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diddledanon mswin dragging a window between hidpi and lodpi will cause your window to jump about - drag it half-way off the hidpi onto low and before you get there it will be regular size on the hidpi and huge on the lowdpi and as you breach the 50% threshold the window will suddenly jump-down in size to the lowdpi level making it teeny on the hidpi00:00
zmoylan-pihmmm, not seeing any dual screens setup... http://toastytech.com/guis/dvx.html00:03
daftykinsdiddledan: that sounds weird00:04
diddledandaftykins: correct.00:04
daftykinsalso you should make a video!00:05
diddledanyes. yes I should00:05
* daftykins patiently awaits00:08
* zmoylan-pi finds that someone has copied all the 'latest' updates from late 80s and early 90s for the quarterdeck software... just in case :-P http://www.pcorner.com/list/AOS00:10
daftykins0o01:23
zmoylan-pidon't knock it, i can retire my 2400 baud modem if i don't need to download them from their bbs... :-P01:28
daftykinsok i must sleep01:30
daftykinsalso someone lend me an iron! i need a good shirt for a wedding Saturday ;_;01:31
daftykinswon't the chores ever end :(01:31
zmoylan-pisleep well o/01:31
ali1234X basically doesn't work at anything less than 24 bit these days02:00
penguin42ali1234: I've seen 16 reasonably recently02:04
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brobostigonmorning boys and girls.08:39
BigRedSgood morning!08:43
popeyyo08:44
foobarry!yo08:45
foobarryboo08:45
brobostigonmeep08:45
popeyfoobarry: what's the plan with the hudl2 then? :)09:08
foobarryi'm stuck. i need exploits for cve 2016-3747 cve 2016-3758 or cve 2016-376209:09
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popeyfoobarry: surely there must be more than that?10:06
foobarrymaybe, they were ones i found with privilege escalation on 5.1 though10:07
popeyah10:12
foobarryare you planning to ubuntu-ise yours?10:21
popeynah, would be nice to have a newer android on it10:22
popeybut can't imagine that's gonna work out well10:23
popeyneeds the intel firmware stuff10:23
popeywhich is all closed under nda I believe10:23
popeyeasier to flash a windows tablet than android10:23
foobarrypegatron paid MS to use Android too10:24
foobarryroot would be a start though10:26
foobarryhttps://01.org/android-ia/downloads/ has 5.1.1 as latest10:29
popeyit's easily one of the most frustrating things about android10:36
popeyno software updates for you10:36
popeyunless you buy a nexus, and then you might get a few more updates, but not many10:36
foobarryif they ran cyanogen a bit like fedora used to be10:36
foobarrysponsored community distro type thing10:37
foobarryit would be great10:37
foobarrygoogle throw money at the fedorandroid10:37
foobarryjust sent a request to tesco via http://ttselectrical.custhelp.com/app/ask/a_id/3969/10:41
popeythey usually say "No, security reasons" without saying what that actually means10:43
foobarrywell there are security reasons to update :P10:43
popeyright, but if you don't head that question off, they can hand-wave it away10:43
foobarrymaybe a combined effort from a few 100 users might help10:44
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foobarryrun out of internet to read for the day12:14
popeyyou're clearly avoiding reddit then?12:15
zmoylan-pido you know the jargon file to heart then? http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/go01.html12:17
foobarryi'm on reddit atm but i curated the number of subreddits i read to a reasonable number12:17
foobarrylike 1512:18
foobarrymaybe i'll read a magazine #oldsschool12:19
zmoylan-pipapyrus scrolls for #trueoldschool :-P12:19
popeywrite a game :)12:21
foobarrywith only one hand...i'm eating my lunch too...reading an old linuxvoice CCommons version12:21
foobarryi notice they say that sophie wilson designed the first ARM chip. always a minefield12:22
foobarrybeen playing with hashcat to try and break some "hard" passwords12:26
foobarryanyone tried rockstor the btrfs based NAS software?12:44
foobarryhas loads of docker based plugins for plex, opnvpn, jenkins, syncthing , etc12:47
foobarrywonders how diplo's interview went13:12
popeyoh yes13:13
zmoylan-pihas probably now moved onto the code your own os in 30 minutes part of the interview... :-P13:14
foobarryor talking about mr robot13:15
zmoylan-pior dueling with soldering irons full combat section...13:15
foobarryi had a practical "fix a broken PC" once13:16
foobarrythey had unplugged the IDE cable, wiggled the RAM out a tad, other things13:16
* zmoylan-pi pulls out hammer and gets ready to make minor delicate adjustments... :-D13:16
foobarryi actually broke the plastic case a bit when opening it. i figured it was weakened by previous applicants13:17
zmoylan-pimy hammer contains screwdrivers in the handle for the repair part13:17
zmoylan-pii have had pcs that were unopenable as the designers assumed you knew were they put all the catches and clips invisible from the outside13:17
AzelphurAnyone using nvidia mind running nvidia-smi and telling me how much RAM Xorg is using and what resolution they are at? I feel like X is consuming a ridiculous amount of VRAM (even though I'm at 3x4k), currently using just shy of 2GB of VRAM13:17
zmoylan-piused to keep a 2' screwdriver to prise those buggers open13:17
zmoylan-pione particular hard disk holder inside a tower pc took brute force to get it out and had the instructions embossed on the metal in part that was flush against the case when it was installed13:21
Azelphurnobody using nvidia? :(13:23
foobarrymy GPU box is turned off due to "charring on the PDU"13:24
Azelphurlol13:25
foobarryand its headless13:31
foobarryso u might not get the same figures13:31
diddledanturn off your speakers (they have music on loading) http://slidenjoy.com/en/13:35
zmoylan-pii *hate* startup bongs and music13:35
daftykins:D13:37
zmoylan-pimakes rebooting things at 3am a challenge not to annoy the neighbours13:37
daftykinswow are your walls paper? :)13:37
zmoylan-pivery quiet posh area, i can hear cats walking outside it's so quiet at night13:37
diddledanzmoylan-pi: are you a "posh knob"?13:38
diddledanaka toff13:38
zmoylan-pinah, working class plebbage from wrong end of town... renting now in posh area mind...13:38
daftykinshehe13:39
diddledanso you're the rough interloper in posh-knob area. a pretender.13:39
daftykinsoy i had a client email about the office VPN being down, running it off a synology NAS so the OS auto updated but the VPN server package didn't :) doh!13:39
diddledand'oh13:40
zmoylan-piyeah but i also fix peoples computers so am respected...13:40
diddledanaah, you're a tradesman13:40
diddledantradesmen are allowed in knobville13:40
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zmoylan-pia mile or two away are the big houses on the hill... the small houses below them would have once contained the butlers and servants, now they contain their accountants and lawyers13:40
daftykinsstrange, surely the clientelle should be the riff-raff below and those two professions be housed atop :)13:41
zmoylan-pibugger... http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/1/12748752/spacex-launch-site-explosion-cape-canaveral-florida13:41
diddledanmy dad, when he was a tradey, had to service Andrew Lloyd-Webber's TV. He was young and a bit up himself so he ignored the tradesmen entrance and knocked on the front-door for Andrew to answer him personally.13:42
zmoylan-pino in this area the people on top are the super rich. the bonos, the enyas of the music crowd13:42
daftykinsdiddledan: ooh did he get a reprimand?13:42
diddledanI don't think he did. seems he got away with it13:42
Azelphurdiddledan: aren't they mega-late on releasing, and no Linux support?13:43
zmoylan-pido it twice however and he'd be flogged13:43
daftykinsin fairness you'd want to hear first hand what was wrong!13:43
diddledanAzelphur: no idea13:43
AzelphurI'd love to buy it if it worked on Linux and actually existed though13:44
daftykinssorry, you can either have warped values or new things - not both!13:45
daftykins:>13:45
diddledan:-o13:45
zmoylan-piyou could buy apple and have both :-D13:45
daftykinsdamn you got me there13:45
Azelphurdiddledan: yea, they are planning on shipping in November 2016, they were supposed to ship Dec 201513:46
Azelphurso a year late at least, assuming no further delays13:46
diddledandang13:47
diddledanthat's a long delay13:48
daftykinswhat is this?13:49
Seeker`looks like SpaceX did an oops13:49
diddledanoh?13:50
diddledandaftykins: the url I posted earlier13:50
daftykinsi only just connected, chief13:50
daftykinsseems my wilhelm had some problems in the night...13:50
Seeker`http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-3724707713:50
daftykinsfreenode server that is </Archer>13:50
diddledandaftykins: you arrived almost exactly the same time I posted the url:  <diddledan> turn off your speakers (they have music on loading) http://slidenjoy.com/en/13:51
daftykinsdiddledan: ty sir, ah it didn't get through13:51
diddledandaftykins: race conditions ftl13:51
daftykinszmoylan-pi: i was surprised and quite pleased that MS dropped a startup sound for Windows13:51
daftykinsit was usually the first thing i killed13:51
zmoylan-pibad advertising when you heard it so often from single systems.... tada my os is a failure as i needed to restart again13:52
daftykinsjust imagine if GRUB had an error tone13:54
daftykinsoh yeah, so few users... ho-hum13:55
zmoylan-pii kinda liked the bong on my mini mac as it never crashed, or quiet beeps on old pcs but modern systems seem so jingle happy14:01
zmoylan-pii used to think that the noise the doors made on hitch hikers guide was a joke but i await the day they put a /pleasent/ tune every time you use a switch a smart bulb on or off14:03
slowfilejoin romania14:06
slowfileda fuck14:06
MartijnVdS???14:10
Laneyit's getting hot in here14:16
* Laney takes off all his clothes14:16
diddledanLaney: :-o my eyes!14:16
Laneythis is because the man is working on the boiler and has turned the heating on14:16
Laney#thetruthbehindthesongs14:16
* zmoylan-pi hands around the mindbleach so we can get that image out of our minds14:16
* Laney funds a national mail shot14:17
Laneyfree naked Laney pictures for all14:17
* zmoylan-pi knows a few postmen and can have them redirected to turf powered leccy plant14:18
zmoylan-piouch... https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CrQ7ALUWEAA8lKk.jpg:orig14:23
foobarryapple is the 1%14:25
diddledanzmoylan-pi: that's faked methinks14:25
zmoylan-pioh of course... but still funny to my mind14:25
foobarrylike apples tax returns?14:25
zmoylan-pisomeone crunched some numbers on the apple back tax, about 5 new iphone 7s for everyone in ireland instead of the cash... :-)14:28
daftykinssuddenly the average IQ will drop14:28
zmoylan-pinah, ebay would go down with all the listings... :-P14:29
daftykins\o/14:29
arsenquestion is - does the EU have authority over irish tax collection? and should it ?14:33
zmoylan-piit does and it doesn't.  this may be in a grey area14:33
daftykinsjust like when the UK gov pokes its' nose in Channel Island things ;)14:34
Seeker`It sounds like they have the authority to say whether Ireland provided something they shouldn't have to Apple14:34
zmoylan-pilots of countries have vague little loopholes to get things done.  uk and all it's little island dependencies for example14:35
BigRedSI thought the EUs problem was less with tax and more with state aid, it's just that the state aid here was implemented in tax14:35
Seeker`The allegation is that Ireland gave Apple preferential treatment to enable to them to reduce their tax bill. "This is illegal under EU state aid rules"14:35
BigRedSand the EU's definitely got issues with state aid14:35
Seeker`If everyone was able ot have a tax rate as low as Apple did, it would have been less of an issue14:36
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Safiyyahi succeeded in getting the laptop going, thanks for all the help.15:05
daftykinsyay15:06
popeyhurrah15:06
SafiyyahI hve two problems, the laptop mouse freezes quite often (it has done it more than 5 times today) and i have to reboot15:06
daftykinswhat did you install, 16.04.1 MATE?15:06
Safiyyahwhen the mouse gives up, I still have use of the touch screen which is the saver15:07
Safiyyahdaftykins, yes15:07
foobarrytry hitting ctrl-alt-f6 and then back to f7 and see if the mouse works again15:08
Safiyyahand before you relax, I started the backup on the desktop, so will be tinkering with that as soon as that is done, I just wanted to have one system working properly first15:08
daftykinsfoobarry's idea sounds good, next up would be logs and identifying the touchpad15:08
SafiyyahAlso every boot up, I get an internal error15:10
Safiyyahfor /usr/bin/nm-applet15:11
daftykinsif it's that box in the middle that pops up asking to send error info or similar, it's just from it happening once and wanting to send the logs repeatedly - if you delete them from the path it won't ask again15:11
Safiyyahi sent the reports, why does it keep popping up?15:12
daftykinsno idea, i don't use Linux on the desktop15:12
Safiyyahthis is the laptop15:13
daftykinsyes i'm talking about as a desktop OS as in with a GUI15:13
Safiyyahdesktop, i haven't started yet15:13
* daftykins only runs servers typically15:13
Safiyyahis nm-applet something important?15:14
daftykinsnetwork manager applet, so it's handling the visibility and functionality of your network connections (wired or wifi) most likely15:15
Safiyyahshall i select ignore in future?15:16
daftykinsi wouldn't, i would delete the logs as above15:17
daftykinscan't quite remember the path, something like /var/crash15:17
Safiyyahhow do i delete the logs?15:17
daftykinshttp://askubuntu.com/questions/133385/getting-system-program-problem-detected-pops-up-regularly-after-upgrade/36929715:18
daftykinsaww yis my memory still works sometimes15:18
Safiyyahawww15:27
daftykinshmm?15:28
Safiyyahregarding the mouse how do i get you the log?15:28
diddledanpaste.ubuntu.com15:30
Safiyyahwhere is the log15:31
Safiyyah?15:31
daftykinswhen the issue happens, you need to try what foobarry said - and also try "dmesg | tail" to see if there is anything relevant15:38
daftykinsyou can also identify the touchpad by sharing the X.org log perhaps, "cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | nc termbin.com 9999" and share the URL15:41
Safiyyahhttp://termbin.com/k60u15:43
Safiyyahbtw the mouse stops working if I click and scroll at the same time15:44
Safiyyahaccording the this it's a known issue https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingTouchpadDetection15:49
Safiyyahabout 1/3 of the page under the subheading ' In case your Touchpad stops working after a while'15:49
Safiyyahi want to install the wireless printer, where do I find something called a deviceURI16:05
daftykinsthat'd be something like ip://x.x.x.x16:14
daftykinsyep you have an ELAN touchpad causing all kinds of errors16:24
daftykins!info linux-generic16:25
lubotu3linux-generic (source: linux-meta): Complete Generic Linux kernel and headers. In component main, is optional. Version 4.4.0.36.38 (xenial), package size 1 kB, installed size 12 kB16:25
daftykinsSafiyyah: try this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/786021/ubuntu-16-04-elantech-touchpad16:30
daftykinsmake a backup of the 50-synaptics.conf before editing of course16:30
Safiyyahjust rebooting brb16:47
daftykinshttp://www.anandtech.com/show/10635/intel-quietly-launches-apollo-lake-soc17:03
daftykinsintel atom (apollo lake) with hardware decode of HEVC and VP9 out for the holidays perhaps, in suitable little HTPCs17:03
daftykinsback a little later \o17:04
diddledan_tata17:04
diddledan_going to play deus ex?17:04
diddledan_oh dear: http://www.macrumors.com/2016/09/01/samsung-exploding-batteries-recall-galaxy-note-7/17:05
Safiyyaham back17:05
Safiyyahand I got the printer going wirelessly (I thought that was going to be tougher than it was )17:05
Safiyyahthe idea of pressing ctrl-alt-f6  when the touchpad died was a very very bad one17:06
Safiyyahafter logging in and typing exit (I was still in the black screen of death)17:07
diddledan_if it didn't help it was still a good idea17:07
Safiyyahno amount of keying in exit or f7 got me out of the loop17:07
Safiyyahi had to restart17:08
Safiyyahdiddledan_, perhaps teach me how to get out of the loop17:11
diddledan_wat: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37242696?ocid=socialflow_twitter17:14
Safiyyahonto to desktop17:33
Safiyyahtrying to set up nvidia17:34
Safiyyahlast time I did this install for xubuntu, I noted the right driver was 352.63 , however I do not have it as one of the options here17:35
SafiyyahI have 361.42  , 304.131   , 340.9617:36
Safiyyahdo I just get the nearest number to the one I had before?17:36
daftykinsSafiyyah: it wasn't F7 on its' own, it was alt+F7, to get back18:26
daftykinsSafiyyah: you'll have to remind us which nvidia card it is.18:27
Safiyyahlol18:32
SafiyyahAsus GeForce GT 610 Silent Nvidia Graphics Card (2GB DDR3, PCI Express 2.0, HDMI, DVI-I, VGA, Low Profile Design, 0dB Silent Cooling)18:35
Safiyyahhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008A1C2AM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=118:35
Safiyyahi tried three drivers in the that time18:36
Safiyyahneaveaux (however it is spelt) is not crisp but not bad18:36
Safiyyahi also updated the ubuntu drivers ppa to get newer drivers18:36
daftykinsGT610 was enough :>18:37
daftykinsoh right, that's something you shouldn't have done on 16.04.18:37
Safiyyahwell the old thing died18:37
Safiyyahkaput died18:37
Safiyyahand after 8 years of service, it had done its time18:38
Safiyyahokay I will list the available drivers as of now : 364.19, 304.131, 358.16,340.96, 370.23, 367.44, 361.45, 304.13118:40
Safiyyahthe one that worked well in my previous install was 362.63 but it is not on the list18:41
daftykinsi just meant GT610 is enough to convey what model it is18:41
daftykinsnewest should be fine18:41
Safiyyahoh well, it is all jargon for me18:42
Safiyyahi am on currently on the newest one18:42
Safiyyahthe images aren't as crisp18:42
Safiyyahbut better than the last two I tried18:42
Safiyyahis it time to sort out xorg.conf?18:43
daftykinsis this still on that weird TV of yours?18:43
Safiyyahwith popey's file?18:43
Safiyyahyep18:43
daftykinsyes it sounds like it's displaying the wrong resolution, open nvidia-settings or the monitors app and check18:43
daftykinsit had to be 1360x768 iirc, so i'd bet it's on something else right now18:43
Safiyyahit is on 1024*768 when I changed to the one you said it went clear but out of the viewabke area18:45
Safiyyahviewable*18:46
daftykinsi don't follow18:46
Safiyyaham impressed you remember (or wrote down) my settings18:46
daftykinsmemorised because it's a common thing, although normally displays are 1366x76818:46
daftykinsthat's how weird your TV is :>18:46
Safiyyahwell everything on the left hand side is gone to ....well oblivion18:47
daftykinsi think you might as well just place the custom xorg.conf and see what happens18:47
Safiyyahbut the images were clear18:47
Safiyyahokidok18:47
Safiyyahplease not the nano stuff18:47
daftykinscp... :P18:48
Safiyyahwill do18:48
daftykinsif you have a copy of it you just copy it into place and restart X / reboot18:48
Safiyyahokay it is better but, the resolution is still wrong18:55
Safiyyahthe stuff disappear to the left when I try to correct it18:55
daftykinsi have no idea what you mean18:55
Safiyyahthe left side of the screen disappears, or is out of focus, this includes the menu area etc. Also I can see the lines that run through the monitor18:58
Safiyyahall not good18:58
daftykinsif the custom xorg.conf is in place and being used, then it doesn't make much sense to be wrong18:59
Safiyyahi copied it into /etc/X11/18:59
daftykinsand rebooted?18:59
daftykinsit is named xorg.conf right? maybe re-run "cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | nc termbin.com 9999"19:00
Safiyyahokay I  give up,the pike key on the microsofot keyboard for the desktop does not work19:06
daftykinspike key o019:07
Safiyyahi found the setting19:08
Safiyyaham okay I havent got the tissue out yet19:08
Safiyyahhttp://termbin.com/f6q119:09
daftykinsok you're running an older kernel there, so you reinstalled the desktop but you didn't update it yet19:10
daftykinsthat's going to ruin things19:10
Safiyyahi though I wiped everything19:10
Safiyyahi reset the partitions and all19:10
Safiyyahso do I run an update first?19:11
daftykinsright it's a clean install but that's an older kernel19:11
daftykinsnever try to fix anything on Linux if the machine isn't up to date :)19:11
daftykinsi have to go to the kitchen for a bit to work on this phone i'm taking apart19:11
zmoylan-pimust be ice cream sandwich... :-P19:12
daftykinshttps://www.dropbox.com/s/e8aeqhqb5m1ydvt/IMG_20160901_192602.jpg?dl=019:13
daftykinstoday's victim19:13
Safiyyahokay so after the update, just reboot?19:13
Safiyyahof I need to do the lot again?19:13
daftykinsyou'll see19:13
zmoylan-pii'd offer my large hammer but it looks like it's already met it... :-P19:13
daftykins:D19:14
daftykinsi need to microwave my gel pack to heat up the adhesive top and bottom, ugh19:14
Safiyyahokay no joy still19:24
SafiyyahI can still see movement on the screen AND if I set it to 1360*768 I lose the left side19:25
Safiyyah1368*768 works okay19:26
Safiyyahthere is still some movement on the screen but very slight. I am wondering if the problem is not that I have a crisp screen on the laptop that is making that one look abit meeeh19:28
Safiyyahhttp://termbin.com/qsgb19:29
Safiyyahcheck it now pleas19:29
Safiyyahplease*19:29
Safiyyahperhaps I have done okay?19:29
daftykins1360, you cannot use anything close - it *must* be exact19:31
Safiyyahbut it fits perfectly19:34
Safiyyahokay when I put it back, it will go meh19:34
Safiyyahthe 'correct' setting has the left of the screen go.... it magnifies everything.19:35
Safiyyaheverything is larger so it doesn't fit in19:36
daftykinswould be so much easier if you just uploaded a picture XD19:36
daftykinswhat's different above the /gsgb paste?19:36
daftykins*about the above19:38
safiyyah_http://l38i.imgup.net/Screenshot2c3d.png19:39
safiyyah_http://a45i.imgup.net/Screenshot33ea.png19:39
daftykinsi was more thinking a picture from your phone to see what goes strange about the left hand side19:40
Safiyyahdo I share via dropbox?19:42
daftykinsor imgur.com19:43
Safiyyahhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/an93el91ip4v8tz/20160901_203945.jpg?dl=019:49
Safiyyahhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/emwyv7rp6ey4ie6/20160901_204006.jpg?dl=019:49
daftykinsso what's going on in each?19:52
Safiyyahthe one with the application menu to left and all the elements has the wrong 1368*768 setting19:53
daftykinsmakes sense, too much width -> overlaps19:54
Safiyyahthe right setting 1360*768 is well the left is gone and everything is magnified19:54
daftykinsoh so 1360 is the second link?19:55
daftykinsthat friggin' TV is so cursed19:55
Safiyyahlol19:56
daftykinsVGA in 2016 is just ugh19:56
Safiyyaham sure you will sing when it dies and I have to get a new one19:56
daftykinswell i could rinse my hands of it any time :P19:57
Safiyyahwell am stuck with the thing for now19:57
* christel tickles Myrtti_ 19:58
Safiyyahare you telling me if i buy a large tv screen that is hdmi , it will do the job?19:58
Myrtti_crikey19:58
daftykinsi would not buy something with HDMI for a computer to be connected to19:58
daftykinsDVI input would be preferable, depends if you have speakers separate or not19:59
Safiyyahspeakers are seperate. I will keep that in mind next time20:00
Safiyyahwhy can I not have it on the wrong settings?20:00
SafiyyahI am not a gamer20:00
daftykinsit has nothing to do with gaming20:01
daftykinsLCDs have 1:1 pixels so the ideal setup is to display only that amount20:01
daftykinsbut meh, your first picture displays ok - or at least looks fine in the wonky picture :D so maybe it'll do20:02
Safiyyahwhat do I do?20:03
penguin421368x768 monitors are a pain - Linux really doesn't like them some of the time20:03
penguin42the problem is they're not divisible by 16 pixels and that upsets some drivers20:03
penguin42safiyyah: I ended up playing with an X modeline for my mums machine20:04
Safiyyahi have annoyed daftykins with this monitor for the past 5 years20:04
daftykinsthat's what Safiyyah has from last time but i've a feeling it's been getting ignored20:04
daftykinsthe monitor sucks because it fails to give EDID over VGA though, since VGA needs to be left in the past / museums :)20:05
Safiyyahah is that why you called it a museum piece20:05
daftykinsyep!20:06
Safiyyahwell I have always come to you for purchase advice since I have known you20:07
Safiyyahso rest assured, you will have a say next time (budget constraints included)20:07
daftykins:P20:07
* daftykins pats his 8 year old LCDs20:07
Safiyyahlol20:08
Safiyyahwe didnt do too badly on the laptop20:08
daftykinshere's some advice though, stop chasing the version numbers20:08
daftykinsthis whole reinstalling when you're already on an LTS that works - it's just not worth the hassle20:08
Safiyyahi am innocent20:09
daftykinsshould've put 14.04 on the laptop perhaps to maintain consistency20:09
Safiyyahmy blimming husband ran the automatic update for the new LTS and killed my system20:10
Safiyyahi already want to wring his neck20:10
Safiyyahbelieve me!20:10
daftykinshaha20:10
daftykinsshouldn't give the admin pass then :>20:10
Safiyyahmy perfectly setup printer and scanner await me20:11
Safiyyahthey are no easy to set up20:11
Safiyyahi just want to kill him lately20:11
Safiyyahanyway am not here to discuss marriage problems but the point is, it wasn't me, it wasn't the kids20:11
Safiyyahits him!!!!20:12
daftykins\o/20:13
safiyyah_i am also being punished20:14
daftykinshttps://www.dropbox.com/sh/673jaump5ujffd6/AACt6raMVER6UPsO8RAH05B3a?dl=020:15
daftykinsi made some progress ^_^20:15
zmoylan-pinice delicate bit of work there...20:16
daftykinstrouble is the new digitiser on, it just sits at the samsung logo, no boot :|20:17
daftykinsbut we wouldn't want it to be easy, would we?20:17
zmoylan-piif it were easy then taking the hostages wouldn't be necessary... :-P20:18
daftykinsthis is true20:18
safiyyah_the guilty party is reclining on the sofa watching away. his solution is to use it on the wrong setting and buy a new one in a couple of months time20:21
safiyyah_typical man!20:21
safiyyah_he infact says am wasting my time, leave it on the wrong setting until it packs up20:21
safiyyah_GRRRRRRR!20:21
daftykinsif i remember rightly, your custom xorg.conf in the past only worked on specific driver versions20:22
safiyyah_yes but the graphics card changed20:22
daftykinsso you could have fun trying to use it with each and every nvidia driver there is, which supports that card20:22
daftykinsright but that doesn't matter20:23
safiyyah_the last setting was 352.6320:23
daftykinsthe driver is still a commonality20:23
safiyyah_that worked well20:23
safiyyah_and it was on this same card20:23
safiyyah_this is the last time we were up all night fixing the desktop20:23
daftykinsyes and now you've installed a different ubuntu version with a new kernel!20:23
daftykinsso everything learned is now unlearned20:23
safiyyah_you know, I dont know what to do about it at all20:24
daftykinsprobably makes more sense to go back to 14.04.1 imo20:24
penguin42sigh, it reminds me I really should update my mums machine20:25
foobarryenjoying mr robot20:25
daftykins:>20:25
foobarrydidnt think i would enjoy second series20:25
foobarrybut just getting good20:25
foobarryshame its at ep9 now20:25
daftykinsah i've not touched s2 yet until it finishes airing, plus i'm going away on the 8th20:25
zmoylan-pia bunch of episodes on your device will make journey less boring20:26
daftykinsnah i don't do laptops on planes20:27
daftykinsthe using of, that is20:27
zmoylan-pii was thinking small phone screen :-)20:27
foobarrycan't download the episodes20:28
foobarrydoesn't let you20:28
zmoylan-piand you call yourself a fan of mr. robot... :-P20:28
safiyyah_neat job on the phone20:29
daftykinsthanks - shame it won't boot XD20:29
safiyyah_right so the solution is to get him to buy me a new monitor20:30
zmoylan-pican you not get a cheap one at local recycling centre?20:30
daftykinsor install 14.04.1 and do that20:30
safiyyah_am already upset. and this idea that I cannot set up the thing20:31
safiyyah_means am not very happy20:31
safiyyah_it was running Xubuntu before20:31
safiyyah_but I heard the new LTS crashed20:31
safiyyah_so I was too scared and put MATE on20:31
daftykinsthere is no reason for you to be running 16.04 anyway20:32
safiyyah_according to all the nice new things on my laptop. It seemed like I could set it all up and have them the same.20:32
daftykinswasn't much point going with 16.04 there either :) did that link i shared solve the touchpad issues?20:33
safiyyah_I think I might go to bed and think about it tomorrow. am upset about it20:33
popeyblimey, trying to play a game, been sat in a queue for a server for ~40 mins20:33
zmoylan-pimoylans first rule of computing: nothing is possible till you've seen it acutally done once :-)20:33
danielthebague hi folks, i have the task for setting up a small business network! consisting of 5 ubuntu/win dual boot laptop and one windows laptop!!20:33
popeyfinally got to "4 players ahead of you, 86 players behind"20:34
popeyI'll be too tired to play by the time it finishes :)20:34
safiyyah_no I was busy with desktop so I saved the link20:34
danielthebague each laptop is connected to the wired LAN with a NFS when laptop are used do they have to be connected to the same cable each time or will dhcp configure each laptop when plugged into the LAN even if connected at different places each time within the LAN20:34
safiyyah_I didn't realise people queue for online gaming20:34
safiyyah_popey maybe you can work your magic on my monitor20:35
zmoylan-pithey pay through the nose for preorders of games that haven't been written yet... i believe it... ;-)20:35
daftykinsit's not worth his or anyones time really20:35
* daftykins murders the VGA TV abomination20:35
popeyyeah, it's a busy server20:35
penguin42they do some weird things with mangling the EDID to stretch stuff dont they?20:36
* penguin42 wonders how bad the firmware will be in the new TV that arrives next week20:36
daftykinspenguin42: her issue has always been that it fails to send an EDID at all20:36
penguin42daftykins: You don't actually need one if you give it a mode line20:37
daftykinspenguin42: lol i know and as i said earlier she has a custom modeline popey helped with earlier but it still fails based on nvidia driver combos! :)20:37
penguin42daftykins: Oh, it's a case of F.U.N. ?20:37
daftykinsooh yes20:38
daftykinswe're talking festive holidays loads of fun20:38
* safiyyah_ unhappily off to download Xubuntu 15.0420:39
daftykins*14.0420:39
daftykinssafiyyah_: and get 14.04.1 or it won't change anything!20:39
safiyyah_please explain to me what will happen to my system if I leave things as they are?20:39
daftykinsi've not really been following closely enough to remember what is wrong with the weird res right now20:40
daftykinsif it looks ok, then maybe just get by with it until you can get a new screen20:40
safiyyah_my solution is to get the culprit to pay20:41
safiyyah_popey, do you have any ideas?20:42
daftykinsnothing like a bit of deception20:43
daftykinshttp://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/14.04.1/release/xubuntu-14.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso20:43
daftykinsget this one20:43
safiyyah_yes sir20:44
popeysafiyyah_: sorry, a little distracted to help20:44
penguin42daftykins: Note if desperate you can switch between the hardware-enablement stacks and switch kernel+X between the 14.04.x versions without reinstalling20:44
safiyyah_penguin42, that is all french to me20:45
daftykinspenguin42: waste of time since it's a clean install already20:45
daftykinslife is so much easier going from media than sitting burying yourself in package modifications :)20:45
daftykinsunless you want to take over and guide through it... because i was saying what i was saying to avoid that hassle20:46
penguin42erm no thanks20:48
daftykinsXD20:49
safiyyah_hang on20:50
safiyyah_it is still going to bring up the update thing20:50
daftykinsso20:50
safiyyah_and I have the clicking monster living with me20:50
daftykinsso disable it20:51
penguin42yeh you can disable release upgrade but stick with security fixes20:51
safiyyah_okay well talk me through that for the laptop. I am making the startup disk in the meantime20:52
daftykinsbut you already installed 16.04 on the laptop20:52
penguin42(I've got a Curry's bank-holiday-special TV arriving next week  - 1920x1080 with HDMI and VGA and component)20:53
safiyyah_yeah I don't want anymore weird updates20:53
daftykins:>20:53
daftykinsi much prefer CLI updating20:53
safiyyah_i thought you said VGA is the enemy!20:54
zmoylan-pivga is your friend, hdmi is the enemy :-P20:54
daftykins^ rubbish20:54
zmoylan-pi^biased20:54
safiyyah_well my monitor is vga20:54
safiyyah_and it is causing lots of headached20:54
daftykinsbiased by 10 years of IRC support seeing VGA cause trouble and 25 years real world IT support with VGA sucking :)20:55
penguin42VGA shouldn't suck that much!20:55
zmoylan-piyou make them sound as bad as printers20:55
penguin42now there's bad, and there's printers20:56
safiyyah_is running the wrong resolution going to break my system?20:56
daftykinsnope20:56
zmoylan-pii've never had much problems with monitors apart from the one i called the chicken wire screen...20:56
penguin42no, I've had ones with broken cables that wouldn't do EDID20:57
zmoylan-piand bw portable tellies plugged into my zx spectrum20:57
safiyyah_i think I will live with it then20:57
penguin42but other than that rarely; my Mum's TV is the only other one and that suffers from being a TV+VGA+1368x76820:57
safiyyah_i might ask popey if he has any ideas tomorrow20:57
daftykinsno offence but beyond what i'm saying there are not going to be any other ideas20:58
daftykinsi'm not some newcomer20:58
safiyyah_as for the culprit, am not settling for anything less than a 32 inch20:58
safiyyah_run me through the specs please20:58
safiyyah_curry's or very website please20:58
daftykinswhat20:58
daftykinsabout the only thing i'm interested in assisting is once 14.04.1 is installed and updated, i don't have the desire to shop right now20:59
daftykinsalso when you say 32" that sounds like you're trying to combine TV + PC use in one again, this is a horrible idea and the reason for the problems from the beginning20:59
safiyyah_ah!21:00
zmoylan-pii haven't bought a tv in donkeys age, are new hd ones same res as a monitor or less?21:01
daftykinsthey're pushing the 4K ones now of 3840x216021:01
safiyyah_I am not a happy camper. I made the start up disk but please let me go to bed21:01
zmoylan-pibut what size are the pixels, and are they still interlacing which blurs?21:01
safiyyah_if I go any further this evening21:01
daftykinsyou can't even drive that unless you have a specific generation intel chip21:01
daftykinspanels were never interlacing internally.21:01
safiyyah_he won't live to see the morning21:01
safiyyah_i am just getting more and more wound up21:02
zmoylan-piwhich shows that the last tv i bought had a tube... :-)21:02
daftykinsyou should try looking at this phone then :P21:02
daftykinszmoylan-pi: i mean, some broadcast content is 1080i only, so interlaced 1920x1080 but that's the likes of sky21:02
safiyyah_I will take a breather, disk is ready, will start afresh when am not tired21:02
daftykinssounds like good advice for me also21:03
safiyyah_penguin42, how do I disable auto upgrade?21:03
daftykinsi'm getting nowhere, starting to think i'll have to totally wipe the phone but that's not very preferable21:03
safiyyah_at least the laptop is happy21:03
daftykinsask again when you're actually at that bridge ready to cross it :>21:03
safiyyah_you mean after someone has already messed the system up?21:04
daftykinsis it though? it has a wonky touchpad :D21:04
daftykinsyou wouldn't get me calling it good with a dodgy touchpad21:04
safiyyah_well, I suppose the fact that I got the printer working wirelessly and everything else is good21:04
penguin42safiyyah: On update manager in the Updates tab, there's a selection at the bottom for 'Notify me of a new Ubuntu Version: ....' and that has an option of Never21:05
safiyyah_I am considering living with the problem if I can't solve it21:05
daftykinswireless printers are the #1 most evil tech ever invented21:05
daftykinsespecially if they were £60 or less :>21:05
safiyyah_it wasn't £60 or less21:07
zmoylan-pinah dot matrix still wins every time for the driving you crazy high score.  every page you print is a gnawing pain across your soul :-D21:07
safiyyah_I work from home, I have to have a good printer21:07
penguin42zmoylan-pi: I'll take an FX80 any day, you know what it would do, you knew it would do it when you told it to21:07
popeypfffft, barrell printers were where it's at21:07
popeyused to love the sound of them spinning up and then PAAAAAAAAARP an entire page is done21:08
popeyhappy days21:08
penguin42popey: where did you have those?21:08
zmoylan-pii could tell you stories about fx80 penguin42 and the day i met an ms employee at bus stop on mobile telling his mate how he had changed the version i was currently having a problem with...21:08
popeypenguin42: I worked for a telecoms company who printed bills for their customers21:09
safiyyah_oh crap, popey I saved the bbc link instead of the touchpad link21:09
zmoylan-pii had to walk away from the bus stop or i would have /hurt/ him...21:09
safiyyah_see how bothered I was about this desktop!21:09
safiyyah_i mean daftykins21:09
popeyi had to use a burster and decollator to split the multi-part forms up21:09
popeywas dead good fun, seeing how fast I could pass multi-part prints through and not rip them to shreds21:09
penguin42zmoylan-pi: Haha; I used them a lot to do labelling at my dads pharamacy - they were great with the reverse feed21:09
popeythat would have been in late 1990 when they were phasing out their old systems and replacing it with... "A mainframe"21:10
safiyyah_daftykins, please resend the link21:10
penguin42popey: I've heard old ICL guys talk about the development of high speed printers, stories about them shooting paper right across the room or setting on fire21:10
penguin42(or possibly ICT at the time I guess)21:10
popeyyeah, we had ones that would burn through a box of fanfold in no time21:11
daftykinshttp://askubuntu.com/questions/786021/ubuntu-16-04-elantech-touchpad21:11
daftykinsfanfold sounds like penfolds friend :)21:11
safiyyah_am calling it a night21:12
safiyyah_thank you21:12
safiyyah_and sorry about my melt down21:12
popeythey had a bunch of computers that were *almost* but not completely PC compatible21:12
zmoylan-pifanfold was fun as long as you got it fold itself coming out of the printer21:12
popeyThat job (1990) was where I'd first seen Microsoft Windows IIRC21:12
popeyThey had a NextStep too. Happy days.21:12
zmoylan-pimy first windows was word for windows 1 which came with a runtime version of windows 28621:13
popeyblimey21:13
zmoylan-picompared to wordperfect which ruled the roost at the time it was bleh21:14
zmoylan-piit had trouble keeping up with fast typists21:15
popeyhttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Bound_computer_printout.agr.jpg21:15
popeysudden urge to print things21:15
zmoylan-pii wish they still made small cheap thermal printers like the zx spectrum thermal printer.  printing to fax paper or some such21:16
zmoylan-pinot presentation quality but for lists, quick hardcopy etc.21:16
popeyDid you see the Berg Little Printer?21:17
popeyA few years ago. Shame it was a) super expensive for what it was, b) short lived21:17
popeyhttps://vimeo.com/3279653521:18
zmoylan-pii remember that.  it looked neat but as you say a bit expensive21:18
popeyThere's an arduino style kit you can get to make an open one21:19
daftykinshttps://www.dropbox.com/s/ah41jiq15jsz33n/IMG_20160901_221819.jpg?dl=0 :(21:19
daftykinsstill can't get it to go any further21:19
zmoylan-piit's waiting for the new touch doohickey to respond back to it, isn't it?21:20
popeyhttps://exciting.io/printer/21:21
zmoylan-pinow that is what i'm looking for, thanks popey21:22
daftykinsthe digitiser? well i suppose the one i received could be faulty, yeah21:22
popeynp21:26
daftykinsok looks like i've been sold an incompatible digitiser21:37
zmoylan-pioh well, another wait till the new right one gets shipped to you...21:41
daftykinscan't now sadly, since i leave on the 8th i'm jiggered!21:41
daftykinsi could try an England based one and hope it comes before i leave, but it'll cut it fine21:41
zmoylan-piassembling a phone in an airport queue might not make security happy... :-P21:43
daftykins:D21:43
zmoylan-pishow them your casio f-91w watch to show you're not a danger... :P21:45
daftykinsnever to be deterred i shall keep trying...21:47
daftykinsif i pop the original back on i can say without a doubt it's the part, then i only have the fact i was sold it from France...21:48
daftykinsyes original works!21:52
zmoylan-piso deffo the part then21:52
* daftykins high-fives zmoylan-pi 21:52
daftykinsyepper21:52
zmoylan-pihigh fives back21:53
daftykinsalthough i could only connect one of two connectors this time as the other broke on removal, so i'm not getting touch working21:53
daftykinsbut at least it booted21:53
daftykinsand it boots without one in at all...21:57

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