| diddledan__ | humpy bumpy boo | 01:29 |
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| daftykins | diddledan: https://www.dropbox.com/s/toqqrifxm1bys7a/IMG_20151204_011355.jpg?dl=0 | 01:29 |
| daftykins | it's officially cold, now | 01:29 |
| diddledan__ | awww | 01:29 |
| diddledan__ | so cute | 01:29 |
| diddledan__ | I would love something like that humansized | 01:30 |
| daftykins | XD | 01:31 |
| daftykins | do you have any idea how big the claws would be O_O | 01:31 |
| diddledan__ | lol | 01:31 |
| diddledan__ | I was referring to the snuggly, not the feline :-p | 01:31 |
| daftykins | ;D | 01:32 |
| diddledan__ | so apparently yahoo messenger still exists | 02:12 |
| daftykins | yup, brings me back to my youth that one | 02:14 |
| daftykins | horrific smilies, everyone was 14/f/cali... | 02:14 |
| diddledan__ | lol | 02:14 |
| diddledan__ | 14/f/cali <-- that takes me back | 02:14 |
| diddledan__ | the other one was aol instant messenger | 02:15 |
| daftykins | i always resisted that one! | 02:15 |
| diddledan__ | lol | 02:15 |
| daftykins | i don't think my time on ICQ was long either | 02:15 |
| diddledan__ | I never really got along with ICQ | 02:16 |
| diddledan__ | tho I still remember my number | 02:16 |
| daftykins | same | 02:16 |
| diddledan__ | I used their IRC service for many years however | 02:17 |
| diddledan__ | that was where I met shauno | 02:17 |
| daftykins | i remember watching a 'TV series' based on IRC + ICQ chat, (the scene) which always had them using the 'off/on the record' addon for ICQ or some such | 02:17 |
| daftykins | looked like tinfoilers to me ;D | 02:18 |
| diddledan__ | lol, I remember that | 02:18 |
| diddledan__ | was entirely based on screen recordings IIRC | 02:18 |
| daftykins | yep | 02:18 |
| daftykins | sometimes webcams | 02:18 |
| diddledan__ | I recall ICQ had an evil typewriter noise for every time you pressed a button | 02:20 |
| daftykins | ah my #1 action on installing IM was to 1) disable emoticons 2) disable sounds 3) disable notifications | 02:31 |
| m0nkey_ | diddledan__, your plex is broken | 02:47 |
| diddledan__ | m0nkey_: might be bandwidth restriction of my pipe? | 02:51 |
| diddledan__ | you could try fiddling with the transcoding settings | 02:52 |
| m0nkey_ | I can't get anything to play | 02:52 |
| diddledan__ | hmm | 02:52 |
| m0nkey_ | Let alone fiffle with it. | 02:52 |
| m0nkey_ | I meant to say fiddle, but fiffle seems more appropriate. | 02:52 |
| m0nkey_ | ok, now it works | 02:53 |
| diddledan__ | odd. I just loaded the local webui, but haven't done anything else | 02:54 |
| m0nkey_ | I've just realised I've never fully watched Star Wars Ep4 | 02:54 |
| m0nkey_ | Ugh, Microsoft are switching from per socket to per core licensing on Server 2016.. | 02:55 |
| m0nkey_ | OK, your Star Wars episodes are messed up. Ep4 is playing Ep1, Phantom Menace. | 02:56 |
| diddledan__ | \o/ | 02:56 |
| diddledan__ | that was a sneaky attempt to prove that jarjar is awesome :-p | 02:56 |
| m0nkey_ | Bastard. | 02:56 |
| diddledan__ | ok, I lie. but it's still funny | 02:57 |
| m0nkey_ | I'll go back to Fallout 4 | 03:02 |
| === Lcawte|Away is now known as Lcawte | ||
| diplo | Morning all | 08:29 |
| MooDoo | morning :) | 08:31 |
| === Lcawte is now known as Lcawte|Away | ||
| davmor2 | Morning all | 09:06 |
| Oli | Anybody know a DVB-S2 USB or PCI whatsit that has a mainline driver? I'm fed up of relying on TBS's rubbish drivers to compile. | 09:11 |
| Oli | Aha, this helps http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S2_PCIe_Cards | 09:18 |
| ali1234 | PCTV nanostack 290e | 09:22 |
| ali1234 | oh wait, S2 | 09:22 |
| Oli | I'm open to Freeview if you think it's better. Been using Freesat out of habit because our last house had really awful reception | 09:38 |
| JamesTait | Good morning all; happy Friday, and happy World Wildlife Conservation Day! 😃 | 09:51 |
| davmor2 | JamesTait: there is this cheeky one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_JF8oSxXtM | 09:52 |
| Laney | seriously | 10:00 |
| Laney | this person reading the news on radio 4 atm has a terrible bunged nose | 10:00 |
| Laney | get him off the air! | 10:00 |
| zmoylan-pi | have a complimentary basket of vicks inhalers sent in... | 10:01 |
| brobostigon | morning boys and girls. | 10:12 |
| diddledan__ | hmm, I'm cold :-( | 10:57 |
| diddledan__ | morning | 10:57 |
| awilkins | Clearly you're not playing enough video games | 11:11 |
| awilkins | More games == more heat from the back of your "dustbuster" GPU card | 11:11 |
| awilkins | More heat == less cold | 11:11 |
| Seeker` | I play games to warm my room | 11:13 |
| Seeker` | inefficient but fun | 11:14 |
| diddledan__ | y'all are geeks :-p | 11:20 |
| Myrtti | newsflash | 11:26 |
| Seeker` | :O it's a Myrtti | 11:28 |
| Myrtti | Always | 11:28 |
| Seeker` | how's things? | 11:28 |
| Myrtti | all in all fairly positive :-) | 11:29 |
| davmor2 | Myrtti: allow me to make things a little more meh for you, It's nearly Monday ;) | 11:38 |
| Myrtti | you don't get me down that easily 😃 | 11:39 |
| Seeker` | weekend first :D | 11:39 |
| davmor2 | Myrtti: the Moomins die in the end???? | 11:40 |
| diddledan__ | :-o | 11:40 |
| Seeker` | wut? | 11:40 |
| MooDoo | davmor2: you're just nasty, I'll tell czajkowski on you!! | 11:41 |
| davmor2 | MooDoo, Myrtti: well that or someone turned off the tv :D | 11:42 |
| diddledan__ | TELLYBOX! | 11:42 |
| * diddledan__ wonders if jeremy kyle is on | 11:42 | |
| diddledan__ | :-p | 11:42 |
| davmor2 | diddledan__: jeremy is always on | 11:43 |
| diddledan__ | yeah, I figured that after I said it | 11:43 |
| awilkins | Oldham by-election : Labour up, Tory down (by more than half of vote share), UKIP butthurt about it | 11:51 |
| diddledan__ | yey UKIP! | 11:51 |
| Seeker` | "yey UKIP! | 11:52 |
| Seeker` | ^ said noone sane ever | 11:52 |
| awilkins | Hahaha, apparently they (UKIP) were playing "White Christmas" in Oldham. It's like something out of a biting political satire. | 11:55 |
| bigcalm | Good morning peeps :) | 11:56 |
| diddledan__ | haha | 11:56 |
| Seeker` | awilkins: hardly surprising that Labour won a seat that they have held for, what, 45 years? | 11:57 |
| bigcalm | What's the likelihood of letsencrypt making it into 16.04? | 11:57 |
| diddledan__ | need it to appear in debian usually IIRC | 11:58 |
| diddledan__ | first* | 11:58 |
| awilkins | Seeker`, The pundits were all predicting doom and gloom | 11:58 |
| Seeker` | When aren't they? | 11:58 |
| awilkins | "Oh, Corbyn will put them all off and they'll lose the seat! Woe!" | 11:58 |
| Seeker` | yeah, that sells more papers than "Labour will keep safe seat" | 11:58 |
| awilkins | Now they've actually increased their vote share (in no small part due to the Corbynite "Momentum" group), everyone is going "Oh, it's NOTHING to do with Jeremy, NOTHING." | 11:59 |
| bigcalm | diddledan__: ah, fair enough | 11:59 |
| awilkins | It's the sort of thing that gets Debian contributors exited though, isn't it? | 12:00 |
| Seeker` | awilkins: the turnout was massively lower than the previous election | 12:00 |
| diddledan__ | it would be a shame to miss the LTS though, so I hope it does get in | 12:00 |
| awilkins | Seeker`, Yeah, I acknowledge that ; it could feasibly just be the product of all the Tories staying at home going "meh." | 12:01 |
| Myrtti | right, need to go fill up my bottle | 12:01 |
| Myrtti | ho hum | 12:01 |
| diddledan__ | haha: https://twitter.com/raspberry_pi/status/672749159166967809 | 12:08 |
| diddledan__ | also, star wars raspberri pi: https://twitter.com/designedbybird/status/672748905747120129 | 12:09 |
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| Laney | put a banging donk on it | 13:01 |
| === alan_g is now known as alan_g|lunch | ||
| diplo | bigcalm: afaik it is already in debian experimental | 13:53 |
| diddledan__ | \o/ | 13:53 |
| bigcalm | diplo: yep, saw that earlier | 13:53 |
| diplo | Sorry, just caught up with irc | 13:53 |
| bigcalm | I don't know how quickly debian processes work though | 13:53 |
| bigcalm | diplo: no worries, thanks for taking an interest :) | 13:54 |
| diplo | Probably as quickly as people badger for it :D | 13:54 |
| diplo | I was interested as I installed it myself earlier on my VPS looking for a package | 13:54 |
| diddledan__ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI | 13:54 |
| diplo | looks like it's only apahe so far as well, not ngingx | 13:54 |
| bigcalm | I manually ran the git repo version on one of my servers. Now have all 3 domains on that one ip address secured with SSL :) | 13:54 |
| davmor2 | diddledan__: not as good as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbby9coDRCk | 13:57 |
| diplo | Ah I had some errors on mine, not had a chance to look at it yet | 13:58 |
| diplo | I don't use it much so could be that the server isn't configured correctly :P | 13:59 |
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| diddledan__ | ricky gervais has some interesting thoughts in this article: http://ideas.time.com/2011/11/09/the-difference-between-american-and-british-humour/ | 15:55 |
| davmor2 | diddledan__: does say we have one they don't | 16:29 |
| diddledan__ | davmor2: it's actually a more nuanced article than that | 16:49 |
| davmor2 | diddledan__: I'd say that article is broad/sweeping but fair | 16:49 |
| diddledan__ | :-) | 16:49 |
| davmor2 | diddledan__: we hate everyone equally and the americans come in peace shot to kill, shot to kill.....wait no that's star trek.....meh same difference ;) | 16:50 |
| diddledan__ | lol | 16:51 |
| diddledan__ | that obviously requires the gratuitous link to be supplied: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE | 16:51 |
| * davmor2 bounces head along to the music | 16:52 | |
| diddledan__ | lol: https://twitter.com/iamdevloper/status/672821843816931329 | 16:57 |
| diddledan__ | and also: https://twitter.com/iamdevloper/status/672821897743110145 | 16:57 |
| davmor2 | developer wearing suits aren't they called project managers | 16:59 |
| diddledan__ | no, our PMs don't know how to code | 16:59 |
| diddledan__ | developers wearing suits is just plain wrong | 17:00 |
| zmoylan-pi | suits last till the first time you have to find a cable fault under a desk that hasn't been moved in 10 years... | 17:00 |
| zmoylan-pi | though my personal favourite was there were so many cables connected to back of a pc that when it's desk collapsed it merely sagged and pulled at the wall sockets... | 17:02 |
| safiyyah | following my issues with the graphic card last week, I reinstalled and found my intel onboard graphics give a love resolution, I have now bought and Nvidia ASUS card, reinstalled and it still isn't good | 17:31 |
| safiyyah | http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008A1C2AM?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00 - this is the new card | 17:32 |
| safiyyah | is anyone around? I remember I spoke to SuperMatt M | 17:38 |
| safiyyah | that's it SuperMatt and davmor2 if you guys are around? | 17:38 |
| davmor2 | humm | 17:39 |
| davmor2 | safiyyah: possibly an issue on your motherboard maybe | 17:40 |
| davmor2 | safiyyah: see if there is a bios update | 17:40 |
| safiyyah | there isn't | 17:41 |
| safiyyah | plu, now it can't complain, the board and grahics card are both asus | 17:41 |
| safiyyah | how do I check if nouveau is actually running? | 17:42 |
| safiyyah | I am not convinced it is | 17:42 |
| daftykins | hi safiyyah - long time no see | 17:43 |
| safiyyah | hi daftykins | 17:43 |
| daftykins | is X working? "pastebinit /var/log/Xorg.0.log" | 17:44 |
| daftykins | didn't you used to have to apply that custom modeline if it's that same TV you had? | 17:44 |
| safiyyah | I did daftykins , very true, but that was when I used the nvidia drivers, nouveau has always worked out of the box | 17:45 |
| safiyyah | I just finished a fresh install and bad graphics | 17:45 |
| daftykins | 14.04.3? | 17:46 |
| safiyyah | yes | 17:46 |
| daftykins | i'd throw on the proprietary driver immediately then | 17:46 |
| safiyyah | Xubuntu 14.04.3 | 17:46 |
| safiyyah | i am not going to be fidling with Nvidia anymore | 17:47 |
| safiyyah | nouveau is fine,,,, fell out of love with compiz | 17:47 |
| daftykins | it's more about decently accelerated video than any foolish desktop effects | 17:47 |
| diddledan__ | nouveau won't be fine for a new card on 14.04 | 17:48 |
| daftykins | anywho the above command is still relevant | 17:48 |
| safiyyah | btw can nouveau handle two monitors? like two monitors, so I have two screens running with different windows? | 17:48 |
| daftykins | heh a GT 610 new? :> | 17:48 |
| daftykins | probably, but probably not easily | 17:48 |
| daftykins | i'd just run nvidia then two would work immediately | 17:48 |
| safiyyah | I put the link up for the card I bought on amazon, | 17:49 |
| safiyyah | I didn't buy the latest, just a budget, quiet one | 17:49 |
| safiyyah | hang on, do I install nvidia, OR update my motherboard drivers | 17:50 |
| daftykins | "pastebinit /var/log/Xorg.0.log" | 17:50 |
| safiyyah | am hunting for the drivers as we speak | 17:50 |
| daftykins | you don't have motherboard drivers on Linux | 17:50 |
| safiyyah | http://paste.ubuntu.com/13673181/ | 17:51 |
| safiyyah | also daftykins , with the new card there are new drivers listed, the old card used to only work properly with one of the options | 17:52 |
| safiyyah | is it trial and error again? try one at a time until one works? | 17:52 |
| daftykins | nouveau is in use assuming that file is current | 17:52 |
| daftykins | nope i'd install nvidia-346 | 17:53 |
| safiyyah | okay and then we change Xorg with popey's file? | 17:53 |
| daftykins | well i'd see how it is first of all, hopefully life is different with a new card | 17:54 |
| safiyyah | I do not have 346 coming up on restricted drivers :( 352.63, 304.131, 340.96 - both legacy binary drivers and binary drivers on the exact same numbers | 17:55 |
| safiyyah | about nouveau, I put the card in and did a fresh install, so that is the freshest it can get | 17:56 |
| daftykins | ok, well 352 will do | 17:57 |
| daftykins | !info nvidia-346 trusty | 17:57 |
| lubotu3` | nvidia-346 (source: nvidia-graphics-drivers-352): Transitional package for nvidia-346. In component restricted, is optional. Version 352.63-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 (trusty), package size 4 kB, installed size 34 kB (Only available for i386; amd64; armhf) | 17:57 |
| safiyyah | binary or legacy binary | 17:58 |
| safiyyah | ? | 17:58 |
| daftykins | roll a dice | 17:58 |
| safiyyah | oooooohhhhh | 17:58 |
| daftykins | er, di | 17:58 |
| safiyyah | will go with binary | 17:59 |
| safiyyah | fancy names are usually the start of probems | 17:59 |
| safiyyah | I am on Andchat as well incase I need a reboot btw | 17:59 |
| safiyyah | nvidia it is.... just when I was dreaming of those 4K huge monitors I saw at curry's. I figured a double monitor would be the way forward. Watch bbc iplayer and youtube videos on there. fantasies fantasies | 18:01 |
| safiyyah | it's still working, just waiting | 18:01 |
| daftykins | that museum piece of yours couldn't drive one of those with that card :> | 18:01 |
| safiyyah | is it my board? | 18:02 |
| safiyyah | or the new budget card? | 18:02 |
| safiyyah | lol | 18:02 |
| daftykins | all of it | 18:02 |
| safiyyah | wow | 18:02 |
| daftykins | anyway dreams aside, see how the nvidia driver fares after a reboot :> | 18:03 |
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| safiyyah | done, gone to reboot | 18:09 |
| safiyyah | daftykins, no change to the graphics, it threw up some error messages when booting though | 18:11 |
| safiyyah | http://paste.ubuntu.com/13673569/ | 18:11 |
| daftykins | oh you're still using VGA :( | 18:12 |
| daftykins | was that the only input type that monitor has? | 18:12 |
| safiyyah | it has HDMI as well but HDMI is with me DVD player | 18:13 |
| daftykins | ah yeah | 18:13 |
| daftykins | what's this talk of two displays now though, you have a new one? | 18:13 |
| safiyyah | i am going to be buying one in a few weeks | 18:14 |
| safiyyah | I wanted a big flat screen telly | 18:14 |
| daftykins | the more TV like a new thing the more likely it's going to be a hassle just like now :( | 18:14 |
| safiyyah | plug it in via the HDMI port on the graphics card, and use it for my videos | 18:14 |
| safiyyah | hmmm | 18:15 |
| safiyyah | I cant stop dreaming of the big screen | 18:15 |
| safiyyah | as long as it doesnt kill my | 18:15 |
| safiyyah | PC | 18:15 |
| safiyyah | my 'museum piece' | 18:15 |
| daftykins | 4K would certainly be utterly pointless for TV service and computer use | 18:15 |
| safiyyah | why? I can get BBC HD, etc? | 18:16 |
| diddledan__ | HD != 4K | 18:16 |
| daftykins | ^ | 18:17 |
| diddledan__ | HD < 4K | 18:17 |
| safiyyah | well I thought the prestine images, would come off well with my blu ray DVDs | 18:18 |
| safiyyah | maybe I misunderstood the technology | 18:18 |
| daftykins | when the resolution of the display is greater than the input material, there are no gains to be made | 18:18 |
| diddledan__ | looney town central, everyone off! | 18:18 |
| Seeker` | daftykins: depends on the upscaler you have :P | 18:19 |
| daftykins | rubbish | 18:19 |
| daftykins | you can't create what isn't there regardless | 18:19 |
| Seeker` | on a single frame, sure | 18:19 |
| diddledan__ | bluray != DVD. nothing called a bluray DVD exists. bluray is usually HD, HD != 4K | 18:19 |
| Seeker` | but you can infer things from temporal data | 18:19 |
| safiyyah | okay so a HDMI cable is not going to do it? and also, the telly itself connects to the internet | 18:19 |
| safiyyah | so it also won't get online TV streams like 4 OD? | 18:20 |
| diddledan__ | they're all either SD or HD | 18:20 |
| safiyyah | okay | 18:20 |
| Seeker` | daftykins: it's possible to increase framerates by generating frames between the existing ones too, for example | 18:21 |
| diddledan__ | the most likely place to get 4K content will be via subscription | 18:21 |
| safiyyah | scrap the 4K plan, can save me money.... then a large HD screen lol | 18:21 |
| daftykins | Seeker`: we're not talking about framerate and i don't need a lesson on video, thanks. | 18:21 |
| diddledan__ | 4K content is scarce right now. it will improve but it's not at critical mass where it makes sense to buy a 4K TV | 18:22 |
| safiyyah | ah!!!! | 18:22 |
| Seeker` | daftykins: it was an example of how you can get more detail in one frame when you have surrounding frames to look at too | 18:22 |
| safiyyah | you guys are so useful!!! | 18:22 |
| daftykins | Seeker`: drop it thanks, none of this is news to me | 18:22 |
| safiyyah | okay so a normal HD telly at half the price will do me good | 18:22 |
| diddledan__ | although if your TV breaks and you NEED to buy one then I would suggest that it makes sense to go for a 4K capable one then | 18:22 |
| Seeker` | daftykins: cheer up, it's almost the weekend | 18:22 |
| diddledan__ | but only if you can afford the premium | 18:23 |
| daftykins | keep it to yourself | 18:23 |
| Seeker` | O.o riiiiiiiiight | 18:23 |
| safiyyah | no am buying a big telly for the first time in me life | 18:23 |
| safiyyah | i was thinking the 4k meant, when the stuff went mainstream I would already have it | 18:23 |
| safiyyah | but according to you, even my blu ray player will be obsolete to the 4k tv | 18:24 |
| daftykins | everything 4K is going to be redundant in the new year due to changing specs | 18:24 |
| safiyyah | ah they decided on a new technology instead? | 18:24 |
| diddledan__ | yeah a current-generation bluray player won't be able to output the higher resolution | 18:24 |
| safiyyah | ah okay | 18:25 |
| diddledan__ | also H.265 encoding is coming soon which none of the current stuff supports | 18:25 |
| === Lcawte is now known as Lcawte|Away | ||
| daftykins | and that card you got probably maxes out at 2560x1600 over HDMI | 18:25 |
| safiyyah | well let me just get a HD screen and think about the higher resolutions in a few years time | 18:25 |
| daftykins | diddledan__: been here ages ;D | 18:25 |
| diddledan__ | daftykins: not for actual content tho | 18:25 |
| diddledan__ | the tech has been available but noone has used it | 18:25 |
| safiyyah | hmmm | 18:26 |
| daftykins | the cheeky swines were trying to get royalties last i heard | 18:26 |
| diddledan__ | h.264 is very entrenched these days due to everything having hardware support for decoding | 18:26 |
| diddledan__ | yeah damned swines | 18:26 |
| safiyyah | so can my museum system manage the HD flat screen? | 18:27 |
| diddledan__ | how dare they make me pay for something my arm cpu does anyway | 18:27 |
| daftykins | like i said the card can drive 2560x1600 over HDMI, HD is 1920x1080 | 18:27 |
| * diddledan__ pets his 1920x1200 :-p | 18:27 | |
| safiyyah | oh that will work then!!!! | 18:27 |
| diddledan__ | it's an old monitor that tho | 18:28 |
| diddledan__ | before they unified to 16:9 aspect ratio | 18:28 |
| Seeker` | diddledan__: GTX950 and GTX960 have H.265 apparently | 18:28 |
| safiyyah | okay so will keep my extra £300 and just get a HD, am not going to be getting virgin TV | 18:28 |
| diddledan__ | ooh | 18:28 |
| Seeker` | It's part of nVidia's "Feature set F" | 18:29 |
| diddledan__ | nice | 18:29 |
| safiyyah | right back to the disaster or a reboot, what is the driver unhappy about? | 18:29 |
| safiyyah | http://paste.ubuntu.com/13673569/ | 18:29 |
| safiyyah | do I chuck it and try the legacy binary drivers? | 18:29 |
| daftykins | no, use the usual xorg.conf mod | 18:30 |
| daftykins | it's the same as it always was :> | 18:30 |
| Seeker` | diddledan__: I think other cards can do it, but only via GPGPU, which is slower | 18:30 |
| daftykins | i highly doubt you would get a renderer using GP offload, the intel chips of one or two generations do a hybrid decode, but not cards | 18:31 |
| daftykins | most would have to fall back to software | 18:31 |
| safiyyah | the tech talk is going over me head daftykins | 18:31 |
| daftykins | conversations running in parallel, they're not all for you | 18:31 |
| safiyyah | oh good | 18:31 |
| * diddledan__ multitasks | 18:32 | |
| safiyyah | but you agreed with me about the regular HD monitor? | 18:32 |
| diddledan__ | humans need to learn to multiplex our communications methods of text and speach | 18:32 |
| diddledan__ | talk to three different people all simultaneously | 18:33 |
| diddledan__ | maybe we'll need a binary speach protocol | 18:33 |
| diddledan__ | we'll go around screeching instead of using words | 18:34 |
| zmoylan-pi | booooooooo boooooop, booooooooooo, boooooooooop, boooble booble boooble..... /best spectrum game ever... :-D | 18:36 |
| diddledan__ | apparently you can tell the age of a person by what kind of modem they sound like when asked to recreate the noise | 18:37 |
| diddledan__ | although you might get the eejit who ruins the experiment by going "bee boo boop beep eeeeeeeee eeeee eeeeee <click>.. MOM HANG UP THE PHONE!!!" | 18:39 |
| zmoylan-pi | and those weirdos who pretend to be a fax machine... | 18:39 |
| diddledan__ | lol | 18:39 |
| diddledan__ | I'm a V.92 or a K-56Flex generation | 18:40 |
| zmoylan-pi | a 300 baud bell modem as i like to be more casual... :-) | 18:40 |
| diddledan__ | 48kpbs was a dream | 18:40 |
| diddledan__ | you always did like the old stuff :-p | 18:41 |
| zmoylan-pi | and all the pager services used 300 baud as it meant they could charge more for the calls... | 18:41 |
| diddledan__ | lol | 18:41 |
| diddledan__ | that's a bit crazy | 18:41 |
| diddledan__ | do people still use pagers? | 18:41 |
| zmoylan-pi | plus our alarm company /allies/ preferred 300 baud to talk to their alarm boxes so every modem we sold had to support it... | 18:42 |
| zmoylan-pi | they shut down the main pager services around 2000 in ireland. but i did see one clipped to a guys belt a few months back. seems a lot of places have their own private transmitters. | 18:42 |
| zmoylan-pi | as they are more dependable than sms | 18:43 |
| zmoylan-pi | and having written an sms server AND a pager server for alarm companies i preferred pagers... | 18:44 |
| diddledan__ | back around 2003/4 a new ASDA store opened with the checkout supers using pagers to get notified when a cashier needed assistance | 18:44 |
| zmoylan-pi | a sms can be delayed days or weeks in certain conditions whereas a pager goes off the moment it's notified (as long as the coverage is good) | 18:45 |
| diddledan__ | was nuts because the pagers had a limited memory of number of messages and each cashier request was a single message | 18:45 |
| diddledan__ | so the pagers got full and then refused to receive new messages | 18:45 |
| zmoylan-pi | i wrote one server in pcanywhere's scripting language and wrote all the messages to a log file. it was supposed to last 6 months till a proper server was bought and installed. about 5 years later the pc was brought in as no more messages were going out. | 18:46 |
| zmoylan-pi | the log file had filled the 4gb hard disk :-) | 18:47 |
| diddledan__ | lol | 18:47 |
| zmoylan-pi | oops :-) | 18:47 |
| safiyyah | changed xorg.0.log, rebooted and no joy | 18:47 |
| diddledan__ | err | 18:47 |
| daftykins | *xorg.conf | 18:47 |
| diddledan__ | ^ that | 18:48 |
| safiyyah | damn!!! | 18:48 |
| safiyyah | anyway I backed it up | 18:48 |
| safiyyah | will correct that | 18:48 |
| daftykins | /etc/X11/xorg.conf is what you're creating | 18:48 |
| diddledan__ | a file ending in .log usually denotes that it's a log file. hence the .log. it contains logs. not configuration | 18:48 |
| safiyyah | okay so changing it won't help | 18:49 |
| safiyyah | lol | 18:49 |
| safiyyah | it will make a new log at the next boot | 18:49 |
| diddledan__ | indeed it will | 18:49 |
| safiyyah | yeiiii, it is working? | 18:54 |
| safiyyah | can i just ask if i am running nouveau or nvdia please? | 18:55 |
| safiyyah | http://paste.ubuntu.com/13674583/ | 18:55 |
| daftykins | you installed nvidia and i said last time that it's nvidia in use now... | 18:55 |
| safiyyah | okay, where did you get the specifications for the recommended nvidia drivers? | 18:56 |
| daftykins | my brain, you don't have to pick specific versions for specific cards, they all work with them all | 18:59 |
| safiyyah | good brain you have there, wow! | 19:00 |
| safiyyah | am sorted! thank you so much. | 19:00 |
| safiyyah | and am I good to go with the extra monitor/tv screen now? | 19:01 |
| daftykins | as in, will a second display using HDMI work perfectly when plugged in? maybe | 19:09 |
| safiyyah | lol | 19:15 |
| safiyyah | well I may be back then | 19:16 |
| safiyyah | thanks a tonne again | 19:16 |
| diddledan__ | jeri ryan's new tee-shirt: https://represent.com/jeri | 19:21 |
| zmoylan-pi | i'll just have to hope santa is still alive so... :-P http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/dec/04/father-christmas-death-notice-norwegian-newspaper | 19:23 |
| diddledan__ | they're blaming procedural problems rather than an idiot? | 19:26 |
| davmor2 | diddledan__: what were you doing there ;) | 19:27 |
| diddledan__ | I was hiding, but Santa found me so I had to kill him... | 19:36 |
| diddledan__ | which movie tonight: ant-man or tomorrowland? | 19:36 |
| diddledan__ | got an episode of agents of s.h.i.e.l.d. to watch, too | 19:37 |
| * zmoylan-pi has a 2-3 more episodes of firefly ahead, and drop the dead donkey... | 19:38 | |
| davmor2 | zmoylan-pi: don't forget serenity too | 19:38 |
| zmoylan-pi | i will copy the movie and a few others to viewing device as i get to last tv episode... | 19:39 |
| zmoylan-pi | probably fifth element as well, maybe 2010... | 19:39 |
| diddledan__ | the fifth elephant is awesome | 19:40 |
| zmoylan-pi | it is one of the most beautiful sci fi movies ever made... | 19:40 |
| davmor2 | zmoylan-pi, diddledan__: you both need to see "now you see me" again if you haven't already :) | 19:40 |
| diddledan__ | davmor2: I've watched that many times already - I will watch it again soon, you're right - amazing film | 19:41 |
| davmor2 | diddledan__: number 2 next year | 19:42 |
| diddledan__ | yup, excited for it | 19:42 |
| zmoylan-pi | i'll keep an eye out for it in dvd shop next time i'm there | 19:42 |
| davmor2 | diddledan__, zmoylan-pi: you both need to see ex mechina too if you haven't | 19:43 |
| diddledan__ | again, awesome choice! | 19:44 |
| diddledan__ | the machine is fun too | 19:44 |
| davmor2 | salt 2 is meant to be out soon too iirc | 19:44 |
| zmoylan-pi | then all i can do is recommend 2 movies you won't have seen and will make you laugh... 'the gods must be crazy' plus it's sequel | 19:45 |
| davmor2 | and then there is alice through the looking glass | 19:45 |
| zmoylan-pi | and if you like crime movies the irish comedy/crime movie 'i went down' is brilliant | 19:47 |
| davmor2 | zmoylan-pi, diddledan__: if you like something along the line of the pink panther comedy wise I recommend Mortdecai | 19:51 |
| diddledan__ | oh yes, I've seen the trailer, I meant to get a copy but forgot all about it - thanks for the reminder :-) | 19:51 |
| diddledan__ | kingsman is hilarious! | 19:52 |
| popey | yeah, i liked that film | 19:52 |
| popey | watched it a couple of times now | 19:52 |
| davmor2 | yeah it got sucky reviews but I think that is because everyone was expecting it to be bond with Colin Firth in and then they killed him | 19:53 |
| davmor2 | I loved it though | 19:53 |
| diddledan__ | I loved it too | 19:53 |
| davmor2 | if anyone invites you to see Lone ranger gauge your eyes out | 19:55 |
| davmor2 | gouge even | 19:55 |
| popey | Watched Tomorrowland with Clooney | 19:56 |
| popey | bit of an odd one | 19:56 |
| davmor2 | popey: cloud atlas weird or vanilla skies weird | 19:59 |
| bigcalm | popey: are you on 150mb yet? | 20:00 |
| popey | bigcalm, didnt know it was an option | 20:27 |
| popey | bigcalm, do i need a cable modem upgrade? | 20:27 |
| bigcalm | popey: I logged into my account and there was a message telling me that before the end of December my connection would be upgraded to 150mb | 20:31 |
| popey | you still on mates rates? | 20:31 |
| bigcalm | Na, I had to ditch it | 20:31 |
| popey | i never login to mine | 20:31 |
| bigcalm | We've dropped TV because we don't use it. Now just have 'net and phone (phone is hardly used either) | 20:32 |
| bigcalm | I only login to my vm account when they dick around with our bill | 20:32 |
| bigcalm | The £20pcm loyalty credit turned out to only last 1 year. Our bill went back up to £63pcm. | 20:33 |
| bigcalm | Hayley and I decided that it was too much for 3 services where we only really use one of them | 20:33 |
| popey | mine is currently 64.49 | 20:33 |
| bigcalm | That's the number | 20:33 |
| bigcalm | There's a sky dish on the house, left over from the previous owners. So I bought a freesat box | 20:34 |
| bigcalm | Working well so far | 20:34 |
| popey | yeah, i used to have sky, so plugged the cable into the telly | 20:34 |
| popey | telly does freesat hd and if I plug a USB disk in it turns the telly into a PVR | 20:34 |
| bigcalm | Funky | 20:35 |
| popey | not that I ever watch freesat :) | 20:38 |
| bigcalm | http://help.virginmedia.com/system/selfservice.controller?CMD=VIEW_ARTICLE&ARTICLE_ID=51538&CURRENT_CMD=SEARCH&CONFIGURATION=1001&PARTITION_ID=1&USERTYPE=1&LANGUAGE=en&COUNTY=us&VM_CUSTOMER_TYPE=Cable | 20:39 |
| bigcalm | We're on VIVID100, and I expect that you are as well | 20:40 |
| popey | i am | 20:41 |
| popey | "Your speed boost is almost ready!" | 20:42 |
| diddledan__ | mine's not until april at the earliest :-( | 20:42 |
| popey | end of december | 20:42 |
| bigcalm | I recently got a letter from VM saying that they would be doing maintenance on the 15th December and my 'net connection would be up and down. I guess that's when the update will happen for me | 20:43 |
| diddledan__ | they claimed the network would be ready back in september but neglected to mention that "september" really meant "when we feel like it" | 20:43 |
| bigcalm | It's always been a finger in the air date | 20:47 |
| bigcalm | Quite happy with my 12.7MB/s | 20:48 |
| bigcalm | Wonder what I'll get with 150mb | 20:48 |
| diddledan__ | bigcalm: I think you'll get cooties | 21:19 |
| diddledan__ | bigcalm: all that unfettered internet is bad for you | 21:20 |
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| diddledan__ | http://www.ustream.tv/NASAHDTV/theater | 22:40 |
| diddledan__ | flaming ballocket again | 22:40 |
| diddledan__ | weather is green right now so we might actually get a launch today | 22:40 |
| diddledan__ | entering terminal count | 22:41 |
| diddledan__ | T0 at 22:48:12 | 22:42 |
| diddledan__ | clock resumed at 4:00 | 22:44 |
| diddledan__ | we're in terminal count | 22:44 |
| diddledan__ | flight control nogo | 22:44 |
| diddledan__ | holding at 3:42 | 22:45 |
| diddledan__ | clock reset to 4minutes | 22:46 |
| diddledan__ | T0 now set at 23:03:12 | 22:47 |
| diddledan__ | that reset was due to being too windy | 22:49 |
| diddledan__ | count resumed | 22:59 |
| diddledan__ | that's it. nogo | 22:59 |
| diddledan__ | scrubbing for today | 23:00 |
| diddledan__ | https://twitter.com/themagp1/status/672915699233398785 | 23:10 |
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