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daftykinsi'm giving http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1132620/ another spin00:05
daftykinsSwedish original of the Stieg Larsson Millennium trilogy, aka Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and so on00:05
daftykinswith the shocking IT references ;) although nmap showed up earlier00:05
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brobosti1onmorning boys and girls.09:11
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Guest54661am I in the right place, I need to install a logitech cam12:35
diddledanwindy12:57
diddledanI swear I didn't eat beans last night12:57
* zmoylan-pi raises hand and drops it quickly12:58
penguin43Hello everyone - you're on the projector at ManLUG13:40
zmoylan-pivim is best!!! :-P13:41
zmoylan-piemacs users are still waiting for their editor to load before launching a witty response from it...13:45
penguin43zmoylan-pi: Hey I did the vi talk at ManLUG about 15 years ago :-)13:47
zmoylan-piyour work there is donw... :-)13:48
zmoylan-pi*done13:48
* diddledan locks the n0rty people in the cupboard14:02
diddledanhey, let me out!14:02
SebthreeBQM10HDhi15:08
SebthreeBQM10HDhi15:09
SebthreeBQM10HDkitten hmm defoucs has irc cloaks the chat channel ?15:09
kitten_SebthreeBQM10HD: yes15:22
SebthreeBQM10HDkitten_, h eh a IRC cloak for chatting lots in a channel ?15:30
kitten_yep15:32
SebthreeBQM10HDkitten_,  ok :)15:32
bittinkitten_: cool :)15:41
popeyMorning15:45
diddledanallo allo16:00
marxjohnsonHow do I overcome an issue like http://paste.ubuntu.com/23073354/ without borking my system? I'm on 14.04, when I try and do apt-get dist-upgrade it tells me various dependencies are broken16:11
marxjohnsonhmm doing apt upgrade seems happy enough16:16
popeymarxjohnson: remove unity8?16:57
popeyon 14.04 I'd purge all of unity8 and friends16:57
popeyso that would remove indicator-network too16:58
diddledananyone wanna be cortana? http://www.spirithalloween.com/product/adult-cortana-costume-halo/131382.uts18:26
zmoylan-pipffft. i'd prefer to be google, i already know everything... :-P18:27
m0nkey_http://i.imgur.com/zkmkNF7.gifv19:19
daftykinsdiddledan: find me a chicken sized one and i'll order it21:06
daftykinsget that chicken with the blue trousers and swap21:06
daftykinsi'm rocking the chocolate hob nobs tonight21:08
* penguin42 reaches across and pinches one21:10
daftykins:D21:11
* zmoylan-pi liberates peanut lion bar from the cupboard...21:19
daftykinspity the man that puts a lion in a cupboard and then has to retrieve it later21:20
daftykins;)21:20
zmoylan-pibut your hobnobs will be protected21:20
daftykinssadly there were only 3 left after last nights pig-out, so they're all dead now21:21
zmoylan-piit was either them or you...21:21
daftykinsi feel like dinking around with another distro, so i'm snagging fedora... but most of the time i get frustrated at not having a clue of another package manager and give it quite quickly :)21:23
* zmoylan-pi is looking at linux lite...21:39
daftykinso021:39
zmoylan-pino harm in trying it...21:41
daftykinstaking a look at some pics etc21:42
daftykinsthank Tux for this nice cool evening21:53
zmoylan-pitodays walk was a damp wind blasted chill fest21:54
daftykinsooh, i barely even left the house21:55
zmoylan-pimy nuband fitness tracker counted 14000 paces...21:59
zmoylan-piat least there weren't many people blocking the pavements in damp weather21:59
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daftykinswell i'm not too impressed with fedora's installer :)22:17
zmoylan-pii'm not sure i want to be impressed by an installer... :-)22:17
zmoylan-piit suggests they expect you'll be spending a lot of time in there...22:18
daftykinswell i suspect you won't be too pleased seeing it screw up partitioning and only offer to quit22:18
daftykinsthat's what i mean by unimpressed!22:18
zmoylan-piah... partitioning... the achilles heel of installing linux22:18
daftykinswell it's fine for my level of experience, but when you only offer me my multiple disks as a large pool of x TB in manual mode, it's just a guessing game as to which will be created where22:19
daftykinsalso when you key in 132GB and it turns that into 122GB for no reason, have to wonder what's going on22:20
zmoylan-pithe number of times i've installed some distro and found it's erased my laptops other partitions despites it's insisting it won't... usually windows, backed up so no real loss22:20
daftykins:)22:21
zmoylan-pibut i can't recommend them when they do that22:21
daftykinshere we go all copied now22:21
daftykinsi'm using my one remaining core 2 quad desktop :)22:21
zmoylan-pifingers crossed it boots ok...22:21
daftykins'tis no shadow of doubt!22:22
daftykins"Delta RPMs reduced 695MB of updates to 298MB"22:41
daftykinserr, wow22:41
penguin42daftykins: f24?22:49
daftykinsyep22:53
daftykinshttp://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/234/765/b7e.jpg <-- this is me22:58
* penguin42 has f24 installed so, ask away23:00
penguin42(but I've not got any particularly fancy partitioning)23:01
daftykinsah ty sir23:04
daftykinsjust got myself updated after learning a bit of dnf, booting into the 4.6.6 kernel now and being shocked at how there's no mechanism or built in packages to get proprietary nvidia support23:05
daftykinsalso find the TTY layout odd23:05
penguin42ah I still type yum; hmm not sure about nvidia stuff, I stear away from that; what about the ttys - during install or during normal use?23:07
diddledanawesome ladies are awesome: http://usat.ly/2batS8o23:07
daftykinsi'm installed now, 1 appears to show a flashing cursor, 2 goes to the gnome 3 DE and 3 is where normal TTYs start?23:07
diddledanyou're installed? as in physically?23:08
daftykinsshh23:08
diddledanI wonder how one goes about getting themselves installed23:08
penguin42daftykins: That's odd, for me 1 is the X desktop, and 2 onwards are normal ttys23:09
daftykinslooking for Xorg's log was also interesting, i ended up reading the README in /var/log and so running "journalctl | grep GDM" or something to see Xorg's log23:09
penguin42yes, finding logs can be erm interesting23:10
penguin42I simultaneously love and hate journalctl - it's very nice that you can tell it to get the logs for the current boot for a given service (or for boot n-3 say) but it's horrid at times23:11
diddledanerm, this could be worrying: https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/76713664027598028823:11
diddledanwait, you need a work permit to speak at a conference in the UK (if you're foreign)?!23:12
diddledanref: https://twitter.com/rachelnabors/status/76680867367913881623:12
penguin42diddledan: I read that; from that the answer seems to be 'it depends'23:12
diddledanhttps://medium.com/@rachelnabors/wtfuk-73009d5623b4#.t7dh1ltfr23:13
penguin42diddledan: It was one of those things where they asked whether they got paid and they said no, but it turned out they had got paid for airfair etc and then it turned out the conference was organised by someone outside the UK; so basically they were beign a pain at the airport for no good reason23:14
diddledaneffed-up, that's what it is23:14
penguin42diddledan: So only way to be sure not to get hastled seems to be to get the permit23:14
penguin42diddledan: Yeh23:14
penguin42diddledan: In the end it was the immigration people finding an easy target, tricking them and then getting into a mess - rather than concentrating on people it's useful to stop coming in23:16
daftykinswow fedora seems to be geared around extending a middle finger to proprietary drivers23:19
daftykinsfeels pretty outdated to rely on nvidia's own installer23:20
diddledandaftykins: I thought the whole point of fedora was a middle finger to everything and everyone?23:20
daftykinsi have no idea23:20
daftykinsperhaps so far said finger is at me :)23:20
daftykinswell i cheated by adding a param to grub one-time to blacklist nouveau, as it seemed to ignore creating /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf - now i'm at init 3 and running the installer23:21
daftykinslets see if things turn into a ball of flames...23:21
daftykinslol.23:22
daftykinsok there we go23:27
daftykinsso it only needs a manual kernel boot param to blacklist nouveau followed by a good init 3 manual install23:29
daftykinsdefinitely a lot smoother on the desktop now...23:30
daftykinspenguin42: what's your DE of choice atop f24?23:31
daftykinskinda satisfying that some experience from the past applies so even though i was reading through google's top result on nvidia installation for f24, i knew half of it was useless23:32
penguin42daftykins: I'm using xfce23:38
penguin42daftykins: But it does have pretty much everything; I used to kde4 but when fedora shifted to kde5 I shifted to xfce23:39
daftykinsi'm definitely not up for these 3D driven resource murdering ones23:39
penguin42daftykins: It's got Mate as well23:40
daftykinswow gnome3 seems to want to imitate Windows and Macs at the same time o023:41
penguin42yeh I really don't like gnome323:41
daftykinswhat happened with KDE5? i've never really touched KDE either23:45
penguin42like the kde3->4 transition it's all a bit touchy still; might have settled down a bit by now; also all the setup I could find were  it was still a bit big23:46
daftykinsah classic early adoption burn23:52
daftykinswell that was fun, i used the gnome3 account setup to add my google account - it auto configured evolution with the test gmail i used23:52
daftykinsnice to see *some* things progressing when it comes to usability23:53

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