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elfyali1234: hi :p00:54
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AlanBellmorning08:53
AlanBellwill it ever stop raining?08:53
MooDoomorning AlanBell08:53
MooDooOnly when it turns to snow08:53
AlanBellI wonder if popey or anyone has played with http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/innovate/developers/minecraft-map-britain.html08:55
shaunoI'm not complaining.  the same low-pressure system that's holding it there is holding it away from us :)  I've actually seen 3 dry days in a row, for the first time since november08:55
MooDooAlanBell: ye08:55
MooDooAlanBell: I think popey has done this, I'm sure I've seen a map08:56
bigcalmGood morning peeps :)09:05
popeyAlanBell: http://popey.mooo.com/minecraft/#/8964/64/25964/-10/0/010:30
popeymorning10:31
shaunoare those roads diamond or emerald?10:32
popeyboth10:35
popeymortorways are blue, a roads green10:35
popeyi joined the map and wandered around to find where my house is ☻10:35
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brobostigongood morning everyone.11:02
popeyhttp://www.ebuyer.com/544464-asus-pq321qe-31-5-led-igzo-4k-uhd-monitor-pq321qe11:06
popeygolly11:06
bigcalmI'll take 3!11:07
aquariusDell have released a 4k monitor at CES, due to hit the market in about a week, for around £500. Sadly it only does 30fps at 4k resolution, though; you have to step down to normal HD to get 60fps.11:10
popeygood enough for coding i imaine11:10
popey*imagine11:11
popeyhttp://tiamat.tsotech.com/4k-is-for-programmers11:11
aquariusyeah, but it's hard to test smooth 60fps websites if your monitor won't render that fast :)11:11
MartijnVdSit's a TN panel. Those can hurt peoples' eyes.11:11
aquariusthat 4k is for programmers thing is all "hey just buy a TV", which is correct (the distinction between a monitor and a TV is, these days, entirely spurious) but recommends a 39" TV, which is fine in the living room but won't fit on my desk ;)11:12
popey"Hey just buy a bigger desk"11:12
MartijnVdSaquarius: I'm sticking with my U2913WM ;)11:13
aquariusalso sitting two feet from a 39" screen means that my head will swivel back and forth like an owl :)11:13
aquariusya, I liked the look of the Ultrasharp 29" 2560x1080, although 2560x1440 would be better11:14
MartijnVdSaquarius: the extra wideness of the screen is *really* useful for running 2 browsers next to each other :)11:14
aquariusand the fixes for Ubuntu working at high DPI have apparently not hit trusty yet, although they're being worked on11:14
MartijnVdSare they the result of the phone work?11:15
MartijnVdSHigh DPI was tried before, with X DPI being set "properly". It broke everything except GTK apps11:15
MartijnVdShttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libgnome/+bug/11874511:16
lubotu3Ubuntu bug 118745 in xorg-server (Ubuntu) "Font sizes in Gutsy are affected by bad X.org DPI detection" [Medium,Fix released]11:16
popeyno11:17
popeythe high dpi stuff will be in unity711:17
MartijnVdSpopey: .. which is part of the phone work, right?11:17
aquariusthere isn't really "phone work"; it's all just work, apart from the little team actually making things like the dialer function properly. :)11:19
MartijnVdSaquarius: well, the phone is also an ARM device with a physically smaller screen (with the same res, so higher DPI)11:19
MartijnVdSaquarius: (not necessarily ARM.. that's not relevant.. why did I add that)11:19
popeyMartijnVdS: no11:31
popeyphone is unity811:31
popeydesktop up to and including 14.04 is unity711:31
popeyhttp://www.the-ear.net/review-hardware/audioquest-pearl-and-cinnamon-ethernet-cables-digital-interconnect11:33
popeyoh dear11:33
bigcalmOh dear no11:35
MartijnVdSI wonder why my Chrome "just breaks" sometimes11:37
shaunoyou gotta admit it though.  those connectors are purdy.  they should sell them on etsy or something11:37
MartijnVdSevery time I start it, it claims it can't open my profile11:37
MartijnVdSthen I killall chrome, and it works again.. except when I click a link in another program, that tries to start another copy of chrome, which can't open the (locked) profile11:38
popeyi had that on osx a while back11:40
popeyended up deleting the profile (was wifeys)11:40
popeyright, off to toy shop and maplins i think11:40
popeysam is bored11:41
bigcalmBuild with LEGO!11:41
brobostigonbuild with maccano, :)11:44
foobarrygonna make a castle with linka this afternoon11:48
foobarrywith the boy11:48
foobarrybigcalm: we did lego fire resuce this morning ;) http://i.imgur.com/BhWIWJC.jpg12:04
MyrttiI wish Google stuff would work with Firefox properly12:15
Myrttiit's sooper annoying it doesn't12:15
foobarrymmm home made popcorn dipped in honey12:51
iainkay_hey, does anybody know if i can compile the compiz extra plugins on ubuntu 13.10?12:52
foobarrynope sorry, still on 12.04 here. they not in the repos iainkay_ ?13:18
iainkay_no13:24
iainkay_removed13:24
iainkay_its a dummy package now13:24
iainkay_i miss burn :(13:24
iainkay_i love the rest of ubuntu 13.10 but really really really want to get that effect back up and running13:25
iainkay_if i can then ill blog about it13:25
popeypip pip14:12
MartijnVdSpopey: CP/Ming again :)14:13
popeyhah14:13
popeywaiting for xbox to update ☹14:13
* popey makes a cup of tea14:13
ali1234iainkay_: which plugin packages do you have installed?14:27
ali1234"compiz-plugins" should have all the none default plugins14:28
iainkay_i have installed:14:37
iainkay_compiz, compiz-core, compiz-gnome, compiz-plugins, compiz-plugins-default, compiz-plugins-extra, compizconfig-settings-manager, libcompizconfig0, python-compizconfig14:38
ali1234seems like the current maintainers decided to rip out a bunch of plugins that the don't use14:49
Myrttidoes anyone here use Tripit a lot?14:59
popeya bit15:07
* popey goes to get sophie from a sleepover, bet she's tired and moody 15:08
SuperEngineerwee hee - got a weekend off [at long last]. Hi y'all15:52
SuperEngineer"Celebrating" by defrosting fridge, shopping, doing the washing, taking full backup, being normal15:52
SuperEngineer.s. - "normal" in my case might be different to your usual understanding of the word ;)15:53
foobarrymy ubuntu one seems broken today16:49
foobarryState: AUTH_FAILED16:49
foobarryjust me?16:49
bigcalmBroken Age was fun :)17:50
bigcalmPoop jokes are the best!17:50
DJonesWatching Despicable Me for the first time, why does the baddie Vector remind me so much of Mark Zucherburg17:52
bigcalmMy name wasn't in the backers list in the credit17:56
bigcalmGuess slacker backers don't get a look in17:56
MyrttiI've never played such games so it's a bit difficult18:10
penguin42had someone at our LUG with a Lenovo E145 laptop - wouldn't take 13.10; blackscreened - with nomodeset we got it going textmode; probably would have taken fglrx from that point maybe18:29
penguin42was a new Radeon I think18:32
bigcalmSo I finished chapter 1 of Broken Age. Now what do I do with my life?18:41
* penguin42 hands bigcalm Wolfron's New Science - now read that, and tell me whether I should bother18:42
bigcalmHumf18:42
* bigcalm stares at his DQL for a bit18:42
penguin42dql?18:42
bigcalmDoctrine Query Language (I think)18:43
bigcalmIt's a form of SQL specific to Doctrine18:43
bigcalmA PHP thing18:43
penguin42ah18:44
zleaphi tombrough19:12
foobarrywhat does the "radio" or baseband version on a phone actually do?20:34
MartijnVdSfoobarry: the radio traffic (GSM, LTE, UMTS, etc.) is handled by a separate chip because of its timing sensitivity20:35
MartijnVdSfoobarry: that chip runs closed firmware, which is the "baseband" ROM20:35
MartijnVdSit could of course be "open" but it's not (and from the reverse-engineering I've seen it's bad code too)20:35
MartijnVdShttp://www.slideshare.net/slides_luis/baseband-playground-1065248720:36
foobarrymy wife's phone behaves itself normally except for in calls lately has been dropping or going "on hold"20:36
MartijnVdShttp://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/attachments/2022_11-ccc-qcombbdbg.pdf20:36
foobarrycould it be realted to radio firmware>20:36
MartijnVdSfoobarry: dropping "on hold" calls could be radio firmware, or the network being bad20:37
penguin42foobarry: There's so much firmware who the hell knows?20:37
MartijnVdSfoobarry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1lYU0VMCoY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCcKk8R0LFI20:37
foobarryI've updated her to the same version as me20:37
foobarrysoo many linksss20:37
MartijnVdSfoobarry: lots of background infoz20:37
foobarrywill take a look20:38
foobarryi can't replicate the problem20:38
foobarryprobably hold off on re-installing CM7 on the phone for the mo20:39
MartijnVdSfoobarry: try with stock :)20:39
foobarryi have the identical phone to her20:39
foobarryexcept she has superlcd screen and i have oled20:40
foobarrywoops, i was on the same radio firmware as her, now i'm not20:40
MartijnVdSfoobarry: you want to watch those videos -- they're about vulnerabilities in those firmwares :)20:42
MartijnVdSfoobarry: and you seem like a Chaos Computer Club kind of guy ;)20:42
foobarrybut....but...it was a link on xda developers...it must be OK!20:43
foobarry:P20:43
MartijnVdSಠ_ಠ20:43
foobarryhas anyone experienced noticably better reception and less dropped calls etc from updating radio firmware>20:45
MartijnVdSfoobarry: not myself, but I've seen lots of reports.20:45
dogmatic69I ran update and disk ran out of space, now mysql is half updated / half broken with my server down :(20:45
MartijnVdSfoobarry: it can also be an interaction between the network('s devices) and the radio in the phone20:45
ali1234lol, the same thing just happened to me20:46
foobarryadblock on chrome has stopped working completely :S20:46
ali1234luckily only on a scratch vm20:46
foobarrygonna let the wife use this for a week and report back.20:46
MartijnVdSfoobarry: so if one network uses Huawei base stations, they might have slightly different quirks than, say Ericsson20:46
foobarryi don't wanna have to buy her a new phone20:46
foobarrytrue. we're both on same network, but she might be in the same cell each time when it happens20:46
dogmatic69any ideas on how to fix this? http://bin.cakephp.org/view/33886881520:47
foobarryetc20:47
dogmatic69ali1234: damn... :/20:47
MartijnVdSfoobarry: I live on the 7th floor, and I can "see" a wide range of towers.20:47
ali1234dogmatic69: i made some space then ran apt-get -f install && apt-get dist-upgrade20:47
MartijnVdSfoobarry: On my old phone, calls dropped when I walked from one side of my house to the other (handover across $long_distance, I always suspected my network didn't support that)20:47
MartijnVdSfoobarry: but with my new phone it's fine20:47
dogmatic69ali1234: -f install fails20:48
foobarryso a new radio fw might have fixef that?20:48
dogmatic69see paste :/20:48
ali1234then your system is broken20:48
MartijnVdSfoobarry: it might20:48
dogmatic69ali1234: ;(20:48
foobarryhard to find the commonly acecpted "good" version for the htc desire20:48
foobarrysince most commenters are noobs , and forums suck20:49
directhexneed to restore a huawei android phone to stock20:49
* foobarry also phone noob20:49
directhexurgh20:49
dogmatic69ali1234: think I fixed it apt-get remove mysql, then reinstalled20:50
dogmatic69ITS ALIVE !!!!20:50
foobarryedmund eating all that turkish delight on LW and the wardrobe makes me feel a bit sick20:51
* dogmatic69 mops brow... that was close20:51
foobarrypage 1 of 231 for the htc desire radio thread..have i mentioned how i hate fora?20:51
MartijnVdSHTC Desire is also 500 years old20:53
foobarryyes, but should still work like when it was new20:56
MartijnVdSit's HTC, not Nokia 8-)20:56
foobarrybut 231*10 posts per page is a lot20:56
directhexandroid, like win9x, slows down & gets horrible after a while. reformatting fixes it20:59
ali1234why limit that to win9x? it applies to all versions up to vista at least20:59
foobarrymy issue is not slowness but phone calls21:00
foobarrybut i had horrific slowness recently on my own phone21:00
foobarryflashed to a nightly and it was buggy21:01
foobarryrestored a nandroid backup21:01
foobarryresolved the issue somehow, may have been removing swifkey21:01
foobarrythere is quite a similarity between windows and android in other areas too though21:02
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Myrttidoes tax year always start on 6th of April?21:24
Myrttiit does21:25
Myrttita21:25
penguin42Myrtti: I'd blame the romans but apparently it wasn't their fault21:26
MartijnVdSwhose fault is it then?21:27
moreatiMartijnVdS: it's based on April Fool's day, inflation adjusted21:34
MartijnVdSmoreati: sounds reasonable enough 8-)21:34
MartijnVdSmoreati: tbh, it's probably related to the fact that the new year used to start on March 2521:34
MartijnVdSmoreati: so March 24 year X -> March 25 year Y21:35
penguin42MartijnVdS: Yeh or at least 'Quarter days' of which the 1st was 25 March, then you add the Julian/Gregorian offset21:36
moreatiMarch 25th, plus 11 days for switch to Gregorian calendar http://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-2738,00.html21:36
MartijnVdShttp://www.adsb.co.uk/date_and_time/calendar_reform_1752/21:36
MartijnVdSpenguin42: ^21:36
penguin42nod21:37
penguin42see, not the Romans21:37
MartijnVdSso.. it's because you've been a country for too long without interruption ;)21:37
* penguin42 doesn't like the idea of the interruption bit21:37
MartijnVdSpenguin42: well we tried to fix that21:37
MartijnVdS(with William III)21:38
MyrttiI've sunk to that level off hell where I'm trying to calculate how many days each year I've spent in UK. this process has so far involved fiddling with my datadump from the ashes of Dopplr, importing it to Google Calendar, filling in some dates that were missing based on Ryanair emails, then exporting that to .ics file, doing some creative grep and sed work to get it into CSV and importing it into Google Docs.21:39
Myrttialso http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY21:40
MartijnVdSMyrtti: YES!21:40
Myrttithanks whoever pasted that here earlier this week21:40
MartijnVdSMyrtti: he makes great videos on his own as well (not part of computerphile :)21:40
MartijnVdShttp://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBa659QWEk1AI4Tg--mrJ2A21:41
Myrttiif I had known I'd stumble on this stuff so soon, I wouldn't have watched that video with such relish few days ago.21:41
Myrttibecause I haven't got enough expletetives for this21:41
MartijnVdSMyrtti: don't you have Finnish expletives?21:42
MartijnVdSI've heard those can be quite strong21:42
penguin42reading the tzdata source is pretty good21:42
MyrttiI've been pondering this for a few days, they get inflated too if they're used more than twice in an hour21:42
MartijnVdSpenguin42: it's a bit like that video, but in code21:42
MartijnVdSMyrtti: "Perkele-hyperinflation"?21:43
Myrttiwell, I have to rate limit myself. If I use them too often and too much, I'll burst a vein in my head21:43
MartijnVdSah yes, that would be counter-productive21:43
penguin42MartijnVdS: Yeh I'd bet that's what he based most of it on - it's got lost of curly bits of weird history21:44
dogmatic69done some clearing out, now only using 5.4GB, was using 75GB21:55
dogmatic69all log files :/21:55
MartijnVdSnice21:55
daftykinswowzer! :)22:10
MyrttiI wish I had a stiff drink22:15
MyrttiI might just try out the organic cranberry lager the company christmas parcel had22:15
daftykinsthat sounds very novel22:16
Myrttiit is22:17
daftykinsis it from a local brewery?22:18
mappslager ? most fancie drinks seem to be ales i thought22:29
mappsdont like ale myself:)22:29
Myrttidaftykins: yeah, Mikkeli22:29
daftykinsmapps: :O ales are great :(22:30
MartijnVdSall hail ale!22:30
mappshang on is ale the same as bitter?22:30
MyrttiI'd link you to their website but it's all flash and doesn't seem to have English content22:30
MartijnVdSgoogle translate!22:31
Myrttiyeah, won't make you suffer that22:34
daftykinsMyrtti: ty ^_^22:38
daftykinsmapps: nah22:39
mappsoh22:57

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