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MooDoomorning all06:55
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diplofreenode issues this morning then07:39
MooDoodiplo: feel a bit used actually, i mean i've not been kicked off :(07:42
diploYou were earlier ?07:46
diplo* MooDoo has quit (*.net *.split)07:47
diploAbout 10 mins ago07:47
diploand twice before that07:47
MooDoooh never noticed lol08:15
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directhexanother untested sqlite release which breaks banshee. thanks, obama.08:42
* awilkins doesn't use Banshee08:42
MooDooobama?08:42
awilkinsHe keeps pushing patches without unit tests. Pressure of the White House n'all, doesn't have time to write them.08:43
MooDoolol08:46
bashrcI don't buy the idea that folks don't have time to test their own patches08:49
MooDoothat sounds a bit daft, who'd do a patch and not test it..?08:51
foobarrydevelopers08:51
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foobarrywho are used to QA teams08:52
foobarryi've seen it a lot08:52
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foobarryin software companies08:52
foobarrywhen arrogance means they assume it will a) compile b) fix the problem c) cause no regressions08:53
ScrtServiceAgentTalk in this channel is getting treasonous, gentlemen. "Renegade" writes good patches. Any bugs they cause are clearly the fault of the software he's patching.08:53
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brobostigonmorning boys and girls.09:08
MooDoomorning brobostigon09:10
brobostigonmorning MooDoo09:10
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safiyyahAzelphur, ali1234 are you around?09:27
SafiyyahHi,  am having trouble booting from USB  have an Asus E4721 motherboard10:06
SafiyyahIs anyone around10:06
directhexP5KPL-AM EPU.10:08
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directhexG31 intel board. core 2 duo.10:08
SafiyyahIs there a reason I can't boot from USB?  I  made a start up disk using the startup disk creator.  I loaded the drive know the direct port at the back of the motherboard and still nothing10:18
MooDooSafiyyah: and are you able to pick usb from the boot menu?10:18
SafiyyahMoodoo boot menu not loading am pressing f410:20
SafiyyahI have set the bios but can't get the boot menu up10:20
MartijnVdSmoodoo boot menoo 8-)10:20
MartijnVdS</interrupt>10:21
MooDooSafiyyah: try f810:21
SafiyyahI also tried F210:21
SafiyyahOkay thank you be back in a minute10:21
SafiyyahThis is my phone but I need to reboot10:21
SafiyyahMoodoo am I'm,  thanks a lot10:33
MooDoobrill :D10:33
SafiyyahAbit emotional today was ready to burst into tears10:34
SafiyyahYou saved the day10:34
MooDooYou'll be fine, just take it step by step, if anything gets in your way, just take a step back, gather your thoughts, then try something else :D10:34
SafiyyahI did this with Azelphur two weeks ago but am really unhappy with Ubuntu so want a new system with kubuntu or xubuntu,  should smooth sailing for a minute until we get to loading the noises drivers10:37
arsenipwhy do cisco make wifi so complex :< lol10:46
SafiyyahMoodoo does it take extra extra long because I  selected to download updates and third party software or it's stuck?10:47
MooDooyes it can take a bit,10:54
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popeymorning12:52
MartijnVdSevening popey12:52
MooDoohowdy popey MartijnVdS12:52
MartijnVdShi Moo12:54
davmor2MooDoo: me owld Mucka12:54
popey\o/ going home today12:57
BigRedSdon't you go home every day?12:59
MooDoodavmor2: howdy matey, safe trip home, for you and popey et al13:01
davmor2MooDoo: ta hopefully :)13:03
popeyBigRedS: not when I'm in America, no.13:03
MartijnVdSpopey: so, how's the FREEDOM13:05
popeyFull of fries.13:08
MooDoodavmor2: :)13:13
awilkinsSmothered in a product that cannot legally be called cheese ?13:19
MartijnVdSawilkins: "I can't believe it's not cheese"13:20
awilkins"I totally believe it's not cheese." would be a more accurate name13:21
popeyi had some nice blue cheese on a burger last night13:25
popeyshame the burger was cold ☹13:25
brobostigonno meltage, :(13:27
MooDooi must admit i had some colston bassett  blue cheese last night, it was lush13:32
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Safiyyahpopey,  you don't know how many times that xorg.conf file has saved my hide. Got the new system going again today with it's help. Thank you so much again13:53
SafiyyahDoes anyone know how to get the firefox navigation bar to stay on the browser, nothing google is returning is working13:54
popeyhah13:55
Safiyyahali1234, you will be pleased to know that I am happy on xubuntu13:59
Safiyyahvery happy in fact!13:59
davmor2MooDoo: try some black bomber sometime14:00
MooDooSafiyyah: it is good isn't it :D14:22
MooDoodavmor2: and isn't there another one with tequila in it?14:23
SafiyyahMooDoo even the kids noticed ubuntu was bloated and slow14:34
Safiyyahthis is nice and fluid.... feel like I can breathe again14:34
Safiyyahjust got the last hurdle now with the printer to climb and then I can muck about with what software I want14:35
BigRedSxfce always makes me think of ryanair14:36
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BigRedS"this is so lacking in polish, and feels so incomplete, it *must* be efficient!"14:37
shaunoryanair's lacking polish?  I've noticed the opposite .. they're starting to outnumber the irish14:42
BigRedShahaha14:43
SafiyyahBigRedS, well at the moment ubuntu and gnome are bloated, abit like british airways14:46
Safiyyahxfce is polished! very smooth, boots in the blinking of an eye14:47
Safiyyahand now I sound like ali123414:47
awilkinsSafiyyah, Heh, it's not bloaty and slow on a quad core i7 with 16GB of RAM and a Quadro GPU :p14:47
awilkinsAnd an mSATA SSD backing the main HDD14:47
Safiyyahawilkins, I have a quardcore 2 or something..... too bloated14:47
Safiyyahand gnome 3 is driving me crazy14:47
Safiyyaham glad I just did a fresh install, just adding XFCE desktop environment would not have solved anything14:48
BigRedSIt really isn't bloated. The windows-buttojn-search-thing is always slow, but everything else, IME, is fine, really14:48
BigRedSUntil a few days ago I was regularly going between Unity and Openbox on two sets of modern hardware and there wasn't perceptible difference in response times14:49
Safiyyahwell I just came off of 12.04 onto 14.04 and it was bloated in comparison14:50
Safiyyahhuge difference in response times14:50
Safiyyahand that menu.... oh my god that menu. That was another thing that almost had me in tears this morning14:51
awilkinsEven Windowbuttonsearchything is  fast on this piece of gear14:51
Safiyyahthank god it's god14:51
Safiyyahgone*14:51
BigRedSawilkins: really? I've always assumed it's got loads of sleep() calls in it :)14:56
awilkinsBigRedS, Too many calls to some kind of database15:03
awilkinsBigRedS, That's lazily loaded on first go15:03
awilkinsBigRedS, If the OS loaded it in the background on starting your session   (hell, on the loging screen - the apps data is going to be the same for all users, mostly)15:04
awilkinsThat would work better15:04
BigRedSyeah, it seems really weird how long it takes to populate apps results15:10
BigRedScompared to, say, shell tab-completion which has to look at most of the same things15:11
awilkinsThe apps thing should just go ka-chow15:11
awilkinsShould do it once, serialize it to a massive blob and store it on disk and only redo it when you install apps15:11
awilkinsMind, it does seem to go ka-chow on my new hardware15:12
awilkinsBut it's posh new hardware and a fresh install15:12
BigRedSyeah, this was relatively posh new hardware and a fresh install once :) Maybe it's quicker, too, now15:13
Safiyyahawilkins, BigRedS  its ka-chow on xubuntu for sure15:29
Safiyyahjust going to reboot15:29
Safiyyahsee it it will get the printer going15:29
BigRedSdoes XFCE have the same searchy thingy?15:30
awilkinsI leave you with what happens to soy sauce when you leave a sachet of it in your desk drawer for three years15:31
awilkinshttps://www.dropbox.com/s/of2wftsduvdb0fl/2014-10-24%2014.01.00.jpg?dl=015:31
awilkinshttps://www.dropbox.com/s/drof72n734v3dh8/2014-10-24%2014.00.03.jpg?dl=015:32
safiyyahright I need to ask for help with setting up my printer, is anyone available?15:36
* BigRedS doesn't do printers15:36
safiyyahlol15:38
safiyyahI posted the question in kubuntu but will post it here as well15:45
safiyyahHi all, just moved from ubuntu 14.04 to kubuntu and I had my printer working with no issue in ubuntu, however in Kubuntu after installation, it says it's idle and claims to have finished jobs sent to it (but it never even printed them) . It's a brother mfc-j430w15:45
safiyyahOh my I got the printer going, 2.5 hours later!!!!!16:06
safiyyahwhat was life like before google?16:06
safiyyahlol, it's one hurdle to the next.... no joy on the scanner! urghhhhhh!16:09
safiyyahtrying to format a usb stick and gparted says it's unallocated, all options to format are greyed out17:03
safiyyahanyone?17:03
brobostigonare you running it as root?17:04
safiyyahthere is nothing on it17:05
safiyyahit previously was the startup disk for ubuntu 14.04, but then I deleted everything from the terminal and now I can't format it17:05
safiyyahThere is nothing under flags in gparted17:06
safiyyahused says --- and unused says ---17:06
brobostigongksudo gparted . in terminal will launch it as root, and should work.17:11
safiyyahbrobostigon,  got it going, little one spotted the problem!17:13
brobostigonand it was?17:13
safiyyahit was unallocated because everything was deleted. So needed to right click, > everything was greyed out except 'New' > needed to click 'New'17:14
safiyyahdidnt see it, my son spotted it.17:15
brobostigonah,17:17
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czajkowskioh viber works very nicely on the Ubuntu desktop17:23
czajkowski\o/17:23
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czajkowskiit's easier to get Viber to work on Ubuntu than Skype!17:39
zmoylan-pitime for microsoft to buy vibre? :-)17:40
czajkowskihush you17:42
davmor2zmoylan-pi: czajkowski and google+17:50
czajkowskidavmor2: any ideas on how to get skype installed on utopic ?17:52
diddledan_microsoft can't buy google+ unless they seriously up their cash reserves17:52
diddledan_basically google won't sell + without the entire google empire17:52
davmor2czajkowski: yes I'm not telling you how but yes :P17:53
diddledan_which would be a lot of $17:53
zmoylan-piwell after firing 10s of 1000s of staff their cash reserves will start to improve17:53
diddledan_I doubt even apple could buy out the google empire17:54
diddledan_an oil company might have the chops but it'll be tight17:54
diddledan_google is currently worth approx 370b$17:56
zmoylan-pigoogle is *perceived* to be worth $370b17:56
diddledan_apple about double that17:57
diddledan_at 615b$17:57
czajkowskihttp://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/34954848?tmad=c&tmcampid=35&utm_campaign=buy-alert&utm_content=contact-type-listing&utm_medium=email&utm_source=alert18:06
czajkowskibah18:06
MartijnVdShttp://store.dftba.com/products/hashtag-octothorpe-shirt18:56
Laney()19:06
Laneyif you use the ubuntu font these brackets don't line up19:06
LaneySICKENING19:06
diddledan_Laney: they do on osx - it must be an x11 issue19:07
diddledan_or gtk19:07
diddledan_(yes I have the ubuntu font on osx)19:07
diddledan_I'm using ubuntu mono regular19:08
Laneyit goes away at larger sizes for me19:09
foobarryanyone around?20:12
Myrttito some degree20:16
foobarryfriend called on behalf of a lady who got scammed20:17
foobarrythey phoned her and got £150 out of her20:17
foobarryshe got the money back,20:17
zmoylan-pithis is microsoft support...?20:17
foobarrybut then they called again later pretending to be the bank who were processing the refund and then said HAH we've locked you out of your pc and need £400 wired to western unin account20:18
foobarrydon't know any more details, and don't have the pc, but does it sound familiar20:18
foobarry?20:18
foobarrywondering if just changed password, or something worse20:18
zmoylan-pihaven't heard of that one.  goes to google...20:18
shaunothat'd be a variant I haven't heard of either (and I spend all day reading the internet  heh)20:19
foobarrythats as much as i can glean without seeing the pc20:19
shaunoonly ransomware I've come across is the crypto* family20:19
foobarryi can also find chatroulette blackmail20:20
foobarryi tihnk its more manual than ransomware20:20
foobarrymaybe i'll find out if she needs the docs on the pc20:21
foobarryand wipe it20:21
zmoylan-pigo to backup and recover20:23
shaunoif you're willing to help her with it, yeah, that's what I would aim for.  tell her to leave it off * unplugged until you get there.  dump the disk to backup & nuke it.  then work backwards from there to see what data you bring back20:23
zmoylan-pii'd drop in new disc and plug old disc into linux system to pull data off it after scanning it20:24
foobarrywhat filesys does win7/8 use nowadys20:24
zmoylan-pintfs20:25
foobarrywow. old school20:25
zmoylan-pias broken as ever it was20:25
foobarrybad doggy http://imgur.com/ChLC3va20:27
foobarryyes thats wet cement20:28
zmoylan-pii think every foot path around here has cat prints in the cement.20:40
safiyyahnight all21:15
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