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mapitohi all06:26
mapitoswitchover time eh06:27
mapitoor are daftykins  and zmoylan-1i  still around/;P06:27
AzelphurOT question, does anyone know what the penalty is for bringing items above the duty free limit back to UK without declaring?08:21
Azelphureg the limit is £390 if I come back with £450 worth of stuff and don't declare it, what happens?08:22
DJonesAzelphur: https://www.gov.uk/customs-seizures/get-your-things-back08:47
DJonesLooks like if you get picked up, they can seize the goods but you can ask for them back after paying duty and maybe a penalty08:48
Azelphurah08:48
DJonesNot sure whether you can send a postal request to get them back from Guantanamo bay though08:48
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foobarrygoogle+ is down?09:56
foobarryah up now. was down for 5 mins09:56
zmoylan-piand as the only person to notice you get a prize :-P09:57
nigelbI'm surprised anyone noticed :P09:57
foobarryi was rtying to access my photos09:58
popeyMorning all10:01
popeyeveryone says that when G+ goes down10:01
foobarryheh10:02
zmoylan-pibut with googles resources and so few users you'd expect better uptime10:02
JamesTaitGood morning all; happy Wright Brothers Day! :-D10:02
popeyso few users10:04
popeyright10:04
popeypeople who don't use it say that10:04
zmoylan-pihow often does it say on a news item 'and the news first appeared in a post on g+'...10:06
zmoylan-pithat's not a measure of success by any means but it is... something10:06
popeyhow is that a measure of how many people use it?10:07
popeyhalf a billion are on it10:07
zmoylan-piintentionally?10:07
zmoylan-pi:-)10:07
popeythats not "nobody" nor "ghost town" as many describe it10:07
popeywho cares10:07
popeymy mum is only on facebook because the rest of the family are10:07
popeyshe wouldn't have chosen to use it10:07
zmoylan-pishot themselves in foot with nymwars, would have really suited me up to that point10:07
popeymeh10:07
popeystill "I don't use it therefore nobody does"10:08
popeystill wrong10:08
zmoylan-pii don't use it so it's irrelevent is more my argument :-)10:08
zmoylan-piditto facebook and their silly numbers of users :-)10:08
popeyi'm only on fb for family stuff10:09
zmoylan-pidoes seem to be fb's punishment alright10:09
popeywikipedia claims 860M active users on fb vs 540M active users on G+10:09
popeynot bad in 3 years10:09
zmoylan-pitheir definition of active is... suspect10:09
foobarrycompare the g+ and fb android downloads on play store?10:10
popeyG+ is default on android now10:10
popeyfb isnt10:10
popeywhich skews things10:10
awilkinsThat's not fair becuase G+ is in the default app set10:10
zmoylan-pithere's lies, damned lies and then theirs statistics, and now in the 21st century we have social media engagement numbers :-D10:10
awilkinsAnd I wouldn't install the Facebook app for Android if you paid me10:10
popeyhttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.plus10:11
zmoylan-pia lot of android devices come with facebook preinstalled10:11
awilkinsTBH I'd very much like Ubuntu phone just for the same reasons I liked my N90010:11
popeyclaims 500M-1Bn10:11
* zmoylan-pi seconds the ubuntu phone. more choice of what runs on it10:11
awilkinsThe app store might have been *tiny* compared to Android or iOS10:11
popeyhttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.katana claims 1Bn - 5Bn10:11
czajkowskiAloha10:11
awilkinsBut I knew that most of the apps in the repo were not there to monetize my personal data10:11
popeyLooking forward to full disk encryption on the ubuntu phone10:12
directhexjava. bloody bloody java.10:12
awilkinsDoes each app get a sandboxed encrypted data folder?10:12
awilkinsEach one should get it's own symmetric key and be unable to access the others10:13
brobostigonmorning boys and girls.10:13
popeymorning czajkowski10:13
zmoylan-piand when you have an app that needs to access another apps data?10:13
popeyyes and no10:13
awilkinsIf they want to exchange data it should be via dbus10:13
popeyeach app is sandboxed10:13
popeys/dbus/content-hub/10:13
popeybut /home is one partition, so the whole thing could (in the future) be encrypted10:13
popeyit isnt at the moment, but I believe its on the roadmap10:14
awilkinsAccessing each others data is a fragile thing to do anyway10:14
awilkinsDesign information exchange as a service, not a rummaging around in someone elses desk10:14
czajkowskiTNT reuses their shipping numbers so looking at delivery for my new laptop it's either in slough or on it's way to guildford10:14
czajkowski:(10:14
popeyapparmor prevents apps from seeing eachothers daya10:15
czajkowskipopey: top of the morning to you :)10:15
popey*data10:15
zmoylan-pior it could have really taken a beating in transit and some parts are in slough and some parts are in guilford... :-P10:15
czajkowskizmoylan-pi: do not joke :(10:16
czajkowskiI can almost reach my new X110:16
czajkowskiI do need for the first time not to completely wipe windows off it10:16
awilkinsPower adapter in Slough, laptop in Guilford?10:16
czajkowskiand do a partial install of Ubuntu on it as seemingly I need to be able to use word for presentaions as libre office doesn;t seem to do the magic10:17
czajkowski:(10:17
zmoylan-piit's delivery time near christmas czajkowski, the horriblest time of the year for deliveries.  fingers crossed it gets there in time for crimbo10:17
popeywonder what the battery life is like on that under windows10:17
popeywhat version of windows does it come with?10:17
awilkinsczajkowski,  I have Windows 7 in a VM for that10:17
popeyword for presentations? sounds odd10:17
czajkowskipopey: powerpoint :(10:18
popeyhehe, open source companies - lol10:18
czajkowskipopey: Marketing!10:18
awilkinsYeah10:18
czajkowskiall about the pretty presentations10:18
czajkowskiso will see10:18
awilkinsI'm having that problem, even though I'm just writing specs10:18
czajkowskinew odf in google as support could make it a bit easier10:18
awilkinsThey want them in the std. document template10:18
czajkowskiI find a bog standard what ever presentation importaed into google right now works fine10:19
awilkinsI tried Markdown ---[pandoc]---> docx10:19
awilkinsBut it sucks. Converting it to ODT is marginally better10:19
zmoylan-pithen google docs instead for presentation?10:19
awilkinsBut saving the ODT as docx sucks too10:20
awilkinsThe bullets are wrong10:20
awilkinsLike, the glyphs for the bullets are different to the ones Word uses10:20
awilkinsAnd of course, management insist on using Word / Track Changes as their review & comment tool10:20
awilkinsSo you can't escape it10:20
zmoylan-pithen let management fork out for office365?10:21
awilkinsWe have that10:21
zmoylan-piso... completely forked then... :-)10:21
awilkinsJust adds another layer of complexity10:21
awilkinsWhat I was thinking of doing was either writing a Markdown input filter for Word10:22
awilkinsOr writing an output filter for Pandoc that writes a COM automation script that pokes the document into a running instance of Word10:22
awilkinsSince Word is the best thing for writing Word documents and nothing else comes close because it's so horribly complex10:22
bashrcgood moaning10:22
zmoylan-pii think even in the days of word 2.0 i used vim as editor and just copied pasted to word when i was finished.10:23
zmoylan-picouldn't abide it10:23
awilkinsFirst problem I ran into is that Pandoc is designed to do HTML, which means that it doesn't have a "you just entered a table" and "you just left a table" kind of event structure in it's output filters10:23
awilkinsYeah, doing the formatting is driving me buts10:24
awilkinsnuts10:24
awilkinsJust simple things like this one : You have a table. You paste it into an empty Word document10:24
awilkinsNow try inserting a line above the table to put a title in10:24
awilkinsIt's possible but non-intuitive10:24
awilkinsYou have to put the cursor top-left of the first cell, and hit enter10:25
awilkinsWhich inserts a line above the table10:25
zmoylan-pilike clicking start to shutdown....10:25
awilkinsIt's impossible to put the cursor before the table, there's no special key for "insert a line above the cursor" in Word AFAIK10:25
awilkinsIn vim I'd just do `O`10:25
awilkinsI had to google that to work it out10:26
awilkinsThe people who say that Word is intuitive and other things are hard to learn are just benefitting from years of learned quirks10:27
awilkinsI've hardly used it10:27
awilkinsThe largest writing project I ever did with any wordprocessor was my epidemiology paper in med school, and that was with Wordperfect 5.1 for DOS10:27
zmoylan-pii think the mean aount of time between me using word these days is at least 1 version :-)10:28
awilkinsLibreOffice does very well at aping Word - it drives me equally insane10:28
zmoylan-pii saw wordperfect 5.1 around for a long time after windows came along.  i was the one usually asked to get it working on all the wacky printers that came afterwards10:28
awilkinsColleague recommends using LibreOffice to save as DOC not DOCX10:29
awilkinsKeep meaning to try that10:29
awilkinsBut RARRR to management and their insistence on style over substance10:30
awilkinsWould rather write specs as Markdown in a Gollum wiki and have people actually find them useful, than pretty10:30
willcookeali1234, have you played with the ESP8266 yet?10:31
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bigcalmGood morning peeps :)13:02
foobarrywhats gollum wiki awilkins13:02
foobarryhigh fives bigcalm13:02
zmoylan-pihttps://github.com/gollum/gollum/wiki13:05
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foobarrytis a wiki that supports markdown?13:08
Guest61476hey guys. i need an analysis tool for xferlogs, but i don't want to install webalizer with /var/www/ stuff,, just a command line tool that will produce a static set of stuff.13:48
Guest61476just all the crontab entries and things, this is running on my own laptop machine, against downloaded log files. anyone know any nice tools for this?13:49
intrbizGuest61476: you can run webalizer in a one shot mode IIRC13:54
ali1234willcooke: no, never heard of it?14:20
ali1234reminds me of ATJ2085 though, except with wifi14:23
willcookeyeah14:26
willcookeI've just ordered one to play with14:26
willcookeI think I'll just hook it up to an atmega 329 first14:26
ali1234just a bare chip?14:27
willcookeyeah14:27
willcookebut14:27
willcookeyou can program it as well14:27
willcookeor talk to it over seria14:27
willcookel14:27
willcookethere's a "blink" for it which looks ok14:27
willcookeeasy enough to code for14:28
willcookeand it's got a stdc available14:28
willcookeyet another tool chain though14:28
willcookefor 2 quid though, I'm going to try it and replace those cheapo 433 Mhz radios14:28
willcooke(which I'm having no luck with over more than about 2 meters)14:28
ali1234looks perfect for IoT assuming you can actually get the documentation14:28
willcookethere's the rub :)14:28
willcookelooks like a fairly active community around it14:29
ali1234yeah, there was an active community for ATJ2085 too14:29
willcookehttps://github.com/esp8266/esp8266-wiki14:29
czajkowskiit wasn't in slough it's finally in Guildford :D new laptop!!!14:29
willcookehttp://www.esp8266.com/14:29
ali1234we never got the proper docs though14:29
willcookefrom what I read this morning, the chip maker are supporting the community a little bit14:30
willcookeI saw talk of a translated data sheet14:30
ali1234yes, we got some "support" from actions, they gave us the data sheet with GPIOs etc14:30
ali1234which i might add we already had14:31
ali1234the thing about these cheap chinese chips is they'll discontinue it in a year and make a newer, slightly incompatible version14:32
ali1234and you'll be back to square one14:32
ali1234i would stay away from this, frankly14:32
willcookeat 2 quid, I'll take a punt14:33
willcookeit's only as a toy14:33
ali1234yep, those cheap MP3 players were not much more expensive than that14:34
ali1234i have a box full of them, they're junk now14:34
willcooke:D14:34
ali1234good learning experience, but i have no desire to mess around wiwth that type of stuff again14:34
zmoylan-pii have some really cheap and nasty mp3 players.  some were quite good and some were horrible.14:37
ali1234how about nRF51822 as a better supported alternative?14:37
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* zmoylan-pi glances nastily at bush mp3 player where i had to read the manual to find how to change volume14:37
* awilkins has an iRiver 1GB flash player that's great15:10
awilkinsTakes AAA batteries, play quality is good, plays OGG15:10
zmoylan-pi1gb... how did we ever manage? :-)15:14
popeyheh15:16
zmoylan-pii think the smallest sitting unused at the mo is 4gb15:16
popeyi miss my ihp-14015:17
shaunomy brother had a player that was roughly the size & weight of a pack of smokes, 32meg.  that was an expensive spin cycle ..15:17
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foobarrypopey: my iriver was stolen :(16:13
foobarryihp-14016:13
foobarryhowever i bought the cowon iaudio 16gb player which i have never knowingly charged16:14
foobarryhas the secret of free energy16:14
foobarryand great sound16:14
diddledanthe us and cuba are to reestablish diplomatic relations17:35
diddledanand now I go round parentals17:35
diddledantata17:35
shaunohopefully these aren't related17:51
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mapitoapprentice time21:13
mapito:D21:13
diddledanallo allo21:26
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diddledanbrowser ballot in windows is no-more: http://support2.microsoft.com/kb/2019411/en-us?sd=rss&spid=1401922:59
diddledanI wonder whether that means less folk will switch to non-ie browsers in the future23:00
diddledanand therefore not discover the wonderful world of open sauce23:01
shaunolucky them :)  firefox needs to die in fire.23:05
diddledanhttp://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-3052640623:09
diddledanapparently hacktivism works23:09
diddledanbut to be fair, sony has been beaten so hard by the hackers that they're unrecognisable even to a phorensics expert23:12
diddledanthe poo not only hit the fan, but ripped it out of the ceiling and shoved it up sony's bottom23:13
shaunothey should just stick it online23:13
diddledan</family friendly>23:13
shaunoI know it's kinda against their ethos, but at this point, they've put everything else online ....23:13
zmoylan-pior maybe after ploughing through all their downloads they've found something in sonys data sony really doesn't want made public23:14
diddledansome twit suggested putting it on torrent trackers entitled "complete guardians of peace stolen data dump" or some such23:14
shaunoyou're really supposed to rebuild OpenElec to change .. anything?23:14
diddledandon't use raspbmc they don't verify any downloaded data before replacing files on an update - I expect openelec is similar23:16
shaunosometimes I really do want to give you a thick ear :)23:17
diddledanthe raspbmc updater is a shell script of the order "download all the things from unverifiable server over clear http. nuke system with downloaded things"23:17
zmoylan-pisony level security... :-P23:17
diddledanI think I recall it even executed a script from the unverified server - again without checking it's velidity23:21
zmoylan-piescalating to adobe level...23:21
shaunohm, it seems this buildsystem is so messed up it's going to need a VM23:21
diddledan\o/23:21
shaunowhy does everyone need their own buildsystem these days?23:23
zmoylan-pimanagers like to point at something and say that they decided on that23:23
diddledanok, my mind reads a random twit exclaiming that a football match has gone beyond extra time to the bit where 5 men from each team score a goal against the opposing goalkeeper (unless one of the teams is britain in which case at least one guy misses) and I read an extra space between the L and T leading to a BSDM situation instead of football "penalties"23:24
diddledanBDSM**23:24
diddledanshauno, not invented here23:25
directhexor lack of awareness23:25
diddledanthe openwrt one is strange23:25
diddledanit uses a menu system similar (or maybe stolen from) the linux kernel23:26
diddledan+to23:26
shaunothis is starting to make freebsd look sane.  to change sysctl.conf, I have to rebuild every single binary on the system23:27
directhexmenuconfig?23:27
directhexshauno: i know a number of distros like that23:27
directhexshauno: there's a method to the madness, if you have 256 machines to make the change on23:27
diddledanopenelec likes to pretend it's a consumer electronic device23:28
shaunoit's hilarious23:28
shaunoeg, they're removed passwd(1)23:29
directhexshauno: i lol'd23:29
ali1234i think there's a case to be made for the single-user OS23:30
shaunothis is one of the things that's irking me right now; http://paste.ubuntu.com/9555267/23:30
ali1234i mean we know now that unix users don't provide an adequate security model anyway23:30
shaunoI have an image with ssh enabled, and u/p root/root23:30
directhexlike i said, i've used systems like that, designed for mass deployment.23:30
ali1234most of security research now is about how to protect programs from each other when they are all running as the same user23:30
shaunoI'm "not allowed" to change the password.  and the 'tip' to disable password ssh logins - sshd_config is on a read-only squashfs.23:31
diddledanali1234, you still need user-separation for concurrent access23:32
ali1234many devices do not need concurrency, or even multiple user accunts23:32
shauno"luckily" they've also managed to break ipv6, so at least ssh isn't listening publicly.23:32
ali1234for example phones23:33
ali1234nobody shares a mobile phone23:33
zmoylan-pia work phone can be shared23:33
zmoylan-pidifferent folks having it on a weekend.  not as common now but still done23:34
diddledanali1234, not true - I might hand my phone over to my sister for her to call her husband in the instance she forgot hers or just can't find it. I obviously don't want her to open the web browser because I was watching pr0n on there the previous night23:34
diddledana second user account in that instance would be awesome23:34
shaunocurious - if she wanted to send an email on your laptop, would you bother to play the Guest Login dance?23:35
zmoylan-pijust install and bury a separate browser on the device, all nasty searches go through that23:35
ali1234diddledan: no it wouldn't, you just need guest mode or kid mode23:35
diddledanali1234, that's a separate user account23:35
ali1234it doesn't have to be23:35
shaunokid mode on the iphone isn't a separate account.  you just lock them into a single app23:36
ali1234if you already have app sandboxing anyway, also making it a different user account adds no benefit, just complexity23:36
ali1234and app sandboxing is a requirement these days23:36
ali1234this is even more true if your app sandboxing is implemented with containers, then you're effectively running a whole different OS, why do you need users?23:38
diddledanandroid does it as separate user accounts because there's a LOT in android that is tied to an "identity" which is shared between apps - the simplest way to allow other people to use the phone/tablet without also allowing access to unexpected things was and is a separate user account which can also be locked-down if the owner wishes23:39
ali1234okay, but android has a lot of compromises around the linux/unix model23:39
ali1234it isn't necessary to do it that way23:39
diddledanno, but it's the obvious way23:40
shaunowell, http://lakka.tv/ looks neat, but sticking it on top of openelec seems to be a dealbreaker for me23:40
ali1234sure, the obvious way isn't necessarily the best way though :)23:40
shaunoespecially when it's half-finished, sitting on a read-only filesystem is a luxury they can't afford23:40
diddledanI don't care about hypotheticals which are unlikely to ever happen and likely to behave in a manner that people don't expect23:40
ali1234i don't think you can argue that most people expect everything to use the unix user permissions model23:41
diddledanuser-level separation is obviously the simplest way to .. separate users. why should I log out of facebook and log out of google and log out of twitter and log out of IRC and tell all those things never to remember my password for my sanity just because my nephew wants to play a game?23:44
diddledansurely it's obvious that I give him a different environment23:45
ali1234i don't know. i mean that's exactly what you have to do using the unix user model23:46
diddledanno it isn't23:46
ali1234you log out, go to the login screen, someone else logs in23:46
diddledanno23:46
ali1234a much better solution would be to boot up a container23:46
diddledanI lock my account. someone else rocks up and logs into theirs or a guest23:46
ali1234this does not have to be implemented using unix user accounts23:47
diddledanmy applications run in the background. theirs run in the foreground. they don't interact but are separated by my identity being not theirs23:47
ali1234this can be entirely implemented with a single user OS with a container per user23:48
diddledanper user. user-level separation.23:48
diddledanwe've got that already!23:48
ali1234and quite likely will be more secure that way23:48
diddledanI don't care whether it's enforced by the kernel or enforced by the kernel. either way it's enforced by the kernel and I have an account and my guests have an account - how is that not user-level separation?!23:49
ali1234it is23:50
diddledanyou're comparing apples to apples - they're all damned apples!23:50
ali1234it just isn't using unix users23:50
intrbizLXC runs the container as a different unix user23:52
diddledanI need a way for the host system to direct the interactions from one user to one "container" (in your model) and another user to a different container - they both need to access the same input and output devices so the host os needs to know which user is using it - unix users?23:52
ali1234if your host/hypervisor is unix then sure, but why does it have to be?23:54
ali1234even if it is, the stuff running inside the container doesn't need to be23:54
diddledanI just don't see the need to reinvent the wheel23:57
ali1234this isn't re-inventing the wheel23:57
ali1234the wheel has already been re-invented and it is called app sandboxing and containers and now you have spare wheels that don't do anything but need mainenance all the time anyway23:58
diddledanuser-level separation is perfectly suitable to separate users. you're suggesting we don't separate users but instead separate users.23:58
shaunoit's more like arguing over whether to seperate them with fences or walls23:58
shaunoeither way you're still trying to pretend a phone is a 1960's timesharing system23:59
ali1234no, it's more like arguing between walls or walls and fences23:59

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