| === Lcawte is now known as Lcawte|Away | ||
| m0nkey_ | Should be interesting. Seems that Windows 10 is finally getting ANSI escape codes in console mode. | 03:50 |
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| m0nkey_ | http://www.nivot.org/blog/post/2016/02/04/Windows-10-TH2-(v1511)-Console-Host-Enhancements | 03:50 |
| \sv | helo | 06:07 |
| === Myrtti_ is now known as Myrtti | ||
| brobostigon | morning boys ans girls. | 10:17 |
| zmoylan-pi | looks like spring has sprung finally... at least till the next storm hits in a few days http://www.carrollsirishgifts.com/livedublinwebcam | 10:18 |
| SuperEngineer | Bit windy today, not the best day to have done what I got away with [no power cuts] | 13:42 |
| MartijnVdS | you got away with no power cuts? | 13:43 |
| SuperEngineer | I have shrunk main partition, created a games partition, redownloaded games to it. | 13:43 |
| MartijnVdS | ah partition work | 13:44 |
| MartijnVdS | always exciting :) | 13:44 |
| SuperEngineer | ...&, yup, no power cuts [lot of building going on locally - lots of exposed things that shouldn't be] - 2 power cuts last week alone | 13:44 |
| SuperEngineer | partitioning during possible cuts... not recommended fotr those with poorly hearts ;-) | 13:45 |
| MartijnVdS | well there's the UPS route | 13:45 |
| SuperEngineer | MartijnVdS, all UPS contributions welcome! | 13:46 |
| SuperEngineer | [normal delivery will do] | 13:46 |
| SuperEngineer | [UPS = u'll probably seriouslyregretnothavingonesoon] | 13:48 |
| MartijnVdS | SuperEngineer: it's pronounced "OOPS" | 13:48 |
| SuperEngineer | or "Whoops" - if power cut had occurred | 13:49 |
| SuperEngineer | [well, that's the polite version] | 13:49 |
| penguin42 | why dont small UPSs these days let you attach a solar panel? | 13:50 |
| MartijnVdS | penguin42: because a solar panel won't be enough? | 13:51 |
| MartijnVdS | though my laptop charger is 45W and 45W of solar panel can be made in a reasonable size these days | 13:51 |
| SuperEngineer | penguin42, because solar panels are big and superglue won't hold them onto the UPS? | 13:51 |
| penguin42 | MartijnVdS: Right but it should give you some and it seems like the easy place to merge a solar installation in? | 13:51 |
| MartijnVdS | penguin42: what about power outages at night though | 13:51 |
| MartijnVdS | *lunar panels*! | 13:52 |
| penguin42 | MartijnVdS: Oh I mean it has a mains input as well, but if it's got solar power coming in then it takes the power from that | 13:52 |
| SuperEngineer | Isn't that more of a solar array's job, a few solar panels - big battery storage needed for UPS | 13:53 |
| penguin42 | SuperEngineer: But if you've got a solar panel on your building then it seems silly to charge it's own batteries then invert that back to mains and then use that to charge a UPS that converts it back to 12v on the batteries to invert it back to mains | 13:54 |
| MartijnVdS | There was this guy in my town who's converted his whole house to 12V only | 13:54 |
| MartijnVdS | 12V-DC* | 13:54 |
| MartijnVdS | sadly, he was also a mad conspiracy theory kind of guy, and blew up himself and most of his building | 13:55 |
| SuperEngineer | penguin42, I was thinking of getting the UPS charged via solar panels - battery backup needed for charge during low power | 13:55 |
| penguin42 | haha | 13:55 |
| penguin42 | SuperEngineer: Right, that's what I was after | 13:56 |
| SuperEngineer | I once did a clean up of a Windows system for a chap who was rather "proud" of his home built UPS | 13:57 |
| SuperEngineer | ...a load of car batteries! | 13:57 |
| SuperEngineer | His system was full of chkdsk files :-D | 13:57 |
| MartijnVdS | and a 555 tuned to 50Hz? :P | 13:57 |
| penguin42 | haha | 13:58 |
| SuperEngineer | [& if he only realised how much flamable gas was being released in that room with his pc & car batteries! | 14:00 |
| SuperEngineer | ...didn't manage to convince him of his | 14:00 |
| SuperEngineer | stupidity | 14:00 |
| SuperEngineer | [a person who was 1/ big headed, 2/ stupid] | 14:01 |
| SuperEngineer | Anyways, a question... [back to my games partition]. I want to do a complete /home reinstal for 16.04 | 14:04 |
| SuperEngineer | ...will Steam, if pointed at my Games partition, pick up the downloaded games? | 14:04 |
| MartijnVdS | You may have to re-click "Download game" but it'll complete after a checksum verification | 14:05 |
| SuperEngineer | [... probably gonna have to wait to find out the hard way] ;-) | 14:05 |
| SuperEngineer | MartijnVdS, good news, thanks | 14:06 |
| SuperEngineer | Dear BBC weather, I know it's gonna get nasty - I was talking Steam, not Storm! ;-) | 14:19 |
| penguin42 | haha | 14:19 |
| === Lcawte|Away is now known as Lcawte | ||
| * zmoylan-pi nurses hot mug of coffee after long walk outside in wind and rain and cold | 16:05 | |
| SuperEngineer | [& hangs wellies up to dry somewhere not "upside down over bed", I hope] | 16:11 |
| zmoylan-pi | nah, i never liked wearing wellies... mucked around on too many boats and wellies were 'bad' as they would slow you down in a pinch | 16:13 |
| penguin42 | :also never liked wellies, I tend to wear steel toed boots in the winter all the time | 16:14 |
| zmoylan-pi | steel toed shoes especially around repairing pcs... the one time i didn't i had a desk collapse and server with twin redundant power transformers land on my foot... | 16:15 |
| penguin42 | I just started wearing them because 1) I like to have water proof shoes in wet manchester winters 2) I like to have the room to wiggle my toes around - but yes they are nice when dealing with heavy kit | 16:22 |
| === Lcawte is now known as Lcawte|Away | ||
| penguin42 | 'Europe' are going to make a fortune on 'The final countdown' when they actually get around to a referendum | 18:36 |
| zmoylan-pi | you can look forward to extensive coverage of all the fringe looper parties... | 19:04 |
| zmoylan-pi | it'll be like spode in jeeves and wooster all over again... | 19:05 |
| gebbione | hi all. is anyone experiencing sudden kill and logout from the desktop session? (14.04) what is the best way to investigate | 19:18 |
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