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diddledanadverts: the universal indicator that it's time to use the toilet00:01
daftykinsdiddledan: that or the general scent to the room ;)00:03
shaunothat always weirds me out a bit with modern cars00:10
shaunoI'm used to, in my mini, the dash was like a wooden shelf.  and the rest was *space*00:10
shaunonow when you get in a car it's this big plastic blob that tries to envelop you00:11
shaunoI just don't find plastic hugs from a volvo reassuring00:11
zmoylan-piof course the safety record of first mini wasn't great.  the stick out petrol spout caused the minis to catch fire if they rolled00:30
zmoylan-piin a crash00:31
shaunothen don't do that :)00:31
shaunothat said, my first mini did lose a rather entertaining discussion with a tree00:32
diddledanwas there ever a liklihood that it was going to win that conversation?00:36
shaunowell, there was a large amount of luck involved.  it has mismatched wheels - they weren't all the same size.  so it had some fundamental instabilities when going backwards00:38
zmoylan-piand by modern standards i doubt it would pass a modern safety test00:38
shauno"modern standards" are incredibly dull00:39
zmoylan-piuntil you have the excitement of a crash in the next few seconds00:42
diddledanpress02:12
diddledanerr02:12
diddledanis it really 2 am already?!02:19
shaunono.02:37
shaunojust ordered an optical-digital audiocard thing for the pi.  I can't believe people actually make this stuff02:38
mapphi all05:56
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MooDoomorning all08:31
popeyanyone got a backup of the /topic before I changed it? (I did have but lost it) :)08:40
diplopopey, how long ago, I've been connected for days so can scroll up08:44
popeythis week08:44
popeyhttp://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2015/02/23/%23ubuntu-uk.txt08:45
popeythats when i did it08:46
popeyahh, found one08:46
popeyhttp://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2013/12/02/%23ubuntu-uk.html08:46
diploTopic for #ubuntu-uk is: Welcome to #ubuntu-uk! http://ubuntu-uk.org | This channel is publicly archived http://irclogs.ubuntu.com | Mailing List http://tinyurl.com/uukml | Support Guidelines http://tinyurl.com/uuksupport | IRC stats: http://tinyurl.com/uukstat | G+ Community: http://tinyurl.com/uukgplus | next meeting TBA | Beer Train! http://tinyurl.com/choochoo201508:46
popeythat'll do08:46
diplo:)08:46
popeyyay!08:46
popeythanks diplo08:47
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ali1234what's the cheapest thing on amazon? i'm 1p short for free delivery09:04
popeyhttp://www.fillerchecker.co.uk/09:05
ali1234nice09:05
ali1234i think we crashed it09:13
popeyyeah, slowwwww09:14
ali1234probably exceeded the api limit09:15
Myrtti09:23
JamesTaitGood morning all; happy For Pete’s Sake Day! :-D09:51
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brobostigonmorning boys and girls.10:14
foobarryfound an easter egg in google hangouts today11:38
popeywas it delicious?11:39
foobarrytype woohoo in hangout conversation11:39
foobarryi had an important question about the hudl2 but i've forgotten it :(11:39
foobarrybut i was wondering if anyone had measured data usage on android between chrome and firefox?11:40
foobarrychrome is killing my data plan11:40
zmoylan-piswitch to opera, it compresses the data remotely.  it takes getting used to but saves a tonne on data11:41
foobarryin theory, does it work in practice?11:42
zmoylan-pii used it when i was in hospital for 6 weeks in 2008 and could make 50mb daily allowance last all day browsing on devices.11:43
davmor2foobarry: or get an unlimited data plan11:43
foobarryallegedly chrome is using compression11:44
foobarry"282MB vs 208 MB in last month"11:44
davmor2foobarry: just stop using the internet when you hear someone is wrong on it11:45
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davmor2JamesTait: You've met Pete Cannon right, he's bigheaded enough without celebrating a day to his sake, and I mean what's his rice wine got that others don't ;)12:41
JamesTaitdavmor2, he's not big headed, he's just got no hair. :-P12:42
* JamesTait adjusts his comb-over12:43
davmor2JamesTait: you really don't know him that well then do you ;)12:43
MooDoodavmor2: pete?  That's the scarey one right?12:50
davmor2MooDoo: http://www.cannon-linux.co.uk/ this one12:51
MooDooyeah i know who he is :D12:59
davmor2MooDoo: I wouldn't say scary :)13:00
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MooDoo:)13:04
moreatiI'm trying to think of a name for a Tesco API client, without using any trademarks. Any ideas? Does Tesco have any harmless nick names?13:30
foobarrythey used to have a slogan13:31
foobarryevery little helps13:31
foobarryso you could call it13:31
foobarrylittlehelper13:31
moreatiprobably also trademarked13:31
foobarrylittle helper is not though13:31
moreatioh, I see. A bit too generic13:32
foobarryor call it tesico13:32
moreatihmm, maybe 'ocset'13:32
daftykinswasn't there an ad campaign about saving pennies in some form or another 0o13:32
daftykinsi don't really know English supermarkets :>13:32
foobarrysupertes13:33
davmor2moreati: just take the last three letter that's pretty safe right?13:41
awilkinsSCO ?13:41
davmor2awilkins: damn did I forget the sarcasm tags again13:42
moreatigiven those who've gone before me https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=tesco, I'll take the risk13:42
daftykinswhat about naming yourself Tess, then you're Tess Co.13:43
moreatihttps://github.com/encio/tesconnect heh13:43
moreatihttps://github.com/jrdnull/tesgo heh^213:46
intrbizmoreati: what are you pulling from the Tesco API?13:46
davmor2intrbiz: Bunnys...no wait that's magicians and top hats13:48
moreatijust product search/price lookup at the moment. mysupermarket.co.uk with cross-supermarket comparison is what I'd like, but they have no API13:48
intrbizmoreati: have you come across openfoodfacts? (they did a session at odcamp at the weekend)13:49
moreatiyes, they have very few products though13:50
intrbizsure, but open licensed13:52
foobarryis a video camera from a couple of years ago gonna be much better than my phone?13:58
foobarrye.g. toshiba x400, or panasonic hx dc313:58
daftykinscheck out the recording resolutions, codecs and bitrates14:00
daftykinsthe lens is probably what'd have an edge though, being not constrained by the size of a phone14:00
foobarrymp4, hd108014:01
popeywill almost certainly be better in low light, and have optical zoom14:03
popeywhich your phone wont14:03
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davmor2foobarry: horse for courses, camera still come with a lot of things that phones don't.  Phones are great I found for a quick video of something or a nice snapshot of something you spot while out and about, but cameras still leave phones in the dust when it comes to long videos or a more professional photo tool14:06
foobarrymy missis wanted to do a few tutorials on youtubes14:08
foobarrywon't be directly revenue generating, but linked to stuff she might sell14:09
foobarrybut i'm not exaclt ymade of money so wonder if phone will suffice14:09
foobarryin good light14:09
popeyalso, proper cameras have a flip screen so you can see yourself14:10
foobarryi have an old school camcorder that records to digital tape, though i reckon that must be 480p max14:10
popeyyou dont want to record a whole video and find you chopped your head off14:10
foobarrythe cheapo hd ones do too14:10
popeyright14:10
popeymy point was that phones dont14:11
foobarryi would record on a tripod14:11
foobarryi see :D14:11
popeyyou should watch techmoan14:11
popeyhe reviews cameras14:11
foobarryi am also a cheapskate14:11
popeygrumpy, so i think you'd enjoy them14:11
popeyhttps://www.youtube.com/user/techmoan14:11
foobarryi'm less grumpy nowadays?14:11
popeyreviews a lot of dashcams14:11
popeybut he also does a lot of the cheaper go-pro like cameras14:12
popeywhich might be what you're after14:12
foobarrycool cheers14:12
popeybecause they are stupid easy to use, and record to a card14:12
popeyand many work well in various lighting conditions14:12
foobarrywhich is ulmtately what i want14:12
popeycheck out the sj cam videos14:12
popeythey're the go-pro knock-offs14:12
foobarrybut you pay more for the portable/waterproofness i guess14:13
popeyya14:13
popeyi use to like my kodak zi814:14
foobarryoh, they are cheap14:14
popeybut they dont make those anymore and sam busted the lens so it's permanently out of focus14:14
foobarryhttp://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SJ1000-1080P-H264-Video-Recorder-30M-Waterproof-Sport-Mini-DV-Bike-Helmet-WHITE/291306771193?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D29316%26meid%3Ddfafcd33d9ca447c878cfd4a5faff6cb%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D111608096883&rt=nc14:15
foobarrywonder if sj1000 is worse than a phone though14:15
daftykinsthat URL - ze goggles, they do nussing! @_@14:15
popeyjeez, look at all the mounting gear you get14:15
popeyfor 25 quid!14:16
foobarryi could mount it to my dog14:16
foobarryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QppW_0_DuiE14:16
foobarrytechmoan burned his hand, or is it a scar14:16
popeythe only problem with them is they have fisheye lenses14:17
popeythats the case for most action cams14:17
foobarryoh, shipping £2014:17
popeywifey wont want that14:17
foobarrygood point14:17
popeyi used to take the zi8 to the park to video my kids14:18
popeyand sam really enjoyed using it too14:18
popeywas very quick to setup and use.14:18
foobarrylooking for reasons to get the sj1000 :P14:18
popeythis tightwad thing doesn't really work out well usually.14:19
foobarryno14:19
foobarryshame14:19
foobarrypart of it is not realyl having a compelling reason to buy it14:19
foobarryif there was a good reason i would spend prper munneh14:19
popeymight have to take the kodak apart and find out why the focus is busted14:21
foobarrytechmoan has it in his car14:22
foobarrydash kit would be handy14:22
popeyi have a dash cam :)14:22
foobarryi've seen14:22
popeynever watch the footage14:22
popeyits dull :)14:22
foobarryi did14:22
popeyother nice thing about zi814:22
popeyusb connector built in14:23
popeyso just plug the camera into pc, drag video off it14:23
popeyno faff14:23
foobarrykodak you say?14:23
popeyya14:24
popeythere was one newer model than the zi814:24
foobarrylooks like a phone lens14:24
popeywhich was waterproof14:24
popeythe next one was kodak playsport zx5 I think14:26
foobarryknow about cisco flips?14:29
foobarryseem some cheap14:29
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ali1234flip cameras are rubbish14:52
ali1234get a gopro14:53
foobarryor indeed a sj1000 :D15:58
davmor2popey: wifey made me chocolate chip cookies \o/16:00
popey\o/16:00
popeymy wifey made me do the school run16:00
daftykinswas a spade required to shoo them out the door? :D16:01
davmor2popey: that doesn't sound like it is quite as full of chocolate goodness16:01
popeyNo. very much so.16:01
popeylots of other parents were surprised to see me16:02
popey(I never do the school run)16:02
foobarryi did that yesterday while wife went to watch cats the musical16:03
foobarrydaughter had a meltdown when mama didn't turn up to childmunder16:03
davmor2popey: my query is always the  same at this point how far do schools actually run16:04
diddledansometimes the system (government) actually works - I just received a new disabled person's bus pass for myself \o/ (mental health counts as a disability. who knew?!)16:14
daftykinsdiddledan: you skiver!16:14
daftykinshow'd you swing that one? :P16:14
daftykinsprovide a transcript of some of our late night chats in here? :)16:14
diddledanheh, I've been a diagnosed nutjob for years :-D16:15
diddledansince I was 17. I'm now 32 (in a few days)16:16
daftykinscor la16:16
diddledan\o/ binary age!16:16
foobarrydiddledan: i haz 40 on saturday16:17
foobarrywill haz16:17
foobarrystill have my own hair16:17
foobarryand it is still brown16:17
diddledanmy hair is receding16:17
foobarrygoign south for winter?16:17
diddledanaye16:17
diddledanat least I don't have a hole in the middle16:18
foobarryif i havem then nobody told me16:18
awilkinsI want a shell script that   i) Accepts input pasted into it and then ii) runs it through sed normalizing it's whitespace and iii) then puts it in xclip so I can paste it to another window.... go!16:37
* awilkins wouldn't mind some help with that :-)16:37
SuperEngineerhmmm, ok getting p'd off with you now, Chromium - stop randomly crashing when you're open but I'm looking elsewhere! You have been warned Chromium16:48
awilkinstr '\n' ' ' | sed -n 's/ \+/ /gp' - | xcliip # hooray16:52
daftykinsi still have luscious long locks in a ponytail17:08
daftykins:P17:08
diddledanI've got long locks too :-p17:09
diddledanjust not so much at the front :-D17:09
daftykinsd'aww17:10
SuperEngineerdiddledan, reverse your mirror - you'll never need to care about male pattern balding again ;)17:11
NET||abusehey guys,17:16
NET||abusei'm trying to debug a flood of apparmor messages that appeared just  now on a server17:17
NET||abuseanyone know how to read apparmor messages?17:17
daftykinsthrow it in a pastebin17:17
NET||abusenot sure it's going to break anything other that waste loads of log file space.17:17
NET||abusehttp://dpaste.com/3E2FT2X17:17
NET||abuseand sensu(which i didn't setup) is giving out crap about the messages .17:18
NET||abusei pushed out some config changes (using saltstack) to the machine, but i'm wondering if people hadn't run a highstate on it for ages17:19
NET||abusenever had reason to wonder about apparmor before.17:20
SuperEngineerhttp://paste.ubuntu.com/10433064/  ... real life tale we can all learn from17:49
diddledanSuperEngineer, ouch17:53
SuperEngineeryup17:55
MooDooSuperEngineer: well that sounded like fun :(18:05
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davmor2SuperEngineer: ouch18:11
davmor2MooDoo: like you do really work, you play on your home servers all day and just pretend you can't blag us ;)18:12
davmor2s/really/real18:13
MooDoolol thanks davmor218:14
davmor2MooDoo: thought you'd like that :)18:15
MooDoodavmor2: you sir are a git ;)18:15
MooDoonow leave me to my nic bonding18:15
davmor2MooDoo: I am no I use bzr :P18:16
davmor2s/no/not18:16
MooDooI'm ssh'd to the garage :) it's warmer in the kitchen18:16
davmor2MooDoo: see I said you just work on your own servers all day ;)18:21
MooDoodavmor2: shush you, it's a perk18:22
davmor2MooDoo: hahahaha18:23
daftykinshah18:28
davmor2MooDoo: you obviously need to put your servers under more stress to warm the garage up more ;)18:31
MooDoodavmor2: I have 3 servers, 1 desktop and a NS18:35
MooDooNAS18:35
davmor2MooDoo: yes so stress test them all and the garage will be the warmest place in the building ;)18:36
MooDoolol18:36
dutchie\o/ RAT tickets arrived18:40
MooDooyay18:40
popey\o/18:41
popeymine are still on the wall18:42
ChloeWolfieGirlRAT tickets?18:46
popey!rat18:46
lubotu3rat is The Real Ale Train. A yearly Ubuntu UK loco event to celebrate friends, trains and ale. Saturday 19th September 2015 Hampshire, UK: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-uk/3040-real-ale-train-2015/18:46
MooDooit's a popular uk event :D18:47
MooDooalthough /me is waiting for ubuntu uk podcast live18:47
awilkins_BEEEER18:47
popeyyeah, bunch of us are going18:47
awilkins_Proper beer18:47
popeybeer and games18:47
popeyand silly chatter18:47
awilkins_Board games?18:47
popeyand steam trains!18:47
popeycard games18:47
awilkins_Traditional or collectible?18:48
popeycards against humanity, we didn't playtest this at all, and this time, Exploding Kittens18:48
awilkins_Ah18:48
awilkins_What's teh ticket situation like18:48
popeyi bought mine a week or so ago18:49
popeydunno if there's any left18:49
popeylooks like they still have some18:49
MooDoothey sold out quite quickly last year iirc18:50
popeywe announced later too18:50
awilkins_May try to enlist the GF18:51
popeythey have ladybeer18:53
MooDoolol18:53
popeythey also have curry and chilli18:53
diddledanamerica's fcc succumbed and have enacted strong net neutrality goodness19:52
diddledanoh, it still needs to go through congress :-(19:53
diddledanthe campaign site has more: https://www.battleforthenet.com19:56
davmor2MooDoo: I think popey knows about the ladybeer because it is what he drink just in a manly glass ;)20:06
popeydrinking some right now :)20:07
gingdoes anyone know much about debian packaging maintainer scripts interacting with config from other packages?20:26
gingis it possible to do reliably without having a conf dir instead of a conf file?20:29
diddledanging, I wouldn't like a package to fiddle with a file installed by a different package20:30
shaunowhat you're describing is pretty much why conf-dirs exist.  that's probably a clue20:31
gingshauno: yes, but i wonder how people tackle the problem without them20:32
diddledanthey don't20:32
diddledanor at least they shouldn't20:32
diddledanit's bad behaviour20:33
shaunothat just reminds me of the bad old days when we had to compile config files  (yes, looking at you sendmail)20:33
diddledaneww20:34
shaunobut it's not an answer, just a proverbial 2cents20:34
diddledansendmail was evil20:34
diddledanm4?! wtf!20:34
diddledanm4 was never intended for human consumption20:34
diddledanever20:34
diddledanI think exim is another one that does programmatic config files20:35
diddledan.. just without the precompile step20:36
shaunoiirc debian still have a list for deb/dpkg.  but if you do go that way, I'd make very clear to them whether or not you intend for this to land in a distro, etc20:39
shaunootherwise they're quite likely to maul you with best practices instead20:40
ginganyone know how to get to a reovery console on ubuntu 14.04 when you have encrypted harddrives?21:19
diddledansurely it's the same as when you don't?21:21
gingyeah it is21:21
gingi thought it would be a lot harder21:21
m0nkey_ging, unless you have the password or recovery key, you're kinda out of luck.22:05
gingm0nkey_: i had the key, it was fine, i just expected it to make me manually do something to decrypt, but it starts that for you anyway, just with a less fancy input box22:41
mappgrmpf work time23:16
diddledanmapp, is grmpf short for "grum pfuttock"?23:28
diddledan(that's a phrase my daddy likes)23:28
daftykinshttps://www.dropbox.com/s/mswx0dfqn4kj7ho/IMG_20150226_190501.jpg?dl=023:29
daftykinsPortal 2 on my HTPC, using Steam streaming from my desktop upstairs :o23:29
diddledanyour steam stream is streaming steam?23:29
ali1234now stream it on twitch23:29
daftykins:P23:30
daftykinssteam encodes it and throws it over the LAN, then directs input from the endpoint back to the host too23:30
ali1234they need to make that work on phones23:30
ali1234and tablets23:31
ali1234this would be an absolute killer feature23:31
daftykinsMicrosoft are with the xbox one :>23:31
ali1234yeah but microsoft sux and xbox sux23:31
ali1234and presumably it only works on microsoft phones that nobody uses or cares about except directhex :P23:31
diddledanex bone23:31
daftykinsnice 12 year old comments there23:32
daftykinsno it's gonna be android and iOS23:32
ali1234that's slightly better then23:32
ali1234but i'm still not going to buy an xbox for that when i already have a PC23:32
daftykinsmmhmm23:33
daftykinsi'd want to throw a good £150+ at a newer graphics card if i really cared about PC gaming, which i don't23:34
daftykinsmy ol' core 2 quad is getting a bit ancient now though23:34
daftykins7 years old now23:35
daftykinsbut has a GTX 560 Ti23:35

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