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gaz1069hi00:03
MooDoomorning all06:58
diploMorning all07:04
knightwisehey MooDoo diplo !07:20
MooDooknightwise: huly :D07:22
MooDoohullo even07:22
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knightwiseHollah !07:24
knightwisehow are you guys today07:25
Myrttishould I go and buy some Angry Birds mugs, they're on sale today at the local supermarket07:26
Myrttihttps://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-DytAWKqeOsQ/UbhZa-PSYPI/AAAAAAAAGvU/zPvPs9IRoX0/w1278-h959-no/2013-06-1207:29
Myrttiopinions?07:29
diploI'd like some for my kids Myrtti, always so expensive!07:32
Myrttidiplo: yeah well these are made by the Finnish equivalent of Spode or Wedgwood... they make a lot of collectible stuff, Moomin mugs are even more expensive and regularly stolen from the shops http://www.arabia.fi/web/Arabiawww.nsf/en/tableware_moomin_collection_parts_and_colours_mugs07:47
diploOh I like those!07:48
* diplo saves some money07:48
Myrttihttp://www.skandium.com/shop/kitchen-tableware/moomin-collection07:52
* diplo saves quite a bit of money :D07:57
christeldiplo: i dont think it is considered "saving" just because you dont buy expensive mugs you wouldnt have bought anyway...07:59
christeli purchased some lovely chairs that were on offer and decided that i had saved the 1800 quid they were reduced by... and could therefore spend that on something more fun but people kept telling me it didnt work like that :(08:00
diploNo saving to buy them in the first place, not a very rich man :)08:01
DJonesMorning all08:19
MooDoomorning DJones08:28
DJonesHeya MooDoo08:28
hd5770hey hey08:28
mungbeangot approached by the usual tramp in bethnal green asking for money, but money he had a massive gash on his arm and blood covered entire forarm and hand.08:29
mungbeansomething about a taxi fare to hospital08:30
mungbeanon this occasion i hope he spent the money08:30
mungbeanon a cab08:30
hd5770prob just phoned 999 and got a free list08:31
dwatkinswhy take a taxi to hospital when there are ambulances?08:52
christel:o08:53
dwatkins(admittedly, I took a taxi to hospital when I smashed my ankle, but I knew I wasn't an emergency, and didn't want to take an ambulance away from saving someone's life, potentially)08:53
mungbeananswered the question dwatkins08:53
christeli would have hoped most people would do like you and opt for a taxi if it wasnt a proper emergency ;)08:54
mungbeanambulances are mobile parademic units08:54
christelconsidering that it is supposedly rather costly in tax payer money to call out an ambulance :)08:54
mungbeani didn't really weigh up the pros and cons since i would have ended up not giving him anything08:54
mungbeanon those occasions sometimes its good to swallow pride and err on the side of compassion08:55
mungbeanif i got ripped off, then well he's less fortuante than me anyway08:55
czajkowskipeeka boo08:55
dwatkinsI'm still unsure about people begging for money - I give money to Shelter so they have help available, and there's all kinds of stuff possible, but I imagine they fall through the cracks in the system sometimes.08:56
mungbeanthis wasn't really begging (possibly)08:58
mungbeanbecause his arm was dripping with blood08:58
mungbeanit may be he's an alcoholic and broke it on a bottle cos he wants a drink08:58
christeldwatkins: i think it is sad that some people are in a position where they end up on the streets, i also think it is sad that some people allegedly beg because you can make "decent money" from it (and then go home to a nice warm bed at the end of the day) -- i also know that i cant help all of them, certainly not long term and like you i tend to prefer to give to charities instead where i can09:01
popeyin Spain when my dad was ill, and they called an ambulance, the ambulance drives to the doctors house first to pick him up, then picks up a nurse, then comes to you09:01
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christelit always saddened me when i still worked for the nhs to see how many of our patients ended up on the streets soon after being discharged09:01
mungbeanwhen i was at uni there was a destructive kid in the flat next door who usually punched a window or door and had an ambulance sent out every friday night09:02
mungbeanannoyed me no end09:02
mungbeancos they can't really say no09:02
mungbeanthose "doctors in ayia napia" programmes are depressing09:03
mungbeanhaving to care for drunken eejits09:03
popeyheh, i was one of those once, not my fault and not drunk09:04
popeysomeone lobbed a beer mat at me, hit my eye09:04
popeyunbelievably painful09:04
christelow.09:05
brobostigongood morning everyone,09:11
bigcalmGood morning peeps09:13
brobostigonmorning bigcalm09:13
bigcalmHi brobostigon09:18
bigcalmAnybody with Android finding that calendar items aren't being synced recently?09:29
bigcalmJust added an item to a calendar via the web interface. Thunderbird shows the item, phone doesn't09:29
brobostigoni have not noticed that, but a friend of mine did mention a possible issue over the weekend.09:30
popeydidnt google switch off calendar sync?09:30
bigcalmFor Android as well? That seems somewhat dumb09:31
popeydunno09:31
brobostigoncalendar sync is still showing in androids sync settings, aswell as, within androids calendar app.09:32
bigcalmI've just unticked/forced sync/reticked calendar for the account. Maybe it'll behave now09:35
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bigcalm"select an user" sounds horrible in my ears and yet it's grammatically correct. Damn you English language!09:58
bigcalmIt sounds as though one is selecting a user called Ann09:59
NET||abusehmm, guake on 13.04 seems to be offset at the top too much09:59
brobostigonwouldnt, "select a user" be better ?09:59
NET||abusegotta say, did inplace upgrade of 12.10 to 13.04, and for the most part, worked,09:59
bigcalmbrobostigon: it would be, except that it's always 'an' when the next work begins with a vowel09:59
NET||abuseexcept the kernel didn't install at first, cause /boot partition ran out of space09:59
JamesTaitbigcalm, not true.09:59
NET||abusehad to fix that :P09:59
bigcalmNo?09:59
brobostigonbigcalm: ah, i see.10:00
JamesTaitbigcalm, no.  :)  I had this conversation a couple of weeks ago with one of my Argentine colleagues.10:00
NET||abusean also preceeeds h10:00
JamesTaitbigcalm, I found a reference to it somewhere, let me see if I can dig it up.10:00
JamesTaitbigcalm, it has a special name and everything.10:00
bigcalmI call it 'awkward'10:01
NET||abusean ukulele10:01
NET||abuseyes, sounds sawkward :p10:01
DJonesbigcalm: http://www.dailywritingtips.com/using-a-and-an-before-words/ Suggests it depends on pronunciation, rather than spelling, I guess 'user' would probably pronouned as though its spelt 'Yuser'10:02
bigcalmDJones: that's the thing. I would vocally say "a user", but feel I have to write "an user"10:02
JamesTaitbigcalm, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A,_an#Indefinite_article10:03
NET||abuselets just live in opposite land and say things liek "a apple"10:03
JamesTaitDJones, that about sums it up.10:03
DJonesI think I'd still write 'a user', but also depends on the context and the rest of the sentance10:03
bigcalmJamesTait: thanks for the link. I'll enjoy it later :)10:04
JamesTaitbigcalm, yeah, there's a lot to read in that page. :)  But tl;dr is: a/an depends on whether the next word begins with a vowel *sound* regardless of whether its a vowel *letter*10:06
DJonesYou could always avoid the problem and write your system docs/user manual in Latin :)10:06
ali1234a owl?10:06
JamesTaitNo10:07
bigcalmDJones: yeah, I'll get on that10:09
JamesTaitAlso, good morning all!10:09
JamesTaitpopey, CalDAV sync was re-enabled, and IIRC CardDAV was added too.10:10
JamesTaithttp://googledevelopers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/making-googles-caldav-and-carddav-apis.html10:12
* JamesTait gets back down to work.10:12
BigRedSI'm getting a new work phone. Aside from the screen is there any particularly good reason to get a Galaxy S4 over an S3?10:24
davmor2Morning all10:25
bigcalmBigRedS: myself and some other S3 users have found the phone to be freezing up now and then (requiring the battery to be pulled out)10:26
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BigRedSOoh, I've no real intention of leaving the stock software on it for more than a few hours10:33
BigRedSwell, actually, I did wonder if it was time to give a vendor Android another go, but the norm for me is to reflash it before I find out what I'm potentially missing out on10:33
bigcalmI've been happy with the stock on the S310:35
bigcalmBut it's become very slow and sometimes freezy10:35
bigcalmAfter the 2 year contract is up, I'll put CM on it I expect10:35
bigcalmMorning davmor2. Chris has had a haircut10:36
davmor2bigcalm: was it the one on the left that he had cut10:36
bigcalmdavmor2: mean :P10:37
BigRedSAh, cool. I can get a more me-proof case for the S3, and I can't see any technical diference that I'm likely to notice10:37
davmor2bigcalm: I'm only jealous that he has more hair than me ;)10:41
DJonesI want one http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-2288772910:43
SuperMattawesome!10:45
DJonesI guess any hippies with hair down to their waist might be better not riding it though10:45
BigRedSThat's not a combination I ever expected to see10:46
DJonesI'll wait to see Daniel Craig waving goodbye to his pursuers in the next Bond film as he flies away across a canal/river to escape10:48
DJonesDoes anybody here use Dropbox on a 12.04 server machine? Just wondering whether these instructions are the safe/correct way to install it http://ubuntuserverguide.com/2012/06/how-to-install-and-configure-dropbox-on-ubuntu-server-12-04.html or if there is a better method11:09
bigcalmDJones: Get the .deb from dropbox.com. Install11:18
bigcalmThat is all there is to it11:18
bigcalmOh, sorry11:19
bigcalmOn a server11:19
bigcalmDon't know :)11:19
DJonesSeems to be working ok11:20
DJonesIts updating & downloading in the background11:22
diploCan use U1 on a server as well afaik11:26
bigcalmWould be nice if it were possible to do this with SparkleShare11:27
directhexsparkly!11:30
directhexwe may write a sparkleshare daemon. i need to talk to hbons.11:31
bigcalm'we'?11:33
directhexcollabora. we're using sparkleshare for work. so enhancing it is a low hanging fruit11:34
Laneyczajkowski: i haz booked trains for hackntalk11:37
czajkowskiLaney: huzzah :)11:37
czajkowskiLaney: mpt is also going11:37
Laneyall the cool kids11:38
Laney43 quid though on advance tickets :(11:42
Laneyoh to have a railcard again11:42
mungbeanthe BBC just tricked me into watching a catcam of a cat being sick11:54
bigcalmaquarius: oh my11:57
aquariusheh.11:58
bigcalmaquarius: good luck with whatever you choose to do :)11:58
aquariusThank you :)11:58
MooDoobigcalm: am i missing somerhing?12:08
popeyMooDoo: https://twitter.com/sil/status/34514643448564531312:08
MooDoooh thanks popey12:08
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MooDooadmit it, he's leaving to plan the LRL comeback tour for next year ;)12:09
BigRedSHeh. Xscreensaver doesn't seem to recognise my scrollwheel as activity12:10
TheOpenSourcererRight then. What's for lunch?12:10
BigRedSwhich is a handy reminder of when I've been scrolling down The Comments for too long :)12:10
popeyTheOpenSourcerer: good call!12:11
BigRedSMy flatmate's just got back from a coffee shop. I'm having a selection of espressoes for lunch :)12:11
* popey gets some12:11
MooDoooh yeah it's lunch time12:11
TheOpenSourcerergah - I've got to go "outside"12:11
mungbeani still have a dual screen screensaver bug since forever :(12:11
mungbeanusually have to typoe password in blindly12:12
mungbeankinda bad when irc sessions might be in focus12:12
* TheOpenSourcerer thinks a walk to the chippy might be in order.12:12
* popey has beans on toast12:12
BigRedSmungbean: yeah, for some reason I've not got that right now12:14
mungbeanthink its nividia related12:14
BigRedSbut, excitingly, sometimes the box for the password doesn't appear. I get a mouse pointer that can only move in a small bit of the screen, and need to type blindly to get it to let me in12:14
BigRedSah, I'm on Intel12:15
BigRedSbut that would explain it disappearing when I got rid of my old desktop...12:15
mungbeanlaunchpad doesn't seem to show a list of bugs that you have "me too'd"12:17
BigRedSaren't they added to the subscribed list?12:18
mungbean#84856212:21
mungbeanbug 84856212:21
lubotu3bug 848562 in gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu) "gnome-shell lock screen does not display password prompt" [Low,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/84856212:21
mungbeannot exactly it actually12:21
mungbeancos my screen doesn't wake up12:21
mungbeanunless u type the password12:21
mungbeanseems to be ancient bug12:22
mungbeanaffecting nvidia proprietary12:22
mungbeanalso maybe not a unity bug but gnome-shell-ish12:23
mungbeanbug 99873512:24
lubotu3bug 998735 in mutter (Ubuntu) "Light blue screen on primary monitor when waking up from inactivity" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/99873512:24
Laneywtf12:27
Laneywhy did it have to start chucking it down just before I was about to head out on the bike? >:|12:27
bigcalmI shouldn't really be eating dough nuts for lunch12:32
* bigcalm grumbles at himself12:32
* Laney grimaces and heads out into asid rain12:33
Laneysaid (acid?)12:33
bigcalmAssiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiid12:35
* bigcalm heads out into the lashing rain12:35
mungbeancan't seem to install/cmopile gnome-screensaver 3.4.4 without installing massive loads of junk :(12:36
BigRedSwhy do you want gnome-screensaver? it doesn't do anything12:38
BigRedSoh, it blanks the screen I guess12:38
mungbeanand is buggy12:38
mungbeanlocks the screen12:38
mungbeanif i can get xscreensaver working with the zuper-L shortcut and the desktop shortcut then i would be happy instead12:40
mungbeanoh. i'm using nouveau. wonder how long i've been doing that for?12:48
ali1234probably since about the time you started having loads of problems12:48
ali1234there is a way to get affecting bugs from launchpad12:49
mungbeanthink i've aalways had problems :(12:49
ali1234https://bugs.launchpad.net/~/+affectingbugs12:50
mungbeanoh thanks, i never noticed the column on the right12:51
mungbeanbug 1140716 is a serious one12:52
lubotu3bug 1140716 in linux (Ubuntu Raring) "[regression] 3.5.0-26-generic and 3.2.0-39-generic GPU hangs on Sandybridge" [Critical,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/114071612:52
ali1234i have 200 affecting bugs of which 14 have been fixed12:52
mungbeancan't believe it affects so many kernels12:52
mungbeani have similar experience with fixes12:52
mungbeanmind you, in the early days, a lot were gwibber related12:53
mungbeanso there were never gonna get fixed12:53
ali1234most of my bugs are in the default applications12:53
ali1234ie unity, compiz, pulseaudio. stuff that we are constantly told how good it is and how it is so much better than what we had before12:54
mungbeannobody has proven to me yet that scrapping everything and rewriting again ever fixes the bugs12:54
mungbeanjust get new bugs12:55
mungbeanalso, when gnome-screenshot runs, i get no subsequent pop up to save my screenshot13:01
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ali1234mungbean: that is correct, it now saves automatically13:20
ali1234full screen that is13:20
mungbeanah, where's that?13:22
mungbeani'd rather print screen just runs shutter, but don't know how13:22
popeythe nook is an interesting device13:24
popeycheap and rootable13:24
mungbeannook simple?13:25
popeyyes13:25
mungbeaninterested to hear usefulnes and specs13:25
popeyyou can root it and install other apps from the market, including kindle, and other ebook reader apps13:26
popeymaking it a kinda ultimate e-reader13:26
popeychuck dropbox on it and you can get your files easily to it13:26
mungbeanperformance?13:26
popeyseems okay, by ereader standards13:27
mungbean£30 still?13:27
popeyyes13:27
mungbeanbought too much stuff lately13:27
mungbeangot a 2nd hand wii fit yesterday13:27
mungbeanmy son playing it is hilarious13:27
mungbeanthe jogging game13:27
mungbeanali1234: alt-printscrn does the current window -> pictures13:28
mungbeanwhy did they remove teh helpful "copy onto clipboard"screen13:28
ali1234same reason they removed everything else13:32
mungbeaninsanity13:32
ali1234nook has e-ink display?13:32
mungbeanhttp://shutter-project.org/faq-help/set-shutter-as-the-default-screenshot-tool/13:33
ali1234cos i am quite happy with nexus 7 as e-reader13:33
mungbeanyes, and basic touch13:33
mungbeanthe less good touch13:33
ali1234but the backlight is a bit annoying for reading13:33
mungbeani turn my tablet to zero backlight13:34
mungbeanand night mode13:34
mungbeanit's just enough13:34
mungbeanzero = still a bit13:34
mungbeanseems the new gnome keyboard settings don't allow you to create your own shortcut13:37
mungbeancan it be true?13:37
MooDoobloomin thunder13:40
brobostigonsprinkles of rain here, nothing major yet.13:40
popeymungbean: you using gnome shell or something?13:43
mungbeanelementary13:44
mungbeanwonder if they removed it13:44
mungbean(or didn't add it yet)13:44
ali1234i wish gimp had adjustment layers and layer groups :(13:45
MooDooali1234: code it :p13:46
ali1234they've been coding it for about 8 years now13:47
MooDoolol yes sounds about right13:47
ali1234it's supposed to be in gimp 3.213:47
ali1234so about another 4 years13:48
MooDoolol13:48
ali1234it would probably be easier for me to write a whole graphics app from scratch, than try to work with gimp source13:48
ali1234does KDE have a high end paint program?13:49
ali1234maybe i should just buy photoshop :(13:49
mungbeannot high end13:49
mungbeanmore like PSP13:49
MooDoodoesn't 2.8 have layer groups?13:49
ali1234PSP is roughly feature parity with gimp these days13:50
ali1234ah yes it does have groups13:50
ali1234but since there's no adjustment layers, making a group is pointless as you can't do anything with it13:50
MooDooali1234: photoshop ;)13:51
mungbeankrita is the KDE one13:51
Laneygood lord13:51
LaneyI got d-r-e-n-c-h-e-d13:51
ali1234rainy laney?13:52
ali1234xcf2png doesn't support layer groups anyway13:53
ali1234except apparently it does13:54
ali1234it just says it doesn't but it works anyway13:54
mungbeanthats the best way13:55
ali1234oh it doesn't really quite work properly13:55
ali1234you get two copies of everything, one from the merged layer group and one from the individual layers13:55
ali1234it's close though, i could probably fix it13:57
popeywoot, kindle app on a nook ☻13:57
mungbeanhttp://www.duffelblog.com/2012/04/pentagon-study-finds-beards-directly-proportional-to-combat-effectiveness/13:57
mungbean*may  be satire14:00
mungbeancleartext has screwed my laptop14:01
mungbeanand no way to restore defaults!14:02
mgdmpopey: nice. What's it like to use beyond as an e-reader?14:06
popeyexactly as you'd expect, an android device with slow screen update14:10
mungbeanhow compare with kindle basic?14:10
mungbeancolleague is having software problems on his nook14:12
mungbeantrying to run android on it etc14:12
brobostigoni do believe there is a cyanogenmod port to it?14:12
popeyi haven't flashed mine, just rooted it and added the marketplace and other apps14:13
popeyyou can go to play.google.com and send apps to the device14:13
popeyand you retain the original nook functionality too14:13
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* Laney smells of wet dog14:53
brobostigonewwwwww14:54
* Laney sits next to brobostigon 14:54
LaneyGET A LOAD OF THIS14:54
MooDooewwwwwwwwww and runs14:54
* Laney dries his feet on the fire14:54
* brobostigon kicks Laney up the bum.14:54
MooDoobehave you too, unless you let me play as well.14:56
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* brobostigon lets MooDoo join in.14:56
MooDooyay14:56
Monotokoanyone know anything about fcgi? :(15:15
mgdmMonotoko: a little15:15
Monotokomgdm, any idea why it would dump a html file out as raw html, as opposed to a page?15:16
Monotoko(still trying to figure out what's calling this system error... as far as I can see, it's just a die())15:17
mgdmwhen you say 'html file' do you mean 'php'15:18
mgdm?15:18
czajkowskibah adobe15:25
czajkowskiopened up a pdf and it said if you dont have the latest udpate, this message won't go away15:25
czajkowskibut I'm sure it was up to date15:25
Laneyadobe?!?!?!15:26
davmor2czajkowski: there's your problem :P15:26
Monotokomgdm, no perl sorry15:28
MonotokoI can't find the source file :(15:29
AlanBellMonotoko: is it rendering the HTML and serving it with a mimetype of text?16:08
AlanBellor is is serving up your source code that should be executed to generate the html?16:08
MonotokoAlanBell, I've found the source htm file in the code... and I think this line of perl may be the culprit... $c->response->content_type('text/html; charset=utf-8');16:09
Monotokoso it looks like it's serving with a html mimetype to me...16:10
MartijnVdS\o/ perl16:10
MartijnVdSbut that's a *bad* way to set the response charset ;)16:10
MonotokoI've only been here a week :P16:13
MonotokoI'm a sysadmin... but apparently the job involves a large amount of perl... coded by a guy who left months ago :) - oh and I don't know anything about perl :(16:14
BigRedSMonotoko: that's *one of* the bad ways to...16:16
BigRedSer, that was aimed at MartijnVdS16:17
* BigRedS is a sysadmin whose job is partly to fix Perl not touched in ten years16:17
MartijnVdSpoor BigRedS16:19
diddledannobody should be tasked with fixing perl, let alone perl that's ten years untouched!16:19
MartijnVdSdiddledan: I work on a 15-year old Perl codebase daily16:20
MartijnVdSdiddledan: though we've brought it up to modern standards mostly16:20
MartijnVdS(but not completely)16:20
diddledanouch16:20
diddledanbut then I guess I still have to support IE6 in my job16:20
diddledanand that doesn't even have the option of being brought up to modern standards16:21
diddledanlegacy sucks16:21
BigRedSMartijnVdS: turns out that when you complain that it's all old and unmaintained you're basically asking to be given the job of maintaining it16:21
diddledanlol16:22
BigRedSIt's actually really quite interesting/fun - I'm spending a lot of time thinking about why I do things the way I do16:22
BigRedSand why I don't do them the way this guy did them :)16:22
MartijnVdSBigRedS: we work on a combination of "you touched it last" and "you wrote it [15 years ago]"16:22
Monotokodiddledan, nah it's not 10 years untouched thankfully... they're working on bringing jquery and dojo up to date right now I believe16:22
Monotokowhich is causing the perl to complain16:22
Monotokoa lot16:22
BigRedSMartijnVdS: a lot of the code I work on was written by Anon16:23
Monotokoso.. what would normally be the reason for a page coming through as raw text?16:23
diddledanMonotoko: wrong mime type16:23
BigRedSoh yeah, have you checked what headers you're getting? libwww-perl gives you the HEAD command which you can use to get the HTTP HEAD of a document16:23
BigRedSHEAD http://example.org/page.pl16:24
MartijnVdScurl -I ;)16:24
Monotokolet me try16:24
MartijnVdSbecause H was already something (help?)16:24
Monotokomost likely... installing curl on this dev box now...16:25
mgdmMartijnVdS: it adds a header, IIRC16:25
Monotokoahha16:25
MartijnVdSmgdm: ah yes, a request header :)16:25
Monotokoit's coming through as text/plain16:25
MartijnVdSneed to keep "request" headers and "response" headers apart!16:25
Monotokonow I need to figure out why...16:25
AlanBellMonotoko: is the header the first thing that the perl script attempts to send?16:25
MartijnVdSAlanBell: "$c" indicates "context" indicates a web framework16:26
MartijnVdSWhich makes the order sort-of irrelevant16:26
Monotokoyeah it is... template toolkit I believe16:27
AlanBellmaybe16:27
Monotokoalthough I've possibly just found the culprit16:27
MartijnVdSMonotoko: nah, that's not a web framework, just the template engine16:27
MartijnVdSMonotoko: framework is something like Catalyst or Dancer16:27
MonotokoCatalyst, aye16:27
Monotokothat rings a bell... and yeah, I'm way above my expertise here16:27
MartijnVdSMonotoko: what happens if you run it in stand-alone debug mode?16:28
MartijnVdSyou should be able to see all requests (and their responses) on the command line then16:28
MartijnVdSwell, in your terminal16:28
MartijnVdSMonotoko: irc.perl.org, #catalyst might also help :)16:29
MonotokoMartijnVdS, I will have a look tomorrow... how do I put it into standalone debug mode? This is the first time I've been given a perl task >.>16:30
Monotokotypically I've been thrown right in16:30
Monotokobut that's the way to learn I suppose... the sysadmin who's leaving in 10 days left two hours ago and won't be back until tomorrow16:31
* awilkins recoils in distaste at the idea of Perl16:31
MartijnVdSMonotoko: there's "catalyst.pl" you can point at a directory16:31
MartijnVdSMonotoko: catalyst.pl Hello16:31
MartijnVdSMonotoko: https://metacpan.org/module/Catalyst::Manual::Tutorial::02_CatalystBasics16:31
Monotokothank you16:31
MartijnVdSawilkins: Perl is becoming less crufty16:31
Monotokothis place used to have two sysadmins... one who's been here 9 years who's leaving very soon... and one who left months ago who's been here since the early 90's16:32
Monotokogod only knows what fun this is going to have in store for me16:32
MartijnVdSlots of fun!16:33
MartijnVdSand learning opportunities!16:34
Monotokothe one who's been here since the early 90's wrote most of the perl... apparently horribly, according to Simon (the one who's leaving..)16:34
MartijnVdSMonotoko: A sysadmin named 'Simon'?16:34
awilkinsHmm. To a degree  everyone thinks everyone elses code is horrible in my exp.16:34
MartijnVdSMonotoko: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastard_Operator_From_Hell ;)16:34
awilkinsSimon Travalgia16:34
MonotokoMartijnVdS, aye and yeah... I knew it'd be a bit of a jump, from a part time student PHP developer to full time sysadmin16:35
MartijnVdSMonotoko: was the other admin 'Stephen'?16:35
awilkinsAs long as it's a bit of a jump in pay16:35
MartijnVdSMonotoko: Perl is just PHP done right16:36
Monotokothe starting salary is enough to live on... works out to about £10/h, not much but the boss said it's because I'm inexperianced atm and we'll review it soon16:36
Monotokoand MartijnVdS, he was called Merlin16:36
MartijnVdSMonotoko: a real wiz, right?16:36
MonotokoI just think of a wizard16:36
Monotoko:P16:36
awilkinsBeard? Sandals? Proper Unix dude?16:36
MonotokoI dunno... I've never seen him, he left months ago :P16:37
Monotokothe only thing I'm going to have is his apparently bastardised code16:37
Monotokoso I'm sure I will be cursing him to hell and back within the next few weeks16:37
Monotoko... do I have to run the makefile if I make a little change to the perl? -.-16:39
MartijnVdSMonotoko: no, but you might have to restart the program16:40
Monotokoaye I've restarted apache...16:40
Monotokohmm, well I'm off - il try to look at it again tonight16:44
Monotokoa lot to learn16:44
daftykinsMonotoko: sounds like a fun job :)16:44
daftykinsta-ra o/16:44
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Laneywhy is windows playing a ringtone at me?18:09
Laneyi can't find any indication of what it's for18:09
Laneyaarrrghghgh18:09
MartijnVdSLaney: terminal bell? :)18:10
MartijnVdSLaney: hardware plug/unplug sound?18:10
Laneyoh yes, could be that18:10
Laneyhad an ubuntu touch tablet plugged in18:10
popeyoh, no18:10
popeyits usb "hello new device" "where'd it go" rinse, repeat18:11
Laneyyeah18:11
popeyvery annoying18:11
MartijnVdSPling! Plong! Pling! Plong!18:11
Laneyremarkably like a ringtone when they're chained18:11
Laneyon w8, anyway18:11
Laney(why was it happening, though?)18:11
MartijnVdSbroken USB-client stack?18:12
popeybecause we haven't implemented mtp or whatever it is called18:12
popeyso windows tries to identify it and mount it and can't18:12
popeythen tries again18:12
MartijnVdSs/broken/incomplete/18:12
Laneysurely it should give up18:12
Laneyand tell me it's unknown or something18:12
popeythat would be nice18:12
Laneyanyway18:12
Laneynow i can play civ in peace18:12
MartijnVdSsoundtrack for Windows' behaviour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMy6X5cQul818:12
* Laney crushes some infidels18:12
MartijnVdSLaney: uh oh?18:13
MartijnVdSPRISM? Are you monitoring this?18:13
LaneyI'm starting a new game on easy because normal is too hard for me :P18:13
* Laney sucks at civ18:13
* MartijnVdS has Civ:CTP somewhere18:14
MartijnVdSFor Linux!18:14
* MartijnVdS waits for a 3.10(-rc) to drop in saucy18:15
MartijnVdSthat should improve my gfx performance by $a_lot18:15
daftykinsi have another new laptop in to fix up today :D18:20
daftykinstoday's is an annoying 15" acer that requires the LCD to be taken off the body just to get the casing sandwich apart >_<18:20
daftykinsat last, motherboard out18:29
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mungbeanm-in-law has list of issues need sorting with new laptop19:38
mungbeanwindow 7 is looking attractive19:38
MartijnVdSmungbean: nothing that an Ubuntu CD won't fix?19:38
mungbeani'd like to19:38
mungbeanbut it's almost rude19:38
daftykinsit's the support i'd hate19:39
dwatkinscould someone please tell me where I should be looking up stuff about the "ip" command (other than its manpage) - it managed to bring up eth0 whereas nothing else did19:39
dwatkinsthis is after an upgrade to 12.0419:39
mungbeanto give someone such a fine OS19:39
daftykinsdunno about you guys but i find wireless card SMA/RP-SMA connectors such a fiddle :D19:42
daftykinsand i've got smallish fingers :O19:42
MartijnVdSdaftykins: SMA/RP-SMA are easy19:42
daftykinsonly when you have clearance around!19:42
MartijnVdSdaftykins: the ones on laptop wifi cards are harder19:43
MartijnVdSthe tiny ones19:43
daftykinsthese are the ones to which i refer19:43
MartijnVdSRP-SMA: http://wireless.gumph.org/content/3/7/011-cable-connectors.html19:43
daftykinsmy bad, i must mean 'mini'19:44
daftykinsah nearly reassembled this machine19:45
ali1234i use some small pliers19:45
ali1234needle nose pliers19:45
ali1234if you don't have pliers there is a trick to doing it19:45
ali1234what you do is hold it by the wire about 2cm down from the connector. position it over the connector and then push down with your other hand19:46
MartijnVdSdaftykins: u.FL -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirose_U.FL19:47
daftykinsye19:47
daftykinsah-har19:47
daftykinsMartijnVdS: ty sir19:47
daftykinssilly me, mind was elsewhere19:47
mungbeanupdatedb and update-xapt run far too often by default19:48
daftykinsrubbish - the lid lock isn't working right19:49
MartijnVdSmungbean: daily = too often?19:49
ali1234"once" is too often for updatedb19:49
MartijnVdSali1234: you run tracker/beagle?19:49
ali1234no19:49
ali1234i use find19:50
ali1234and grep19:50
MartijnVdSgrind and fep19:50
ali1234it runs in linear time, unlike locate19:50
MartijnVdSali1234: if you have tons of files and don't know where your file is, locate can be quicker19:50
ali1234which does whatever it damn well pleases19:50
MartijnVdSali1234: as it defers the actual hard work to updatedb time19:51
ali1234i know19:51
ali1234i don't really have many files19:53
ali1234and they are either really big or part of a larger project with lots of small files19:53
ali1234updatedb doesn't handle either of those coses gracefully19:54
ali1234like i have about 40GB of 16kb files with arbitrary binary data in them. even doing "ls" in that directory takes about 10 minutes so you can imagine what happens if updatedb tries to look in there19:55
ali1234and don't even think about opening it in nautilus, that will kill the machine19:55
daftykinshttp://i.imgur.com/HOAvHVE.jpg19:57
daftykinshere's todays victim, mere minutes ago19:57
daftykins:>19:57
ali1234no no you are supposed to do it like this http://al.robotfuzz.com/~al/ideapad/20101125_020.jpg19:58
daftykinsyou could do with another desk ;)19:58
popeyhaha19:58
ali1234i posted that picture in #maemo and they yelled at me19:58
ali1234the desk is tidy in that photo19:58
popeythat looks like every time I have ever opened up a machine19:58
ali1234which is staged btw19:59
daftykinsdo you really just put screws everywhere :(19:59
ali1234no19:59
ali1234i was trollin'19:59
daftykinswho were the people? i'm not sure on the connection19:59
daftykinsas i don't know the device19:59
ali1234i meant #meego19:59
ali1234that's a lenovo ideapad. they gave them out at meego conference to developers19:59
daftykinsah wow20:00
ali1234it has a touch screen and a twist around display so it can do tablet mode20:00
daftykinsyou work for lenovo then? or indirectly?20:01
ali1234http://al.robotfuzz.com/~al/random/desk.jpg20:01
ali1234is my desk20:01
ali1234no, i went to the conference and got a free one like everyone else20:02
ali1234then i took it apart :)20:02
ali1234then i put it back together again20:02
popeylooks like my desk20:03
popeyincluding altoids tin20:03
daftykinsXD20:04
ali1234yeah it doesn't have altoids in it, it's my cig tin20:04
daftykinsmines littered with flash drives today20:04
daftykinsthis AMD Turion X2 is still hitting 54 deg C when it should be idle20:05
daftykinsnasty.20:05
popeyi bought a box to put usb things in20:05
popeyi thought i needed a bigger box, they outgrew an altoids tin20:05
popeynow they're crashing about in a big box20:05
daftykins:)20:05
popeyneed more usb devices20:05
daftykinsmine mostly live in my laptop backpack, for cycling places20:05
ali1234i have a box for usb devices20:05
ali1234it's an A4 paper box20:05
ali1234t's over filled and bulges out at the sides20:06
ali1234i have a dell laptop shipping box completely filled with PATA IDE cables20:06
ali1234another A4 box filled with CDROM drives20:07
neurojono just shredded it on ubuntuonair20:07
ali1234i need to get rid of all this junk20:07
ali1234maybe i can give it to the hackspace20:07
popeyooh, cat program on bbc220:07
MartijnVdSooh! CATS20:07
neuroali1234: your desk is annoyingly tidier than mine20:09
MartijnVdSMine has tidier bits, and less tidy bits20:10
ali1234that picture is old anyway20:10
ali1234it's abou the same level of tidyness though20:10
bashrcI recently received a Lenovo Ideapad as a gift20:10
bashrcIt's very nice20:11
neurohttps://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13137/Photo%2009-11-2012%2013%2007%2030.jpg20:12
bashrcYour desk looks tidier than mine20:13
popeyyay, yours is messier than mine20:13
popeyphew20:13
neurolol20:13
daftykinsooh-err20:13
daftykinspiles of gear on shelves D:20:14
neuroyeah, i really need to clear all that crap out20:14
neuroi still have a d-link adsl modem in that pile that's plugged in and switched on20:14
daftykinsi can't really talk though 'cause i just moved house back in late Feb and had the benefit of throwing out any extra tosh i didn't need \o/20:14
neurohas been for years20:14
bashrcThere should be some randomly placed beer cans20:14
MartijnVdSbashrc: *bottles20:15
neuroi don't drink in my office20:15
neuroin saying that, i don't really drink much these days, full stop20:15
neurohowever that white thing in the bottom left of the pic is a fridge20:15
neuroone of those dinky things that you can power off a car power socket20:15
neurotakes a few 330ml cans no problem20:16
diddledanhmm, os x mavericks' wifi connection is flaxy20:16
diddledanflaky**20:16
bashrcYou should have the computer on top of the fridge for extra cooling20:16
neuroand when i say "drink", i mean "drink booze"; i still drink liquids for general refreshment purposes, obviously20:16
neurobashrc: what, the computers that would not be balanced, would eventually fall off and either break and/or kill me?20:16
MartijnVdSso.. bottles of irn bru?20:17
neuroout of shot20:17
bashrclive dangerously20:17
neuroright20:17
neuroso i could put 600 quid computer on top20:17
neuroor 1000 computer on top20:18
neuroor 1700 quid computer on top20:18
MartijnVdSyes.20:18
bashrcTowers of Hanoi20:18
neuroand then cry to my home insurance co when it inevitably breaks20:18
neuro"and what happened sir?"20:18
neuro"someone told me to put my computer on top of a mini fridge that has a non-flat top"20:18
neuro*click*20:18
neuro"hello? hello?"20:18
daftykinsXD20:19
zleaphi20:20
daftykinsnot to mention possible magnetism/electricity/other dangers20:20
ali1234fridges work on magnets?20:20
* zleap is upgrading 12.10 to 13.04 so may vanish randomly20:20
bashrcTrust in the foo20:20
daftykinsruh-roh20:20
ali1234neuro: i have the same mini fridge right here20:20
daftykins(to steal from popey ;))20:20
ali1234beer bottles don't actually fit into it, if it's the same one20:20
neurocorrect20:20
ali1234which is annoying20:21
ali1234cos i don't drink fizzy pop :)20:21
ali1234i could get some juice boxes or something20:21
neuroyeah, bottles don't fit20:22
neurounless they're stubbies20:22
daftykinsugh laptop keyboard slightly damaged, can't hit F2 to enter BIOS20:23
daftykinsyawn.20:23
neuroMASH IT20:23
bashrcheh20:23
MartijnVdSBOIL IT20:23
MartijnVdSSTICK IT IN A STEW20:23
daftykinsXD20:23
bashrcUse the force20:23
ali1234i also have the same mouse and xbox controller20:23
bashrcI find myself not using DVDs much these days20:24
daftykinsoh lordy no, not optical media20:24
MartijnVdSI moved mine to a moving box the other week20:24
daftykinslife's too short20:24
MartijnVdSI now have more space to put my CDs (which I do use)20:24
bashrcAlthough I do have a pile of USB thumb drives20:24
neuroC ... Ds?20:25
neurowhat are these things that you speak of?20:25
bashrcThat's a technology from the last century20:25
ali1234doovdes?20:25
BigRedSneuro: coasters20:25
neurooh, like floopy drives20:25
neuroali1234: do you have lickidah toov?20:25
daftykinsa joovc look-a-da-toov no less20:26
mgdmthat took me a minute20:26
MartijnVdSneuro: I actually play my music from them!20:26
neuroor the voooohs?20:26
bashrcCDs were once regarded as having stupidly large storage capacity20:26
neuroMartijnVdS: WHAT?20:26
MartijnVdSneuro: I know right20:26
neuroWHY?20:26
BigRedSYeah, after going 1.44MB floppy to 600MB CD, the 'jump' to 4GB DVDs was a bit of an anticlimax20:26
MartijnVdSneuro: because otherwise I have to turn on my TV and/or PS320:26
mgdmhttp://imgur.com/a/ahZOF omnomnomnom20:26
MartijnVdSneuro: as my receiver can't play stuff off DLNA shares20:27
neurowhen I buy audio CDs, which is a very very rare event now, it gets taken out of the jewel case, ripped, put back in the case and stored20:27
neurofeh20:27
* neuro hugs itunes + itunes match20:27
MartijnVdSneuro: also, because it makes for good conversation when a disc is "done" and a new one must be selected :)20:27
neurothe 21st century called, they want you to join us20:27
BigRedSdid you warn them?20:28
MartijnVdSneuro: I also have everything as flac in my ~20:28
BigRedShm. It doesn't work that way round20:28
MartijnVdSneuro: for when I'm at my PC20:28
* neuro likes the idea of flac in principle20:28
bashrcI converted all my audio CDs to mp3s a decade ago20:28
neuroand i tried ripping stuff to ALAC for a while20:28
neurobut gave up20:28
neuroit's just too much storage overhead for too little audio gain20:28
neuroi just rip to 256Kbps AAC now20:28
mungbeangot given itunes vouchr once, had to sprnd . everything was more $£ than amazon20:29
neurothat's variable20:29
MartijnVdSneuro: with a 9TB NAS, I don't care about storage capacity a lot20:29
mungbeanhad too load windows to spend a voucher,  and install 50mb app20:29
neuroif we're going to play the NAS sizing game, I have 11TB, and I do care :)20:29
neurocargobay0:/data  5.5T  3.8T  1.7T  70% /data/cargobays/020:30
neurocargobay1:/data  5.5T  3.0T  2.5T  55% /data/cargobays/120:30
neuro:)20:30
* MartijnVdS deletes old files sometimes20:30
neuroin saying that, i keep all my music on my MBP20:30
MartijnVdSold, useless files, mostly20:30
neuroand let time machine take care of archives20:30
neurohornet-wifi:~ neuro$ du -sch /Volumes/Storage\ Bay/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Media/Music/20:31
BigRedSI have a largely empty external HDD and a spotify account20:31
neuro133G/Volumes/Storage Bay/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/20:31
neuroeep, that took longer than i thought20:31
brobostigonkernel cleanout, had about a dozen difefrent kernels installed.20:32
mungbeanhow long to hear sall that onve20:32
mungbeanomce20:32
neurolike a month and a half or something20:32
neuroah jeez, someone i replied to in #ubuntu-on-air has latched onto me and is PMing me20:34
neuro"I just have one more question. How do you configure Netflix on ubuntu?"20:34
neuroaaaargh20:34
neuro"is SUN Micro and Oricle the same company now?"20:34
neuroMartijnVdS: see, if you used a "real" OS, you could stream your local music to other devices and speakers </troll>20:35
MartijnVdSneuro: oh I can, but I don't have "smart" speakers, or a receiver that speaks DLNA ;)20:35
MartijnVdSneuro: also, no direct audio cable from my office PC to my living room20:36
neurowhat's DLNA got to do with anything, other than the fact that it's evil evil eeeeeevil20:36
* neuro hugs AirPlay20:36
neuromungbean: just fired up itunes ... 49 days, 7 hours, 32 minutes, 38 seconds20:38
MartijnVdS33 days, 23 hours, 14 minutes here20:39
MartijnVdSand 99% of that I have on CD :)20:39
neurohttps://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13137/Screen%20Shot%202013-06-13%20at%2021.39.55.png20:40
neuroairplay \o/20:40
MartijnVdSneuro: that doesn't fix my problem20:41
neuronope20:41
MartijnVdSneuro: my home theatre speakers don't do airplay!20:41
mungbean!apple20:41
lubotu3For PPC discussion, join #ubuntu-powerpc. For discussion on Mac software, or help with same, please visit ##apple.20:41
neuroneither do mine20:41
mungbeanlol20:41
neurohttp://www.airserver.com/20:41
MartijnVdSif they did, I could use it from Ubuntu as well :)20:41
neuroi run a server on my mac mini which is hooked up to my surround system20:41
neuromungbean: my desktops/laptops run OS X, my gaming PC runs Win 8, my router is pfsense (bsd) ... WHY AM I HERE!?!?20:42
mungbeancommunity? advertising? alcohol?20:42
mungbeanlove?20:43
MartijnVdSnostalgia?20:43
neurowell all my servers are 12.04 ...20:43
mungbeanmine are centos20:43
neuroew20:44
neuroso are most of my employers :(20:44
neuromix of centos 5.9, win2k3 and win2k820:44
neurothe purge is beginning, though20:44
mungbeanleft a job 18mths aho, they didnt replace me, and the servers have run themselves20:44
neuroheh20:44
mungbeanand 150 frdktopds20:45
neuro"in da panic, dey tried to pull da plug"20:45
mungbeandesktopd20:45
neurolol20:45
neuroi do that as well20:45
mungbeanno diwntime20:45
neuromove one key to the right by accident20:45
mungbeanholding a sleepimh bsby20:45
neurosmf rbrtuyhinh i yyper vomed out ,sdjref20:45
mungbeanand no backlit kb20:46
neuro(and everything i type comes out mashed)20:46
MartijnVdSneuro: Trying Welsh?20:46
brobostigonadsl has died twice in 5 mins, this is getting annoying.20:46
mungbeannew modem20:46
neuroMartijnVdS: offset touch typing20:46
MartijnVdSneuro: it's all Welsh to me ;)20:46
neurohmm, i was going to make food20:46
neuronow, cba20:46
neuromay have to send an SOS to just eat20:46
neuroeww, just noticed they're running on IIS20:47
mungbeankrrp thinkin its friday20:47
neurome too20:47
mungbeanfail20:47
brobostigonmungbean: it must be the adsl, as i connected to it, via an rpi, ethernetted to said router which contains said adsl modem, the rpi communicates with the router fine, however outside connection dies.20:47
neurospent last week in oxfordshire, and the trip back and subsequent w/e has messed me right up20:47
mungbeanjust kicked over the gripe water20:48
neurobrobostigon: fw update needed, maybe?20:48
mungbeanbaby awake20:48
mungbeanmy evening has faied20:48
neuroawww20:48
popeybad parent20:48
brobostigonneuro: maybe, i shall see if anything is available.20:48
neurowhat is it?20:48
neurolinksys? technicolor? d-link?20:48
* neuro has given up on dsl routers20:49
neuroi just plug my openreach FTTC modems straight into pfsense20:49
mungbeanhad repeated probs with mine and every time i get new one, fixes problem for another year or so20:49
popeyi haven't had to replace my superhub at all, ever20:50
mungbeanmy son ninja kicked a mirrored glass cupboard door yesterday20:50
popeydunno how long I've had it, but some time now20:50
neuroare you using it as your main router, or in bridge mode to something else?20:51
popeyi have two other routers20:51
mungbeanhttp://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2013-06-13/20:51
popeyits in modem-only mode20:51
* neuro was going to do the latter during a brief flirtation with getting virgin installed20:51
mungbeanso true dilbert20:51
popeyi have two WNDR3700's, one running dd-wrt, one running openwrt20:52
popeyat each end of the house to get full coverage20:52
mungbeanwhich you prefer?20:52
popeydont really care ☻20:53
popeydd-wrt is dhcp server the openwrt is just a bridge20:53
* MartijnVdS likes OpenWRT a lot20:53
MartijnVdSI have 2 TP-Link WDR4300s with svn:branches/attitude_adjustment20:54
brobostigonneuro: some edimax with a massive model number.20:54
neuroblimeh20:54
czajkowskiAloha folks21:04
popeyyo21:05
brobostigonneuro: why?21:06
neuroczajkowski: aloooooooooha!21:06
BigRedSMorning czajkowski!21:06
neurobrobostigon: just not a name i've heard for a while21:06
czajkowskihow are we all doing this evening21:06
brobostigonneuro: ah.21:06
bashrcCongrats on the new job btw21:11
czajkowskibashrc: thanks21:16
czajkowskineuro: one day I'm going to get going to Hawaii! I'll have the lingo down21:16
neurolol21:17
bashrcsun, sea, sand and servers21:17
popeyhttp://mashable.com/2013/06/11/homeless-entrepreneur-thomas-backlund21:22
popeydo what he did, disappear into the forest with laptop ☻21:22
AlanBelltempting21:22
daftykinsargh link has embedded playing video21:23
bashrcGood luck to the fellow.  Coding in the forrest might not be such fun in winter though.21:23
popeyI'd love to do that21:23
daftykinsi can't even find the video - just says 'PEGI 18' and a bit of rambling21:24
daftykinsthen thankfully it stopped21:24
neurosounds like you're watching an "ad"21:24
bashrcadblock ftw21:24
popeyindeed21:25
daftykinsyeah i used to use adblock21:26
daftykinsi hadn't truly treated this desktop install as real, as i was having major issues with my OS SSD21:26
daftykinsso there's not much on it at present21:27
daftykinsi even host my own adblock rules :D don't trust the ones it offers21:27
daftykinsoh dear at an email i just got - my friends sisters laptop which i was fixing earlier in the week, she's got it back and said thanks, but has just cracked the screen on her new one X|21:27
daftykinswith this family i have a job for life21:28
neuroyeah but do you get paid for it? :)21:30
popeyMock the week was fun this week21:33
brobostigonyes.21:34
brobostigonRHGN on iplayer tmrw.21:34
neuroRed Hat Goblin Network?21:35
daftykinsneuro: absolutely21:35
daftykinsalthough i'm only charging super-mates rates right now21:35
brobostigonrussel howards good news.21:35
daftykinsi got ~£25 for replacing a keyboard, full strip down and clean up21:35
daftykinswas all i asked for though21:35
daftykinsdid the OS reinstall for free21:35
popeyoh Nigel Farage on QT, should be fun21:38
neurofor varying values of fun21:39
popeyoh, young audience, pfft21:39
brobostigonisnt it in scotland? didnt he have to shelter in a pub from protesters last he was in scotland?21:40
mgdmyeah21:41
neurojings, it is21:41
neuroit's in edinburgh21:41
mgdmOtherwise, he'd be pretty much irrelevant up here21:41
neuroand galloway is on21:41
neuroand that looks like the scottish tory leader21:41
popeyfor additional $fun21:41
mgdmI don't tend to watch QT, for the same reason I don't watch the Apprentice21:41
popeyright, off to bed, will watch this tomorrow21:41
* neuro nn p21:41
bashrcidiot politicians21:41
neuronn popey21:41
neuromgdm: anas sarwar, is that mohammed sarwar's son?21:42
mgdmneuro: think so21:42
czajkowskipopey: did you ever watch torchwood ?21:45
neuro"let's set up our own google and facebook"21:47
neurobecause that's worked so well up to this point21:48
mgdmMosh is pretty good21:48
mgdm(unrelated)21:48
brobostigongalloway taking funny potshots at farage. lol22:05
neurothe funny thing is, nothing was really "ugly" about the independence debate until farage arrived22:09
brianbhi how do i remove the latest flash plugin  which was pushed as a download today and revert back to my previous version?22:16
brianbthe reason is it does not work with the bbc iplayer - the old version did! so it would appear that the QA has NOT tested it using the BBC iplayer!!!!22:17
daftykinsis it causing problems?22:17
daftykinsah22:17
brianbevery time there is a new version of the flashplayer it causes a problem with the BBC iplayer rendering it in operative22:18
brianbi just want to remove it and get the version from the BBC22:19
daftykinssounds about right - but then you don't want to hold back flash from being updated, really22:19
brianbor get back the old version22:19
neurothe bbc don't distribute flash22:19
brianbwell i just want to use the BBC iplayer and so i will be held back if that is the case22:20
neurobrianb: are you using the free flash player or the non-free player?22:20
brianbthe one i downloaded from a link on the bbc site and not the one pushed it the update today22:21
neuroew22:21
brianbso why is the update not working with the BBC iplayer then?22:22
daftykinsi'd imagine there's a lag between a new version coming out and the Beeb getting their act together22:22
brianbmaybe so thats no good to me22:22
brianbso how do i remove the update22:23
mgdmdaftykins: I'd think it'd be something else - flash updates don't tend to break things like that in minor releases22:24
neurodaftykins: i'm using iplayer with 11.7.700 on mac right now, and it's fine22:24
daftykinsi'd expect so too, but then i don't know how anal'y the BBC lock it down22:24
mgdm'they don't', would be my guess22:24
daftykinsok well i personally expect you no longer have the old version present22:25
daftykinsso i think you're out of lock to 'roll back'22:25
neuroand i wouldn't be manually installing flash on ubuntu anyway22:25
daftykins*luck22:25
brianbas far as im concerned the update should have been tested using the bbc iplayer before it was pushed for general relsease22:25
daftykinsbrianb: i can't see that argument going far.22:25
neurobrianb: you can't expect QA to test with every website ever22:25
daftykins^+122:25
brianblook all i am asking is how i remove the update ok22:26
daftykinsanywho i'm not quite familiar enough with desktop flash use to advise - but i'm thinking a manual download of the older version would be what you need22:26
ormiretbrianb: how was your flash plugin updated (regular ubuntu updates?)? And is flash working on other sites?22:26
neurobrianb: if you did this command in a console:22:26
neurodpkg -l flash\* | grep ^ii22:26
brianbthe BBC is the most popular website with millions of users so it should have been in QA's remit to test it22:27
neuroand paste the output into a pastebin22:27
neuro...22:27
daftykinsbrianb: funnily enough Adobe could probably not care less about people wanting to watch their TV shows22:27
brianbit was updated using the ubuntu software notification of updates22:28
neurotum te tum te tum22:28
brianbit seems nor does ubuntu!22:28
neurobrianb: would you like some help?22:29
brianbyes22:29
daftykinsCanonical, i.e. Ubuntu are not responsible :)22:29
neuroplease try what i've asked already22:29
neuroin a console, do this:22:29
neurodpkg -l flash\* | grep ^ii22:29
neuroif there is any output, copy/paste it into a pastebin22:29
neuroand paste the url here22:29
brianb576299922:32
neuroum22:33
daftykinsDevlin: hello sir, didn't know you were a UK'ian22:33
neurothe full URL would be awesome :)22:33
DevlinYes, I am22:33
neuroi'm not a psychic ;)22:33
daftykinsDevlin: whereabouts are you from?22:33
Devlinyorkshire22:33
daftykinsah-har22:33
Devlinheart o'britain22:33
daftykinshoney spoke of your origins after being surprised there's a UK chan22:33
Devlinah right22:34
daftykins^_^22:34
Devlinwell i had to come and check it out lol22:34
daftykinsi'm a Channel Islander myself22:34
daftykins:)22:34
Devlinwhat was she saying about me?22:34
neurobrianb: url?22:34
Devlinlol22:34
daftykins'i summoned my brit'22:34
Devlinheh22:34
Devlinwell she hardly summoned me22:34
Devlinshe asked if i knew about this place22:35
daftykinsneuro: http://paste.ubuntu.com/5762999/22:35
daftykinsURL guessing point goes to me22:35
brianbthe pastbin url is the number i gave you22:35
daftykinsif i may say so22:35
Devlinand i thought i'd come and see if there was a legitimate uk channel22:35
daftykinsbrianb: sure but some people like to reduce the workload when they're giving help ;) there are lots of paste sites :D22:35
neurobrianb: you gave me a number, not a URL; i had no idea what site you'd used until daftykins did some jedi mind trick shenanigans22:36
daftykinsDevlin: well, it is that, most of these types are quite formally behind Canonical22:36
daftykinsneuro: :D22:36
* daftykins waves his hands22:36
Devlinright22:36
Devlinlol22:36
Devlinwell i hate to say it but i use linux mint22:36
brianbpaste.ubuntu.com/576299922:36
neurobrianb: so remove flashplugin-installer using the package manager thingy, enable multiverse, do an update, then install flashplugin-nonfree22:36
Devlinsince ubuntu runs like garbage on my netbooks22:36
daftykinsDevlin: had you considered a variant like xubuntu?22:38
Devlini didn't like xubuntu22:38
daftykinssounds fair22:38
brianbwhat is multiverse?22:38
daftykinsbrianb: a repository of packages22:39
neurohttp://askubuntu.com/questions/89096/how-do-i-enable-the-multiverse-repository22:40
Devlinhmm22:40
daftykinsDevlin: i take it you've encountered the likes of mc44 before?22:40
Devlinno22:41
daftykinsah22:41
Devlini think he's a pleb though22:41
daftykinsseemed a usual reaction was all ;)22:41
Devlinwell he's wrong22:41
Devlinhoney and I are two different people22:41
Devlinbut in a lot of ways we are one too22:41
daftykinsi may need to go and call Mulder and Scully22:42
daftykinsbut fair enough :)22:42
neurowtf are you two on about? :)22:42
daftykinsneuro: cross-channel hijinks22:42
neurohmm22:42
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daftykinsGuest10749: you appear to be coming a cropper with nickserv22:44
Guest29248daftykins, it's me :P22:45
Guest29248trying to get ZNC working22:46
Guest29248and came a cropper with the firewall22:46
Guest29248so I couldn't get in in time >.>22:46
daftykinsah :)22:46
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Monotoko:D22:48
brianbok thanks for you help have reinstalled the old version and the BBC iplayer is now working - the problem with the new version is that the sound does not work23:21
neurowhich will be fine until the next update23:22
neuroyou should check on the ubuntu forums to see if other people are having similar issues23:22
neuroyou really shouldn't run an out of date flash player23:23
neurotoo many security gotchas23:23
daftykinstoo true23:23
brianbso does the bbc use a non free version or what?23:24
neurono23:24
neurothe bbc uses Flash23:24
neurofull stop23:24
neurowhether or not the player in your browser is non-free or not is a client-side issue23:24
brianbadobe flash23:24
neuroi.e. yours, not the BBC's23:24
brianbwell i download it from adobe23:24
neuroall the bbc are doing is using html tags to specify that a flash app be streamed to your browser, and rendered by the client-side plugin23:25
brianbhad a link in the browsers history going back so used that link23:25
neurowhere you get your plugin from is your bailiwick23:25
brianb?23:26
neuroand the reason that the BBC link to adobe for you to install the plugin is that the bulk of their users will be IE/Firefox users on Windows, and Safari/Firefox users on Mac OS X23:26
neurowho do not have Flash pre-installed23:26
neuroif you're running Flash plugin on Ubuntu, you really should use a prepackaged version that's in the repos, be it the free or non-free version23:27
brianbso why does a later version cause problems with the sound/23:27
neuroi have no idea23:27
neuroare your kernel+sound drivers up-to-date?23:27
neuroand in fact, you haven't told us what version of ubuntu you are running23:29
brianbapart from the lastest flash update i always update my 12.04 when notifications are shown so yes all the latest kernel23:29
neuro12.04, ok23:29
neuroand what browser are you using?23:29
brianbfirefox23:30
brianbversion 2123:30
brianbaol mail will sometimes cause a crash due to problems with scripts23:31
brianbonly happens using aol mail23:31
neuroso don't use aol mail ;)23:31
neurokidding.23:31
brianbdoes not happen using chrome with aol mail23:32
neurohave you tried iplayer with chromium?23:33
brianbwhat i dont like about ubuntu is when say you get a problem with the browser the screen dimms and you lose control of the system like its in a quesent state untill after a few minutes23:34
neuroany app that becomes unresponsive does that23:34
brianbyes and thats works with the hardware im using23:34
neuroso if chromium works ...23:35
brianbyeah its very annoying23:35
neurowhy not just use chromium?23:35
brianbi do but tend to have lots and lots of tabs open with firefox i use it as a second browser23:36
brianbi have had as many as 60 tabs open in chrome23:37
neuroi have to use safari to book flights on virgin atlantic because their website doesn't like chrome23:37
neurosometimes stuff doesn't work quite right23:38
neuroespecially on ubuntu, which is effectively an experimental operating system (in my opinion)23:38
neuroat least when it comes to interfacing with closed source software23:38
neuroif you have a workaround, use it! :)23:38
brianbfirefox tends to remember a lot more then chrome if its closed down and reopened23:39
neurochrome remembers everything for me when i restart it23:39
neuroand i use it in multiple user mode to keep work and personal stuff separate23:39
neuroi can close my work window of tabs23:39
neurothen quit the app with my personal tabs window open23:39
neurorestart, i get my personal tabs back23:39
neurothen select my work user, and get all my work tabs back23:40
neuroEvery. Time.23:40
brianbso how do you use it in multiple modes?23:40
neuroi set up multiple users23:40
neuroin the settings page23:40
neurortfm23:40
brianbwhat in chrome23:40
neuroyes23:40
neuropretty sure chromium supports it too, no reason why it shouldn't23:41
brianbive never done that23:41
brianbso how do you set it up for multiple user mode?23:41
neurohttp://www.chromium.org/user-experience/multi-profiles23:41
neurortfm23:42
brianbok thanks23:42
brianbmind you chrome is much more faster then firefox23:42
neurothat's why i use it, personally23:42
neuromemory footprint is lower too, especially for the number of tabs i keep open23:42
brianbhow many tabs do you have open23:43
neurodepends on what i'm doing23:43
neuroanything between 50 and 150 depending on how busy i am23:44
neuroacross two windows23:44
neurox2 if i'm using two MBPs at the same time23:44
brianbim using Haiku for the irc using their vision irc client on a old amd laptop of 8 years and on a more modern laptop with intel dual core for ubuntu23:45
neuroi probably shouldn't say in here what i use ;)23:46
brianbmac23:46
neuro:)23:47
brianbi have a mini mac23:47
neurothe amount of paid, proprietory software i use during a day is just stupid :)23:47
brianbreally23:48
neuroLinkinus, Coda, Sublime Text, Transmit, Office 2011, Office 2013, Pixelmator, MS RDP Client ...23:49
brianbso is your daily platforms windows based23:49
neuronope23:49
neuromainly centos+ubuntu with some win2k3/win2k823:49
daftykinsneuro: it's safe - i'm running Windows23:50
neurophew :)23:50
daftykinsthey haven't chased me out yet... ;)23:50
brianblol23:50
neuro7? 8?23:50
daftykinsi'm typing from ubuntu server though \o/23:50
daftykins7 ja23:50
neurowin 7 is probably the best windows OS since win2k23:50
neuroit's stable, it's useful, it's usable23:50
daftykinsi agree, i need exposure to what i support for people too23:50
daftykinsas a freelance IT'er23:51
neurogood call23:51
neuroi usually have win7 close to hand, i have a dell vostro that i keep handy for close encounters23:51
neuroplus win7 parallels VMs on both my main macbook pros23:51
neuroless said about win8 on my dell gaming thingamajig, the better23:52
neurooh good, speaking of flash, i've just had an updater notification appear23:53
neuroi was going to quit chrome anyway ;)23:53
brianbthe problem with windows all versions - is when you switch on a pc with it installed and connected online to the net the auto updates always start just when you want to use it or if you power down it then decides to do a  update and install lots23:54
brianbof stuff23:54
neuroi'd rather it did update than didn't23:54
brianbevery time i boot into windows it does a\ update23:55
brianbthen a restart a few times23:55
brianbbut all operating systems have their little quarks23:57
neurowith their rules of acquisition ...23:57
neuroand their dabo tables ...23:57
neurono Deep Space Nine fans in the house then? oh well :)23:58
daftykinsbrianb: there are ways to control such things. manual updating is the main one :D23:59
neuroyup23:59
daftykinsneuro: yeah i am a bit :) i was just elsewhere then though23:59
brianbi know23:59

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