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Kiloshi captine  04:39
Kilosmorning all04:54
Kilosai!05:11
Kilosmorning superfly  05:41
superflybye Kilos, church and load-shedding05:42
Kiloshave a good day superfly  05:42
stickyboyGod this is sexy: http://gohugo.io/09:21
stickyboyI love static site generators...09:21
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Kilosi was shed10:14
stickyboyPower problems in ZA are serious, eh?10:17
stickyboyMy power turned off last night and I ran across the room in the dark to shut off my server.10:17
Kilosyeah stickyboy  10:17
stickyboyLOL10:17
stickyboyUPS was beeping, I know I only get 15 seconds or so. Just enough for the blips, or to dash across the room!10:18
Kiloslol10:18
stickyboyKilos: I'm looking at static site generators.10:26
Kilosgood , im outsdie working on a car11:22
Kilosthat nikola works good11:23
Kiloshi magellanic  12:46
magellanicgreets12:46
Kiloshi Kerbero  12:46
magellaniccongrats on debconf in cape town..12:51
captinenoon all12:57
magellanichi12:57
captinequick one to the tech people.  am wanting to learn central server management and am looking at puppet?  anyone have easier alternatives etc?12:59
captinethinking puppet + nagios12:59
captineansible looks good to13:00
magellaniconly heard good things about ansible captine 13:15
stickyboymagellanic: We use Ansible here...13:16
stickyboyI like that it doesn't need a daemon. Just piggybacks on SSH + key-based authed. w00t.13:17
magellanicfor monitoring I don't like nagios, some of its forks have progressed better, I'd look around, icinga was a promising one13:17
stickyboyNo extra ports in firewall, etc.13:17
magellanicI have no experience with ansible, but there is a continuous integration guy in the office who swears by it :D13:18
stickyboyI use ansible to manage my the server hosting my blogs: http://github.com/alanorth/ansible_blog13:18
stickyboyAnd I've written about using ansible on my cluster at work: https://mjanja.ch/2014/09/update-hosts-via-ansible-to-mitigate-bash-shellshock-vulnerability/13:19
stickyboyBut many more.13:19
Trixar_zaWe've moved on from the shellshock so quickly that it's not even funny :P13:27
zipperwaddup14:02
Kiloshi zipper  14:07
zipperKilos: It's all good.14:07
Kiloshi Trixar_za  14:08
Trixar_zaHey Kilos14:08
Kilosyou guys been busy hey zipper  14:09
zipperKilos: Who has been busy?14:09
Kilosyou man14:09
Kilosyou havent been on irc for a week or more14:09
zipperKilos: Well I have. There is a haskell project I'm working on.14:10
zipperTrying to get it right.14:10
Kilosah14:10
zipperGiving it a clean JSON RESTful API. I hate to use such words but I don't know how else to describe it.14:11
Kiloslol14:11
zipperProblem is that these guys want it to deploy FAST! but if it's going to be fast it'll be crappy.14:12
Kiloseish14:13
zipperKilos: How are you though?14:13
Kilosim good ty working on a site for ubuntu-africa14:13
Kilosjust need to learn more about bzr and nikola14:14
Kilosthen once working maybe a site for linux-africa14:14
Kilosill get you all together somehow14:15
zipperWow linux africa14:18
zipperMay I suggest that linux africa use git instead of BZR?14:18
Kilosyeah there are so many linux guys in africa and they could all work together instead of each one battling on his own14:19
Kilosi dont know how to use git14:19
zipperKilos: I think git is easier to use than BZR by far.14:19
Trixar_zaYeah, and git was created by Linus too :P14:20
Kiloswhen ive done the ubuntu site then ill come to you guys for guidance and see what the git thing works like14:20
Kilosi need stuff that easy and simple14:22
Kilossee this site is cool and fast, thats what im after14:23
Kiloshttps://ubuntu-za.org/14:23
zipperBecause git is truly what linus made for linux collaboration and linux is not ubuntu?14:24
Kilossites that load slowly are a pupoff from the beginning14:24
Kilosill look at it14:24
Kilosyou guys can help when i get the ubuntu site done14:25
zipperI feel that ubuntu tries to take linux away from the community by the way they deviate. Though deviating is the whole idea of FOSS14:25
zipperbut by ubuntu I mean cannonical14:25
Kilosread the text on the za site14:26
zipperSo I am contradicting myself. I don't like the way they deviate.14:26
Kiloslinux users are welcome14:26
zipperKilos: We are all linux users after all. :)14:26
Kilosyes14:26
zipperI just clicked the link14:26
zipperKilos: Wow looks good. Did you make that/14:27
zipper*?14:27
Kilosno superfly  did and im copying most for the ubuntu-africa site14:27
zipperLooks good.14:28
Kiloswell of course14:28
zipperAnyway let me give you a resource for git. The easiest. It's an online book. http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-About-Version-Control14:30
zipperThe ebook pro-git is free14:30
Kiloscool ty14:30
zipperhttp://git-scm.com/book/en/v214:30
zipperYeah14:31
zipperI hope I am not forcing anything on anyone. Just an opinion.14:31
zipperWhat is nikola?14:31
Kilosnope ill look into it and use what is easiest for me14:31
superflyzipper: Having used git, Mercurial and Bazaar, I prefer Bazaar. Git is hopelessly over-complicated14:32
Kilosnikola generates static sites and converts the text stuff to html i think14:32
zipperKilos: Oh I see14:32
superflyKilos: if you find bzr difficult to understand, don't even try git.14:32
Kiloszipper  superfly  knows what id find easier14:32
zippersuperfly: Why are you spreading misinformation based on your opinion?14:33
superflyzipper: it's not mis-information14:33
zipperSome things are hard for some and easy for others14:33
superflyit's true14:33
zipperKilos: What language is it in? Since I worked with ruby I've used jekyll.14:33
Kilosi cant even answer that14:33
superflyzipper: don't confuse git with github. most people think git is easy because all they've ever used is github.14:33
superflyzipper: Nikola is written in Python.14:34
zipperIf you want to get with linux or most source project. Basically if you want info that you can apply elsewhere use git.14:34
Kiloswbb14:34
zippersuperfly: You my friend should be slapped with a wet fish for spreading your opinion as the truth.14:35
zipperAlso git is distributed. That is a big plus.14:36
zipperMaybe good things can sometimes seem complicated but once you get them it was worth the trouble.14:37
superflyzipper: dude. step down. I've been around  doing this open source and version control thing for years. Don't tell me I'm talking nonsense. Have you used bzr or hg? Or svn or cvs, for that matter?14:40
zippersuperfly: LOL14:40
zippersuperfly: I've not said it's nonsense14:40
Kiloszipper  dont fight my fly14:42
superflyzipper: please do answer my question.14:42
zipperI once tried learning bzr (when I was on ubuntu and found it complex). If you chose hg I'd be okay because it's distributed version control.14:42
zippersuperfly: I'm not done answering it.14:42
zipperIt's true I'm still in school and I wasn't around when people used stuff like sourceforge and other things. All I've  used is git with github and bitbucket.14:43
zipperI hear hg has a better "interface/ux"14:44
zipperI think if you wanted to start an open source project chosing version control that is used by most people would be good. All I know about bzr that I know I wouldn't want is not being a DVCS.14:46
zipperNow I'm done answering.14:46
Kiloslol14:46
zipperWhatever you guys chose I'll be okay with it.14:47
superflybzr is DVCS14:47
magellanicsup superfly 14:49
superflyhey magellanic14:49
zippersuperfly: I didn't know that. So why don't people like bzr?14:49
magellanicbzr is not open source is it?14:50
zippermagellanic: It's not?14:50
superflyzipper: the fact that you don't know that bzr is a DVCS shows me exactly how much you know about version control. I really recommend you quieten down.14:50
Symmetriahrm14:50
magellanicno idea, checking14:50
Symmetriamy damn mp3 collection has gotten 2 big 14:50
superflyit is. These days it is driven by Canonical.14:50
Symmetriato the point where loading the damn mp3 player gives me issues initializing the damn library14:51
magellanicoh right14:51
magellanicSymmetria: heya14:51
zippersuperfly: No you can't tell me to quiet down because I questioned your choice of using bzr.14:51
Symmetrialo magellanic 14:51
Symmetriasomeone recommend me an mp3 player that can handle an insanely huge library properly14:51
zipperSymmetria: Does rhythmbox not work for you?14:52
Symmetriazipper heh nope14:52
SymmetriaTotal peak : 15.383930 (3910/565633 tracks)14:52
Symmetria:P14:52
Kiloszipper  the fly did our site and its great imo.14:52
superflyzipper: You never questions my use choice of bzr. You just said that I'm spreading misinformation.14:52
superfly*questioned14:52
zippersuperfly: Anyway after many people are hopefully contributing to the project we'll know whether bzr was a good choice.14:52
Symmetriaheh, its 565 thousand tracks, with a play time of 385 weeks ;p14:52
zipperKilos: I have no issue with his programming skills.14:53
Kilosbeing a skilled programmer he knows what works best in most situations14:53
superflyzipper: MySQL uses bzr. Ubuntu uses bzr, there are a number of other big projects that use bzr. I use bzr because it's simpler than git while getting the same job done in a saner way.14:53
magellanicI've never used bzr, probably should try it out.14:56
zippersuperfly: I still think it's your opinion and not truth.14:57
Kilosai!14:57
superflyzipper: I've been involved in an open source project for over 10 years, you think I don't know what I'm talking about?14:57
zipperbut whatever you chose I am going to be in support of.14:58
Kilosyay zipper  thats the way to go14:58
Kilosthe fly knows14:58
magellanicSymmetria: I used to use some xmms clone, can't recall now14:58
zippersuperfly: I am not saying that you don't know whaty you're saying I'm just saying the git learning curve might be worth the trouble.14:58
Symmetriamagellanic,  lol I tried to load em into plex and that fell apart14:58
zippersuperfly: again I think it's more of an opinion14:59
superflySymmetria: aplay :-P14:59
zipperSymmetria: try rhythmbox I guess14:59
magellanicSymmetria: try http://audacious-media-player.org/14:59
magellanicI think that's what I had14:59
Symmetriaheh will try that 15:00
Symmetriathanks15:00
SymmetriaDisk /dev/sda: 2.7 TiB, 3000592982016 bytes, 5860533168 sectors15:00
SymmetriaDisk /dev/sdb: 27.3 TiB, 30005379727360 bytes, 58604257280 sectors15:00
Symmetriaheh thats my latest in my addition to my disk space ;p15:01
zipperI have had some trouble rebasing, squashing etc commits in git and I must admit I don't totally get some parts of git that are central to collaboration.15:01
superflyyeah, no such thing in bzr.15:02
superflyrebase really does my head in. I always thought that VCS was about recording history... and then with rebase you go and rewrite your history. doesn't make sense to me.15:02
superflyzipper: then there's this: there seem to be 2 camps in git. Those that are pro-merge and those that are pro-rebase. And I've never been able to see one reason to prefer one over the other (other than the fact that rebase rewrites your history, which seems wrong). http://bemusement.org/rebase-criticism15:04
zipperhahahaha I am pro rebase just because it has a cleaner commit history.15:05
superfly"cleaner" - i.e. remove all your history.15:06
zippermerges are cool I guess because they're easier to wrap ones's head around.15:06
superflybzr does it differently you see. it does what rebase does, without losing the history.15:06
zippersuperfly: I believe you can still access the history from a rebase. I can't remember well but it's not easy.15:06
zipperI read about it in pro git15:07
zipperHowever, don't you think that if you wanted an open source project for linux users it should use the VCS that is most popular among linux users?15:07
zipperor at least hg. I've always wanted to try hg but I've never had the chance.15:08
superflyzipper: when I started using bzr, git wasn't nearly as popular as it is today, in fact at that stage bzr was more popular than git.15:08
Kiloszipper try them all and use what suits you best not just whats more popular15:08
zipperKilos: but git suits me I think. Plus it's what most open source projects use. Recruiters look at your github not even bitbucket.15:10
superflyrecruiters don't know what git is.15:10
superflythey just play buzzword bingo15:11
zippersuperfly: Well they're the ones in charge.15:11
zippersuperfly: They look at github specifically which sucks.15:11
superflyno they're not.15:11
zipperA lot people ask to look at my GITHUB15:12
Symmetrialol, games to play when you are bored, network acronyms, cause Im convinced there are more of those than in almost any other area of IT lol15:12
superflysays the highschooler to the "veteran"15:12
superflySymmetria: can't argue with you there.15:12
Symmetriabgp, isis, eigrp, ospf, rip, mpls, bgp-lu, rsvp, ldp, the list goes on and on ;p15:12
zipperSymmetria: ISIS?15:13
Symmetriaintermediate system - intermediate system15:13
superflyzipper: some food for thought: http://toykeeper.net/tutorials/bzr-vs-git/15:13
Kiloshi Tonberry  15:14
Tonberryhi15:14
Symmetriaoh, I left out NAT, RSTP, STP, RFC, MTU, POP, OSI, LAN, LACP, DNS, ARP, ADSL15:15
zippersuperfly: Keep your bzr and I'll do my thing.15:15
Symmetria:P and I bet I could find a ton more 15:15
Symmetrialol15:15
superflyzipper: translated: *I'm not listening*15:16
zippersuperfly: No when I told you that people only ask about my github and not even my bitbucket you said some condescending things.15:16
zippersuperfly: So now you  want to rewrite my past experiences.15:17
zippersuperfly: Based on your many years of experience.15:17
superflyI never said anything of the sort.15:18
zippersuperfly: Dude you said it here "18:09:10   superfly | says the highschooler to the "veteran""15:19
magellanicSymmetria: try http://audacious-media-player.org/ (not sure if it got here before I dc'd)15:20
zippersuperfly: So yeah I'm done with this. Go with bzr. I hope all linux users in africa contributes.15:22
zippers/contributes/contribute/15:23
zipperHowever, if you want to make linux africa more of ubuntu africa by forcing all of cannonical's rules on the rest of linux you shall have a hard time.15:26
Kiloszipper enough now man15:26
Kilosno one is forcing anything on anyone15:27
Kilossee the finished product when done then decide for yourself15:27
superflyzipper: I have better things to do with my time than argue with a stubborn know-it-all. Excuse me, I have supper to make for my family.15:28
zipperKilos: I said I'll go by whatever decision you make and I plan on doing that.15:30
Kilosgood man15:30
zipperKilos: I'm not even the one doing the name calling. I don't know why I'm the one you're mad at.15:31
Kilosim not mad at you lad just ive seen peeps before argue with the fly but in the end he is the one that is right15:32
magellanicanyone got their hands on ubuntu phone or rasp-pi2?15:32
Kilosmany years of using linux professional gives one the background to know what is best normally15:32
Kiloshi gremble  15:35
grembleGood afternoon fellas15:35
grembleHey Kilos 15:35
magellanicdamn, gradle fetched 100/160M of dependencies before I dc'd, now it restarted the download15:35
Kilosai!15:35
gremblemagellanic: it uses wget if I recall, so it should continue where it leaves off?15:35
magellanicit sure didn't continue here..15:35
Kiloswget -c15:35
grembleOuch15:35
grembleThat is quite unfortunate. Also hello15:36
magellanicI don't know where it saves to either15:36
Kiloswget saves in /home15:36
magellanicmay have found it, in /tmp, brb15:36
magellanicsigh, tried wget -c, with -o /tmp/partialfile, now I have to restart it15:39
magellanic-o was wrong :/15:40
Kiloswhat happens if you copy what is in /tmp to /home then wget -c15:41
Kiloshi poppingtonic  15:42
poppingtonicHi Kilos 15:42
Kiloswelcome to ubuntu-za15:42
magellanicthe partial file was 120M, I had to use -O, I used -o, which logs output to file, so it started logging to the partial and destroyed it15:42
poppingtonicthanks. I'm from #nairobilug15:42
Kilosah15:43
magellanicwelcome poppingtonic 15:43
Kilospoppingtonic  you can also join #ubuntu-africa15:44
Kiloshi magespawn  15:46
magespawngood afternoon15:46
magespawnhey Kilos15:47
Kiloszipper  why arent you in #ubuntu-africa too15:47
magespawndid you but any of the ubuntu-afric code in bzr/launchpad?15:47
magespawnubuntu-africa15:48
Kilosyes magespawn  but ive messed up i think, want to get the fly to connect with this pc and see it running locally15:48
Kilosit runs lekker here15:49
Kilosbut i went wrong routes i think15:49
magespawni was going to say, when i had a loo at the link you gave me for launchpad there is no code there15:50
magespawns/loo/look15:50
Kilosi cant get it to push to launchpad15:50
magespawnahh15:51
magespawn i am sure superfly will be able to tell what is going wrong15:51
Kilosbzr: ERROR: Cannot lock LockDir(chroot-76781840:///%2Bbranch/ubuntu-za/.bz/lock): Transport operation not possible: readonly transport 15:51
Kilosthats what it tells me15:51
magespawndid you google?15:52
Kilosno man i feel bad hassling him all the time. he is busy15:52
Kilosyes google says wow google cannot tind anything15:53
Kiloss/tind/find15:53
magespawnhassling google?15:53
Kilosive worn google15:54
Kilosworn out15:54
magespawnwow that is impressive15:54
Kiloslol and i hate googling, always get wrong stuff15:54
Kilosand pages that lead to more and more pages15:56
Kilosthen i get lost15:56
magespawni have found some stuff, as soon as it loads and i can read it i will pass the links along15:59
Kilosty15:59
Trixar_zaThe google-fu is weak in this one15:59
* Trixar_za runs15:59
magespawnhttps://answers.launchpad.net/bzr/+question/14508816:02
magespawnhttps://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/leo-editor/AsrEMkJkTG816:02
Kilosty16:02
magespawnhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/qbzr/+bug/109481016:02
magespawnthese all seem similar to your problem16:03
magespawnbut have a detailed read and see if it applies16:03
Kiloslemme try Probably either bzr unlock or bzr unlock2 will solve your problem.16:04
magespawnthis is all new, so we are bound to make mistakes here16:04
Kilosmy hassle came in with getting everything from ubuntu-za i think and then editting the conf files16:05
Kilosbut  it runs so lekker locally16:06
Kilosai! bzr: ERROR: unknown command "unlock"16:08
Kiloswith both commands16:08
* Kilos reads further16:08
Kilosbzr break-lock did something but with no feedback16:10
Kilosmaybe i should wait for fly before i make it worse16:11
magespawnmight be a good idea16:12
Kilosyeah otherwise he sjamboks me16:12
magespawnlol16:12
Kiloshehe16:13
Kilosthey gave him a hippohide one too16:13
Kilosmagespawn  do you have teamviewer?16:18
Kilosi need to check mine too, didnt work last time ian needed it16:19
grembleI have a perfectly maintained arch system for the last three years16:21
grembleI can't even maintain a linux mint system for a couple of months16:21
gremblehaha16:21
grembleI get a random python error whenever I do something in bash16:22
Kiloshehe16:22
grembleI don't even feel bad16:23
gremblehaha16:23
Kilosthis kde 14.04 is about 1 year ols with no hassles apart fro when i zeroed the wrong drive16:23
Kiloss/ols/old16:23
grembleI'm going to nuke it16:24
Kiloshaha16:24
grembleAnd install windows16:24
Kiloseish16:24
* gremble vomits16:24
grembleYa. I need windows for SAS and Altera16:24
grembleso I can use my FPGA16:24
grembleGetting it to work on linux is a hassle16:25
Kiloswhat are them things16:25
KilosMaaz  define SAS16:25
MaazKilos: SAS n 1: a specialist regiment of the British army that is trained in commando techniques of warfare and used in clandestine operations (especially against terrorist groups) [syn: {Special Air Service}, {SAS}], SAS Session Active Screen (IBM) , SAS Simulation Automation System , SAS Statistical Analysis System , SAS Single Attachment Station (FDDI)16:25
Kiloshehe16:25
grembleSAS is some business analytics bullshit programming language thing that we use for statistical analysis16:26
grembleand an FPGA is a field programmable gate array. It is a piece of hardware on which you develop microchips essentially.16:26
grembleHardware simulation etc16:26
Kilosaha16:26
Kilosi should actually join a channel for noobs16:28
superflygremble: VirtualBox?16:28
superflyah, FPGA16:28
gremblesuperfly, I have to jump through all kinds of hoops to get it running here16:29
grembleHardware wise16:29
superflyyeah16:29
grembleSo I might as well just skip it all16:29
superflyI've done some cool stuff emulating serial ports and stuff, but FPGA is a different matter16:29
grembleI will have to sit and get it to work with linux some time16:30
grembleBut not today16:30
grembleI just want to play now16:30
Kiloslol16:30
Kiloswhen you do keep detailed records of how to do it16:30
grembleI'm going to write those records and then sha-512 them and tell the CSIR that I am the only one that knows how to do it16:32
gremble:P16:32
Kiloslol16:32
magespawnhold them to ransom? :)16:38
magellanicanyone in Cpt interested in the google I/O extended viewing party: https://plus.google.com/events/cqlm8speeh32melhm9r9dp81ccs, you are invited16:38
magespawnjust ran ping, and i got the second packet back first17:25
magespawnwierd17:25
captinethanks all that responded to my question.. sorry, my son woke so i dissapeared to sort him out, then mow the lawns etc etc etc17:27
Kiloshaha magellanic  something wrong there17:40
Kilosai!17:41
Kilosthat was for magespawn17:41
magellanichm?17:41
magellanicah17:41
Kilossorry17:41
magellanicnp17:42
Kiloswb magellanic  17:55
Kilosai!17:55
Kilosmagespawn  17:55
superflymagellanic: are you involved with that sort of thing? GDG, etc?18:17
captineso... hostname newname and editing /etc/hosts then rebooting does not change my hostname (name at login)...  confusing me18:19
Kiloslol join the family18:19
* Kilos totally confussed as well18:20
inetprocaptine: see /etc/hostname18:20
inetprogood evening18:20
Kiloshi inetpro  18:20
captinethanks inetpro 18:20
captinei am trying to get a script to do the change, for when I clone a kvm machine18:21
magellanicsuperfly: yep, I'm one of the organizers for the local gdg18:21
Kilosinetpro  13 days to complete your wiki page18:21
magellanicheya inetpro 18:21
inetprocaptine: hmm... not sure if it's that simple these day but I think that is how I used to change hostnames18:22
inetpromagellanic: hi18:22
inetprogood to see you around again18:23
magespawncaptine: how old is the son now?18:23
captinethe command "sudo hostname newname" is meant to change it, but once rebooting, it goes back to the original18:23
captinehe is 1 year and 1 month18:23
Kilossjoe18:23
captinefew more weeks he will be 1 year and 2 months18:23
Kilosstill small18:23
captine:).  yip.  his sister arrives in 1.5 weeks... 18:23
Kilosyay18:23
captineso might go off irc etc for a few weeks/months/years :)18:24
Kilosjust notify us first please18:24
Kiloswe need to pass out the cigars18:24
magespawnhang on captine i had to do this for my asterisk box on centos18:25
magespawnlet  me think18:25
magellaniccaptine: the hostname command changes it on the runtime, does not persist it in config, so it has to be changed in config as well18:25
inetprozipper: git was made popular by github but there's nothing wrong with bzr18:25
magellanic /etc/hostname sounds about right18:26
captinemagespawn, trying now.. want to do a script once i get the manual method nailed18:26
magespawnyou have to edit /etc/hostname to make it permanent18:29
inetprosuperfly: what is nice about git is that you even get git clients like SGit for Android these days18:29
superflymagellanic: you know Dale?18:30
magespawncaptine on ubuntu i am assuming18:30
captineuip18:30
captinegot it to work18:30
magespawnineptro i think github has their own app out now too18:31
inetprowould be nice if we could get an equivalent for bzr18:31
magellanicsuperfly: yes. I'm hiren :)18:32
superflymagellanic: ah!18:32
superflymagellanic: my apologies, nick<->name18:32
magespawncaptine i think that uses a system script to set the hostname at boot18:32
magellanicall good ;)18:32
magespawnlet me get a link18:32
magespawnhere you go http://www.ducea.com/2006/08/07/how-to-change-the-hostname-of-a-linux-system/18:33
captinethanks, script looks like this http://pastebin.com/9hRZm1Dg18:33
zipperinetpro: LOL you want to bring that up now?18:33
zipperAfter all the name calling that I was subjected to?18:33
captinetried bin.snyman.info from the irc topic, but got a server 500 error or something18:34
captinegoing to neaten it up a bit18:34
inetprozipper: don't take it personally  18:35
zipperinetpro: It's all good. I won't talk about version control here though.18:36
inetprozipper: haha, trust me he has a bit of experience18:37
magellanicinetpro: how are things your side, long time indeed18:38
inetpromagellanic: hectic is the new normal18:38
magellanicin a good way I hope..18:39
inetpromagellanic: no big stress, just never enough time to do everything that needs to be done18:40
inetproall about setting priorities in life18:41
magespawnnever enough time to learn everything that needs to learn't18:41
magellanicah yeah, it's a constant battle hey18:41
inetprosometimes you get them right, other times you miss the boat a bit18:42
zipperinetpro: Experience doesn't mean always right and I'm not even afraid because time will tell.18:43
magellanicindeed magespawn 18:43
zipperinetpro: Whether he was right or not will partly be judged by the uptake of whatever you're doing by the community.18:43
zipperinetpro: and with that I am almost sure linux users outside ubuntu will feel locked out.18:44
inetprozipper: we're a ubuntu channel after all18:45
magellanicanyone else making a plan during load shedding as this dude? http://www.htxt.co.za/2015/02/10/beat-loadshedding-on-a-budget-take-your-tech-solar-for-r1-271/18:45
magellanicwondering if I can get those parts in cpt, or alternatives18:46
inetpromagellanic: that looks a bit cheap18:46
* inetpro has been told to rather spend a bit more on a good battery18:46
magellanicI want something cheap though, but yeah I hear you18:47
inetproif it's cheap it doesn't last long18:47
inetproend up wasting your money18:48
zipperinetpro: True this is why I didn't want to go back to that argument. Because I'm not even from SA so my opinion doesn't matter. What matters is that south african ubuntu users can join and feel at home.18:48
zipperinetpro: and if bzr is the choice that ubuntu users in SA want to use. It's all good.18:49
inetprozipper: ubuntu is a popular distro even outside of South Africa18:50
zipperinetpro: You're right.18:50
magespawninetpro i think those batteries are the small one similar to what you get inside a UPS18:51
zipperinetpro: and the target is ubuntu users in SA am I wrong?18:51
inetprozipper: well for this channel or any other ubuntu-xxx channel obviously we're mostly trying to help other ubuntu users 18:52
inetprozipper: but there's nothing wrong with people using other Linux distros18:53
magespawnmagellanic the battery they have there is a small one, i would rather be looking at the deep cycle batteries that they use for electric wheel chairs etc18:53
inetprocanonical is not making our rules18:53
inetprowe're a local community18:53
magellanicmagespawn: how expensive do they get though, it's hard to shop components with such a wide variety and quality, and I know almost nothing about solar/batteries..18:55
magellanicdigging up a bit over next few days though, before I go out and get something18:55
inetpromagellanic: you really want deep cycle batteries18:55
magespawnthe deep cycle ones will start at around R800 but would run a laptop for about 12 hours i would reckon18:56
magellanicokay I'll look into them18:56
inetpromagellanic: shop around!!! Don't take the first best quote18:56
magellanicyes I'll look around a bit18:57
magellanicI like his setup in the link though, panel and battery, and it powers his laptop and 2 pi's during an outage18:57
magespawnso if you use one of the car charger adaptors so you skip the ac/dc conversion of your laptop power supply18:57
* inetpro still needs to read that in more details, looks interesting indeed18:58
magellanicmagespawn: cool noted, no car charger here, but I'll look into its cost too18:58
magespawni do not know what the charge time of those batteries is though, and what size the optima panel would be18:59
inetprofor me powering up my IT equipment would also be my first priority before anything else18:59
magellanicyeah, need to take all that into consideration18:59
magespawna side note on the gate motor, most are 12v, they run themselves from the batteries, never taking directly form the mains, so how you charge them is up to you19:00
magellanicoh yes, the link mentions the gate also runs off it19:00
magespawnand they do use the small batteries found in most ups19:00
magellaniccharged by the panel too19:00
magespawnif you were going to get really involved you could have the batteries charge from the mains when on and solar when not19:01
inetproI can survive with a cold shower and cooking I can do with firewood or gas but19:02
* inetpro can't survive without interwebs these days19:02
magellanicdon't want to get really involved :P cheap as possible, power the internet and laptop/pi19:03
magespawn12v led lights and then wire all the lights onto the batteries at the db board so you can have light too19:03
magellanicyeah that also sounds interesting19:03
magellanicin terms of cost saving19:03
magespawnthere are 12 v lights that fit normal light fitings but are a tad pricey19:03
magespawnthey are long life though19:04
magespawnled i think19:04
Kiloshi octoquad  poppingtonic  19:37
octoquadevening Kilos 19:37
poppingtonichi Kilos 19:38
Kilosinetpro  fix it20:10
inetprofix what Kilos? 20:10
Kiloseverything. fly fixed things for me and i broke it again im sure20:11
Kiloslike i have a branch called new-contact-page i think20:13
Kilosbut cant cd to it to work in it20:13
Kiloslike you cd Projects then cd ubuntu-africa20:15
Kilosthen cd trunk20:15
inetproai! 20:17
inetproMaaz: assumption 20:17
MaazAn assumption is a proposition that is taken for granted, as if it were true based upon presupposition without preponderance of the facts20:17
Kiloshe helping agin i forgot something20:18
captinenight all20:23
inetproKilos: I can't help you if I'm assuming that you're doing your project based on incorrect assumtions 20:28
Kiloslol20:29
Kilosya i assume im doing the right thing but i am not20:29
inetproremember, the fly's tutorial starts with having the project code on LP to begin with20:30
Kilossomething wrong here because bzr branch trunk new-contact-page finds 2 trunks 20:32
inetproyou're doing it wrong20:32
Kilosbzr: ERROR: Not a branch: "/home/miles/Projects/ubuntu-africa/trunk/trunk/".20:32
Kilosi dont see the second trunk20:33
Kilosmaybe i must start from scratch20:34
inetproKilos: YDIW20:34
KilosYDIW20:34
Kilos?20:34
KilosMaaz  define YDIW20:35
MaazKilos: I don't have a definition for that. Is it even a word?20:35
inetproMaaz: YDIW20:36
MaazYDIW stands for You're Doing It Wrong20:36
Kilosai!20:36
KilosMaaz  YDIW is <reply> You're Doing It Wrong Twit20:37
MaazKilos: I already know stuff about YDIW20:37
KilosMaaz  ydiw20:37
inetprois also20:37
MaazYDIW stands for You're Doing It Wrong20:37
Kilosi think ill take everything out of this Projects and move it somewhere else then start again20:38
Kiloshope i havent messed up anything at launchpad20:39
magellanicwhat command throws that error at you?20:51
superflymagellanic: it's OK, we've sorted it out.20:54
magellanicokay cool20:55
* Kilos the twit20:55
Kiloswas in wrong directory20:55
magellanichappens..20:55
Kilostrying to branch from a branch20:55
Kilosnight superfly  ty for the help20:56
Kilossleep lekker20:56
magellanicyep I'm off too, keep well folks20:57
Kilosnight magellanic  20:57
Kilosnice seeing you here20:57
superflyKilos: you can branch from inside a branch too, you just have to use "."  and then branch somewhere externally "../new-branch"20:57
Kiloseish20:57
superflyanyways, my eyelids are closing, so I'd better zzz20:58
stickyboyI'm curious to try FreeBSD or DragonFly.20:59
stickyboyI like the DragonFly guys.20:59
stickyboySerious engineering over there.20:59
magespawngood night all20:59
Kilosi go sleep before i mess up more21:09
Kilosnight all. sleep tight21:09

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