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brobostigongood morning everyone,07:22
diploMorning all07:31
brobostigonmorning diplo07:31
diplomorning brobostigon07:38
MooDoomorning all07:55
brobostigonmorning MooDoo07:58
MartijnVdS\o08:46
JamesTaitGood morning all! :)08:55
MyrttiAscension day today :-P public holiday in Finland08:56
DJonesNo public holiday here for it, unusually, we haven't got a Church service, there's normally something arrange08:59
MartijnVdSMyrtti: same in .nl09:05
MartijnVdSthough I wonder why.. nobody even goes to church anymore09:05
mungbeannobody?09:06
Myrttimy hometown is in big trouble because the church is way oversized for the current congregation apart from confirmation Sundays09:07
Myrttiwhen a lot of relatives of the kids attend09:07
mungbeani know many churches with year on year doubling of numbers09:07
mungbean>1000 ppls etc09:07
MartijnVdSWe don't have that in .nl09:08
MartijnVdSOnly declining numbers09:08
mungbeanwell there is a trend of late that only christians are attending church09:08
Myrttinumbers have been going down ever since you could resign the church officially easier too09:08
mungbeanas opposed to culture dictating church attendance09:09
MooDoolots of church number are dwindling, people just don't need it any more09:09
JamesTaitSeveral months ago we had a visit from a friendly old man, who turned out to be a Jehova's Witness.  I humoured him for a while and thought that would be the end of it.  Now he visits every week, around Wednesday lunchtime, and I make my excuses and leave my wife to chat with him.09:09
mungbeanso we are just seeing truer numbers09:09
JamesTaitSo we don't go to church, the church comes to us.09:09
mungbeanexcept they are a cult09:09
MartijnVdSJamesTait: draw (in blood) a pentagram on the door, and open it naked09:09
MartijnVdSJamesTait: then shout back into the house "Honey, LUNCH just arrived!"09:09
MartijnVdSJamesTait: see if he ever returns :)09:09
directhexthere is a strong correlation between belief in a deity, and national education standards09:10
directhexthe US is a huge outlier there, for having okay education but high levels of religiousness09:10
MartijnVdSdirecthex: lack of belief, I guess?09:10
DJonesI wouldn't say it was commonplace in the uk, there aren't significant numbers of new young families/people starting to attend, its normally older people who are regulars and as they get older, the number of regulars declines due to age09:10
JamesTaitI told him quite plainly the first time he called that I don't believe in a creator.  I think he thinks because I haven't told him to get lost, he can convert me.09:10
mungbeandirecthex: also the poor/rich have different levels of belief. beware of attributing causation where there is only correlation09:10
directhexMartijnVdS, negative correlation is still a correlation09:11
MartijnVdSdirecthex: sure09:11
directhexmungbean, and the poor/rich have different levels of education, especially in "poor" countries!09:11
directhexmungbean, also, i carefully said "correlation" not "causation"09:11
mungbeanyes09:11
MooDoodirecthex: did I read that right as in if you believe you have a better education?  sorry got a bit of a headache so not thinking straight09:12
* mungbean has a first class science degree09:12
MartijnVdSMooDoo: no that's the "negative correlation" bit09:12
directhexMooDoo, countries where people are well educated usually have fewer people who attend religious service than countries where people are poorly educated (and/or poor)09:12
directhexwith the usa as an exception to that09:13
MooDoopeople are realising you don't actually need to be religious to get on in life09:13
mungbeanwell God isn't an ATM09:13
mungbeanexcept in africa, then pastors tend to preach wealth and prosperity ...09:14
popeyIndeed. ATMs exist.09:14
MooDoo+1 popey09:14
popeyhttp://www.theverge.com/2013/5/9/4314844/nokia-asha-501-new-platform-launch interesting09:14
MartijnVdSpopey: I'm going to need proof of that09:14
mungbeanlost an hour of my morning as i foolishly booted into windows yesterday to use vmware09:15
* popey points at his bank statement from the past.. surely you believe this written proof from the prophets of "Santander"!?09:15
mungbeanthen ...installing 50 of 7209:15
MooDoovmware o/09:15
popeyeww09:15
MartijnVdSpopey: All bow to Saint Ander! :)09:15
popey09:15
MooDoomungbean: that's the only reason I have a partition on my laptop for windows and vmware09:18
mungbeanyes, ubuntu and vsphere OS09:19
mungbeani prefer that to using VMs but today it bites me09:19
mungbeanhas anyone seen instances of snapshotting a VM causes processes inside the vm to crash?09:19
MooDoomungbean: well i'm using esxi 3.5 but the client is only for windows09:20
MartijnVdShttp://resme.me/3ub21d.jpg09:20
MooDoohaving a good day then MartijnVdS :)09:21
MartijnVdSMooDoo: you know it! ;)09:21
MartijnVdSWas anyone outside last night? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-2246071609:23
diploI was, but didn't see it :)09:27
MooDooI didn't even know about it :(09:29
MartijnVdSMooDoo: nobody did until it happened :)09:34
mungbeanlol09:35
mungbeani was up till gone 4am09:35
mungbeannot outside though09:36
mungbeannot sure why it made the news09:36
mungbeandoesn't it happen a lot?09:36
diploQuite a bit, but not as noticable I guess as that09:37
mungbeani wonder where it landed09:37
popeypeople were tweeting about it last night09:39
WobboI would like to install the NVidia because the open source replacement is not going well at Asus eee1215N. Only the old way you could install this software no longer exists? In addition, my Wifi is also not good, this is an old problem. This problem is only for when you use the closed / commercial source. Alth very surprising that Ubuntu does as anti closed / commercial source. Can anyone help me?10:04
bigcalmMornin' all10:06
MartijnVdSWobbo: what's "the old way"?10:06
MartijnVdSWobbo: there has been one "proper" way for years now10:06
MartijnVdSWobbo: (and that's through jockey(-gtk))10:06
MartijnVdSWobbo: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia10:07
WobboOld way is 12.04 and 12.10.10:07
WobboSorry10:07
MartijnVdSWobbo: it's still the same in 13.0410:07
WobboYes and no,10:09
WobboAt first, the standard was not closed / commercial source but now.10:15
popeyeh?10:16
WobboSo 13.04 is using the closedsource version for my Wi-fi instead of the opensource version.10:23
popeydepends on your wifi card10:24
popeyvery little changed in terms of what drivers get used between 12.04, 12.10 and 13.0410:24
popeyit's mostly just "newer stuff" in the newer releases10:25
WobboHow to uninstall the current closedsource software Wi-Fi10:27
popeydepens on your wireless card. what make/model is it?10:27
WobboAnd how to install NV?10:27
popeynv isn't maintained anymore10:27
popeynouveau (open source) or nvidia (closed) are10:28
MooDooi just used the closed source drivers for nvidia from the additional drivers section of the software sources :D10:30
diddledanbrb, switching machines10:32
WobboThanks10:33
SuperMatthttp://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/05/08/235237/did-the-queen-just-resurrect-the-snoopers-charter <- more reasons to ignore slashdot - they don't actually know anything about The Queen. TBH though, I struggle to find a news site that is at least as fully featured, without the idiocy10:47
SuperMattit's the daily mail or tech10:47
SuperMatt*of10:47
BigRedSI tried HN for a bit, but that's even more fanboisim and even less news... :(10:48
MartijnVdSarstechnica is OK10:48
mgdmHN is OK if you only look at the links10:49
mgdmDo *not* read the comments10:49
BigRedShaha10:49
popeyBigRedS: out of interested (wrt your comment on czajkowski's G+ post) where did you hear lament of Ubuntu server? Was it in an ubuntu channel or outside our "space"?10:49
mgdm(which is good advice for much of the internet)10:49
* popey tickles mgdm with a spreadsheet :010:49
popey10:49
SuperMattfor instance, when the new packaging system was announced to be in development, the readers all jumped up and down and said "why are you ditching apt?" without reading that apt wouldn't be ditched10:49
mgdmpopey: I gave it a go to discover it was dead :-) left it charging overnight, will do it at lunch10:50
SuperMattmgdm: HN?10:50
mgdmSuperMatt: Hacker News - news.ycombinator.com10:50
popeybooo10:50
SuperMattah right10:50
BigRedSpopey: it's the common grumble at work currently. I think we hit a couple of daft bugs and the assumption is that this si because attention's switched away from the server and towards desktops10:50
popeyyeah, i use hn now and then10:50
SuperMattI've noticed that ars has been getting a little traction recently, I might start peeking at that more and mroe10:50
popeyBigRedS: difficult given separate teams work on each really10:50
BigRedSwe're also institutionally afraid of The Cloud, so that's all sort-of viewed as a bit of a distraction from 'proper' servers10:51
BigRedSyeah, I found it hard to imagine anyone being pulled off the server and given work on a DE...10:51
mgdmI've come around to the mindset that all my machines are disposable10:51
mgdmdoubt I'll ever deploy something on bare metal again10:51
mgdm"that's not working? kill it, rebuild it"10:51
BigRedSmgdm: yeah, that's one of the benefits I've been trying to impress upon the people who make decisions here10:52
mgdmmy dev server is a Vagrant box built with Puppet, too10:53
mgdmso if it breaks it's dead easy to start again10:53
popeyBigRedS: have you seen the "please dont call it cloud" thread on the debian list?11:00
Laneyrms ♥11:01
MartijnVdSpopey: link? :)11:01
popeyhah11:02
popeyhttp://lists.debian.org/debian-cloud/2013/04/msg00032.html11:03
popeyit's a big thread11:03
directhexi am tempted to reply to that thread with a link to a chromium extension i use, which replaces all in-text instances of "the cloud" with "my butt"11:05
MartijnVdSdirecthex: does it also do this: http://xkcd.com/37/11:05
directhex"I agree with Richard and would like to add that having a philosophy about "my butt" may be futile"11:05
mgdmThat ext caused hilarity recently when someone I know did a talk at ac onf called 'Keeping the cloud in check', which he kept on getting told was obscene11:06
mgdmturned out the guy who thought it was obscene had that extension and forgot about it11:06
BigRedSpopey: ooh, no, I've been ignoring debian-users for a while now...11:06
BigRedSpopey: A few paragraphs in, that could be written by one of the directors here :(11:07
BigRedSOh. RMS.11:07
MartijnVdSroot mean square?11:08
directhex"I believe it is really important that you understand it fully, so that you can discuss "freedom in my butt" in general"11:09
* brobostigon points at his mouth, and says, insert coffee here please. :)11:12
MooDoobrobostigon: just drinking mine now.....11:15
MooDoo:p11:15
MartijnVdSbah, coffee11:15
* MartijnVdS makes some more tea11:15
brobostigonyummy, yes please.11:15
* brobostigon makes some coffee11:15
directhexjesus christ RMS is a moron. he is utterly incapable of comprehending any computing concept from post-198011:19
* brobostigon slurps, :)11:20
mgdmdoes he still use that toy computer because it's the only thing in the world with open firmware?11:20
diddledanpopcorn time?11:20
mgdmI wonder if he thinks that the hardware is entirely innocent :-)11:20
MartijnVdSmgdm: he doesn't care about closed hardware.. as long as he has enough specs to write the software11:20
MartijnVdSmgdm: also.. his "free software" ideals don't extend to documents in "human" languages11:21
mgdmso the hardware could be backdoored from here to the moon and he'd not care :-)11:21
MartijnVdSso documentation? out.11:21
Myrttiyay new keyboard11:24
brobostigon:)11:26
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mungbeanusing rhn, how can i define that a server uses 6.2 release only and not 6.x (yum upgrade will update it to 6.4)12:52
* popey blinks12:54
mungbeani could ask in redhat but they aren't as friendly o_012:55
JamesTaitmungbean, you're not asking Ubuntu questions in there are you? That might explain it. :-P12:57
mungbean:P12:58
diplocentos channel is awful12:58
mungbeannah just relationship advice12:58
diploHow about setting in the repo files to release=5.5&arch=x86&repo=os ?13:00
diploWhen using vault.centos.org you have to manually set the version you're using13:00
diploGood example maybe, not found an offical resource yet though13:01
diplohttp://linuximagination.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/upgrading-centos-54-to-55not-latest.html13:01
brobostigonwow 25mph SW wind,13:08
awilkinsThe change to nautilus that means that typing starts a search, rather than selects an item in the current view, is really really annoying me, can it be configured to go back to the old way of doing it? (I presume so, I haven't noticed it on boxes I've upgraded to raring, just boxes that I've installed fresh)13:14
SuperMattawilkins: I'm not sure it can be. I've actually found that to be extremely useful as it seems to now be searching subfolders too. So now I just go in to my videos folder, type xx and it'll find the prons I want from a subdir13:16
awilkinsYeah, it sucks for me because I have a vast hierarchy of files and it really makes things chunder13:17
awilkinsWe're talking folders with 20,000 files nested in them13:17
diddledanthat's a lot of pron13:17
awilkins20,000 videos (of any kind ;-) ) would be too big for most hard drives13:17
awilkinsMostly source code13:18
mgdmsingle hard drives perhaps, RAID arrays no13:18
awilkinsI'll have to look for the option later, had not reflected that my upgraded machines aren't doing it but my new install is13:19
awilkinsIf it's one of these things where you have to enter cryptic dconf commands or edit an XML file I shall be vexed. Flippin' Gnome and their "Hide the useful stuff from people in case they use it"...13:20
popeyawilkins: i agree13:20
popeyi hate the new way nautilus works13:20
awilkinsNo in-pane tree expansion13:20
popey\o/ GNOME13:20
awilkinsStupid typing == search rather than navigation13:21
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bigcalmAlanBell: what was the script that you used that generated a pretty diagram of a website's bottle necks?15:25
christelBottled by Bell.15:26
christel(i made that up)15:26
mgdmthat sounds like a perfume15:26
bigcalmchristel: \o/15:26
christelhullu bigcalm!15:26
christelmgdm: would you wear it? :)15:26
mgdmI'd think about it, but then I'd probably bottle it15:27
christelhaha15:28
mgdmhow goes it, christel? Not seen you around these parts for a while15:31
christelit goes well! :)15:32
mgdm\o/15:32
czajkowskiBigRedS: you're brave to reply to that unusal thread :)15:50
AlanBellbigcalm: the thing that does this? http://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/callgraphs/contact.png15:52
bigcalmAlanBell: yes15:52
bigcalmAlanBell: I'm looking at webgrind, same thing?15:53
AlanBellxhprof15:53
bigcalmAlanBell: thanks15:54
AlanBellhttp://phpmaster.com/the-need-for-speed-profiling-with-xhprof-and-xhgui/15:54
BigRedSczajkowski: I was puzzled, it seemed a reasonable question :)15:54
czajkowskicould just back things up to the cloud for the most part15:56
bigcalmAlanBell: the page helps a lot, thanks again. Looks like I'll be tinkering with it later15:56
czajkowskiand if you are a technican of any sort you should have another HD15:56
czajkowskialternaitvely borrow one.15:56
czajkowskibut not sending the device back...15:56
bigcalmSo. How do people feel about dressing up for the RAT in September? :)15:56
czajkowskinegative :)15:56
bigcalmHaha15:56
czajkowskigonna be a fun night15:57
christeldressing up eh? :)15:57
czajkowskibunch of the LUG folks are coming also15:57
bigcalmCool15:57
bigcalmczajkowski: get them added to http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-uk/2320-real-ale-train/?15:57
czajkowskithey won't :)15:58
bigcalmFair enough15:58
BigRedSczajkowski: I did nearly check how much free S3 you get, but then I realised that I wasn't that interested15:58
christeli shall add myself to that seeing how i have procured tickets a while bakc16:00
czajkowskitbh the replies to the service desk were rather rude tbh - they've offered to collect it and fix it, like anything though evne when I sent my machine back  you have to accomdate the request if you want your stuff fixed16:00
czajkowskichristel: w00p16:00
popeyUh-oh!16:13
popeyoverhearing the "christening" conversation going on in the kitchen16:13
mgdmYou're mishearing. THey're inviting christel round.16:15
MooDoochritstel is having a party and we're all invited? ;)16:15
christelfor christeling?16:15
mgdmyes!16:15
mgdmor something16:16
popeyhaha16:16
mgdmI can't quite hear popey's kitchen conversations from here16:16
bigcalmHehe16:16
christelmgdm: you're a rubbish spy!16:16
mgdmchristel: the mic is in a different ro*AHEM*16:17
bigcalmI want to report an issue that the issue tracker is sending duplicate emails. Except that will result in me getting duplicate emails16:18
czajkowskipopey: is that a bad conversation :)16:37
popeydepends16:38
popeyAzelphur: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/05/weve-got-a-butterfly-labs-bitcoin-miner-and-its-pretty-darn-fast/16:38
Azelphurfun16:39
popeyczajkowski: we came to an agreeable solution which is the kids will choose what they want when they're old enough16:41
czajkowskinods16:42
popeysam started asking about it today because one of his friends must have brought it up I guess16:42
czajkowskiI asuumed it wasn't about your kids16:42
popeyyeah, it is16:42
popeySam started asking more questions and whether he should be or not16:42
czajkowskiahh16:42
popeyi dont believe 6 is old enough to make the decision16:42
czajkowskino16:43
czajkowskinot really considering you only make your comunion when you're about 8 and that;s only just enough time to undersand it all, and 12 for confirmation16:43
neuroah communion and confirmation ...16:44
* neuro remembers them well16:44
neuroi bet ubuntubhoy does as well </enforce-stereotype> :)16:45
AlanBellanyone following the discussion about reinventing the package manager wheel?16:45
czajkowskihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPkByAkAdZs&feature=youtu.be <-- favourite add I keep rewatching16:45
AlanBellthe bit I don't get is the problem of apps overwiting their own code16:45
AlanBellwhy is that a terrible thing?16:45
neurobecause it's naughty?16:46
AlanBellwhy?16:46
neurobecause it is?16:46
neuroi basically have no argument here16:46
popeybecause you test something that says "I wont do naughty things"16:46
popeyand then it self modifies to do those naughty things16:46
neuropopey++16:46
neuropolymorphic code \o/16:47
popeyallows programs to self-update16:47
popeySee Facebook on android16:47
AlanBellhmm, so to avoid the problem of apps being able to overwite their own code we currently use sudo dpkg -i foo.deb , which allows the installation scripts of foo.deb to overwrite important stuff16:47
popeywell they cant now because they dont have rights16:47
neurobut is that downloading new support data within its sandbox, or is it modifying the apk?16:47
popeynot sure how fb does it, but it's "bad"16:48
jacobwDEBIAN/md5sums?16:48
popeysuch that google says so16:48
neurofacebook doing something "bad"? NOOOOOO!16:48
Azelphurpopey: you reminded me I needed to call BFL about mine, just did it :p16:48
AlanBellI can see that it isn't brilliant, however installing as root seems worse16:48
popeyAlanBell: but we curate those debs16:48
Azelphurthe guy on the phone sounds a bit lost lol16:48
popeythere's a difference16:48
Azelphurbut, apparently I'mma be one of the first to get one16:48
* neuro points at package signing too16:49
jacobwMaintainer scripts shouldn't change any files other than the package's conffiles16:49
popeywhen debs install the install scripts run as root, which is bad mmkay16:49
popeyyou don't want random fart apps to have root on your phone16:49
neuromaybe *you* don't16:49
popeyI don't. No.16:50
neurofart16:50
neuroyou now have the word 'fart' in my head, cheers16:50
neurofart16:50
jacobwI don't want to be the guy who let the app the bosses kid downloaded steal his credit card details16:50
mgdmit's OK, you won't need apps for that, now that the Onion have released fartscroll.js16:50
neuromgdm: faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaart?16:50
mgdmneuro: http://theonion.github.io/fartscroll.js/16:50
AlanBellyeah, I would rather that the install scripts run sandboxed16:50
mgdmneuro: make window small and scroll16:51
neurojacobw: apps that enable cc payments outwith the app's ecosystem should burn in hell16:51
neuromgdm: EPIC16:51
neurolove the comments too16:52
AlanBelljacobw: yeah, but maintainer scripts *can* do whatever they want16:52
AlanBellmaybe this new format won't have stuff in the bundle that gets executed16:52
AlanBellas part of the installation that is16:52
popeyexactly16:52
popeybasically it should contain a zip (or whatever) containing the app, and a manifest which tells apparmour what the app is allowed to do16:53
neuromgdm: actually the comments remind me of some random commit comments i've been making for the last couple of days16:53
mgdmheh16:53
mgdmneuro: http://whatthecommit.com/16:53
jacobwThey can, but Debian policy disallows maintainer scripts that change files from other packages or files in the package that aren't conffiles16:53
jacobwIt's a complete policy, it just doesn't accodomate for things like Webmin16:54
AlanBellindeed, so when installing a random .deb the first thing you do is give it root access to your system before you figure out what is in it16:54
AlanBellor you unzip it and read the scripts16:54
AlanBellor you get it from a trusted repository16:55
jacobwThat's true, but that's the point of the policy, you won't get a maintainer script that changes files it shouldn't from Debian16:55
neuromgdm: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13137/Screen%20Shot%202013-05-09%20at%2017.54.10.png16:55
ubuntubhoyneuro: which of my stereotypes ?16:56
AlanBellnom nom doggy noms http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Canonical-plans-dogfood-capable-phones-by-the-end-of-May-1859877.html16:56
mgdmneuro: ffs :P16:56
neuroubuntubhoy: i have (perhaps incorrectly) assumed that you were raised RC and thus subjected to communion and confirmation16:57
neuromgdm: ffs? :)16:57
mgdmneuro: crap commit messages do my head in :-)16:57
neurothe commit itself was relatively self explanatory16:57
neuroalso i'm really the only one using that repo16:57
mgdmmy 'favourite' one of late consisted of one line saying 'weird', while committing one useful change to a CSS file, a bunch of random reindenting to another CSS file, and a zero-byte a.out file16:58
mgdmPeople who git commit -am "weird" without doing a git diff first ought to be launched into the sun16:58
neuronice16:58
neuroyes, i agree16:58
ali1234i love how ever bzr project has thousands of commits called "temp commit" and similar16:59
neuro"Sorry, this commit history took too long to generate." Gee, thanks github16:59
mgdmI'm not fond of git merge commits either, but I can live with them I suppose16:59
ali1234github just went down btw16:59
ubuntubhoyneuro: nope - was raised without religion - Catholic dad & Jewish mother, went to a non-dom (Protestant) school, and lived in an area with a majority Asian population. To me all religion is bollocks16:59
neurolucky sod :)17:00
neurogood catch on non-dom ... at the high school I went to (the Gregory's Girl one), it always amused me we got carted off to the Kirk every easter, and you got funny looks if you wanted to stay behind17:01
neuroali1234: seems ok here, apart from not being able to look at a git repo's commit history17:01
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ubuntubhoyneuro: I think it's a Scottish disease though.17:02
neuroaye17:02
neuromy folks were pretty good about it but i was still going to chapel til i was 1817:02
neuro(altar boy, ha!)17:02
mgdmthe graphs on https://status.github.com/ do show a bit of a spike17:03
neurothen i made some Religious Life Choices17:03
neuroso yeah, popey, make em wait til they're 18 :17:03
neuro:)17:03
neuroblimeh17:03
neurospikage17:03
neuroi need to build something like that at my new gig17:04
popeyindeed, 16/18 or thereabouts sounds fair :D17:04
popeywhen they can do whatever they like and not actually ask me17:04
neuro"leave me aloooone!" :)17:04
ubuntubhoyat `117:05
popeyhopefully by then all religions will be eradicated and the world will be more enlightened anyway ㋛17:05
ubuntubhoyat 18 they only have one question17:05
mgdmneuro: I have an NFS server that the clients keep getting 'nfs: server 10.19.0.42 not responding, still trying' - any idea what resource on the server itself I need to increase?17:05
popeycan I have a car?17:05
ubuntubhoycan I get (insert expensive option here)17:05
neuroumm buffery things?17:05
popeysophie asked for an ipod touch for xmas17:05
ubuntubhoyhow old ?17:05
mgdmneuro: do you know the name for the buffery widget things?17:05
popey917:06
ubuntubhoylol17:06
popeybunch of her friends have them17:06
mgdm(also buffery is something you don't want to typo)17:06
popeythey're very popular amongst that age group17:06
popeya few have ipads17:06
ubuntubhoypopular in every age group17:06
popeywell, yes ☻17:06
neuromgdm: http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/ar01s05.html maybe?17:06
ubuntubhoymy youngest two bought their own iPod touches with birthday/xmas money and savings17:06
neurobuy her one and lock it down?17:06
popeyyeah, I dont mind if they buy their own17:07
neurowith your own apple id17:07
popeybut I'm not buying one for them17:07
popeytoo expensive17:07
neuroor ok, don't :)17:07
ubuntubhoywe limit xmas & B'day pressies17:07
popeythey both have ipods already17:07
ubuntubhoysame amount on all four17:08
ubuntubhoynever anything mental17:08
neuroyeah but ipods don't do "stuff"17:08
mgdmneuro: I've added more instances of the nfsd. Might prod t'other ones eventually. Dont' want to break it, clearly :)17:08
neurototally17:08
* neuro is going to be looking at glusterfs soonish17:08
popeyyou have four kids ubuntubhoy ?17:09
neuroand tossing out oracle mysql in favour of percona17:09
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mgdmI'm looking at either percona or perhaps mariadb17:09
neuromaria is allegedly not as compatible as percona17:09
mgdmo rly?17:09
mgdmdidn't hear that17:09
neuroallegedly17:09
mgdmwe'd be doing a 5.1 -> something newer migration anyway17:09
neurobut it can do funky stuff like multi-master plus slaves which apparently mysql and percona can't do17:09
mgdmhmmm17:10
* neuro is looking at a multiple 5.1+5.5 migration :P17:10
mgdmwe just do normal master/slave tuff17:10
neuroit's going to be a paaaaaaain17:10
mgdmour infra is not that tricky in the grand scheme of things17:10
neuroi'm leaning towards master+slave as it gives bigger DR options, so we can chuck a slave in ap-southeast-foo or us-west-foo17:10
ubuntubhoypopey: yeah 12, 14, 21 and 2317:11
bigcalmGetting a little unhappy on the ml today :S17:11
neurobut multi-master sounds ossm17:11
neuroperfOOOOOrmance!17:11
mgdmpercona are cool of only because of xtrabackup17:11
neuro^ this17:11
neurobut as a co they are frickin amazing17:12
neurothey helped us loads at linden lab17:12
mgdmI've met a couple of blokes from them at various conferences - they do know their stuff17:12
neurothey Know Stuff17:12
neuroha17:12
popeymeh @ list17:12
popeyLiam is right IMO17:12
neurowhich list, uk?17:12
bigcalmHai17:13
bigcalmI mean yes17:13
neuropopey: just caught up, i agree17:20
neuroif you're not backing up business critical data, especially from a laptop, you're mad17:20
* neuro has rsnapshot and time machine running everywhere, saves so much hassle17:21
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bigcalm2 x 2TB discs should be here on Monday to replace current backup drives. Do I go with 4TB of space or 2TB RAID1 like the other 2 drives in the server?17:26
bigcalmThe latter means I need to remember how to set-up the raid again :)17:26
jpdsbigcalm: RAID5.17:27
jpdsActually, probably a bad idea on disks that size.17:27
popey\o/ btrfs17:27
neuro:)17:27
bigcalmTea time!17:27
* bigcalm slithers awau17:27
bigcalmaway17:27
neuroi only use raid1 when i absolutely positively need some form of data security17:27
neuroraid5 for everything else17:27
neuroraid0 is deadly17:27
neuroimho17:27
neurobeen burned by it before17:28
neuronever again17:28
popeyHappy Birthday Daviey !19:10
CyberJacobevening all19:40
mungbeanhowdy19:41
CyberJacobIs anybody else getting 'moderated list' messages for the ubuntu-uk mailing list?19:41
popeyCyberJacob: are you subscribed?19:42
CyberJacobyup19:42
CyberJacobAnd I replied from the same address I'm subscribed with19:43
popeystrange19:43
CyberJacobI've replied from the wrong address before, and I think the message just got blocked19:43
popeyyour address is set to moderation19:43
CyberJacobok, any idea why?19:44
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popeynope ☻19:45
popeyhave undone it19:46
CyberJacobthanks :)19:46
mungbean10.04 ends today? argh19:50
mungbeanmy desktop at work runs it19:52
popeyreally windy out19:55
popeyyes19:55
mungbeanyes, its like october19:57
jacobwThat's an odd description20:07
mungbeanwind & rain20:12
mungbeanwatching hoarders prog. feeling convicted20:12
mungbeantoo much stuff , too small house20:13
popeyi love those hoarders programmes20:18
popeywhat channel is it on?20:18
mungbeanbbc1, not as good as "the hoarder next door"20:20
mungbeanthis one is britains biggest hoarders20:21
mungbeanjust been scoffing my face after watching secret eaters20:21
mungbeanhoping to get to sleep before 4am toinght20:21
mungbeanpoorly child20:21
mungbeananyone used http://project-redcap.org/ before?20:24
mungbeanthis bbc version is more about bag ladies and mad ppl20:39
popey\o/20:42
popeyMr Trebus20:42
Stuz719\part20:47
shaunooddly enough, I don't think I've ever seen a nerd on any of these 'hoarder' shows21:09
mungbeanlast week was a guy with old pcs and car parts21:10
mungbeanbut not a usual geek because extreme behaviour is a bit of an ollness21:10
mgdmI know several people that could be ;-)21:10
mungbeani had >10pcs before i got married21:11
mungbeanmsinly due to office clearance21:11
mungbeani gave them to ppl21:11
maktEvening all :)21:11
mungbeanlast week i threw away some amiga memory and ps/2 kb/mice21:13
mungbeanand loads of ram21:14
popeyi know someone who is a geek and a hoarder21:20
popeyyou have to climb over stuff to get into his house21:20
czajkowskipopey: Jon :)21:21
mungbeanhe hoards tech?21:21
czajkowskieverything and anything21:21
czajkowskibucket and buckets of cables, radios, old computers, discs, ram21:21
mungbeanmy house is q bad right now but me mrs e 2 tired with sprogs21:22
* czajkowski is a tidt freak 21:23
czajkowskiand I like things in boxes even clear boxes21:23
diddledanI think genetically men are incapable of throwing things away :-p (said as a man)21:23
czajkowskiwas great fun moving down from london, got a load of clear containers and one box was for each area , phones, radios, cables, etc had to get more boxes, he doesnt like getting rid of stuff21:24
czajkowskididdledan: I find the disapproving look to be a good look at things not being kept21:24
popeymy den is quite tidy for me21:35
popeytidy enough that I can get the sofa bed out21:35
czajkowskipopey: tidy in the view of your webcam for hangouts :)21:38
popeyyup21:39
popeyits tidy outside the cone of clean too21:39
popeyright, bed21:39
czajkowskitoodles21:39
daftykinsalthough he may not necessarily wear clothes outside of the cone of cam view :>21:46
fujisanhello22:03
fujisanwhere can i download the new Ubuntu and can i run it on a single core AMD cpu?22:03
bigcalmfujisan: ubuntu.com and yes :)22:04
fujisanthanks22:04
daftykinshttp://releases.ubuntu.com/raring/ubuntu-13.04-desktop-amd64.iso22:06
daftykinsthat one no less22:06
fujisanoh wait22:07
fujisanmy CPU isnt 64 bit22:07
daftykinsno?22:07
fujisanit's 3222:07
fujisanit's very old22:07
daftykinshttp://releases.ubuntu.com/raring/ubuntu-13.04-desktop-i386.iso22:07
daftykinsis it an AMD Athlon XP?22:07
fujisanoh thanks22:07
fujisanyes22:07
fujisanhow did you know?22:07
bigcalmShould work still22:07
daftykinsmmm might not perform very well22:07
daftykinshow much RAM?22:07
bigcalmThey were very popular, lucky guess :)22:07
directhexathlon xp was awesome, once22:07
fujisan2 gb22:08
fujisanlol directhex :)22:08
directhexi had a duron22:08
bigcalmI still have mine22:08
directhextoo cheap for athlon22:08
daftykinswell before the Athlon64 there were only AMD Athlon XP's and AMD Semprons that were 32-bit only22:08
fujisanyes it was in 2004 when i got it22:08
daftykins:D22:08
fujisanhow much to built a new AMD pc you reckon?22:08
* bigcalm throws some shapes to The Crystal Method and gets back to bench testing22:09
fujisani have a Mac but i wont Ubuntu since we use it at work22:09
daftykinssome say they're cheap but i always put together intel 'cause they just seem to win it since the last few years22:09
daftykinsi've wanted to check out a modern AMD system - just don't want to pay to find out22:10
directhexamd is dirt cheap22:10
fujisanyeah i just want a rig that runs Ubuntu fairly decent i dont need anything high end22:10
daftykinsfujisan: just run xubuntu or lubuntu instead22:10
directhexcpu is about tree fiddy. motherboard is five quid plus a kingsize snickers.22:10
fujisani tried those both on my old PC22:10
daftykinsthey'll still run well on old hardware22:10
fujisanand the irony is im not trolling is that windows7 seems to run better on old hw than Ubuntu these days22:11
daftykinsdirecthex: damn monster tell me he need tree fiddy ;x22:11
fujisanbetter*22:11
daftykinshmm22:11
fujisanbut i like the new direction of Ubuntu22:11
fujisanso i want to try it at home as well22:12
daftykinsi'm right now debating buying a PATA SSD for £100 for my old Sony ultra-portable, it runs Windows XP on an intel core solo ultra low voltage 1.2GHz22:12
daftykinsi guess it'd be kinda stupid for me to put money into something so old :>22:12
fujisanyeah maybe i still kept my old PC22:12
fujisani dont like to throw out something just because it's old22:13
fujisani spend 80 euros on it a few years ago to get a new powersupply22:13
daftykinsyeah stuff like that's fine22:14
daftykinsi ran my Athlon XP until Christmas 2007/822:14
daftykinsthen i upgraded to an intel core 2 quad22:15
daftykinsgave the Athlon XP to a friend :) he kept her going for a few more years22:15
daftykinshe eventually finished studying to be a Doctor so finally could afford his own though22:15
fujisanoh okay that's great22:16
daftykinsbut yeah the little laptop isn't really much use to me22:17
daftykinslives on a shelf at the moment22:17
fujisanin my city we even have repair centers for old appliances it was even featured in the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/world/europe/amsterdam-tries-to-change-culture-with-repair-cafes.html?pagewanted=all&_r=022:17
daftykinsooh neat22:17
daftykinsit's definitely how it should be22:17
daftykinsculture's too disposable22:17
fujisanyeah22:17
daftykinsit does make me sad when people just buy a new PC when all it needs is an OS reinstall or say, a new HDD22:18
daftykinsequally though they probably don't want to pay me my hourly rate to sort it out22:19
daftykinsas that's the kind of work i do22:19
fujisanyeah well some people just want the latest and the greatest22:28
daftykinshmm i don't even know which is newer of AMD Piledriver + Bulldozer22:28
fujisanme neither22:29
fujisani just wonder if i could get a nice budget AMD system for 300 euros22:30
fujisanmaybe i should double that budget though :)22:32
fujisanand it's not for gaming so i can get a cheap gfx card22:33
daftykinsAh Piledriver appears newer22:34
daftykinswhy have a card at all if it's got onboard? :)22:34
fujisanyeah good point i didnt know AMD did that22:35
daftykinsthey might not be the top performers mind you22:36
daftykinsi found a recent AMD vs. Intel kind of article22:36
daftykinshttp://anandtech.com/show/6396/the-vishera-review-amd-fx8350-fx8320-fx6300-and-fx4300-tested22:36
daftykinscomparing at the top end, a £125 AMD FX8350 to an Intel i7-3770K at £23322:38
daftykinsthat's definitely quite the price difference22:38
directhexdaftykins, my cpu is 4 years old now.22:39
daftykinswhat are you running? my desktop has a Q6600 on LGA77522:40
daftykinsso that's about 5yrs22:40
directhexalso mobo and half my ram. and psu and case. and blu-ray drive. and speakers. i think that's all the original components22:40
directhexdaftykins, i7 92022:40
directhexon socket 136622:40
daftykinsah yeah22:41
daftykinsi remember that being the premium option at the time22:41
directhexsuper premium :|22:41
daftykinshehe22:41
directhex>£100 motherboards22:41
daftykinsshe's lasted well though22:41
directhexas entry level for the socket22:41
daftykinsi don't know if you remember fraggy from quakenet, but he is running about the same22:41
directhexi tried cheaping out on the only sub-£100 mobo, an XFX. DOA.22:41
directhexgot it replaced. DOA.22:41
daftykins:(22:42
daftykinsofficially stung22:42
directhexpaid the price difference for gigabyte. fine first time22:42
directhexproblem now is a significant cpu upgrade without replacing the mobo is... LOTS of money. LOTS.22:42
daftykinsi'm glad i gave up the upgrade game22:42
daftykinsja indeed, you may as well get a new case and do a whole separate build22:42
daftykinsi've the same situation with LGA77522:43
daftykinsand do you know, i don't even think the upgrade would feel justified, even once Intel's Haswell is out22:43
directhexthe cpu support list for this mobo is 66% xeons22:43
daftykinshahaha22:44
daftykins£££22:44
directhexhttp://www.gigabyte.com/support-downloads/cpu-support-popup.aspx?pid=295822:44
daftykinsthere we go, a top-end Nehalem? :>22:45
daftykins130W TDPs feature a lot there >_<22:45
directhexabout £50 00 on ebay for a W3690 nehalem22:45
directhexer, £50022:46
directhexused22:46
directheximported22:46
directhexbed.22:47
daftykinsnn sir22:47
daftykinsfujisan: AMD Trinity is what you want to look at for budget CPUs with graphics22:47
daftykinsjust read what they are :D22:47
shaunoyour nicks seem to line up just enough that for a moment there, I thought it was just one person talking to himself22:58
daftykinsme and hexy are actually one schizophrenic individual :(22:58
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