| diddledan | https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2017/01/04/rumors-of-cmds-death-have-been-greatly-exaggerated/ | 02:00 |
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| diddledan | they don't mention that Windows itself cannot boot if cmd's infrastructure was removed | 02:00 |
| zmoylan-pi | they've said that since 90s | 02:02 |
| zmoylan-pi | they even tried to push that you couldn't remove internet explorer from windows | 02:17 |
| diddledan | watching an episode of "person of interest" the ai has calculated a chance of survival of 2.7% but still selected that option rather than carry-on calculating further scenarios | 02:33 |
| diddledan | https://twitter.com/find_evil/status/816846566799470593 | 03:59 |
| diddledan | lasers solve everything: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38510344 | 05:37 |
| JamesTait | Good morning all! Happy Thursday, and happy Bird Day! 🐦 | 09:38 |
| foobarry | happy bird day to you? | 09:41 |
| brobostigon | morning boys and girls. | 09:59 |
| SuperMat1 | good day | 09:59 |
| brobostigon | hi | 10:05 |
| foobarry | https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/10542519 | 10:06 |
| foobarry | troll score 8/10 | 10:06 |
| evildespot | You'd need a leading close quote, Shirley | 10:09 |
| foobarry | obviously the result of a drunken pub convo over xmas | 10:10 |
| evildespot | involving the word "hilarious" | 10:11 |
| TwistedLucidity | foobarry: The owner was explaining the prank on Reddit a few days ago | 10:43 |
| TwistedLucidity | Another example http://i.imgur.com/00ir7fQ.png | 10:45 |
| evildespot | That one would actually work (assuming injection of unescaped user input) | 10:46 |
| TwistedLucidity | Here is the thread https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/5l47yy/someone_registered_drop_table_companies_ltd_in/dbsumjs/ | 10:48 |
| foobarry | does anyone use smokeping? running it from a docker container and not sure how to increase the freuqnecy | 11:00 |
| foobarry | ah, think i've got it | 11:05 |
| foobarry | when there's no vim/nano/emacs on the dock so you have the use sed to edit a file :( | 11:06 |
| evildespot | At the risk of causing an argument (with which I will not engage :) ) a Docker container for something you can trivially apt-get install with virtually no dependencies may be a bit heavyweight | 11:21 |
| foobarry | not true, smokeping installs a web server | 11:30 |
| foobarry | since it creates rrdtool type graphs etc | 11:31 |
| evildespot | it only Recommends that, IIRC | 11:36 |
| foobarry | thats how i want to use it, so a container is perfect | 11:36 |
| foobarry | also, containers for everything! | 11:36 |
| evildespot | as you wish | 11:36 |
| evildespot | but then you need to learn how to edit files in containers without expecting your favourite editor to be in the container | 11:36 |
| evildespot | because that's not how containers (are supposed to) work | 11:37 |
| foobarry | that depends | 12:52 |
| Gargoyle | Anyone got any thoughts on why my Chrome no longer opens links from other apps (Doesn't seem to matter which app). Chrome launches or opens a new window, but the address bar is just blank. | 13:00 |
| foobarry | rebooted or killed backgruond chrome processes? | 13:01 |
| Gargoyle | Yeah. It's been doing this for a few weeks now. | 13:01 |
| Gargoyle | This is the tail of syslog while clicking a link in slack. https://gist.github.com/gargoyle/d033dbae04b9b1442c171bcacf4d5d6a | 13:03 |
| foobarry | http://askubuntu.com/questions/689449/external-links-are-opened-as-blank-tabs-in-new-browser-window-in-chrome | 13:04 |
| foobarry | ? | 13:04 |
| Gargoyle | If only I could just click that link! :P | 13:05 |
| Gargoyle | Sweet, it worked. Nice find. Thanks | 13:07 |
| foobarry | yay | 13:07 |
| Gargoyle | Seems something to do with trying to add Google Hangouts changed the entries in there. | 13:07 |
| foobarry | i have a markdown file than when exported to html, looks wonderful in the browser, but when exported to PDF, looks like a page printed from netscape in 1996, big text, etc | 14:13 |
| foobarry | how do i get it to print or pdf a bit more nicely? | 14:14 |
| foobarry | the html has a single centralised column that looks nicer | 14:15 |
| foobarry | oh, pandoc does it nicely | 14:23 |
| diddledan | frak | 14:43 |
| diddledan | turkey has had another attack | 14:44 |
| diddledan | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-38517847 | 14:44 |
| TwistedLucidity | That's arrests over the New Year attack, no? | 14:45 |
| foobarry | yes. unless diddledan has been in a man cave | 14:45 |
| diddledan | I really feel for the Turkish population because they're a country divided between east and west so they have the west's progressive society combined with the push-back from the extremists who reside in the east | 14:46 |
| diddledan | sorry the BBC tweeted the wrong link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38521549 | 14:47 |
| TwistedLucidity | Erdogan also appears to be a bit of a nutter | 14:47 |
| diddledan | well there is that | 14:48 |
| SebthreeBQM10HD | hi | 15:02 |
| TwistedLucidity | 'lo | 15:09 |
| SebthreeBQM10HD | TwistedLucidity, hi | 15:09 |
| SebthreeBQM10HD | how do I change the file system of a USB stick, using a UBuntu Live ? | 15:09 |
| SebthreeBQM10HD | or how do I cut a big video file into smaller parts | 15:10 |
| TwistedLucidity | http://askubuntu.com/questions/68809/how-to-format-a-usb-or-external-drive#69129 | 15:10 |
| SebthreeBQM10HD | TwistedLucidity, yeah got big video files that are over 4GB | 15:11 |
| TwistedLucidity | Unless it's FAT32, it's have thought it would be fine | 15:11 |
| SebthreeBQM10HD | so doesn't really work pr9perlly trying to put that on fat | 15:11 |
| SebthreeBQM10HD | TwistedLucidity, yep that's the issue, the external hard disk is fat whatever | 15:11 |
| SebthreeBQM10HD | my 8GB usb sticks are fat32 as well | 15:11 |
| TwistedLucidity | Do you need to use it on Windows? | 15:11 |
| SebthreeBQM10HD | probably not with the right codec installed for sound | 15:12 |
| SebthreeBQM10HD | otherwise it's just images | 15:12 |
| SebthreeBQM10HD | I did thinik this to, I either go NTFS or I could try Ext4 or something | 15:12 |
| TwistedLucidity | As you don't need Windows support; Ext4 and fahgeddaboutit | 15:12 |
| SebthreeBQM10HD | right but I still got to format the usb. opening up gparted wasn't much good, ant just makek a partion, but right let's have a look at the link | 15:13 |
| SebthreeBQM10HD | TwistedLucidity, it did copy mostly to fat32, but then coudlt tell wasn't going to finnish | 15:14 |
| SebthreeBQM10HD | TwistedLucidity, I have the pain of re installing WIndows as the next thing to do with the computer as well uh! | 15:14 |
| SebthreeBQM10HD | and upgrading things back to WIndows 10 | 15:14 |
| SebthreeBQM10HD | before any Linux installs happen | 15:14 |
| SebthreeBQM10HD | TwistedLucidity, planning on quad booing as well :d | 15:14 |
| SebthreeBQM10HD | Windows plus three Linux distros | 15:15 |
| TwistedLucidity | You can use NTFS, but IIRC there are performance issues with that on GNU/Linux. | 15:15 |
| TwistedLucidity | Or were; not checked in a l-o-n-g time | 15:15 |
| TwistedLucidity | I would thing Gparted would do it to. Just set the format after creating the single, whole-USB patition | 15:15 |
| TwistedLucidity | No idea how well Windows 10 plays with others; never used it | 15:16 |
| SebthreeBQM10HD | TwistedLucidity, I think NTFS is ok, unless the partion isn't shut down properly | 15:16 |
| SebthreeBQM10HD | then may not mount properly with Linux | 15:16 |
| SebthreeBQM10HD | that's what I remember from before | 15:16 |
| SebthreeBQM10HD | yeah having to open up Windows again, and clsoing down properly, so would detect in LINUX | 15:16 |
| MoBeats | [15:12:36] TwistedLucidity:As you don't need Windows support; Ext4 and fahgeddaboutit | 15:35 |
| diddledan | https://youtu.be/ySdaJbgO5gc | 16:37 |
| brobostigon | new job started today, woop, :) | 18:44 |
| popey | congrats | 18:45 |
| popey | how did it go? | 18:45 |
| brobostigon | it went well, walked around my supervisor ost of the afternoon, picking up inforation, no realy work done to be honest. | 18:47 |
| brobostigon | walked behind, i should say. | 18:47 |
| brobostigon | well, we did bring out some stock and organised it, but that was about it. | 18:51 |
| brobostigon | a toy shop, :) | 19:05 |
| foobarry | \o/ | 21:14 |
| daftykins | \o/ what are we celebrating / stretching for? :D | 21:15 |
| foobarry | do they sell scale models? | 21:15 |
| foobarry | brobostigon? | 21:15 |
| brobostigon | foobarry: yes? | 21:15 |
| brobostigon | yes, | 21:15 |
| foobarry | :) | 21:16 |
| brobostigon | :) | 21:16 |
| foobarry | then it's the best kind | 21:16 |
| daftykins | one porsch model lego set please | 21:16 |
| daftykins | *Porsche | 21:16 |
| foobarry | also i think knex better than lego for kids | 21:16 |
| foobarry | my son is really enjoying actually making stuff creatively | 21:16 |
| foobarry | and not losing bespoke pieces all the time | 21:17 |
| * brobostigon was a maccano boy. | 21:17 | |
| foobarry | i guess knex is the closest thing nowadays | 21:20 |
| brobostigon | fair point. | 21:22 |
| daftykins | mmm i had the rollercoaster | 21:22 |
| daftykins | i never made anything custom though, just followed instructions and then i was done :P | 21:22 |
| foobarry | meccano? | 21:23 |
| foobarry | or knew | 21:23 |
| foobarry | x | 21:23 |
| daftykins | knex rollercoaster, i only have very vague memories of meccano as if perhaps i never owned a model o0 not sure | 21:23 |
| foobarry | there's some knex models that are a bit 2D, that lend themselves to being made in 3D quite easily | 21:24 |
| daftykins | but every single variant i just followed instructions | 21:24 |
| foobarry | some knex kits have 40 models you can make | 21:24 |
| foobarry | so the 2D flat car could be replicated and then some joining pieces to the 2 parts to make a 3d car | 21:25 |
| brobostigon | whereas with maccano, you can make anything, you arent fixed. | 21:25 |
| daftykins | c'mon BBC, release the 4K blu-ray Planet Earth II :) | 22:05 |
| daftykins | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Planet-Earth-Blu-ray-Region-Free/dp/B01M629REH/ only 1080p right now | 22:06 |
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| zmoylan-pi | they'll wait till people are clamouring for the 8k release before releasing the 4k version :-) | 22:43 |
| daftykins | heh | 22:45 |
| zmoylan-pi | and it'll be released on laserdisc :-P | 22:46 |
| daftykins | i'll hold out for the VHS | 22:48 |
| zmoylan-pi | and not the superior betamax version? | 22:49 |
| daftykins | that'd require a player | 22:49 |
| zmoylan-pi | or vcd... | 22:49 |
| daftykins | oof | 22:49 |
| daftykins | at leasy if i buy the client a 4K title i can keep the bluray version from inside :D | 22:50 |
| zmoylan-pi | squished down to a 100 megs per episode... :-P | 22:50 |
| daftykins | the 4K BD player's firmware update is 132MB! | 22:56 |
| diddledan | *sadface* https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-04/star-trek-youtube-fan-movie-ruled-not-to-be-fair-use | 23:04 |
| daftykins | mmhmm | 23:06 |
| daftykins | they should've parodied it, then it would've been fine! | 23:06 |
| zmoylan-pi | they have no probs with you making fan flicks if they're non profit so he must be trying to make dosh somewhere | 23:11 |
| zmoylan-pi | and iirc the term tricorder has an open use that rodenberry insisted on as he just knew someone would invent a practical version someday | 23:13 |
| daftykins | well they claimed the fan flic makers would gain from getting jobs in the industry, hah | 23:20 |
| zmoylan-pi | stretching the truth a little there... | 23:20 |
| zmoylan-pi | i seem to remember one fan based effort was raising money online and was hoping to make a small profit so got shut down for that reason | 23:24 |
| daftykins | heh | 23:27 |
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