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=== brmbrmca1 is now known as brmbrmcar
diploMoaning all :)07:43
SuperMattmorning07:43
diploHow's the new job going SuperMatt ?07:45
popeynew job?07:46
SuperMattdiplo: going well thank you08:00
SuperMattthough I'm a little miffed that I can't install Linux, though I may speak to my manager about that08:00
SuperMattit's a bit odd being a linux tech that can't run raw linux08:00
SuperMattpopey: I'm now working for Sky08:01
popeyah, cool08:01
SuperMattI'm hoping to get close enough to the boss to take him down08:01
popeyin that there london?08:01
SuperMattmake it look like an age thing08:01
SuperMattyeah\08:01
popeyenjoying it?08:01
SuperMattwell... outskirts of london08:01
SuperMattonly my second day thus far08:01
popeyi have a friend who does video edit / production for sky sports, he likes it08:02
popeypeople seem to like working there08:02
SuperMattyeah, it's quite nice08:04
SuperMatthttps://goo.gl/photos/89HsAz3xAtwA2PrN708:05
SuperMattthis is my desk08:05
TwistedLucidityENHANCE!08:07
popeythats not loonix08:11
JamesTaitGood morning all!  Happy Tuesday, and happy Chocolate Ice Cream Day! 😃  🍦 🍨08:16
diploWell it may come in time SuperMatt, took years at my place too to get them to OK me running it08:19
popeyooh, my son will like that08:21
popeywe have some chocolate ice cream in the fridge08:21
SuperMattdiplo: I hope I get something soon though, because macs are maddening08:24
SuperMattno middle click paste08:24
SuperMattnon-native docker08:24
diploYeah, I've never got on with MACs, but tbh, I've not put a lot of effort in :P08:27
dwatkinsI always found them hard to remember as they're so long.08:27
TwistedLucidityBad-dum-tish08:27
davmor2JamesTait: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQCQnARnKbc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAxY3PBsb2408:28
TwistedLucidityG/F's Mac needs to go into a repair shop, I simply cannot get her WiFi to work. Really annoying.08:28
TwistedLucidityEverything else in the house (TVs, xbox, phones, GNU/Linux lappys) works fine. Her Mac? Not a bit of it.08:29
TwistedLucidityProbably sulking because I didn't spend the GDP of a small African nation on an Applie AirWotsit.08:29
SuperMattthing is though, if I switch to mac, I might just go with Solus08:30
SuperMatts/mac/linux08:30
SuperMattstupid brain08:30
TwistedLucidityYeah, never trust Brian08:31
SuperMatthe's a bit of a loon08:31
foobarrywhat is solus USP08:32
davmor2TwistedLucidity: He's not the messiah he's a very naughty boy08:32
SuperMattfoobarry: usp?08:32
foobarryunique selling point08:32
foobarryi looked on their site the other day, i couldn't see it08:33
foobarryor even a description of what it is08:33
popeySuperMatt: why solus?08:33
TwistedLucidityLooks OS X-like?08:35
diploI use Budgie as my WM now :)08:38
popeyahh08:51
brobostigonmorning boys and girls.08:53
SuperMattpopey: they have cut back on a lot of what their desktop does (for now), and are also moving to a clean linux set up too, which interests me09:00
SuperMattI haven't actually used ubuntu for a couple of years now09:00
SwitchesSolus isn't bad, but it been "reborn/reinvented" more times than anything.09:06
SwitchesAnyone know when/if ubuntuMATE is going to get the 1.14 update?09:10
foobarryelementary has been an excellent OS for productivity for last 4 yrs for me09:31
=== zmoylan-1i is now known as zmoylan-pi
halthi all, I have a question about the local dnsmasq, few years back ubunut changed to use a local dnsmasq instead of the dhcp provided dns server, and the network config just change the dnsmasq config, at least this is the idea, since then I had nothing just trouble with with, and my question is what was the original idea, I mean the must be a reason why this was implemented apart from making every sysadmin's live a living hell10:31
haltcan anyone tell me what's the idea behind this ?10:31
bigcalmGood morning peeps :)10:40
haltMorning ? it's almost afternoon ( 20 min )10:40
halt1910:41
zmoylan-pia true geek doesn't get up until near noon... :-P10:41
zmoylan-piall that late night hacking in the dark huddled over your laptop screen with your hoodie up... at leas the daily mail tells us... :-P10:41
haltyeah I know I should change work, here they expect me to show up around 9 ..10:42
halts/work/job/10:42
diplohalt: Think yourself lucky, mine expects me in at 8!10:43
haltI had a question "early morning" for the ones who just joined, here is it again10:44
halthi all, I have a question about the local dnsmasq, few years back Ubuntu changed to use a local dnsmasq instead of the dhcp provided dns server, and the network config just change the dnsmasq config, at least this is the idea, since then I had nothing just trouble with with, and my question is what was the original idea, I mean the must be a reason why this was implemented apart from making every sysadmin's live a living hell10:44
haltdiplo: what they expect and what is the reality could be different ( for some time at least )10:45
diploYeah, sucks really. I also have issues with dnsmasq but never enough to look into it10:54
diploWill listen in with bated breath10:54
popeyhalt: maybe you're asking in the wrong place. perhaps either #ubuntu or #ubuntu-devel would be better11:11
davmor2halt: it is always Morning on the Interwebz11:16
zmoylan-piexcept april first when we all will for it to be post noon...11:17
davmor2zmoylan-pi: Oh come on it's the best day to be on the internet then11:17
zmoylan-pino, no it isn't... too many people trying to be funny and failing spectacularly...11:18
zmoylan-pibest april fool joke is still the british spaghetti harvest and no one else has come close to that level of classic11:18
diddledan+111:48
diddledanI love that people fell for it11:48
zmoylan-piand not even wikipedia for people to alter to make them believe...11:49
zmoylan-piit was on the bbc... that was all that was needed11:49
diddledanowncloud seems to be trying to one-up the nextcloud gang: https://twitter.com/TheOnlyDoo/status/74011585568667648011:50
zmoylan-piand not rearranging deck chairs and humming abide with me?11:52
diddledanthis seems to be turning into quite a battle between "what's left" and "the new guys who are actually the original team of 'what's left'"11:52
diddledanmanagement of owncloud must be widdled (piddled?)11:53
diddledanwee'd?11:53
diddledanurinated?11:54
Laneycome on parcelforce11:54
* Laney sets up a giant magnet11:54
diddledanLaney: shiny things?11:54
Laneynew phone11:54
diddledanyey11:54
zmoylan-pii think the approved method is a pit outside front door covered in leaves and brances11:54
Laneydropped the old one :(11:54
diddledanboo11:54
diddledanzmoylan-pi: with sticky things in the bottom to poke holes in the driver?11:55
Laneypit sounds good11:55
* Laney puts a sausage sandwich in it11:55
zmoylan-pino sticky things... the postal worker must be freed and released back into the wild after you liberate your parcel11:55
diddledanaww, you're no fun11:56
zmoylan-pidoesn't rule out filling it with leeches11:56
diddledanI think there should be a youtube video of the releasing of a postal worker back into the wild set to the soundtrack of born-free11:56
* zmoylan-pi types postal worker born free into search engine and immediately regrets it11:57
diddledanthis is a new one on me: crying funky eyes ಥ_ಥ11:59
ali1234is it just me or is the internet a bit broken today?12:51
popeynot that I've noticed12:52
diddledanme either12:52
ali1234hmmmm12:53
zmoylan-pia few netsplits yesterday. i thought it was the lightning tbh...12:53
zmoylan-pia bit laggy today12:53
ali1234probably my router needs rebooting or something12:53
* brobostigon is having a dumb moment, he is trying to find his own phone number on touch. doh.12:54
ali1234so people are discussing DNS resolution again13:02
ali1234remind me again why we need any of that stuff?13:02
zmoylan-pibecause systemd people seem to be clueless allegedly13:02
ali1234what about dnsmasq tho?13:03
ali1234why do we need that currently?13:03
TwistedLucidityOn a router - name resolution for the LAN. On a PC, acts as a DNS cache. <- I think13:04
ali1234dnsmasq does, but resolved doesn't cache apparently13:04
TwistedLucidityOh, is "resolved" more land-grab by thre systemd folks?13:05
ali1234yes13:05
ali1234but that's not important13:05
zmoylan-pisystemd seem to want in on the hated as much as oracle/ms/sco space13:06
ali1234i like systemd13:06
TwistedLucidityMeh, never really had to fiddle with dnsmasq other than on the router. On the PC/laptop is sits their quite happily and caches look-ups13:06
TwistedLucidityI like systemd too, but their actions are becoming increasingly vexatious13:07
ali1234not really13:07
TwistedLucidity"Hey tmux, we changed a thing. Please re-write your code to cope with that. kthanxbye"13:07
ali1234it's pretty constant13:07
zmoylan-pithey broke tmux....13:07
ali1234good13:08
zmoylan-piif your code requires really old stable code to change.  then you broke something... bad...13:08
ali1234killing user processes when the session ends is the best thing ever13:08
TwistedLucidityErr...no13:09
ali1234there is far too much junk code that fails to exit properly13:09
zmoylan-pion a desktop yes, on a server no13:09
ali1234even on a server13:09
TwistedLucidityNo.13:09
ali1234users shouldn't even be logging in to a server13:09
ali1234everything should be daemon13:09
zmoylan-piyour right _and_ you are wrong13:09
ali1234heh13:09
zmoylan-pibecause it's a funny world :-)13:09
ali1234i have a question about that actually13:10
zmoylan-piit moves things towards an apple there is only one way to do things mentality that doesn't work for me13:10
ali1234does "bash -l" make a new systemd session?13:11
ali1234i know you can do it manually and that's the correct way to do it imo13:11
ali1234and no software should ever be patched to do it automatically13:11
diddledanafaict dnsmasq has caching turned-off anyway, so there's no reason to be running it at all13:12
diddledanso. dnsmasq or resolved, different solutions to the same non-problem13:12
diddledananyone in the UK - the IPBill is being discussed today, so the open rights group have provided a quick-n-easy way to tweet your MP to tell them to attend the debate: https://www.snooperscharter.co.uk/#action13:16
diddledanIPBill = Intrusive or Inappropriate Probing13:17
TwistedLucidityali1234: You sure? I seem to be getting local resolution.13:28
ali1234where can i find the kernel git for utopic?13:30
ali1234nvm found it13:31
diplodiddledan: Did you see the amount of people in there? About 20-3013:42
diddledanaye, it sucks13:43
diddledanit's only the privacy of the population at stake13:43
diddledana friend just facebooked me this related link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/06/gchq_oversight/13:50
popeymy MP wouldn't care13:52
diddledannor mine: maria miller13:52
popeyhe's only interested in military things13:52
diddledansomething funny for your tuesday afternoon: https://twitter.com/JoeSondow/status/73415578285853900813:58
diddledanowncloud summit cancelled: https://news.opensuse.org/2016/06/07/summit-at-opensuse-conference-cancelled/14:02
diplopopey: Mine doesn't either, tried already :/14:13
diplouseless14:13
diddledansomeone in parliament just used the word "cyber"14:17
diddledanapparently bulk surveillance helps prevent "cyber attacks"14:17
diploAre you actually watching it?!14:33
TwistedLucidityBulk serveillance increases the size of the haystack. The number of needles remains constant14:35
TwistedLucidityAlso if you don't want a situation that fosters terroriesm, don't use a foreign policy they encourages it. e.g. do not support brutal distactorships, destroy livelihoods, help kelptocrats etc14:36
diddledanhttps://twitter.com/snookca/status/74018341372692889614:37
TwistedLuciditydiddledan: is Miller better/worse the Soubry? That's the reptile I have...14:39
diddledandonno. I had a letter from her about the last attempt at invasive penetration that I wrote to her about where she stated pretty much "I don't care what arguments you have, the government is right, you're wrong and you should feel bad for even attempting to suggest that surveillance en masse is a bad idea!"14:40
TwistedLuciditySounds just like a Soub clone14:41
popeyi like that diddledan14:42
DJonesFinally got a Win 10 upgrade to work after about 10 failures by using seperate install media, what is this, the 1980's15:23
zmoylan-pidid you have to use 35 5.25" floppies? :-P15:23
DJonesNo, I used 8" floppies :)15:24
zmoylan-pikeeping them on hand in case you want to sneak a virus into the military early warning system? :-P15:24
zmoylan-pijust put the virus on 10 numbered disks and leave in car park...15:25
DJonesYep15:25
zmoylan-piwith install instructions...15:25
DJonesThats about it15:25
zmoylan-pishould work15:25
TwistedLucidityDJones: Now all your life belong Redmond15:44
DJonesNah, spare laptop, only use it for powerpoint at church, couple of hours a week at most15:47
zmoylan-pia free bsd demon sticker on the lid should engender trust... :-P http://jithonline.com/wp-img/freebsd-logo.jpg15:49
DJonesWill somebody turn the heat down15:50
* zmoylan-pi has fan on setting 1... lovely stuff15:50
diddledanfans blow!17:16
diddledanisn't it telling that 20 people sit through the discussion and then 300 vote18:02
diddledanserverporn: https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/serverenvy-hard-drives-need-not-apply/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=serverenvy&utm_content=flash+jupiter18:22
SwitchesThat's one hell of a monster server18:41
zmoylan-piprobably still crushed by chrome after 30 minutes... :-)18:43
brobostigoncan i pick someone mind about why ubuntu touch fails to connect to my wifi, please.19:17
zmoylan-pidoes it connect to any wifi or none?19:23
zmoylan-pii've had both. the one that connected to none was too new a chipset for ubuntu.  works since. the wouldn't connect to one wifi ap was just the ap needed a reboot19:24
brobostigonit seems to connect to a random btwifi, but not our bthub*.19:26
zmoylan-pinew laptop?19:28
brobostigonubuntu touch on nexus 4.19:30
zmoylan-pimy bad, missed the mention of touch earlier... ::goes to check it out::19:31
diddledanhttp://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-do-only-some-people-get-skin-orgasms-listening-music/19:31
brobostigoni have my phone connected to my computer over adb to try and work iyut out.19:32
diddledanthe star wars fan clip linked in that article does it for me. big time.19:33
zmoylan-pibrobostigon: are you using mac address filtering on the bthub? theren's mention of a bug in the mailing list that the mac address changes on ununtu touch for some a few months back19:39
brobostigonzmoylan-pi: i have no idea to be honest, not that i aware of.19:40
zmoylan-piyou'd know if you set it up i'm sure19:40
brobostigonok, no i havent then.19:41
zmoylan-pifrom all the mentions of wifi and ubuntu touch and nexus 4 it's suppsed to 'just work'19:41
brobostigoncould there be some issue between 2.4/5 ghz wifi?19:41
zmoylan-piconsidering the dispersal of the ubuntu touch user base.  it'd pop up quickly if it did?19:42
brobostigonok, so where do i start? i thought od trying to use wpa-supplicant manually to see if its a gui issue?19:43
zmoylan-pii'd restart the hub to set my mind at ease myself.19:43
brobostigonok, good start, let me try.19:44
brobostigonsame result, said hub shows as two entries, and doesnt remeber the key for said hub either when iselct to connect to.19:48
zmoylan-piis there a wifi extenter in use?19:49
brobostigonno.19:49
zmoylan-pii dunno...19:49
brobostigonme neither, thats why i am asking.19:49
zmoylan-piand all the other devices about connect to the hub happily19:49
brobostigonincluding my dell with debian i am connected to right now, yes.19:50
zmoylan-pifingers crossed someone reads the above and sees what we are missing...19:50
brobostigoni may as well try wpa-supplicant manually and see what happens.19:51
brobostigonproblem is, it seems to connect to something thats non-encrypted, ie compared to said wpa hotspot.19:53
zmoylan-pihttp://askubuntu.com/questions/586300/creating-a-wpa2-enterprise-connection-on-ubuntu-touch19:57
diddledanwpa-enterprise is a bit different to standard wpa iirc20:39
diddledanstandard wpa = wpa-personal20:40
diddledanaka pre-shared key20:40
zmoylan-piah, i never use wpa20:42
diddledanreally?20:43
diddledanwhat do you use then?20:43
diddledandon't say WEP20:43
diddledan!!20:43
Switches...20:43
SwitchesIf he is using WEP I suggest we all start running :p20:43
zmoylan-pinope. in ireland wep default by eircom the main telecom was set up so badly i still use it.  http://www.bacik.ie/eircomwep/howto.html20:44
diddledanerr20:44
* Switches runs for his life20:45
zmoylan-piyou can still get free wifi everywhere because of it.. :-P20:45
diddledanI don't care if you can. it's broken20:45
zmoylan-pimy personal favourite was finding a wifi ap in central bank building using my then nokia 770 and it's insane wifi range20:45
Switchesdiddledan, When you ordering your monster "server porn" machine from ixsystems then ? :p20:48
zmoylan-piwhen he returns all his empty bottles for their deposits20:51
diddledanI don't think we want to concern ourselves with server-deposits. if cats are anything to go by then they're stinky20:55
zmoylan-piyou use to get 10p back for every bottle you returned to bottle bank in 70s early 80s20:56
user2635hey21:39
user2635I'm using thunderbird at the moment21:40
user2635but it looks like Kontact and Evolution are more fully featured21:40
user2635has anyone used there and would I benefit more from these packages?21:40
zmoylan-piif thunderbird works well enough for, why change?21:44
zmoylan-pi*for you21:44
user2635because i want to explore if the other ones have better features for address book management21:46
brobostigonwell thunderbird with enigmail support openpgp smartcards.21:52

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