| diplo | Morning all | 08:02 |
|---|---|---|
| SuperMatt | morning | 08:23 |
| davmor2 | Morning all | 09:14 |
| brobostigon | morning boys and girls. | 09:20 |
| ging_ | i did a bad thing | 10:05 |
| ging_ | i installed linux mint | 10:05 |
| ging_ | then i installed ubuntu desktop to it | 10:05 |
| ging_ | and selected lightdm and the window manager | 10:05 |
| ging_ | and now i have unity, with a weird mix of mint | 10:06 |
| === ging_ is now known as ging | ||
| ging | does anyone know of a good way to fully unmint it? | 10:10 |
| davmor2 | ging: why would you do that? | 10:10 |
| ging | i started a new job | 10:11 |
| ging | first day i was given a linux mint usb stick to setup my machine | 10:11 |
| ging | i thought i would give it a go | 10:11 |
| ging | but i had enough | 10:13 |
| ging | i need to figure out how to unmint grub | 10:15 |
| ging | the mint luks decrypt screen does not work properly | 10:16 |
| ging | when you type in your password it does into some other terminal | 10:17 |
| ging | in clear text | 10:17 |
| ging | so i have to boot, then reboot so it falls back to a simple decrypt screen | 10:18 |
| ging | which thanksfully does work | 10:18 |
| ging | i am scared to just uninstall mint-common | 10:20 |
| ging | my biggest problem is i did something to my x settings to make it controlled by nvidia | 10:24 |
| ging | and i can't get to the unity screen settings | 10:25 |
| ging | so i can't turn off the sticky menu thing | 10:25 |
| ging | dconf write /org/compiz/profiles/unity/plugins/unityshell/launcher-capture-mouse false | 10:27 |
| ging | :( | 10:27 |
| ging | that does work though | 10:28 |
| ging | but none of this has cured my origonal problem, which was clicking and dragging stuff makes applications die | 10:38 |
| === phantom is now known as Guest4252 | ||
| davmor2 | ging: just install ubuntu then use the debs on the usb pendrive to install anything you need for work :) A potential solution at least | 11:15 |
| popey | ging: I'd be inclined to nuke and install ubuntu tbh | 11:27 |
| awilkins | ging, Likewise. My advice would be back up your home folder (and maybe /etc) and nuke and restore. I keep my home folders on a separate partition just so I can do this at a moment's notice. | 11:30 |
| awilkins | When I upgraded to xenial something completely bricked my OS, was back up and running again after a 20 minute install with all my files and settings intact because of this. | 11:31 |
| ging | it seems to have worked suprisingly well | 13:18 |
| ging | just not fixed any of my origonal issues | 13:19 |
| ging | except the one that i didnt like mint | 13:19 |
| popey | given that some things just don't work on mint that should, I'd nuke it | 13:36 |
| diddledan | I've never liked mint - they frankenstein ubuntu repos with their own repo where their repo has _some_ stuff recompiled or differently versioned so anything from ubuntu which you expect to work with something you've installed from mint will fail - e.g. I had an issue where mint had separately compiled apache or php and apache-modules or php-modules failed to | 13:39 |
| diddledan | work with it because they hadn't maintained ABI | 13:39 |
| diddledan | I forget whether it was apache or php - or both | 13:40 |
| diddledan | ooh, doctor strange is out | 16:25 |
| diddledan | gotta love a bit of cumerbund | 16:26 |
| diddledan | cumberbund? | 16:26 |
| diddledan | how do you spell that? | 16:27 |
| davmor2 | diddledan: yeah cumberland is awesome chips and eggs | 16:52 |
| diddledan | mm, sausage | 16:52 |
| diddledan | sausage spiral no less! | 16:52 |
| === pavlushka is now known as KindThree | ||
| === KindThree is now known as pavlushka | ||
| daftykins | diddledan: how's the SMART data look on that drive post zero? | 18:40 |
| diddledan | daftykins: it says no errors now | 18:40 |
| daftykins | smartctl output or nothing ;D | 18:41 |
| diddledan | http://paste.ubuntu.com/24060254/ | 18:42 |
| daftykins | ooh no remaps or anything, not too bad... so based on its' power on hours you could use it as a kinda general storage you don't really care about sort of drive, or a testing one - but definitely nothing live | 18:44 |
| diddledan | :-) | 18:53 |
| daftykins | diddledan: warning, cat torture - https://i.imgur.com/yaG5abA.gifv | 18:54 |
| diddledan | :-o | 18:56 |
| diddledan | poor kitty :-( | 18:57 |
| diddledan | moar gentoo security patches tonight | 18:58 |
| daftykins | :D | 18:59 |
| diddledan | mysql and php | 18:59 |
| diddledan | \o/ | 18:59 |
| davmor2 | daftykins: You know the is my cat planning to kill gag....in this case could we claim justifiable homicide | 19:02 |
| daftykins | :> | 19:02 |
| diddledan | I really should turn on my lights | 19:05 |
| diddledan | sitting in the glow of monitors only is a bit haxx0rish | 19:05 |
| diddledan | where's my hoodie? | 19:05 |
| * diddledan wanders off to find the hoodie | 19:05 | |
| daftykins | yep hood up please | 19:06 |
| daftykins | :D | 19:06 |
| daftykins | diddledan: i caught this magic timing yesterday - http://i.imgur.com/TJMdRhw.jpg | 19:18 |
| daftykins | tail to the face! | 19:18 |
| diddledan | lol | 19:18 |
| diddledan | floof | 19:18 |
| daftykins | they've been watching the outside world, which right now they're not permitted to experience... | 19:18 |
| diddledan | aww :-( are they going cabin feverish? | 19:19 |
| daftykins | nah, huge house - i think it's more the kitten curiosity and "how can be do more things that the human staff will worry over us for doing?" | 19:20 |
| daftykins | any of you guys have a really really tough time adjusting to some new specs, before? i've never found it this tough | 19:20 |
| daftykins | i could see distant stuff like the TV from my sofa perfectly immediately, but i couldn't even read my laptop on my lap in front of me for a while o0 | 19:21 |
| diddledan | nope, but I have a fairly simple prescription | 19:21 |
| daftykins | it's improved a bit now, but i almost have to look slightly off to the side to see irssi's text clearly, very offputting | 19:21 |
| daftykins | ah, lucky, i'm on -10 in one eye now | 19:21 |
| zmoylan-pi | i have had new specs drive me bonkers. it's was like they set the focal point a different distance than i was used to... | 19:56 |
| zmoylan-pi | had to move all my screens and keyboards to make space for printed documentation | 19:56 |
| daftykins | :( | 19:56 |
| zmoylan-pi | i put it down to merely been from a family with crap eyesight and probably time for bifocals | 19:57 |
| daftykins | oof | 19:57 |
| zmoylan-pi | i've carried a monocular for reading bus numbers since i was in early 20s. even with glasses i couldn't read them on some buses | 19:58 |
| ali1234 | zmoylan-pi: my mum had an eye test and they completely messed it up. got her glasses and she couldn't see anything | 20:54 |
| ali1234 | turns out they let a trainee do it, and then the person who was supposed to check it, didn't | 20:54 |
| ali1234 | she went to a different optician and showed them her current and previous prescription and they were like "there's no way that could be right" | 20:55 |
| zmoylan-pi | i've been using the same optometrist for yonks. a family run place rather than the usual faceless mob. in my case it's far more likely that it's my eyes failing | 20:58 |
| ali1234 | it was boots that messed it up iirc | 20:58 |
| ali1234 | the worst thing though is it took her 6 months to do anything about it, because she thought it was just her eyes getting worse | 20:59 |
| daftykins | O_O | 20:59 |
| daftykins | every optician in the island seems to be at retirement age now which isn't very encouraging | 21:00 |
| zmoylan-pi | you've reached the optician event horizon were no new opticans open and the only new ones come along when old ones retire or die | 21:01 |
| daftykins | indeed! | 21:02 |
| daftykins | love the way mine emailed out from an address they aren't checking anymore, too... | 21:03 |
| zmoylan-pi | you just have to hack their gibson to find their real address... :-P | 21:08 |
| daftykins | well if you put it like that... | 21:12 |
| zmoylan-pi | and isn't the current best way to get their attention is to poke them on twitter? | 21:17 |
| Azelphur | I'm happy, bought a refurbished UPS on eBay for £160, looks like it'll hold up all my crap (3 x 40" monitors and two PCs) for an hour :D | 21:24 |
| daftykins | best to get safe shutdown configured! | 21:27 |
| daftykins | i've been chasing a Dutch company for a delayed replacement battery for an old APC unit of late | 21:27 |
| Azelphur | yea, gotta do that | 21:31 |
| zmoylan-pi | probably waiting for the postmans hernia to heal after the crimbo rush... :-P | 21:51 |
| daftykins | ;) more than likely a European country trying to work out how to cross the wet bit to get here | 21:51 |
| zmoylan-pi | the dutch build a wall, drain the area behind it and repeat... simple | 21:52 |
| diddledan | zmoylan-pi: and make the islanders pay for it | 21:59 |
| daftykins | https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/24/iphone_7_plus_burning_battery/ | 21:59 |
| daftykins | :D | 21:59 |
| daftykins | zmoylan-pi: my you've been busy, first Nokia, now... https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/24/revive_the_psion_5_series/ | 22:00 |
| zmoylan-pi | it's weird in 2008 nokia really really irked me... and my mates laughed when i went on and on about how many mistakes they were making. within 12 months they had all switched from nokia to android... along with a sizeable chunk of the planet. i didn't speak to all those people. honest guv | 22:02 |
| zmoylan-pi | of course, today i took this pic in upmarket shopping centre on dublins most expensive shopping street... https://twitter.com/angryearthling/status/835246630710431745/photo/1 | 22:03 |
| daftykins | :> | 22:04 |
| zmoylan-pi | they're usually only spotted in street were they're selling fish and veg from stalls on the cobbles | 22:05 |
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