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zmoylan-picat v fox on kittykam https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9j38UmSYjClWHFXYXo5TU1TS3M/view?usp=sharing00:09
daftykins:O00:14
daftykinswho won?00:14
zmoylan-pii think the fox has eaten 1-2 kittens but one of the bigger battle moggies has torn strips off the fox from the sound of the fights i've heard and the moggie is still around while fox is rarer these days00:16
kjvarleyInteresting problem. Hosts file redirect of pseudo-domain name to localhost works in Firefox but not in Chrome...Any ideas ?06:19
kjvarleyGot it06:27
kjvarleyWas using domain.localhost as a vhost which causes conflict06:27
=== Lcawte|Away is now known as Lcawte
MooDoohowdy all07:07
SuperMattmorning07:07
=== zmoylan-1i is now known as zmoylan-pi
brobostigonmorning boys and girls.08:43
popeyyo08:54
JamesTaitGood morning all; happy Hug Your Cat Day! 😃08:59
foobarryand get scratched09:02
zmoylan-piwell if you know your cat you'll know what times of the day you can sneak up, hug the little beggar and make a non bloody getaway :-)09:03
popeyone of ours is so soppy, you can pick him up and hold him upside down in your arms like a baby09:04
* zmoylan-pi remembers my father giving a cat in the 70s a pill while wearing heavy motorbike gloves and the cat managing to scratch his hand THROUGH the leather of those gloves...09:05
Laneywant to get a cat09:10
Laneywould need to replace burglar alarm system though :'(09:10
shaunoyour alarm is an angry dog?09:11
zmoylan-pijust give the cat the pin code :-)09:11
JamesTaitLaney, there are ones that are advertised as pet-safe. YMMV.09:11
LaneyThat's what I mean, I stupidly got a non pet safe one09:12
Laneyit was only 6 months ago too09:12
zmoylan-piwhat feature of it is not petsafe?09:12
Laneyit would be triggered by a pet moving around09:13
TwistedLucidityzmoylan-pi: It'll trip when it sees the cat, rather than ignore low/small movements.09:13
zmoylan-pithat can be disabled by a reprogramming, get a quote on how much it would cost09:13
popeyi thought they all had sensitivity settings09:14
TwistedLucidityI am pretty sure our ancient one does not.09:14
Laneynot that I know about anyway09:14
TwistedLucidityBut then it is ancient.09:14
zmoylan-pii know when i worked with alarm box installers in 90s that they were starting to be able to reprogram the alarms remotely to save on visits to out of the way places09:14
TwistedLucidityAt least it's wired though.09:14
Laneymaybe a Manâ„¢ would be able to09:14
TwistedLucidityLaney: Would need an installation manual, often hard to find in public.09:15
Laneythe brochure talks about it but I have the feeling that it is a different kind of sensor09:15
popeyi remember seeing a WatchDog (or some other program) where this conman installer would put alarms in with an added timer circuit which would trip after the warranty expired, and make the alarm break.09:15
JamesTaitpopey, I think the pet-safe ones are kind of zonal as well, so the lower part of the sensor is less sensitive than the upper part. At least that's how I understood what the fitter was telling me.09:15
popeyPeople would call him, he'd reset the counter09:15
popeyI should consider an alarm at some point09:16
popeynot been any burglaries round here for years :S09:16
Laneyoh god09:16
popeymaybe we're due one09:16
Laneyyou said it09:16
popeyhah09:16
TwistedLucidityOur alarm went wonk a while back. We walked around the streets and did a small census of the alarms we could see. Then called the company most people seemed to use.09:18
TwistedLucidityAll it needed was a new battery....09:18
shaunoI still think they're largely pointless09:19
zmoylan-pitheir job is not to stop breakins but make the robber go to your nearest neighbour WITHOUT an alarm09:19
TwistedLucidityIn truth, they probably are. But if our place is riskier than the neighbours'...which one will they go for09:19
TwistedLuciditySame reason we switched the locks to ones marked "anti-bump/anti-snap". It just causing hassle for them.09:20
TwistedLucidityAlthough 30+kg of enraged dog does that as well....09:20
popeynice and sunny today09:21
TwistedLucidityYeah, looking good for the w/end09:21
shaunoI think my concern is that I've never known anyone who calls the police when an alarm goes off.  they just turn the TV up09:22
popeybbq weather09:22
zmoylan-pithat's why you pay for monitoring so a central station calls plod09:23
popeyit's handy having a plod living in the road, even if he's "only" a dog handler09:23
* zmoylan-pi used to fix the pcs in the central station bunkers. twas fun seeing the doors on those places09:23
popeymeans his plod car is often here09:24
zmoylan-piand i also got to write the software that /decoded/ the signals coming in on the leased line from all the burgalar alarms in ireland09:24
TwistedLucidityif <person I dislike> then router=ignore09:25
zmoylan-piin vb... :-D09:25
TwistedLucidity5 or 6?09:25
zmoylan-pi4!09:25
TwistedLucidityPoor sod09:26
zmoylan-pii got it working and it ran without been restarted for years.  that took effort09:26
TwistedLucidityIf Firefox suggests "Reader view" one more time, I may do something unspeakable to it....09:27
TwistedLucidityAnd it doesn't even work on the site where it suggests it. HAH!09:28
TwistedLucidityFF is really going downhill these days....09:28
zmoylan-pias is chrome, opera...09:28
zmoylan-pii use midori these days most of the time.  terrible but less annoying09:29
awilkinsThe kind of feature creep you get when your product does what it was designed for really really well09:29
awilkinsAnd you have a big successful dev team who now have nothing to do09:29
awilkinsExcept fix really trivial stupid bugs09:29
shaunothen keep a couple around to fix big, and send the rest off to make their mail client stop sucking :)09:30
awilkinsOh crikey yes, Thunderbird neesd an update09:31
awilkinsNeeds to do label support like Gmail does09:31
shaunothunderbird doesn't just need an update, it needs to be taken out back and shot09:33
zmoylan-pi^this09:33
zmoylan-piit's reached critical stupidity09:33
awilkinsIt's not that bad, surely09:34
awilkinsMy main gripes with it are to do with the calendar stuff09:34
zmoylan-piwhen i read a lot of people talking online about using evolution as thunderbird is just so bad these days...09:34
awilkinsBut they are mostly Microsoft's fault for being annoying09:34
awilkinsI *hate* evolution09:35
zmoylan-pithese people hate evolution too but use it as it's less annoying than thunderbird...09:35
awilkinsIt disgusts me even that Unity uses it's backend to integrate the calendar into the desktop09:35
shaunoI used to like evolution, way way back when09:36
shaunogave up on it when the prefs dialog stopped fitting on my monitor, and never found my way back09:37
TwistedLucidityI use Thunderbird daily, it's the best email client on GNU/Linux IMHO09:43
TwistedLucidityWell, GUI email client.09:43
foobarrygeary?09:43
foobarrydoesn't get mentioned much09:44
TwistedLucidityDoes that do CardDAV and CalDAV like Thunderbird?09:44
foobarrygeary is more lightweight09:44
foobarrybut nice UI09:44
TwistedLucidityI use Thunderbird as a PIM as well as a mail client.09:45
zmoylan-pidoesn't geary have inflexible ui?09:45
TwistedLuciditySo I need that DAV support to get appointments etc sync'd09:45
TwistedLucidityI'd like to try KMail seeing as I use KDE, but it seems it randomly deletes emails.09:51
TwistedLucidityOr so I'm told09:51
zmoylan-piis it up to government standard of losing emails? :-)09:53
TwistedLucidityOr certain newspapers....09:57
TwistedLuciditySeems that get_iplayer has been updated after the BBC broke everything again.10:00
foobarryalso youtube_dl works i think10:00
TwistedLucidityWhy Auntie can't support iPlayer on GNU/Linux or Kodi is beyond me.10:01
TwistedLucidityfoobarry: The Beeb changed the APIs a couple of days ago10:01
TwistedLucidityOr, better yet, let the community get on with it. The Kodi iPlayer plugin worked really, really well. All it needed was the BBC to stop acting so heavy-handed10:02
zmoylan-piand the odds of that are...10:02
awilkinsThe BBC don't like people downloading iPlayer stuff10:02
awilkins:-(10:03
awilkinsOr rather, their content partners don't10:03
TwistedLucidityawilkins: The Kodi iPlayer does not permit downloads. The developer made it very clear they would not offer that feature10:06
TwistedLucidityThey were trying to play fair, which is admirable10:06
TwistedLucidityget_iplayer on the other hand......10:06
TwistedLucidityAnd these projects only existed because the BBC left a vacuum.10:06
TwistedLucidityThey are happy enough to support closed-systems like iOS and Facebook...so our license fee goes to support that; rather than support *us*10:07
TwistedLucidityLike Netflix (other streaming services are availbale) and copyright infringement, if you provide a service people can actually use; they stop looking for alternatives.10:08
TwistedLucidityI'm mostly irritated because I was halfway through "Buried" when it all went AWOL. :-(10:08
zmoylan-pito management in beeb ios IS mobile.  facebook IS email10:09
TwistedLucidityUnfortunately true10:09
TwistedLucidityI wonder if iPlayer can be made to run under WINE.....10:09
shaunoios rant seems wildly of-base, tbh10:10
zmoylan-piand the rest of us are hoodie wearing evil hackers trying to take down apple and facebook in glow of our screens at night...10:10
TwistedLucidityshauno: Not really. BBC is funded by what is in essence a tax. I have every right to be annoyed when that goes to support walled-gardens instead of openness.10:11
zmoylan-pithe beebs mandate is to educate and inform but they choose ios over any other platform when it is the platform least used by the poor10:11
shaunoiplayer's on android & ios.  between the two they make up 95%+ of the smartphone market.10:11
TwistedLucidityI'd also argue that it runs counter to the IT education aims.10:12
TwistedLucidityshauno: Indeed. And it's on Windows and OS X too. So why not on GNU/Linux or the likes of Kodi? As if said before, the Beeb don't need to write the code; just not be heavy handed.10:12
shaunoI'm just saying that as far as return for the money goes, they're on exactly the platforms I'd expect them to be on10:13
shaunorather than going the 'open' route and having 7 users paid for by 6 million.10:13
foobarrylinux are teh 1%10:14
TwistedLuciditySo don't pay, just stop making life hard for the community10:14
foobarrythey wanted to make it even worse10:18
foobarrybut were blocked from doing so10:19
foobarrysomething about encrpyting all their streams10:19
TwistedLucidityWell....this is amusing http://ipd-hq.api.bbc.co.uk/latest/linux10:19
TwistedLucidityfoobarry: Yup, that will be forced from the media companies. That have this bizarre idea that making legal use hard is somehow going to help10:20
TwistedLucidityAnd this does exist http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/tv/computer/linux/10:21
TwistedLucidityHmmm....10:22
TwistedLucidityAnd they say the test on Linux-based (Ubuntu 11 in this case) browsers; that's more than most I guess10:23
m8tyHi all10:25
popeyAt once point the BBC actually hired a guy to fight back against get_iplayer10:25
popeyhis job was to make get_iplayer not work10:25
foobarrywow10:25
popeyHe has since moved on (works at facebook now iirc)10:25
TwistedLuciditySee - it's that kind of thing.....10:25
foobarryheh10:25
m8tyget_iplayer still works and well  luckily10:26
TwistedLucidityIt just got an update to cope with the latest breakage10:26
popeywhich is ridiculous given bbc redux, where they store all programmes from all terrestrial channels and allow for a small set of people to download them with no drm on any platform over http10:26
TwistedLucidityHmm?10:27
shaunoiplayer doesn't allow indefinite downloads on any platform.  I don't get the "but we're special" rant at all.  I think people forget get_iplayer's a hack.10:27
m8tyHas nayone had an issue where Toshiba "chicony " webcam being detected and confgigured as keyboard hence doesn't work????10:28
TwistedLucidityI'm not saying "we're special". I am saying the BBC is playing a stupid game, and wasting the money I pay them.10:28
m8tyI don't seem to find a fix on my Toshiba Sat c 85510:29
TwistedLucidityIt wouldn't be beyond their capabilities to *stop* being total sods to Kodi iPlayer (which does not permit downloads). Gives them good PR, expands their reach, cost is trivial.10:30
TwistedLucidityI understand their hatred for get_iplayer, but that only exists because of the vacuum left when the BBC ditch GNU/Linux support.10:30
TwistedLucidityThey write/sanction apps for Smart TVs. Writing/sanctioning the Kodi plugin is not a great leap.10:31
foobarryi wish there was a similar hack for 4od10:32
foobarrywhich doesn't even work wotih chromecast!!10:32
TwistedLucidityDon't 4od put all their stuff on YouTube?10:32
foobarryno10:32
TwistedLucidityAnd there used to be a Kodi plugin for that as well10:32
foobarryused to10:32
TwistedLucidityAh, OK10:32
TwistedLucidityInteresting.....10:45
TwistedLucidityhttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/04/eu_competition_watchdog_snarls_at_hollywood_eyes_fines/10:45
zmoylan-pithis will all be blocked with tpp as it would be hurting the business of hollywood companies10:46
TwistedLucidityTPP is the pacific one innit? Aren't we getting infected with TTIP?10:47
Myrttiget-iplayer ♥10:47
TwistedLucidityAnd then there's TISA10:47
zmoylan-pithey're all spawn of the same corporations10:47
TwistedLucidityYour freedom will be packaged and sold back to you. This is for your benefit, citizen.10:49
bashrc_those trade agreements are really antidemocratic10:50
zmoylan-pithe un has said so recently10:51
TwistedLucidityThey are going to happen. There is no way to stop it.10:51
zmoylan-piif the americans thought prohibition was bad...10:53
bashrc_there's some sort of rule whereby corporations can sue governments if they don't do what they're told10:54
bashrc_it's really an indication of who actually holds power10:54
TwistedLuciditybashrc_: Which is ridiculous10:54
TwistedLucidityCorporations are not people. If they were, we could jail them for illegal acts.10:55
intrbizTwistedLucidity: a company is still a legal entity, rather than 'jailed' they can be shutdown11:27
zmoylan-pibut that almost never happens11:27
intrbizzmoylan-pi: sadly, yes11:28
bigcalmGood morning peeps :)11:38
bigcalmintrbiz: do you have a one line command for connecting to the serial console of the 3com switch?11:39
knightwise3com ?11:40
bigcalm3com11:40
knightwiseI think you need an Indiana jones fedora for that11:40
bigcalmI have the connection settings, I just haven't worked out how to use screen to connect11:41
bigcalmTried minicom and didn't get anywhere with it11:41
* bigcalm installs putty for a giggle11:45
bigcalmIt allowed me to set the settings in a sensible way. Started the session and turned on the switch. I can see the cursor move about as though the self test is running, but there's no text11:46
bigcalmThis is the same result that I got from screen and minicom11:47
diplominicom is 'orrible, never got on with it :/11:49
diploWith screen you've tried `screen /dev/ttyS0 baudratehere` ?11:51
diploOr something11:51
popeyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ONXea0mX  wow11:52
zmoylan-piso much easier when you plugged in serial cable connected to your psion back in the day :-)11:52
diploOr gtkterm maybe ? Not sure if that is still about though11:52
bigcalmdiplo: yes. It gives the same blank screen with cursor moving about as though it's getting data11:52
knightwisethere11:52
knightwiseordered !11:52
bigcalmpopey:11:53
bigcalmThis video does not exist.11:53
bigcalmSorry about that.11:53
diplobigcalm: hmm, maybe baudrate issue.. cant say I've had that issue but haven't had to do anything switch related for a long time11:55
popeyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ONXea0mXg11:55
popeyoops11:55
popeymissed a g off the end11:56
bigcalmThat's impressive11:56
diploWatched it earlier, a lot of nay sayers though11:58
popeymeh11:59
diploReading the reviews on play.google a lot of people saying speech recognition isn't that great12:00
diploThat's what I got from comments on some posts, was that it was set to understand the guy in the demo :)12:01
* diplo will wait and see!12:01
popeywe had problems with touch in Ubuntu some years back12:02
popeysome people couldn't get it to recognise gestures.12:02
popeyIt was somewhat tuned for the guy who maintained touch in Ubuntu :)12:02
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diploI guess that's where having a company the size of apple and google comes in handy with all that data12:03
intrbizbigcalm: I've used minicom in the past12:05
intrbizbigcalm: what baud are you using12:06
intrbizbigcalm: 19,200 should be the default, assuming previous owner didn't change it12:10
bigcalmintrbiz: using the default listed in the PDF manual...12:13
zmoylan-pieven if you select the wrong speed on serial you should get gobbledegook12:15
intrbizbigcalm: assuming your cable works, then all I suggest is trying differing baud rates12:15
bigcalmintrbiz: http://paste.ubuntu.com/11564502/12:17
bigcalmThat's a lot of settings to mess about with12:18
bigcalmJust change the baud rate?12:18
intrbizbigcalm: just change the rate: try: 38400 and 11520012:18
bigcalmOkay :)12:18
intrbizbigcalm: it'll by 8n1 with no flow control12:18
intrbizbigcalm: if your not seeing anything, it'll be the rate, or the cable12:19
intrbizbigcalm: possibly also 960012:19
* zmoylan-pi suspects cable by the sound of blank screen12:19
zmoylan-piunless some twonk set it to 115,200 and you're trying at 9600 or vice versa12:20
bigcalm38400 & 115200 = nothing12:24
bigcalm9600 = a little bit of cursor movement12:24
bigcalm19200 = a lot of cursor movement12:24
bigcalmBut no actual visible text from anything12:24
intrbizbigcalm: in what way does the cursor move?12:26
zmoylan-pii've never used the terminal program you named, it's not set for black text on black background by any chance? /really dumb suggestion12:27
shaunoother thing worth trying is to just smack enter a few times to give it something to reply to12:34
shaunoI've a few things like that where the login string is sent before you connected to it, so it's actually waiting for input.  the string doesn't sit in a buffer waiting for you12:35
zmoylan-piand ctrl-m instead of enter in case it's using wacky protocol, had that happen a few times12:38
zmoylan-piyeah it's waiting for you to type username on blank screen12:39
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* popey tuts at bigcalm and his vertical video14:07
bigcalmpopey: I know :(14:08
ujjainHey, if you create a directory called $HOME, it seems you can't delete it with rm -rf $HOME15:28
popeyof course, shell expands $HOME to /home/youruser15:29
popeyrm -rf \$HOME15:29
ujjainah yeah, that makes sense15:30
intrbizujjain: or single quote it15:40
ujjainsingle and double quotes are differnet?15:40
intrbizujjain: yes15:40
intrbizujjain: double quote allow interpolation, single do not, eg: T=test; echo "$T"; echo '$T'15:42
ujjainah right15:42
ujjain#bash tells me every time to doublequote variables15:42
ujjainand that there is no good reason to use all-caps variables15:43
intrbizujjain: sure, if you want the variable to be interpolated, otherwise don't use double quotes15:43
intrbizujjain: all caps is just a coding style thing15:43
ujjainright thanks15:43
shaunoI use caps for envars and lowercase for regular vars.  but it just habit, it means nothing to the system15:47
shauno(also, I think creating a folder named $HOME comes under "enough rope to hang yourself with" ;)15:48
intrbizyes, always be weary of rm -rf15:49
ujjainI think steam once deleted all the files of a user while installing15:52
ujjainthey had rm -rf /$STEAM_HOME in a bash script15:52
ujjainbut didn't check if $STEAM_HOME was set :P15:52
intrbizgrrrr, LibVirts documentation really is terrible :(15:55
zmoylan-piif the documentation was good it would be out of date :-)15:56
intrbizzmoylan-pi: well, often, the little bits of documentation they actually have are wrong anyway15:56
zmoylan-pii never said anything about been right :-)15:57
intrbizzmoylan-pi: didn't say you did, just pointing it out15:57
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mappsperfect16:22
mappscant see my phone display16:22
mappsit' somehow like its been set to as low as poss16:22
=== Lcawte|Away is now known as Lcawte
daftykinsmapps: o016:41
daftykinsthat's what you get for buying fruit ;)16:41
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popeyhttps://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-gobq-grill-redefining-portability neat17:16
zmoylan-pia fold up shovel would be smaller for making a bbq pit...17:18
intrbizpopey: pretty neat, but how bulky is the charcoal to carry around17:20
popeywho carries charcoal around?17:20
popeyyou but that near where you're cooking17:20
zmoylan-piartists :-)17:20
popeyhah17:20
* zmoylan-pi prefers my kelly kettle. tiny volcano kettle used for making tea using minimum of fuel. can boil a brew with a newspaper17:21
daftykinsneat!17:22
mapps?17:22
zmoylan-pi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Kettle17:22
* popey hugs his weber17:24
zmoylan-pimy father had a primus stove that dated back pre 40s i think.  i always remember when driving on holiday brewing up beside the road on that primus... a cup of tea so hot you'd burn the mouth off you17:25
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