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knightwisemorning07:06
diploMorning all07:16
knightwisehey diplo07:22
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popeymorning all07:43
czajkowskiello popey07:47
Garymorning sexy people07:48
diploHow's the states czajkowski ?07:48
* popey tickles Gary 07:48
* Gary makes a mess07:48
czajkowskidiplo: nt bad, been kinda busy to do sightseeing07:48
diplo:(07:48
GaryO_o  I mean by knocking stuff about with flailing arms and legs caused by the tickling, honest07:49
diploI'd love to visit the states at some point07:49
Garyme too, if it wasn't for the americans07:49
popeyheh07:50
TheOpenSourcererIt's nice to visit but sheesh I couldn't live there.07:52
popeyparts of it I could07:52
popeythe bits around the edges07:52
TheOpenSourcererCanada ;-)07:52
TheOpenSourcererBoston is almost agreeable.07:52
TheOpenSourcererWest Coast is just weird.07:53
czajkowskiTheOpenSourcerer: indeed07:55
czajkowskiI'm in NYC again nice to visit, but I'd never live here. nor would I raise a family here.07:55
brobostigongood morning everyone,07:58
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dogmatic69anyone tried windows 8?08:09
dogmatic69I think it is quite nice :D08:10
SuperMattD:08:10
SuperMattI'll be honest: once you disable to mordern-ui, it is indeed a very stable OS08:11
dogmatic69even the funny blocks are quite good tbh. I thought it would be complete crap...08:12
diploHated it myself, doubt I'll try again anytime soon08:17
mungbeandogmatic69: about to replace win8 with win7 for mother-in-law08:19
dogmatic69Only tried it because I got my GF a new laptop and that is what was on it.08:19
mungbeanthere is trying and using08:20
SuperMattI'm sure on a laptop the modern ui isn't too bad, but I have dual 24" screens. I don't want to see only 5 options at a time08:20
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BigRedSI don't care how many options I see, I like the idea that MS is switching to a search-based desktop08:36
DJonesBigRedS: Canonical should sue them for copying the dash interface/idea (as a desktop search idea)08:38
BigRedSwas it canonical's idea?08:38
DJonesProbably not, but everybody seems to be sueing everybody else for things just as frivolous08:39
DJoneseg round corners..Surely the chickens should sueing over that (assuming the chicken really did come first)08:40
* DJones debates whether to instal the KDE desktop to have a play with08:44
BigRedSI've been wondering that recently08:45
BigRedStrying to work out what the best debian-based KDE experience is likely to be08:45
DJonesI'm also contemplating give slackware another go (in a virtualbox) to see how its changed since I last used it (6-7 years should have seen some considerable improvements)08:47
* popey notes that windows 7 had search, along with osx, ios and android, long before ubuntu did08:47
popeyon windows 7 I press the windows key and then type what I want - just like ubuntu08:48
brobostigonjust like in gnome3.08:48
diployeah always liked that feature08:48
diploUsed to have a plugin on windows before they had that option to do it08:48
DJonesMust admit, I've not used Win 7 long enough to find that out08:48
diploIf ubuntus dash was faster I'd be happier, defo better now in 13.0408:48
knightwiseI use Kupfer as a launcher .. faster then dash and the launcher08:51
bigcalmGood morning peeps :)08:54
AlanBelldid windows 7 not have an applications menu on the start button like XP then?08:57
AlanBellI am using gnome fallback at the moment and my "other" bit of the applications menu is 5 1/2 screens tall08:59
diploIt does AlanBell, but not very easy to navigate imo, I rarely used it.. just typed the app I wanted to start09:01
AlanBellbit like unity then09:02
AlanBelljust give up and type it09:02
AlanBellwhich isn't really an option on the phone, that has to be navigable graphically09:04
diployeah pretty much09:05
popeyuhm09:05
popeyno09:05
popeyphone has dash search and hud09:06
popeyon my iphone I search for apps rather than hunt around for an icon on some random page in a folder somewhere09:06
popeysame on ubuntu phone09:06
diploI can do that on android, can't say I ever have though09:07
diploI always launch from the icon09:07
diploWhere as PC/lappy I always type to search, prefer that09:07
popeyi have less on my android phone so easier to find stuff09:07
popeyiphone is full of stuff09:07
diplo:)09:09
popey156 apps on my iphone (just counted)09:09
diplobloomin eck!09:09
diploI've only had my 'new' GS2 for a couple of months, my Wildfire I couldn't install more than about 10-15 apps before it ran out of space..09:10
popey113 on android09:10
diploSo it's quite new to me to be able to install more apps :)09:10
brobostigonaccording to google play, i have 186 apps on my nexus7.09:10
dogmatic69anyone know how to use variables in /etc/fstab ?09:11
dogmatic69seems like the usual bash way does not work.09:11
dogmatic69[mntent]: line 15 in /etc/fstab is bad09:11
BigRedSusual bash? What does line 15 look like?09:13
dogmatic69var="foobar";09:13
BigRedSdoes that normally work? I don't see why it would...09:14
dogmatic69yep, how else do you define variables then?09:14
BigRedSI never have in an fstab09:14
BigRedSBut I've never really wanted to09:15
dogmatic69ye, i will just move it09:15
dogmatic69I am mounting a bunch of things so instead of repeating just use variables.09:15
dogmatic69eg: $address/backups /home/dogmatic69/Backups $config09:15
dogmatic69instead of //<ip>/path /local/path cifs uid=dogmatic69 credentials=/home/dogmatic69/.smbpassword,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 009:17
dogmatic69they all the same besides the paths, no point duplicating it all over imo09:17
BigRedSman fstab doesn't seem to say it supports variables09:17
BigRedSand it would seem weird to - it's a pretty static file and most text editors can replicate the use of a variable :)09:18
dogmatic69ye, I will just make a .sh file and put /some/path/file.sh in rc.local09:18
BigRedS :%s/defaults/defaults,ro/g   rather than editing the value of $options or something09:18
BigRedSyeah, that seems the more normal way of doing it09:19
dogmatic69I was following this btw https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MountWindowsSharesPermanently09:19
dogmatic69it says in fstab09:19
BigRedSthat doesn't seem to use any variables09:20
dogmatic69ye09:21
dogmatic69man, the command does not even work...09:22
popeyyay, my home server has 3 9's uptime! :D09:22
popey   %up               99.926 | since                     Sat Nov 10 06:34:31 201209:22
popeyhttp://paste.ubuntu.com/5779882/09:23
JamesTai2Good morning all - have a happy, relaxed World Sauntering Day. :)09:23
brobostigon23c this afternoon, can i spend the day in the fridge, will help me and my eeepc to not overheat aswell.09:26
knightwisebrobostigon: what eeepc do you have ?09:28
brobostigonknightwise: 900 ssd.09:28
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dogmatic69does 'mount -t cifs' not work with ip addresses?09:51
mungbeanits not warm at all here in london10:09
Laneyi so love being on hold to east midlands trains10:09
mungbeandogmatic69: you mean smbmount?10:09
Laneytheir "all our agents are busy" recorded man sounds pleasantly gruff10:09
dogmatic69mungbean: smbmount is no more, hence my problems...10:10
dogmatic69update to 13 and its gone. got it working with mount -t now10:10
popeybigcalm: gimmie a gmail account you want inviting10:19
TheOpenSourcererI've never heard of it. What are you supposed to do exactly? Am looking at the website but that tells me zilch as far as I can tell.10:19
popeybigcalm: sent10:20
popeyyou install the app and login, then it shows a map like screen around your area10:20
popeyyou get notified of "portals" near you10:20
christelis it like geocaching but with pubs?10:20
popeythese could be statues, pubs, or other significant buildings / structures10:20
bigcalmpopey: ta :)10:20
mgdmOh, i knew someone who played that10:20
mgdmor, something very similar. It was probably in 2011 in Montreal, though...10:21
TheOpenSourcererAnd what are you supposed to do then?10:21
popeyyou walk towards them and you will see they are "owned" (or not) by a team - there's two teams, Blue (Resistance) and Green (Enlightened)10:21
popey(I am green)10:21
popey(and so should you be)10:21
popeywhen you get within range you can "hack" the portal10:22
TheOpenSourcererI'm getting bored already.10:22
mungbeanlol10:22
mungbeansounds boring10:22
popeynvm then10:22
TheOpenSourcererNo offence10:22
popeyit isnt10:22
popeybut its hard to explain10:22
popeyforget it10:22
mungbean4sq for boys10:22
TheOpenSourcererI'm playing Golf on Friday :-D10:22
TheOpenSourcererA proper game.10:22
mungbeanumm10:22
popeyhey ho10:23
mungbeangolf is linkedin before computers10:23
TheOpenSourcereryay10:23
popeyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOAy-_GUQ1Q explains it better10:24
popeyand with video so people dont get bored reading text10:24
bigcalmThat's a well produced app10:24
mungbeanbet it eats battery10:24
popeyspent the evening out walking last night doing it and most people had battery extenders or external battery packs10:25
popeyso yeah, it eats battery10:25
popeya guy I was with had full charge when we started, it was near dead after 2 hours10:26
* brobostigon also has 5 invites.10:26
mungbeanuses all functions of phone all at once10:26
mungbeanscreen is worst though i guess10:26
brobostigonor tablet.*10:26
popey3g/gpu10:26
bigcalmWell, I have a glass of orange juice and a bowl of grapes and raspberries. I win!10:27
popeyone guy had a nexus 10 with him10:27
popeytethered to his phone10:27
mungbeani was reading the n7 thread on reddit about how it sux because the wear on the SSD is causing slowdown10:27
popeylink?10:28
mungbeanhttp://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1gkiuv/one_year_later_the_nexus_7_has_gone_from_the_best/10:28
popeyinteresting10:29
popeyone guy had a galaxy s3 out with him, the colour on it was unnaturally bright, made my nexus 4 look really washed out10:29
Laneyyeah i have noticed my n7 slowing down10:30
Laneybet phablet-flash is doing a number on the work one ...10:30
mungbeananything about the n7 hardware in particular though i wonder?10:31
mungbeanor just lots of owners who say me too10:31
popeycant say I have noticed it slowing down, it's slow anyway probably the multi-user thing doesn't help10:31
popeytakes ages to switch to another user10:31
mungbean"Yes, and both are caused by IO waits in the kernel from the eMMC controller locking and trying to deal with degraded flash."10:31
BigRedSWhoo! I have a Galaxy S310:35
bigcalmBigRedS: just as the S4 comes out. Nice timing10:36
BigRedSI'm not sure how long this attempt to stick with vendor Android is going to last, though. This feel sinister in the same way as all those installers that quietly install IE toolbars10:36
BigRedSyeah, I didn't find any particularly good reason to get the 4 over the 310:36
BigRedSand otterbox make an indestructible case for the 310:36
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bigcalmBigRedS: I've been quite happy with the vendor install on my S310:36
BigRedSbigcalm: yeah, it just feels really low on features and config options10:37
BigRedSI can't work out how to make the app drawer thing behave like I thought it always did, for example. It wants me to swipe sideways through pages...10:37
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directhexi still don't like android10:38
BigRedSIt's not that bad10:43
BigRedSit's a lot like the Linux desktop in that it feels like it's not-quite-finished and nobody's decided to treat it as a product yet10:43
diploBigRedS: That's a Samsung thing I believe, probably an 'app' for that :D10:43
BigRedSdiplo: I've been using the Go launcher for ages which does work that way. But if I'm going to install that I might as well just stick a working image on :) Think I'll give it more than 20 mins before I conclude my judgement :)10:45
BigRedSwell, I'll try :)10:45
LaneyI immediately de-samsungified my S3 :-)10:46
diploI need to do my S2, but everytime I look at rooting it I find about 20 different options and decide I cba to look10:48
diploDifferent way for different kernels etc10:48
diploAnd last time I couldn't find it correctly, unless someone has a better way of rooting / flashing :)10:48
BigRedSmy S2 was pretty straightforward I think10:49
mgdmI want a current Android phone - my main phone is an iPhone 4S, and my gf has my old HTC Desire, but it's on its last legs10:49
LaneyI just followed the CM instructions10:49
BigRedS'cause I got it a while after release, so everything had calmed down and I just followed the cyanogen howto10:49
Laneyget clockwork from here, do this, get CM from get.cm, ???, profit10:49
BigRedSThat's generally the best way - wait 'til it's been out for six weeks or so and teh instructions are down, and then it's a trivial install10:49
diploI'll look again, it was the rooting part I think was the issue, I did my wildfire which was a PITA but found it simple enough to follow, last time I looked at the S2 I thought bah10:50
BigRedSHTCs need some specially-formatted microsd card IIRC10:50
diploheh yep10:50
diploA goldcard or something from memory10:50
BigRedSyeah10:51
BigRedSOoh, should probably stick Ubuntu on my S2...10:52
diploI was going to try it aswell, but not completed yet last time i checked10:54
BigRedSYeah, no phone-function support - GSM, 3G etc.10:56
diploOK, found a good wiki for use with heimdall10:56
BigRedSso I'd end up with a tablet that's smaller than my phone :)10:56
diploWill try in my lunch10:56
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DJonesOut of interest and non computer related, has anybody here had a new boiler fitted recently? Just getting some quotes and wanted some comparisons if possible11:44
diploFitted my own, so probably don't count, but it does seem a bit of a rip off after what it took to fit mine11:48
DJonesI wouldn't take the risk of fitting my own, knowing little about wiring up/connecting gas etc, it'll probably be my cousin installing it, so its mostly going to be the cost of the equipment11:50
diploWell mine was about 6/700 quid a few years ago11:51
diploBut I have a friend who works at a plumbing supply place, wasn't cost, but was cheaper11:51
diploAnd yeah, father in law and me fitted it so that makes it cheaper for you as well11:51
DJonesThat sounds about similar to what he saying, I'm also getting a couple of thermostatic valves for radiators and a hand held remote control/thermostat11:52
diployeah, I did the whole house whilst fitting the boiler, new radiators throughout and thermostatics on all11:52
diploIncluding pipes etc I think I spent ~2k ish11:53
diploWhich is still cheaper than a boiler being fitted by an external person, let alone the rest11:53
diploI'm sure my sisters 1 bed flat, they wanted 3/3500k to fit radiators ( 2 ) and a boiler!11:54
DJonesThat doesn't surprise me, one bloke quoted around £1500 for the boiler & fitting alone, not including valves & remote11:54
diploI would have got my father in law to do it if I was still married :)11:55
DJonesI priced up the boiler one the web and that was under £750, so was doubling the price for labour11:55
diploIt's really wrong, but they have the market so you're screwed..11:55
* diplo recommends doing a course and doing it yourself11:55
diploThen pay someone to sign it off11:56
DJonesHeh11:56
diploStill be cheaper!11:56
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DJonesI'm sure it would, but more stressful afterwards....Is that gas inlet joint I soldered really safe...11:57
DJonesSpecially with a nagging wife asking questions11:57
diploBottle of testing guess to test that :)11:57
diplolol, there is that :D11:57
DJonesKnowing mine, she'll stood in the shower saying is it done yet, as soon as I start taking the packaging off the new one11:58
diploheh12:05
mungbeanhttp://www.psmag.com/blogs/news-blog/dim-lighting-sparks-creativity-60437/12:26
diploSo virtualbox or KVM peeps? As we have the all evil Oracle :)12:35
mungbeanvmware?12:36
diploCould do I guess, whats the free version like ?12:36
mungbeangood12:36
mungbeanwell good enough for most12:36
mungbeandepends if u wanna use shared storage and vmotion12:36
mungbeanwhats the use case?12:37
diploJust local VM's for CentOs/Ubuntu/Debian for testing12:37
diploKeep meaning to try KVM, but VBox I've gotten used to, but it's not the end of the world. Just thought I'd ask other peoples thoughts12:38
mungbeani'd prob use kvm12:38
mungbeanbut i use vmware in case i ever need to transfer to the office VM environment12:38
MartijnVdSmungbean: watch out.. next thing you know you'll be saying "I'd totes use kvm"12:38
diplomungbean: I saw you post a link last night, were you oimon before ?12:39
mungbeanyes12:39
mungbeanand mungojerry12:39
mungbeani change about once per year to shake off google12:39
diplohah, wondered where you disappeared to a few months ago12:40
mungbean:D12:40
diploI've not changed my nick in about 10 years, started off as the_diplomat or something I think12:41
diploAnd everyone shortened it to diplo12:41
mungbeancloudstack is now an apache project btw12:42
diploNot sure what cloudstack is, will google later12:43
mungbeanlike openstack12:44
jpdsmungbean: Still written in Java.12:44
mungbean:(12:44
mungbeanThe current release of CloudStack supports pre-packaged enterprise solutions like Citrix XenServer and VMware vSphere, as well as KVM or Xen running on Ubuntu or CentOS.12:45
jpdsdiplo: What's there to 'try' with KVM?12:45
mungbeanas yoda would say "do or do not, there is no try"12:45
jpdsIt's just another virt technology.12:46
MartijnVdSmungbean: try {} catch {}12:46
MartijnVdSmungbean: or maybe Yoda prefers Perl, where "try" is written as "eval {}"12:47
diplojpds: Setting it up I guess, the differences of12:47
jpdsdiplo: sudo apt-get install kvm virt-manager libvirt-bin12:48
jpdsdiplo: Done.12:48
mungbeanvirt-manager is grim12:49
mungbeantypical redhat creation12:49
diplo:)12:49
diploInstalling as I type12:49
jpdsmungbean: It does the job for a test VM environment.12:50
diploThat's all I require really12:51
diploUsed KVM a few years ago, but not touched it since12:51
BigRedSmungbean: it could be worse12:52
jpdsMartijnVdS: http://devopsreactions.tumblr.com/post/50153934733/try-catch12:52
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davmor2popey, bigcalm: broken sword should now be available for download12:55
diploheh jpds, I've had to catch my kids like that more than once.. I've never had to do it carrying another though! Skills!!12:57
popeydavmor2: i see it in the list13:00
davmor2popey: woohoo!13:01
bigcalmdavmor2: not in Steam yet13:55
davmor2bigcalm: Y U SWEAR AT ME! ;)13:56
bigcalmdavmor2: keep with the times man!14:17
bigcalmFound it to be quite suited to being played on my tablet14:17
popeyhttp://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/google-create-a-native-linux-google-drive-application14:21
popeysomeone pointed me at that14:21
popey0 signatories14:21
popeyi thought that had been around ages, would have thought someone would have signed it by now14:21
TheOpenSourcerer"with 9,114 supporters"14:22
popey"with 0 supporters14:22
popey"14:22
popeyhah, must be adblock or something14:22
mungbeanWFM with adblock14:23
popeyah no, its because i block google analytics14:24
mungbean9114 now14:24
* popey hugs ghostery14:24
mungbean886 needed14:24
mungbeanuntil nothing happens14:24
popey+114:24
mgdmpopey: did you see the thing the other day about how Ghostery sends tracking data to the ad company that owns it?14:27
popeythat is an option14:27
popeywhich I switched off on install14:27
mgdmAh; the article I had read suggested that wasn't simple to do14:27
popeytickbox14:27
mgdmI've not tried it myself though14:27
popeyi like it14:28
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mungbeanwhat's the longest uptime on any of your servers right now?14:45
mgdm377 days14:46
directhexhigh uptime is fancy talk for "does not apply kernel patches"14:46
mgdmthat's a dev VM, though14:46
mungbean606 atm14:46
mungbeani managed > 1111 days on a solaris box14:46
mungbeanonly turned it off to decommision14:47
mungbeanmost vulnerabilities are local exploit14:47
mungbeannot remote14:47
mgdmdid you see the video of the SunOS box that was turned off after 3000+ days of uptime?14:48
mgdmIt was like a wake14:48
mungbeanhappy or sad one?14:48
popeyalso seen elsewhere today.. "Uptime is just a measure of the number of known kernel bugs you have on your system."14:48
mgdmmungbean: sad14:48
popeyi liked the netware one too14:49
popeyhttp://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/epic-uptime-achievement-can-you-beat-16-years/14:49
popey6030 days14:49
mgdmpopey: blimey14:50
AlanBellimpressive power reliability14:51
mungbeanor generator14:51
mungbeanmore impressive hardware reliability :D14:51
mungbeanreceiving Spam from SAP14:56
mungbeannot welcome14:57
mungbeanespecially when a chat window opens on the unsub page15:00
popeyhahah15:00
* popey looks out the window and remembers SAP15:01
davmor2popey: you remember being a what?15:01
redtape|renegadeOT : Not sure if Doctor Wholy is on in an hour but here's a vidz off a tweet I got today from Bosnia .. seems to travel ! :::: | http://youtu.be/eRm8qmM-DTg?t=4m18s | ::::  http://www.tvguide.co.uk/episodeguide.asp?title=Doctor+Who&  :::: Apologies if I have posts the vid. before...15:11
redtape|renegadeleaves.15:11
* brobostigon captured an ingress portal, man.15:11
mungbeanthat redtape guy..what's all that about?15:11
popeydunno, I personally find it irritating15:12
mungbeanwhats the point dumping a OT link and running away?15:12
mungbeanits just noise15:12
christelis that all he ever does15:26
christeldrive-by spam that is15:26
popeymostly, yes15:27
mungbeandoes he do it on other chans too?15:27
christeli noticed it a couple of times before15:27
BigRedSyeah, he seems to keep doing that15:27
BigRedSor she...15:27
christelhe wouldnt appear to be in any other channels, i have no idea if he joins and does that and immediately parts elsewhere too or just here15:28
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DJonesOccasionally he does talk for a bit15:36
mungbeanat night15:36
mungbeanwhen the moon is bright15:36
Garybut only on a full moon15:37
mungbeanOut of the night, when the full moon is bright, comes a horseman known as Zorro. This bold (redtape)renegade carves a Z with his blade, a Z that stands for Zorro.15:37
* Laney just did a huge burp and a child outside screamed at the "loud noise"15:41
mgdm\o/15:43
mungbeanlol15:44
BigRedShaha15:48
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DJonesOne for cat lovers amongst you http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/17/us-mexico-cat-idUSBRE95G1782013061717:27
MartijnVdSಠ_ಠ18:01
dosagimaEvening18:42
mungbeanlego  movie? i supppose it was inevtable19:09
mungbeanhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1490017/#lb-vi394780008919:11
daftykinshttp://imgur.com/P4RfyeM,6ge6fjv,JbOlygV,dAmT9wq,if8WI0P,TSOT2x719:30
daftykinsnew LCD for my friends' sisters laptop hasn't quite worked D:19:30
neuroyay, youtube is b0rked19:32
daftykinsoh?19:33
neuro503ing like a boss19:33
daftykinsooh yes19:33
daftykins502 that time for me \o/19:34
daftykinsaren't i speshul19:34
SuperEngineerUUPC time folks!19:34
daftykinswho, what?19:34
SuperEngineerdaftykins: ububtu-uk-podcast19:35
daftykinsoh that still goes on19:35
* neuro installs ububtu19:36
SuperEngineerno comment19:36
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* neuro is uninstalling ububtu20:39
neuroit's rubbish20:39
neuroobviously just a lame rip off of ubuntu with a different name20:40
zleapneuro, in what way,  granted i am using Lubuntu20:40
neurozleap: it's a joke from earlier20:40
zleapok sorry20:40
neuronp :)20:40
mungbeanjust watched les revenants20:40
zleapk20:40
mungbeananyone watching it?20:40
neuroi'd be a bit of a wazzock to come into an ubuntu channel and say "ubuntu is rubbish"20:40
mungbeanit happens20:40
neuromungbean: no20:41
neuroand yes, i know it happens20:41
mungbeanjust before kicked off20:41
neurobut i'm in here all the time20:41
daftykinsneuro: and yet it really does happen :(20:41
neuroso if *I* was to do that ...20:41
neuroi mean i make snipey comments about things occasionally20:41
neurobut those are just opinions20:41
daftykinswell i'd certainly think less of you :>20:41
neurothe thrill of trolling aside, i never understand the need to bash other people about why their choice of X is rubbish20:42
Azelphurhttp://uk.insight.com/apps/productpresentation?product_id=0001792065 this looks kinda interesting, has £100 cashback, so works out at like £7820:42
Azelphursays it's RHEL certified too20:42
neurounless your choice is clearly wrong, in which case, you suck and i rule20:42
Azelphurpondering getting one :P20:42
neurowow, cheapest N54L i've seen in a while20:42
neuroAzelphur: if you need grunt, they're crap20:43
neurothe CPU is comparable to an Atom20:43
Azelphurneuro: ah, atm my home server is using a sempron 14020:43
neuroyeah for a storage box, it's el neato20:43
AzelphurI wonder how the power would be on that thing though20:43
neuroshame the sata ports aren't hot plug20:43
neuroneuro@saratoga:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -i bogo20:44
neurobogomips: 2994.9120:44
neurobogomips: 2995.0720:44
Azelphurwonder if it'd take a full size PCIe gpu too20:44
neuroiirc no20:44
Azelphuraww20:44
Azelphurthen yea, think I'll pass, my current box is probably ample20:44
Azelphurcase only takes one hdd though which is a bit shit20:44
neuroyour current one?20:45
Azelphuryea, my current home server box20:45
neuroand watch your language :)20:45
Azelphurhehe20:45
neuroin theory you could boot the n54l off of a usb stick20:45
neuroand use the 4 bays for RAIDy goodness20:45
neuroi say in theory, i know people who have done it20:45
neuroi just use mine as a general purpose odds-and-ends storage box20:46
neuro2 USB drives for backups and 1 internal 2TB for "stuff"20:46
neuroand whatever it came with for the OS20:46
Azelphuryea, it'd be really cool at that no doubt20:46
neuroit is20:46
Azelphurlike a NAS on steriods for cheap :)20:46
neuropretty much20:46
neuroi use rsnapshot, so it's not exactly nippy20:46
Azelphuroh me too, does it not perform well for that?20:47
neurothen again if i swapped out the 2GB for 8GB, it might cache better20:47
neurowell to be fair i have a lot of stuff being backed up20:47
Azelphuryea, I backup a lot too, from my server20:47
neuroat least 10 gig of maildirs, which is the real pain in the bum20:47
neurolots of tiny files + hard link creation = slooooooow20:47
Azelphurhehe20:48
neuromy hourly backups take about 70 minutes20:48
neurowhere "hourly" = the default every 4 hours20:48
AzelphurI always loved that, it confused me for so long.20:48
Azelphurscumbag rsnapshot eh ;)20:49
neuro30 mins is taken up with the initial cp -al, and the last 20 minutes is expiring out the old backup20:49
neurowell yeah :)20:49
neurobut it works oh so well20:49
Azelphurindeed it does20:49
neuroi have 6 months of backups from loads of sources in a nice tidy half terabyte chunk of hard linked disk20:50
Azelphuryea, I have 2x 3TB plugged into my home server at the moment...via USB220:50
* Azelphur cringes20:50
neurobeen there, done that20:50
neuroit'll bite you in the backside at some point20:51
Azelphurno doubt20:51
neuroi had 6x 1TB USB2 on my old server20:51
neurolost the whole smash (RAID5) when i lost two drives in quick succession20:51
Azelphurhaha, ouch20:51
neuroyeah20:51
AzelphurI'm not raiding at all, this is just for movies mostly20:51
Azelphurso, the internet is my backup \o/20:51
neuroi now have 2 readynas boxes, 11TB of RAIDy goodness20:51
neuroha20:52
Azelphurnice20:52
neuroand i just mount stuff over nfs or afp20:52
neuroone of them has my homedirs on it too, which is handy20:52
neurosince i run a few ubuntu instances in the house20:52
Azelphurcool :)20:53
neuroand they get backed up to mr rsnapshot on the N45L20:53
Azelphurwould be nice to move my backups onto20:53
neuropretty sure this lot won't fit on a 1TB RAID1 array20:53
neuroroot@saratoga:~# du -sch /data/cargobays/*/Video20:53
neuro3.6T/data/cargobays/0/Video20:53
neuro2.1T/data/cargobays/1/Video20:53
neuro5.6Ttotal20:53
Azelphuratm I do backups on my desktop, which has the problem of whenever my desktop gets modified, I stop taking backups.20:53
neuroi have backups all over the place20:54
neuroall linux stuff and sysconfigs from desktop macs go to rsnapshot20:54
neuromacs go to timemachine using various sources (mainly fw and usb drives)20:54
neurowindows ... meh20:54
neuroall i use those for is vsphere and steam/origin20:55
neuroif they break i'll just reinstall vsphere and the steam/origin clients and redownload games :D20:55
Azelphurhappen to know how much power it pulls?20:55
neurogawd knows20:56
AzelphurI'm tempted to get it to use as a NAS to get the storage away from my HTPC frontend20:56
neuroa lot20:56
neuromy leccy bill is ~ £1Kpa20:56
Azelphurhaha20:56
directhexi have games which don't run on steam/windows but run on steam/linux20:56
directhexwhich is runny20:56
neurowhich reminds me, i must be due a meter reading soon20:56
directhexfunny20:56
AzelphurI'll sleep on it and see if I still want it in the morning ;)20:57
neurowatch out, they tend to sell out20:57
Azelphurah20:57
neuroebuyer had a run on them last week20:57
Azelphurspose I'm not going to find anything better/cheaper to plug a bunch of HDDs into20:58
neurorpi?20:58
neuro:)20:58
Azelphurdoes that have satas?20:58
neurono but it has usbs20:58
Azelphuryea, that's bad ;)20:59
neurousb + powered hub + usb sata cradles :)20:59
Azelphurthat's what I'm doing atm, just piling USB hdds20:59
neuroyeah, don't do that20:59
neuroin all seriousness20:59
Azelphurindeed, it's bad20:59
neuroi am the cautionary tale20:59
neuroi went from 8 IDE drives piled up inside a P4 server to 6 USB hanging off a Pentium D to PROPER NAS BOXES :)21:00
neuroguess which is more reliable21:00
Azelphurhehe21:00
neurobut yeah for storage, that N40L is a pretty good deal21:00
neuroN54L, soz21:00
neuro Timing buffered disk reads: 416 MB in  3.00 seconds = 138.46 MB/sec21:01
daftykinsthat sounds like burst21:06
daftykinsyip21:06
Azelphurlol I broke gedit21:48
Seeker`Azelphur: you break everything :P22:40
Azelphurindeed22:40

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