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mungbean!ping08:14
lubotu3pong!08:14
MartijnVdSgood morning!08:15
mungbeanthought my session had hung08:15
mungbeanlast update 11:26pm08:15
MooDoomorning08:15
MartijnVdSI have a few nickchanges from earlier this morning08:15
mungbeani put those on ignore08:16
MartijnVdSI have joins and parts on ignore, nick changes can be useful sometimes08:16
mungbeanhttp://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=51.492159,-0.19092&spn=0.005291,0.013937&sll=51.492140,-0.193028&layer=c&cid=12502927659667388442&panoid=c9UMhWP_MWm9U0L48xEjYw&cbp=13,291.8,,0,18.86&gl=US&t=m&cbll=51.492132,-0.192862&z=1708:19
mungbeanfollow the >> arrows...08:19
MartijnVdSmungbean: woo :)08:19
MartijnVdSmungbean: it's bigger on the inside!08:20
MooDoolol08:20
mungbeani always drink my chocolate milk too fast :(08:29
mungbeanouch08:29
mungbeanhow do i selectively block a user's twitter updates that are getting sent to facebook?08:39
MartijnVdSI think you can't? Except for disabling the auto-forwarding08:40
mungbeanit used to be possible to hide eejit@twitter updates selectively08:41
mungbeanits possible to choose to unselect games, comments and likes etc, and "other activity"08:42
brobostigongood morning everyone,08:44
MartijnVdSheh http://www.shouldireadthedailymail.com/08:51
JamesTaitGood morning all, happy Soyuz TM-25 landing day!08:58
MartijnVdSJamesTait: Not TM-34?08:59
JamesTaitMartijnVdS, not according to Wikipedia.  That landed on November 10th, apparently.09:00
MartijnVdSJamesTait: but they're more Ubuntu-relevant09:01
MartijnVdSs/they're/that one is09:01
JamesTaitWhat is this relevance of which you speak?09:02
mungbeanmir?09:02
JamesTaitNo, I mean "relevance".  What is it?09:02
MartijnVdSsabdfl was on TM-34.. though the TM-25 "Mir" connection is good ;)09:03
mungbeanwhy does shuttleworth look completely different in the space pics?09:03
mungbeanhe doesn't look like the same person09:04
MartijnVdSdoes he?09:04
mungbeanhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Mark_Shuttleworth_NASA.jpg09:04
neuroshort hair09:04
neuroyounger09:04
neurofreefall09:04
mungbeanShattlbort09:04
mungbeanis the russian name09:04
MartijnVdSb=v, so shattlvort09:05
mungbeanShattlvort09:05
neuronu par ruski?09:05
MartijnVdS(Voldemort?)09:05
mungbeanda konechno09:05
mungbeanblurry pic09:05
mungbeanya lublu morozhenoe09:06
mungbeanthat pic looks photoshopped head09:06
neurokhorosho dlya vas!09:07
neuroand what flavour?09:07
neuroya lyublyu lampy09:08
neuroya lyublyu kover09:09
MartijnVdSWait.. this is #ubuntu-uk(raine) now?09:09
neurohaha09:09
neurowas just thinking that09:09
bigcalmo.O09:09
mungbeankoshka v sadu09:09
neurothe number of times i've seen people mess up mailman installs because they pick 'uk' for the language rather than 'gb' ...09:10
* neuro is about to throw his phone out the window09:13
MartijnVdSneuro: time for a Win8 phone?09:14
neurobloomin' constant gmail notifications about the same bloody email over an hour ago09:14
neurogonna have to reinstall the gmail app09:14
neuroagain09:14
neuroi have to do this like every couple of months09:15
mungbeanCM or stock android?09:15
neuroyou're funny09:15
MartijnVdSmungbean: neuro is a microsoft supporter (proof: he pre-ordered an xbone)09:15
neuroiOS 6.1.3 (10B329)09:16
neuroMartijnVdS: i'm platform agnostic09:16
neurobest tool for the job and all that09:16
dwatkinsI'd prefer a zbox.09:16
mungbeanthe best tool is android09:16
neuroalthough i wouldn't say i'm a "microsoft supporter"09:16
mungbeanhave you, or do you buy their products?09:17
neuroout of all the computers i've bought over the years, i've only kept a microsoft OS on four of them09:17
dwatkinsconsidering MS make a loss on the xbox, buying it doesn't really constitute supporting them...09:17
neurodwatkins: i buy games too09:17
dwatkins...and I got Windows 8 for £25, so I imagine they made a loss on that too.09:18
dwatkinsneuro: fair enough, I buy them too, but often a long time after release09:18
neuroyeah but MS take the same slice off the top regardless09:18
mungbeansurely each licence is a profit?09:18
neurodepends what the dev cost was09:18
dwatkinsMy employer buys laptops which come with Windows, I can't really do anything about that apart from insist on having a Mac.09:19
neuro\o/09:19
dwatkins<-- bucking trends in computer technology since 198109:19
neurolol09:19
dwatkins(we got a BBC micro)09:19
neurohardly09:19
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mungbeanacorn electron -> acorn a3000 -> uni -> PC running win95 -> 98se -> XP/linux dual -> linux09:20
neuroyeah but buying a mac is hardly bucking a trend09:21
dwatkinsBBC Micro - > 486 DX/2 66 (Win 3.11 and Slackware) -> many many self-built PCs09:21
DJonesI can remember selling the BBC Micros when they were first released, there were queue's out of the door and for about 50 yards down the road09:21
neuroapple hammered everyone last quarter09:21
dwatkinswow, DJones - didn't realise they were that popular09:21
neuroif you include ipads :P09:21
dwatkinsAndroid is much more popular than iOS if you look at the stats for OS instead of the manufacturer, iirc.09:22
neuroipad 2 + ipad 4 + ipad mini + imac + macbook pro + macbook air + mac mini + mac pro = 18.6m units in Q2 2013 (17.1%)09:22
mungbean"pple hammered everyone last quarte"?09:22
mungbeanin the courts maybe09:22
neurothen lenovo (13.1m), hp (13m), samsung (10.8m), dell (9.4m)09:22
DJonesdwatkins: It was probably because schools were recommending them & were buying them for their own computer classes, we were selling those, Atari's, Spectrums, Dragon's, Oric's and the like at the time09:23
DJonesOccasional Apple's09:23
neuroapple's what?09:23
* dwatkins steals all the apostrophes09:23
neuro<- grammar nazi09:23
DJonesBut they were the 'top end' machines09:24
DJonesneuro: Apple II's09:24
dwatkinsyeah, and the beeb was more expensive09:24
neuroApple II's what?09:24
neuroschools were recommending beebs because the gubment selected them09:24
* DJones kicks neuro in the apostrophe09:24
DJones's :)09:24
neuroDJones: start using the apostrophe correctly and i'll stop pointing it out :)09:25
neuroand sorry, not the gubment, the BBC09:25
DJonesI use what feels right09:25
SuperMatthas... has something changed to screen locking in saucy?09:25
dwatkinshttp://i.imgur.com/IhXffyP.jpg09:25
neuroexactly!09:25
neuroyou can't just go around throwing down apostrophes because you feel like it09:26
MartijnVdSSuperMatt: why?09:26
* DJones Hands neuro a shift key to capitalise the start of sentences to correct the grammar09:27
neurowhy did you capitalise "hands"?09:27
neurowhere are your full stops?09:28
neurocome on man, put your game face on :)09:28
mungbeansigh09:28
DJones:)09:28
neuromungbean: I'M KIDDING, YOU FRUIT LOOP09:29
mungbeancapitals are so last century09:29
MartijnVdSneuro: poker face? 😐09:29
SuperMattMartijnVdS: nm, it was just a result of some packages I installed and removed09:29
neuroMartijnVdS: and you can ram that unicode where the sun don't shine ;)09:29
MartijnVdSSuperMatt: stop doing that ;)09:29
SuperMattthough the effect was pretty good09:29
SuperMattthe "lock" screen was the login screen, which was much prettier than what we have now09:29
MartijnVdSneuro: 💩09:30
neuroSTOP IT09:30
MartijnVdSneuro: ♫ neuro can't stand unicode ♪09:30
neuro/ignore09:31
dwatkinsHow do you write "/ignore" without a space at the start of the line?09:31
neuro/say09:31
dwatkins /say09:31
dwatkinsoh right, siily me09:31
mungbean/say09:32
neuro:)09:32
dwatkins/ignore09:32
dwatkinsthanks09:32
mungbean /say /say09:32
mungbean/say /say09:32
mungbean:P09:32
dwatkinsInsayption!09:32
dwatkinsI think I need to go lie down now.09:32
mungbeani've never seen any of these films that the reddit kids meme about09:33
dwatkinsI vaguely remember the plot to Inception, but it wasn't very awe-inspiring.09:33
* neuro watched it again just last week09:34
neuromungbean: how old are you, 91? :)09:34
mungbeanbetween 30-4009:34
mungbeana lot of redditors are excited 17 yr olds09:34
mungbeanespecially in default subs09:35
dwatkinsThere was a trend on some photo site a while ago to take a photo of the computer displaying an image, print it out, and do other silly things to increase the layers of abstraction, but I don't remember where I saw it.09:35
mungbeanrepeating the same stuff they just learned ad naseueum09:35
dwatkinsyeah, that gets old very easily09:35
mungbeani hate memes and "in-jokes"09:36
mungbeanwhich is which slashdot died for me09:37
mungbeanin soviet russia...on *every* thread09:37
BigRedShaha09:37
mungbeanwine is not an emulator...09:37
dwatkinsI havn't looked at Slashdot for more than a moment in years,09:37
BigRedSI think they've stopped that now most of the /. commentors don't know what soviet russia is09:37
mungbeani used to have it on twitter but i stopped reading twitter09:37
dwatkinsI quite like Hacker News, the comments there actually seem to be fairly sensible at times.09:37
BigRedSreally?09:37
BigRedSevery time I go to HN i read the top few comments and it puts me off the rest09:38
neurodwatkins: http://neuro.me.uk/2004/11/05/ui9-redux/09:38
dwatkinsneuro: nice09:38
DJonesDoes anybody have a Nexus 7, how is connectivity with 13.04, just wondering if it connects for copying files etc by cable09:39
dwatkinsYou're looking at the screensaver, kid! http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/boy-at-computer-displaying-seti-40home-screen-saver-david-parker.jpg09:39
dwatkinsIt's even written in the image filename...09:39
neurodwatkins: or did you mean something like this? http://www.flickr.com/photos/neuro/7467721/in/photostream/09:40
dwatkinsneuro: that's neat too, but I was thinking more of the loss of quality with each different type of reproduction, from monitor to photograph of monitor to printout of photograph of monitor etc.09:40
neurooh, right09:41
neuropff no idea :)09:41
popeyi met the chaps behind /. at oscon this month. nice chaps09:47
popeymost of their content goes on the sister sites, not /. itself09:47
mungbeanmy fingers rebel against me when trying to type /.09:49
popeyditto09:51
neuromungbean: in soviet russia, thread hates you09:54
* mungbean stabs neuro09:54
neuroactually that would have been funnier if i'd managed to type what i'd intended to type09:55
neuroin soviet russia, meme hates you09:55
neuronever mind09:55
mungbeanmy boy is coming to the office today to see me :D09:58
davmor2Morning all10:07
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AlanBellhttp://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge creeping up on $10,000,000 soon, maybe another hour or so11:26
daftykinsnot really too relevant that, though?11:30
AlanBellindeed, not really. It is Schrödinger's money. Lots in the box, unless you look at the target, at which point the waveform collapses and it is nothing11:32
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neuroactually, it's real money11:36
neuroit just hasn't been refunded yet11:36
neurobut it has actually been taken from people's bank accounts and credit card balances11:37
popeynot relevant?11:39
DJones13.10 seems to have gotten a noticable speed increase over 13.04 even in virtualbox11:41
popey$10,266,84511:42
popeythats a nice number to beat11:43
davmor2DJones: it's the improvements that have been made so it runs on mobile,  in theory once unity7 is replaced with unity8 it will become faster still11:48
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ali1234so i opened a paypal account the other day. today i got a letter asking me to "complete account setup" by adding a bank account. a real letter. by post.12:24
daftykinsnice12:24
ali1234i wonder if this letter would serve as proof of identity for opening a bank account12:24
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daftykinsprobably not12:25
dwatkinssounds a bit circular.12:44
popey\o/ $10M12:46
diddledanonly another 22 to go12:46
popeyindeed!12:46
popeynot long now! :D12:46
AlanBellstill a few quit short on my screen12:47
diddledanI really want it to succeed but I'm feeling I'll be getting my money back12:47
AlanBell$9,997,01212:47
popeyyeah, my indicator rounds up ☻12:47
popeywish it rounded up to 32M ☻12:47
diddledanat least I can say I put money into it12:48
diddledanI "did my bit" :-)12:48
directhexi wonder whether the edge's failure will nevertheless serve as an advert for ubuntu touch to the real clients - i.e. verizon etc12:48
diddledandirecthex, hopefully12:48
AlanBellthe background sustainable looking level of sales is quite good12:49
popeyi suspect it already has12:49
diddledanpopey, you'd probably not be allowed to tell us until a product is announced anyway, because of damned NDAs12:49
directhexpopey, maybe. maybe not. canonical has struggled to sell ubuntu to OEMs for various verticals - IVE, TV, etc - in the past.12:49
popeyindeed12:49
popeythat was before showing a clear demand12:50
diddledanyeah, one thing that can be said is that even with something that doesn't exist canonical can raise 20,000 paying customers12:51
AlanBellif you look at http://ubuntu-edge.info/#change and ignore all the big peaks, and extend at that background level for 12 months you get 62M in sales (rough guess)12:52
AlanBellplus add in all the business sales locked out by unneccessary VAT and general admin daftness12:53
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popeyok, _now_ it's over $10M12:53
AlanBellyay, bit of a phyrric victory, but yay12:54
AlanBellI am curious what is going through the minds of people pledging at this point12:55
diddledanAlanBell, probably that they'll get their money back in a week12:57
AlanBellyeah, but they are going to get a refund to a paypal account I think, so you pay money from credit card now, next week it is refunded to paypal, and you have to spend it there or take a transaction fee to remove it?12:58
diddledanAlanBell, withdrawals to bank accounts are free (at least in the uk)12:58
AlanBelloh, OK12:58
bashrcPersonally I don't really care about the phone crowdsourcing.  I'm more of a desktop/laptop user.13:01
directhexhttp://releases.ubuntu.com/raring/ is broken?13:05
directhexhttp://ddj9plya1d2mr.cloudfront.net/ubuntu-13.04-desktop-amd64.iso -> This web page is not available13:05
diddledanworks for me13:06
diddledanodd that you're getting cloudfront urls13:06
directhex*shrug*13:07
directhexat least cloud-to-butt isn't converting them to mybuttfront.net urls13:07
diddledano_O13:09
directhexbreaking the torrenting rules for the office. hope the it manager doesn't catch me13:09
diddledanit would be worse if you swapped butt and front about13:09
directhexhttps://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt13:10
diddledanriiight13:11
AlanBellthat should be part of the juju project really13:19
ali1234what exactly does lavabit do that i cannot do with PGP and any email account in the whole world?13:35
ali1234*did13:35
popeythere was a technical document posted recently13:36
popeyhttp://possibility.com/LavabitArchitecture.html13:36
mungbeanrather high for POP13:43
mungbeanin 2009, 80% POP, 10% IMAP, 10% webmail13:44
brobostigoncan i get fail2ban to work with ipv6? or is there something similer which does work with ipv6?13:46
diddledanI still don't see what's so special about them other than using a proprietary advertising daemon13:46
SuperMattali1234: I guess the real advantage was that you didn't have to rely on third parties to be able to encrypt, because it's all stored encrypted on your end13:47
SuperMattalthough if the nsa had access to the third party's inbox, it really didn't matter13:47
ali1234i don't understand13:49
ali1234none of this actually explains what service they provide13:51
shaunoworth noting that only lavabit's paid tier got the encrpytion offering, and that's a slim slice of the pie13:52
diddledanali1234, I don't get it either13:53
mungbeanthe document seems to describe a standard cyrus setup13:59
mungbeanby 2013 the company bring in around 100k revenue.14:00
mungbeannever heard of them before they shut14:00
shaunoto be fair, we don't hear much about most mail providers, with the 10-tonne gorilla being so popular14:01
AlanBellplain text emails are encrypted for the eyes of the mailbox owner before being written to disk, do other things do that?14:02
BigRedSbrobostigon: fail2ban just runs iptables rules doesn' tit?14:03
mungbeanAlanBell: automagically?14:03
AlanBellyeah, by the server, it would wrap up encrypted mails too I guess14:03
mungbeani didn't notice this in the doc. i did skim it though14:04
brobostigonDJones: yep.14:04
AlanBell* Do you use any particularly cool technologies or algorithms?14:04
brobostigoni mean BigRedS14:04
BigRedSHaha, that's a new one :)14:04
brobostigonmy fingers slipped.14:04
ali1234yeah see that's the thing - if you're sending or receiving plaintext emails it doesn't really matter if it is encrypted on your email server14:04
AlanBellso as soon as it is on disk, the service provider has plausible deniability14:04
BigRedSthen it should be ble to do ip614:05
ali1234they can just sniff it in transit, or in the receiver's mailbox14:05
BigRedSyeah - surely if you're paranoid the server's receiving crypted mail and it doesn't matter how it stores it14:05
AlanBellyeah, but you can't raid the server and take the lot14:05
brobostigonBigRedS: so just change and or add it to include ip6tables inclusive to iptables ?14:05
ali1234you don't need to. you just go to the upstream provider and have them install a tap...14:06
mungbeanmost of the users are using pop anyway14:06
shaunoyou still want paranoia wherever possible anyway (ssl in transit, asymmetric on-disk), else gpg isn't hiding *Who* you're talking to14:06
AlanBellI am not saying it is wonderful, but I think that is the thing that it is about14:06
mungbeanprobably not keeping much on the server14:06
BigRedSbrobostigon: I don't know for sure, but there's no good reason for it to do anything but Just Work as far as I can see14:06
brobostigonBigRedS: i see, ok. i will test that out.14:06
AlanBellpresumably the NSA didn't go far enough upstream when attempting to install the tap14:07
shaunohe says (and that appears to be 2009) 140,000 accounts, 1500 paid customers, and that the encryption is "Alas, right now this is only available to paid users".  So the 1% that are actually encrypting disappear in pop/imap/etc stats14:07
ali1234nah. more likely they got some incriminating emails from an upstream tap, but in a way that makes them inadmissible14:07
ali1234so now they need to compell lavabit to hand them over legally, by a warrant14:08
SuperMattI have a feeling that the NSA didn't want details of other customers, instead, they probably wanted something in place so that the NSA could read anything going in and out of snowden's account. That of course would have compromised the secuirty of all accounts, so he shut it down14:09
SuperMattfeds can't track what's no longer going in and out14:09
ali1234probably that too14:11
shaunofrom how it reads with the asymmetric encryption, they'd need to keep it live to let snowdon log-in, since his password is the private key for the on-disk encryption14:11
shaunoif he can't log in, they can't capture that, and lavabit can't decrypt the data at-rest14:12
mungbeanse they are mopping up the top tier of email providers, now going for tier 2 and lower14:16
mungbeanalternatively he could move operations to sweden/elsewhere14:17
mungbeanor sell to kimdotcom14:17
diddledanhe needs to run it himself like all the bad boys do14:20
diddledanor use tor14:20
diddledanas in snowden does14:20
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diddledanalan_g|tea, that sounds like a plan14:22
BigRedSmost people who run it themselves do so on a VPS, though14:22
shaunoI'm still on the hunt for a reasonably priced vps provider in iceland (who isn't owned by an overseas parent)14:24
mungbeanmost of my emails are from the train company and amazon14:25
mungbeanhence gmail14:25
shaunoI don't particularly have anything to hide, I just find it an interesting challenge14:25
mungbeani have a self hosted zimbra server too14:26
diddledanewww14:26
diddledanzimbra == bloat14:26
mungbean:-|14:26
mungbeannot if you're running your company infrastructure off it14:26
diddledanhmm14:26
shaunoI mean, I don't care who reads my mother's birthday card, but I still seal the envelope14:27
diddledanyeah that improves it's size-to-benefit14:27
mungbeanits fantastic14:27
diddledanbut for individuals or for resellers it's evil14:27
mungbeanand solid14:27
SuperMattcan I email someone to test I have my enigmail set up correctly?14:27
mungbeanbigbarry@whitehouse.gov14:27
SuperMattlollers14:27
diddledanbigbarry? whosat?14:28
MartijnVdSnobody@nsa.gov14:28
mungbeani hope thats his real addy14:28
mungbeanbarry obama14:28
diddledanaah14:28
MartijnVdSobi-one (where "obi" is short for "obama" ;)14:28
diddledanI've not heard him referred to as barry often enough to associate the name14:28
shaunoif you're going to go for barry, at least make him an o'bama ;)14:28
mungbeanhe woulda got elected if he called himself barry o'bama14:28
mungbeanthe irishmans choice14:29
shaunoI dunno if you've caught the news in the last 7 years, but he did get himself elected14:29
diddledandidn't he get elected anyway?14:29
mungbeanwow14:29
mungbeanit worked then14:29
mungbeanwasn't the other guy a mormon?14:29
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diddledanmoron*14:30
SuperMattI love how no one has offered up their email address :(14:30
mungbeanhe won by default then14:30
* SuperMatt cries in the corner14:30
diddledanSuperMatt, I don't have decipherability set up14:30
mungbeanu wanna encrypt a mail?14:30
mungbeanyou need my pub key?14:30
SuperMattsurely it'll find out your pubkey from keyservers, no?14:31
mungbeani haven't registered with one14:31
SuperMattoh right14:31
SuperMattthen yes?14:31
mungbeani don't have a pub key (for GPG)14:31
mungbeananymore14:31
mungbeani sort of lost it14:31
diddledanthat's a good idea.. I need to copy my private key onto this machine14:31
mungbeanneed to work out whether AMD 8380 or Xeon X5570 are faster14:42
mungbeani think its the intels14:48
directhexintel.14:50
directhexthere, easy answer14:50
mungbeanusers have a choice of 1 queue with 32 cores of AMD or submit to the blades queue with 64 cores of intel14:50
mungbeanguess what they choose14:50
diddledanok SuperMatt you can try me at dan@bang-on.net - my public key id is 0349ED2114:53
SuperMattdiddledan: I've emailed you, though I'm not sure what to do with your key id? :/14:59
SuperMattI've signed my email14:59
diddledanSuperMatt, the key id is only if you want to encrypt15:00
SuperMattof course15:00
SuperMattbecause it needs your public key15:00
SuperMattok, well you should have something signed from me15:00
diddledanhmm, it doesn't seem to want to verify it in enigmail - let me try the commandline15:07
SuperMatteep15:08
diddledanaah, might be that it can't find your pubkey in my keyring - I've not imported it yet15:08
SuperMattB46A6CE615:09
diddledanit verifies correctly on the commandline so your signature is good15:10
diddledanjust wondering why my enigmail isn't working *prods it*15:10
SuperMattlol15:12
directhexenigmail doesn't woek15:13
diddledan?15:14
directhexit just fails to wire into the right point in the thunderbird pipeline, meaning a high likelihood that any mail you send from enigmail won't validate in gpg15:17
SuperMattI think I understand what you mean15:22
BigRedSI thought that to validate it just had to have the line "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- " at the top. That's how I've been encrypting my mail for years15:23
diddledanso what would work better for gpg-based comms?15:23
BigRedSer, that'd be signing, obviously15:23
shaunomail.app wfm ;)15:24
BigRedSmutt works for me :)15:24
diddledanshauno, I'm not on os x atm15:24
diddledanand isn't gpg in mail.app an evil unsupported hack?15:25
shaunosure, but it works15:25
mgdmif it's a hack, it's quite a well-done one15:26
diddledanmail.app doesn't provide an api15:26
diddledanso it's using undocumented stuff, i.e. hack15:26
shaunothat's what prompted my (admittedly bad) sense of humour.  thunderbird does have an api.  apparently api!=results :p15:27
mungbeanthe funny thing about our internal irc channel at work is the regularity you get root passwords copy pasted into it15:27
diddledanmungbean, I won't believe it until I see the logs15:28
SuperMattdiddledan: would you mind encrypting something for me?15:28
diddledandone15:29
SuperMattgot it, thanks :)15:29
SuperMattencrypted reply... nice :)15:30
diddledanssshhhh!15:30
diddledandammit, now everyone knows15:30
SuperMattoh man15:31
MartijnVdStraffic analysis15:31
popeyi have a plugin in my browser which lets me do gpg in gmail15:31
MartijnVdSpopey: oh, shiny15:31
popeymailvelope15:31
popeyhttp://www.mailvelope.com/15:31
BigRedSoooh15:32
SuperMattdiddledan: you need to get your key signed by a trusted third party!15:32
diddledanyeah15:33
diddledanbut who do I know that is going to go on record as actually knowing me?!15:33
ali1234evil mole pa...15:34
SuperMattsurely a friend or something?15:34
shaunoI think he's right there.  dan doesn't have many friends that'd admit it :p15:35
diddledan:-D15:35
SuperMatthahaha15:37
diddledanseems enigmail works for encrypted messages automatically decrypting them, but doesn't recognise a signed message15:37
diddledanthis is in ubuntu serious salami15:38
SuperMattmaybe updates to thunderbird have messged it about a bit15:38
mungbeanmaybe geary should resubmit their kickstarter but for raising $20k to add very smooth PGP support15:38
SuperMattthey need pgp, simple archiving like thunderbird has got, and saving outgoing messages to sent15:39
SuperMattbecause I'm very surprised that's not in there already15:39
MartijnVdSproper gmail-imap support15:39
MartijnVdSI know it's not "normal" IMAP, but just support it natively. Please :)15:39
diddledanI really need to move away from gmail - it's sucking my lifeforce15:40
SuperMattI've configured my own mail server15:40
MartijnVdSdiddledan: at least it's not reddit15:40
mungbeanthe 100$K kicstarter was promsiing transparent GPG15:41
diddledanSuperMatt, I'm thinking of doing the same15:41
diddledanI've already got a decent server that I pay for.. might as well use it15:41
SuperMattindeed15:41
SuperMattI run mail and web on a single 1gig vps15:41
SuperMattit's enough for me15:41
* diddledan hides his monster15:42
diddledanI've got a dedicated unit at hetzner15:42
SuperMattand now I'm looking in to getting a class 2 ssl cert15:42
diddledanis that physical-address-validated?15:42
SuperMattyup15:42
diddledanI've got a wildcard ssl cert that's domain validated15:43
SuperMattwell I'm trying to get the wildcard bit15:43
SuperMattcos I've got a number of certs right now15:43
diddledanI can't remember who I went with for mine now15:44
diddledanhopefully they'll email me when it comes to renewal15:44
diddledanlooks like it was a geotrust reseller15:45
diddledanso how does one keep gpg keyrings in sync across several devices?15:53
shaunoI don't.  if I need a key, it's on the keyserver15:53
shaunoseems little benefit in curating my own personal stash15:54
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diddledanwhat about syncing your own key tho, say you get it signed by someone at oggcamp how do you ensure all your devices have that signed version as opposed to the naked version?15:55
shaunodon't you get the your public key signed?15:57
shaunoso that'd just go back to the keyserver too15:57
diddledanhmm15:57
diddledanfurry nuff15:57
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diddledandamned clients. damn them all to having clients of their own!16:20
diddledanlatest issue is we have a client that tells us our code doesn't work but doesn't tell us how it's not working16:21
diddledanjust sends screenshots with nothing indicating what's actually wrong. just a screenshot of a webpage in IE.16:21
diddledanwe're supposed to determine exactly what's wrong with that with no other hints16:22
bigcalmBest to have a phone call with the client16:22
diddledanyeah, I might try that tomorrow, but I'm supposed to be on a different job that's rush rush16:23
joshmyershey guys, I want to pass arguments into a simple bash script, but I would like to set some sane default for of the arguments are not passed in. How could I do that here? https://gist.github.com/2429412bc9c7deaadb5e16:42
shaunostage=${1:-"Default"}16:46
shaunonot the prettiest construct, but effective16:47
joshmyersah ok16:48
joshmyersgreat thanks shauno16:48
joshmyersand I can do that for any of the arguments16:48
shaunoyeah.  and you can mix the literal & vars too, so stage=${1:-$defaultstage}, etc16:49
shaunothe '1' is the same one from $1, you're just saying "$1 or else $defaultstage"16:49
joshmyersok gotcha16:50
joshmyerslike this: https://gist.github.com/50be6aa6c77f3c6ef6de16:50
shaunoyou got it16:51
joshmyersawesome, muchos thanks16:51
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ali1234argh... just don't write complex stuff like that in bash18:18
MartijnVdSyeah, use perl instead18:19
ali1234eh... i'd prefer that tbh18:20
ali1234perl fits that niche pretty well... of things to complex for a shell script but not quite complicated enough for a real programming language18:21
Myrttiuh, I'm having a slow moment18:27
Myrttibut18:27
Myrttihttp://m.flickr.com/#/photos/myrtti/9512199206/18:27
Myrttishould I try fsck -A?18:29
ali1234what have you got to lose?18:30
ali1234you should probably image the entire drive before attempting repair if there is anything important on it18:31
MyrttiI don't know, I've never manually run fsck before18:31
Myrttiwell.18:32
Myrttihere goes nothing18:32
Myrttitime to do backups18:37
Myrttiso yeah18:39
Myrttimanaged to fix it with fsck but taking backups18:39
* neuro larts davmor218:42
davmor2neuro: stick frankie boyle in too for good measure then at least one of the proclaimers is going :)18:43
neurobut frankie boyle wasn't in The Thick of It18:44
davmor2neuro: true18:44
neurowhich was kind of my point18:44
davmor2neuro: I still stand by my statement you have too much time on your hands :P18:48
neuroerr a thought that took 5 seconds to come to, and another 60 seconds to send the tweet?18:48
neuroi never understand these sort of comments ... "you have too much time on your hands" ... "go outside and get a life" ... etc18:48
davmor2neuro: too much time I tell you far to much18:49
christelone of our staffers, kloeri, looks exactly like the proclaimers18:53
MartijnVdSchristel: would he walk 500 miles?18:54
brobostigonlol.18:55
davmor2MartijnVdS: more important would he walk 500 more?18:55
christelhe totally would!18:56
christel;)18:56
MartijnVdSAnd would he do it so he can be the man who walked 1000 miles to fall down at your door?18:56
christelno :(18:57
MartijnVdSSpeaking of this.. has everyone seen the latest xkcd what-if?18:57
MartijnVdShttp://what-if.xkcd.com/58/18:57
davmor2wouldn't you fall at a door if you just walked a 1000 miles :D18:57
MartijnVdSdavmor2: a mile a day is very doable.18:57
MartijnVdSdavmor2: it'll take 2.5 years.. but it's doable18:58
davmor2neuro: I take it back MartijnVdS has way too much time on his hands you only had some time on yours :)18:58
MartijnVdSdavmor2: I do? :)18:59
MartijnVdS\o/ XBone launch in .nl has been delayed already.19:02
neurowhat is this "xbone" of which you speak?19:02
MartijnVdSneuro: the thing you pre-ordered.. XBox 18019:02
neurodidn't order one of those19:02
MartijnVdSneuro: Isn't that the new XBox MS are launching?19:05
neurowhich is called the Xbox One19:05
MartijnVdSYeah, and because Microsoft changed a lot about the game-loading and online/sharing bits after Sony announced the PS4, poeple started calling it the "XBox one-eighty"19:06
neurowhatever :)19:06
davmor2surely an xbone is either soil or ash19:06
MartijnVdSalso, people call it "xbone", for "XBox ONE"19:06
neuroyes, i know19:06
neuroi'm not one of those people19:06
neuroi'm also not one of those people who say "Micro$oft"19:06
neuroor "Crapple"19:06
MartijnVdSWhen did I say "Micro$oft"?19:06
MartijnVdS(yeah just now)19:07
neuroyou didn't19:07
neurobut it's the same idea19:07
MartijnVdSneuro: what about micros~1? ;)19:07
neuronever did that either19:07
neuroit's childish19:07
davmor2neuro: wait a minute I've never seen you and RMS in the same room are you sure you don't say Crapple as your alter ego ?19:07
neuroi've met rms and there were witnesses, so let's just put that conspiracy theory to rest :)19:08
MartijnVdSneuro: you're his puppeteer?19:08
* neuro wanders off to watch the football19:09
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mungbeani was gonna do stuff tonight :(20:31
mungbeanfeel like i've been hit by the tired stick.20:32
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neurowell, that was a shame21:00
neurobut a good game nonetheless21:00
ali1234wow, i didn't know the radio times even had a website21:28
shaunoI sometimes wonder if even the bbc know how many websites they own21:42
ali1234wouldn't surprise me if the streaming site they intended to block was being run on the side by some bbc IT bod21:45
bigcalmGood evening peeps:)21:53
diddledancan someone tell me if they're getting nginx reporting "bad gateway" on dev.openwrt.org? I can't seem to access it atm21:55
shaunoit seems to be much easier than that.  a blocked site creates a dns record under their domain, pointing to an innocent third-party.  you then try to visit that record from within the block, and the IP gets added to The List21:55
bigcalmdiddledan: taking a long time to get a response from that URL21:56
diddledanbigcalm, thanks21:56
shaunothat's how they got torrentfreak blocked last week21:56
diddledanit's not just me then :-)21:56
bigcalm504 Gateway Time-out21:56
diddledanshauno, huh?21:57
diddledanshauno, you sense make no21:58
ali1234diddledan: he was replying to me, not you :P21:59
diddledanali1234, even so, it doesn't make much sense afaict21:59
ali1234yeah it does21:59
ali1234what happens is they order a block on the ip of www.piratedownloadz.com22:00
ali1234so them www.piratedownloadz.com just gets a new IP. then they block that22:00
ali1234so then they point their hostname and some legit site, and the autofilters block that22:00
ali1234that's the simple version anyway22:01
ali1234but i'm not so sure that's what happened here22:01
ali1234it looks like a lot of sites are all on the one IP for some reason - maybe nt though, i dunno22:02
shaunothat's what happened to torrentfreak earlier in the week, and seems easily repeatable22:02
ali1234yeah22:02
diddledantorrentfreak got blocked by some blocked site pointing to it? o_O22:02
ali1234yeah the filtering software is basically a minimal effort, possibly even designed to fail22:03
diddledantwo birds one stone22:03
diddledantorrentfreak surely should have been blocked anyway?22:04
ali1234why? it's just a news site22:04
diddledanreally?22:04
diddledanI wouldn't know, I don't frequent underground sites22:05
ali1234torrentfreak isn't an underground site22:05
ali1234it's just a blog, like slashdot22:05
diddledan"torrent" is classed as underground by "the man"22:05
diddledanlike kazzaa22:06
ali1234http://torrentfreak.com/radiotimes-com-blocked-by-uk-isps-due-to-rightsholder-error-130814/22:06
ali1234"According to PC Pro,  the problems were not caused by an EZTV-style DNS issue, but a  long-feared problem – that sites with shared resources would be all fall  victim to overbroad blocking."22:07
shaunothe official line is that radiotimes was actually sharing an IP with "a naughty site".  which seems implausible, since radiotimes is half on akamai (if that'd been blocked we'd notice), and half inside a netblock owned by the BBC22:07
diddledanthere was nothing illegal about kazzaa just like there's nothing illegal about torrent but the association caused by illegal use causes people to see "torrent" and assume it's illegal22:07
ali1234yeah, that's what seems implausible about it to me too22:07
ali1234my ISP doesn't participate in any of this nonsense anyway22:07
diddledanmine either22:07
diddledanand if it did I'd move22:08
diddledanI use third-party dns resolvers, too22:08
shaunomine block tpb, but nothing else yet22:08
shauno(but they at least dragged it through the courts first, instead of just rolling over like the other big ISP here)22:09
diddledanbt, virgin and sky are all rolling over and playing dead22:09
diddledanthey don't care whether it's censorship as long as consumers pay them22:10
mibofra_celldiddledan oh hi :)22:10
diddledanmoo22:11
diddledanI like aaisp's response to david "dictator" cameroon's great smutwall22:12
shaunoI'm hoping that'll end up an acceptable response.  be nice to see people acting like adults for a change22:13
diddledanhttps://order.aa.net.uk/h1order.cgi <-- see the "active choice" section22:13
diddledanin fact, that's not the right one22:13
shaunoas I understand it, the govt position is "play ball or we'll have to create legislation.  and you know how messy that'll be" ?22:15
diddledanyeah22:15
diddledanit sucks22:15
ali1234oh great, the smb client in nautilus is broken22:15
ali1234smbclient -L -U works fine, nautilus just asks for a password over and over22:15
diddledaneither "do it like we said, or we'll make you do it like we said"22:15
shaunothat makes things like AA's response awkward, because it might work today, but we don't know if it'll count as "playing ball" yet22:16
diddledansee, it worries me because I obviously need to click the "yes, tell the government I'm a pervert" button22:17
mibofra_celldiddledan did you rember my problem with minecraft? It was a problem by mojang auth xD . 1)desabilitated auth control on server 2)after I've recived an mail from mojang that said my account was abilitated to multiplayer game xD22:17
mibofra_cellAnd I was going crazy with java and ufw xD22:18
diddledanmibofra_cell, not really, no22:18
mibofra_cellOk so that's the conclusion22:18
diddledanshauno probably has a good simile for the way my memory works22:18
mibofra_cell*anyway22:18
shaunoit doesn't.22:18
diddledanbingo!22:18
* Monotoko sighs22:19
MonotokoI hate IRC sometimes22:19
diddledanMonotoko, sorry22:19
Monotokonot you :P22:19
diddledan:-p22:19
ali1234mibofra_cell: i remember22:19
ali1234glad you sorted it22:19
Monotokovital emergency at work... postfix appeared to be bouncing everything, I've barely touched postfix in my life so I couldn't figure out why22:20
Monotokoall I got was RTFM22:20
diddledanergh22:20
ali1234stack exchange is usually pretty helpful with postfix22:20
ali1234not much use in a hurry tho22:20
diddledanyeah, sometimes real-time help can be less approachable than the qmail crowd22:21
MonotokoIRC is the most use in a hurry if you can get someone to help... I ended up restoring the postfix conf from a backup22:21
Monotokowhich appeared to fix it22:21
ali1234if i had to run postfix servers i would be angry too (angrier)22:21
diddledanbegs the question what changed22:21
ali1234maybe just a restart?22:21
Monotokotried a restart22:21
Monotokoand a hard reboot22:22
Monotoko(never a good idea on a live server)22:22
diddledanali1234, what do you run mailwise if anything?22:22
ali1234diddledan: whatever you get on an ubuntu server22:22
ali1234and i just let it get on with it22:22
diddledanali1234, postfix22:22
ali1234i don't use it for receiving22:22
Monotokoit gets mail, connects to MySQL then forwards it to whichever address is in the mysql table22:22
diddledan:-p22:22
ali1234only sending out wordpress sign up emails etc22:22
diddledanaah22:23
Monotokoand suddenly it decided "user not found" for everyone22:23
ali1234for real mail, i use gmail22:23
diddledanyeah it's pretty fire and forget for that22:23
ali1234even so, it's caused me problems22:23
ali1234minor ones, which i was eventually able to solve, but problems none the less22:23
Monotokois there any kind of simple interface to postfix, or something smaller which is easier to use?22:23
diddledanMonotoko, postfix is about the easiest of the smtpd available afaict22:25
Monotoko>.<22:25
diddledansendmail is evil22:25
diddledanexim is weird22:25
diddledanand qmail is outdated22:25
diddledanalthough I like the architecture of qmail22:26
MonotokoI wish that was the worst of it22:26
Monotokothis is the SQL query it runs: http://pastebin.com/biNLSAGC22:26
MonotokoI looked at that and had to step outside for a smoke22:27
Monotokofelt like not returning at that point22:27
diddledanerm22:27
ali1234i can totally understand the whole NOSQL thing22:27
diddledan...22:28
ali1234not that the alternatives are really any better22:28
diddledanthose where split_str() bits are nuts22:29
Monotokodiddledan, I can run a basic SELECT, even throw a few JOIN's in there and some UNION's and I'm generally okay22:30
Monotokobut that22:30
diddledanI'm betting that sql query takes a long time to run22:30
Monotokothat makes me cry22:30
MonotokoI haven't really checked how long it takes, postfix runs it22:30
diddledanit looks like it's three very similar queries unioned together22:31
Monotokowe had a Merlyn in the company before I arrived... he wrote it, quite a fitting name I think22:32
MonotokoThere used to be three sysadmins apparantly, they quit around the same time and my boss only hired me -.-22:33
diddledanouch22:33
MonotokoI'm dealing with Win2k machines, classic ASP, Win2k8 and various Linux boxes with squid and some with whole applications on them22:34
diddledanI can trump that. gentoo22:34
diddledan:-p22:35
Monotokowe have an Arch Linux box!22:35
Monotoko:P22:35
diddledanhehe22:35
MonotokoI was told I'd only be working with Perl and Debian 95% of the time... how much of a lie that was22:35
diddledandoes classic asp even get any security patch exposure?22:35
everydaylinuxusedoes anyone ever end up doing the job they were hired to do22:36
Monotokoit's running on IIS 5... securitymetrics gave it the highest possible fail it could22:36
diddledanyey22:36
Monotokoit's running behind a squid box thankfully... but I'm sure any competant user could work their way in22:36
Monotokoit's a dead service... still brings in some money, and was the flagship product that started the company in '9722:37
Monotokoway past it's prime and not worth upgrading, but my boss wants it left running22:37

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