| brobostigon | morning boys and girls. | 07:28 |
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| Nokaji | What I'd like to know is, - can I install a fresh copy of ubuntu on a new drive and then copy all vital configurations/proggies form my old drive - obviously I will have the log in name and password for the old | 10:30 |
| daftykins | Nokaji: well most is in your dot files under ~, so sure - just duplicate your home | 15:10 |
| daftykins | really you should be using a separate /home anyway so that you don't have this issue at reinstall time | 15:10 |
| m0nkey_ | RIP Batman (Adam West) .. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40235142 | 17:00 |
| Nokaji | okie, thanks daftykins | 17:16 |
| m0nkey_ | Richard Hammond has done it again. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40234865 | 17:47 |
| penguin42 | m0nkey_: But that is the point of Richard Hammond isn't it? | 17:48 |
| daftykins | now this is far more relevant than child like Hammond - http://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/814103/Andy-Cunningham-dead-Bodger-and-Badger-actor-cancer-age-67 | 18:01 |
| daftykins | ;) | 18:01 |
| brobostigon | new dr who, :) | 18:18 |
| DJones | Anybody know when the Doctor fixed his TARDIS so that it would go where and when he wanted? That was part of the mystery for me as a child, it was broken, wouldn't go where or when he wanted most of the time, writers seem to have completely forgotten this | 18:25 |
| DJones | I guess maybe the TARDIS eventually got a kernel upgrade | 18:26 |
| DJones | Guess thats what happens when you use Linux from scratch or Slackware :) | 18:27 |
| brobostigon | hehe :) | 18:28 |
| penguin42 | DJones: But if it did get an upgrade 'at some point in time' wouldn't it have always been fixed? | 18:30 |
| DJones | penguin42: I'd agree yes in theory, although even the doctor seems to have past timeline issues | 18:31 |
| DJones | So maybe not | 18:32 |
| DJones | Maybe the TARDIS doesn't operate in quantum spacetime (made up term as far as I'm concerned) so future changes can't be backdated | 18:34 |
| DJones | Ah well, as Charles Gray said, Life is an illusion - reality is a figment of the imagination | 18:43 |
| penguin42 | CPC has 64% off 128MB DIMMs! | 19:11 |
| DJones | penguin42: Thats definatly and advert from the past | 19:16 |
| penguin42 | DJones: No, it's in their current http://cpc.farnell.com/computer-office-bargain?ICID=Bargain-Computer-Office | 19:18 |
| DJones | Hmmh, around £5.00 per dimm, that makes my scrap bin worth around £250 | 19:19 |
| alptunga | Hello, i need some support but is this the right channel to ask? #ubuntu is not responding. | 19:50 |
| foobarry | alptunga: ask away | 20:09 |
| foobarry | might need to hang around a while for the answer though, but worth a try | 20:09 |
| diddledan | it's Saturday evening, so there's likely to be few around but we check in every so often | 20:11 |
| alptunga | I have ubuntu 7.10 installed but couldn't find source deb to install gcc. Anything in that matter, even ssh server. | 20:26 |
| foobarry | 17.10 | 20:27 |
| alptunga | 7 | 20:27 |
| alptunga | the ancient one | 20:28 |
| foobarry | i gotta ask why | 20:28 |
| alptunga | I have an ancient c code that i couldn't compile on current releases | 20:28 |
| foobarry | have we been here before? | 20:29 |
| alptunga | nop? | 20:29 |
| foobarry | there are compile options on gcc that might help | 20:29 |
| foobarry | otherwise if you are running in a VM, maybe you can get away with the dvd iso and install build-essential and openssh-server | 20:30 |
| foobarry | or a container | 20:31 |
| alptunga | hmm | 20:31 |
| alptunga | thanks i will give it a shot | 20:31 |
| foobarry | http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/7.10/ | 20:31 |
| alptunga | ye installed the vm from there. let me see if i can properly mount the cd :) | 20:32 |
| foobarry | or try an old debian install from similar era, | 20:32 |
| foobarry | going forward you might have better luck fixing the code :P | 20:32 |
| alptunga | I wasted 3 days on fixing the code. Need different approaches :) | 20:33 |
| alptunga | even when i compiled, it gave error "too old" | 20:33 |
| foobarry | with debian you can download a dvd release which would have loads of packages without need for online repos. although i'd expect build-essential in the ubuntu cd release | 20:33 |
| alptunga | as in kernel, not other way around | 20:33 |
| diddledan | wait, the kernel in 7.10 is too old. yet you won't use a more recent release of ubuntu?? | 20:38 |
| alptunga | modern release compiled code doesn't work on target system | 20:40 |
| alptunga | it is necessity, not preference :) | 20:40 |
| diddledan | what's the target system? I'd have thought a system that requires specific environment would provide an SDK | 20:51 |
| penguin42 | this type of stuff can happen where you need the old build | 20:57 |
| * penguin42 thought archive.ubuntu.com had the old stuff, but it looks like it doesn't - the debian one should | 20:58 | |
| diddledan | archive.ubuntu.com won't have 10 year-old versions that were supported for 9 months | 20:58 |
| penguin42 | what was the one that held the old pool though? | 20:59 |
| * penguin42 could swear there was something that did | 20:59 | |
| diddledan | http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ | 20:59 |
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| penguin42 | diddledan: ah yes, it's the /ubuntu/pool I was missing on that | 21:00 |
| penguin42 | it's normally because the newer gcc's pick up stuff that was previously junk in the old code that the old compiler had missed :-) | 21:03 |
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