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daftykinsbeware: i've had a case of the dumbs this evening00:00
shaunogreen's recycling, brown is compostable00:00
daftykinsah00:00
shaunooh it took me a while to figure out too00:00
shaunowhen I left the UK, we'd only just started getting a wee recycling crate to shove out with the bin00:00
shaunonow I get here and everyone has 3 wheelie bins00:00
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daftykinsO_O00:11
daftykinswhere did you hail from in Blighty?00:11
shaunoeverywhere :)00:12
shaunoI was in the north-west last00:12
shaunoand scotland before that, and weymouth before that, and oxford before that ..00:13
daftykinscrikey!00:13
daftykinsi'm not sure i could cope with that much movement00:14
daftykinsi get lost sitting in the other armchair ;)00:14
shaunoI can't get used to staying still :)00:18
shaunoI've been in Ireland 8 years now, and it feels a few years longer than I oughta00:19
daftykinshehe00:23
daftykinsjust the other day my main client was telling me Japan was practically the only place he'd worked that he could've stayed permanently00:24
daftykinsthese fancy jet setters ;)00:24
shaunoheh, haven't been that far.  the states felt alien enough00:26
shaunoalthough I'm working on Slovakia next.  that should be some shock00:27
daftykinsooh-err, i think my friend from Uni who comes from Greece lives there nowadays00:28
daftykinsescaped before the economy did its' thing00:29
shaunoheh, smart move00:29
shaunoI managed to show up for this one just as it started falling over.  fantastic timing00:29
daftykinssurely the Irish change thing hasn't been brewing for your whole 8 year stint?00:30
shaunonot far off.  I got here in 2006, and it all fell over in 200800:31
daftykinsi was in Uni then :)00:33
shaunocurious, did you stay on the Island for uni too?00:35
daftykinsthere aren't any nah, we have to go abroad00:35
daftykinswhere hilariously we pay the rates of international students :)00:35
shaunoah00:35
shaunoI've no idea if that's a good thing or not :)00:36
daftykinswell, if we take the case of when i was there, tuition fees were probably £1,500 for a true Brit? something like that anyway00:36
daftykinsfor us, despite carrying a British passport, £7,500+00:36
daftykins(per year)00:37
daftykinsso our government has to subsidise students00:37
shaunoouch00:37
daftykinsin some cases, like an ex of mine, they get housed with the asian students in the foreign halls \o/00:37
daftykins(that was up in Reading)00:37
daftykinssome people were trying to get a local Uni off the ground recently but it totally flopped00:38
shaunoI'd think living with the foreigners would be more fun?00:40
shaunoI accidentally ended up with a bunch of erasmus students here for a year, and it was a riot00:40
daftykins:D00:40
daftykinsoh they're cool, i did that in my final year. had two french lasses and two german lasses living in my place00:41
daftykinsbut the asian ones group together as apparently they don't learn spoken English so much00:41
shaunonot always a good thing.  I remember once meeting them coming home from town, as I was walking to work00:41
daftykinsso it's very much us-versus-them00:41
daftykinshahaha00:41
daftykinsthat good a night O_O00:41
daftykinswhy is there a person in #ubuntu trying to get a 56k modem working O_O00:42
shaunointernal or external?00:42
shaunoI don't think much has really changed there.  the instructions from 20 years ago still hold true.  get one that uses a serial cable.00:43
daftykinsno clue there00:43
daftykins:D i recall my little blue Lasat00:44
shaunowell there's tonight's pointless project.  I've got mpd playing all my old chiptunes :)00:45
daftykinsthis one is apparently trying to set up a Sega Dreamcast dial in server00:46
shaunoahhh00:47
daftykins< Dan123_> Can anyone help me install/configure kernel-source so i can build the conexant00:48
daftykins                 dgcmodem driver modules?00:48
shaunohm, it doesn't seem too easy to divorce the dreamcast from its modem :/00:52
shaunoon the amiga we do this without the modems, just stick ppp on each end of a serial cable00:53
shaunohis isn't going to be much different, except he has a softmodem.  and I doubt support for those has really improved in the 15-20 years since people stopped using them00:53
shaunoit is, and always has been, "go to linmodems.org and don't come back" :(00:54
daftykinsin this case a remark about the level of support from #ubuntu was uttered before leaving00:55
daftykinsi do so enjoy the entitled :D00:55
shaunoheh00:56
shaunofrom a quick google, the concensus seems to be "why?!".  none of the online services for it have lasted this long00:57
daftykinsi remember someone in another channel posting a site that has an own-version service alternative00:59
directhexshauno: it's totally easy. the modem unplugs. it's just the ethernet replacement is super rare00:59
daftykinsbut yeah sadly that's my main thought too, 'just why!?'00:59
directhexhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcast_Broadband_Adapter_and_Modem_Adapter#Broadband_Adapter01:00
shaunowell, for some things it can be neat.  eg, for the amiga, just being able to reach aminet and/or an ftp server is a godsend01:00
shaunobut with a console, if the game servers are gone, they're gone01:00
shaunodaftykins: okay, my turn for "what are they thinking?".  someone saying node is too basic, and written a replacement, with git&ssh integration, in node.js ...01:52
daftykinsthat flies over me i'm afraid, i'm no dev type so i've only seen the name 'node.js' but don't know what it is or does01:54
shaunoit was javascript server-side01:55
shaunoand then people started writing standalone apps in it01:55
daftykinsah ok01:56
daftykinsah, another night of failing to sleep early :D01:57
safiyyahHi guys, is anyone up? I am trying to make a start up disk with an iso image but it's for windows not ubuntu. I tried the startup disk creator and apparently that is only for ubuntu files.01:59
safiyyahI also tried isomaster, can't figure out how to actually get the image on the USB stick01:59
m0nkey_unetbootin01:59
m0nkey_you can use a window ISO and write to USB01:59
safiyyahm0nkey_,  That is what I thought but it refuses to accept it, once I select the file it acts like nothing was selected02:00
safiyyahm0nkey_, I am installing your suggested app02:01
safiyyahjust a sec02:01
daftykinsi heard you have to cheat unetbootin by some means, probably some guides online02:04
daftykinsbut safiyyah, why Windows :P02:04
creppleI've seen this mentioned in other channels http://en.congelli.eu/prog_info_winusb.html but never used it02:05
safiyyah_m0nkey_,  thank you! am good, got it going!02:07
creppleSee that's all I do - hang around on IRC soaking up trivia :)02:07
safiyyah_crepple,  lol02:07
daftykinsit's never the right kind to win at the pub quiz, though :(02:08
shaunowe'd make a really, really unpopular pub quiz02:08
safiyyah_night all, be back if I get stuck again :)02:08
daftykinssafiyyah_: go to sleep you have to do the school run! :P02:08
m0nkey_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgeYScYe8wI02:09
m0nkey_^-- how to play chess properly02:09
creppleI have to sleep - I should have hours ago really (in the UK)02:09
safiyyah_daftykins, inset day tomorrow, they are off but am working from 8:30am02:09
daftykinscrepple: same!02:09
daftykinssafiyyah_: yeouch!02:09
daftykinsg'night everyone \o02:09
creppleNight02:10
m0nkey_Can somebody wire me $300 CAD?02:14
shaunowhy fore?02:15
m0nkey_Need to pony up the cash to get a CPU02:15
m0nkey_I also need a trip down memory lane02:26
m0nkey_Trying to track down a Red Hat Linux 2.0 ISO02:26
m0nkey_Not RHEL02:26
shaunoooh ouch02:27
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mapphey night people05:36
mappsup05:36
mappwhy m0nkey_|away05:37
* zmoylan-pi is pondering where to view the eclipse from...05:52
mappdid you watch ep3 diddledan06:02
mappim gonna go to sleep after ep3 of csi cyber06:02
mappmabe during..;D06:02
MooDoomorning all08:00
MooDoomorning all08:01
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DJonesMorning..Or maybe goodnight, if it goes dark, that tells me its bedtime08:58
MooDoostill a while to go yes, well 20 mins if you're here where i am09:04
DJonesSeems to be about 1/3 gone here in Wigan09:06
foobarryreally?09:14
foobarryjust clouds here09:14
MooDoohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty9SIeWiOx8 this is from a telescope ontop of a building at the uni in nottingham09:15
foobarryoooh red09:19
foobarryalso the stream of comments on the right hand side are verbal diarrhoea09:20
directhexinternet comments, tbh09:21
MooDooyeah not reading the comments09:22
foobarryits just raw sewage09:22
MyrttiI'm just watching BBC.09:24
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knightwisestupid eclips hipe09:28
davmor2Morning all, you bunch of technohippies, common on sing the song.....Freeeeeeeee ee your or  computer </free_nelson_mandela_spoof_song>09:28
TwistedLucidityDark out, innit?09:29
davmor2nope nice and blue09:29
TwistedLucidityfoobarry: Since when did YouTube have that "chat" muck? Filled with dross, so it is.09:31
TwistedLuciditydavmor2: Bit dark here, think the sun is burnt out. Wake up sheeple! We need to restart the sun!09:31
foobarryprobably just for live stream TwistedLucidity09:33
foobarrymy wife expecting me to be excited about the eclipse09:33
foobarrybut really its rather dull09:33
ali1234that was boring09:33
ali1234it didn't even get dark09:33
foobarryits really gloomy here09:34
foobarryall the office lights are off and it feels like 4pm in december09:34
TwistedLucidityVery dull here. Last one I saw was a full eclipse - that was nifty.09:34
foobarrywe do have complete cloud cover too though09:34
TwistedLucidityMaybe a project I should do one day is make an eclipse viewer-wotsit down the Hackspace.09:35
popeyfor that "once in a lifetime" opportunity09:35
foobarrysome dudes in astro dept have solar telescopes09:35
foobarrythe office idiot just came in09:38
shaunowatching the sun on the internet so I don't have to go outside, may just define who I've become09:39
foobarry"waited outside to see the eclipse but didn't see anything". we have 100% low cloud cover you tool09:39
TwistedLuciditypopey: Well...travelling North would have made it the second total eclipse I'd have seen. And making stuff is fun. Also, gets me out of the house which means dodging chores. :-)09:43
creppleWe saw a small change over in the West but no as much as I'd be impressed by09:46
brobostigonmorning boys and girls.09:47
popeyhello09:47
creppleMorning09:49
directhexis it? blurg09:50
foobarrydon't put talking toys in your daughters cot if you don't want to be woken at 4am by neep shouting NEEEP NEEEP when she rolls over09:51
bashrc_morning sun worshippers09:52
directhexfoobarry: i like abney & teal09:53
foobarryits in my top3 of contemporary progrs09:53
foobarryshaun the sheep too09:53
directhexit "feels" french to me. it's not, it's made by the tellytubbies people. but it just feels relaxing & french09:54
directhextheir island reminds me of central lyon. i don't know why09:54
awilkinsTalking toys are all evil at any time of day09:54
directhexawilkins: my boy has a talking sarah. and a talking duck.09:55
directhexwell, quacking09:55
foobarryits victoria park09:56
directhexis it? huh09:56
foobarryewart stated in 2011 that the characters were all original constructs, designed in his sketchbooks, and the inspiration for the setting came from a visit to Victoria Park in East London09:56
directhexthere's inflatable walruses in victoria park?09:56
foobarrytea drinking ones yes09:57
foobarryi recognised it from teh first episode i saw, and was looking for my office09:57
directhexthere are good & bad shows on cbeebies. i like abney & teal09:57
directhexand octonauts is mostly acceptable - it's much better when they're being sarcastic09:57
foobarryaltohugh the backdrop is not real09:57
foobarryi've read the octonauts books09:57
directhexmostly our small person watches octonauts & sarah&duck. that's it09:59
DJonesWhy is there an idiot stood leaning against my office door telling me they've got blurred vision after spending 10 minutes looking at the eclipse with no protective glasses....Doh!09:59
MooDoolol09:59
MooDoophew i'm not the only one then who everyone has a orange blob of a head then09:59
TwistedLucidityLooking at an eclipse is not clever...10:00
diplodirecthex / foobarry : Octonauts were great, unfortunately my kids are growing up and seem to enjoy the more violent kids stuff now10:00
TwistedLucidity"Looking directly at..."10:00
TwistedLuciditydiplo: As it ever was. Cite: Tom&Jerry, Roadrunner etc10:01
diploheh yep, they actually like T&J, but they're too old for Chuggington and the likes unless they are distracted.10:02
foobarrythomas the tank engine?10:04
foobarryold ones are ok, new ones are too CGI10:05
foobarrysame for postman pat, fireman sam , etc10:05
foobarrybagpuss is jsut brilliant and we all still watch it10:05
bashrc_the clangers10:06
creppleThat's the trouble the CGI effort are starting to look patterned - almost like boilerplate - makes you appreciate the old artists more I think10:06
directhexmmmmm10:08
directhexhere's the thing. old shows had terrible pacing10:08
directhexthe new fireman sam looks awful, but not all modern kids' cgi does10:08
directhexand the modern shows are better paced10:08
foobarryi like the pacing of old shows10:08
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foobarrymr benn, bagpuss, button moon10:08
popeypfff, new people have crappy attention span10:08
directhexfoobarry: you don't have the attention of a 2 year old10:08
foobarryso my kids still mianly watch slow paced stuff10:09
foobarryso thats all they know10:09
crepplefoobarry i like the pacing of old shows +110:09
foobarryshaun the sheep is the exception, but there's no words so its more old fashioned slapstick10:09
foobarrywe watch old fireman sam on youtube rather than new ones10:09
foobarrybut bagpuss is the perfect pacing i feel for a kids prog. if it feels like reading a book, then thats about right10:10
creppleOld kids shows used to be made with adult viewers in mind - that was a better idea10:10
creppleBecause then parents would watch with their kids10:10
foobarryalso night garden which is designed to send kids to bed , not hype them up10:10
creppleThere's value in that10:10
* awilkins treads on a Tombliboo10:11
popeyI have one of these to build this weekend https://learn.adafruit.com/tv-b-gone-kit/overview10:11
awilkinsHeheheheh10:11
foobarryheh10:11
foobarryi would do that in my dentist surgery. you are strssed and they are playing jerry springer type programmes10:11
popeysophie said "can I take that to nana's house to annoy grandpa while he's watching telly?"10:12
popey"sure you can"10:12
popeyI might have to tell her about the time grandpa threw wifey up the stairs when she kept turning over to the dukes of hazzard while he was watching footie scores.10:13
MyrttiI've got an Adafruit Flora waiting for my hat to be done. Doing the sunblock reminder hat I got the parts for in August10:13
Myrttiright now I'm spinning more yarn for finishing the hat10:13
foobarrymy wife is spinning angora to make a fluffly rabbit :-|10:14
foobarryangora that came from a rabbit...10:14
Myrttia bit morbid, innit10:14
MyrttiI'm just spinning ramie. Recon it'll make a nice summer hat.10:15
foobarryi guess the rabiit lives10:17
foobarryits very soft wool10:17
popeyAgrajag!10:18
Myrttithey pluck the hair out though.10:18
MyrttiI strongly dislike angora10:18
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JamesTaitGood morning all; happy Friday, and happy International Day of Happiness! :-D10:21
foobarryyay10:22
JamesTaithttp://www.un.org/en/events/happinessday/10:22
diploYou bought one of those popey ?10:22
popeydiplo: ya10:24
popeyalso, today i learned, Deep Thought had an apple logo in the film of HHGTTG http://www.eeggs.com/images/items/1561.full.jpg10:24
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diploLooks fun, may have to get one myself10:25
popeyi didnt buy from10:26
popey*them10:26
popeyhttp://nottinghack.org.uk/?p=119910:27
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awilkinsDouglas was a lifelong Apple fan10:29
awilkinsWas the first person to buy a Mac in the UK, allegedly10:30
diploWalk into Currys and switch all the TV's off \o/10:32
foobarryno redhat openssl update yet?10:34
popeytsk tsk10:36
foobarryIssues concerning OpenSSL 1.0.2 present the most serious problems fixed by the new releases. No Red Hat product uses this version of OpenSSL. Consequently, they are all labelled as not affected in the tables below.10:39
davmor2diplo: I used to change the channel on the tv in the windows with the RC/calculator watch you could buy ages ago :D10:39
foobarryi thought they backported fixes from later versions10:40
directhexfoobarry: the big problems were in new features in 1.0.210:40
foobarryyep10:40
directhexthey backport fixes, mostly not features10:40
foobarrysometimes the fixes have bugs :)10:41
directhextrue10:42
diplodavmor2: My phone has a RC app for TV's / Sky boxes10:47
DJonesdiplo: There's a simlar app on my phone, I've still not found a tv it actually works with though11:45
zmoylan-piyou could crazy as it sounds put the phone down and you know pick up the tv remote? :-)11:46
diploHelps when you've lost the remote, works with TV and sky on mine DJones11:47
zmoylan-piwell if you're going to lose the remote...11:47
DJoneszmoylan-pi: Don't be silly, I get up and walk over to the tv & fiddle around trying to find the hidden buttons11:47
zmoylan-pinah you point the laser at the buttons and the cat hits the buttons for you.  great entertainment :-)11:48
DJonesI'm sure I remember my dad having a video recorder that had a remote control connected via wire11:49
foobarryyep11:50
foobarrymy mate had one11:50
foobarrytop loader vhs11:50
DJonesThat sounds about right11:50
foobarryused to watch star wars on it every week11:51
zmoylan-pithose top loading vhs are still around.  built like tanks11:51
DJonesWith big clicky switches on the front11:51
zmoylan-pistill trying to work out how to recycle them.  along with the nokia 3310s :-)11:51
diplozmoylan-pi: Two young boys, remotes always go missing :D11:51
DJonesProbably looked something like this http://www.digicamhistory.com/JVC_HR-3300angle.jpg11:52
zmoylan-pipocket money depends on a list of devices been where they are supposed to be with batteries intact can help with that :-)11:52
foobarryhttp://s26.photobucket.com/user/wisconsinskies/media/IMG_0491.jpg.html11:53
foobarrymore like this11:53
foobarrynope11:53
foobarrydifferent still11:53
foobarryand always flashing 12:00 on it11:53
zmoylan-pimy ocd prevented that :-D11:53
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bigcalmGood morning peeps :)12:57
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davmor2bigcalm: o/13:05
bigcalmdavmor2: where's my spy camera?13:06
davmor2bigcalm: where did you leave it?13:07
* bigcalm tuts13:07
* bigcalm sends davmor2 to google13:08
davmor2bigcalm: oh look a pretty demo of the eclipse13:09
bigcalmCool13:10
* davmor2 returns from google13:10
foobarrygoign to a model show tomorrow13:13
bigcalmTrains?13:13
foobarrywish there were more oggcamp style things in the scale model commuinity13:13
foobarryall sorts of scale models, not trains tho13:13
bigcalmShame13:14
foobarrymy first show i've attended. they have trade stands and demonstration tables13:14
foobarrybut its like the 21st century never happened with a lot of these guys13:14
foobarryall websites are the MS Word website with blue background13:14
foobarryhttp://www.southernexpo.co.uk/13:15
zmoylan-pido you know how hard it is to get a 1:10 scale cd rom drive to install libre office??13:15
foobarrythey have to call it the friendly show cos a lot of old men in model shops are autistic/grumpy13:16
awilkinsWell, if it's a model just put a MicroSD card in it :-)13:16
foobarrylike IT blokes13:16
foobarryhow do i change java security settings in firefox :S13:21
foobarryoh i fixed it \o/13:24
zmoylan-piyou stopped using java? :-D13:25
foobarryunfortunately its for my EQL san :(13:25
foobarrythe trouble with buying a pack of 4 apples is that if the first one tastes wrong/unpleasant, you know the rest are too13:50
zmoylan-piand when wrapped under plastic you can't sniff the badness either13:55
foobarrythey just aren't very tasty13:55
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Myrttidun dun duuuuunnnn16:07
diddledanfoobarry: looks like they're using ms frontpage to create that site16:08
diddledanfrontpage was abandoned by ms around 2003ish?16:08
diddledanello Myrtti16:08
foobarrymost model sites look like this16:09
foobarryhttp://www.mksmc.co.uk/modelkraft/modelkraft_gen.html16:09
diddledanfoobarry: they're evil16:09
foobarrythere's no end to it16:09
diddledanoh god!16:09
Myrttiramie is nice fibre to spin as the end result is great, but oh my word I'm covered in it...16:09
MyrttiI should dig up my Flora and check it works on my Ubuntu16:10
diploMacromedia Fireworks site foobarry :)16:16
mappsyay16:19
mappsalmost darts time16:19
mapps7pm-11;D16:19
mappsthen all you can eat and drink at chinese place;] 19 euros is a bargain16:20
foobarrydo they kick you out?16:20
mappsi think closes 00;3016:22
mapps10mins from stadium ..just over border16:22
mappsID cards would be handy now;D sucks taking passport16:22
SuperEngineermapps - if they keep sucking your passport you probably have reasonable grounds for complaint16:30
SuperEngineerGetting frustated now; 1/ having trouble fixing printhead prob on old Cannon printer & 2/ [ more importantly] can't get the Epson XP412 to use black ink except for "Print Test page", 3/ I seen seen this discussed somewhere before, can I find it, the heck I can! :(17:00
diddledanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEx5lmbCKtY17:15
diddledanthe kid's arm costs $35017:17
diddledanmucho cheaper than standard artifical limbs17:17
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SuperEngineerAfter a while one stops banging one's head against the wall in frustration; & starts banging one's head on the floor instead!18:38
diddledanSuperEngineer: bad day?18:41
diddledanhttp://www.cnet.com/news/windows-10-pirated-upgrades-will-still-be-considered-pirated/18:42
ali1234wasn't it obvious? they'll let you upgrade to windows 10 but they'll still nag you about having a pirated copy. probably more so since they'll update the detection routines18:44
directhextrying to remember which problems that causes these days18:48
directhexno wallpaper iirc18:48
SuperEngineerdiddledan, nope - quite a good actually.  Imagine what I would have posted if it ^was^ a bad day ;D18:48
ali1234"no wallpaper" is the starter edition18:49
directhexaccording to wikipiddle, it has occasional full-screen nags and disables personalization (e.g. wallpaper, lock screen)18:54
directhexin 818:54
directhex7 is black wallpaper, and hides some OS updates18:55
SuperEngineernom nom time - see y'all later19:02
diddledanergh. that is a terrible idea - a client has commissioned a colleague to write an app which so far seems to be a packaged set of html files, one for each product, which solely link to the website for the product19:50
diddledans/an app/a smartphone app/19:51
diddledanas far as I can tell the app is purely an advertisement. their websites are sufficient for that. they just seem to want an app because "OMGZOR MOBILE APPS"19:53
diddledanI could understand somewhat if they were actually using functionality of the phone, but there doesn't appear to be anything that can only be achieved by having an app19:55
ali1234that's 99.9% of all mobile apps...19:56
diddledanI can understand creating an app with cordova when you need something that you can't access on the web, but when you're creating what is effectively just a website that doesn't do anything non-webby then it seems like a pointless exercise to make it into an app20:02
ali1234diddledan: apple used to reject apps that did that and only that...20:15
ali1234maybe they still do20:15
diddledanI hope they do still do that20:23
diddledanproper mobile apps can be great, but cordova allows people to think or otherwise say they're building an app when they're just doing a website20:24
diddledannot that cordova in itself is bad - I would consider it for any app I build myself due to the ability to utilise my current skillset20:25
diddledanmy opinion is "if you can do it on the web, then you don't need an app"20:27
ali1234sometimes it's nice to have a website offline20:40
ali1234like offline wikipedia for example20:40
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Azelphurlmao, bluevm (VPS host) have completely lost the plot :P20:45
diddledanAzelphur: oh?20:59
Azelphuryup20:59
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Azelphurdiddledan: my dads renting from them, servers been down >34 hours, no response to the ticket for 34 hours, their main control panel for the whole network is down (so no way to control VPS's even if they were up), no response on their IRC channel, twitter, or email.21:00
diddledanoh dear21:00
Azelphuryep, guess they aren't doing well, I told my dad to paypal dispute them, he wants to give them until Monday21:01
AzelphurI'm usually really patient with hosts, because I know it can be real difficult, but yea they are just outright ignoring us lol21:01
diddledanI wonder if you've breached 99% uptime guarantee yet21:02
diddledanmust be pretty close21:02
Azelphuryes, 99% is 7 hours21:02
diddledaneep21:03
AzelphurHonestly dunno what these guys are doing haha, it's like they just took the money and ran :P21:03
ali1234raided?21:03
Azelphurali1234: hahaha, could well e21:03
Azelphurbe*21:03
diddledanI like that on the 2nd of january they posted this: https://bluevm.com/announcements.php?id=721:05
Azelphurhehe21:07
diddledancloudflare says "An Error 522 means that the request was able to connect to your web server, but that the request didn't finish. The most likely cause is that something on your server is hogging resources."21:08
Azelphurhaha21:08
diddledanthat's for their "manage server" page at https://feathur.bluevm.com/21:09
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Azelphurdiddledan: indeed, it means the whole customer base can't access basic things like reboot, shutdown, os reload lol21:10
diddledanobsidian irc?21:11
Azelphuryup, I'm already on there and have pinged all the ops, it seems like all the ops don't even work for the company any more21:11
diddledanthe TOS on obsidian says you're not allowed to harrass people, so that means you can't badger them into responding :-(21:13
Azelphuryea, no point either since none of them actually work for the company21:13
Azelphurmost of them sympathised but as I say, they don't work for BlueVM so21:13
diddledanoh, they're not ignoring you then, just they're not relevant21:14
Azelphurexactly21:14
diddledanhttp://uptime.bluevm.com/21:15
diddledandallas is listed as offline as is the "website" which clearly isn't21:15
Azelphurdiddledan: yea, seems like a useless thing, it says feathur is up when it isn't, my dads server is in Georgia which is supposedly online xD21:15
Azelphuryea, it's pretty silly21:15
diddledanand feathur is listed as online which clearly isn't21:15
diddledanaah you said that already21:15
AzelphurSomething substantial and interesting has to be up anyway, owner running away with the money or getting raided or something :P21:17
diddledanthey last twitted on the 4th (my birthday! :-p)21:19
diddledanoh no, that's a pinned twit. the 12th then21:19
Azelphurlol21:19
diddledanooh, cortana is available on windows10 in the uk now21:35
Azelphurfinally one of their support staff joined IRC and said someone is DDoSing the ticket system21:39
awilkins_So Slashdot says that MS are electing to "allow" OEMs to disable the ability to turn off Secure Boot21:45
awilkins_Yet another nasty attack on Linux21:46
awilkins_Entirely predictable21:46
diddledandoes that mean they'll do so on their own devices I wonder21:47
awilkins_They already did for Windows RT things, didn;t they21:48
awilkins_Signed binaries only21:48
diddledanyeah but that was required by their policy anyway21:48
awilkins_They don't need to have a policy that says "turn off SecureBoot"21:49
awilkins_You know what I mean21:49
diddledanwhat I mean is they followed their requirements that they told other manufacturers21:50
awilkins_They'll just quietly make it be known in OEM license negotiations that there may be certain ... "considerations" for those OEMs that make it much harder for their hardware to boot .. other .. operating systems21:50
awilkins_"Oh, yes, fewer config options make things more reliable - less to misconfigure, less to go wrong - we prefer that kind of device, gives Windows a good name by being more reliable..."21:50
diddledansecureboot as a technology makes sense. what doesn't is that the keys are controled by a commercial entity that competes with compsnies that also want to be able to install software on the same devices21:54
ChloeWolfieGirlUbuntu already had the key needed right, so this doesn't really make a bigger issue then we already have with windows 8 right?21:55
diddledanreally it would serve microsoft to spin-out the keysigning to a not-for-profit so that they can't be dragged through the couts over antitrust regs21:56
diddledanChloeWolfieGirl: yes I heard that too21:56
diddledanredhat also has one iirc21:57
intrbizsurely today's (not unsurprising) news about how little BIOSes can be trusted makes secureboot slightly moot21:58
diddledanintrbiz: link?21:59
diddledanintrbiz: I think the news today is more about devices that do everything in an embedded chip rather than a standard pc-style bios firmware21:59
intrbizhttps://threatpost.com/new-bios-implant-vulnerability-discovery-tool-to-debut-at-cansecwest/11171022:00
intrbizhttps://twitter.com/dragosr22:00
diddledanoh, I hadn't seen that one22:00
intrbizgiven how closely Intel guards the low-level boot and SMM code, it is very difficult to actually trust a machine22:01
diddledanbut bios exploits have been proven for some time now22:01
intrbizSMM can be used to have code running that even the kernel cannot see or control22:01
intrbizwhich can then use SOL to send what ever it likes, where ever22:01
intrbizsure, BIOS malware is nothing new, the stats on how easy it is, is more shocking22:02
intrbizwhilst it is nice, from a security stand point to be able to sign and verify the OS and limit tampering there, which is what secure boot does22:03
intrbizwe still can't forget about the layers lower than that22:03
diddledananything that is writable in some way or another is exploitable, just some things require out-of-band writing22:03
diddledanI discovered, for e.g. that my bricked-bios motherboard has a header that allows me to blow a new bios despite the thing being unable to even power itself up22:05
intrbizindeed, and something obscure, unaudited and rarely updated is a pretty big risk22:05
diddledanyup22:05
intrbizdiddledan: probably a JTAG port or similar22:05
diddledanit's an SPI interface22:06
intrbizeven easier then22:06
intrbizSPI programabler EEPROM22:06
diddledan(ignore my doubling of interface :-p)22:06
intrbizprogramable*22:06
diddledanall I need now is to find a suitable cable22:07
diddledan(and download the firmware off msi.com)22:07
intrbizI beleive that the proof of concept they had for todays talk, was finding PGP keys in memory and then sending them via SOL22:08
diddledanas far as I can tell, with regards to security of a system, anything that occurs in the cpu is exploitable.. so the only way to ensure safety of a system is to prevent things occuring in the cpu, OR have fixed-function hardware whose sole purpose is out-of-band sanity checks on the running cpu22:09
diddledani.e. the oob isn't controlled in any way by the cpu22:09
diddledanand ideally is completely unaddressable from the x8622:09
diddledanone such example I've heard suggested is a device that prevents the cpu from starting-up until it's checked the bios for signatures22:11
intrbizyeh22:11
diddledanthe reason being that the cpu starts the bios immediately on powering up and then the code in the bios checks the bios. because the cpu trusts the bios implicitly then the bios-checking-bios code might be tampered with22:12
diddledanso the principle is that you can flash a new hacked bios which doesn't check itself22:12
diddledanthen you have full-control22:13
intrbizsure, remember their is also microcode in the CPU and chipset22:13
shaunodoesn't that just move the goalposts?  this new chip becomes the target instead of the bios22:13
diddledanshauno: yup22:13
intrbizwell, you'd end up engineering the security chip like the TPMs are22:16
intrbizwith physical anti-tamper mechanisms inside the package and no way to alter the code running, IE; real PROM22:17
diddledanthe problem is if there's ever software running22:17
diddledanthe only real way of ensuring security is to air-gap22:18
diddledani.e. nothing can access anything else ever22:19
intrbizbut if that software cannot be changed and is available to be audited, and simple then it is probably the best that can be acheived22:19
diddledanthat means humans aren't allowed to interact with the thing either22:19
intrbizpeice of paper and dead drops ;)22:19
diddledanand keep it powered down, obviously22:19
diddledaneven hardware that doesn't run software can be exploited - just requires a different sort of engineering22:20
diddledane.g. bombs can be disarmed22:20
diddledanit's obviously always the red wire!22:21
intrbizor the green one22:21
diddledanoh, I hadn't seen that one all the way back there22:21
diddledanwhere's it go?22:21
intrbizyou wouldn't want a colour blind ATO22:21
diddledanlol22:21
diddledanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVPE7I0I7X422:22
intrbizspeed is it not22:22
diddledanbingo22:22
diddledanwith keano reeves and sandra with her bullocks22:23
diddledanu*22:23
diddledankeanu*22:23
diddledanoh I donno how he spells it22:23
intrbiz:)22:24
shaunoof course, once you've actually solved the problem, Stallman starts telling everyone you're evil because your 'by jove we've fixed it!' chip can't be modified.  and you cna't use openboot/seabios/etc because they fail the check22:25
* zmoylan-pi prefers the fr. ted version of speed :-)22:27
diddledanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVmU3iANbgk22:27
intrbizshauno: not quite, to be auditable it would need to be open22:27
zmoylan-piif it ain't open it's not yours22:28
Myrttibah.22:29
* diddledan_ waits fo windows to update 22:32
diddledan_14%22:32
zmoylan-pithis is when you have a rasp pi in your pocket that you power off the usb ports of the windows computer.  just to get work done :-)22:33
diddledan_Lol22:33
diddledan_EDRM22:36
diddledan_Erm **22:36
diddledan_Not sure what my phone did just then22:37
diddledan_  <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">22:37
zmoylan-pibad phone, hit it with a rolled up ebook :-P22:38
diddledan_:-p22:38
diddledan_https://www.dropbox.com/s/rjbjws7uohfhu6p/photo%2020-03-2015%2022%2038%2048.jpg?dl=022:40
diddledan_The new upgrade screen22:40
zmoylan-piyour pc will restart several times.  i don't miss windows22:41
intrbizdiddledan_: drum roll reuiqred?22:42
diddledan_Time to nibble on some cake, while this whirs, methinks22:42
intrbizhmmpf, broke my build22:43
diddledan_What you building?22:43
intrbiza monitoring system22:44
zmoylan-pino more turning off secure boot. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/windows-10-to-make-the-secure-boot-alt-os-lock-out-a-reality/22:44
intrbizjust a misssing dep in my POM22:44
diddledan_Pom?22:45
intrbizProject Object Model, it's Maven's config file, Java build / project tool22:46
diddledan_Aah22:49
intrbizit handles dependency management, building, packaging, etc22:50
intrbizmakes life rather easy22:50
diddledan_Being Java, does that mean it's a maze of evil verbose xml?22:51
shauno( https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition )22:52
ChloeWolfieGirlnot an ubuntu question, but does Sata3 power a HDD or just move data?22:52
intrbizSATA is just the data bus22:53
intrbizSATA drives use a standard connector which has power an data on it22:54
intrbizdiddledan_: urm, it is an XML file, it could be better, could be worse and eclipse puts a nice GUI over it22:54
awilkins_Ah, Maven22:55
awilkins_At least it's not Ant22:55
ChloeWolfieGirlI thought so, but I'm looking at this motherboard and I'm trying to figure out, if the small sata cable doesn't power the HDD how am I suppost to get power to the hdd? (( http://www.gigabyte.com/fileupload/product/2/4965/10511.png ))22:55
awilkins_On a 3.5 drive there;s usually 2 connectors22:56
diddledan_shauno: that is hardly a suitable assignment for a prospective developer during interview unless the interviewer doesn't understand programming themselves22:56
awilkins_You should have some Molex / SATA power cables22:56
intrbizChloeWolfieGirl: there is a 7 pin cable between the motherboard and HDD which is data only, then a power connector from the PSU to the HDD22:57
intrbizawilkins_: Having used Ant in the past, Maven is a massive improvement and does more than just build22:58
awilkins_intrbiz, Oh, definitely22:58
awilkins_Wish everyone used it22:58
* diddledan_ now reads how terrible that implementation is given the "enterprise" requirement -gimme a mo22:59
awilkins_Checking out source code from our VCS is horrible because they check all the libraries in in subfolders *shudder*22:59
awilkins_Really gives me no confidence at all22:59
intrbizawilkins_: Noooooo, SCM is for source, it's in the f***ing name22:59
intrbizawilkins_: a couple of jobs ago we used to do that with SVN, each project had the library jars in it23:00
diddledan_Oh god it hurts!23:00
awilkins_Nexus 4tw23:00
intrbizawilkins_: we quickly started spending more time moving files around than actually coding (it felt that way), Maven fixed that issue easily23:01
intrbizdiddledan_: what hurts?23:01
diddledan_intrbiz: the code in the fizzbuzzenterprise23:02
awilkins_fizzbuzzterprize!23:02
ChloeWolfieGirlI was just looking at Molex to SATA power cables and it looks like they might go into the big long pin connectors next to the sata data ports, Cos I have no idea what they're for, sorry, desktops that I've been around are few and far apart xD23:02
shaunoit's meant to hurt.  that's the whole joke :)23:02
awilkins_What, FizzBuzzTerprise doesn't use Guice for injecting modules in23:03
awilkins_NOt enTERprisEY EnOufh23:03
diddledan_awilkins_: submit a pull request23:04
intrbizquite alot of the IOCCC entries hurt too23:05
intrbizChloeWolfieGirl: if you have a modern (as in last 10 years) PSU it will likely have a couple of sata power connectors on it23:05
diddledan_And windows is done23:06
intrbizChloeWolfieGirl: the SATA data and SATA power connectors sit next to each other, the SATA HDD connector is designed for use with hot swappable backplanes23:06
ChloeWolfieGirlintrbiz yeah its a new one, I don't have it yet, and am trying to work my head around online pictures of it, xD23:07
intrbizChloeWolfieGirl: http://www.allpinouts.org/images/9/9c/Conn_sata.gif23:08
ChloeWolfieGirlI see the power bits on the HDD but I don't see the power bit on the mother board unless I do have to use Molex to Sata power cables.23:10
intrbizChloeWolfieGirl: the power connector on the HDD goes straight to the PSU23:10
diddledan_The power doesn't come from the motherboard the same as other drives23:11
intrbizChloeWolfieGirl: you only need a 4 pin Molex to SATA power for older PSUs which don't have SATA power cables23:11
ChloeWolfieGirlOHHHHHHH23:12
diddledan_Motherboards have never been the source of power for disc drives23:12
intrbizdiddledan_: certainly for consumer kit, not always for servers23:12
diddledan_Good point23:14
ChloeWolfieGirlyeah I don't have my desktop yet, but I have some hard-drives, and was like "Hmm what leashes do I need to get to use these hard-drives?"23:15
diddledan_It does seem odd to me that you need more power pins than data for data discs23:17
diddledan_Sata **23:17
diddledan_Silly autocorrect23:17
intrbizdiddledan_: why does that seem silly?23:19
diddledan_Cos I don't get why you'd need so many23:19
intrbizdiddledan_: quite a few of the pins are ground23:20
diddledan_Why more than one ground?23:20
intrbizdiddledan_: the current that a single pin can handle for those style connectors is fairly low and you need to handle in-rush for hot-plug and spin up currents23:21
intrbizyou have multiple ground lines to reduce interference between the signal pairs23:21
intrbizthe data cable is structured: ground, pair, ground, pair, ground23:21
ChloeWolfieGirlI was once a silly, I opened a sega saturn because the  sega saturn wouldn't detect a disc and spin, so I messed around and eletricuted myself, luckily it wasn't bad but gosh, yeah... shouldn't mess around with electics with no protection and it plugged in23:22
ChloeWolfieGirljust cos we where talking about ground pins23:22
intrbizindeed, you need to be careful when opening anything which has exposed high voltage, open frame PSUs in embded devices you should take care with23:23
diddledan_I get multiple grounds on a data cable, I don't get it for a power cable23:23
shaunothey're just bonded because the pins can't handle the amperage required23:24
shaunoso you ahve 3x3.3V, 3x5V, 3x12V, 3xground23:24
intrbizalso be ware of the capacitor on the high voltage side of a PSU that can take a while to discharge23:24
shaunoso you're not sending more than 1.5A across each pin, despite the power supply and cable being able to (and needing to, if you have enough drives)23:25
intrbizyou need the same wire cross section for ground as you do for the positive voltages, easiest way to do that is with multiple wires23:25
intrbizthe other reason for multiple grounds23:26
intrbizyou will notice that the positive pins and the ground pins on hot swap connectors are different lengths23:26
intrbizthe ground must always mate first23:26
intrbizwhich is why ground lines will be placed on either end of the hot swap connectors23:26
diddledanand back on the desktop23:28
diddledanyeah I understand ground being required to connect first23:29
intrbizhow most PSUs limit in rush current is quite neat23:29
m0nkey_cheers!23:39
* m0nkey_ downs a rum23:39
diddledandrunky m0nkey_23:39
m0nkey_just getting started, so no.. not yet23:40

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