[00:02] <m0nkey_> Anyone here watch Better Call Saul?
[00:03] <m0nkey_> It seems a character from Breaking Bad will be joining the cast.
[00:03] <daftykins> i do!
[00:03] <daftykins> o rly
[00:03] <m0nkey_> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_3WzxpdUc0&feature=youtu.be
[00:05] <daftykins> 8D
[00:05] <m0nkey_> Seems Gus is back :)
[00:05] <daftykins> you just can't keep a bad guy down
[00:06] <m0nkey_> But look at the background around 14 seconds
[00:06] <daftykins> 14? that has the two guys in the kitchen, one in the foreground with his arms folded
[00:06] <m0nkey_> yup
[00:07] <m0nkey_> the guy in the background
[00:07] <m0nkey_> bald head, beard
[00:07] <m0nkey_> Heisenberg :)
[00:12] <daftykins> noooo
[00:12] <daftykins> too young
[07:27] <knightwise> morning everyone
[09:03] <brobostigon> morning boys and girls.
[09:04] <SuperMatt> morning
[09:04] <brobostigon> morning SuperMatt
[09:07] <davmor2> Morning all
[09:08] <SuperMatt> I trust everyone here is well?
[09:10] <popey> waiting for snow
[09:10] <brobostigon> hopefully it will snow and or rain while i am work, so i dont get wet.
[09:11] <SuperMatt> Any sign of snow in London, and I'll be straight on the tube home, otherwise I'll never make it back to my bed this evening!
[09:16] <SuperMatt> And with that, the london overground service just reported severe delays
[09:19] <davmor2> SuperMatt: no snow in Wolves as of yet
[09:38] <JamesTait> Good morning all! Happy Thursday, and happy Poetry At Work Day! 😃
[09:39] <SuperMatt> roses are red, violets are blue, OSX sucks, at least let me use ubuntu
[09:39] <SuperMatt> I THANK YOU
[09:46] <davmor2> Oh god SuperMatt thinks he is Dave Gorman ;)
[09:48] <davmor2> JamesTait: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMWGXt979yg I think the opening covers us but then there is this too which is Poetry at work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8JJH7ZL_Fk
[11:02] <SuperMatt> davmor2:
[11:02] <SuperMatt> :D
[12:32] <DJones> Does anybody have any suggestions on how to diagnose/fix a laptop charging problem.  I've got an Asus A52F laptop which runs fine on mains supply, but the battery light was flashing red and not charging, replaced the battery and seemed ok, still a red battery light, and when booted into windows 10 or Ubuntu 16.04 shows 0% charging, but it never takes any charge.  If left switched off, its still got a red light and still doesn't charge. The ...
[12:32] <DJones> ... battery was replaced with new manufacturer one, but that has the same issues. In Windows, I've deleted the ACPI battery driver and let that reinstall without any success
[12:33] <foobarry> what if the battery is removed?
[12:33] <foobarry> and left out?
[12:34] <DJones> Works fine on mains no matter what
[12:39] <davmor2> DJones: new laptop?
[12:39] <DJones> davmor2: No, its about 5 years old
[12:40] <davmor2> DJones: okay so not something that would be fixed by a bios update then so I can only assume a dead circuit board somewhere
[12:40] <DJones> Its had a replacement power brick about 2 years ago which doesn't seem to have any issues/frayed cables etc
[12:40] <DJones> That was the thought I'd had about a motherboard fault
[12:41] <davmor2> DJones: no in the laptop there might be a small power board that is fired
[12:41] <DJones> The battery gets detected ok in both windows & ubuntu
[12:41] <DJones> AH right, might open it up to have a look to see if there's anything obvious then
[12:43] <davmor2> DJones: yeah the battery gets hot under charge so 5 years of that and it might just of unsoldered a capacitor or something just follow the path from the power in to the battery
[12:43] <DJones> Cheers, will see what I can find
[15:44] <Shaggy_> does anyone here use mint?
[15:58] <SuperMatt> I gave up on it a long time agao
[15:59] <DJones> Shaggy_: You might better using the #linuxmint-help on  irc.spotchat.org
[15:59] <DJones> Seems like that is the main support channel for mint
[15:59] <Shaggy_> I cant thats why im here i got z-lined for some unknown reason
[15:59] <Shaggy_> said I was ban evading
[16:00] <Shaggy_> just wanted someone to ask what happened
[16:00] <Shaggy_> ive emailed them but that could take days
[16:01] <SuperMatt> well we're not going to know anything about that here
[16:03] <Shaggy_> while im here I might aswell ask what the latest version of xubuntu is
[16:03] <Shaggy_> could do with a new install
[16:04] <Shaggy_> ahh06.04
[16:09] <diddledan> omg it's snowing
[16:12] <Laney> rather it didn't
[16:12]  * Laney would quite like to cycle to town in 2 hours :-)
[16:13] <Laney> without falling off or getting frozen toes
[16:16] <popey> diddledan: whereabouts?
[16:16] <diddledan> Basingstoke
[16:17] <popey> just rain here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIkddwEk5_U
[16:17] <foobarry> got pulled by the police :(
[16:17] <popey> Alright Mr Mansell
[16:17] <foobarry> brake lights were'nt working (top one was), side ones weren't
[16:17] <popey> oops
[16:18] <foobarry> just pulled off the M1 after a long journey, 200 yds from hotel room
[16:18] <popey> i once stopped a police car because his brake lights weren't working :)
[16:18] <popey> He wasn't impressed :)
[16:18] <foobarry> got it fixed today, but then the guy told me he wasn't an MOT test station so i need to take it to a test station and ask them to stamp the form
[16:18] <foobarry> pc plod was telling me he checks his brake lights once a week in his garage
[16:19] <foobarry> "i live i london , i don't have a garage, only the reflections on other parked cars" i said with my inside voice
[16:19] <popey> "and I have no friends who could stand behind the car"
[16:20] <foobarry> and "i take the train to work and only use the car once a week to drive 1 mile"
[16:20] <foobarry> and "i though t it was working before the journey"
[16:21] <popey> i have spare lamps in my boot :)
[16:21] <popey> "oh, I'll fix that right now" :)
[16:21] <popey> (they came with the car)
[16:21] <popey> I'm not that good.
[16:24] <diplo> I always keep spare bulbs in the car, ever since having to travel to france
[16:24] <diplo> Just replace them when I use them
[16:26] <diddledan> there was something that the EU mandated for the continent that you had to have at least one of them in your car and you can only use them once so to be sure of always remaining compliant you had to have at least two of them so you still had one once you'd used one
[16:26] <diddledan> I can't remember what it was though. maybe breathaliser?
[16:30] <popey> yes
[16:30] <popey> france
[16:30] <Seeker`> diddledan: why do you have snow in basingstoke? Haven't got any here yet :(
[16:31] <diddledan> Seeker`: because Basingstoke is Amazingstoke
[16:31] <Seeker`> pfft
[16:31] <Seeker`> Boringstoke more like
[16:31] <popey> Basingrad.
[16:31] <Seeker`> Also, to make people feel old, I've been here for over 10 years now.
[16:32] <diddledan> didn't you need to pee?
[16:32] <Seeker`> I don't actually know who was here when I joined actually, other than popey
[16:32] <diddledan> I have no idea how long I've been around - I came and went and came back again
[16:32] <popey> gary was here before me i think
[16:33] <popey> 16:32 -NickServ(NickServ@services.)- Information on popey (account popey):
[16:33] <popey> 16:32 -NickServ(NickServ@services.)- Registered : Apr 09 12:34:28 2004 (12y 40w 1d ago)
[16:33] <popey> around then, sometime
[16:33] <popey> actually, i have a mirror of the irc logs
[16:33]  * popey greps
[16:33] <diddledan> mine says: Registered : Feb 09 17:16:33 2007 (9y 48w 3d ago)
[16:34] <Seeker`> I think gary, daviey, X.3N, ubottu and Myrtt.i were here
[16:34] <diddledan> I started using Ubuntu around 2006
[16:34] <popey> yeah
[16:34] <diddledan> I remember installing 6.06
[16:35] <diddledan> I was a leet gentoo user before that :-p
[16:35] <Seeker`> 5.10 was my first ubuntu, joined here in Nov 2006
[16:35] <popey> :)
[16:35] <Seeker`> FC2/3 before that
[16:35] <diplo> I was playing with 4.10 ? had it on a work machine, using some 3rd party app to auth with AD, can't remember its name
[16:36] <diplo> Mine was Redhat and AIX previous to that
[16:36] <diddledan> diplo: likewise?
[16:36] <diddledan> likewise-open
[16:36] <popey> Seeker`: you joined the launchpad team 2006-11-28
[16:36] <popey> ooh, AIX
[16:36] <diplo> That sounds about right diddledan
[16:36] <diplo> Yes AIX :(
[16:36] <diplo> How I got into *nix
[16:36] <Seeker`> -16:36:38- -NickServ(NickServ@services.)- Registered : Nov 20 23:44:23 2006 (10y 7w 6d ago)
[16:37] <Seeker`> I was here for a few days before I registered
[16:37]  * diplo still has all the manuals, only recently just scrapped the IBM M80 box we had running it
[16:38] <diplo> Registered : Sep 18 08:50:32 2005 (11y  17w 0d ago)
[16:38] <diplo> I was a quakenet person before that though
[16:50] <popey> time flies :)
[16:52] <diplo> I'm teaching myself windows now as well, just setup an AD / dns / file server and a couple of linux boxes and see if I can interact between the lot
[21:07] <SebthreeBQM10HD> hi
[21:07] <SebthreeBQM10HD> Question Time should be good tonight
[21:14] <m0nkey_> Hmm
[21:14] <m0nkey_> Spending cash now
[21:14] <daftykins> o hai
[21:14] <daftykins> you are? what on :D
[21:14] <m0nkey_> $3200 flights to England for 2xAdult 2xChildren
[21:14] <m0nkey_> And I'm looking at car hire
[21:14] <daftykins> oof!
[21:15] <daftykins> makes you want to put a kid in a suitcase, i bet
[21:15] <m0nkey_> Hertz have a car for two weeks, $429.
[21:15] <m0nkey_> daftykins, that's cheap.
[21:15] <m0nkey_> Most carriers don't charge less than $4k
[21:16] <m0nkey_> I want to get an Auto transmission, so the wife can drive, but it's a $200 premium.
[21:16] <m0nkey_> Thankfully I can drive manual :)
[21:16] <daftykins> i'm still chasing Air Canada about getting €600 back for free since i was on a flight with them that was massively delayed due to a technical fault
[21:16] <daftykins> :> but you'll be on the other side!
[21:20] <m0nkey_> How massively delayed?
[21:24] <m0nkey_> Just got confirmation from the wife, she wants me to book the flight.
[21:25] <daftykins> 6hrs at the ultimate destination
[21:25] <daftykins> EU law has it count to be worthy of a refund
[21:26] <daftykins> well, that value reimbursement
[22:04] <daftykins> diddledan: emergency kitten! https://www.dropbox.com/s/z42y2hyp4j3vptx/IMG_20170112_173438.jpg?dl=0
[22:05] <diddledan> aww <3
[22:07] <daftykins> https://www.dropbox.com/s/2trie6xqy9awtme/IMG_20170112_172414.jpg?dl=0
[22:07] <daftykins> ;D
[22:08] <diddledan> squee
[22:22] <m0nkey_> Sold
[22:22] <m0nkey_> Flights & car are booked
[22:26] <daftykins> \o/
[22:39] <m0nkey_> The car booking said they would only take a deposit. Seems they took the full amount :/
[22:39] <m0nkey_> Oh well
[22:39] <m0nkey_> Anyway, got to go, dinner then gym.
[22:40] <daftykins> \o