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popeyGreetings from the colonies!00:10
shaunowhich colony?  and are they behaving?00:11
popeyAmusingly in the bus on the way to the hotel, the american woman next to me was reading news of mr Bieber, on the daily mail online00:12
diddledandamned daily mail readers get everywhere00:12
shaunoyeah.  my mother's latest husband keeps linking to DM articles.  it seems quite popular00:13
penguin42how many is she on?00:13
shaunoit's quite difficult to explain to them that it's not a real newspaper00:13
diddledan(my parents are DM readers, too)00:13
shaunoI think this is the 4th00:13
diddledanit comes to something when you can't remember how many husbands your mum has had :-p00:14
* penguin42 was thinking about whether to say that :-)00:14
diddledanheh, shauno knows I insult him at every opportunity00:14
diddledanhe does the same in reciprocity so it's all good :-p00:15
diddledanooh that's a clever word for quarter past midnight00:15
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popeySaw a hotel called Gaylord Palms00:43
popeyand my first thought was "Does he?"00:43
daftykins:D00:44
daftykinsthat's proper technique for you00:44
diddledanfamily friendly01:02
diddledanI think that just went out the window:-p01:02
map|workpopey in america?01:05
penguin421map|work: He's gone to feed the alligators01:06
map|work;]01:06
map|worki just figured by the hotel he mentioned01:07
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foobarrymornings07:14
diddledanmorning07:38
MartijnVdS\o07:51
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bigcalmGood morning peeps :)09:07
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brobostigongood morning boys and girls.10:33
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ali1234well that's a new one... phishing emails in finnish11:07
Laneyphinnish11:43
knightwisemorning everyone12:01
brobostigonafternoonings knightwise12:02
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popeymorning12:08
mappsafternoon12:12
popeyhaha it's groundhog day12:13
popeywatching them do the thing with phil the groundhog on telly12:13
mappsphil the groundhog|?12:22
popeyyes12:26
popeyhe predicted 6 more weeks of winter12:26
brobostigonhe didnt predict it,12:26
brobostigonit was the man judging the animal.12:27
popeyNO WAY!12:36
foobarrystrange...it isnt raining yet today12:45
popeyfoggy here12:48
brobostigonsemi-cloudy here.12:48
penguin42yeh bits of blue sky in Manc12:48
popey28 degrees today apparently12:49
brobostigonfahtenheir or celcius?12:50
popey77 f12:50
brobostigonfahtenheit or celcius?12:50
brobostigonscorching12:50
popey84 on monday12:50
popeyi should have brought some shorts12:50
popeymight pop out today and buy some12:50
mappsnot sure whether to go out to watch the superbowl or not12:55
foobarrycan'[t think of much worse12:55
foobarrymaybe watching splash.12:56
mappslol12:56
mappsmy friend loves the nfl..i somtimes watch it at work12:56
foobarryamerican football/sport reminds me of dramas on ITV. they don't make it for the story or the love of it, just for advertising revenue.12:57
foobarrysimilarly american football seems to be designed around eyeballs on the tv and ad breaks12:58
mappsprobably endup going out and just getting drunk and going to the strip club12:58
foobarrystag do?12:58
mappsna12:58
mappsjust there's a strip club near the casino12:58
mappsso sometimes go there before going to the casino after a night out12:59
popeywell12:59
popeyi do want to go and see the superb owl somewhere12:59
popeybecause lots of my co-workers are here, and I'ld12:59
popeybah12:59
mappsheh12:59
popeyI'd like to have beer and wings ☻12:59
mappshooters!12:59
foobarry i read an interview with a woman saying that most strippers were lesbian and didn't  like men12:59
mappsprobably true13:00
mappssome of them arent even nice at ST113:00
foobarryalthough they were turned that way from their experiences with men13:00
mappsthere's 1 american that's really hot..dunno why shes here..seems odd13:00
foobarrynot my opinion, just the quotes13:00
popeyriiiigght13:00
popeynever been in a hooters, never really seen the appeal13:01
foobarryi don't know what it is. single mums in tshirts and low self esteem?13:01
mappsi went to Hooters Praha - it was ok..the girls are nice..but the steak i had was garbage13:02
mappsthey didnt even ask me how i wanted it cooked?!13:02
foobarrycan't imagine the food is great, for obvious reasons13:02
foobarryhey i'm a great chef and great menu, instead of high class resto, i'll go to some out of town dive13:02
mappshard rock cafe was better but way ore expensive13:02
mappslol13:02
foobarryi bet more nachos are sold/consumed on superbowl day than any other13:03
mappsdont think ive ever had nachos13:07
foobarry"Not Another Completely Heuristic Operating System, or Nachos, is instructional software for teaching undergraduate, and potentially graduate level operating systems course"13:09
foobarryor doritos without flavour13:09
foobarryhttp://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-to-Drop-Nautilus-Soon-and-Replace-It-with-Their-Own-File-Manager-423015.shtml13:12
popeyhaha13:12
popeywondered how long that would take13:13
popey"soon"13:13
popeyis a year soon?13:13
Laneyseriously13:14
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LaneyI'm wondering whether to reply to that thread13:14
Laneyogra ...13:14
ali1234it's funny that they claim it's because of missing features in nautilus13:14
ali1234when in fact the ubuntu file manager is likely to have even less features13:14
popeys/less/fewer/13:15
Laneyhelpful13:15
foobarryit will be qt based, right?13:16
foobarryso why not use dolphin base?13:16
ali1234because it has to have convergence13:16
foobarryso start all from scratch?13:16
ali1234yes13:16
foobarrycanonical have been ripping  things up every 2 years13:16
popeyi dont think it's quite as cut and dried and decided as the email implies13:16
ali1234convergence = design for touch, then make it run in a window on desktop13:17
ali1234i haven't read any email13:17
ali1234i just read the discussions about it on #ubuntu-desktop the past week13:17
foobarryhttps://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2014-January/004414.html13:17
popeyand i dont think it's certain we would switch to unity8 in 14.1013:17
ali1234unity 8 will keep getting pushed back, i'll be amazed if it's ready for 16.04 frankly13:18
Laneynothing is certain imho13:18
popeyindeed13:18
Laneyespecially not chucking everything and replacing it with worse stuff13:18
popey+113:18
ali1234that's already happened13:18
Laneyeverything?13:18
ali1234why wouldn't it happen again?13:18
ali1234yes, everything13:18
Laneyright, I'm done13:19
ali1234see gnome, unity, compiz 0.913:19
ali1234see also gedit HEAD, lol13:19
ali1234i don't think i'm using anything from ubuntu-desktop any more13:20
ali1234it went from the best desktop to the second worst in two years13:20
ali1234good job everyone13:20
foobarryworst being gnome3?13:21
ali1234right13:21
foobarrythat was pretty spectacular too13:21
popey→ shower → breakfast13:22
ali1234gnome seems to be actively trying to piss off their users, while ubuntu-desktop seems to be merely incompetent13:22
foobarryis this a "legal" marble in the school playground sense? its massive http://ubuntuone.com/2BAPG5fAJYOWAnteMrvZqs13:23
foobarrymuch bigger than a 64 or a 256er13:23
foobarryplayground marbles seems to be an oral tradition rather than any rules written anywhere on the net13:26
MartijnVdSfoobarry: yes, different rules for different schools 8-)13:36
bigcalmGood morning peeps :)14:30
brobostigonafternoodlings bigcalm14:32
daftykin1after noodlings sounds great :D14:34
daftykin1mmm noodles in dark soy sauce14:34
brobostigon:)14:38
daftykin1how's brobostigon this fine day? any poor weather up your way this weekend?14:40
brobostigonlight cloud cover, that it. not bad overall, and you?14:41
daftykin1seems the sun is out O_O14:42
brobostigon:)14:42
popeyfull of brekkie14:46
daftykin1popey: fry up? ;)14:47
penguin42and what is that14:47
popeybacon14:50
brobostigonnomnom,14:50
hamitronoh don't :/14:51
brobostigonoh do, :)14:51
hamitrongot in far too late last night, eaten loads today and still feel.... unbalanced14:52
hamitron:/14:52
daftykin1hair o' the dog!14:53
hamitron:-o14:54
hamitronI don't think I'm going to do an intense workout again, before a 10 hour drinking session14:54
hamitronjust don't think it mixes well14:54
brobostigonoh dear,14:55
daftykin1lol14:55
hamitronit has to be the exercise ofc14:55
hamitron;/14:55
brobostigonself-inflicted hangover,14:55
daftykin1were you not knackered when commencing drinking?14:55
hamitronthe cause of all this pain14:55
daftykin1hamitron: or are you calling the pint lifting the intense workout? ;)14:55
brobostigonlol14:55
hamitrondaftykin1, it demonstated how my strength was improving..... getting easier as I progressed14:56
daftykin1ooh didn't even notice my nick14:56
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hamitrontbh, I just gotta accept I am now too old to roll in at 5:45am and not feel it14:57
brobostigononce i passed 30, i got that feeling aswell.14:58
hamitronyeh, about my age14:58
hamitron:)14:58
daftykinsi'm hitting 29 this month ;/14:58
brobostigonones body is too old to cope with it.14:58
hamitrondaftykins, enjoy the next year, all downhill from then on14:58
daftykinsplaces shut by 2am on Guernsey though14:59
daftykinshamitron: i've been told the downhill line since 22 i think ;)14:59
hamitronlies!14:59
daftykinsmemory issues are really beginning to bug me though15:00
hamitronI think next weekend I'm gonna give myself a 3 hour break between the workout and drinking session15:00
daftykinssometimes i have pauses mid-sentence to remember what i was talking about =|15:00
hamitron:/15:00
hamitronI can't tackle logical problems like I used to15:01
brobostigonand then get home at 8:4515:01
hamitronbut that is maybe just lack of practise15:01
brobostigonam*15:01
brobostigonthe matrix ch5 10:55pm :)15:08
ali1234the description for that in my tv guide is funny15:08
ali1234"keanu reeves fights rebels in a virtual world"15:08
brobostigonoh dear15:09
daftykinslmao15:09
daftykinspesky rebels15:09
daftykinsdie, rebel scum!15:09
daftykinswhat's that from 0o15:09
ali1234the daily mirror 7 day tv guide thing15:09
ali1234Azelphur: ping15:14
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* neuro cries a little bit into his keyboard16:36
neuroemergency server migration :(16:36
neurobrobostigon: the matrix? on channel 5? avoid16:36
neuroit'll be pan and scan, filled with ads and potentially cut16:37
brobostigonmaybe, yes.16:38
awilkinsDoesn't everyone have it on DVD anyway?16:39
awilkinsI think it was in that first generation of DVD titles that you bought because you had a new DVD player and there weren't many films available for it16:39
neuroit was like the second dvd i ever bought16:39
neuroregion 116:39
awilkinsI think it was the first for me16:40
awilkinsWhen DVD was super-awesome16:40
neuroyeah16:40
shaunoI thought pretty much everyone got it with the player16:40
neuroyou were like LOOK AT THE QUALITY16:40
ali1234also the first film many people downloaded from the internet16:40
neuromy first dvd player was a creative dvd-rom drive with mpeg2 playback card16:40
awilkinsYeah, my first DVD player was a Panasonic slotloader16:41
neuroroot@hathaway:/data/cargobays/1/Video/Movies# ls -l The\ Matrix\ \(1999\).mkv16:41
neuro-rw-r--r-- 1 neuro users 12897336691 Jul 16  2013 The Matrix (1999).mkv16:41
shaunomy first (And last) player was a pretty terrible, cheap-as-dirt no-name player from walmart; that'd also play vcd & divx <316:42
awilkinsI have this one from my local computer parts warehouse retailer that has lasted 15 years16:42
awilkinsRegionless, obeys commands during the stupid unskippable trailers16:43
neuroi then got a chipped pioneer dv-somethingorother (sold), then chipped dv-363 (unplugged), then a sony blu ray (sold)16:44
neuroi don't think i've watched a blu ray disc in ages16:44
awilkinsI have a bluray drive16:44
neurodefinitely haven't put a dvd movie in a drive for years16:44
awilkinsI have one (1) title, Avatar16:44
neuroi still have blu rays in the shrink wrap :)16:44
awilkinsWhich mum bought me for Christmas on the premise that I must have a bluray because I was a techie kinda guy16:44
neurolol16:44
awilkinsThe drive came after16:44
awilkinsI had to rip 30GB of data off it to play it on Linux16:45
awilkinsDVD is still just fine16:45
neuroyeuch16:45
neuroresolution too low16:46
neuroDTS audio is rare16:46
awilkinsHollywood has lost track of the fact that the plot and script are what matters16:46
neuroand R2 discs are usually yucky 576p50 transfers16:46
awilkinsThere are ancient films with terrible resolution that choke you up16:46
neuroi'd still rather watch films in 1080p24 ta much :)16:46
* neuro watches migration data transfer progress and cries a little bit more16:48
neuro100G in 2.5 hrs16:48
neuro460G to go :P16:48
awilkinsAcross what kind of bus?16:48
neurobus?16:48
awilkinsChannel for data ; commonly called a "bus" in computers]16:49
ali1234gigabit?16:49
neuroyou are miscategorising the premise of the task16:49
awilkinshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_(computing)16:49
neuroserver 1 -> dc infra -> server 216:49
neuro100Mbps-ish16:50
ali1234you're pushing 400Mbps, it's gigabit with other traffic16:50
neuroum16:50
neurook?16:50
neuroi'm rsyncing data from one server to another16:50
awilkinsHmm, is some of the data already on the other server16:50
neuronope16:51
neurowell16:51
neuro100G is, now16:51
neuro104G, sorry16:51
neurostupid crappy kimsufi servers16:51
neuro"oh lets put seagate drives in, they'll last forever"16:52
neuro*facepalm*16:52
penguin42neuro: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a hard disk in a Fedex ban16:52
penguin42van16:52
neuropenguin42: they're both in a dc in northern france, it will be quicker for me to rsync16:52
neurosince i am not in northern france16:52
neuroand ovh won't let me into the dc16:52
awilkinsHire Jean Reno to break in and just pull the drive from one RAID array and shove it in the other16:53
ali1234hmm my bad that's actually almost exactly 100mbit16:53
neuroraid array, haha16:53
neuroali1234: yes16:53
ali1234kinda sucks if they're in the same DC16:53
neuroit's not an infra limitation16:53
neuroserver 1 is connected to a 100Mbps port16:54
neuroserver 2 is on GigE, rate limited to 200Mbps16:54
penguin42you're compressing - right?16:54
neuronope16:54
penguin42bzzzt - wrong answer16:54
neurobzzzt - wrong question16:55
neurothe data is already compressed16:55
penguin42oh16:55
neuro:)16:55
penguin42neuro: I hope you don't have bandwidth charges16:55
neuronope16:55
awilkinsIN THE SAME RACK?? That would be pretty harsh16:55
neuronot in the same rack16:55
awilkinsWell, clearly not at 100Mbit/s16:56
neuroand it's technically between two different "customers", because ovh are muppets16:56
awilkinsYou'd think they would run some fibre between those bad boys though16:56
neuro"let's create a new brand for our mid range servers, but make existing customers sign up again into a new customer database"16:56
neuroawilkins: you're not getting it16:56
neuroserver 1 is physically restrained by the speed of the port it's connected to16:57
neuroi'm maxing the port out16:57
awilkinsThey in different dcs in Northern France16:57
awilkins?16:57
neurothey're either in different DCs or they are in different data halls16:57
neurobut it could be fibre in between or copper or wireless or whatever16:57
neuroi can't copy anything faster than 100Mbps16:57
neurobecause server 1 can only connect at 100Mbps16:58
awilkinsIs it really old?16:59
neurono idea16:59
awilkinsBecause I have gigabit right on my desktop motherboard16:59
neurodude16:59
penguin42awilkins: Might be, or might be on 100Mbps switch port16:59
neurothe server only does 100Mbps because it's plugged into a 100Mbps port because that's what OVH wanted to sell it at16:59
awilkinsDamn Frenchies16:59
neuro        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full17:00
neuro                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full17:00
neuro                                1000baseT/Full17:00
neuro        Speed: 100Mb/s17:00
neuro        Duplex: Full17:00
awilkinsSounds like it's the card on the box that's limited to that17:00
neuroargh17:00
awilkinsNo it doesn#t17:00
awilkinsI#m tired17:00
neuro*slap*17:00
awilkinsClearly my finger can't reach my apostrophe cos it's so tired17:00
neurono excuses!17:01
neuroanyway17:01
neuro110G17:01
neuro:P17:01
neurotum te tum17:01
awilkinsHad a very long fortnight and a hectic weekend17:01
neuroand in the meantime i'm trying to get the right packages and config sorted on server 217:01
neuropaaaaaaaaain in the buuuuuuum17:01
neuroit's my own fault really17:02
neuroi didn't document stuff17:02
neuroand i can't get apache to fire up, which is equally annoying17:03
shaunoodd image manipulation question that I have no idea how to even describe; given a box where the edges aren't straight, something that can straighten them? preferably something scriptable?17:03
shauno(top and bottom edges are always fine, left/right edges have 'wavy' deviations, not just a skewed container)17:04
penguin42oh, hmm17:04
neurographicsmagick maybe?17:04
penguin42well it can do affine transforms - but shauno has a more wiggly box17:05
neuroaaaaaaaaah17:05
neuroports.conf17:05
* neuro slaps apache217:05
shaunovery wiggly boxes :/  my cleanest sample so far is http://lab.oneil.me.uk/hffax/wefax_20140202_165508_0_ok.png17:06
shaunoI can skew the whole thing happily enough, but I'd really like something that can catch the wobbles17:07
neuro"Internal Server Error"17:09
neuroyay17:09
neuro"Warning: mysql_connect(): Access denied for user"17:11
neuroyay, even better17:11
ali1234shauno: you can code something up to fix that quite easily with scipy/numpy17:12
ali1234are the lines always same length?17:12
shaunothey should be, but they're not17:13
ali1234hmm17:13
ali1234how you receiving that exactly?17:13
shaunosdr+fldigi17:13
ali1234have you got one with less edge cropping?17:14
ali1234actually does it just wrap around?17:15
ali1234the black/white pattern is sent once per line?17:15
shaunoI think that's my best yet.  but it should wrap, yeah17:15
shaunothe black/white pattern should mark the ends of the lines17:15
ali1234you'll want to operate on the raw data17:16
ali1234luckily this is how scipy wants to work anyway17:16
shaunohm, looking to see if there's any other way I can export it.  fax is inherently analogue17:19
ali1234scipy just wants the raw demodulated analogue waveform17:20
ali1234lining up the lines with black blocks will be easy, not sure how you can do the others though17:21
shaunookay, I'm dumping the next few to wav .. I'll pick the cleanest and then I guess try to learn python :)17:26
ali1234python is the easy part :)17:27
shaunoI can't seem to find any documentation of how long the line should be17:27
ali1234so what you need to do is cross-correlate the white-black pattern then take maximums. that's where the lines start/end17:31
ali1234you can probably do that with only numpy17:32
ali1234since it's 1d17:32
penguin42haha oh yeh wefax17:32
ali1234well half of them anyway17:32
ali1234the rest, just guess :)17:32
shaunohm, there doesn't seem to be an actual line length; that's why it's not written as such17:34
shaunoa line is 1/2second.  what I do with it is apparently my problem17:34
penguin42shauno: I thought the idea is that you run some type of phase lock to the big black blob on the left ?17:36
ali1234right17:36
ali1234there probably isn;t even horizontal pixels17:36
ali1234just a continuous signal17:37
penguin42nod17:37
penguin42just a brightness sensor wired to the signal17:37
penguin42and a hopefully vaguely fixed rate spinning drum17:37
ali1234analogue TV is the same. except it has a proper sync signal on every line17:37
ali1234maybe this thing does too but it's not visible in the processed output17:38
shaunoit doesn't seem to, it's just fsk .. so one frequency means black, the other means white17:38
Azelphurhey folks, I'm doing program > file 2>&1, the stuff shows up in file, but only after I close the program17:38
Azelphurwhich...is annoying17:38
neuroyay, server up and running, just need to wait for data copy to complete now17:39
penguin42Azelphur: Is the stuff mostly coming out of stderr or stdout?17:39
Azelphurthink it's mostly stdout, python print :)17:40
ali1234also unless your receiver is dropping usb packets i don't see how it can even go out of sync...17:40
neuroi like it when web based things that have package dependencies have a page that says "oh, this is missing, installify it please"17:40
penguin42Azelphur: Generally stdout is buffered when it thinks it's writing to a file17:40
Azelphurthat's annoying :/17:40
ali1234Azelphur: use f.write()/f.flush() - it still probably won't help much though17:40
Azelphurf?17:41
ali1234sys.stdout.write() that is17:41
Azelphurah17:41
shaunoright; as long as both I and the sender agree on lines-per-minute, this wobble shouldn't happen17:41
ali1234the buffer is in the pipe17:41
penguin42yeh, you should be able to change the output buffering mode17:41
Azelphurali1234: there we go, calling sys.stdout.flush() seems to solve it, ty :)17:42
ali1234Azelphur: i want you to make a website for minecraft seeds17:43
Azelphuroh?17:43
ali1234i know there's loads already but they only have like 10 seeds each17:43
Azelphurhehe17:43
ali1234i spent this moring writing a seed -> map.png batch python script17:43
penguin42Azelphur: If you can find the equivalent of setbuf it's probably a good idea17:43
ali1234it can generate about 100 maps per hour17:44
Azelphurali1234: fancy17:44
ali12341000 x 1000 blocks. bigger is slower of course17:44
shaunois it firing up the server to generate the map?  curious how you'd make them larger17:45
ali1234yeah17:45
ali1234it runs the server to generate the spawn point, then stop it and moves the spawn17:45
Azelphurit's interesting, right now I'm mostly doing company stuff, could get something going with bootstrap though :)17:45
ali1234so it needs to have user voting because the seeds are random17:45
shaunoI have a script that keeps starting/stopping the server and editing the spawn point, but it gets slow quickly17:45
ali1234shauno: yeah i got one too but it has no batch mode and you have to set up the server yourself17:47
ali1234this creates the server config and runs it for you17:47
shaunookay, I have to go buy some food before I forget.  then I'm going to sit down with this thing and see if I can figure out the logic at least17:50
neurowell, crap18:38
neurophilip seymour hoffman has been found dead, apparently18:38
neuro(the actor)18:38
daftykinsoh him :(18:38
* penguin42 looks on imdb18:39
penguin42hmm - the guy from Mi3 that got replaced with a matching mask?18:40
daftykinshttp://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230462680457935894336070287818:40
daftykinshe was the butler in The Big Lebowski18:40
penguin42out of the things imdb lists I think I've only seen Mi318:41
neuroseriously?18:41
neurowow18:41
MartijnVdSInvention of Lying18:41
MartijnVdSI've seen that.. but don't remember him18:42
MartijnVdSand Lebowski, of course18:42
bashrcit really tied the room together18:47
neurothere's a beverage here, man18:47
daftykinswell you know, there's a lot of ins - a lot of outs18:49
shaunough.  what the hell is all this easy_install **** and why can't people just package stuff19:01
bashrcpackagemonkey dude19:01
shaunoI'm not even sure I want to know what that is.  I just want to use apt :)19:02
neuroit's platform agnostic19:05
shaunohere's the catch.  platform agnostic has never, ever worked out ot be a good idea19:06
MartijnVdSneuro: so is apt ;)19:09
MartijnVdSit works on arm, it works on powerpc, it work on x86, ... :)19:09
neuroyou know exactly what i mean :)19:10
shaunoI spent far too long last night trying to get a mono app working; mono kept complaining I didn't have X11.  a) I do, and b) the app uses sdl, not X11.  Today I tried a java app that just tells me unsupported major.minor version19:11
shauno'platform agnostic' generally means either it theoretically works, but only really on the dev's machine.  or it's just equally useless everywhere19:11
daftykins:D19:11
daftykinsi remember a java joke, "compile once, debug everywhere!"19:12
shaunoI remember a java joke that's decidedly too blue for this channel :)19:12
daftykinsooh do tell19:12
shaunohmm I'm not entirely sure how to word it.  it equates 'cross platform' with copulating with the wrong orrifice19:14
shaunoaaanyway.  I should go back to banging my head off a brick wall19:16
shaunopyaudio apparently refuses to do anything without a soundcard.  even though it's reading the wav from a file19:16
daftykins:)19:17
daftykinsi hope you find a cushion for the wall soon sir19:18
shaunothe wall deserves it19:18
shaunoI don't suppose there's a way to fool alsa into thinking it has a card?19:19
daftykinsalas, not my area of expertise19:19
ali1234why are you messing around with wav files and sound cards?19:19
shaunoso far I'm trying to find the signal within the audio19:20
ali1234use 8-bit raw PCM19:21
directhexshauno, what was the specific mono issue?19:33
shaunowell, that's pretty much it.  trying to start anything with mono told me I needed to download X11.19:34
directhexon mac?19:34
shaunoright19:35
directhextrying to run a winforms app?19:35
shaunonah, a game that uses sdl (OpenRA)19:36
shaunobut I had the same issue trying to run monodevelop (trying to narrow down whether the game or mono was handling it badly)19:37
directhexi expect they use winforms to do the basic window drawable. sdl 1.2 doesn't support that, you need a full toolkit to host the sdl pane19:37
directhexsdl2 can instantiate a window19:37
shaunooh I have it working now, through some mess of reinstalling things in the right order19:38
shaunoit just drove me nuts that running mono from within xterm still complained there's no X19:38
ali1234xterm with no x... looooooool19:38
ali1234mac is silly19:38
shaunooh I have X.  xterm was my attempt at "proving it"19:39
ali1234well i guess mono is the silly one then19:39
ali1234i have run openra on linux and didn't have any problems19:40
ali1234didn't even realise it was mono19:40
shaunothe issue seems to be that .. once upon a time there was X11.app and XQuartz.app.  the relationship between the two is similar to Chrome vs Chromium19:40
ali1234this is what happens when developers decide X is "too old" and they need to rewrite it19:41
shaunoXQuartz was where all the work was done, and then X11.app was apple's "blessed" distribution of it.  Apple have since abandoned their blessed version, which everyone's fine with since upstream works better anyway19:41
shaunomono specifically goes looking for apple's X11.app, rather than looking for X.  if it just tried to open $DISPLAY, it'd work fine.  but it tries to be clever, and fails19:41
directhexum... it's not that simple19:42
directhexthe question is "where is libX11.so.6?"19:42
ali1234is there an open source version of "hot or not" type of website?19:43
directhexif libX11.so.6 isn't in the mac equivalent of LD_LIBRARY_PATH (it isn't), where should mono be loading it from?19:44
ali1234static link it, isn't that how apple apps work?19:45
ali1234everything is linked into a huge bundle with everything19:45
shaunoit's in exactly the same place either way, /usr/X11R6/lib/19:45
shaunooh, apparently it's not, it's in /opt/X11; but that's symlinked from /usr/X11 and /usr/X11R619:51
directhexwas that the case yesterday?19:51
shaunoyup19:52
shaunohas been for years; the two clobber each other when you try to install them19:52
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shaunojust checked time machine to make sure I'm not going nuts; my oldest backup is from july, and has the same symlink layout19:54
marshmnhi; anyone have a suggestion for an music/audio player? I've been using Banshee for quite a while, but nowadays it seems to crash every day or two and leaves a defunct process behind; I've trie RhythmBox seems to crash quite often on me20:31
marshmnI listen to somafm quite a bit so would need one that has streaming capabilities20:32
andylockranhey guys - anyone free to offer advice on writing/consuming a REST API?20:39
andylockranI've got an EDF energy monitor - every minute it writes a row to the database with the time, and electricity usage in watts at 12 points around the flat, and a total figure20:39
andylockranI've put in a simple REST api, which returns each row as an object (using django rest framework)20:40
Azelphurandylockran: I want one D:20:40
andylockranideally, I want to pull out the 1440 results that make up one day, and compare them to the last20:40
andylockranbut using my current model, that's 2880 results from the api and seems to be heavy20:41
andylockranI want to work out how I can bridge the objects. ie.  an api request to day/1 and day/2 where the result is essentially "select id,overall from electricity where date = date"20:42
Azelphurandylockran: model.objects.filter(date=datetime.date.today())20:47
andylockranAzelphur: yeah - I got that far, but then I want to organise the data before spitting it out through the api20:57
ali1234that's what views are for20:57
ali1234they don't have to return html20:57
ali1234can be xml, or whatever20:57
Azelphurindeed20:58
Azelphurali1234: you're a jack of all trades, know django too? :P20:58
ali1234i've used it before, a little20:58
Azelphurhehe20:58
ali1234it's probably all different now20:58
ali1234but it's still MVC right?20:58
andylockranyeah20:58
aquariusandylockran, there are a fair few django modules which expose a rest api based on your models for you, with a little configuration; might be easier than rolling it by hand21:42
daubersEvening21:43
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mappssuperbowl time!23:27
directhexyay for owls23:27
mapps;]23:30
daftykinsthose owls are superb23:35
daftykinspopey: owl throw would go down perfectly right now ;) )23:35

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