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mappsyep boring film00:31
mappsnight at museum another ben stiller load of rubbish00:31
mappswas that sh03:48
mappsany good shauno03:49
mappscool the following is back05:17
mappsdaftykins awake|05:17
mapps?05:17
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shaunowas better than I expected mapps, but I didn't expect much :)05:21
zmoylan-pia cookie cutter movie by the numbers for the kids05:22
shaunoand it appears to be snowing again05:23
mappssnowing where?05:24
shaunooutside05:24
zmoylan-piwell it is march in ireland :-)05:24
mappshmm shauno better than expected..worth watching then?05:24
mappsI mean what area05:24
mappsgah05:24
zmoylan-pigotta have snow in ireland in march05:24
shaunoway over here mapps, http://www.bbc.com/weather/296418005:25
shaunowe don't get snow so often. or thunderstorms.  I think I remember one thunderstorm in the 8 years I've been here05:26
shaunousually it's just wind that could be best descibed as ADHD, with an 80% chance of rain05:27
zmoylan-pionly 80%, a dry day so... :-)05:35
knightwisehey shauno zmoylan-pi07:14
zmoylan-pi\o07:15
shaunoo/07:16
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MooDoomorning all08:01
davmor2Morning all09:18
nigelbhello davmor209:23
MooDoohello davmor2 nigelb09:23
davmor2hey nigelb long time no see09:24
davmor2MooDoo: me owld mucka hows the server now?09:24
foobarrythats the irc equivalent of "hows the rash"09:25
shaunoreminds me of a fun one recently.  chap complaining that ssh was accepting blank passwords.  even for accounts that didn't have blank passwords.  no matter what he tried to change in sshd_config09:33
shaunoturned out the answer wasn't misconfiguration, it was hard pwned09:33
diploshauno, I worry about stuff like that with some of our customers. the staff in our head office aren't overly security concious and the customers don't understand how bad things have or can be... just don't want to pay to fix upgrade09:42
shaunoalways a strange one.  they wouldn't lock the front door with a rubber band.  but there's a lot more people chancing this door than the front door09:43
diploI've stopped worrying now, it's not my issue and no one listens to me, I've found 2 customer servers running ircd servers for control servers09:44
diploCleaned them up and locked them down, told my bosses that the machines should be wiped and reinstalled as I couldnt be 100% I got everything09:44
diploThey've not done it yet!09:44
diploThat was very close to my analogy shauno :) I've told my bosses they need to get legal advise on how we are covered as we support this stuff, they seem very blase about it!!!09:45
shaunoin completely unrelated news, today is new toy day.  stoked.09:46
diploWhat you bought ?09:47
shaunonothing yet.  I have to time things perfectly09:47
foobarrymy amazon voucher fund is growing09:48
diplo:)09:48
shaunothis is the magical time where my shifts swing around to give me 4 non-weekend days in a row.  which means I can order things and be at home when they're delivered09:48
foobarrymy voucher account is the only secret account i have that i don't share with the wife09:48
foobarrypoor rate of interest though09:48
moreatiIn the last few months I read about an experimental alternative to the Synaptics driver, for Macbook touch pads. I can't remember the name though. Ring any bells?09:50
shaunomtrack?  (xserver-xorg-input-mtrack)09:54
shaunothat's the one suggested in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro11-1/utopic   but I can't promise it's the same one you heard on the grapevine09:55
moreatishauno: that's the one, thank you09:55
brobostigonmorning boys and girls.10:03
JamesTaitGood morning all; happy "What If Cats and Dogs Had Opposable Thumbs?" Day! :-D10:06
brobostigonmorning JamesTait10:07
JamesTaitbrobostigon, o/10:07
MooDoomorning10:07
JamesTait\o MooDoo10:07
zmoylan-picats would no longer need us and us to the hunt for sport list10:07
zmoylan-pi*and move us10:08
brobostigonmorning MooDoo10:08
foobarrytrying to buy a new shaver today10:10
foobarrymy 10yr old remington is starting to chew my face10:10
zmoylan-pior your face has aged...10:10
foobarry:-o10:13
Laneyno, blame the remington! i'm still 21!10:16
shaunozmoylan's just a big mean meanie.10:16
foobarryi don't come here to have my 40 year old face abused10:17
foobarryanyway doesn't skin refresh every 8 years10:17
zmoylan-piit's replaced with older less stretchy more saggy skin.10:20
Laneypegs10:25
zmoylan-pia few pegs to tighten up the skin for him to shave might help... :-)10:28
davmor2JamesTait: we've seen the advert they take over the world.....NOT TODAY KITTY!!!!10:55
davmor2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6CcxJQq1x8 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wxGH7aq780 for those that have no idea what I'm on about10:57
daftykinsmornin'11:44
davmor2daftykins: morning11:45
daftykinsah, just received a little 1TB USB 3 external HDD from amazon for the grand price of £38 delivered11:45
zmoylan-piyou'll never fill a whole terabyte!! :-)11:46
* daftykins glances at the RAID with 4TB free of 1011:47
* zmoylan-pi remember when work got a 110mb drive for novell network at work11:47
daftykinsdid the doors have to come off to get it in? ;)11:47
zmoylan-pihad to replace that a week later with 330mb drive as we filled the 110mb in 3 days.  that was a lot of shuffling floppies11:48
daftykins:S11:48
zmoylan-pithat 330mb lasted a few years. an esdi drive iirc11:49
daftykinselectro-static discharge initiated? :)11:49
zmoylan-pinow you can get a 1tb usb flash drive.  not cheap mind11:50
zmoylan-pican't wait till i find one of those on public transport :-)11:50
daftykins:)11:50
davmor2zmoylan-pi: you can now get 200GB micro-sd cards again not cheap11:51
zmoylan-piand not accepted in a lot of hardware.11:51
daftykinscompatibility is apparently overrated ;D11:52
zmoylan-pimy phone tops out at 32gb.  only have a 16gb card in it11:52
davmor2zmoylan-pi: yeap but then support for something that doesn't exist is kinda hard to support11:52
zmoylan-pi16gb is a lot of music, ebooks, audio comedies and audio books11:52
zmoylan-piand you can store an entire library of extra 16gb cards in your wallet in a single original sized sd card case :-)11:53
bigcalmGood morning peeps :)11:55
zmoylan-pionly just :-)11:56
daftykinshttps://www.dropbox.com/s/4mxvkkhn4s7r4fk/IMG_20150303_115524.jpg?dl=011:56
daftykinsthe thing has arms!11:56
zmoylan-piand paws11:57
zmoylan-pior flippers11:57
davmor2bigcalm: is this you just managed to drag yourself out of bed and turn on your pc?11:58
bigcalmdavmor2: it's that I've just managed to drag my concentration away from work and log into IRC for a few mins12:02
bigcalmdavmor2: come to the LUG on Wednesday! It's at the Oddfellows for a change12:02
daftykinsi'm quite disappointed though, USB 3.0 drive and the best i've seen it do today is 25MB/sec :(12:03
davmor2bigcalm: I don't know whats on yet but I'll likely be there if it is as quiet as yesterday and today is being, /me hugs mwc12:04
bigcalmWow, some time off for you!12:04
davmor2shhhhh you'll jinx it12:08
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daftykinshttps://www.dropbox.com/s/hb1g23thwdurnfq/IMG_20150303_131252.jpg?dl=013:16
daftykinsmmmm tasty13:16
foobarryi'm being organised and trying to think of mothers day gifts13:30
foobarryany ideas?13:30
Myrttiwhat's the budget?13:31
Myrttiwhat is she into?13:31
foobarryfor the wife13:31
foobarrycraft13:31
foobarrysewing, crochet, spinning, wool, handmade13:31
foobarryflowers13:31
foobarrygirl things13:31
Myrtticarbon fiber knitting pins13:31
Myrttihttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Karbonz-Interchangeable-Needle-Starter-fabric/dp/B00L926V2O/13:32
foobarrywhy are they better than bamboo/metal?13:32
* daftykins chuckles13:33
daftykinsspeed, foobarry !13:33
Myrttilight and durable13:33
foobarrymrs foobarry knitted me qa wonderful lap blanket of natural colours of sheep wool13:33
Myrttithe 1mm ones double pointed are absolutely obscene13:33
foobarrywhite/brown/dark13:33
MyrttiI still haven't gotten over the fact they exist and how they feel13:33
Myrttiif she's more into DPN pins, http://www.amazon.co.uk/KnitPro-Karbonz-Double-Pointed-Needle/dp/B00F3F6TFM/13:34
foobarryi may investigate13:34
foobarrythey look like implements of torture13:34
MyrttiI recommended them to Pricey last year for his sister's birthday and apparently she was very taken by the gift13:34
foobarrycan i ask yet again what those special socks are please?13:35
foobarry:S13:35
Myrttifoobarry: the flight socks?13:35
foobarryyeah13:35
Myrttinabeesocks.com13:35
foobarrythanks13:35
popey\o/ nabee13:45
Myrttisome of mine start to look a bit worn13:46
foobarrybought one of these13:47
foobarryhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004TKCFM813:47
foobarrybluetooth adapter thingy13:47
zmoylan-pieveryone loves bluetooth :-)13:47
foobarryturns my dumb stereo into a streaming stereo13:47
zmoylan-pii got rid of my ancient tape/cd/radio stereo years ago.  i replaced it with dab radios in bedroom and kitchen13:50
daftykinsmy brother bought a DAB radio once13:50
zmoylan-pii hadn't used tape since 90s13:50
daftykinsdidn't realise the Channel Islands don't broadcast it XD13:50
foobarryfailz13:50
zmoylan-piyeah you kinda have to buy a dab radio to see if there's dab radio about :-)13:51
Myrttifoobarry: I have a Belkin one and two Gramofon's13:51
Myrttihubby has a teeny tiny one in his car13:52
foobarry:-|13:52
daftykinszmoylan-pi: not really :P you just use the website13:53
foobarrybut does it have a "101%" satisfaction guarantee from 7dayshop13:53
zmoylan-pithe website might say you are in a dab covered area but only when you test an actual device in that location will you see how good or bad the signal is13:54
daftykinstrue, but knowing that the Channel Islands don't even offer it would've been a good money saving move :)13:55
zmoylan-pivery true13:55
zmoylan-pikinda like ethopia buying an electric chair when they had no electricity...13:56
foobarryoh no, post-lunch sleepy time is coing13:56
foobarryfight the sleepiness13:56
foobarryi just had a massive choc brownie too13:56
* popey hugs his kitchen DAB radio13:56
popeyshame it has an iphone dock.13:57
foobarryi stopped listening to radio when my car aerial got nicked13:57
popeyI'll probably keep my iphone in it forever13:57
davmor2popey: I love all of our dab radios one in the caravan, one in office and one in the living room13:58
zmoylan-pican't you replace the aerial with a coat hanger for that 70s retro look? :-)13:58
foobarryi could, or maybe buy one for £2013:58
zmoylan-picoat hanger it is :-)13:59
foobarrybut i realised radio is a bit rubbish when you are fussy13:59
popeyused to love the motorised aerial i had in my daimler13:59
popeythat was a classy car :)13:59
foobarrypimpey13:59
popeyit was one of the cheapest cars I ever bought, 900 quid13:59
popeybit of an old nail13:59
popeyV12, 5.3.. guzzled fuel14:00
zmoylan-pimy brothers first car cost him ir£200.  a datsun 100a.  i remember all the cold mornings helping to push start the flippin thing.14:07
foobarrywas datsun the european name of nissan?14:08
zmoylan-pionce it was stolen.  my brother just went walking till he found it abandoned.  it was that crap14:08
foobarryi never bothered to google it, but occasinoally think about it14:08
zmoylan-pithey used to trade in europe in 70s as datsun before rebranding as nissan i think14:08
popeymy first car cost me 80 quid14:09
daftykinsshould've called themselves dachshund14:09
popeyoh, maybe that was my 3rd car14:09
popeyMustard coloured morris marina14:09
davmor2foobarry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datsun you know google does wonders14:09
foobarrydavmor2: sometimes its nicer to discuss :D14:10
zmoylan-pinow davmor2 will be bombarded with datsun adverts :-)14:10
foobarrymost of the time i think about it i'm not connected to the net14:10
davmor2zmoylan-pi: better than some of the crap I get hit with :)14:11
foobarryalso the article has too many words14:11
davmor2zmoylan-pi: the prime one is insurance shockingly :D14:11
davmor2foobarry: you only need to read the first line datsun are a company now owned by nissan14:12
foobarrythat doesn't answer the origin of datsun name14:12
foobarryzmoylan-pi summarised more nicely14:12
foobarrymaybe i should check simplepedia14:12
davmor2foobarry: It's a company now owned by nissan, so there was datsun and nissan now there is only nissan as nissan bought datsun14:13
Myrttibouquet arrived safely back home to Blighty. I don't know if I can be bothered to rewire it back to writing condition yet14:13
daftykinswriting with flowers?14:14
davmor2foobarry: same as VolksWagen owning most car brand on the street nowadays :)14:14
Myrttiarduino and rgb led's14:14
Myrttiworking, even14:14
Myrttinot writing14:14
foobarryyeah, i miss my seat ibiza14:14
davmor2foobarry: that a VW with a ibiza body14:15
foobarryyep, and random assortment from vw parts bin14:16
foobarryi preferred it to the polo14:16
foobarrygood price and great economy14:16
foobarryinthe 1.9tdi14:16
foobarrybought it brand new :-|14:16
foobarryonly time i'll ever do that14:16
davmor2foobarry: my skoda is a passat running gear and a skoda body14:16
foobarryi would have kept the ibiza but it had 3doors and i since married and had offspring14:18
foobarryso went for focus estate, but tested teh skoda14:18
davmor2oh there is a speedtest-cli that can give a link to the png for you to copy paste nice14:33
daftykinsodd, speedtest-cli is only in utopic? 0o15:02
popey(and vivid)15:03
popeyits fairly new iirc15:03
daftykinsah-har, ty15:04
Myrttiever got a speeding ticket? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-3170945415:19
popeyzoiks15:21
davmor2Myrtti: hahahahaha oh that has to sting,  I bet he won't speed any more though15:22
MooDooyeah i have Myrtti lol15:22
daftykins"Finland is impossible to live in for certain kinds of people who have high incomes and wealth." - yes, try not breaking the law then :P15:23
diddledanlol15:24
davmor2MooDoo: you own a bike surely it goes with the territory15:25
diddledanin unrelated but somewhat related news - bbc news has a new beta site?15:25
daftykinsdiddledan: indeed, going the washed-out bland Office 2013 way it seems, too15:25
MooDoodavmor2: i don't speed on a bike, not that stupid15:26
diddledanit looks like they've taken design cues from gov.uk15:26
davmor2MooDoo: hahahahahahahahahahahahaahaha ;)15:26
MooDoo:p15:27
Myrttihttp://www.poliisi.fi/poliisi/home.nsf/pages/DBFAADA6D2B601D8C2257C05001CE1B9?opendocument15:28
foobarryi got told off by a copper for going too fast on my pushbike15:36
foobarryhe neglected to speak with teh minicab driver who parked on a cycle lane and flung his dirver door open in front of me15:36
diddledanfoobarry, they can't prosecute push-bikes for speeding, instead they have an ancient law from eons ago that gets you for "peddling furiously"15:39
directhexwe have lots of great old laws that aren't enforced properly15:40
directhexe.g. the "fraudulent mediums act" makes it illegal to lie about being able to talk to spirits15:40
bashrcheh15:41
foobarrydiddledan: i was freewheeling :P15:43
foobarrybut going around 25-30 mph15:44
foobarryand then braking furiously15:44
foobarryas the numpy tried to kill me15:44
diddledanaccording to bikehub.co.uk there's confusion over the matter as someone searched for the specific law but couldn't find it however there have been convictions on record that have been found. (Taylor v. Goodwin (1879) for example) there is however statute for "riding furiously" under the 1847 town police clauses act15:45
popeytoday I discovered /etc/kernel/postinst.d/apt-auto-removal15:46
diddledanfoobarry, I love the word numpty15:46
foobarrynumpty eejit and muppet and jerk (for other drivers) are my go to words15:49
foobarryfor the general public and users15:49
diddledanI like that numpty sounds so trivial and then you plaster on the end "tried to kill me"15:49
davmor2popey: oh is that the thing that handles kernel cleanup now15:51
popeyyeah, looks that way15:51
davmor2popey: yeah I noticed it on trusty server I couldn't figure out why /boot wasn't running out of space anymore :)15:52
foobarryhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31711446 weasel on a woodpecker16:12
MicrobeSerflol16:15
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MicrobeSerfhttp://www.britishpathe.com/video/chimps-take-over16:18
NET||abusereally dissapionted right now, i'm only getting about 3/4 hours out of the xps13, under a reasonably normal workload, few browser tabs, spotify, skype(x2), hipchat, couple of shells, sublimetext,16:22
NET||abuseso that's my 5 ish days experience with it now16:23
Myrtti3-4 hours or 3/4 hours16:23
NET||abuseoh, anyone here go to any london meetups?16:23
NET||abusehehe, 3||4 hours16:23
NET||abuse:P16:23
NET||abuseI'm going to this (as long as my night pass gets issues from her at home)  http://www.meetup.com/Docker-London/events/220145735/16:25
ali1234wow, so the compiz white windows bug is finally getting fixed almost 4 years to the day after the first report16:37
NET||abusethat sounds familiar..16:41
ali1234yeah i know, but this time it's nvidia claiming to have fixed it, not canonical16:43
ali1234which means the fix will probably work16:43
diddledanlol16:57
intrbizcompiz is still a thing?17:05
popeyof course17:06
daftykinsjust the other day we had someone after the 3D cube of desktops back again, i felt like it was 2006 again17:16
daftykinsoh, the folly of youth17:16
diddledanI tried it for a bit but found that I didn't really take any notice when switching desktops17:17
diddledanI found that when I'm switching to a different workspace I was doing it because I wanted to do something there so I didn't care how it actually did the switch as long as it did it quickly17:18
daftykins*nod*17:18
daftykinswhereas wobbly windows of course is a clear productivity improver17:19
diddledanoh yes17:19
shaunoand the fire?17:19
diddledanI love how it makes it impossible to accurately position one window beside another17:19
diddledanshauno, you use enlightenment?!17:19
daftykinsit was the aliasing that really made me cringe17:19
daftykinsin fact i bet that looks a fair bit better on these modern res screens17:20
diddledanaye17:20
NET||abuseanyone else had issues with vlc and green snow all over all the videos you try to playback?17:21
MyrttiI had that years ago17:21
NET||abusehaving it now on 14.1017:22
diddledancorrupt video?17:22
NET||abusenope, same video played back fine in mpv17:22
NET||abusethe video is playing, but green snow all over..17:22
NET||abusetrying it now with minitube.17:22
diddledanin that case then it's a processing speed issue17:22
daftykinssounds like a renderer thing17:23
NET||abuseuhoh.....17:23
intrbizwith hindsight the whole wobbly windows thing seems like an era of mass hysteria17:23
diddledanintrbiz, aye, everyone and his dog was "OMG THE WOBBLES!"17:24
diddledanthe number of youtube videos that went up showing it and the cube17:24
intrbizdiddledan: yeh, then after 10 minutes it was f**king irritating17:24
NET||abusehttp://snag.gy/qVaJB.jpg17:24
daftykinswow you lasted 10 minutes? :)17:24
diddledanNET||abuse, ooh, that really is a weird behaviour - I've never seen that before17:25
intrbizdaftykins: possibly, might not have been that long, I remember playing with the gravity settings etc, so get it do do silly things17:25
NET||abusehmm,17:25
intrbizand the whole blured / transparent window thing, that got irritating quickly, along with the cube17:30
intrbizthe cover switch alt-tab is nice though17:30
NET||abuselikeed the sticky edges that you could do with wobbly windows.17:30
intrbizNET||abuse: KDE has sticky edges17:31
NET||abusewindow tile snapping is one nice side effect that i think hasn't been as broadly adopted by gnome or unity17:31
intrbizNET||abuse: snapping to half / quarter screen you mean?17:32
NET||abusewell, half screen seems to be supported, but the greater general tilling support i haven't seen as much of17:32
intrbizNET||abuse: the 1/2 and 1/4 screen snapping in KDE is handy at times17:32
NET||abusethere's a gnome extension or two that tries but the support for keeping htem working between gnome releases lead to horrible glitches17:32
NET||abuseunity and gnome do half screen snapping by default i think, but not ht e1/4 screeen, that sounds nice actually.17:33
intrbizI also like the window shadow and darken parent to give more visual depth17:33
NET||abusespecially withthe 4k screens nowadays.17:33
NET||abusethough then i want to get into 1/3 width and 1/2 height snapping17:33
intrbiz1/4 screen can be handy when using lots of terminals17:33
intrbizand multi-monitor aware snapping too17:34
NET||abuseI want 6 tiles.... there are SIX tiles!!17:34
NET||abusehaving star trek piccard torture scene flash backs there...17:34
NET||abuseintrbiz: ooh,good call17:34
intrbizI also like the window tabbing that KDE has17:35
NET||abusetrying to fix this vlc thing, changing to opengl output (experimental) works, except can't scale the video with the vlc window17:36
NET||abuseonly alt+1/2/3  scale the video to a certain degree17:37
NET||abuseok, OpenGL GLX output works17:39
NET||abuseright, time to go to meetup and hear all about docker :)17:39
NET||abuseand drink beer and have free pizza17:39
daftykinshttps://imgur.com/gallery/nnJLHk917:54
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diddledancan someone tell me what kind of updates they're talking about and find me a google term that tells me what it actually is from this video at 35:55 (http://www.elasticsearch.org/videos/big-data-search-and-analytics/)18:51
diddledanit sounds like ballock but google doesn't know the term18:51
daftykinsblock? o018:52
daftykinsbulk!18:52
diddledanit doesn't sound like bulk18:53
daftykinsthe guy corrects him and he agrees though 0o18:53
diddledanthere's two syllables18:53
diddledanbulk would make sense but it sure doesn't sound like bulk18:53
daftykinsbut they're foreign18:54
daftykins:>18:54
diddledanthat's no excuse18:54
diddledaneven foreigners should learn english18:54
daftykinsthe guy may've only seen it written before18:55
diddledanoh america: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/03/03/ben-carson-needs-religion-to-differentiate-between-science-and-propaganda_n_6792376.html?utm_hp_ref=tw18:59
intrbizdiddledan: 'scientific belief' what a oxymoron19:02
diddledanthat describes him, really, an oxy moron19:02
intrbiz:)19:02
diddledanI don't see why religious people can't accept science19:03
diddledanit's not like the bible says : thou shalt not listen to scientists for they speak the word of the devil19:04
diddledanhelleluja19:05
diddledan+h19:05
diddledanhallelujah**19:05
diddledanthank you spellcheck19:05
intrbizdiddledan: religious people are indoctrinated to believe without exception in the book that they follow, hence when science say this is incorrect they cannot accept it19:05
intrbizIMHO it's the concept of belief which is the issue, people need to think for themselves19:06
daftykinsuh-oh it's that topic19:07
shaunobuddha actually has a good one on that - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalama_Sutta19:07
shauno(and I mean pali canon type buddha, not e-cards type buddha)19:08
daftykinsKalama Sutta, what a wonderful phrase ~19:09
diddledanI prefer the karma sutra19:09
diddledan:-p19:09
diddledanwell someone had to say it19:09
daftykinsit was a matter of time really19:09
shauno"a matter of dan" is probably closer ;)19:10
shaunoit's an interesting teaching though.  it pretty much puts "something you can prove" ahead of all other doctrine19:12
diddledanclever ol' stick wasn't he19:13
daftykinscrikey, that'd definitely empty the libraries ;)19:13
shaunoso I've added spdif output to my pi.  now I have to wait for cables to show up before I can actually try it.  booooring19:16
shaunoand then will come the fun part - I want mpd and retropie to use different sound devices19:16
daftykinsyou pesky users and your awkward requirements19:17
daftykins:D19:17
shaunohehe19:17
daftykinsSPDIF eh, no HDMI AV receiver?19:17
shaunonah19:18
shaunowell, I don't run the TV through this usually, since the speakers aren't lined up to the TV19:18
diddledanI need new speakers - mine are getting wonky19:19
daftykinsah-har19:19
diddledanpc speakers I mean19:19
daftykinsdiddledan: wasn't you that had the same Logitech 5.1 set, was it 0o19:19
diddledannah19:19
shaunoI've just ordered some honking great floorstanding jobs.  I'm slightly concerned I may be too scrawny to move them :/19:19
diddledanI've got cheapo flatpanel speaker19:20
diddledans19:20
diddledanshauno, what about the children^Zneighbours?19:20
daftykinsi'd offer to help but i'm a cripple19:20
shaunothe neighbours make more noise than I do.  and at less sociable hours19:20
shaunoif they're willing to trade "toning down my music" in return for "toning down their sex life", I'm game19:21
diddledanI'm curious what you consider unsociable hours when you're awake all night19:21
shaunoI don't do anything loud past 10-11pm19:21
shaunoI can be awake without rattling windows :)19:21
diddledanI pretty much never make a lot of noise - I don't see the need to blast out extreme volumes19:22
diddledanI can hear perfectly well at lower levels19:22
shaunoI sometimes have the desire to ensure whatever I'm doing is louder than whatever they're doing19:23
diddledanheh19:23
shaunoI won't go into details, suffice to say it's icky19:23
diddledanwhips?19:23
diddledanchains?19:23
daftykinsdo the cops ever visit? :>19:23
diddledanghosts?19:23
diddledan"he possessed me"19:24
SuperEngineerVery close to deleting both home & root right now {& doing a clean install of 14.04.2] but would rather find the culprit...19:31
daftykinsi vote it's diddledan19:31
SuperEngineerCPU running 50-70% when should be idle - network short pulse very regular...19:32
daftykinsnetwork pulse? 0o19:32
diddledanemp?19:33
SuperEngineer...my suspician... I've become part of a bot-net.  All suggestions very, very welcome!19:33
diddledanthermonuclear detonation?19:33
daftykinsSuperEngineer: reboot and log into the guest session19:33
SuperEngineerdaftykins, both send & recieve when nothing to send or recieve19:33
diddledanwhat does top reveal?19:33
SuperEngineerit keeps showing xorg as the culprit - but xorg should want network access, should it?19:35
diddledanwhy do you think the network access is suspicious?19:35
SuperEngineerplus - xorg is a root process - that is the worry19:35
SuperEngineerI know my usual network pattern for send and receive19:36
SuperEngineerI know at idle I use less than 5% CPu - not 50-70 %19:36
diddledanhow are you monitoring your network?19:36
daftykinstcpdump'd it to see what it's doing?19:36
SuperEngineerdiddledan, a simply look at sys monitor19:36
SuperEngineerand a watchful eye on dongle light19:37
diddledanthat's not conclusive19:37
SuperEngineerthe dongle light is19:37
diddledanit's highly likely to be standard traffic19:37
SuperEngineerit's as if this was a windows system!19:37
daftykinsnow now :P19:37
SuperEngineerdaftykins ;)19:38
daftykinsso, tcpdump, guest session...19:38
SuperEngineerdiddledan, why - when you know your normal - & suddenly things go abormal - is that not a reason for suspicion?19:38
diddledanit's reason for investigation if you can prove it's abnormal19:39
daftykinsusually things seem quirky until you arrive at a sensible explanation19:39
diddledanI fail to see network traffic "small pulse" as abnormal19:40
daftykinsfor example the time i was RDP'ing home to Guernsey from Uni and the wrong box came up... someone else had just gotten my dynamic IP briefly ;)19:40
SuperEngineerGuest session seems a good idea [and, annoyingly, one I hadn't thought of ;) - will go to Guest now]... lets see what happens...19:40
SuperEngineer& thanks19:40
daftykinsdon't tell him i run Windows19:41
daftykinsit'll only add insult to injury19:41
diddledanI'm on 'dows, too19:41
daftykins:D19:41
daftykinsdiddledows19:41
davmor2daftykins: is it just me or does diddledows seem even closer to the doctor who theme than diddledan does :D19:44
diddledan~diddledan diddledan diddledan oo-eeee-oooooo ooo ooo oooo~19:45
diddledan~daaa daaa daaa dum de dum~19:45
shaunowhy are people so paranoid about root?  you can quite happily join a botnet from a user account19:46
diddledanyup19:46
davmor2diddledan: but diddledows is closer still19:47
daftykinsi actually don't watch Doctor Who19:47
* daftykins ducks19:47
diddledanOH EMM GEE19:48
diddledanyou must have lied on your "I'm a geek" application form19:48
diddledanyou did get good points for ensuring an orderly submission in triplicate19:49
diddledanthough*19:49
davmor2daftykins: you know when you type that it's not in your inner voice anymore and people can read it right ;)19:49
daftykinswhich part am i typing?19:50
daftykinsor *i am19:50
ujjainI´m frustrated that people at my job bother me every 10 minutes while I´m coding and we have to go to production in 3 weeks, arghargargh.19:52
shaunoneeds more kumbaya.  with enough kumbaya, people won't bother you unless they really, really have to19:53
ujjainhaha19:53
ujjainmaybe I should just stop showering and start smelling really bad19:54
SuperEngineerdiddledan, ok now I'm confused - tried Guest seddion & all back to nirmal19:54
shaunoI'd file that under "Taking work home with you".19:54
daftykinsujjain: just put eyes on the back of your head, simple19:55
SuperEngineer...logged back in as me and, again - all back to normal?!19:55
* daftykins looks smug for no justifiable reason19:55
SuperEngineernow let's see what happens after a reboot.... [fingers crossed]19:55
daftykinsthis is when it breaks19:56
daftykinswhich is an ideal time for me to move downstairs...19:56
SuperEngineerhmmmmmmmmm...19:59
shaunommhmmmm?20:01
SuperEngineerCPU usage back to normal, network in/ot back to normal. How & what difference was made by logging in as Guest for a few seconds make???20:02
SuperEngineer#confused ;)20:02
shaunosomething was running that you couldn't see, but hasn't been started again (yet?)?20:03
SuperEngineershauno - dunno [especially, as I said earlier, I suspect I had become part of a bot-net], but I am breathing a sigh of relief20:05
SuperEngineerall of a sudden the word "normal " is the new rolls royce for me20:06
SuperEngineerCould it be that someone was permantly on my system as Guest & I killed it by being "Guest" myself?20:08
diddledanno20:09
SuperEngineerhmmm20:09
SuperEngineerPerhaps I will never know, but it is *good* to be back to normal20:10
SuperEngineer..but ~I owe you one for the simplest of ideas!20:10
SuperEngineer[even though the outcome was not diagnostics, but cure!]  :)20:11
SuperEngineerOn the bright side, with such high CPU usage, it was the 1st time I've had such positive prood of how "indepently" the CPU cores were working :D20:21
shaunofeels like the 90s again.  I can't figure out how to mount a smb share :)20:31
SuperEngineerBefore /me goes for nom noms - diddledan w20:49
SuperEngineerdiddledan, I thank you - I dunno if your idea was to cure the problem or find out what the problem was. I don't care - it cured it & I thank you20:50
shaunousually guest is just to narrow it down - to whether something's system-broke or wonky in your profile20:51
SuperEngineershauno, glad to be thought of as "wonky" - I am, indeed, highly complimented ;)20:52
SuperEngineer"SuperEngineer - the bestest engineer - but a wee bit slightly wonky"20:55
SuperEngineer;)20:55
shaunoall the good ones are ;)21:00
SuperEngineerlol21:13
shaunoI try not to whine about my house being cold constantly.  but my thermometer says it's 10.3C outside, and 7.7C inside :(21:24
daftykins:D21:24
shaunoso I'm going outside to warm up before bed21:25
zmoylan-pirun around till you warm it up :-)21:25
shaunoactually, I've started graphing it.  and you can see when I'm home, when I'm not, when I'm asleep, and the weird spike at 4pm when sunset comes in my window21:26
shaunohttp://i.imgur.com/wGD3HFz.png   there's a nice spike when I got up (top line is one room, bottom line is another)21:31
shaunobut you can actually see the top line go down when I go to bed, and back up when I get up.  I do appear to be the radiator around here21:32
shaunoanyway.  'night21:32
zmoylan-pia great bernard would heat that house :-)21:32
diddledanchilly willy!21:41
daftykinsthe penguin?21:43
diddledano_O21:44
diddledanisn't the penguin called pingu?21:44
diddledanor tux21:44
zmoylan-pichilly willy predated pingu and tux.  from the time of woody wood pecker21:46
daftykins:D21:47
mappsheylo23:12
daftykinso hai23:12
zmoylan-pi\o23:14
mappsyou watched house of cards? think that'll be the next series i start23:14
mappsshould be able to get through series 1 and 2 in a week:)23:14
mapps13 eps a season..26 eps in 7 days? easy!23:15
zmoylan-pithe uk version or the american?23:15
mappsdidn't know there was a uk? thought it was an original us thing23:15
zmoylan-pihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Cards_(UK_TV_series)23:16
zmoylan-pi4 episodes mini series in 90s23:16
daftykinsi started s1 but never finished it23:16
mappsoh23:17
mappsdidnt enjoy it daftykins?23:17
daftykinsi enjoyed the first... ~3/4 ? but... i can't really explain without spoilers23:18
zmoylan-piwhich i also haven't seen.  i learned all i need to know from yes minister :-)23:18
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