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mapshi all05:00
mapshmmm what film to watch05:43
mapslondon has fallen or eye in the sky hms05:44
MartijnVdSsound of one, picture of the other05:44
mapslol05:44
knightwisegood morning05:55
MooDoowell for any one wanting to play with nextcloud on ubuntu 16.04LTS server, let me tell you it's bloomin easy to install with snap :)07:06
brobostigonmorning boys and girls.07:10
MooDoomorning brobostigon07:26
brobostigonmorning MooDoo07:29
SuperMattmorning all07:33
MooDoomorning SuperMatt hows the job goinf?07:33
SuperMattIt's going well, finally managed to tackle OS X, and beat in to the kind of submission that gives me a semi-decent workflow07:34
SuperMattalthough part of me is thinking of aliasing bash on this thing to "docker start supermatt/bash"07:37
SuperMattand have a real command line07:37
MooDoohehe :)07:38
SuperMattthough really I've just got zsh and oh-my-zsh to fill all the painful gaps left by Apple's refusal to upgrade bash beyond version 307:38
MooDoohehe07:52
davmor2Morning all07:59
foobarryanyone had dealings with pimoroni?08:25
Myrttiwhy?08:25
MyrttiI believe we have08:25
foobarrybought a pi zero on saturday, nothing arrived and no response to my emails08:25
Myrttioh. Do you have a Twitter account?08:25
foobarryyep08:25
Myrtticomplain there :-P08:25
Myrtti(I've not emailed them ever, just used Twitter. altho mine was just a 'look what I've done')08:26
ali1234i ordered a pi zero yesterday evening, they are back in stock now08:27
ali1234you probably encountered a glitch on their website08:27
ali1234i told you so :)08:28
foobarrylolz08:28
ali1234or maybe they'll ship it out to you now08:28
ali1234i dunno08:28
foobarryif they oversold they should just tell me08:28
ali1234they didn't sell out instantly this time so they'll probably honour your order if you bug them08:28
foobarryjust tweeted them as per Myrtti advice08:28
ali1234they haven't oversold, they still have stock08:29
ali1234they probably didn't have stock on saturday though, hence why you have not got one yet08:29
foobarrythey may have done on saturday08:29
foobarryaltohugh i like the look of the chip for $908:29
foobarryincludes wifi , bt, etc08:29
ali1234well yeah i mean they might have had none at all08:29
foobarrymust be a loss on that08:30
ali1234i ordered a chip in january i thnk08:30
ali1234pi 3 was released since then... its better i think08:30
ali1234apparently they did have a batch up last friday08:39
JamesTaitGood morning all!  Happy Thursday, and happy Fresh Veggies Day! 😃09:00
davmor2JamesTait: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XbT0QHYKAA  you're welcome09:01
zmoylan-pithing that makes the chip more interesting is the pda case they plan to release for it09:02
knightwisemorning peeps09:23
davmor2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZFqyAhvQWc thanks to JamesTait and fudgeday it led to this and I realised I remembered them all :(09:25
JamesTaitNope, not going there.09:27
JamesTaitI already feel old enough, thank you.09:27
MooDoooh dear09:27
TwistedLucidityfoobarry: I like the look of the PocketCHIP. So very tempted...09:30
davmor270's ads for car oil because men were manly back then and looked at their car engines rather than looking at the piece of plastic on top of one nowadays :D09:30
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TwistedLuciditydavmor2: Thanks. I have realised I am now closer to retirement than I am to my memories of those adverts.09:32
TwistedLucidityI would be more forthright, but this channel if meant to be family-friendly. :-P09:32
davmor2TwistedLucidity: don't blame me JamesTait started it09:35
MooDoodavmor2: I know why ubuntu doesn't boot now, it can't handle drive sizes of >2tb on non uefi hardware...09:50
MooDoodavmor2: sorry boot drive sizes of greater than 2tb09:50
TwistedLucidityWhat?09:51
davmor2MooDoo: stop trying to use ntfs already :P09:51
TwistedLucidityMooDoo: Is that an Ubuntu limitation, or something kernel-y that affects most distros?09:52
davmor2MooDoo: also use 64bit :P09:52
TwistedLucidityOr maybe GRUB-y?09:52
MooDooTwistedLucidity: don't think so, think it's a limitation of BIOS vs uefi09:53
SwitchesTwistedLucidity: It's actually neither, it's an MBR limitation and using GPT on non-UEFI systems can be a bit sketchy09:53
MooDoodavmor2: shush09:53
MooDooSwitches: that what i meant lol09:53
MooDooguess it's use a small boot drive, then create another partition09:53
SwitchesIf you run Windows is where the problem is as Windows can't boot from a GPT disk prior to (Windows 8 i think it was)09:54
TwistedLuciditySwitches: Ta, good to know when space gets tight on the home server (I had been considering 4TB drives)09:54
davmor2MooDoo: oh you mean you don't partition your drive well I have no sympathy then :P09:54
MooDooit's wierd though as vmware esxi works fine as it's software gpt so sees it all :) which is what i'm uding at the moment09:55
MooDoodavmor2: bah humbug09:55
SwitchesTbh as long as your Bios can see the full size and you don't run Windows you can just use GPT with a small "boot" partition at the start of the disk flagged as "bios_grub"09:55
MooDooSwitches: yes i've just read about that.09:55
SwitchesWell thats wrong actually it's not really a "boot" partition just a blank space marked for Grub to fake a EFI loader09:56
MooDoonot sure it's worth the hassle when I can just run a ubuntu vm [in my situation any way]09:56
TwistedLuciditySo it's not the physical drive, but whatever partition you're trying to boot from?09:56
SwitchesIt depends tbh, if the VM has hardware passthrough and VT-x/VT-d imo it's pretty much worthless trying it on baremetal, if it lacks passthrough and either of the VT's then the performance suffers09:57
SwitchesWell kind of TwistedLucidity the problem is the way MS products read a bios with larger than 2tb drives09:58
* TwistedLucidity checks channel09:59
Switchesor well really it's how any OS handles bios calls09:59
Switchesan original "bios" normally can't handle disks larger than 2tb, so the bios manufacturers kinda use a "firmware" fix for it to see them, that causes issues with MBR on the disks and things go all weird arse10:01
MooDoostupid old computers lol10:01
Switches:D10:01
SwitchesThat too MooDoo10:01
MooDooI have a dell 2950 with 6 disks that's a 4.5TB raid 5 might have a play about10:02
davmor2MooDoo: Stooopid sysadmins not partitioning I blame :P10:02
MooDoodavmor2: I'll just raid 1 2 x drives and then raid 5 the rest ;) lol10:03
MooDoo:)10:09
popeyMyrtti: TIL: sudo purge-old-kernels10:09
Myrttiooh.10:09
Myrttiah, part of byobu10:10
SuperMattok, maybe changing the date on my PC forward a couple of years was a bad idea...10:40
SuperMattmust only do that sort of thing in vms10:40
MooDoolol10:40
SwitchesxD10:41
SuperMattevery thing I was using suddenly broke because certs were no longer valid10:41
Myrttiahhahahhahaha I just purged kernels out and now I have to do it again10:41
Myrttisweet jebus10:41
Myrttiok, I'll reboot again then10:41
SwitchesJust don't put 2038 in.. the world will end!10:41
SuperMatthah10:41
ali1234hmm... i never realised there's so much meat for sale on ebay11:17
ali1234i wonder how they deliver it11:17
zmoylan-piby general post... even the toughest steak is very tender after that... :-)11:20
zmoylan-pii've heard a few americans describing getting packages packed with dry ice11:26
popeyI have had meat delivered11:26
popeyin a cardboard box with loads of packing and ice blocks.11:27
popeyit's rated to stay frozen for 24 hours on the doorstep11:27
zmoylan-piof course if it's cured meat an air tight package with nitrogren amto will do the trick11:27
zmoylan-piand hawaii gets through a lot of spam as it doesn't need any refrigeration iirc11:29
bigcalmGood morning peeps :)11:30
popeyyo11:31
bigcalmIs it September yet?11:31
bigcalmpopey: I'm thinking of getting a Volvo V40 D2 in a few years. What's your experience of Volvo been over time?11:32
zmoylan-piboxy but good? :-P11:33
popeyI loved mine11:34
popeyNot sure I'd buy a diesel these days11:34
bigcalmzmoylan-pi: Volvo - they're boxy but safe11:36
bigcalmYes, I've been wondering about petrol vs diesel now11:36
popeygetting rid of my volvo, i never use it11:36
bigcalmAll of my cars have been diesel11:36
popeyI'd quite like an electric car11:36
bigcalmI'd love an electric car, but my purse would not11:37
zmoylan-pithe charging points at nearby tesco and shopping centre are often in use11:37
zmoylan-piand i have noticed i have to listen more carefully at junctions as leccy cars are much more silent as they approach11:41
bigcalmpopey: have you experienced this with your pebble time? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3WJ8zE3A4s (excuse the terrible video, it was late and dark)11:43
popeyis it maps updating?11:43
MyrttiVolvo's arent' that boxy anymore11:43
bigcalmYes11:43
popeyyes, i saw it and made a similar video a year or more ago11:43
bigcalmAh11:43
popeyit's bonkers11:43
* Switches grumbles under breath, people are stupid11:46
SwitchesCan anyone tell me why people think MS have bought Canonical because of the whole Ubuntu on Windows stuff?..11:48
foobarry"people"?11:49
zmoylan-pims makes lots of deals with lots of companies... and for most of those companies it seems that later they end up with smelly end of the stick.11:50
SwitchesWell so far I've seen it on G+, Twitter and a few other places posted about..11:50
MooDooSwitches: it's been going about for years,11:50
MooDooSwitches: popey has been a secret MS employee for ages ;)11:51
SwitchesI know it just kinda gets to a point where you see it and just cba explaining to people that MS and Canonical are working "together"!11:51
foobarryah, magically a piromoni email appears11:52
foobarryali1234 theory seems correct. they either oversold or screwed up on sat11:52
MooDooSwitches: feed on this - http://techaeris.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Microsoft_Canonical.jpg ;)11:52
SwitchesThe other thing that gets me is Canonical are in the "wrong" for working with MS, yet Redhat and Novell should be the "poster boys" for working with MS >.<11:52
ali1234nobody should ever work with MS11:53
Switchesrofl11:53
SwitchesWhy?11:53
MooDooat the end of the day it's not a bad thing, what ever makes things better is always good11:53
ali1234can you name a company that has ever benefitted from a strategic partnership with MS?11:53
zmoylan-pistac, sendo worked with ms and ended up suing and winning against ms but are now still dead11:53
foobarryits never better for the other party11:53
MooDoobash on windows is a fantastic idea and works quite well11:53
* Switches was an oem for MS for 15 years, it had its ups and downs but made me and my company money..11:53
foobarryits just a project by one guy11:53
foobarryrather than a company collab11:53
ali1234that's not a strategic partnership... that's you selling MS products11:54
MooDooi'd also like to see it the other way around as well, windows on ubuntu running windows apps natively from the os not using wine etc11:54
ali1234canonical aren't in that business11:54
ali1234nokia were though... went great11:55
zmoylan-pinokia actually may have done better than ms from that deal.. a rare instance11:56
SwitchesMooDoo: That would be a good thing11:57
ali1234considering that the deal was done only to eliminate nokia as a competitor and ended when microsoft decided they didn't want to be in that market any more... no11:57
SwitchesGuess that's one way to look at it11:58
SuperMatthttps://blog.mozilla.org/tanvi/2016/06/16/contextual-identities-on-the-web/ - oh man, this is going to be awesome. I means I can be signed out of facebook, amazon, google, etc for most of my browsing, but then I can select the personal context for certain tabs, and they'll be logged in11:59
foobarryhttp://boingboing.net/2016/06/15/intel-x86-processors-ship-with.html11:59
foobarryhad problems due to AMT already11:59
zmoylan-pibut now nokia has bought alcatel and a number of wearable companies and looks set to re-enter the market11:59
foobarrywindows machines in sleep state were flooding our 1Gb network due to AMT somehow11:59
SwitchesYay more stuff on Intel ME :p12:01
ali1234alcatel phones are terrible12:01
foobarrySuperMatt: poor choice of name though: containers12:01
foobarryi picture a phone from the 90s when i hear alcatel12:01
ali1234as for wearables... there's certainly a lot of room in that market... but if they just make another rubbish fitness band or overpriced smartwatch then they are toast12:02
zmoylan-pii have one ali1234 cheap and nasty software, the hardware isn't bad12:02
SwitchesDon't worry before long Intel and Redhat will have everything under their control muhahaha :p12:02
SuperMattfoobarry: sure, but it helps techs quickly understand what's happening12:02
Switchesfoobarry: That looks to be a really interesting read, had a scan over it will read it properly later (pocketed) lol12:08
foobarryCOME ON ENGLAND!12:59
foobarryproblem with working in IT is lack of enthusiasm for football among colleagues13:00
daftykinshttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/16/lester_haines_obituary/ :(13:01
popeymy tv stream is so bad, the football looks like FIFA 201013:02
MooDooI've got it open on a tab in the background, if it gets exciting i'll switch to it lol13:04
foobarryiplayer?13:04
foobarrymine seems fine13:04
foobarryflash performance sucks a bit13:05
popeytvcatchup13:06
foobarryiplayer seems fine here13:08
MooDooah nice to england in can't finish mode again lol13:11
foobarrysterling is lame13:11
DJones_Sheesh, an MP has been shot & stabbed in yorkshire13:14
MooDooblimey13:15
daftykins:/13:16
zmoylan-pithat won't affect the brexit vote in any way... :-/13:16
daftykinshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-3655030413:17
MooDoono it won't just wondering what it was all abou13:17
popeyhttp://imgur.com/a/xPoW8  top one tvcatchup, bottom is iplayer13:25
diploGuys, I've got a customer who wants to backup to a usbdrive every minute of pdf files that their system has created, I need to check drives are mounted or not because staff remove other drives that are plugged in, this is a 1tb drive so not flash, I was just wondering whether it causes damage to drives constantly mounting / unmounting them ?13:25
diploLinux box, with a ntfs usb drive13:26
daftykinsoh you'll have some horrible permissions woes there i'd bet, using NTFS on the external13:29
daftykinsthat idea doesn't sound so nice to me, what volume of PDFs are we talking?13:30
diploThousands13:30
diploNot had any perm issues on the backup13:30
diploMore worried about the drive being mounted/unmounted quite often for wear and tear13:31
diploAs in writing to the drive I mean, not keeping the permissions13:31
daftykinsit's a disk and mounting is just reading, can't see any issues unless the machine and power supply to this drive aren't UPS'd13:32
diploVery hard work customer who basically wants any paper invoice he creates on his counter create a pdf and sync it to a usb device every minute in case of issues with anything13:32
diploHe's quite a high maintenance customer, so bosses rather we just do what he asks than try to argue13:33
daftykinswell, it won't be a very good backup if the power goes :>13:34
daftykinsif the initial copy is on a single disk i'd have more issues with that13:34
ali1234diplo: mount/unmount shouldn't do anything... the drive doesn't know if it's mounted after all13:35
daftykinsunless it were uncleanly unmounted, you get that error message about NTFS ones no?13:36
ali1234yeah13:36
ali1234it might even refuse to mount with NTFS if it is not clean13:36
diployeah it does, basically tried a less good solution with fstab before13:38
diploIt is supposed to stay plugged in and use the same mount point, but the guys staff are unplugging it i'm sure, so it tries remounting as a different drive sde at the same path and fails because its already mounted ( although its not )13:39
diploI've got lots of ways around it, just wanted to check me unmounting it constantly wouldn't do any issues13:39
SuperMattShouldn't do13:39
daftykinsdiplo: did you use /dev/sdx or UUID?13:43
daftykinsi guess being in fstab would get ignored if someone removed it though13:43
diploI'm using uuid now13:44
popeyoops13:44
daftykinshonestly it should just never be touched and be UPS'd, the host and this drive13:45
daftykinsif that can't be handled, then this customer needs to handle his own staff13:45
daftykinshmm naughty IPs trying to hit the Austrian lad i know again - 195.2.252.67 - - [16/Jun/2016:15:40:11 +0200] "POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0" 200 581 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)"13:45
daftykinswordpress abusers13:45
diploSorry, lost internet13:47
diploYep, had this discussion with the boss, basically he says if you agree with what the customer says he disagrees with what he formely said and if you disagree with him its all out war13:48
diploThey've tried dropping him and hes threatened to take him to courts13:48
diploPITA :/13:48
daftykinsthat doesn't sound like the world i live in XD13:49
zmoylan-pithat's one way to build customer relationship....13:49
daftykinsi heard a great line yesterday, "if 10% of your customers are causing 90% of the trouble, that's ok if they're bringing you 90% of your profits"13:50
daftykinsif not, bye bye13:50
zmoylan-pione of the weirdest/toughest programmes i wrote was for a service based database called troublesome customers... initially it was simply to look for on site callouts within last 30 days, covered v uncovered. but every customer had a difference idea of what a troublesome customer was13:52
daftykinswould you tend to charge for follow up support calls, even if they were resolved within 5 minutes?13:54
zmoylan-pithe company worked on support contracts which were fairly liberal in terms of accomodating the customer... 99% of calls were covered by support contract13:56
zmoylan-pithey'd pretty much have to be standing over the smouldering pc with a lump hammer saying 'i'm really glad i killed the bloody thing' before we'd charge them :-)13:57
daftykinsheh13:57
zmoylan-pisometimes even then...13:58
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popey*applause*14:50
bigcalmThere's a lot of shouting happening outside the office window14:55
popeyhaha14:56
davmor2bigcalm: 2-1 to England14:56
MooDoowe did a russia14:56
zmoylan-piinvaded poland?14:57
MooDoono silly scored in injury time14:57
foobarrymy iplayer got paused somehow and we were watching 5 mins delayed15:02
diploSpoilers!!!!!!!!!15:08
diplo:)15:08
daftykinswhen i fire up my baseball streams, i'm always 20 seconds behind mates in the US :( they see it all happen and comment before!15:23
daftykinsno the plus side, it's a good way to make you pay attention...15:23
Myrttiwell.16:19
daftykinshttps://roketman.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/well_well_well.jpg16:21
Myrttishe died ;__;16:21
daftykinswho?16:22
Myrttithe shot MP16:22
daftykinsomw16:22
daftykinsany details yet?16:22
MyrttiI suppose.16:24
MyrttiBBC News is on it quite well16:25
Myrtti:-|16:26
bashrcshocked middle class sensibilities16:29
bashrcwas there a motive?16:30
daftykinsno info yet it would seem16:30
daftykinshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-leeds-3654318016:30
daftykinsupdates there16:30
bashrcit's sad when people become victims of violence. There's a lot of it about, and most of it doesn't get onto the BBC news.16:31
daftykinsweird for a gun crime to crop up in England, or at least it is to me16:33
Newman101Good grief... MP listening her constituents murdered. This is beyond belief.16:36
zmoylan-1iwould it make such big news if the victim wasn't an mp?16:36
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daftykinsmost likely not16:37
AzelphurTempted to buy a surface 3 and put Linux on it, anyone have any recommendations around that?16:38
AzelphurI like that it has a long battery life and supports USB charging, yet can run a full OS16:38
daftykinsnot sure about the 3, but the pro 4 a client has suffers from that sleep bug and so i'm advising everyone avoid it like the plague16:39
daftykinstempting to say it could be a win10 thing, but the fact they keep trying to fix it with firmware updates says otherwise o016:39
Newman101Dualboot might be an option but if you run solely Linux you won't get firmware updates because they are distributed through Windows updates.16:43
zmoylan-piwhat are the surface keyboards like.  they seem very... flat looking with little travel16:50
Newman101To put it mildly, problematic.16:51
Newman101The keyboard stops responding occasionally.16:51
daftykinsthe keys on the type cover for the surface 4 seem very nice, i set one of those up - though £104.99 at Gatwick airport for one, it better be16:52
daftykinsNewman101: which model is that?16:53
Newman101daftykins: Surface Pro 3.16:54
Newman101daftykins: usually the problem is solved by shutting down, holding down the volume up + power, then powering the surface again.16:55
daftykinsmmm i found the key travel was a bit better on the newer type cover16:55
Newman101Also, auto-rotate tends to stop working occasionally which is VERY annoying.16:58
AzelphurNewman101: ah, so basically I shouldn't buy a surface17:26
Azelphurthat's a shame, I wanted something long life and microusb charging17:26
popeychromebook17:28
Azelphurpopey: is there an x86 chromebook with usb charging?17:29
brmbrmcarChromebook?17:31
brmbrmcarhehehe17:31
popeyAzelphur: the hp ones are I think17:47
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daftykins*gasp* http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/16/adobe_36_flash_flaws/19:19
daftykins;)19:19
popeyNO WAI19:19
daftykinsikr!19:20
zleapanyone had issues with the 16.04 mini iso file,  just tried to write to a external usb disk and it just shows up blank21:54
mapshola22:24
mapsque pasa22:24

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