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zmoylan-piamazing grace at end of wrath of khan on bagpipes... ::sniff::00:08
diddledanI love amazing grace on bagpipes00:09
daftykinsshauno: :D00:11
daftykinsshauno: yeah you can't leave him out there on Genesis unfound.00:11
zmoylan-piwhich takes you to the voyage home...00:12
zmoylan-pithen it kinda goes wrong with star trek 500:12
diddledanreally you need to see all three together00:12
zmoylan-pii like star trek 5.  but it doesn't fit in with the rest of the movies00:12
shaunoman, it's amazing how many gadgets are completely ripped off from star trek00:13
zmoylan-pithen 6 with a klingon doing sheakspeare in the original klingon...00:13
zmoylan-piwell a lot of tech does come from sci fi since forever.  remember the british got radar after asking scientists was a death ray possible :-)00:14
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shaunohttp://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/gallery/artoftrek/david-marcus.jpg00:16
shaunotell me he's not wearing a gopro00:16
shaunoand the radar thing sounds very much like urban legend ;)00:17
diddledanon his left pocket?00:17
diddledanI thought the radar thing was what the germans believed we were working on00:17
shaunoyeah, the coat pocket00:17
zmoylan-piwell radar is a bit weird as everyone invented their own version. germans, british, american, japanese00:18
zmoylan-piit was just the time to invent radar i suppose00:18
diddledanthe german version had a giant wily (werewolf) flapping around in the middle of a disc00:18
zmoylan-pilook up the history of battle of the beams of radio jamming in wwii. a real geek hacker war00:19
shaunoyeah.  our big step really wasn't inventing radar.  it was inventing the magnetron that made microwave radar sensible00:19
shaunowhich was a big deal because it's much more directional, and gives much better resolution00:20
diddledanaye giant antenna arrays weren't really very viable (despite our attempts)00:20
daftykinshmm how does one cheer up someone who lost their cat :S00:20
zmoylan-piget them a kitten \o/00:21
shaunogiant arrays work, but you can't stick them in the nose of a plane, and you can't hide them easily00:21
diddledandaftykins: mention how you loved her ****00:21
shaunowhich variant of lost are we talking here?  it might come back in 3 days?  or "lost"?00:22
diddledandaftykins: alternatively suggest a sexchange00:22
diddledanor is this the result of sexchange already? :-p00:23
diddledansorry, I've got wily warewolfs on the brian00:23
daftykinshad to put her down00:23
diddledandaftykins: that's not going to cheer them up much00:23
shaunoah, ok00:23
daftykinseven i'm finding it upsetting :/00:24
diddledan"I'm sorry you lost your cat, this will scratch a little and then you'll forget" :-p00:24
daftykinsmmm need the Men in Black flashy thing00:24
diddledan:-(00:24
shaunoI was just gonna suggest that a kitten's maybe not a great idea if it's tv-remote lost.  if it's grandma-lost it's .. well less bad00:24
diddledanmight be too soon00:24
shaunoer, less bad an idea that is.  (trying to avoid ever calling it a good idea though)00:25
daftykinsah there's still one more cat00:25
daftykinsi don't think this friend digging the grave herself was too touching a move by family00:25
diddledangrr00:26
diddledanthat's sucky :-(00:26
daftykinsmmm, very challenging one00:29
daftykinsi've not had to deal with others emotions before really o000:30
shaunohm.  where am I gonna find a drill at 2am00:49
zmoylan-piyour neighbours are hoping you don't get a good answer to that question00:51
diddledanshauno: had a tip-off that the feds are on their way and need to destroy your hard disks?00:51
zmoylan-pifor that you use a fubar00:51
zmoylan-pior make your own thermite00:51
* diddledan out-foos zmoylan-pi 00:51
shaunoor a microwave, since it's 2015 so you've obviously ssd'd all the things00:52
diddledanI'll see your foo and raise you one00:52
diddledanSSD makes data too easy to destroy00:52
shauno(or if you really want to make sure, samsung firmware ..)00:52
diddledanfor the criminal that's a good thing. for the rest of us it's a bit eep00:52
diddledanI heard about that but didn't actually hear what the problem was or work out whether mine is affected00:53
daftykinsshauno: that's only one model :P00:53
popeyahhhh00:53
daftykinsand anyone sensible who read about TLC knew it wasn't worth the risk00:54
popeythat moment when you discover the reason for a bug00:54
popeyI can sleep now00:54
daftykinseureka? :D00:54
popeyjust a bit00:54
diddledanpopey: stay awake like the rest of us vampres00:54
diddledanvampires*00:54
daftykinsyou folk work in dev jobs, why does my friends company make her do mind numbing performance reviews o000:54
diddledanoh those suck00:55
shaunomost likely her company is too big00:55
daftykinsand why does it seem like a total skive for the managers, vs. actually doing something sane00:55
diddledanI have to do my own now, I guess, because I'm freelance00:55
daftykinshehe00:55
daftykinsshauno: yeah, Pros if they're well known00:55
daftykinsseem to be quite worldwide00:55
diddledanso, dan, how has your quarter been? are you performing well? <-- yes. --> well done. carry on.00:56
daftykinsnah you have to pick fault with yourself too :P00:56
popeyspot the difference00:56
popeyhttps://launchpadlibrarian.net/211045350/screenshot20150708_014157276.png00:56
popeyhttps://launchpadlibrarian.net/211045409/screenshot20150708_014208399.png00:56
shaunothat's usually the easy bit ;)00:56
diddledanpick fault. hmm: "you forgot to put the loo seat down yesterday. don't do it again."00:57
popeyfocus eye on the bit that says "BLUE" but is in fact Red. :)00:57
ahayzenlol00:57
diddledanpopey: isn't that "blue" actually "canonical orange"?00:58
popeyhah00:58
shaunoand the red that's quite pink-leaning00:58
popeyyeah, tempted to just get rid of that theme and use the one that works00:58
popeywhere the colours are actually what they say they are00:58
daftykinspopey: ah-ha, you've had my colourblind mate designing things!00:58
popeyhaha00:58
popeyanyway, bug marked "bitesize" and I'm off to bed00:59
popeyta-ra night owls00:59
daftykinspoor lad, he watched the Green Lantern film and didn't have a clue that the enemy was yellow, looked the same to him00:59
shaunohave you ever asked a colour-blind person how they handle traffic lights?00:59
daftykinsnn \o00:59
daftykinsshauno: with gloves like any other sane person00:59
daftykins;)00:59
diddledanlol00:59
diddledangreen lantern. lol.00:59
shaunoI had someone explain to me that he stops on brown and goes on brown. made me rather nervous about driving with him01:00
daftykins:D01:00
shaunoour performance review thing actually did something sensible last year.  I'd be very surprised if it survives01:02
daftykins:D01:02
shaunothey polled other people for performance reviews01:02
shaunowe still had to dance through all the stupid questions, but it was quite nice to have "everyone loves shaun .. except his managers"  instead of just "shaun's managers hate him"01:03
daftykins:D01:05
shaunookay, I swear this klingon is doc brown01:06
diddledanok. so ssd firmware bug was never in production units?01:06
daftykinsshauno: one is!01:06
diddledanwhat's all the hullabaloo then01:06
daftykinsdiddledan: which is this?01:07
diddledansamsung evo01:07
daftykinsthere been a story today?01:07
diddledanno the one that shauno mentioned earlier01:07
daftykinsthere was totally the performance degradation issue ongoing for months01:07
diddledanhttp://www.anandtech.com/show/6503/second-update-on-samsung-ssd-840840-pro-failures01:07
daftykinsoh yeah that one never got out01:08
daftykinsthat's not even worthy of consideration01:08
shaunothat's 201201:08
diddledani.e. he said (paraphrased) "if you want your data killed, use a samsung drive"01:08
daftykinsyeah that hasn't happened01:08
diddledanshauno: do you know a more-recent firmware issue on samsung drives that I should be concerned about then?01:09
daftykins840 EVOs lose the electron charge threshold slowly down performance hugely as it becomes harder to read the values stored within cells01:09
diddledanreally?01:10
daftykinsoops that was badly worded01:10
diddledanis there actual evidence of that causing data loss?01:10
shaunoI think NCQ was the one I was making jokes about01:10
daftykinsno word on data loss, just things crawl to a halt for having to go back and repeatedly retry reading cells01:10
shaunothere was an issue with some drives reporting that they supported NCQ when they didn't01:11
daftykinsSamsung have a second newest firmware and a maintenance app that goes over a drive and essentially rewrites it all01:11
shaunowhich wasn't an issue because no-one else supported NCQ.  until linux implemented sata 3.1.01:11
daftykinshmm01:12
shauno(and another bug where linux tried to use NCQ to trim to the wrong blocks.  I think these were a bad combination)01:12
daftykinsi think all sandforce controller based SSDs have had far worse woes01:12
zmoylan-piso what sort of support do these drives have on linux for updates/utilities?01:16
daftykinsbootable ISOs for firmware01:17
zmoylan-pinot too shabby then01:17
daftykinsand nothing for the utilities afaik01:17
daftykinsOCZ used to have these neat minimal GUI Linux live ISOs that would boot, connect to the internet then query your SSD and update it in one hit01:18
daftykinsnot sure that's still around since Toshiba bought their SSD portion01:18
zmoylan-pii'll stick with spinny drives then01:22
daftykinsyou're missing out01:23
zmoylan-pii'll stick with what i trust01:23
daftykinsthe performance gains will give you so much more free time :D01:24
daftykinsand oooh the silence01:24
daftykinsplus you can start flinging laptops around without worrying01:24
zmoylan-pii like the noise of a drive.  i can hear problems develop and make sure my backups are ready01:24
zmoylan-pimy hearing is excellent at high frequency,  even in my 40s01:25
zmoylan-pii can still hear mice and bats01:25
daftykinsbut you should backup on a schedule!01:26
daftykins:>01:26
zmoylan-pii do that to but sometimes you hear a drive make a noise that makes your paranoia do one early01:26
daftykinsi'll feel happier once i get that new UPS battery in01:29
daftykinsdon't really get powercuts over here so much as the 90s though01:30
zmoylan-pigrew up in a house a few doors down from a hospital, till they changed our area in 80s we never saw a power cut01:30
daftykinsimpressive01:31
shaunoI think I'm getting old.  I got one of those plastic drawer/tray things with all the tiny organizing compartments.  and it's pretty much my favourite toy right now01:34
diddledanlmao01:34
daftykinsthen where's the pic?!01:35
diddledanshauno: you're a grandad now. even if not biologically01:35
zmoylan-pii have loads of those :-)01:35
zmoylan-pione in most bags that i use.  filled with lots of odds and sods01:36
shaunoI think I'll go take a nap after this coffee01:47
zmoylan-pinap... after coffee... you're coffee's broken01:48
zmoylan-pi*your01:48
daftykinsi don't feel like the stuff does much to me01:48
shaunoI think I'm pretty much imune at this point01:50
daftykinsyou could go on a detox and get your tolerance lowered!01:50
daftykins:>01:50
shaunoit used to work.  I still have fond memories of trying to prove that the FDA's overdose limit was nonsense01:51
zmoylan-pimy mother used to get though 18 cups of tea a day, when she stopped she had massive headaches for months01:54
shauno40 shots of espresso in one sitting is still my record01:56
shaunoI'm convinced we could have managed more, but my boss's wife sent me home for "talking to the customers"01:56
shaunoI'm now so boring that I fear that'll forever be one of my proudest moments01:57
daftykins;_;02:00
daftykinsyou need to get on some bucket list items! :)02:00
daftykinsbah, HTPC spontaneously booted again02:00
shaunoI'm working on it :)  had my first sailing list in may, and I'm racing in cowes week next month.  that's been a pretty major "get off my ass"02:02
daftykins:O02:03
daftykinsdid your bottom bracket tool come yet? :>02:03
shaunohaven't ordered it yet.  I'm away all next week, so I figure I'll wait till I get back02:04
shaunoelse knowing my luck, it'll arrive while I'm gone and everything will go wrong02:04
diddledanalso, after curry, has your bottom bracket ever fallen out?02:04
diddledanof course, I'm now wondering what a "bottom bracket tool" is for. some kind of sodomistic things?02:05
shaunothe closest I can get to answering that, is "the day after taking the Curry Hell Challenge in Newcastle, I flew on an ATR all the way from Newcastle to Dublin.  That was not clever."02:06
diddledanlol02:06
daftykins:D02:06
daftykinswe have ATRs over here!02:06
daftykinsour mate is being made to go back to one to do his Captaincy02:07
shaunonothing "fell out", but as it flapped around on the wind trying to land, I did not feel fantastic at all02:07
diddledanone of these? http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/7/2/7/1757727.jpg02:07
shaunoyes  lol02:07
shaunoI miss aer arann.  they did all kinds of stupid little routes on those02:08
shaunoI guess they still do, since they've been subsumed into aer lingus.  but they don't come to galway anymore, which ruined it for me.  if I have to go all the way to a real airport, I might as well get on a real plane02:09
daftykinsthey're huge, what you want is... http://www.alderneypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/g-joey2.jpg02:10
daftykins:D02:10
daftykinsthose suckers are true 'air taxis'02:11
shaunothat engine on the tail looks very .. kerbal02:11
diddledanlol02:11
diddledanI think it must have been designed by an aussie02:11
daftykinswhen banked 45 degrees to the side of the island, everyone including the sole pilot is staring out the side at the island :>02:11
shaunowe have something similar to that, but without the kerbal'd engine - http://img.rasset.ie/0008cd59-642.jpg02:11
diddledan"that tail looks boring, mate, shove an engine up there!"02:12
daftykinsonce, a passenger noticed a tire was flat - so he tapped the pilot on the shoulder and he went "oh dear" and landed on a beach instead02:12
shaunoI keep meaning to try one of these out to the islands, just because I'm a nerd.  but I can never figure out how to plan it02:13
daftykinsyou could come visit!02:14
daftykins:P02:14
shaunoif I go out on the ferry, I can wake up that morning, look out the window and go "nahhh".  if I fly, I have to book it the day before and pray for the weather02:14
shaunoI meant the islands here ;)02:15
daftykinshmm think we can book same day in person here02:15
daftykinsoh i know :P02:15
daftykinsbut how could you possibly pass up riding in Joey02:15
daftykinsi mean he even has his own comic books02:15
shauno"comfortably, from a distance"02:15
shaunowhich reminds me02:15
shaunodiddledan: I wasn't kidding about being in southampton next month  lol02:16
diddledanyeah, but I'm a hermit02:16
diddledan:-p02:16
daftykinshave you guys crossed paths before given your lengthy exposure over the aye-arr-seas?02:16
daftykinsor do you both know better :D02:17
shaunonah02:17
diddledanit might be dangerous02:17
shaunoI don't go back to the UK often, because it's boring and expensive02:17
diddledanyou know, same time, same place and all that02:17
shaunoand dan doesn't go Outside often, because he's lost the front door key02:17
diddledanlol02:17
diddledanyeah, I've got a rope out the window for deliveries02:18
diddledanluckily no fires yet, so I've not needed to go that route myself02:18
shaunooh man.  I've had a delivery guy offer to try to bung the parcel in an upstairs window before02:18
diddledanlmao02:18
diddledan"stay there, I'll chuck it"02:19
shaunonah, he called me because I wasn't home02:19
diddledanaah02:19
diddledan"stay there, I'll chuck it"02:19
shaunohe seemed pretty convinced he could get it in the open window.  but upstairs isn't my house02:19
diddledan:-p02:19
diddledanlol02:19
diddledanthat kinda puts a downer on it02:19
diddledanok, so the huffington post have a story that the MI5 foiled "al qaeda's most ambitious plot" because london got bombed02:21
diddledankinda a bit of a "well on the one hand, many deaths. but good news, we caught some other dudes"£02:21
daftykinsas in they were off doing one job and couldn't focus on averting the bombings in London?02:23
diddledanI don't really know02:23
diddledanit sounds like "we let them bomb london so we could catch someone"02:24
daftykinshrmm02:24
diddledanquote: Mr Parker said: "I’m not sure we would have detected it without the uplift that followed 7/7."02:26
diddledanso paraphrasing "see, we told you we need to invade your privacy!"02:26
diddledanI'm not sure "increased surveilance" counts as an "uplift" either02:27
shaunohow cute, you still think you have privacy :p02:27
diddledanbut I'm a liberal I guess02:27
diddledanshauno: at least with facebook I know I'm getting rear-ended and have accepted it. government is doing it without me bending over and saying "have at it" first02:28
shaunooh I know.  it's both sad and hilarious.02:28
diddledansorry, family friendly!02:28
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daftykinsi thought the uplift was a thing my mates just booked at the bikepark in Wales02:30
shaunothat just makes it sound like they got a boost in resources that they found useful02:30
shaunobut in the context of their current whines that they can't decode my phone .. hah02:30
diddledantony blair: "we are not going to allow anyone to excuse themselves by saying the slaughter of totally innocent people is somehow a response to any decision by any government." <-- so invading iraq is out of the question then?02:31
zmoylan-pibeen pr in mi5 is great, you can just make stuff up and when asked say we can't provide any details because of security02:31
shaunoI'm curious what'd happen if people start to subpoena the intelligence services for their defense02:33
diddledanin other news, the RMT have succeeded where al qaeda failed. london will be brought to a standstill for a whole 24 hours starting from 18:30 tomorrow02:34
zmoylan-pithey'll just pass a law saying they can ignore a subpoena02:34
shaunoI mean, can I use gchq as my alibi?02:34
diddledanshauno: you need to include lots of speculation about ongoing projects that need to be classified02:35
shaunolol, I'm more thinking of perfectly sensible stuff02:35
shauno"I was in x place at y time.  the crown has records of this.  the crown is prosecuting."02:35
zmoylan-piproject bogroll, a real clean up job02:35
diddledanshauno: so. getting the government to submit data from gchq on the basis that gchq is part of the prosecution's enterprise and therefore fair game for evidence requests?02:36
shaunoI'm not sure it has to work, it just has to stick a question in the jury's mind.  the whole 'reasonable doubt' thing02:37
zmoylan-piremember the oversight for gchq is a small bunch of politicians who gchq probably have evidence of various illegal acts02:37
diddledandoesn't reasonable doubt only cover murd0r?02:37
shaunoit's meant to be any trial.  it's near impossible to prove absolutes.  you just have to prove 'beyond reasonable doubt'02:38
diddledanzmoylan-pi: sounds like one of the seasons of nikita02:38
shaunoI just find it interesting that the crown can use gchq against you, but can withold evidence that might support you02:39
diddledanit's a good thought02:39
diddledanI don't suppose we'll ever find out the answer until one of us gets solicited02:39
shaunowell02:40
shaunoyou, basically.  zmoylan-pi, daftykins and myself aren't in the UK :)02:40
zmoylan-pithe answer is it's nonsense, a complete waste of money and resources and undermines democracy02:40
zmoylan-piyet gchq spies on ireland a fair bit02:40
zmoylan-pimuch good that it did them02:40
shaunosure, but they likely won't show up in court here :)02:41
daftykinsdid i show you guys our leaders? https://www.dropbox.com/s/ssv1o5dat6tx74g/IMG_20150706_182942.jpg?dl=002:41
zmoylan-pinot exactly true, they did provide evidence to the gardai when it suited them to get people convicted here02:41
zmoylan-piwether the evidince was real or manufactured is left to the readers opinion02:42
diddledandaftykins: the cow?02:43
diddledanmaybe that should read "the cow!"02:43
daftykinsboth!02:44
daftykinsGuernsey Golds, them02:44
diddledannvidia are going into fast food? "nvidia hopes to sell more chips by bringing ai programming to the masses"02:44
diddledanI guess nvidia's idea is "people can build and program a robot to come to our takeaway restaurant to buy chips"02:45
diddledankiddy fiddler might not go to prison because he'll be unable to fiddle kids: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/paedophile-could-dodge-jail-because-601873002:52
diddledanthat's a paraphrase btw02:52
daftykinsi had a feeling there were no child musicians in the story02:53
diddledanok, so it's actually his pacemaker that "needs" wifi. he'll just use it anyway02:56
diddledanI fail to understand why a pacemaker would "need" wifi, and also how it would connect when the network is secured with a key02:57
diddledanand what happens when he goes on holiday?02:57
diddledanor, god forbid, leave his home wifi-network's range to get a pint of milk (or drop by the local school)02:58
zmoylan-pithey can bung him in low security place with heavily restricted wifi03:00
zmoylan-pi2400baud wifi should be fast enough :-)03:01
shaunoprobably much more sane to have an outbound policy limited by host03:03
zmoylan-piyou see mobile phones popular with prisoners sold in dublin all over the place. http://www.broadsheet.ie/tag/beat-the-boss-phones/03:07
diddledanreally unmetered bandwidth? http://www.libsyn.com/podcast-hosting-services/03:31
diddledan(I was nosing to see what a particular podcast used to drive their, rather naff, webpage)03:32
diddledani.e. these guys: http://surfacesmiths.com03:32
diddledanthey were linked by Gabe Aul in a mass-email I received03:33
diddledanoh no, looks like I found them on his twatter feed03:33
diddledanor not, actually it was the windows insider twit03:35
diddledanI wish I could make musics03:44
diddledanI'm not arty tho03:44
zmoylan-pikaraoke to punish the universe for not making you musical :-p03:45
diddledanthat would be too evil03:45
diddledanmy singing is worse than my music creation ability03:45
zmoylan-piyou need... microsoft songsmith... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oGFogwcx-E04:05
diddledanlol I remember that04:08
diddledanwow, I won a whole £6 last night on the eurolotto04:15
mappsmorning05:20
diddledanmorning05:33
diddledanhow goes?05:33
diddledanstill "stupid hot"?05:33
diddledanit's cooled down a bit here05:33
mappsatm its ok05:34
mappsbut 36c at 5p05:34
mappsm05:34
diddledaneep05:34
mappsis gonna be tough lol05:34
diddledanooh, a new movie has appeared in my collection: survivor: stars milla jovovich and pierce bosnan05:35
diddledanstill got moar csi:cyber to watch, too05:35
mapps;D05:36
mappsi watched spy ..decent enough05:36
diddledanyeah?05:36
diddledanI like the look of that05:36
mappsya considering jason statham and that woman05:36
mappsboth normally in rubbish films imo05:36
diddledanlol05:36
diddledanjason statham is the new steven segal05:37
mappsyea05:38
mappshe was funny in spy tho :)05:39
diddledantime for episode 8 of csi:cyber. entitled "Selfie 2.0"05:49
mappsheh05:49
mappswhat a title05:49
diddledaneep @ manky body in the first scene05:49
diddledanshe doesn't look very well05:50
diddledanmight be a slight touch of dehydration05:50
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MooDoomorning07:11
diddledanm0007:13
davmor2Morning all08:11
bashrc_morning08:13
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brobostigonmorning boys and girls.08:28
bigcalmGood morning peeps :)08:31
popeyblimey08:31
* popey checks the time08:31
diddledanyey for bt shenanigans08:32
bigcalm:P08:32
* davmor2 picks himself up off the floor, bigcalm dude are you okay, you know it's like really the morning ;)08:34
bigcalmYeah... I'm trying to ease myself into work today. Haven't found my mojo yet08:35
diddledanhad a line with sky which I've cancelled in favour of no landline. phone line is still active, with a new number. sky won't talk to me because I'm no longer a sky customer. bt won't talk to me because I'm not a bt customer. openreach won't talk to me because I'm not a service provider. all I want is for my landline to be killed!08:35
bigcalmFree phone calls?08:36
diddledanbigcalm: that's what I'm wondering08:36
diddledanif I use it do I get charged? if not who does?08:36
bigcalmWho would charge you if nobody wants to talk to you?08:37
diddledanexactly08:37
bigcalmdavmor2: come to tonight's LUG. It's getting a little too quiet08:38
diddledan17070 gave me the number so I could give it out to folk08:38
davmor2bigcalm: can't this week see email I just sent, hoping to get there next time though, what's this about interbiz ?08:38
bigcalmdavmor2: he's got himself a job doing PostgreSQL in London. He'll be back up occasionally though08:40
davmor2bigcalm: :(  man how is the sweetmiester going to cope now ;)08:41
bigcalmThose to, Amo and I went for a meal on Monday evening. All seemed well. I'm glad working for a friend and then leaving the company didn't sour things for them08:46
bigcalms/to/two08:47
davmor2bigcalm: yeah I don't think he would of left under a cloud and I doubt adam would of been prepared to up the wages to London prices.08:48
TwistedLuciditydiddledan: Make a call. Wait for the bill. Call the name at the company at the top of the bill.08:51
TwistedLucidityBear in mind that a lack of landline might affect your home value should you want to sell.08:51
diddledanTwistedLucidity: it's apparently still owned by sky - calling 150 gives a prompt that "you're through to sky. to help...."08:51
TwistedLuciditydiddledan: Ah. Then talk to Sky. :-)08:52
diddledanrented :-p08:52
diddledanI'm talking to them now08:52
TwistedLucidityLandlord?08:52
diddledanhousing assoc08:52
TwistedLucidityMy tenant is leaving my property and coming the city I currently live in. Ironic.08:53
Laneycoming to exact revenge for the rat infestation? :)09:36
MartijnVdS*waiting for the UPS man*09:51
zmoylan-piin the time it took to type that he's left a while you were out card at your front door...09:57
MartijnVdSzmoylan-pi: some famous people complained about that. Now they all actually try to get you to open the door for a while :)10:05
MartijnVdSzmoylan-pi: in case you're a celebrity xD10:05
diddledanMartijnVdS: what happens when they find out you're not a celeb?10:12
MartijnVdSdiddledan: they still ask for my signature10:12
zmoylan-pithen they let your packages be handled by the angry gorilla department10:12
MartijnVdSzmoylan-pi: it's Dell's insurance paying for that I guess :P10:12
davmor2diddledan: we are all infamous hackers just ask our friends at GCHQ and the NSA.......biab knock at the door.........ruuuuunnnnnnnnnnnn the black vaaaaaannnnnnnnnns arrrrrrrrreeeeeeeee ccccccommmmmmmmmmminng10:13
MartijnVdSVans? Oh good, then that helicopter on the horizon isn't something to worry about10:15
diddledano_O10:15
zmoylan-pisiily davmor2, the helicopters are black the vans are white to blend in10:15
bashrc_partyvan?10:15
davmor2zmoylan-pi: adfffffdaasslkfdjslk meow no-one here but us cats as;dflkasldkskjfdfj meow10:16
zmoylan-pihmmmm, a cat acknowledging a humans existance.... seems suspect...10:17
bashrc_can I remove the tinfoil yet?10:17
* zmoylan-pi takes reading from thermometer attached to bashrc_.... no, another 20 minutes....10:17
diddledantoasty10:17
bashrc_basting10:17
awilkinsDumb question : anyone know a code syntax highlighter that will do IRC colour sequences?10:50
zmoylan-piemacs? some learning required... :-p10:50
awilkinsI guess one of the webby ones can be mangled into doing it10:59
davmor2awilkins:  hexchat and irssi I think are all capable with plugin's but I guess it depends on the programming language, I would assume others could too maybe look up <specific_programming_language> highlight plugin for <irc_client_of_choice>11:02
MartijnVdSwhoa.. the laptop starts with some Ubuntu animation thing11:03
MartijnVdSand a tiiiiiiiny mouse cursor11:03
awilkinsWhich laptop?11:04
MartijnVdSxps1311:04
awilkinsShiny11:04
awilkinsIs that in BIOS or part of the boot sequence?11:04
MartijnVdSI think it's part of the OEM/firstboot sequence11:04
awilkinsHmm, it's on offer11:07
awilkinsThat's annoying, you can't change the RAM11:09
awilkinsOr much of anything11:09
awilkinsJust 2 editions11:09
MartijnVdSyeah.. I have the 811:09
MartijnVdS8GB/512GB one, i711:09
awilkinsYeah11:09
awilkinsThat's the nice one, apart from the touchscreen11:09
MartijnVdSyou can disable that :)11:09
davmor2MartijnVdS: matt or touch-screen?11:09
awilkinsAnything that encourages folk to touch my screen is anaethema11:09
MartijnVdSit's touch.. only way to get 3200x180011:10
zmoylan-pisome people have the grubbiest hands11:10
awilkinsI swear my boss intentionally bullies me by touching my screen and leaving marks on purpose11:10
davmor2zmoylan-pi: grub maintainers mostly11:10
MartijnVdSthe letters in the vttys are so TINY11:10
awilkinsNot sure I could cope with the teensy 11 inch form factor11:11
awilkinsIs the keyboard a normal size or a bit cramped?11:11
davmor2MartijnVdS: I don't think there are that "TINY" that would be huge if they were that size :P11:11
MartijnVdSkeyboard feels OK11:12
MartijnVdSbut I'm used to the XPS12 from last year for work11:12
MartijnVdSso..11:12
czajkowskiLaney: over here more UK centric conversation :) interesting to see Harman is anti Sunday trading!12:48
* zmoylan-pi remembers when sunday shopping was gardening centres and diy only...12:49
czajkowskizmoylan-pi: ah I did learn how to drive ona  sunday with shopping centres being closed12:50
czajkowskizmoylan-pi: biggest culture shock moving to UK was shops closing so early on a Sunday12:50
davmor2zmoylan-pi: I remember the diy sotres opening the gardening bits to get around the sunday laws so they could open :)12:50
zmoylan-pisame here, i learned in sandyford industrial estate.  it was empty12:50
shaunoI learnt to drive on the a590.  not the best idea any of us ever had12:51
diploGet a nexus 7 here ( my mums ) slow as hell, anyone know if a factory reset and reinstall apps may improve things?13:06
diploNot really played with tablets much13:06
popey2012 or 2013?13:06
diploIt's definitely slower once connected to the wifi though13:06
czajkowskipopey: see pm please :)13:07
diplohah that was going to be another question, how do i find that out :D13:07
zmoylan-pibut how many apps are trying to run while wifi is there?  see task manager13:07
popeyhold it portrait13:07
popeyturn it round13:07
popeyis the word "nexus" the right way up or sideways?13:07
popey2012 nexus 7 is portrait, 2013 nexus 7 is landscape13:08
diploRight way up13:08
popeyhas a grey edge around the tablet?13:08
diploSo 2012 :)13:08
diployeah13:08
popeyyeah, 201213:08
popeythey are notoriously slow13:08
popeyMine got a bit faster by doing a factory reflash13:08
popeyand then re-install a small number of things13:08
popeybut it will never be fast13:09
popeyczajkowski: kk13:09
diploah ok thanks, will give my mum that option13:09
MartijnVdS3200x1800 is so.. *drool*13:43
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bujjihow can i get vm14:22
bujjifor ubuntu14:22
diploProbably need to explain what you are after bujji ?14:24
diploVirtualbox is virtual machine software, or kvm14:24
bujji?14:24
diploOr do you mean an image14:24
bujjivirtual machine14:24
bujjikvm?14:24
diploSo you can run one with VirtualBox14:25
MooDooInstall virtualbox, then just install a machine as you would normally :D14:25
bigcalmbujji: I would suggest you start out with VirtualBox14:25
shaunoI think you need to expand on the question, not the terminology.  you tend to have incredibly vague requests which makes it difficult to answer14:25
MooDoohttps://www.virtualbox.org/14:25
MooDooI use virtual box for my kali linux install14:25
bujjifor ubuntu i want to install virtual box like vmware14:26
bujjifor this i need image as well.14:27
MooDoobujji: http://virtualboxes.org/images/ubuntu/14:27
MooDoohttp://www.osboxes.org/ubuntu/ or this14:28
awilkinsbujji, You don't need an image as well - you can just use an Ubuntu ISO and stick it in the virtual CDROM drive of your virtual machine and install it14:29
awilkinsOr download one of those handy pre-made images14:29
MooDooi don't think he wants to install just have one running :(14:29
bujjiMooDoo:i do)))14:30
bujjikvm ?14:30
awilkinsStart with Virtualbox14:31
awilkinsIt has a nice GUI and it's easy to use14:31
shaunoif you're expecting vmware, virtualbox will be closer to what you're expecting14:31
MooDooyeah kvm will do it, but that's a more advanced tool, you want one like vmware use virtualbox14:31
MooDooI use it on a daily basis :D14:31
awilkinsYup, I keep my captive pet Windows in a Virtualbox VM14:32
MooDookali here :D14:32
bujjiokey14:33
awilkinsI only keep it for business reasons14:33
awilkinsFrickin' Office14:33
bujjikali linux?14:33
bujjiis that kali is a virtual box14:33
MooDoobujji: it's for penetration testing14:33
MooDoobujji: yes i run kali linux in a virtualbox14:33
bujjiMooDoo:this one https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads14:35
awilkinsThat's the one14:35
bigcalmbujji: sudo apt-get install virtualbox14:35
MooDooyes that's the one, as I'm running vivid and 64bit you download the relavent one14:35
MooDoobigcalm: ooooo didn't know it was packaged.....doh!14:36
awilkinsbigcalm, the repository version is quite old14:36
bigcalmTrue, but still works14:36
MooDoobujji: download it from that site14:36
bujjibigcalm:if i do that where i can find14:36
MooDoodont't forget to downloadd VirtualBox 4.3.28 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack as well so you can get usb support14:37
awilkinsInstalls a desktop item, just open the dash and type "virtual" (presuming you use a Unity desktop)14:37
bujjiwho is working here linux admin14:38
bujjithank you for all your response here.14:39
mappsoh my15:21
mappswokeup drippng in sweat again15:21
mapps35c15:21
mappsarghh15:21
* mapps isn't used to this weather15:21
diddledanso, you know there's a crime of "perverting the course of justice"? well can we prosecute the european commission for such due to the human rights act?15:25
shaunohow so?15:25
diddledani.e. they enacted the act so we get to sue them for perverting the course of justice15:25
diddledanhow many crims have failed to be convicted due to the human rights act now?15:26
diddledansurely that's perversion of justice's course, no?15:26
mappshm15:26
mappslots15:26
shaunothat sounds like a rather one-sided view15:29
awilkinsI'd prefer them to focus on the criminals who aren't even prosecuted because they work in a place with nice letterheads than the few criminals who benefit in some way from everyone having rights15:34
shaunoI just think the UK is authoritarian enough already, without needing to go so far as to admit they're the only country in europe that believes humans have too many rights15:35
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mappsbreeze from the sea is so nie18:06
mapps;]18:06
mappsnice18:06
DJonesAnybody know if there are any rules on how much pain I inflict on the "git" that smashed my car window to pinch an obsolete tomtom when I see them next18:35
mappsyou know who it was?!18:36
DJonesNo, but they're caught on cctv doing it18:36
DJonesIf he gets caught at work, it won't be a pretty sight, he'll have a choice of being dropped into the molten rubber vat, or going in the oven with the remould tyres being baked18:38
shaunothat could be messy, I'd expect humans to saponify rather than galvanize18:42
DJonesProbably just look like a skeleton in tight scuba gear18:49
shaunocreepiest bar of soap ever?18:58
shaunoif you really want an IANAL, I do believe your actions can't exceed a reasonably proportional response to the threat you're facing at that time.  you can't post-date it19:00
davmor2DJones: no just make im pay your inflated insurance renewals for the next 10 years19:03
DJonesshauno: It won't be post-dated, it'll be ongoing, ie they started it, we'll finish it19:10
DJonesIt'll be the same incident,  just over time19:11
popeyalso, don't tell everyone what you plan on a publicly logged irc channel19:40
popeyimo19:40
DJonesThat can be dealt with :)19:41
DJonesooop's they fell in the vat of boiling rubber.......19:41
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diddledanebenink21:04
daftykinshello sir21:05
daftykinswhat's new?21:05
diddledanjust discovered this: http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/AlexsNewsandReviews/news/?a=9849421:05
mapps8 weeks and still no bank stuff21:21
mappsi was told june 11th21:21
mapps;D21:21
mappsi was told it would be 'slow' nothing gets done fast here21:21
daftykinshah, nice21:22
daftykinshey mapps instead of using those rubbish unreliable Pis of yours, you should setup a digital ocean VPS for $3/mo like i did21:22
daftykinssuper reliable, nice static IP... could run IRC on it too...21:22
zmoylan-pii run irc on my pi fine...21:28
daftykinsthat's not what i said21:29
daftykinshe uses his for a VPN endpoint :>21:29
zmoylan-pii'm sure it's been done too on a pi21:30
MooDooevening21:32
zmoylan-pibut the pi is a little weak on the networking side as it has a slow network port.  if you have access to really great broadband it would show up21:33
MooDoohmmm let me think pay money or run it for free ;)21:34
* zmoylan-pi likes MooDoo's logic :-)21:34
* MooDoo is interfering sorry lol21:34
daftykinswell his keeps going down, so if you'd actually consider the facts here before jumping the gun...21:34
zmoylan-piwell if it keeps going down then he's motivated to learn more to fix it21:35
daftykinsi don't think it's an issue with the setup software wise21:35
MooDooI'm lucky I have 2 x 1u servers that have kvm on them with gluster so I can run my irc from vms on that21:35
* zmoylan-pi is looking at replacing my oldest system (6yo slow netbook with 1gb ram) with some bargain basement special from argos before all the win10 systems come along...21:38
daftykinswhy before?21:39
zmoylan-pi1) because i won't know how easy it will be to install linux on a win10 system where i can't turn off secure boot 2) argos are end of catalog and systems are been dumped cheap :-)21:40
daftykinswhat makes you believe secure boot won't be possible to disable?21:41
daftykinsalso, seen those cheap AMD ubuntu systems on ebuyer?21:41
zmoylan-pino credit card so need to walk into shop to purchase21:42
zmoylan-piand win10 dropped requirement for secure boot to be able to be turned off. i suspect it will gradually be phased out so trying to snag one i can turn off for sure21:42
daftykinsnot even a debit card 0o21:43
zmoylan-pinopee21:43
daftykinsjust an ATM one?21:43
zmoylan-pino bank account21:43
daftykinswat21:43
daftykinsso piles of cash under the mattress eh? :>21:43
zmoylan-pihttp://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/politics/100000-adults-in-ireland-have-no-bank-account-161470.html21:44
zmoylan-pia few years back we had a minister for finance who admitted they had no bank account...21:45
daftykinsnice21:46
ali1234zmoylan-pi: get a thinkpad x220/x23022:48
ali1234probably cheaper than anything argos sells22:48
daftykinshmm on xubuntu the fields on this online payment form are all laid out funny and you can't click 'next' in yellow, is that the same for anyone else? http://www.gsygas.com/pay-online/22:55
zmoylan-piand does one know of a shop in dublin selling them? :-)22:55
ali1234daftykins: yes but it's unlikely to be anything directly to do with xubuntu22:56
ali1234daftykins: in firefox, ctrl-shift-+ until the form fits inside that brown rectangle22:57
daftykinsnah i just stated that due to default packages present22:57
ali1234it's something to do with <div> overflows or something22:57
daftykinsah good call, i just went into a field and hit enter, that worked too22:57
ali1234possibly related to font sizes22:58
ali1234"the www"22:58
daftykinsnothing to contact them about then? :)22:58
ali1234they are unlikely to fix it22:58
ali1234contact them, if you like talking to a brick wall :)22:58
daftykins:D22:58
ali1234although, if they are a Guernsey company you might just get the CEO22:59
daftykinsweirdly, they seem to have a call center on the isle of man O_O23:00
daftykinsthey ask you which island when calling in these days :D23:00
ali1234web design company is also Guernsey23:00
daftykinsperhaps i should test a clean profile first tum te tum23:00
ali1234it works okay in chrome23:00
ali1234this could actually be a firefox bug23:07
ali1234<div id="rightcol"> is the culprit in any case23:07
ali1234anything that completely overflows outside of it can't be interacted with23:08
ali1234forcing it to shrink in chrome has the same effect so it's not a firefox bug23:09
daftykinsooh novel23:12
daftykinsdiddledan: seen this before? ^23:12
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popeyhttp://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/18179175027423:54
popeycheapo23:54
popeythey charge via usb I thought, so not having a charger isn't a biggie?23:55
ali1234yeah but if they normally come with one you gotta mention it on the listing, or risk the buyer complaining to ebay23:58

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