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ali1234same result in safe mode00:01
ali1234known bug reported nearly 2 years ago: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87190800:42
lubotu3`Mozilla bug 871908 in Places "Clearing "browsing and download" history does excessive disc IO (due to huge wal file)" [Normal,New]00:42
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knightwisegood morning everyone05:45
mappsmorning05:45
mappssup05:45
knightwise<hey mapps , its friday , work email box exploding ... so i'm glad its weekend :)05:46
knightwisebut my raspberry pi 2 should arrive today .. thats good ! :)05:47
mapps;D05:47
mappsi cant order one;/05:47
mappswell can but not to here05:47
knightwiserealy ?  Arent you in the UK ?05:48
mappsnah05:49
mappsnot anymore05:49
knightwisewhere did you move to ?05:49
mappsGibraltar05:50
mappsand you cant order anything here05:50
mappsevery time i go on amazon says 'not avaliable to deliver to gib'05:50
mappshad to order my laptop to spain and my friend brought it into work05:50
mappsi ordered a phone to UK asked my dad to send it here..cost him £46!! and took 2 weeks for me to get it05:50
mappsits like very slow and backwards here05:51
knightwisethats crud :(05:52
mappsyea05:52
knightwise If I order my stuff @ amazon in germany it gets here in about 2 days without hassle05:52
mappslike i could send something to anywhere in europe for way less05:52
mappsbut gibraltar isnt europe for post05:52
mappsyet they like to have the benefits of apparently being part of europe due to being a british territory05:53
mappsvery very annoying05:53
mappsyou're stuck with the rubbish stores here05:53
mappsbuy an i3 laptop for the cost of an i705:53
mappsor a 42" tv for the cost of a 50" on amazon05:53
knightwiseCrud05:57
knightwiseWe have all the stupid taxes when we order something from the US05:57
knightwiseits rediculous05:57
knightwiseDamn .. i wish they would get MIR8 working on my Surface Pro06:04
knightwiseI would love it if I could switch between a touch interface and a windowed interface on that device06:04
mappsso youre in germany?06:14
knightwiseBelgium06:19
mappsAHA06:20
mappsbeen there06:20
mapps;D06:20
mappsso you speak dutch06:20
mappsclose to german06:20
mappswhen ive looked at dutch some words are very similar06:20
mappsik hev..ik ben06:20
mapps*heb#06:21
knightwiseI speak Dutch, French German and English06:21
mapps;D06:21
zmoylan-pii speak profanity, swearing with a smidgeon of cursing06:46
knightwiseUniversal languages eh ! :)06:57
zmoylan-piand when a piece of hardware ignores those it's time for the hammer06:59
knightwisegood morning zmoylan-pi07:00
knightwiseWhat apps do you run on your pi except irc ?07:00
zmoylan-pinewsbeuter for rss feeds07:03
zmoylan-pinano for text editing07:03
zmoylan-pia bit of bash07:03
zmoylan-pia bit of perl07:03
knightwiseirssi, newsbeuter, wordgrinder, ttytter, mps-youtube07:03
zmoylan-pia lot easier not to be distracted when there's no gui07:04
zmoylan-pii set up ttytter but stoped using it07:04
knightwisezmoylan-pi: correct07:04
zmoylan-pii might go back to it07:04
knightwiseits also my ssh end point07:04
zmoylan-pii keep meaning to access the pi from outside the home network but my knowledge of keeping it secure is too limited07:05
knightwisegood password policy and only signing in via public/privatekey allowed07:06
zmoylan-piand i also want to upgrade from current pi b to pi 207:06
zmoylan-pithen i could access the pi remotely from dumbphone making it a little smarter :-)07:07
zmoylan-pifull linux terminal with a battery life measured in days07:07
zmoylan-pifroma phone with a full qwerty keyboard07:08
knightwisezmoylan-pi: my rasp2 arrives today07:10
knightwisei'm curious if i can just switch out the sd cards from one to the other07:10
* zmoylan-pi dons a fake mustache and waits outside knightwise's location to intercept delivery...07:10
zmoylan-piwell my pi b uses sd card and pi2 uses microsd so not for me07:11
knightwisezmoylan-pi: Ah Crud ! i'll need to get a new card07:12
zmoylan-pithankfully available at every phone shop for those phones that use them07:13
knightwiseagreed07:15
zmoylan-pithe 4gb sd card that came with the maplins pi starter kit i bought is now down to .9gb free.  so thinking maybe a 16gb card for new pi 207:18
knightwisehmm.. so that will be 16 gig card at list.07:18
knightwiseat least. Agreed07:18
zmoylan-pithen maybe use the pi b with camera module as wildlife camera in garden07:20
knightwiseis it suitable for outdoor use ?07:20
zmoylan-pithere are cases or make a housing07:20
knightwiseps : are the cases on the pi and the pi2 the same ? No right07:20
zmoylan-pipi b only has 2 usb ports, b+ and 2 have 407:21
knightwiseso.. so i'll need to break out the lego07:21
zmoylan-pilike you needed an excuse...07:21
zmoylan-piremember to drop 1-2 pieces to find at 3am when barefoot walking to the loo07:22
* knightwise thinkin he will build a imperial stormtrooper style case07:23
zmoylan-pidoesn't sound secure, those guys are terrible shots.  make a trekkie red shirt case, you know those guys will die to protect it...07:23
knightwisezmoylan-pi: fair point07:24
knightwiseone does not take lightly to stormtroopers being mocked in this house07:24
knightwisehttps://www.flickr.com/photos/knightwise/16337015253/07:25
zmoylan-pithat's why they built the death star, it was easier to hit a planet than an individual person they're such bad shots :-P07:26
knightwisezmoylan-pi: you are not welcome in this house :p07:27
zmoylan-pidid you see the death star bass speaker someone was selling on ebay a few years back.  it was huge. and amongst the comments was of course 'it's huge' 'cut the chatter red 6'07:27
knightwiseLol07:27
knightwiseAh08:40
knightwiseel raspberry pi is here08:40
brobostigonmorning boys and girls.09:30
knightwisehey brobostigon10:08
brobostigonhey knightwise10:11
knightwisehey brobostigon , how are you today10:11
* knightwise just got his pi2 :) 10:11
knightwisething looks like heammoroid medication10:11
zmoylan-pido NOT apply pi2 to haemorroids...10:12
brobostigonnot bad, and you?10:12
knightwiseok , Gotta go out and get me a micro sd card and start building a case for the pi210:13
knightwisei was wondering , you can run Ubuntu mate 15.04 on the pi2 , but is there also a 'regular' ubuntu server for the pi2 ?10:15
brobostigon:)10:31
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* dwatkins wanders in 12:13
dwatkinsDid AlanBell's "building Ubuntu on a cluster of Raspberry Pi machines" project go ok?12:13
penguin42hmm, there's only one cinema around here showing Blade Runner and the choice is between 6pm on Easter Sunday or 8pm on Easter Monday; pretty awful time12:30
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diddledanartanoon14:17
* penguin42 hands diddledan a paint brush14:31
* diddledan pains penguin42 14:31
diddledanpaints*14:31
penguin42hmm14:31
Myrttibought a colouring book \o/14:33
penguin42one of these de-stress trendy ones?14:37
Myrttiyeah14:39
MyrttiI can reuse it as art for my mobile phone case later on14:39
MyrttiI've got one with the clear back, I've got cardboard from Yorkshire Tea pack at the moment. well not the pack, a card they sent me14:39
penguin42hmm, they do good adverts14:43
Myrttioh? I don't watch telly so I wouldn't know. Or read magazines.14:43
penguin42Myrtti: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVjiGWUhHnw14:46
* penguin42 doesn't drink tea14:47
Myrttilittle urn!14:47
penguin42that's actually a longer edit than the version I've seen on TV I think14:47
Myrttinice14:48
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MooDoohowdy all15:42
diddledanmoo15:42
zmoylan-pi*bark*15:45
diddledanzmoylan-pi: you've got to doo a moo for MooDoo15:45
zmoylan-piwould you settle for a harumph?15:46
diddledanyeah, that'll do15:46
MooDoosounds good to me :D15:47
diddledanwhen do we get our chocolate eggs?15:48
diddledanI want one now15:48
penguin42on Tuesday when they go on discount15:49
diddledanlol15:49
zmoylan-pitis still the season of the discount selection box15:50
penguin42thing is I don't care about the shape of my chocolate; so I'm not going to pay more for egg/rabbit shaped chocolate15:59
x85hey15:59
zmoylan-pi            ho16:00
x85i ended up returning the hudl16:02
x85an irritating issue with the battery put me off the device16:06
penguin42it ran out?16:07
x85no despite being plugged into the mains it refused to charge unless turned off16:08
penguin42hmm, yeh that's not good16:09
zmoylan-pisounds brokeny16:10
x85I'm looking for a cheap way to run linux because I'm trying to get away from apple16:10
x85i can manage about 120 cos apple made me poor16:11
penguin42x85: The ~£150 chromebooks/laptops ?16:11
penguin42ah, 120 hmm a bit tight16:11
x85yea16:12
x85i have a pi 2 but that doesn't run unity all too well16:12
zmoylan-pii thought you couldn't install linux on the $150 chromebooks?  and they won't be 150 when they get this side of the pond16:12
penguin42yeh, they'll be at least £15016:13
zmoylan-piand when they get to ireland a chunk more16:13
penguin42x85: I believe there's a Dell equivalent to that x86 tablet that's been made to run Fedora OK16:13
x85well i could bump to 200 and make and excuse to my wife lmao16:14
penguin42haha16:14
zmoylan-piwhatever the least favourable exchange rate is plus a few % on top16:14
penguin42x85: You can get 2nd hand netbooks for ~£10016:14
x85penguin42: i've been tempted by that before unless you know of a decent brand16:15
x85the intel nuc looks cool16:15
zmoylan-pioxfam do a nice line in refurb 2nd hand laptops with 90 day warranty16:15
penguin42x85: Actually, yes, you might be able to put together a nuc for that type of price16:16
penguin42zmoylan-pi: Oh, not tried oxfam, I've bought a few things from CEX16:16
zmoylan-piyou can get them with win7 and avoid the uefi nonsense16:16
x85i doesn't like UEFI16:17
x85idk i miss my linux freedom16:18
x85:(16:18
x85le sigh16:41
shaunoI wonder what hardware can actually use tianocore16:44
directhexIt's Complicated(tm)16:48
directhextianocore isn't an entire implementation. you can't use it as-is on real hardware..... but most real-world implementations are tianocore-based16:49
directhexyou can get kvm to use tianocore, but it lacks minor details like nvram support, so you can't save any settings or installed os locations16:49
directhexx85: i *wish* i had uefi on my desktop. bios is total 1970s crud16:50
directhexand has 0% to do with freedom vs. not freedom16:50
x85MacBooks are worse lmao16:51
penguin42yeh, you've got to differentiate between UEFI and secure/trusted boot - they're completely separate issues16:51
directhexand secure boot as a general concept provides beneficial extra features to the end user16:51
x85hmm what about combining pi's to run the ubuntu desktop is that possible?16:52
penguin42no16:54
directhexno.16:54
directhexthere are better ARM dev boards than the pi, if that's the route you want to take16:54
* penguin42 would expect the Pi2 might have a chance16:54
directhexPi is pretty much bottom of the pile16:54
* penguin42 notes Pi is the start of pile16:55
directhexpi only becomes usable via various hacks like a custom wayland compositor and custom browser16:55
x85i just want a semi cheap machine to run ubuntu16:56
directhexsecond hand?16:56
* x85 *cries*16:56
x85not if it can be helped16:56
x85i want to throw my MBP16:57
x85lol16:57
x85why did i fall for the shiny16:57
directhexebuyer will sell you a laptop for GBP16016:57
penguin42so why don't you just install it on your MBP?16:57
x85penguin42: that feels wrong morally and i don't want to have to mod the boot process16:58
directhexany mbp, regardless of age, has a crazy high resale value16:58
penguin42x85: You don't need to modify stuff, MBP is just a PC16:59
directhexi'm on a mbp w/ ubuntu right now.16:59
directhexpenguin42: with a crap firmware tho16:59
directhexpenguin42: and crap components by broadcom16:59
penguin42directhex: That crap?16:59
directhexpenguin42: well the webcam doesn't work, wifi doesn't work after suspend, and wifi barely works pre-suspend17:00
directhexpenguin42: and upgrading the osx partition to 10.10 totally screwed with dual-booting17:00
penguin42impressively screwed up17:00
directhexi "fixed" it, but it now takes 30s longer to boot17:01
x85it is doable of course but it just doesn't sit right17:01
shaunowell, they work, just linux has terribad hardware supprt.  it's not a desktop OS.17:01
directhexbroadcom fights to stop driver support on linux.17:01
x85i guess i'll just go to cex17:04
m0nkey_bah, why does it have to be a public holiday today?17:04
m0nkey_parts for my PC build are on the island. but wont be delivered until monday.17:04
penguin42m0nkey_ island?17:04
directhexcex is crazy overpriced for pc stuff. but a cash converters or similar pawn shop might have undervalued stuff17:05
penguin42yeh cex can be fun when you spot something that's got a good price - but they do a 6month guarantee17:06
directhexebuyer will sell desktops for GBP150, if you don't want a laptop for GBP16017:06
m0nkey_penguin42, heh yeah.. island. Montreal.17:07
* m0nkey_ is a brit ex-pat17:07
x85ex-pat?17:09
x85moved out of uk?17:09
penguin42I was going to joke about you moving out to get some warmth, but but Montreal....17:10
m0nkey_lol17:10
zmoylan-pii dunno, apart from the moose attacks it's probably still more pleasent weather... :-)17:12
penguin42do you class moose attacks as weather?17:13
zmoylan-pilots of spittle :-)17:24
MyrttiI fixed my "I need more stuff from Amazon" problem by buying a pack of colouring pencils ^____^18:23
mappswell thats annoying18:43
mappsts a holy day so nowhere open..i thought the store would be but reduced hours18:43
mappsthought morrisons would be open till 4/518:43
SuperEngineermapps, they are as far as we know not closing down prior to 4th May... is there something you know that we don't18:49
SuperEngineer& if you do know something - tell their poor underpaid staff!18:51
mappshah;]18:52
mappshad mcdonalds for lunch gonna have to get a kebab fkr dinner18:52
dogmatic69_omg http://store.steampowered.com/app/347250/19:15
dogmatic69_Many hours spent on that game19:15
shaunoodd.  I wonder why the publisher have decided to stick pictures of a f117 all over a game called f1919:17
ali12341shauno: because when the game was made nobody knew the real codename of the aircraft19:18
ali12341the later rereleased the same game as f11719:19
shaunooh the game has it right.  but not whoever's rebundled it19:19
ali12341no, the game was released by microprose under both names back in the day19:20
shaunoright, I had f-117 on the amiga19:20
ali12341"MicroProse released the game on the same day that the United States military first admitted the existence of its F-117A Nighthawk stealth fighter.[2] Before the game's release many had speculated on a missing aircraft in the United States Air Force's numbering system, the F-19.  The game was based on an educated guess about what the secret stealth  fighter would be like. Subsequent revisions of the game incorporated the  actual F-117 as well as19:21
shaunowell, I still think it's jarring that the aircraft on the box isn't the one used in their marketting19:24
ali12341the box... on steamplay?19:25
shaunoto be clear, I'm talking about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-19_Stealth_Fighter19:25
shaunoyou're conflating it with 2.0, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Hawk:_F-117A_Stealth_Fighter_2.019:26
ali12341the "f19" looks almost identical to an f117 because they looked at photos taken by the kind of people who make a hobby out of photographing top secret experimental aircraft19:26
shaunoalmost identical in that they both have wings?19:26
shaunootherwise one has the face-on profile of a flying saucer, the other looks like a pyramid19:26
ali12341seems like the game was released with two different covers19:27
ali12341http://wordofthenerdonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/07/Z0072320.jpg vs http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ybkDh_6XARU/U4rkUipKOmI/AAAAAAAAAck/fIz9jncUYY0/s1600/ebay1.jpg19:28
ali12341yeah so i just don't get where you're seeing a f117 on a f19 cover19:48
ali12341anyway, these were really good games back in the day19:48
ali12341pretty much the perfect balance between arcade fun and simulation19:48
ali12341someone should remake them with nicer graphics19:48
shaunoright, that's why I was complaining about it being a different aircraft shown in the marketting (on dogmatic's link)20:01
shaunothe video, the headshot, don't use the same aircraft shown in-game, on the box, etc20:01
foobarryguys, who's tried the arc welder thing to run android apps from chrome!?!20:11
foobarryits great20:11
foobarryrunning evernote atm20:14
daftykinso020:32
daftykinsin lieu of a real android device?20:35
foobarrycomplements it20:36
foobarrybecause evernote on linux sucks20:36
foobarrythe web interface sucks20:37
foobarryand wine does too20:37
* zmoylan-pi misses the palm os memo app with desktop syncing20:37
zmoylan-pithese days i use a text file on dropbox and have it favourited on tablet20:39
foobarryi'm going whole hog lately20:40
zmoylan-pihmmmmm, bacon20:40
foobarrytaking photos of things and sharing other notes for collab etc20:40
zmoylan-pii take loads of pics but leave the pics on the phone and just refer to tham as i need them20:41
zmoylan-piapart from those put up on twitter20:41
foobarryi write shopping lists and look at them while in front of the things20:42
foobarrylike in b&q etc20:42
zmoylan-pii just throw them into memopad on nokia dumbphone as that will be in my pocket as i listen to radio/mp3s on it while out and about20:43
foobarrymicroserver going cheap http://www.ebuyer.com/517760-hp-proliant-gen8-g1610t-microserver-712317-42120:43
daftykinsoh ebuyer, don't even list the spec20:48
Myrttihttps://www.flickr.com/photos/myrtti/16401104064/ simmost sitte21:10
Myrttiie. "and that is how the cookie crumbles"21:10
diddledanMyrtti: that's pretty21:11
MyrttiI see now why they've printed the pattern only on one side of the page21:12
Myrttiprinting on the next page is transferred on the back of the page being coloured because of the pressure21:13
dogmatic69_ali12341: the graphics is on par with minecraft :P21:41
mappstime to go get some dinner;D23:00
x85hi hi23:07
daftykinsoh hello again23:09
x85daftykins: hey hows you23:18
daftykinsnot bad ta, yourself?23:19
x85not bad i ended up taking the hull back to tesco23:21
daftykinsah right23:22
x85charging issues23:23
daftykinsmmm that was a bit of a drawback23:23
x85that and its still running 4.4.2?23:24
daftykinsi think that's why it's so cheap23:25
daftykinsno future :D23:26
x85lol23:28
x85i hate manufactures that do that 1 or 2 updates then nada23:28
daftykinsdo the hudls even get any at all?23:30
x85im not sure23:31
daftykinstruth is the constant version update culture doesn't actually gain much other than bragging rights23:32
x85yea23:34
daftykinsas long as security fixes are backported anywho23:35
x85i guess android isn't really a major thing for me23:36
daftykinsi'm ok with it on my phone but that's about as far as it goes :>23:37
x85i would indeed like to see a native ubuntu slab23:39
* penguin42 still assumes it's possible to get a hudl to run ubuntu 23:40
x85probably is but i don't want to wait lol23:41
x85i don't care if all i have is a terminal23:42
x85lol23:42
daftykinstends to be best to buy things that are capable of something, not before they are :>23:42

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