[00:07] <ali1234> site is ded
[00:12] <m0nkey_> boom. ubuntu finally on the desktop
[00:16] <Azelphur> I feel like I deserve a medal for writing this, ^(?:(?P<days>\d+)[Dd]|)(?:(?P<hours>[1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-3])[Hh]|)(?:(?P<minutes>[1-9]|[1-5][0-9])[Mm]|)(?:(?P<seconds>[1-9]|[1-5][0-9])[Ss]|)
[00:16] <m0nkey_> Anyone know why lightdm would hang for about 30 seconds prior to allowing me logging in?
[02:05] <diddledan> cake
[02:05] <diddledan> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwylBRucU7w
[06:25] <mapps> hi
[08:25] <diplo> Morning all
[09:43] <JamesTait> Good morning all!  Happy Thursday, and happy Chocolate-Covered Peanuts Day! 😃
[09:49] <davmor2> JamesTait: got this one dude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aORAz-pzY6Q
[10:16] <zmoylan-pi> those poor people with peanut allergies will never know the joy of chocolate coloured peanuts...
[10:18] <brobostigon> morning boys and girls.
[10:24] <davmor2> zmoylan-pi: but how else do you expect them to find out they have peanut allergies
[10:25] <zmoylan-pi> how can i enjoy my choccy covered peanuts when someone is on the ground gasping for air?
[10:28] <zmoylan-pi> ...and what's the polite amount of time before i can bend down and pickup their pack of choccy covered peanuts that they have no further use of?
[11:39] <awilkins> You can treat peanut allergy with frequent really tiny injections of peanut
[11:39] <awilkins> There are sufferers who can now eat a whole peanut without dying!
[11:40] <awilkins> This may seem trivial but it means they can tolerate nut fragments that would previously have killed them.
[11:40] <awilkins> And they can also start to view chocolate-covered peanuts in the same food bracket as fugu, only a lot less expensive.
[11:52] <foobarry> RAID card has veeery slow writes. reads seem ok
[11:53] <zmoylan-pi> writing to be sure, to be sure...
[11:53] <foobarry> might have a bad battery in which case, cache might be disabled, but still shouldn't be this bad?
[11:56] <awilkins> We had RAID cards with knacked batteries that really had a very significant effect
[11:56] <awilkins> The dead battery showed up in kernel logs though
[11:57] <awilkins> ICT were so helpful. It was on a pair of servers. We pointed out that the other card would fail in short order as well and could they just send the engineer to replace both, saving them a trip and reducing costs.
[11:57] <awilkins> OF COURSE THEY COULDN'T
[11:57] <foobarry> hmm, think i have to install oipenmanage
[11:58] <foobarry> out of warranty
[13:02] <Laney> haha
[13:02] <Laney> radio 4 can't play any clips on its news report
[13:02] <Laney> "so and so reports" <silence>
[14:25] <diddledan> I saw popey tweet this link last night, but did anyone else see the link I pasted at 2am? https://blog.xamarin.com/a-xamarin-microsoft-future/
[14:25] <diddledan> 11pm**
[15:20] <\sv> hey how come spotify wont work ubuntu15.10?
[15:21] <popey> https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Windows-Web/Spotify-app-and-Ubuntu-15-04/td-p/1121810
[15:21] <popey> probably
[15:21] <popey> at a guess
[15:22] <diddledan> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/25/linux_skype_outage_outrage/
[15:26] <Laney> "To be a functioning member of society today, Skype is pretty much unavoidable"
[15:27]  * Laney goes back to scratching symbols in the dirt
[15:33] <diddledan> yeah, that's a bit of an overstatement methinks
[15:34] <popey> hyperbole? from el reg?
[15:34] <popey> no wai
[15:35] <popey> <owl pic>
[15:36] <diddledan> popey: INORITE
[15:36] <diddledan> I really cannot read hyperbole without forming the word sounds as "hyper" and "bowl"
[15:39] <diddledan> https://twitter.com/hmemcpy/status/702577902865551360
[15:46] <awilkins> Functioning member of the tech press, maybe
[15:46] <awilkins> We don't use Skype for our corporate meetings, we use Zoom.us
[15:47] <awilkins> Even that's bullshit when every major browser now supports WebRTC
[15:47] <Laney> it was a quote from reddit
[15:47] <awilkins> Hahahaha
[15:47] <Laney> so not prone to exaggeration
[15:47] <Laney> :)
[15:47] <awilkins> Oh, sorry for the minor swear
[15:47] <awilkins> Thought this was that *other* channel
[16:03] <m0nkey_> omg. this can't be happening
[16:03] <m0nkey_> i'm actually beginning to grasp regex
[16:03] <diddledan> :-o
[16:04] <diddledan> who are you and what have you done to m0nkey_ ?!
[16:04] <m0nkey_> i've been doing some regex stuff in python this time, and i'll be. i'm using regex like a pro :(
[16:04] <diddledan> \o/
[16:04] <m0nkey_> damn capture groups
[16:05] <diddledan> I only really understand perl-compatible style and even then there are many things that confuse me or I just plain can't grok
[16:05] <awilkins> Yeah, the main thing that confounds me about regex is all the different implementaitons
[16:06] <m0nkey_> well, perl and python are very similar
[16:06]  * awilkins learned on Java and .NET regex :-)
[16:06] <m0nkey_> this tool is great for testing regex
[16:06] <m0nkey_> http://www.regexpal.com/
[16:07] <diddledan> it seems nobody invented "regex" and had people use it, but the concept was theoretical and several interpretations appeared with zero thought about what other folk were doing
[16:07] <m0nkey_> lol
[16:07] <m0nkey_> just pushed my commit to our git server
[16:07] <m0nkey_> commit text: More regex please!
[16:08] <diddledan> it would have been much more appropriate for a standard to be incepted by someone like ECMA (because they're obviously the most appropriate place for software standards :-p)
[16:09] <awilkins> Same for Markdown
[16:09] <diddledan> aye
[16:09] <awilkins> So many different infuriating implementaitons
[16:09] <awilkins> I kinda like Textile better anyway
[16:10] <diddledan> with markdown it's often really subtle differences that glare at you when you hit them
[16:10] <awilkins> I've even considered making my own Markdown parser as a plugin for Word though
[16:10] <awilkins> Because Pandoc is *terrible* at Word
[16:10] <awilkins> And docx is so horrible that it must be easier to teach Word to do Markdown than it is to teach anything else to do docx
[16:11] <diddledan> *cough* pdf
[16:11] <diddledan> pdf is an evil concoction apparently
[16:13] <diddledan> I read that pdf is kinda like a Frankenstein monster where data structures are all different for various features so you need a bespoke parser for every feature you want to implement in your viewer or editor
[16:13] <diddledan> zero consistency
[16:13] <awilkins> BUT IT'S A STANDARD.
[16:13] <awilkins> LIKE DOCX.
[16:13] <awilkins> Oh.
[16:14] <awilkins> Even Word doesn't write standard DOCX
[16:14] <diddledan> o_O
[16:14] <diddledan> joy
[16:14] <awilkins> Unless you tell it to. And then it probably breaks.
[16:14] <awilkins> DOCX is pretty much a direct XML serialization of all the crufty old C structs in Office.
[16:15] <diddledan> odf support is bad. word is supposed to support it but even if you save in word to odf it still doesn't look the same when you use that file in libreoffice
[16:16] <davmor2> diddledan: they can't get their own format correct do you really think they would get someone elses correct?
[16:16] <diddledan> I think the only reason MS put odf support into word was because of governments like the british one that are mandating open document usage
[16:17] <davmor2> diddledan: correct France, Germany and UK
[16:17] <diddledan> the holy trinity
[16:17] <awilkins> The only reason they made up MOO-XML in the first place was because of that
[16:17]  * diddledan imagines carrie-ann moss in his mind
[16:18] <awilkins> I mean Microsoft Office Open XML? .... scared of Open Office XML much?
[16:46] <celesteh> Hello, I'm trying to build something and it says I need to cmake -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/path/to/qt5 . I have qt5 installed, just via apt-get. How do I find out what path to give this?
[16:47] <diddledan> it'll be in /usr/lib
[16:47] <celesteh> thank you diddledan
[16:48] <m0nkey_> diddledan, tell me why lightdm hangs on boot?
[16:48] <m0nkey_> my keyboard/mouse freezes
[16:49] <m0nkey_> before you ask, not tried 15.10
[16:49] <diddledan> pas d'idée
[16:49] <m0nkey_> And nothing in the logs
[16:49] <m0nkey_> me non plus
[16:53] <celesteh> Alas,  /usr/lib is not the answer. Cmake says it can't find a configuration file for Qt5WebKit. I definitely have that package installed and the dev version.
[16:55] <m0nkey_> make sure you install the -dev package
[17:19] <celesteh> This is the output I'm getting. http://pastebin.com/bcYu2psb I do have deve versions installed
[19:53] <gebbione_> hi all, an hardrive of mine feels slow compared to the past
[19:53] <gebbione_> is there any way to measure its performance >#
[19:55] <diddledan> hdparm I think
[19:55] <diddledan> I haven't ever done it tho
[19:56] <zmoylan-pi> is there anything to access the smart doohickey?
[19:57] <zmoylan-pi> http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/using-smartctl-to-get-smart-status-information-on-your-hard-drives/
[19:58] <gebbione_> ok i tried now
[19:59] <gebbione_> it looks like it is running at less than half its official speed
[19:59] <gebbione_> is that possible for SATA?
[23:12] <Adriannom> Hi, I'm using AntiMicro and once two "keys" are held down, pressing another won't register. Any idea if this is a hard limit?
[23:23] <Adriannom> Nevermind, got it :)