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diddledandaftykins: VNC00:04
diddledandaftykins: it's run via a vino frontend IIRC00:05
diddledanthe app in the dash is "Desktop Sharing" which then sets gconf settings for vino and makes it start on login00:06
daftykinso000:09
m0nkey_That was easy, it's downloading and installing Ubuntu on my old N400:10
daftykinsnow it'll be even more useless :>00:11
m0nkey_lol00:11
m0nkey_I just want to try it00:11
m0nkey_It's easy enough to revert back00:11
daftykins:D00:11
daftykinsas long as you work that all out before your travels you're good ;)00:12
m0nkey_I've got about 6 months :)00:12
m0nkey_It's in the Ubuntu boot loader and pushing the image to the device now00:13
daftykinsi know you're excited but this is all pretty basic to most folk that mess around with phones ;)00:15
m0nkey_I rarely play with phones :)00:15
daftykinsare you bored of your VR toys yet?00:15
m0nkey_Nope00:15
m0nkey_It's still friggin awesome00:16
m0nkey_Hmm, it seems to be rebooting and has the Ubuntu logo.00:18
m0nkey_It's installed and just gone through the setup00:24
diddledandisk is now being zeroes00:25
diddledanzeroed00:25
diddledanhow long will it take I wonder00:25
diddledanis anyone using zfs on ubuntu .. as in at all?00:26
zmoylan-pii'm in 2 other linux channels and i haven't seen it mentioned as been used by anyone00:29
m0nkey_I use it, but not in Ubuntu.00:30
daftykinsdiddledan: 3TB? 12+hrs00:34
diddledanit's a slow disk, only supports 1.5Gbps bandwidth on the SATA bus, so I'm assuming the drive to be somewhat slower than that00:35
daftykinslol00:35
daftykinsdd will be showing you the speed, you're using dd right?00:35
diddledanyes. I haven't got any feedback tho00:35
daftykinsshowing you if you run: watch -n 30 'kill -USR1 $PID_of_dd'00:35
daftykinssudo on the kill too naturally00:36
diddledan135ish MB/s00:36
diddledanit's done 105GB so far00:37
daftykinsmmm not too shabby, bus doesn't really matter for mechanical - you'll see the speed slowly drop as it gets to the inner tracks :)00:37
diddledanthat's in about 10 minutes00:37
m0nkey_Everything seems to work on this Ubuntu touch00:55
m0nkey_Calls, text, camera...00:55
m0nkey_Going to have to experiment some more00:56
daftykinsi was talking about alternate ROMs affecting camera quality etc before01:01
m0nkey_Lets face it, N4 quality wasn't that great to begin with :)01:04
daftykinsnot in low light anyway01:05
daftykinsmine mostly sits on my desk unused these days, although i did use it whilst in the US last September01:05
* zmoylan-pi listens to wind outside...06:03
foobarryjust got soaked to the skin08:53
foobarryone of those downpours , i had 10seconds to the nearest shop doorway, but that was enough to totally soak me08:54
foobarryjeans are now on a radiator in the office :|08:54
brobostigonmorning boys and girls.09:09
davmor2Morning all09:10
diploMorning all09:44
diploAnyone know of any reason to not change a UID of a user on a new install to 500? we use the uids within our software and one user needs to be 500, the rest it doesn't matter so much.. I can't find any issues so far on the interwebs but thought I'd ask here09:45
diploCentOS moved from 500 to 1000 as of Cent7 copying other distros09:46
popeylast place I worked we used to have a set of UIDs that we used for specific users.10:06
popeySo long as it's consistent on all the machines, it was fine10:06
davmor2diplo: what popey said, as long as the naming/numbering is consistent and documented it should be fine10:12
diploThanks guys, and documented hahaha :)10:22
diploI've found some serverfault/stackexchange things after referencing similar points10:22
davmor2diplo: seriously if you don't document it you will forget do an install and spend hours trying to figure out why stuff isn't working if you modify things from the default10:26
SuperMattmorning10:28
diplodavmor2: I'm laughing as my company suck at documenting :) not me10:29
foobarryi love documenting10:29
diploI document all I do, them not so much...... its taken me 4 hours to get why we need the user to be uid=50010:29
foobarryasciinema and mkdocs make for great documentation10:30
diploI use sphinx, gone from nothing to 100's of things written now10:30
foobarryin rST?10:30
foobarryor md10:30
diplorst10:31
diploI think you and I discussed this last year when you were moving over :)10:31
diploI'd gone Sphinx because it was what readthedocs used and I liked the look of it.. nothing stopping me moving apart from effort :)10:31
foobarryyesh10:31
foobarrymkdocs allows easy workflow cos u can spin up an instance on your own desktop in seconds , based off another branch10:32
diploAh right, I will investigate at some point but basically I write my docs type make html it publishes one locally and rsyncs to our other site the same dir and then svn add / ci data into subversion10:35
diploWorks for me10:35
foobarrysphinx has better themes support10:37
foobarryand collapsible menus etc10:37
diploI do like the collapisble menus :)10:37
foobarryjekyll is supposed to be good too10:38
foobarryhttp://bit.ly/2lIF7fa is our current mkdocs site10:38
foobarrymanaged via github10:38
ali1234diplo: uid  less than 1000 means "system user" and wont show on the login screen etc by default10:44
diploI10:54
foobarryam10:54
diploSorry lost the old interwebs there11:07
diploWe don't use a login screen anyway, this is our system user I guess so I'm happy with that, cheers though ali123411:08
diddledanwindymuch?!11:32
SuperMattI've got jury service today, and I might not be able to make it thanks to a tree on the line11:33
diddledaneep11:33
SuperMattAnnoyingly, if I do make it there, on the bus, there might be other jurors that can't make it, so I would have braved the wind for nothing11:34
foobarryis there a number yo can call?11:34
SuperMattYeah, there is11:34
SuperMattI should find out at midday if I'm actually needed11:35
SuperMattThey may say not to bother coming in then11:35
LaneyEveryone says it's extremely boring but I still want to be called for jury service :(11:36
diddledanthey sent me a notice that I'd been selected by the randomiser but when I replied they turned me down. apparently being a nutjob means they don't like to use you for a jury11:37
SuperMattLaney: it is boring when you're not sitting a case. I literally did nothing for my first two days11:52
LaneySuperMatt: Yeah that bit, the waiting to get called11:52
Laneyor I heard you can get called up, faff around for ages and then get sent back out11:52
Laneyif they don't like you on that case for some reason11:53
SuperMattSo what they do is pick 15 people at random to go to the court room. Then in the courtroom, they read out a list of jury exemptions, such as if you know person X, or worked at Y, then you shouldn't be on the jury. They then pick 12 people out of the 15 that said they're OK to be on the Jury. Then they may start immedately, or they may say that the prosecution/defence isn't ready yet, and may send you11:55
SuperMattoff.11:55
diddledanLana Del Rey: Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-NTv0CdFCk <-- I like this!12:03
Seeker`Laney: It's super boring. Being part of a case is marginally more interesting, but there's still a lot of waiting around. Sometimes you start at 10, go in for 20 minutse, get sent out for half an hour while they discuss a point of law, go back in for 10 minutes, get sent out because the judge wants a 20 minute break, go back for 40 minutes, then get sent home for the day because a witness didn't turn16:29
Seeker`up.16:29
Seeker`And I absolutely hated deliberations.16:30
Seeker`SuperMatt: did you end up having to go in?16:31
SuperMattYeah, I went in17:54
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diddledandaftykins: after zeroing the drive and running a long smart self-test, which has just this moment finished running, the log says the latest test passed19:58
diddledanref: http://paste.ubuntu.com/24054851/19:59
ali1234what was wrong with it before?20:00
ali1234theres no reallocated sectors20:00
diddledanali1234: test #1520:00
ali1234weird20:00
ali1234did you have a power failure?20:00
diddledannope20:01
ali1234it's not a physical medium error because it would have to reallocate the sector, and it apparently hasn't20:01
ali1234so it must have just got confused while writing, and put an invalid checksum or something20:01
ali1234cosmic rays, i dunno20:01
diddledancosmic rays are funky. used to kill camera tubes back in the 60s/70s20:02
diddledanthey'll play havoc with ccd blocks, too20:02
ali1234maybe you should try writing all 1s20:03
ali1234at least to the problem block20:03
diddledanis there a /dev/one? like /dev/zero :-p20:03
ali1234http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10905062/how-do-i-get-an-equivalent-of-dev-one-in-linux20:04
diddledan\377? o_O20:06
diddledanhow is \377 0xFF?20:06
ali1234octal20:06
diddledanok, that's running20:07
diddledanI'm blatting the whole disk to be sure20:08
ali1234better safe than sorry20:12
diddledanthese are yummy: http://www.nissinsobanoodles.co.uk/caseoffer.html21:21
zmoylan-pican't you at least eat proper british noodles!! :-P21:22
diddledanthey're more decadent than potnoodles21:22
diddledanI'm a posh-knob! :-D21:22
zmoylan-piboil a kettle on your nvidia graphics card and a few cases of those and you can survive the zombie apocalypse...21:24
diddledan\o/21:26
zmoylan-pi...at least till the idea of eating just one more posh pot noodle makes you crave brains...21:35
diddledanmmm, brains21:36
* diddledan chews on zmoylan-pi's scalp21:36
* zmoylan-pi is happy to have a moylan grade skull that has so far broken chairs broken over it and left a dent in crossbar of bike in one of my more amusing accidents...21:37
diddledanwhat if I use a nokia?21:38
diddledanI hereby dub the nokia with the title of brain opener21:38
zmoylan-pithat would be the unbreakable object meating the unbreakable object... a 1000 philosophers would die in the attempt alone...21:38
* zmoylan-pi spots that the new samsung 8plus will have a 6.2" screen... is there a market for a phone aimed at professional basketball players?21:43
diddledanI want a 13inch phone21:46
zmoylan-piat that size isn't it more a riot shield?21:47
diddledanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27aVPqpnL7Y21:47
diddledanwow, 25 second intro?!21:48
diddledanskip that21:48
zmoylan-piwell you could 3d print a case for a phone...21:48
zmoylan-pii have the dvd of the series... red fox to grey squirrel, red for to grey squirrel...21:48
zmoylan-pisurgeons will have to start offering thumb extension surgery...21:56
zmoylan-pimind at 13" they could then split screen and have one camera displaying the view forward so that peoples view won't be obstructed by their phone... while using their apps in rest of the screen22:02

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