[07:28] <brobostigon> morning boys and girls.
[10:30] <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
[15:10] <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
[17:00] <m0nkey_> RIP Batman (Adam West) .. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40235142
[17:16] <Nokaji> okie, thanks daftykins
[17:47] <m0nkey_> Richard Hammond has done it again. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40234865
[17:48] <penguin42> m0nkey_: But that is the point of Richard Hammond isn't it?
[18:01] <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> ;)
[18:18] <brobostigon> new dr who, :)
[18:25] <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
[18:26] <DJones> I guess maybe the TARDIS eventually got a kernel upgrade
[18:27] <DJones> Guess thats what happens when you use Linux from scratch or Slackware :)
[18:28] <brobostigon> hehe :)
[18:30] <penguin42> DJones: But if it did get an upgrade 'at some point in time' wouldn't it have always been fixed?
[18:31] <DJones> penguin42: I'd agree yes in theory, although even the doctor seems to have past timeline issues
[18:32] <DJones> So maybe not
[18:34] <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
[18:43] <DJones> Ah well, as Charles Gray said, Life is an illusion - reality is a figment of the imagination
[19:11] <penguin42> CPC has 64% off 128MB DIMMs!
[19:16] <DJones> penguin42: Thats definatly and advert from the past
[19:18] <penguin42> DJones: No, it's in their current http://cpc.farnell.com/computer-office-bargain?ICID=Bargain-Computer-Office
[19:19] <DJones> Hmmh,  around £5.00 per dimm, that makes my scrap bin worth around £250
[19:50] <alptunga> Hello, i need some support but is this the right channel to ask? #ubuntu is not responding.
[20:09] <foobarry> alptunga: ask away
[20:09] <foobarry> might need to hang around a while for the answer though, but worth a try
[20:11] <diddledan> it's Saturday evening, so there's likely to be few around but we check in every so often
[20:26] <alptunga> I have ubuntu 7.10 installed but couldn't find source deb to install gcc. Anything in that matter, even ssh server.
[20:27] <foobarry> 17.10
[20:27] <alptunga> 7
[20:28] <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
[20:29] <foobarry> have we been here before?
[20:29] <alptunga> nop?
[20:29] <foobarry> there are compile options on gcc that might help
[20:30] <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
[20:31] <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/
[20:32] <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
[20:33] <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
[20:38] <diddledan> wait, the kernel in 7.10 is too old. yet you won't use a more recent release of ubuntu??
[20:40] <alptunga> modern release compiled code doesn't work on target system
[20:40] <alptunga> it is necessity, not preference :)
[20:51] <diddledan> what's the target system? I'd have thought a system that requires specific environment would provide an SDK
[20:57] <penguin42> this type of stuff can happen where you need the old build
[20:58]  * 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
[20:59] <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/
[21:00] <penguin42> diddledan: ah yes, it's the /ubuntu/pool I was missing on that
[21:03] <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 :-)