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=== zmoylan-1i is now known as zmoylan-pi
knightwisemorning peeps05:51
MooDoomorning all07:24
davmor2Morning all08:00
brobostigonmorning boys and girls.08:09
bashrcmorning08:09
davmor2Morning head song list updated \o/08:10
brobostigonmorning bashrc and davmor208:12
davmor2brobostigon: Morning dude, how's life?08:14
sebsebsebbhi08:14
davmor2morning sebsebsebb08:15
sebsebsebbhi08:15
sebsebsebbdavmor2: yeah morning08:15
sebsebsebbaww there's a mobile phone in a few bits in the  bin bag, not mine.  but I guess should maybe be taken out and recyled or something at least?08:15
sebsebsebbdavmor2: maybe I should get him an Ubuntu Phone, or will he start whiing about that to if so, heh heh.  yeah I got a much younger little brother as well...08:18
sebsebsebbhe wasn't happy with a cheap Android phone my Dad got him08:18
brobostigondavmor2: not bad really, going well i suppose.08:20
sebsebsebbmorning brobostigon08:21
zmoylan-piget them a nokia feature phone, 1) cheap 2) near indestructible :-)08:23
sebsebsebbzmoylan-pi: do Nokia's still sell?08:24
sebsebsebbI thought it all went Microsoft really and Windows  as a result, and then Nokia apprnaty were going to sell there brand again08:24
zmoylan-pishops still have them, even new argos catalog has feature phones, i think there's a dumb nokia in there08:25
zmoylan-pii see a lot of smart phone users carrying ancient nokia for voice calls08:25
zmoylan-piand battery life after smart phone dies08:26
sebsebsebbmaybe should give him a budget ( my Mum will pay ),  and say he can spend  about that on a new phone, that he can pick himself,  a new Android phone or maybe Ubuntu even heh if he realy wanted to go that way, but I dobut that08:26
sebsebsebband the one he picks may be cheaper or a bit more08:26
sebsebsebbzmoylan-pi: heh he was asking about what old phones may be lying around the house yesterday as a tempory08:27
sebsebsebbmay be a old Nokia or two around some where08:27
sebsebsebbthat can be used still08:27
zmoylan-pifor €100 i got an asha 302.  a qwerty nokia with wifi feature phone, i use it for ereader, mp3s, radio, web, email, irc, ssh, rss, games and am starting to play with c64, zx, nintendo emulators08:28
sebsebsebb,but probably not actsaully,  or not with a newer sim08:28
sebsebsebbyeah for about £100 should be able to get a reaonaslbe one really,  and for about £200 something a bit more rid range realy08:28
zmoylan-pithe only program missing is a text editor08:28
sebsebsebb,but he is old enough now to be able to pick his own phone really, or kind of08:29
sebsebsebba little guidance maybe, but otherwise I think so08:29
zmoylan-pii helped my brother get his son an iphone a few years back.  he had his heart set on it no matter how much we advised against it.  he managed to flog it within 6 months for a high spec android... we were so proud :-)08:30
sebsebsebbyeah mine knows I woudn't want him to have an Iphone, so he knows his options are Android really08:31
sebsebsebbunless maybe he wanted to try soething differnet that lacks apps such as Ubuntu, but apparnatly apps aren't that important in his case actsaully08:31
sebsebsebbjust that he can amke calls easy and do texts and that08:31
* zmoylan-pi recommends a 2nd hand blackberry, they're tanks and have great keyboard even if not 'cool'08:32
sebsebsebbzmoylan-pi: he doesn't want to ask my Dad to buy him a new phone, since the last one was only about a year or so ago08:32
sebsebsebbplus I think he knows now that my Dad may get him some cheap unknown brand phone, like the last one08:33
zmoylan-pihuwaei android phones offer very good spec for low price08:33
sebsebsebbyes Hawaei seems ok, my Mum's got one08:34
sebsebsebbzmoylan-pi: yeah it's some month thing, so woudn't be bought on a contract a new one08:35
sebsebsebbhave you got a link for a good enough Huwaei one for example then?08:36
sebsebsebbzmoylan-pi: also what about that phone in the bin bag, is it really just going to land fill now?08:38
sebsebsebbit's in a few bits in there to08:38
zmoylan-pievery time i pass the hawaei's in tescos i pause... http://www.tescomobile.ie/phones/displayPhone.aspx?p=27008:39
sebsebsebbzmoylan-pi: yeah I know can buy phones from Tesco, but that puts on Tesco mobile I think?08:39
sebsebsebbhe's got a sim that should work in any un locked phone08:39
zmoylan-pithat's on tesco mobile, in ireland that's o2 who were just taken over by 308:40
sebsebsebboh your from Ireland08:40
zmoylan-pia tenner at local phone accessories hut will unlock most phones excluding sony08:40
sebsebsebbzmoylan-pi: so you think  Hauawaii is a good way to go?08:42
sebsebsebbI think probably really most Android phones should be good enough for him really08:42
sebsebsebbhence also why I wast hinking, maybe  he should look around himself etc08:43
sebsebsebband try and pick something himself then08:43
zmoylan-pii've bought huwaei for 1-2 people and good spec, decent hardware.  feels like you're buying hardware instead of a brand.  with kids that can be an issue08:43
sebsebsebbzmoylan-pi: what that the hardware itself is good enough or?08:43
sebsebsebbzmoylan-pi: yes he was saying the hardware was having issues with that phone that yeah.  that the screen wasn't working right and such08:44
zmoylan-pithat there is no advertising for huwaei so the hardware is the only advertising you get.  ie. good08:44
sebsebsebbwhat do you mean no advertising for Huwaei ?08:45
sebsebsebbzmoylan-pi: if he picks a phone himself, it will be more personal though I guess,  and that could be good08:46
zmoylan-pii've never seen an advert for huwaei while i often see ads for samsung, htc, apple08:46
sebsebsebbI saw the one in the bin bag, and it's like it's just some disposable consuemr device that gets old and bin it, like a old pair of trainers or something,  but a phone isn't really meant to be like that in my opinion08:46
sebsebsebbindeed that's a good point,  Hauwaii is around, but where's the adverts for it,  Hawaui is still known enough08:47
popeymorning08:47
sebsebsebbpopey: morning08:47
sebsebsebbzmoylan-pi: maybe he should just pick his own this time, well after guideing him in some sort of direction08:50
sebsebsebbmay even learn a few things about phones if doing it that way to08:51
sebsebsebbwhich would be good08:51
zmoylan-pii'd find out how the last one broke first of course08:53
sebsebsebbzmoylan-pi: oh I know how it broke..09:04
sebsebsebbzmoylan-pi: he whined about the screen etc for quite a while,  than the screen itself apparnatly broke,  but something was on it, never got to see properly,  and then he decided to actsaully take the phone aprt himself see what was inside etc09:05
sebsebsebbhe might have thrown in a river a few weeks back actsaully, if the sim card wasn't so nicely locked away in it09:05
bujjihello09:08
JamesTaitGood morning all; happy Monday, and happy Walk on Stilts Day! 😃09:08
sebsebsebbbujji: hi09:08
zmoylan-pitune in tomorrow for happy lying comfortable on a stretcher day :-p09:08
bujjihi o/ ))09:08
bujjisebsebsebb: how are you doing?09:09
sebsebsebbok you09:10
bujjisebsebsebb: good09:10
knightwiseCatching up on some paperwork for the company here09:11
bujjiknightwise: o_O09:11
knightwiseHas to be doen09:13
knightwisedone09:13
bujjiknightwise: what work?09:13
knightwiseI"m a freelance IT consultant09:14
davmor2JamesTait: Are you mad or do you just live in a house with massive doors and really high ceilings? Also not a song about stilts but a group of stilts family https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuTVKO0RScI09:14
davmor2did you see what I did there ;)09:15
JamesTaitdavmor2, very good. ☺  I like the song as well.09:18
JamesTaitdavmor2, I think you already know the answer to your question. 😉09:18
knightwiseif somebody just shot me a private message , my irssi just lost it .. :( so resend09:20
bujjidavmor2: watch thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOEg_YZQsTI09:20
bujjiknightwise: sorry09:20
bujjidavmor2: how is it? didn't see))09:28
davmor2in a meeting I'll look at it after09:29
popeyhey, english speakers!10:52
popeyhttps://launchpadlibrarian.net/205900728/screenshot20150501_233502290.png10:52
popeyi want to change that text.. does this read better:-10:52
popey"This note has been modified in multiple places. Open each version to check content, then swipe to delete one of them."10:52
nigelbpopey: "Please choose which one you want to keep"10:53
nigelbI think less text would help10:53
nigelbThe more text, the less likely someone will read it fully.10:53
nigelb<-- not a native English speaker10:53
MooDoo"This note has been modified in multiple places, please swipe to delete the one no longer required" ?10:54
popeythe problem is it's not obvious you need to swipe10:54
popeyhence telling them that10:55
popeyand its also not obvious that you can tap to open them to read them10:55
popeyhence telling them that too 🙂10:55
popeybecause from the preview you may not be able to tell which should be the "winner"10:55
nigelbahh.10:56
knightwisepopey: enjoying house of cards ?10:57
popeyyeah!10:57
popeydidn't think wifey would like it10:57
popeyshe was hooked after the first episode10:57
popeynice to have something to watch together10:58
knightwiseWe are into those kinds of things here10:58
popeywe burned through OITNB pretty quickly10:58
knightwisewatched BORGEN together and BOSS, also a very good show10:58
knightwisethe second season of OITNB was a little poor.10:58
knightwiseWe love shows that require us to FOCUS ,10:58
knightwisecurrently watching , House of Cards and Broadchurch10:59
popeyyeah, we loved broadchurch, but missed the first season so only saw the second10:59
knightwisethats a bit hard to drop in halfway in the middle but still its a great show10:59
popeynah, the second season can be watched alone10:59
knightwisefirst season is good too11:01
knightwiseI love the music from broadchurch11:01
MooDoodon't watch the american version with david tennant in it, he's got an american accesnt lol11:01
popeyI really like Olivia Colman11:01
popeyhah11:01
knightwiseMooDoo: AURCH11:02
knightwiseShe is awesome indeed :)11:02
MooDoopopey: get in the queue she's mine11:02
popeyhahah11:02
popeyYou can have her, my heart belongs to Alex Polizzi11:02
knightwiseLOL11:03
MooDoo:)11:03
popeyalso Kirstie Allsopp11:03
MooDooalex kingston for me  :D11:04
knightwiseMooDoo: get in line for Alex Kingston (behind my wife)11:07
knightwiseSarah Alexander .!11:08
MooDooknightwise: you want me to get behind your wi.....erm no!11:09
* knightwise pulls MooDoo 's mind from the gutter11:09
MooDooknightwise: apologies sir!11:10
=== alan_g is now known as alan_g|lunch
popeyoooh, Sarah Alexander, long time on my list, since the old Alexander Armstrong comedy things.11:12
popeyalso Michaela Strachan11:12
knightwiseGlynis Barber11:12
popeyevery time she's on the telly, wifey goes "ooh look alan, your other wife"11:12
popeyretro!11:13
knightwisein the dempsey and makepeace days11:13
popeyyeah11:13
popeystill looks fabulous now.11:13
popeyused to love that programme11:13
* knightwise doesnt have cable11:13
knightwiseI miss the BBC a little11:15
knightwisewe used to watch loads of stuff on there11:15
MooDoo  knightwise do you have any tv?11:19
knightwiseMooDoo: we do . We have our chromecast and a pc hooked up to it .. thats it11:19
MooDoodo you still have to pay for a license for that?11:19
knightwisewe watch some shows on netflix , stuff on youtube , sometimes a movie on popcorn time11:19
knightwiseMooDoo: nope , no cable licence11:20
knightwisetechnically we just have a "screen"11:20
* knightwise is belgian , remember 11:20
MooDooknightwise: doh of course :D11:21
knightwisebut we do have a licence you have to pay for TV over here11:21
knightwiseI don't have to pay it because we don't have cable tv11:22
bigcalmGood morning peeps :)11:27
davmor2bigcalm: Morning dude :)11:28
knightwiseHmm . 100th edition of the FullCircleMagazine, .. i should write another article for them12:11
=== xubuntu is now known as Safiyyah
SafiyyahHi all, I am currently running an installation of xubuntu. I get through the partitions and then when it's time to set the clock it displays an error message "input/output error during read on dev/sda12:33
Safiyyahi really hope my hard drive is okay :(12:33
Safiyyahali1234,  directhex brobostigon12:34
directhexcertainly sounds like a bad disk12:42
directhexmaybe a bad sata cable, that can sometimes be the cause12:42
Safiyyahthat was the cause last time as well12:43
Safiyyahhad to buy a new SSD12:44
Safiyyahits new, only been about 10 months12:44
Safiyyahthe system itself keeps crashing12:44
directhexhm12:44
Safiyyahthat's why I was thinking I needed a fresh install12:44
directhexwell, an IO error can come from anywhere in the chain - the disk, the cable, the motherboard12:45
directhexyou ought to get a different error if it's corrupted data12:45
Safiyyahthis is a recurring problem12:45
SafiyyahI think it's my fourth time12:45
Safiyyahis it likely to include the processor?12:46
directhexin my professional opinion? no12:47
directhexi would try the same disk, with a different cable, in a different sata port.12:47
Safiyyahbefore it happened btw,  the computer was sounding like a space ship about to take off12:47
Safiyyahno gentle humming12:47
Safiyyahand then it died12:48
Safiyyahokay well am happy to try a different sata port and cable12:48
Safiyyahand come back12:48
Safiyyahmy little one is stuck in the shower trying, I need to sort her out first, so I will do that first, then get back onto this12:49
Safiyyahbe back as soon as I can12:49
Safiyyahwith the new sata cable and port12:50
MooDoo ping JamesTait14:04
JamesTaitpong MooDoo14:06
davmor2MooDoo: stop playing ping pong already ;)14:07
JamesTaitCan't take him anywhere!14:08
davmor2JamesTait: You can you just can't go back not even to apologise ;)14:10
MooDooJamesTait: nothing to do with birminham symphony hall are you?14:13
JamesTaitMooDoo, not as far as I know!14:13
MooDooJamesTait: lol sorry just on their website and one of the board members is a Mr James Tait :D  you're the only one i know :D14:14
JamesTaitNah, it's an imposter. 😉14:15
MooDoolol14:15
davmor2JamesTait: someone has stolen your identity........that or you did........./me uses his hacking skills to find out their ages.....14:16
JamesTaitMooDoo, it's probably davmor2 pretending to be me. 😉14:16
=== alan_g|lunch is now known as alan_g
Myrttischool lunch flashbacks. Pearl barley pudding, strawberries, crisp bread, butter and smoked ham.14:18
Myrttioh man.14:18
davmor2MooDoo: pay he no heed, JamesTait doesn't live far from the A38 and that heads straight into Birmingham and their ages are the same, and they have never been seen together in the same room he is batman^wspiderman^worchestra man14:18
MooDoolol haa so JamesTait is actually Symphony man? lol14:19
davmor2MooDoo: you sure you didn't misread and he is actually the Cloakroom Attendant14:20
MooDoohttp://www.thsh.co.uk/about/board-members/14:21
davmor2MooDoo: it's the fact he added the Mr like it is something special, don't tell that we are too it'll just make JamesTait cry ;)14:33
safiyyahdirecthex,  I sorted it, I put a new cable, bit of hovering and it took off.14:41
safiyyahI am just setting things up as I like now14:42
safiyyahthank you very much.14:42
directhexyou should avoid hoovering, it generates static electricity14:42
directhexcanned air is much safer, blow dust out14:42
safiyyahokay, will buy one next time14:42
safiyyahi mean I will buy one now for next time14:42
safiyyahthank you, I didn't know14:43
popeyI found canned air cheap in Wilkinsons14:45
arsenipinteresting fact: my parents live near Mr Wilkinson, and he once crashed his car into a ditch.14:47
* arsenip dissapears in a cloud of smoke14:47
daftykinsphew missed a PM from bujji ¬_¬15:26
daftykinsnever had any issues with vacuums ;)15:28
* davmor2 throws daftykins into the vacuum of space see if he has an issue then ;)15:29
daftykinsD:15:29
daftykinsyou've been talking to zmoylan-pi ;)15:30
davmor2daftykins: no idea what you mean, if at first it doesn't break use a bigger hammer, it's my motto, Space Vacuum is the bigger hammer ;)15:37
daftykinsi see15:38
* daftykins walks away slowly15:38
davmor2I kept catching this music in an advert on tv and radio and I knew I knew it but just couldn't think what it was hearing it like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYluMAO1b7Y  then it dawned on me why I knew the words it's cause Greese is the Word15:41
* zmoylan-pi offers davmor2 my shiny fubar15:49
diddledandavmor2: that's certainly different to the original16:20
davmor2diddledan: just a smidgen, it's in the morning head songs play list now I couldn't get it out of my head sunday once I'd found it on youtube :)16:32
diddledanlol16:32
davmor2diddledan: friend just pointed me at this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3E2HeAfcdM16:56
czajkowskihttp://mhall119.com/2015/07/ubuntu-global-jam-packs-are-back/  would be good to take part if anyone is up for it18:22
diddledanI could be chilly - it's supposed to be summer!19:13
diddledanthink I might have to either shut the windows or put on a wooly19:15
zmoylan-pior compile gentoo and use warm cpu for heat...19:32
diddledanlol19:33
foobarryhttp://www.wired.com/2015/07/researchers-hack-air-gapped-computer-simple-cell-phone/?mbid=social_gplus20:05
KrimZon"The attack requires both the targeted computer and the mobile phone to have malware installed on them, but once this is done"21:47
daftykinsnothing ridiculous about that.21:48
daftykins"Windows, Linux and Ubuntu configurations" ah Ubuntu is no longer Linux apparently21:51
diddledanand this is an example of why "but it's not connected to the internet" is no reason to stay on windows 2000 (nod of head to whoever I was talking to yesterday who suggested that someone they know is doing just that)22:04
daftykinsthey're using win2k and staying offline 'cause they think it makes them safe?22:06
diddledanthey're using win2000 because they don't see a need to upgrade because they're not connected to the net22:07
diddledanthis proves that you still need to be up-to-date even if you're airgapped22:07
diddledanit's crazy that government mandates that things not be updated because it requires bridging the gap for the updates to happen22:08
daftykinsheh22:08
daftykinsOSs shouldn't require it22:08
diddledanwe're doing an installation in secured (formally IL3) datacentres where we have to jump across several nested remote-desktop environments and we're not allowed to update anything "for security" because it will break security22:09
diddledanso the drupal we have running there is now known-vulnerable22:10
daftykins:|22:10
daftykinsgubmint22:10
Nokajigovt/military used to have a policy of checking any and all equipment for security purposes before allowing it into their operation - not sure they could ever achieve that with the revolution in software though and closed source22:12
Nokajianyway, early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise22:15
Nokajinight...22:15
daftykinsmust be where i'm going wrong22:15

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