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daftykinsmapp: did you do it yet? :P00:42
mappHI daftykins06:18
mappI GUESS thats life07:34
mappget a job on purley way live in old ken street07:35
knightwisemornin everyone07:51
mappjesus christ07:51
mappi love my ex girlfriend07:52
mappi hope she's ok though07:52
MooDoomorning all07:56
mappmorning07:57
mappgotta go outsidr in a min07:57
mappim smoking 30+ a day again now07:57
MooDoooh dear, expensive07:58
mappwell07:58
mappits 2.50 a pack here07:58
mappan its lofe hey07:58
mappcant blame noone07:58
mappim petrified of getting old and smoking and drink obv dont help07:59
mappbut what can i do07:59
knightwisehmm.. pi Musicbox project = not coöperating today08:00
mappits a funny thing08:01
mappmy dad worked at Wandsworth then moved to Coldingley08:02
mappwish i could ge rid of all the drunk idiots08:03
knightwiseoh god .. they are going to launch the apple watch tonight. Can i crawl under a rock somewhere for the next 3 weeks ?08:08
mapp:D08:09
mappyep08:09
mappapple watcg08:09
mappiudiots will buy it08:09
mappid rather have 20 packs of cigarettes than that garbage08:10
mappremember ima big time smoker08:11
mappsmoking mave 30 a day08:11
mappi dont know08:11
knightwiseNoobs will flock me and ask "why don't i have one".08:13
knightwiseI feel another blogpost coming up08:13
knightwise"the 80-IQ Economy" How to get dumb people to pay way too much for their gadgets08:14
mappi dont do blogposts;p08:17
mappi liv in gibraltar08:18
mappbut wannna be in SE108:18
mappim an SE1 boy08:18
shaunolol .. I'll buy it :)08:21
mappchrist08:22
mappim an alcohllic08:22
mappive got enoiugh issus08:22
mapp:P08:22
shaunoeven more reason to be spending your beer money on toys08:23
mappnah#08:25
* knightwise things mapp is drunk08:25
mappshauno08:25
mappthanks knightwise:P08:26
mappi already said i have a drink problem]08:27
mappshauno#08:37
mappim SE1 for life08:37
mapp:(08:38
mappnever get anyway good eh08:38
brobostigonmorning boys and girls.08:58
knightwisehey brobostigon08:58
brobostigonhey knightwise08:59
davmor2Morning all09:05
brobostigonmorning davmor209:06
bashrcmorning09:08
popeymorning09:13
webpigeonMorning09:39
Dr_Robotnicmorning has anyone got any experience creating customised livecds?10:02
SuperMattI have experience cos I've done it once10:29
SuperMattcan't actually remember what I did though10:29
awilkinsOK : so, if you drag an email or an attachment off Thunderbird, it makes a link10:29
SuperMattyup10:30
awilkinsBut Nautilus doesn't follow those links back to Thunderbird10:30
SuperMattnope10:30
SuperMattit's mental10:30
awilkinsWould be great it it worked...10:30
SuperMattand because no one is bothering to update thunderbird any more, it ain't gonna change10:30
awilkinsWell, it's not entirely Thunderbirds problem10:30
SuperMattDr_Robotnic: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization follow this and all your prayers shall be answered10:31
awilkinsI'd love it if it worked10:31
SuperMattwe all would10:31
SuperMattbut I've given up with email clients10:31
Dr_Robotnicnot so much :(10:31
SuperMattgmail and owa work, so I'm not changing any more10:31
awilkinsYou could just shove an imap:// link in a ticket (in your personal tracking system) and go look at it10:31
awilkinsSuperMatt, OWA, urrgh10:31
Dr_Robotnici'm trying to install the drivers for a printer and having trouble10:32
* awilkins has Thunderbird set up on his Office 365 email10:32
SuperMattawilkins: the new version for outlook 201<something> is quite nice10:32
Dr_RobotnicI keep getting asked for root password in the chrooted envrioment10:32
SuperMattDr_Robotnic: ah, do the drives work *outside* the live cd?10:32
awilkinsWhat I really want is a kind of unified ticket tracker / email / productivity client10:32
Dr_Robotnicnot sure, i can install the drivers on a ubuntu install10:33
awilkinsSomething that does Getting Things Done (has a tickler feature)10:33
awilkinsWhere everything (unarchived email threads, everything) is treated as an open task10:33
awilkinsIt has a wiki for the knowledge management side, integration to the common phoneses like the Exchange plugin for Android, etc10:34
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daftykinshmm i have received word that 8 x 4TB disks have shown up, now to plan how to have them all connected at once14:08
daftykins(power wise)14:08
zmoylan-pitime to download the internet...14:09
daftykinsnah, it'll probably be over 24 hours to initialise a RAID6 across those to start with :)14:09
Myrttiin the olden golden days my ex tried to download a webBBS to be available offline on his W98 or something.14:10
Myrttipeople joined the effort, crashed the BBS and trashed the database.14:10
Myrttiit was a Very Bad Idea (tm)14:10
popeyhehe14:15
popeyi mean, oh dear14:15
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* Laney gets paranoid that laney@ubuntu.com has started getting double glazing spam at the same time that he actually started looking for it14:38
daftykinslmao14:39
Myrttiyeah, I got a Mick George spam on mine.14:41
diddledanbrowserstack has a new interface - funky14:55
davmor2wow dead or alive had a number 1 30 years ago today now I feel old14:56
diddledandavmor2, you _are_ old :-p14:56
diddledandavmor2, we all are14:56
davmor2diddledan: you're only old if you remember the video and not from youtube14:57
davmor2damn it I'm old14:57
davmor2but a year younger than popey and MooDoo so I don't care :D14:57
diddledanthankyou google for giving me an extra 2GB :-p14:58
shaunoI think the bigger o_O is "wow, dead or alive had a number 1"14:59
diddledanwow, google do storage plans up to 200TB15:00
diddledanerr. 20TB15:00
diddledanerr. 30TB (get it right diddledan !)15:00
diddledan30TB is 299.99$ per month15:01
diddledan10TB is 99.9915:01
diddledan1TB is 9.9915:01
diddledanpretty linear by the looks15:02
davmor2diddledan: pick a number, any number, add a 0 to the end, divide it by 2,  minus 50, multiple the final number by 2 and you should get to the right number ;)15:02
diddledanteehee15:03
shaunois /this/ the card you were thinking of?15:03
davmor2shauno: most of the time a woman will pick the queen of hearts and a man will pick the ace of spades interesting bit a trivia for you :)15:04
MyrttiI was thinking of my updated credit card...15:11
davmor2Myrtti: that's a different trick when you can make a credit card disappear and reappear in the deck of cards :)15:13
diddledanwarning, graham clueless: http://www.hotforsecurity.com/blog/a-bad-week-for-uk-cybercriminals-11533.html15:15
diddledanapparently I'm not well-known enough among law enforcement. must raise my profile15:15
shaunobut that'd mean standing up?15:16
diddledangood point15:16
diddledanhmm15:16
andycHi, in ubuntu is it possible to have a laptop stay awake when the lid is closed when an external monitor is present?15:18
* davmor2 blocks diddledan from the interwebz15:20
diddledan:-o15:21
diddledanbut... but...15:21
diddledanI NEED teh intertubes!15:21
davmor2diddledan: okay have them back but at a slower speed but only cause I'm feeling generous :)15:22
diddledandankee15:23
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diddledanhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1426448868/cuberox-six-screen-waterproof-linux-powered-comput15:37
popeyhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1426448868/cuberox-six-screen-waterproof-linux-powered-comput15:46
popeyneat15:46
diddledanpopey, gonna buy? :-p15:47
popeydunno. I'd rather make one15:47
diddledanyeah, a pi would probably be able to power one of those15:47
popeypi + box + 6 LED displays15:47
popeybattery pack and qi charger15:48
popeyor even a usb connector on the bottom15:48
popeyi am not convinced it needs all 6 sides with a display15:48
diddledanI don't see the need for waterproofing either15:48
awilkinsandyc, It's possible to turn off the lid-closed-suspend thing completely15:56
popeyyes and no15:57
popeyit will still lock the screen15:57
ali1234$299 retail?16:00
diddledanis it apple announcement time yet?16:01
ali1234it needs 6 faces because the only input is it's orientation16:01
awilkinsIt has touchscreens too16:02
awilkinsI think they might be one pixel per face though16:02
ali1234pi wouldn't fit inside it16:03
ali1234also, it uses far too much power for a device like that16:03
ali1234if for example you used a pi2 so you could run ubuntu, you'd get about 4 hours battery life if you filled the entire of the inside with lithium ion batteries16:04
ali1234that would also explain the extremely high cost, i guess16:05
awilkinsI like their dubious claim that you can install Office on it16:07
awilkinsI'm guessing they mean "LibreOffice"16:08
diddledanhttp://www.quickmeme.com/img/bf/bfc8800a2540c5274ebce706b295ed3102600ff4f50a934426edeb165c5fb49d.jpg16:08
diddledancolleague just sent that to me16:08
awilkinsAnd the only way you'd actually be able to use it is over remote X11, because 6x16x16 just isn't enough for more than a couple of buttons...16:08
awilkinsdiddledan, Isn't the point of Git that you CAN commit your code without pulling?16:09
awilkinsYou can do a merge later?16:09
diddledanawilkins, yeah, you'd think16:09
awilkinsThis kind of just illustrates why SVN was rubbish16:09
awilkinsOr CVS16:09
diddledanindeed, having to pull before commit just kills the whole benefit of decentralisation16:10
ali1234that's what rebase is for16:10
awilkinsAh, the rebase / merge dichotomy16:10
diddledanI don't actually know what the idea of rebase is16:10
diddledanI'm still fairly novice at git16:10
ali1234rebase is the best feature of git16:11
awilkinsrebase lets you re-do your revisions as if they came from the top of the remote history instead of where you actually branched from16:11
awilkinsrebase -i is useful IMHO16:11
awilkinsLets you make your own revision history less messy and more coherent16:11
diddledanI can use it solidly, but anything more esoteric than the standard pull push commit and such is unknown to me16:11
awilkinsFor (personal) example of the insane power : http://strangeowl.blogspot.com/2013/04/grafting-history-with-git.html16:12
diddledanyeah, I'm intrigued by bzr16:14
diddledanI love the full-on integration with launchpad and that ubuntu uses it extensively, but it seems outside the ubuntu community it's a bit of a black sheep16:15
awilkinsI liked Bazaar a lot. I used it for an internal project at a time when Git for Windows was i) not mature ii) not remotely comprehensible by normal users16:16
diddledangit seems to be taking over all the things16:17
awilkinsMercurial choked on their tree, SVN was too slow16:17
diddledaneven visual studio online from microsoft uses it16:17
awilkinsJeepers16:17
diddledan(you get the choice when you create a new project between MS' TFS or git)16:17
awilkinsVSS was horrible16:18
diddledanI never played with that16:18
awilkinsI know that TFS is a different thing, but the taint doesn't wear off16:18
awilkinsVSS was utterly, utterly terrible. Basically the worse features of CVS combined with an obfuscated and fragile repository model that you shared publicly on your network via SMBFS16:19
diddledanopengl-next is now known as "vulcan"16:19
diddledanouch16:19
awilkinsIt came with tools that could analyze the repo to see if it was broken16:19
diddledananything on smbfs should die a slow and painful death16:20
ali1234bzr doesn't have rebase16:20
Laneygit pull --rebase16:20
Laneyso good16:20
awilkinsThey took an age and when they finished they usually told you, yes, it's broken, no, we can't fix it.16:20
awilkinsBest feature of VSS (and CVS, btw)  : Purge.16:20
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awilkinsPurge a file. Congrats, you have now erased it from all history.16:21
diddledandear god man16:21
awilkinsYou can no longer build any revision of the software that contained that file.16:21
diddledanthat's counter to the whole idea of history of all the things16:21
ali1234i think bzr's lack of bisect is worse though, makes it only suitable for developers who don't care about regressions16:21
awilkinsbzr has bisect16:21
diddledanali1234, no bisect?16:21
ali1234no, it doesn't16:21
awilkinsThere's a bisect plugin16:21
diddledanwow that's a really awesome feature to be lacking16:21
ali1234it has a plugin for it, which hasn't been maintained for 6 years and no longer works16:22
ali1234and in fact it never worked, even when it was maintained16:22
awilkinsHmm16:22
diddledangit bisect is pretty sublime16:22
ali1234it couldn't be implemented properly, because bzr has no way of telling the user what the current working dir revision is16:22
awilkinsThe only thing that makes git bisect better is proper automated tests16:22
ali1234so you could do your bisect, and then have no way of knowing which version you ended up on16:22
awilkinsUh, no, bzr can tell you which revision you've got checked out16:23
awilkinsIt will even stick a pretty flag on it in the pretty log viewer16:23
ali1234it couldn't back when the bisect plugin still worked16:23
ali1234another problem with bzr bisect was there was no "skip" option16:24
* awilkins pulls his install of bzr-bisect16:24
ali1234so if you hit a build that wouldn't compile, you had no way of continuing16:24
ali1234and you couldn't change to another revision manually, because there's no way of knowing which revision you are currently on16:25
awilkinsali1234, Believe you'd use bzr bisect move for that (but a bit manual)16:25
ali1234move takes you directly to the numbered revision, but since there's no way to know what the current revision is, there's no way to know where you should go16:25
ali1234bzr is pretty much a write-only VCS16:26
ali1234it's great if you never want to look at the history or do anything with it and are just using VCS because your boss insists on it16:26
awilkinsTBH I think that encouraging rebase is counterproductive16:27
ali1234it is if you measure productivity by the size of the repo16:27
awilkinsI think rebase for your personal work branch is great16:28
ali1234huge merge commits really blow up the history to the point of being unmanagable16:28
awilkinsI think for pushed revisions it sucks a big one16:28
awilkinsHuge merge commits are the product of huge patches, which is a separate topic - huge patches are what Git is designed to avoid, because it was the natural result of using SVN and similar, because they made merging hard16:31
ali1234huge merge commits are what happens when the thing you are merging hasn't been rebased to the latest master version16:32
awilkinsA self-reinforcing loop ; SVN made merging hard, so people tried to do it less, which made their branch delta larger, which made merging hard...16:32
ali1234if i had a choice i'd rather remove merge commits than remove rebasing16:32
awilkinsYou couldn't do hotfixes that you then merged into the mainline then16:32
ali1234of course you could16:33
ali1234you just couldn't do it in the most lazy and ugly way possible16:33
awilkinsErm, hello, I'm a programmer. The laziest way is by definition the way that requires the least work.16:34
awilkinsAnd the best. Work only leads to mistakes because a human is doing it.16:34
awilkinsFix a bug ; i) Bisect to find it's introduction. ii) Work out which current supported releases it affects ii) Patch it on a branch from the lowest revision you care about (or straight after the bug) iii) Merge into all releases you care about iv) Merge into main branch16:35
awilkinsNow you can test for the fixed-ness of a given branch by checking for that revision ID in it's history16:36
awilkinsIf you write this down in your bug database when people call with that bug you can look it up and go "Yup, that bug is still in that version, but you could upgrade to version X which is the closest hotfix, or upgrade to newer version X+1 for only £12.99!16:37
ali1234merely having the patch doesn't guarantee it is fixed, if the merge commit isn't right16:37
awilkinsWell, you have that same problem if you rebase and cherry pick it everywhere16:37
ali1234you do, but you have to actually think about it16:37
awilkinsOr write a unit test as the FIRST revision on your patch branch16:38
awilkinsMissed a step ia) Write a unit test and commit that first, make sure it breaks the build correctly as expected16:39
ali1234yes, i can't argue with that16:39
awilkinsDoing it your way doesn't create any fewer objects, just some of the commits have fewer parents.16:39
ali1234the problematic merges though, are when feature branches against a really old development version are merged directly in to mainline16:40
ali1234that just creates a mess16:40
awilkinsYes, but that's not rebase / merge's fault16:40
awilkinsYou can prevent that by merging outward frequently16:40
ali1234right, it's the fault of whoever decided rebase shouldn't be allowed16:40
awilkinsWhich people with SVN habits don't do16:40
awilkinsBecause "Merging is Hard"16:41
ali1234and no, merging mainline into your feature branch all the time makes an even bigger mess, because now all the commits for a feature are scattered through history16:41
* awilkins summons Obi-Wan16:42
awilkins"That depends greatly on your point of view"16:42
ali1234and if you need to bisect that feature you;ve got 10x as much work16:42
ali1234my point of view is that of somebody who didn't write the code and is trying to fix it much later16:42
ali1234because that's mainly what i do :)16:42
awilkinsThe commits for that feature are still on that branch ; but there are some outward merges into it16:43
ali1234but that branch is on some developer's machine, and all i've got is mainly16:44
ali1234mainline*16:44
awilkinsHow do you end up debugging it if it's only on HIS machine?16:45
awilkinsThose revisions have to have ended up in the build system to make a production bug16:45
ali1234yes, scattered through the master branch in between hundreds of completely unrelated commits16:45
awilkinsIf they are there the full history is there... the branch, maybe not, but a branch isn't any kind of continuity, it's a label stuck on a revision16:46
ali1234exactly16:46
awilkinsWhy would those revisions be scattered between the revisions in the master branch?16:46
awilkinsYou only merge in when it's done16:46
ali1234bisect has a beginning and an end16:46
awilkinsYup16:47
ali1234if you rebase your patches, they also have a beginning and an end16:47
ali1234if you merge your patches you create a fork in history every time you do it16:47
ali1234that fork has to be flattened somehow16:48
awilkinsAre we saying your master is just one big line of revisions and you have no branches off it?16:48
ali1234it effectively becomes that once you try to bisect it, yes16:48
ali1234i'm saying that it is best if master is one big line of revisions, yes16:48
ali1234it often isn't16:49
awilkinsbisect when you merge feature branches becomes i) a search for the revision where the feature branch merged and then ii) A search for the revision in the feature branch which introduced the bug16:49
ali1234and with bzr it never is if you have more than one developer16:49
awilkinsI prefer a master that only consists of tested completed feature branch merge revisions16:49
ali1234that's a mess to deal with when you don't know which feature introduced the bug16:51
awilkinsThat's what bisect is for16:51
ali1234and bisect turns history into a single line of commits16:52
ali1234except that in such a system, most of the commits are merge commits16:52
awilkinsAFAIK bisect navigates around the graph16:52
ali1234it descends in to branches16:53
awilkinsYup16:53
awilkinsBut it will be quicker to find which branch to descend into if it first bisects master16:53
ali1234which means instead of n steps, your bisect is now n * number of branches steps16:53
awilkinsWhat, it checks every revision for every branch? Think not.16:54
ali1234it bisects every branch16:54
awilkinshttps://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt#L40716:54
ali1234it has to, because you can merge master in to your branch, and then merge your branch back in to master16:54
ali1234which means the bug can come and go from the point of view of master16:55
ali1234often there's no way to produce a canonical linear history when you have this type of structure so it can't just "bisect master" because master has loops16:55
awilkinsIf you merge master out to your branch, that revision is not part of the POV of master, unless you merge it back into master, in which case it's part of master16:56
awilkinsAnd no, you can't have loops in git16:56
awilkinsIt's a directed acyclic graph of revisions16:56
awilkins*acyclic*16:56
ali1234it still has parallel branches that later merge16:56
awilkinsYes, it does ; and they are either an ancestor of the bad revision or not16:57
ali1234yes, and often they all are16:57
ali1234which means each one has to be bisected indepentently16:57
popeyApple watch event live stream, song currently playing is "Busy Earnin'" :)16:57
awilkinsYou bisect the shortest path through the graph (master, made of all those merge revisions) and prune most of them away16:58
awilkinsYou can't claim that it's n * branches because the branches are MADE of n16:58
awilkinsWith a good bisection algorithm you will have fewer steps bisecting a branched graph than a linear one16:59
ali1234that makes no sense at all16:59
awilkinsIf HEAD and HEAD^^ are both bad17:00
awilkinsAnd HEAD is a merge revision on top of a branch with n/2 revisions in it17:00
awilkinsYou can just ignore n/2 of the effort because you know that the bug revision is an ancestor of HEAD^^17:00
ali1234that's not what ends up happening though17:02
ali1234what actually happens is that because your branches are regularly merged with master, you've actually propogated the bug into multiple branches17:03
ali1234so the merge commits are all bad, and the common ancestors are all good17:03
awilkinsYour branches are NOT regularly merged with master17:03
ali1234and then you pick one and bisect it and just hit a merge commit, then continue down the rabbit hole17:03
awilkinsMaster is merged to them17:03
ali1234exactly "master is merged to them"17:03
ali1234bugs and all17:03
awilkinsBut you can still bisect the shortest path through the graph to revision zero through master and rapidly find the branch the bug was introduced on17:04
awilkinsPossible less explicitly on git than bazaar17:05
awilkinsOr other VCSs that actually have a notion of branch being a thing17:05
ali1234all true except for the "rapid" part17:05
awilkinsWhereas in git a branch is a label17:05
awilkinsAnd there is no branch in the history, only where the label is now17:05
mappgah]17:15
mappanother one of those days17:15
mapppassed out17:15
mappwake up cant remember what time i wS UP TILL17:15
shaunoyou were still whining about being drunk near 9am17:16
mappaha17:16
mappso after 9am17:16
mappclown behaviour again17:17
* mapp should know better17:17
shaunoweren't you meant to get up early to let someone in ?17:18
mappyes17:18
mappand i over sleep17:19
mapp:D17:19
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davmor2http://open.spotify.com/track/4fC7KhiZuHg3qZ1rj0fDWT just leave this here and move on17:54
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davmor2MooDoo, popey: you'll like this http://open.spotify.com/album/1NILZoyUbK0pPWWWAnudJ118:13
daftykinsmy face when 4TB disks show up as 1.6TB on the controller card :)18:20
daftykinsthen my sigh of relief when a firmware update has them show up correctly \o/18:21
daftykinshrmm, any thoughts on 64KB stripe size versus 256KB on an 8 x 4TB RAID6 volume?19:06
MartijnVdSdoesn't that depend on available bandwidth per disk?19:08
awilkinsWhat's the use case?19:08
awilkinsLots of dinky files?19:08
MartijnVdShttp://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/RAID-SCALING-CHARTS,1735-4.html19:08
awilkinsExactly where my browser landed @:-)19:09
awilkinsI'd probably go for the 64kB or even 32kB19:10
awilkins256kB won't do much to the multi-meg media files19:10
awilkinsBut it will waste a lot of room on the dinky little source code files (assuming the file system doesn't do neat tricks like smush them into the metadata blocks)19:11
daftykinsawilkins: huge media19:16
daftykinsit's a clients music and film storage alone typically19:18
daftykinshmm, i went with XFS on the last one too - but we're double the size now. wonder if i should look into alternatives19:29
diddledanxfs should be ok with huge volumes I think (IANAL)19:41
diddledanbtrfs is too unstable still methinks19:42
diddledanso the alternative would be zfs via fuse19:42
diddledanI don't know if JFS is still supported?19:43
m0nkey_ZFS is the way to go19:51
* m0nkey_ likes ZFS19:51
daftykinsZFS wants to manage the disks directly though, no?19:53
daftykinsi'm using a proper hardware RAID controller here.19:53
m0nkey_Correct, ZFS doesn't like being on a hardware controller20:20
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diddledanhttps://twitter.com/EmrgencyKittens/status/575034682930233344/photo/120:47
daftykinsso yeah no ZFS for me :)20:48
m0nkey_Heh, it's not for everyone. Just us FreeNAS nuts.20:49
daftykins^_^20:49
daftykinsthis is a dedicated PC so i'd rather use the 3ware controller yeah20:50
m0nkey_so is my FreeNAS box :)20:50
daftykinsoh yeah, the funky OS thing20:51
daftykinsnevermind, i shouldn't IRC and xbox night20:51
shaunoque?20:52
DJonesdiddledan: Any idea what this cat has been licking http://poolhouse.s3.amazonaws.com/blog-assets-two/2015/03/disgusted5.jpg20:55
diddledanDJones, one dreads to think20:55
m0nkey_ugh.. the new macbook air, it's basically an ipad with a keyboard now20:57
diddledanit's not actually an air20:57
diddledanit's a "macbook"20:57
diddledanafaict that is20:57
diddledanwhich means the macbook is slimmer than the macbook air20:57
shaunoI think it'll make sense eventually20:58
m0nkey_Which doesn't make sense. Might as well drop the MacBook Air line20:59
diddledanI quite like the look of those 5k imac hair removers20:59
shaunostep 1, kill the non-retina pro (which feels like the not-too-distant future)20:59
shaunothen yeah, step 2, once they have cost under control on this one, kill the air.  go back to just having mb / mb pro20:59
shaunohaving such a cluttered 'offer' really isn't their style.  it really feels like this is just a transition until they can make retina cost-effective enough to warrant killing the non-retina models21:00
diddledanthey've got a proliferation of imac too21:01
diddledan21inch 27inch and 27inch 5k21:02
shaunothat's almost exactly the same issue though?  they can't kill the 27" until they can get the cost down on the 5k21:02
diddledanaye21:02
zmoylan-pii did see a cat pull disgusted face after she stuck her face in a bag she thought was groceries but was in fact used to contain used nappies21:03
shaunoI think they need to cull one of the ipads too, and just go back to having "the big one" and "the little one" in each category21:03
* m0nkey_ wont be buying another Mac21:03
* m0nkey_ will buy a motherboard (http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157504) next week21:05
shaunoheh, newegg are one of the few thing I miss about the US21:08
shaunonewegg, me ma, and not needing a drivers licence because there's only two cops in town - one's on a bicycle, and the other was on my bowling team21:09
diddledanlol21:09
diddledanooh, just found a bar o chocolate I didn't know I had21:13
m0nkey_Anyone know how to get Ubuntu or even Fedora to boot solo on the latest MBA firmware? I don't get bootwait anymore, just a flashing question mark.21:13
diddledanm0nkey_: bios mode or efi?21:23
diddledanboth similar but vary slightly21:23
diddledanyou need to boot into the recovery and run bless21:23
daftykinsyou guys had a giggle at Apple's latest excretion? :P21:24
daftykinshttp://www.apple.com/macbook/21:24
shaunokinda .. I sat and stared at the numbers until I convinced myself that I didn't really want one21:24
daftykinsthe numbers aren't even as far as i feel you need to get, to see it's terrible :D21:25
diddledanI'm not sure it's "terrible"21:25
shaunoit looks pretty sweet for travelling21:26
diddledanaye21:26
shaunobut the price just isn't where I want to see a second machine21:26
diddledan2lbs is light enough I'd forget I've got it21:26
daftykinsbut the connectivity O_O21:29
daftykinspretty much denies travel :D21:29
daftykinsoops almost denise'd21:29
diddledano_O21:29
shaunohow so?21:29
diddledanreally? when I'm travelling I don't tend to connect much to it21:29
shaunoI like to hook mine up to the hotel TV so I can watch movies instead of the three news channels they have in english21:30
diddledanI only connect things when I'm stationary at which point a docking station would be fine21:30
shaunothis one would need a hdmi adaptor just as my last 2 have21:30
daftykinsi think it's a very niche device for the rich :)21:30
shaunoI think it's going to replace the macbook air21:30
diddledanditto21:31
shaunonot yet, obviously.  but I think when the dust settles we'll have a macbook and a macbook pro.  with a clear difference between them21:31
shaunojust like we used to before they turned the macbook into a jr-pro, and the lowest pro into a pro-jr, and then went sideways with the air, and split everything up into retina & non-retina ...21:31
daftykinshaha21:33
shauno(niche is what they said about the air too, and the buggers are everywhere now)21:33
daftykinssounds like sport talk :D21:33
m0nkey_diddledan, how'd I get the thing into bios mode?21:33
diddledanm0nkey_: by having a non-efi operating system installed21:34
diddledanm0nkey_: it's all part of the firmware - when you install windows, e.g., it adds an mbr which the efi will boot using bios mode when you select to boot windows21:35
diddledanfor linux that means having an mbr with grub installed into it21:36
diddledani.e. install grub to /dev/sda NOT /dev/sda121:36
diddledanor 2 or 321:36
daftykinsi'd been confused about that, because obviously you've got bootcamp to wizard mode boot your Windows media, but how do you instruct it to legacy boot a Linux from flash drive?21:37
diddledandaftykins: hold option/alt21:37
shaunomost of them won't legacy-boot from a flashdrive.  it's annoying as all family-friendly21:38
diddledanI don't know much about that21:38
diddledannever needed to worry21:38
diddledanit's always done what I've needed21:39
shaunoall 3 I've had, would only legacy-boot from an internal drive21:39
diddledanyeah, I haven't had that issue21:39
shaunowhich was fine until I ripped my dvdrom out and shoved it in a usb chassis :)21:39
m0nkey_I wouldn't mind continue to run OSX, but 10.10 is so god damn awful.21:39
daftykinswhen i've seen it, it only lists a flash drive as EFI boot21:40
diddledanshauno: are you sure it's not just usb cd/dvd drives yours don't like booting from21:40
daftykinsm0nkey_: how is it any different? :)21:40
diddledanshauno: mine boots fine from the apple usb dvd drive21:40
shaunoit won't boot from usb flash either21:40
shaunoit's an air?21:41
diddledannope21:41
diddledanmbp21:41
shaunohm.  I wonder what they've done different with that drive then21:41
diddledannothing - mine also boots fine from usb-hdd21:41
shaunoodd.  mine (and the last 2) won't boot non-efi from usb-anything21:42
daftykinsnah there's definitely some generational differences21:42
shaunojust firewire & internal21:42
diddledanyeah, the fact you're talking firewire dates your machines to "ancient" territory21:42
shaunolol, tjhis one's 2011.  it's not ancient yet :)21:43
daftykinsXD21:43
diddledan:-p21:43
shauno(and until thunderbolt externals get a whole lot cheaper, you ain't taking my firewire off me)21:43
diddledanusb321:44
shaunossd in a fw800 external is just loverly21:44
daftykinsi think thunderbolt is in danger of late21:44
shaunoI don't actually want usb3.  it's everything that was wrong with usb2, but driven faster.21:44
daftykinsit was fine and dandy when it was new and not really challenged, but... not so much now21:44
daftykinswhat about 3.1? :)21:45
shaunois it physically possible to do its rated speed yet?21:45
daftykinswhat was your idea about 3.0?21:45
daftykinsi only have a couple of cheap as chips flash drives and one 1.5TB USB 3.0 external21:46
shaunousb2 cannot do 480mbit.  usb3 cannot do 5gbit.21:46
daftykinsso i haven't really been able to see it strained in any way21:46
daftykinspretty sure they do when MAC layer is factored in21:46
daftykinsi can't 100% claim i've seen numbers proving it though21:47
shaunousb3 vs tb is going to end up exactly the same as usb2 vs firewire I think21:53
shaunothe technically superior protocol loses because it uses horrifically expensive chipsets, so the devices never arrive21:53
diddledanvhs vs betamax21:54
daftykinssounds about right21:54
shaunofw blew the pants off usb2 (even fw400), but I pay about 70-80e extra to find an external caddy that has it21:55
diddledanI like the idea of hotplug pci exposed to the outside - though it causes issues with firmware exploits tho21:55
daftykinsnow i don't mean to defend USB here, because i've always found it pretty pants. i liked PS/2 for my keyboard and mouse just fine ;)21:55
diddledanusb wants to be the answer to everything21:55
daftykinsyeah this addition of power and video was kinda odd to say the least21:56
daftykinsaudio as well? can't remember21:56
Myrttizoink. 17K.22:00
shaunohaving power going both ways is quite surprising.  although I thought they should have done that with tb too, then the monitor would be an all-in-one dock22:00
shaunothat's another thing firewire should have won at.  it's rated to 60 watts, so none of these silly 'charger protocols'22:03
shaunooh well.  I still haven't given up waiting for ip-over-thunderbolt to arrive in freebsd :)22:04
daftykinsXD22:07
daftykinsi still remember getting a long firewire cable to try networking over it, only to discover it didn't support it :(22:07
shauno:(22:07
shaunoI just like the sound of freenas with a 10gbit connect to my laptop22:08
diddledan:-o22:08
diddledanthat sounds scaryfast22:08
diddledanecho22:37
zmoylan-piquack22:39
diddledanis anybody out theeeerrrreeeee22:39
diddledanknock once for yes, three times for no22:40
diddledanwell obviously there's someone there else they'd have knocked three times22:41
awilkinsThunderbolt cables :22:43
awilkinsHorribly expensive because they need special chips in them!22:43
* awilkins is responding to stuff from half an hour ago22:44
zmoylan-pimakes it harder for chinese to make cheap knockoff copies22:45
diddledanwhich, on the one hand means more money in the pockets of the licensors, and on the other guarantees compatibility22:46
awilkinsIt's almost like the horrible nightmare where the audiophiles are right - you DO need a special cable22:46
diddledanyeah, but these aren't the bots you're looking for22:46
zmoylan-pimade of gold chips and gold wire in a cheap non conductive plastic sheath.22:46
shaunolol, we were just talking about that earlier.  I've moved to digital connects for everything so I can just buy amazonbasics cables and laugh at the audiophiles :)22:47
zmoylan-pii plug my sennheiser headphones into a phone cheaper than the headset :-)22:49
shaunoI was laughing at this with dan earlier .. http://www.box-designs.com/main.php?prod=streamboxrs&cat=source&lang=en22:51
shaunoit's basically a e1500 mp3 player22:51
shaunothat's what I'm busy turning an rpi into.  except in my version, the most expensive part will be a sexy chassis to house it in22:52
diddledanby sexy he means it's a naked woman22:55
m0nkey_sounds uncomfortable22:55
Myrttiow.23:05
Myrttiand hrmph23:05
daftykinsMyrtti: do you come with a legend that describes what each sound means? :D23:23
zmoylan-piow is either finding a d4 or lego piece on the floor while barefoot...23:24
mappim gonna have to rob someone to live at dads23:26
diddledano_O23:26
mapp£48000 average rent23:26
mappi cant afford that23:26
mappnever23:26
diddledan28K?!23:26
diddledanerr 48K?!23:27
mappa year yes23:27
diddledanthat's more than I get for working a year23:27
mappthe rent is £450023:27
mappat my dads23:27
diddledanouch23:27
mappa month23:27
diddledanjaybus!23:27
mappEnismore Mews23:27
mappnuce area23:28
mappbut still;p23:28
diddledanmust be paved with gold at that price!23:28
mappsi23:28
diddledantis redunkulous23:28
mappmy dad owns it23:28
mappso he's ok23:28
mappbut £4500 a month is lol23:29
mappwho can pay that23:29
diddledancan't he let you stay for free?23:29
diddledanor at least mate's rates23:29
daftykinsmapp: what happened with the browsers on your Lenovo with the superfish check? :>23:29
mappdiddledan23:29
mappwwe arent friends23:29
mappi go home briefly23:30
diddledanoh :-(23:30
mappmy dad can drop dead for  all i care23:30
daftykinsD:23:31
mapp;]23:32
mappfunny old world23:33
mappGU21 -> P0 0> ST1 - GIB23:33
mapp:D23:34
diddledanorange except for tuesdays23:34
ali1234http://track.royalmail.com <- what if you go to this URL?23:34
ali1234something weird happens on my computer...23:35
mappi figure23:35
diddledanyeah they're forwarding to a url without the : between https and //23:35
ali1234right23:35
mappil probably die from drnking or smoking23:35
ali1234in chrome i end up at http://https//www.royalmail.com/track-your-item/23:35
diddledansafari just says no23:35
ali1234and in firefox i end up at http://www.homeimprovement.com/www.royalmail.com/track-your-item/23:36
diddledanfun23:36
mappprobably23:36
mapp:)23:36
ali1234the former gives an error, the latter just makes no sense at all23:36
shaunoI end up at 'https'23:36
diddledanopera says no, also23:37
mapp cant say   smeone forced me to drink frced me to drink23:37
mappbg guy think i know it all23:37
mappbut i dont:D23:37
diddledanchrome says no, also. so it's just firefox that weirdness happens23:37
* diddledan tries IE just for **its and giggles23:38
shaunoah, I'm getting the same thing on everything because they're all handed off to the same proxy, and it returns the error page23:38
ali1234it actually sends Location: http://https://www.royalmail.com/track-your-item/23:38
diddledaneww23:39
ali1234which in firefox lands me at the homeimprovement.com23:39
daftykinswith Tim the Toolman Taylor?23:39
daftykins:D23:39
diddledanIE8 gives a failure23:39
ali1234http://https://example.com/test23:39
ali1234also goes to homeimprovement.com23:40
intrbizali1234: if you look in firebug, Firefox connects to https.com which redirects to homeimprovement23:40
diddledanspecifically the browserstack proxy gives a failure23:40
ali1234intrbiz: i see... well, that's a bit silly isn't it?23:40
diddledanyeah, that's old style helpfulness23:40
intrbizali1234: yes and no, certainly for a Location header it should error as a malformed URL23:41
diddledantime was that people would type "yahoo" and expect it to go to "yahoo.com" so browsers made bareword names cycle a list of common tlds23:41
intrbizali1234: but the adress bar itself does lots of weird autodetetion shit these days :(23:41
diddledanintrbiz: indeed, as it's a result from a server it shouldn't do helpful tidying23:41
ali1234yeah, this is a URL i clicked on though23:42
intrbizhowever the royal mail should also send a valid Location header23:42
mappm dad aslays ays il endup in croyfo23:42
diddledanali1234: issue tracker all the things23:42
mappif nt careful23:42
diddledancroydon?23:43
shaunoyou've been awake 6 hours and you can't type?  dude.23:43
intrbizeven wget tries to resolve 'https' as a host :( sigh23:43
mappyea sorry23:43
ali1234it isn't fooled by the redirect thouhg23:43
mappdiddledan23:43
ali1234Resolving https (https)... failed: No address associated with hostname.23:43
mappcroydn23:44
intrbizali1234: no, but it is still attempting it, which it should not23:44
ali1234also xdg-open is broken on my computer23:44
ali1234it just opens google23:44
ali1234guess i'll bug report that too23:44
mappcroydon aint bad23:44
daftykinsis croydon some kinda 'failure' label?23:44
shaunowhy shouldn't it try to resolve https if that's what it's requested to do?23:44
mappgot a bed rep23:44
daftykinsi don't know England23:44
mappyes23:45
intrbizI suspect that the browsers are in a rock and a hard place, often servers violate the HTTP spec and send relative Location headers23:45
ali1234except this means i can't report bugs because when it opens the browser on the launchpad page... i just get google23:45
mappdaftykins23:45
ali1234http://https:1000//foo is a valid URL23:45
mappcroydons a dump really23:45
ali1234but https != https.com23:45
diddledanali1234: perhaps you should file a bug on the inability to file bugs?23:45
ali1234i'm trying to23:46
shaunoright, https.com is your browser trying to be clever.  wget trying to resolve 'https' is just doing what it says on the can23:46
mappbut its where people live to pretend theoir surrey/london23:46
daftykinsmapp: ah23:46
shaunojust saying I can't fault wget for doing as its told there.23:46
diddledanyeah, I get why launchpad tries to get people to use the ubuntu-bug programme but it should still let you file one without it23:46
diddledanthat's IMO23:46
mappi hate croydon23:46
ali1234shauno: yep, agreed23:47
mapprom E&C maybe 20mins away23:47
shauno(lets face it, if it tried to hold your hand when you gave it a stupid request, you'd end up at https.com again  lol)23:48
diddledanE&C. Emergency & Cateracts?23:48
intrbizali1234: http://https://xyz however is not valid23:48
mapplol diddledan23:48
ali1234is it not?23:48
mappelephan and castle23:48
ali1234http://@example.com/ is valid, no?23:48
intrbizali1234: no port number provided, but separator given23:48
diddledanaah23:48
mappbest part of london:D23:48
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mappbest part of london23:49
mapplived oppsoite MOS FOR 6 YEArs23:49
daftykinsministry of sound?23:50
mappim from surrey lived in e &c  and i lov3d it]id=23:50
shaunometal-oxide semiconductor, silly23:50
mappid never leave se123:50
diddledanshauno: bingo!23:51
diddledanshauno: I mean close, isn't the S for sillycone?23:51
shaunono23:51
intrbizali1234: http://@example.com is also not valid, something before the @ is required23:51
ali1234fair enough23:51
shaunosilicon is an element, not a metal oxide23:52
intrbizhttp://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/url-spec.txt - page 12 for the BNF23:52
diddledanshauno: yes, but the metal oxide is in addition to silicon23:52
diddledanshauno: otherwise you wouldn't have MOSFET23:52
shaunoright, it's what they dope the silicon with.  but the result is still a metal-oxide semiconductor :)23:53
diddledanbut wiki tells me you're right23:53
diddledanall hail the wiki23:53
diddledanthe wiki hath spake23:53
ali1234i actually looked that up the other day. the "T" stands for transistor23:53
ali1234(what i was checking)23:53
shaunowhich is why we say 'a mosfet' :)23:54
intrbizField Effect Transistor23:54
diddledanali1234: field effect transister23:54
ali1234indeed23:54
shaunobut I'm not sure it' a good excuse to get all sheldon on people who call it a mosfet tranny23:54
shaunodiddledan: don't.23:54
diddledanit's got three legs, so surely that counts?23:55
diddledanand speaking of browser weirdness - chrome asks me whether I meant to go to "http://mosfet/" instead of googling23:57
shaunohah, you know I was saying I suspected that was coming from China rather than Birmingham?23:58
shaunomarked as shipped at 23:1523:58
diddledanerr23:59
diddledanyeah, that ain't in blighty23:59

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