other way15:45
neuroshame :)15:46
BigRedSwell, 10.10 to 6.x15:46
neuroooh, github are doing drinkies in edinburgh next friday15:46
mungbeananyone have issues rebooting new poweredge servers running linux?15:56
mungbeangets stuck at blank screen when you would expect clean shutdown and POST15:57
mungbeanR81515:57
popeymorning16:19
diddledan__allo popey16:19
diddledan__ooh don't I sound the cockney geezer with my "allo"?!16:19
diddledan__no offence intended to real cockneys, obviously16:20
diddledan__bbl, going home16:35
davmor2morning popey how is SF?16:48
popeywarm16:49
diddledan_and back17:19
Laney<._.>17:19
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popey /8917:55
popeybah!17:55
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DJonesHas anybody come across an app appearing in the unity bar with a ? as the icon, hovering over the icon gives it the name "exe", right clicking shows a blank top line with lock to launcher & quit below it.  Running Top and clicking on the icon doesn't appear to do anything, nothing unusual jumps to the top of running apps, can't quit/close it down18:45
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dwatkinsDJones: perhaps it's a storage device?19:01
DJonesdwatkins: I can't see that, I haven't plugged any devices in19:02
dwatkinshmm, no idea then19:02
shaunoseems the installer and the booted system enumerate my eth0/1 ports back to front.  is that normal?19:22
dwatkinsperhaps the drivers loaded in the opposite order19:36
shaunoshould be the same driver, they're identical (onboard)19:39
shaunojust trying to figure out the logic because it has my slightly worried that they might renumber after a reboot19:44
redtapeOT | Not sure if anyone's mentioned it , but it looks as though Ubuntu TV is now an unknown "wildcard" according to Mark .. @4:30 in the vidz [ http://bit.ly/1336VKw ] Note this has been shared over 25 times already, off UWNewsletter .. the 'baggs' are signs to me that the teams are in overdrive as far as getting it to manufacturers. Wonder if they will  "make a baggs of it". out.20:20
popey"baggs"?20:28
mungbeanconfused20:33
mungbeanwhat the heck is wrong with iplayer. its a lottery whether you will get the programme you want20:34
diddledandoesn't that sum up british telly in general? :-p20:35
popeyworked for me last night when i grabbed doctor who20:35
diddledaneven if the programme is the same as advertised, it probably isn't what you "wanted" it to be20:35
mungbeanman lab only showing 1 episode20:36
mungbeanstuff used to be around for weeks20:36
diddledangrr man20:36
mungbeanand its episode 120:36
mungbeanep5 was on last week20:36
mungbeani videod ep1 and it had the man making faces in the corner20:36
popeyI see 5 of them20:37
mungbeanlink pls?20:37
mungbeani see "watch now" 24 minutes left20:37
popeyno, in get_iplayer20:37
diddledanthat man in the corner is in quite a lot of demand - he seems to be on everything that's shown late at night. I donno how he remembers his lines for so many different shows20:37
mungbeancheck get_20:38
popey\o/ Nexus 4 arrived20:39
mungbeanpopey , i see 1 in get_iplayer?20:39
diddledanwoot20:39
Laney*smash*20:39
mungbeanwhic ids?20:39
popeyhah20:39
diddledanpopey, did you flash it with fondle-buntu, yet? :-p20:40
popeyits downloading episode 1 now20:40
popeydiddledan: doing it now20:40
diddledan\o/20:40
shaunointeresting, get_iplayer is also showing me only ep1 of 'man lab'20:40
mungbeanpopey is on drugs?20:41
shaunoyou're probably stil crazy, but at least it isn't solitary confinement20:41
popey-rw-rw-r--  1 alan alan 7.4M May  2 21:39 James_Mays_Man_Lab_Series_3_-_Episode_1_b01rmhlc_default.partial.mp4.flv20:41
popeyon its way20:41
mungbeanep1 is the only one i can see20:41
diddledanI suppose I'm gonna have to go hunt down get_iplayer now to tesst myself?!20:42
mungbean< popey> I see 5 of them20:42
diddledanoh how friendly, it's in the repos20:42
mungbeanfor a while iplayer was the equivalnet of "i'll photoshop it later"20:43
mungbeanif you forgot to record a programme20:43
mungbeanbut now its useless20:43
mungbeanep5 FIRST BROADCAST: 25 Apr 201320:43
shaunoit might actually be the data coming out of the beeb that's at fault20:44
shaunohttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0105yvp   says latest episode is series 3, ep120:44
mungbeani think ep1 was repeated so is available again20:44
diddledanI see 5 eps20:44
mungbeanwhat is this witchcraft?20:44
mungbeanwhat search term?20:44
diddledan$ get-iplayer "man lab"20:45
mungbean:(20:45
mungbeangonna try from my work pc20:45
shaunohttp://paste.ubuntu.com/5627162/20:45
mungbeanhey!!!20:46
mungbean5 eps from my work machine20:46
popeyget_iplayer caches20:46
shaunodifferent versions if get_iplayer?20:46
mungbeansame ver20:46
diddledanhttp://paste.ubuntu.com/5627165/ I'm running 2.82, shauno you're running 2.66 - might be a potential reason20:47
shaunoyeah, this machine is on LTS20:47
mungbeani'm on 2.82 on both20:47
shaunoI don't do anything exciting with something I can't walk to :)20:48
diddledanvps?20:48
shaunoyup20:48
shaunoremoved ~/.get_iplayer/*cache, same result20:49
mungbeanWARNING: No programmes are available for this pid with version(s): default (audiodescribed are available)20:49
mungbeancannot download it?20:50
popeyright, so it downloaded the first one but wont download any more20:50
mungbeanscummers20:50
diddledanI can't download any of them, not even the first one20:51
mungbeannor me anymore20:51
popey-rw-rw-r--  1 alan alan 338M May  2 21:48 James_Mays_Man_Lab_Series_3_-_Episode_1_b01rmhlc_default.mp420:51
popeyjust finished20:51
popeyget_iplayer -g "man lab"  --vmode=flashhd,flashvhigh,flashhigh20:51
mungbeanwhich command please popey20:51
popeythats what I did20:51
mungbeanWARNING: No programmes are available for this pid20:52
mungbeani think the timer on ep1 was running down and about to expire20:52
mungbeanlooks like just did20:52
mungbeanits on youtube , panic over20:53
dwatkinsUnder Jobs, Ive worked as the head of product design.20:53
mungbeanthanks for confirming that bbc are scummers20:53
mungbeani only had an hour before the next feed and spent 20 mins fannying20:54
diddledanbetter that than the reverse :-p20:54
mungbeannow i've got all your attention - a poweredge server refuses to reboot without the finger - centos6.420:56
mungbeanany idea?20:56
mungbeanbios version up to speed20:57
diddledan..|..20:57
diddledan"unscrew the cap and push off"20:58
mungbeaneveryones gone quiet as they are now watching manlab21:02
mungbeani notice they follow the mythbusters format of "lets see how we get on later in the show"21:04
diddledantime for bed21:17
dwatkins"Here's one I prepared earlier"21:19
shaunowell, that was possibly the most disgusting command I've ever run.  for each .deb in /var/cache/apt/archives, apt-get --purge -y ${file/_*/}21:19
mungbeaneww21:20
bigcalmEvening peeps :)21:20
mungbeanstill waiting for system snapshots due to btfrs21:20
shaunothat would come in quite handy right now21:21
mungbeanhaving a punchable face (ie. nigel farage) surely can't help in politics21:21
dwatkinsnext time I install an OS, it'll just be cirtual, so I can use snapshots21:22
dwatkins*virtual21:22
shaunothat's what I'm aiming for.  but this is the box that's to host them21:23
shaunodespite afore-mentioned hosing.  it'll get a clean slate once I've figured out why the setup I built in a VM isn't working in hardware21:23
mungbeanhttps://www.suse.com/communities/conversations/introduction-system-rollbacks-btrfs-and-snapper-sles-11-sp2/21:24
shaunothis openstack stuff is still confusing the life out of me, but it looks like our best bet until vmware stop demanding windows for all their management tools21:24
mungbeanvmware are making progress21:25
mungbeansooner or later vsphere will be a virtual appliance without need for win client21:26
directhexdwatkins, you can do snapshots without it being virtual, e.g. with lvm21:29
shaunowell that's notable.  if your preseed wants to set a mysql password, and you have a pre-existing db on disk, it just stops dead.  ^C didn't break either.  had to ssh in and kill mysqld21:30
dwatkinsdirecthex: neat, thanks21:34
mungbeani'll always be grateful to reddit for the one piece of advice that changed my life21:36
dwatkinswhat's that, mungbean?21:36
directhexdon't eat yellow snow21:36
mungbeanif you have a meeting at 11am and you look at your watch..10.5621:36
mungbeanbut you feel a poo coming on21:36
mungbeanyou sit down and need a speed poo21:36
mungbeanrock 3 forward times so your head goes down to knee level21:37
mungbeanyou'll make that 11:00 meeting21:37
mungbeanand few pounds lighter21:37
mungbeanrepeat if necessary, but 3 rocks usually helps21:38
mungbeanlol @ manlab using cats with webcams to detect burglars21:39
dwatkinswebcams fitted to cats?21:43
mungbeancameras21:43
mungbeansorry not webcams21:43
mungbeancaught james anyway21:44
shaunocatburglaralarms do seem like the logical response to catburglars21:44
mungbeanS03E0221:44
shaunohm, now the installer is hating me.  I think I may give up for tonight21:46
dwatkinsthanks mungbean, I will look it up after it's finished22:07
mungbeanthis guy on the news pays 900pm on an interest only mortgage?22:20
directhexthat's a lot22:20
directhexi pay 750 on capital repayment. down from 1050 last year22:20
mungbeanhe sounbds like a victim(has £6 in savinds), but it was his choice22:21
mungbeangonna have to get smaller house then22:22
dwatkinsI had six quid in savings once, then I bought a house...22:24
mungbean6% interest on 189k22:24
mungbeanon the plus side, if he lost the house he wouldnt lose capitak22:25
mungbeanjust would be like renting for those years22:25
dwatkinsyeah, I never saw the point of interest-only, unless you're renting the place out22:26
mungbeanunless you are expectinh inheritance in 15yrs22:26
popeyour mortage is ~1K too. somewhat painful.22:28
dwatkinsconsidering the current research being done on mice, I'm half expecting my parents to be immortal.22:28
dwatkinsI have a fairly small flat on the 3rd floor, but that's offset by being close to the centre of Edinburgh, so I'm paying about three quarters of that.22:29
mungbeanpopey: capital too right?22:30
* dwatkins assumes popey has more than 2 bedrooms22:32
popey322:44
popeySam has the really small room tho22:45
shaunookay, now I can go to sleep a happy chappy .. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23042/Screen%20Shot%202013-05-02%20at%2023.59.02.png23:05
daftykinswhat on earth be they 0o23:07
shaunoit's finally bringing nodes up without complaining about anything.  given the time, that's all I'm going to ask for tonight :)23:08
daftykinswhat's the eventual aim?23:08
shaunobeing able to bring up & tear down labs from a nice simplified UI so I don't have to be involved23:09
daftykinsooh23:09
daftykinssounds useful for education23:09
daftykinsat least, at a high level anyway23:09
shaunothe next fun bit will be turning out 'appliance' into something I can use.  it's usually deployed on vmware23:10
daftykins=]23:11
shaunobut because it's meant to be the controller for the management lan, it's difficult to have multiple versions living side by side.  they bicker like children23:11
daftykinsah yes23:12
daftykinsi recall a lab at my Uni, where they hadn't filtered traffic between a teaching lab with custom installs vs. some sun workstations23:12
shaunoso the idea is to be able to replicate various setups by just ticking which versions of which applications they want on the network, and it'll go off and build it23:12
daftykinsplaying with SNMP or some-such, the students in the lab had accidentally instructed the sun gear to switch themselves all off, having considered themselves 'subordinate' somehow23:13
daftykinsah nice :D sounds fun23:13
daftykinsis it in education at all, or?23:13
shaunoyeah, we have a similar problem with this beastie.  if it's plugged into the wrong network, it'll go looking for various devices with default credentials, and assume ownership of them23:13
daftykinshehehe23:14
daftykinsi love it when tech appears almost alive23:14
shaunoand since said devices are our products, there's quite a few of them laying around the network23:14
shaunonot educational so much, more being able to troubleshoot our own products by recreating the scenario so we can see what actually happens23:15
daftykinsah yeah23:15
daftykinsvirt is great for that i'd imagine23:15
daftykinsi use virt a lot for testing installs, software configs, etc.23:16
shaunoI'm not sure it's ideal, but it's a whole lot easier to make happen, than requesting various bits of hardware that just never seem to arrive23:16
daftykinsyep, just put together a box with plenty of RAM and fast storage and weeeee23:17
daftykinsis it a pretty serious piece of kit you're cranking out those little systems on, or are they quite simply spec'd?23:17
shaunoit's a previous-generation server.  so nothing impressive, but more than sufficient23:18
shaunoI'll be happier once I manage to beg/borrow/steal some more ram, but 15k disks & two xeons is way more than we need23:19
daftykins:)23:20

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