| diddledan | so my internet seems pretty dead right now since I last spoke at midnight | 01:34 |
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| diddledan | currently I'm tethered via GSM EDGE speed | 01:34 |
| diddledan | damned vodafone having crud connectivity at home | 01:35 |
| diddledan | there we go | 02:01 |
| diddledan | mucho bettero | 02:01 |
| diddledan | I'm gonna rip the naff sky router out though - it gives me nothing but trouble | 02:03 |
| shauno | diddledan: you didn't consider, yaknow, just going to sleep? | 05:48 |
| diddledan | lol | 05:49 |
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| Myrtti | mläh | 06:31 |
| Myrtti | morning, or something | 06:31 |
| nigelb | something. | 06:46 |
| nigelb | today falls under something | 06:46 |
| knightwise | morning everyone | 06:49 |
| Myrtti | apparently the IT support has called Dell to change my laptop screen. I wish they had told me that a biiiit earlier. | 06:54 |
| knightwise | mornin Myrtti | 07:02 |
| knightwise | screen broken ? | 07:02 |
| Myrtti | thrip inside it. | 07:02 |
| nigelb | My screen scared me the other day. | 07:03 |
| nigelb | I closed the laptop, and then it would only light up very dimly | 07:03 |
| nigelb | fixed itself a few hours later. | 07:03 |
| knightwise | ooh , backlit issue | 07:03 |
| nigelb | yeah. | 07:03 |
| * knightwise staring at a glassy 10 inch display at the moment | 07:03 | |
| nigelb | and you know why I closed the laptop? | 07:03 |
| knightwise | nigelb: whyzzz ? | 07:04 |
| nigelb | so I could check my serial number to mark warranty expiration date. | 07:04 |
| knightwise | haha :) | 07:04 |
| knightwise | i'm trying out a Ms surface pro today ( a Surface 1) | 07:04 |
| nigelb | I was like... yeah, defintiely buying extra warranty when it dies. | 07:04 |
| nigelb | s/dies/exires/ | 07:04 |
| knightwise | hmm.. didn't do that on the company mac. | 07:04 |
| knightwise | applecare is a ripoff | 07:04 |
| nigelb | I've been told applecare is spectacular. | 07:06 |
| nigelb | lenovo is shitty but their support so far has been nice. | 07:06 |
| shauno | applecare would be amazing, if they didn't marry it to their "retail experience" | 07:07 |
| knightwise | we had a pretty good buying experience getting the mac | 07:08 |
| directhex | i have applecare on here. i wonder if they'd be vexed about it running ubuntu | 07:08 |
| knightwise | didnt buy it in an actual apple store , we only have resellerrs in belgium | 07:08 |
| knightwise | Hahah , saw some benchmarks on how Ubuntu runs faster on the same mac then OSX does | 07:08 |
| directhex | for some tasks | 07:09 |
| shauno | knightwise, same in ireland. that's where applecare fall short. it works well if you want to treat apple-retail as a drop-in center. if there's no retail, it gets ugly quick | 07:09 |
| knightwise | shauno: we shop at a premium reseller , they have their own repair dept , so its pretty ok there | 07:10 |
| knightwise | they took care of a 2 repairs on a macbook air I once bought | 07:11 |
| shauno | I had to try to convince them that I really didn't fancy taking a 6 hour bus trip to take my phone to my 'local' store | 07:11 |
| knightwise | true. | 07:12 |
| knightwise | I'm currently hammering away on a surface pro :) | 07:12 |
| knightwise | I got a surface pro 1 second hand to play around with , need to keep my Windows skills up too. | 07:12 |
| knightwise | 8.1 is not bad , and the pro is a half decent machine .. | 07:12 |
| knightwise | but putty has a very hard time with a high res screen. Font sizing is fuzzy and I feel like i'm drunk when I look at the screen right now | 07:13 |
| diddledan | morning | 08:22 |
| foobarry | morning | 08:27 |
| DJones | Yup, it is | 08:30 |
| DJones | Morning btw | 08:31 |
| foobarry | have an annoying tickly cough | 08:31 |
| foobarry | can't stop | 08:31 |
| foobarry | its very undproductive | 08:32 |
| popey | yo | 08:49 |
| DJones | foobarry: I read that free book I got from Amazon last night, turned out to be quite good, seems to be the start of a scifi space opera type of series http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00DSD8ZDK/ref=pe_385721_48724741_TE_M1T1DP | 08:53 |
| awilkins | Hmm. Chris Evans was maintaining that this is Pie Day | 09:13 |
| awilkins | But internet sources claim it is Bow Tie Day | 09:13 |
| awilkins | It's not even British Pie Week! | 09:15 |
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| brobostigon | morning boys and girls. | 09:29 |
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| diddledan | awilkins, mm pie | 10:27 |
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| foobarry | scifi space opera :-| | 10:40 |
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| knightwise | afternoon | 11:28 |
| brobostigon | afternoodlings knightwise | 11:36 |
| shauno | mmm noodles | 11:36 |
| knightwise | hey brobostigon shauno | 11:36 |
| knightwise | how are you guys | 11:36 |
| brobostigon | could be better, could be worse. and you knightwise ? | 11:36 |
| shauno | I'm in pain. I'm trying to do this "performance review" tripe. but I've been told not to try to be funny this time. | 11:37 |
| * knightwise has accountant whoes | 11:37 | |
| knightwise | 2 accountants disagreeing on how to organise my company. | 11:37 |
| brobostigon | :( | 11:37 |
| knightwise | and its all about tax law and crap (and thats not my strong suit) | 11:38 |
| knightwise | So i just called in a THIRD opinion. | 11:38 |
| brobostigon | result? | 11:38 |
| knightwise | still need to sit with the third party | 11:39 |
| knightwise | gonna run through the numbers with the SECOND opinion guy on monday | 11:40 |
| knightwise | our original accountant is probably going to get fired. | 11:40 |
| brobostigon | ah, i see. good luck. | 11:41 |
| knightwise | In other news .. i got a MS surface tablet ! :) Not an RT one, a Pro one. | 11:41 |
| zmoylan-pi | shouldn't you just put the 2 accountants in one room and which ever one wins is the winner? | 11:41 |
| knightwise | (second hand) i would never pay money . | 11:41 |
| knightwise | zmoylan-pi: that would probably be a good idea too.. but first we need to make up our own minds where we should be going. | 11:42 |
| zmoylan-pi | the amount of ms hardware i've landed when others have discarded it... | 11:42 |
| knightwise | the cute thing with this surface is when you run Ubuntu on it in a VM. | 11:42 |
| knightwise | seems "unnatural" | 11:42 |
| zmoylan-pi | well it is ms on a mobile device so unnatural was a given | 11:43 |
| knightwise | but in essence its a little I5, 4gig laptop with a 128 SSD drive and high resolution screen. | 11:43 |
| zmoylan-pi | can you run linux natively? | 11:43 |
| knightwise | its not really a mobile device since it doesnt run RT. | 11:43 |
| knightwise | zmoylan-pi: I'm not sure , uefi boot would be in the way i guess | 11:43 |
| * zmoylan-pi casts ward evil at mention of uefi | 11:43 | |
| knightwise | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iu0yFGczNY | 11:44 |
| knightwise | it has been done apparently | 11:44 |
| knightwise | right now i'm running 8.1 | 11:44 |
| knightwise | Since most of my workflows are cross platform friendly its not really important what OS is under the hood. | 11:45 |
| shauno | I'm loving efi. I can netboot over wifi! | 11:45 |
| knightwise | using mobaxterm as a terminal client at the moment. brilliant app | 11:45 |
| knightwise | and i let chrome run fullscreen as a metro app , so the thing also feels like a chromebook | 11:46 |
| zmoylan-pi | but nowhere near as cheap | 11:46 |
| knightwise | true. | 11:46 |
| knightwise | but a chromebook is just a thin client . this thing can run VM's :) | 11:46 |
| knightwise | (plus i didnt PAY for it , i traded off an old laptop fo mine for it) | 11:46 |
| zmoylan-pi | a chromebook can run linux natively if you really want | 11:46 |
| knightwise | zmoylan-pi: also true. and then we call it a netbook.. (been there done that ? ) | 11:48 |
| zmoylan-pi | but few netbooks left on sale so they're my only hope to replace my 4 year old hp 210 netbook | 11:51 |
| zmoylan-pi | though it looks like ms is pushing for new netbooks to counteract chromebooks undercutting them | 11:52 |
| zmoylan-pi | as long as they all run linux \o/ | 11:52 |
| knightwise | true. | 12:00 |
| zmoylan-pi | though if someone made a z88 case that took a rasp pi i'd jump on it in a heart beat | 12:00 |
| zmoylan-pi | all console apps, but with modern usb, wifi, sd card slots... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Z88 | 12:02 |
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| BigRedS | yeah, I keep wanting a modern psion 5mx before realising that that's a small tablet and a bluetooth keyboard | 12:11 |
| * zmoylan-pi misses the psions | 12:12 | |
| zmoylan-pi | run a week on 2 aa batteries, with full desktop apps, not cut down silly apps | 12:12 |
| foobarry | psion revo was great | 12:13 |
| zmoylan-pi | i think they still sell them | 12:13 |
| foobarry | i read a whole book on it too | 12:14 |
| foobarry | best agenda software i ever used | 12:14 |
| zmoylan-pi | the psion 3a keyboard has never been beaten | 12:14 |
| foobarry | then you go on holiday and forget to charge it | 12:14 |
| foobarry | and it loses its memory | 12:14 |
| zmoylan-pi | agenda... make a recurring appointment for 3rd wednesday of every 2nd month. ok... | 12:14 |
| zmoylan-pi | never found a pim that could do that since | 12:15 |
| zmoylan-pi | and it understood that every 4th wednesday of the month and last wednesday of the month were not always the same | 12:16 |
| foobarry | and it fit in my suit pocket | 12:20 |
| zmoylan-pi | i had a rather expensive leather belt holster for psion 5s. | 12:20 |
| dwatkins | some companies are making devices with Kindle-like displays which you can write on, I think there's a prototype available in Japan from Sony. | 12:31 |
| dwatkins | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvJuLK65dio | 12:31 |
| zmoylan-pi | there was mention of a 7" screen kit for rasp pi so might have to make my own sub netbook :-) | 12:33 |
| awilkins | I wanted a PalmOS cart for the Nintendo DS | 12:34 |
| awilkins | It would be an awesome organiser | 12:34 |
| zmoylan-pi | the ds really could be an excellent pda/playform if nintendo allowed it | 12:34 |
| zmoylan-pi | the new non folding ds screams for a real keyboard and apps | 12:35 |
| popey | zmoylan-pi: http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/feature.asp?t=how_to&c=4219 | 12:40 |
| zmoylan-pi | nice | 12:41 |
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| knightwise | Frack :) | 12:51 |
| knightwise | type covers for the Surface are only in available in hot pink and hot blue ! | 12:51 |
| diddledan | knightwise, pink for you | 12:52 |
| knightwise | diddledan: I thought somebody would say as much | 12:52 |
| knightwise | (don't google knightwise mega-mindy incident) | 12:52 |
| * diddledan googles knightwise mega-mindy incident | 12:53 | |
| dwatkins | oh my, I may have to do this now - I was just going to use it to control my DSLR... | 12:53 |
| dwatkins | http://www.hdrlabs.com/occ/ for details | 12:54 |
| knightwise | I reinstalled the mac mini last week | 12:54 |
| knightwise | single booted it in ubuntu to make a fileserver / vmware server out of it. | 12:54 |
| knightwise | not bad at all | 12:54 |
| knightwise | but I had to install the package that runs the fans and temperature control | 12:55 |
| knightwise | Almost had my own little meltdown here in the cupboard | 12:55 |
| diddledan | MELTDOWN! | 12:56 |
| knightwise | very true | 12:59 |
| awilkins | GBBO ICE CREAM MELTDOWN | 12:59 |
| foobarry | melton mowbray | 13:03 |
| zmoylan-pi | pink makes it less stealable | 13:03 |
| directhex | msata ssds are tiny | 13:04 |
| foobarry | turns out that they didn't keep records of who's done all this crappy compulsory training | 13:05 |
| foobarry | and they are asking us to tick next to each one we have done \o/ | 13:06 |
| foobarry | thats easier than doing the trainign surely | 13:06 |
| zmoylan-pi | you should be made bring all your certificates in! :-) | 13:06 |
| zmoylan-pi | foobarry bsc ssc :-p | 13:07 |
| foobarry | its all this H&S for managers trainign etc | 13:07 |
| foobarry | where you have to sit in a room and be bored for a day | 13:08 |
| foobarry | when you raise a H&S query it gets ignored | 13:08 |
| zmoylan-pi | that's why pdas were invented, it looked like you were taking notes but actually running simcity. doesn't work as well with mobile phones :-( | 13:09 |
| foobarry | this is waht happens when you make me do H&S training | 13:10 |
| foobarry | http://i.imgur.com/3GVfFcz.jpg | 13:10 |
| awilkins | DS Organizer : includes IRC client. Coolio. | 13:10 |
| zmoylan-pi | thought it was going to be buzzword bingo card | 13:11 |
| zmoylan-pi | i have a java based irc client on my feature phone :-) | 13:15 |
| knightwise | hmmm. one of my external disks failed on the server | 14:12 |
| knightwise | perhaps its a good time to get a NAS drive | 14:12 |
| foobarry | microserver | 14:49 |
| diddledan | +1 | 14:58 |
| diddledan | I want a microserver | 14:58 |
| awilkins | Was all excited to discover that you can get full runtime on AWS for free | 14:58 |
| awilkins | But only for 12 months :-( | 14:58 |
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| Myrtti | well, atleast the good part about the Dell service thing is that I've cleaned a bit, and my mobile's battery has lasted a bit better because I've had to keep the phone in a place where it actually gets some mobile signal. | 17:03 |
| Myrtti | (no, they've not called or been here yet) | 17:03 |
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| MartijnVdS | http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2014/08/28/nightmare-at-the-office/?utm_source=feedly&utm_reader=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nightmare-at-the-office | 17:17 |
| j0sh^_ | Hey guys, whats the best way to deal with DNS propagation during a hosting switcheroo? Iptables to redirect old -> new ? | 19:01 |
| SuperMatt | j0sh^_: that's quite doable, but personally I just like to lower the ttl to 5 minutes a day before the switch | 19:16 |
| j0sh^_ | aye, but client/ISP caching world wide can cause issues | 19:17 |
| j0sh^_ | so I want a redirect on old anyway | 19:17 |
| SuperMatt | tbh, I tell my customers that any client caching is the client's fault if they see the site down | 19:18 |
| mapps | hi all | 20:02 |
| mapps | ;] | 20:03 |
| mapps | damn wifi in this hotel goes eveyr fewmins | 20:03 |
| mapps | ;(( | 20:03 |
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