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brobostigon | morning boys and girls. | 09:07 |
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zmoylan-pi | morning mammals | 09:08 |
brobostigon | morning zmoylan-pi | 09:09 |
zmoylan-pi | o/ | 09:09 |
brobostigon | :) | 09:10 |
mappps | morning | 10:14 |
brobostigon | morning mappps | 10:20 |
linuxrules | whats the best lightweight linux desktop? - i am about to install linux on my mum's computer, it is quite old and she does not know much about computers, i waswondering which one is best | 10:44 |
zmoylan-pi | lubuntu is very light and easy on ram | 10:44 |
zmoylan-pi | but best is a variable term and means different things to different people | 10:45 |
zmoylan-pi | xubuntu is what i use on ancient netbook | 10:45 |
linuxrules | yeah i tried lubuntu but the wifi and speakers would not work - on the first intel macbook | 10:46 |
* SuperEngineer has found Ubuntu Mate runs faster & lighter on an old oldbook than Xubuntu did | 11:02 | |
SuperEngineer | *netbook | 11:03 |
SuperEngineer | & just realised that he/she has asked on several channels - then left after asking - hmmm | 11:04 |
zmoylan-pi | yup | 11:11 |
zmoylan-pi | that's... not good... http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/15/05/10/0936213/enterprise-ssds-powered-off-potentially-lose-data-in-a-week | 11:21 |
SuperEngineer | zmoylan-pi, don't seee what your complaining about! You gret to keep all your, personal valued stuff & system for up to a week! :D | 11:41 |
zmoylan-pi | and if the police raid your gear for copyright infringement and have a backlog... :-P | 11:42 |
awilkins | Ah, the totalitarian state discussions | 11:45 |
awilkins | It does seem the double-whammy doesn't it | 11:45 |
awilkins | Starve all the poor people and keep all the technorati under surveillance | 11:46 |
SuperEngineer | well... then you get off scot free & get to bust the police for harassment - with the compensation you could buy yourself a real storage system! ;) | 11:47 |
awilkins | Barely a whiff of the protests outside Downing Street reported on the BBC | 11:47 |
SuperEngineer | awilkins, really, still relying on beeb for unbiased news? signed, yours truely, anonymous [hint] | 11:49 |
zmoylan-pi | the bbc is good for reporting on things NOT in the uk | 11:49 |
awilkins | Oh, no, not since I was in a 50,000 person protest that they reported by putting the camera at a low angle across a narrow road to make it look like a mothers meeting and then gave it a 2 minute slot on the local news | 11:50 |
awilkins | I FOIAed the coppers for their survellance chopper footage to give an true idea of the scale of the crowd and they go tback to me 6 months later with some terrible stills from what was probably a building surveillance camera | 11:51 |
awilkins | With a 640x480 CCD in it | 11:51 |
SuperEngineer | awilkins, unfair! it's budget cuts! they probably couldn't afford a tripod ;) | 11:51 |
SuperEngineer | or a camera man | 11:52 |
awilkins | Those choppers have super-HD video cams | 11:52 |
SuperEngineer | or an unbiased view | 11:52 |
awilkins | Yeah. The protest movements need to start putting teams on the roofs and flying drones with GoPro cams over the crowd | 11:53 |
awilkins | It's a sad thing but they need to take care of their own journalism | 11:53 |
awilkins | Maybe not OVER the crowd | 11:54 |
awilkins | Last thing they need is a drone falling on someone's head | 11:54 |
awilkins | Give an excuse to ban them | 11:54 |
awilkins | Bet the coppers are starting to use drones to monitor protests though | 11:55 |
* SuperEngineer coughs & finds cough sounds like a reminder that this is a family friendly channel, not a political awareness channel | 11:56 | |
* penguin42 doesn't think there's anything against politics is there? | 11:57 | |
SuperEngineer | "against politics"? | 11:58 |
SuperEngineer | lol | 11:58 |
SuperEngineer | awilkins, I highly recommend the Greg Proops proopcast [aka podcast] for a real look at life | 11:59 |
awilkins | Well, unless you consider the Tories to not be "family friendly" | 12:00 |
awilkins | :-P | 12:00 |
* awilkins listens to proopcast on "Pies" | 12:02 | |
SuperEngineer | :) | 12:08 |
penguin42 | right, first important step to making the next batch of chocolate sorbet; finished the previous batch | 13:24 |
zmoylan-pi | it's hard work but someone has to do it... | 13:42 |
penguin42 | hmm, I think I'm going to have to get kitchen scales that have more precision; 1g precision when trying to measure 2g of xanthum gum and 8g of cornflour isn't very good | 14:16 |
zmoylan-pi | there's a shop on moore street that sells scales and cigarette lighters... for no reason connected whatsoever... :-P | 14:20 |
penguin42 | haha | 14:21 |
diddledan | ello folks | 15:32 |
* penguin42 is watching a BBC programme on the insides of chocolate factories - worrying amount of human interaction with the chocolate | 15:35 | |
diddledan | human interaction with chocolate! | 15:35 |
diddledan | you can't beat chocolate airated by natural waterfall | 15:35 |
diddledan | you could whip it I guess | 15:36 |
diddledan | a decent lash of a whip | 15:36 |
penguin42 | diddledan: Well this is a factory, and they've still got humans just checking the boxes over after the robots (unglobved) and loading the fillings into machines (without gloves) and picking duds off the lines (ungloved) | 15:37 |
diddledan | :-o | 15:37 |
diddledan | humans shouldn't be involved. oompa loompas are much more qualified | 15:37 |
OerHeks | Do oompa's have common cold too ? | 15:38 |
diddledan | nothing common about it! | 15:38 |
diddledan | very upper-class, my colds | 15:39 |
diddledan | lol @ mailing list: "I'm doing this through the mailing list as it's not a specific bug report but rather just a general bad mood my phone has developed!" | 15:40 |
penguin42 | Thorntons have got a wonderful machine for making easter eggs - spins the eggs in all directions | 16:00 |
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foobarry | can't believe i got sucked in to http://www.reddit.com/r/thebutton | 20:42 |
zmoylan-pi | do you are now dougal in father ted in the cockpit... | 20:43 |
shauno | I hope by "sucked in" you don't mean you pressed it | 20:46 |
m0nkey_ | foobarry, i've not pushed it yet | 21:11 |
m0nkey_ | damn it.. it got to 11seconds | 21:13 |
m0nkey_ | then somebody pushed the button | 21:13 |
m0nkey_ | fool | 21:13 |
diddledan | evenin | 22:01 |
m0nkey_ | damnit. power went out for a few seconds | 22:08 |
diddledan | my APC UPS is moaning (via a red light) that I need to replace the flattery | 22:09 |
m0nkey_ | i need to get a UPS for this PC | 22:11 |
m0nkey_ | server closet has UPS | 22:11 |
daftykins | diddledan: d'aww :( | 22:11 |
daftykins | can't even get a battery for mine anymore so it's whole unit replacement time if i care to | 22:12 |
diddledan | :-( | 22:12 |
diddledan | booo | 22:12 |
daftykins | well there are some on ebay and amazon but i'm not so sure... | 22:12 |
daftykins | i thin they're labelled as reconditioned | 22:13 |
diddledan | yeah that doesn't sound good | 22:13 |
daftykins | +k | 22:13 |
diddledan | I donno how long lead-acid really do last | 22:14 |
m0nkey_ | FFS! | 22:15 |
m0nkey_ | did it again | 22:15 |
intrbiz | more about how they are stored / duty cycles etc | 22:15 |
m0nkey_ | next time, i'm sure power will go out properly | 22:15 |
diddledan | the lcd output says the battery was "installed feb 2012" | 22:15 |
daftykins | to be honest the software has started periodically losing contact with the USB attached APC UPS, so likely it's gonna die anyway | 22:15 |
intrbiz | what batteries does it take? | 22:17 |
daftykins | some proprietary thing | 22:18 |
daftykins | http://www.bechtle.co.uk/medias/uazSVaIeVcKx24M9CBYV58-30.jpg | 22:19 |
daftykins | like that | 22:19 |
intrbiz | ah | 22:21 |
daftykins | 'tis a pretty old APC Back-UPS RS 800 | 22:21 |
m0nkey_ | what. that's two jelly cells with some adapter. | 22:21 |
intrbiz | propbablly two standard seal lead acids in that pack | 22:21 |
daftykins | mmhmm | 22:21 |
daftykins | i should probably turn off the mains sometime and see what it does | 22:22 |
daftykins | i had to replace every other one i got at the same time | 22:22 |
ali1234 | that looks like two standard batteries stuck together | 22:24 |
diddledan | "standard"? | 22:25 |
daftykins | lead acid cells perhaps | 22:25 |
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