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brobostigonmorning boys and girls.10:32
penguin42that's odd, my zesty machine is moaning that 12.04 LTS is near and my Precise machines need upgrading13:48
tamj0rd2Would anyone be able to tell me how I can auto-login to xchat-gnome?15:42
AzelphurWell I just had a fun adventure, gf found a set of keys with a USB stick attached to them on a bench (clearly fallen out of someones pocket), took them home, plugged the USB stick in, dead. Fixed the USB stick, found the owners CV on there, went to his house, returned the keys \o/17:53
penguin42haha17:54
MartijnVdShttps://ac3freedomday.org/17:54
daftykinsAzelphur: :D18:05
daftykinsi'd hope for a finders fee for going that far :>18:05
AzelphurHaha I don't mind, I'd be worried if I lost my keys, especially if they had a USB stick with my address attached. Thought the guy could be locked out or something.18:07
themanwhohas anyone seen pavel18:07
themanwholets play a game18:12
daftykins...18:12
themanwhojoin the dots18:13
themanwhocan you guess this place ... ...... ...... .. .......18:15
daftykinsare you in Southampton?18:16
themanwhowhy18:17
themanwhowhy do you ask18:17
daftykinsi like to play 'guess the location' from virgin media hostnames18:17
themanwhoreally why18:18
popeyme too :)18:18
daftykins:D18:18
themanwho?18:18
daftykinsi don't have an answer for you.18:19
themanwhook did you guess the word18:19
daftykinsaww yeah just scored a 40" 1080p TV for my folks for £65 on a local trade site18:20
themanwhook i'll give you a clue it is the name of a place across the ocean18:20
themanwhocount the dots and guess18:22
themanwho.h. u...e. .t.t.. .f ....i.a18:23
marshmnCanada?18:23
themanwhowrong18:24
marshmn:(18:24
penguin42daftykins: Of that's OK18:24
AzelphurLlanfairpwllgwyngyll?18:24
themanwhocorrect for the middle part daftkins18:24
themanwhook here it is18:24
themanwho...18:25
daftykinsi didn't even guess18:25
themanwhothe united states of america18:25
marshmnoh right18:25
themanwhodaftykins that's a good price for a television what brand is it18:27
themanwhoi don't recommend smart tv though as they can be hacked into apparently18:28
daftykinslol.18:29
themanwhowhich brand18:29
themanwhois it vizio18:30
daftykinsno.18:30
themanwhosony18:30
daftykinssorry but as bored as you may be, i'm not hugely keen on your gobby style :)18:31
penguin42daftykins: I bought myself a JVC branded one in a Dixons bank holiday sale last year, the firmware in it is awful18:31
themanwhoi am not hugely keen on your rudeness either daftykins18:31
daftykinsunlucky then18:32
themanwhobut i suppose with you it comes naturally lol18:32
daftykinspenguin42: heh, what for - smart functionality or general UI operation for settings, etc?18:32
penguin42daftykins: It's not very smart anyway; but hmm lets see18:33
penguin42daftykins: OK, so the normal one is that the schedule view is awful, there's a bug where the UI slowly slows down as you use it more and more18:33
penguin42daftykins: But the fun bug is if you have it on SCART and then type a channel number (to switch back to DTV) it switches to the channel-1 from what you typed18:33
daftykinsah ok so Freeview EPG?18:33
daftykinshehe :D18:34
penguin42daftykins: Yeh, it only shows a pretty narrow range (one hour perhaps two programs?) before you have to scroll18:34
daftykinsno connectivity or method for update then?18:34
penguin42daftykins: It does have ether on it, but I've not let it connect anywhere18:34
daftykinsor perhaps even gamble with a factory reset to see if it helps18:34
daftykinswell you don't need it to go online directly necessarily, i'd just see if there's a version # and anything on their website18:35
penguin42daftykins: It responds to a wget on port 80 but I've not found any page that returns anything :-)18:35
themanwho"Touche"18:36
penguin42daftykins: I'm pretty sure it's a rebadge of one made under a zillion different brands, it responds to the same key sequence to get into the factory settings as this range of cheap ones18:37
daftykinsah har, i believe that was often the style of the ol' Japan Victor Company :>18:38
penguin42daftykins: Nod, I think it's more just a brand name rather than anything more these days18:38
themanwhostill ranting are you daftykins oh shame18:39
daftykinsyeah, they dropped the ball i think in the TV world18:39
penguin42daftykins: It's a LT-42c550, the Mac address shows up as Shenzhen MTC, I can see it matches a haier.com model18:40
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themanwhodaftykins the sooner you get your head out the sand the sooner we can be on speaking terms18:43
daftykinspenguin42: Dixons/Currys purchase?18:47
penguin42daftykins: Right18:47
penguin42daftykins: Dirt cheap18:47
daftykinshttp://uk.jvc-service.net/webtemp/LT-40C550%20LT-40C551%20LT-50C550%20Instruction%20Book.pdf?CFID=23885494&CFTOKEN=2450390218:47
daftykinsfound a manual for a 40C55018:48
themanwhoget help daftykins for your own good18:48
penguin42daftykins: Right, I've got the manual - with the TV!18:48
themanwhojust some advice take it or leave it up to you!18:48
daftykinsyeah i suppose my point was more that it makes no mention of a 42... and there were no downloads on the website of JVC UK18:48
themanwhoJVC is a crappy tv18:49
penguin42daftykins: Right, I guess it's a case of 'what cheap panels have we got this week?'18:49
themanwhoit went out in the nineties18:49
themanwholol18:50
daftykinsi'd probably poke around in the menus for any sign of an update option, but it doesn't look likely18:50
daftykinsnope looks like there's none, factory reset is there though :D18:51
penguin42daftykins: Nod, I should probably check their site as well again, or I could ping them since I did spend the extra on the 'everything' guarantee18:52
penguin42daftykins: It doesn't need a reset18:52
daftykinshow do you know? tried it once before, or you think setting it up from new was enough to consider it a permanent bug? i'm just bringing up the options...18:53
penguin42daftykins: Well none of the bugs feel like settings bugs18:53
daftykins*shrug* i believe in trying with the little control you do have access to, makes no sense to assume up front18:54
penguin42daftykins: Nod, I just solve the problem by mostly using my existing PVR on it and avoiding most of it's interface18:55
daftykinsmmm TVs have definitely just become glorified monitors now18:55
penguin42right18:55
zmoylan-piglorified monitors with ideas above their station... eavsdropping and spying on you... :-P20:06
penguin42this one hasn't got cameras or mics that I know of20:07
zmoylan-piwell with your phones, tablets and laptops your place is well covered anyway... :-)20:09
penguin42zmoylan-pi: Yes, although if you were bugging someone perhaps it would be better ot put it in something people didn't expect to be smart, like a plain lightbulb20:09
zmoylan-piso when governments start giving people a free smartbulb we should worry?20:10
diddledanMy Dad's YouView box updated yesterday. now he's got horrible BT Branding on it everywhere - the only reason they provide is "because you have a BT broadband connection we've commandeered your third-party device"20:10
zmoylan-piin 2008 my then smartphone started showing vodafone adverts on all the pages i browsed... i rang to see how i could turn that silliness off and when told i couldn't took out and used pliers on the sim...20:12
diddledanI mean if he'd bought a BT Vision box I could understand it having BT Branding, but he specifically bought a box that wasn't tied to an ISP20:12
zmoylan-pihe might be able to sue them for damaging his device...20:12
daftykinshmm.20:12
daftykinsseems a little wild to expect there to be *no* connection at all for it to have done it20:12
penguin42zmoylan-pi: Oh they wouldn't be telling you they're smartbulbs, they'd just be free/cheap normal bulbs - they wouldn't advertise smartness, they'd just be suspiciously cheap20:12
penguin42diddledan: Do you think they're the same brand/model as the one BT uses and they're updating off an update server local to the ISP?20:13
zmoylan-pican't you make a rasp pi become a ad blocker for everything on the network?20:14
diddledanif Dad had had a TalkTalk broadband seemingly it would have branded itself as a TalkTalk box in that update20:14
zmoylan-pimaybe there's a way to replace the corporate logos in the firmware with your own gif/jpeg...20:15
daftykins;)20:15
diddledanno it's specifically because BT and TalkTalk are two members of the consortium that created YouView and now they're commandeering any YouView box that wasn't sold as a "BT Vision" or a "TalkTalk TV" box when the owner is on their network20:15
daftykinsah har20:16
diddledanit's still underhanded IMO20:16
penguin42diddledan: Complain to OFCOM?20:16
zmoylan-pia nice FakeNewsCorp™ branding would be topical... :-)20:16
diddledanDad chose specifically NOT to buy a BT Vision box!20:17
diddledanpenguin42: aye20:17
zmoylan-pias far as i'm concerned bt branding your firmware with adverts/logos of their crap is completely wrong... but i'm not usually seen as the calm reasoned device when companies mess with my hardware software20:17
* diddledan sits with zmoylan-pi on the grouch bench20:18
diddledanmaybe I'm turning into a gerroff my lawn person20:18
zmoylan-piwe have official walkings sticks to wave in the air :-)20:19
diddledanand to bash teenagers' ankles20:19
zmoylan-pitoo obvious... with skill you can catch the rubber sole at back of shoe as they walk past and pull their shoe off as they pass /accidently/20:20
diddledanthey're great for shoving into a passing cyclist's spokes :-p20:20
zmoylan-pibonus points for doing this as they walk through a puddle20:20
diddledanlol20:20
diddledanwe're gonna turn into awesome old people!20:21
zmoylan-pinah, my family dies young so i have to get my fun in now :-)20:21
diddledanaww :-(20:21
diddledanwe'll mourn the day we have no more pi!20:22
daftykinscyclist hate :(20:22
diddledandaftykins: :-p20:22
daftykinsmind you my lane is pedestrianised and sometimes i imagine the same when cheeky swines cycle down it20:22
daftykinsof course i never cycle to my door *cough*20:23
diddledanlol20:23
zmoylan-pii shall create a bot that a) insults ms b) loves nokia c) disses the new scripting language/technology of the week20:23
diddledanzmoylan-pi: you mean it's gonna be you++20:23
daftykins:D20:23
daftykinszmoylan-lie20:23
diddledanzmoylan-aws?20:24
diddledanmaybe zmoylan-lambda?20:24
zmoylan-pizx-moylan... :-P20:24
diddledanwow, that's hardcore botting!20:24
zmoylan-pias long as there's no earthquakes to cause ram pack wobble...20:24
Azelphurumm, what on earth is going on here? https://dpaste.de/t3kr dd is saying no space left on device at 8GB on a brand new 240GB Sandisk drive I picked up from Maplin20:24
penguin42Azelphur: What does it say in /proc/partitions ?20:25
Azelphurpenguin42: http://pastebin.com/YRynBD5h20:25
diddledanhow big is frontroomrescue.img?20:26
Azelphur112G20:26
diddledanalthough, I'd prefer to call the hunky men from the Fire Service to perform any Front Room Rescues20:27
daftykinsit's a faaaaaaake!20:27
penguin42Azelphur: Weird, it looks sane20:27
Azelphurdiddledan: haha, it's the frontroom computer and I had to use ddrescue on the drive that failed20:27
diddledandaftykins: fake all the thangs!20:27
Azelphurdaftykins: if it's a fake...then this is big20:27
diddledanespecially the news!20:27
Azelphurbecause, I bought it from a maplin brick&mortar store20:27
daftykinshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qKcJF4fOPs20:28
diddledannice clip!20:28
penguin42Azelphur: Even the fakes I dont think fail like that, they just wrap around :-)20:28
Azelphurhehe20:28
diddledanI feel like buying the ST:E boxset20:28
daftykinsalso lul 'sudo' with root20:28
daftykinsmuscle memory :)20:29
diddledanlol, I missed that20:29
diddledanI do that a lot20:29
Azelphurdaftykins: haha, yea20:29
diddledanI like the incantation "sudo !!" for when I meant to sudo the previous command. makes me think I'm saying "SUDO DAMMIT!!"20:29
daftykinsthat's a thing for previous?20:29
diddledanyup20:30
daftykinsD:20:30
zmoylan-pii recently rewatched st:e for first time in a few years... it has finally grown on me20:30
daftykinsmeh i cursor up, home, sudo20:30
daftykins;D20:30
diddledanI keep using different systems with completely disparate keyboards so I never know where the home key is20:31
diddledanplus my mac doesn't have a single home key20:31
daftykinsthat's why they need to die in a fire20:32
Azelphurwell that's interesting20:32
diddledansome mac apps use fn-leftarra, others use cmd-leftarra, and yet others use shift-fn-leftarra, and more use shift-cmd-leftarra20:32
AzelphurI plugged it into my desktop and ran gparted20:32
Azelphurit says it'll fix it20:32
diddledanjim did that20:32
zmoylan-piyou need a nice big single button for those macro jobs... http://imgur.com/KHtFXem20:32
diddledanand then he apparently fiddled it20:33
daftykinsdiddledan: some of his fixes weren't welcome20:33
daftykinsmuch like gparteds :P20:33
diddledanlol20:33
diddledanI'm waiting for the parody song "Jim'll fiddle with you (and you, and you)"20:34
daftykinsAzelphur: surely just a quick zero to the start would start making things see sense...20:34
Azelphurmaybe, but then surely dding a raw image file is essentially the same thing20:34
daftykinsAzelphur: also how is it that you always manage to get wonky hardware situations like this? cursed you are!20:34
diddledan"and papa papa papa. just don't tell papa"20:34
Azelphurdaftykins: I think it's more that I buy a lot of hardware20:34
zmoylan-pi...or fishing hardware out of bottom of bargin bin...20:35
daftykinswell not really, because i do too for clients and never have anything like you do :)20:35
* Azelphur shrugs20:35
Azelphurdaftykins: the first SSD that failed was a Chinese cheapy SSD that people said was good20:35
Azelphurit was not good, it failed.20:35
daftykinsyou and your dodgy deals, oy20:36
Azelphurhehe20:36
zmoylan-pii made a lot of my hardware problems go away when i managed to steer my bosses away from cheapest hardware options...20:36
daftykinsthere we go, zmoylan-pi i'm assigning you to Azelphur for purchase persuasion :>20:37
zmoylan-piwhat brand is this new modem? uhhh.... ::flips box around a few times:: modem20:37
daftykins"you had me at AT"20:38
zmoylan-pisome of these modems wanted no truck with at commands.... :-/20:39
Azelphurhehe, there are some things I'll cheap out on, and some things I won't, depends what it is.20:39
daftykinsso is it showing the full size yet? :>20:41
zmoylan-pimy first rule was... if someone has to travel to backend of the country spend a few pennies extra and save a few extra trips20:41
diddledanyou see Wendell from Level1Techs on BoobTube made an old Hayes 1200bps modem into a computer which has an emulated modem connection to a raspi zero running various BBS archives?!20:41
zmoylan-pilink?20:42
* zmoylan-pi goes binging...20:42
* diddledan scurries off to find20:42
diddledanhttps://youtu.be/3j-Rb9u3EHc20:42
Azelphurdaftykins: I decided to try doing it from my PC20:43
Azelphurjust to see what happens20:43
diddledanI take offense at the suggestion that modem sounds are "horrible screeching noises"20:44
Azelphurlooks like it might be working on my PC :)20:47
daftykinswere you using a banana earlier?20:48
diddledannana!20:48
* diddledan like nana20:48
Azelphurwas using my home server20:48
zmoylan-pii was hoping he'd used the front leds for email, twitter, rss notifications :-)20:48
diddledanhttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/aa/BananaMan_Introduction_Shot.JPG20:48
Azelphurspeaking of my home server, I'm sure you'll get a kick out of my nagios alert atm20:49
AzelphurCRIT - 97.6% used (13.21 of 13.54 TB), (warn/crit at 80.00/90.00%), trend: +119.82 GB / 24 hours20:49
diddledanis it alarming?20:49
diddledanyou're using 13.2TB of storage?!20:49
Azelphuryep20:49
diddledaneven my *cough* legal movie rips aren't using more than 5 or 6TB20:50
Azelphurdiddledan: yea, we do have a lot of things, there are backups and stuff too on there20:50
AzelphurI've got another 5TB drive ready to go in the array, Dell Perc H310 in the post since I've used all my motherboards SATA ports now20:50
diddledanwhat FS or RAID are you using?20:51
Azelphurext4 raid620:51
* diddledan geeks-out20:51
Azelphurjust softraid, mdadm20:51
diddledanaah, I've got my 4x4TB running on ZFS20:51
diddledan4xz3**20:51
diddledan4x3**20:51
daftykins/dev/sdb1        22T  9.4T   13T  43% /media/array220:52
daftykinsnot a lorra growth there20:52
diddledangot a pair of 10GbE cards coming in the next week or two20:52
Azelphurdiddledan: yea, I hear you can't expand ZFS though20:52
Azelphurdiddledan: nice20:52
daftykinsooh funky, switch or are you going to save moneys with a direct cable?20:53
daftykinsoof amazon results for 10GbE NICs aren't promising20:54
diddledanyou can, but you need to plan ahead of time for how you expect to extend it - you add VDEVs which must be matched with those already in the pool you want to extend - so my 4x3TB disks are two pairs of mirrored VDEVs so to add more storage I can either replace one disk at a time with a larger capacity and resilver until each vdev is using the larger size, OR20:54
diddledanI can add further mirror pairs20:54
diddledanfor now I'm going direct connect20:54
diddledangot a pair of these coming: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Chelsio-10GB-2-Ports-PCI-e-Opt-Card-LP-Bracket-PCI-E-110-1088-30/351969892022?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140620091118%26meid%3Dc79f851eb96e441c81d1b103d86954c9%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D5%26sd%3D25277690103620:55
daftykinsmy my20:55
diddledanthey work with freenas ootb20:56
diddledanthat's the preferred brand for freenas20:56
daftykinswhat've you got with low profile slots o0 rack kit?20:56
diddledanI went with the same for my vmware esxi20:56
Azelphurwow, that's very cheap20:57
diddledanthey're really difficult to find with normal brackets :-( so I've got coming from france a pci-e riser ribbon cable20:57
daftykinsooh-err20:58
diddledanI did look for someone selling some kind of bracket that combines a pcie extension with a bracket to adapt a low-profile card into a standard slot, but nada20:58
daftykinsmm suppose it wouldn't just unscrew and come off looking at the style of connector on the reverse20:58
diddledanit's an SFP+ port on the back - fibre20:59
Azelphurdiddledan: could probably DIY something pretty easily20:59
daftykinsyeah, figured as much20:59
diddledangot transeivers coming from a separate purchase20:59
daftykinsi'd have been tempted to chop the slot top yeah XD20:59
daftykinstransceivers too!20:59
daftykinsalthough trans sieves are delightfully PC21:00
diddledanthe transeivers fit in the SFP+ ports21:00
diddledanyou can get a card with the transeivers for about £40-50 on ebay21:00
daftykinsjust teasing your spelling21:01
diddledanah. well caught21:01
* diddledan seives some transexuals21:01
diddledanand just to be fully compliant, some transvestites too21:02
daftykinsvery good, sir21:03
diddledanoh, I forgot the transisters21:05
diddledanspelign21:05
diddledantransistors*21:05
* diddledan sieves some transistors too21:06
diddledanMerkel's WTF face: https://twitter.com/SarahWoodwriter/status/842900666288812032/photo/1?21:58
daftykinsXD21:59
daftykinshave you seen the pic suggesting Trump is actually a squirrel hiding in a human suit?21:59
daftykinshttps://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/12/b4/23/12b42318e461025b7f0cb37eb056c435.jpg21:59
daftykinsoops delightfully family friendly link22:00
zmoylan-pionly if the squirrel believes it's a dog and gets distracted every time it sees itself...22:02
Azelphurwell, that drive dd'd successfully with its 99.9% from ddrescue and it boots and seems to work22:24
Azelphurcalling it a win xD22:24
zmoylan-pideclare victory and move on... tis the best way :-)22:25
zmoylan-pii think america has a mission accomplished banner you can get cheap :-P22:26
Azelphurgparted didn't recognise the swap partition as a partition at all, so I'm guessing the 0.01% loss was in the swap partition22:29
Azelphurwhich is useful22:30
* brobostigon reports, apparently his DM'ing was good, and all had fun.22:30
zmoylan-pino tpk?!22:30
m0nkey_Question for you guys, how's ZFS stability on Ubuntu right now?22:31
diddledanno idee22:49
diddledanpas d'idee**22:49
ali1234what's a good video editor these days?23:26
ali1234anything in the snap store?23:26
ali1234trying shotcut...23:29
diddledanadobe premiere? ;-)23:30
ali1234it doesn't work :(23:36

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