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AuroraAvenueMir isn't dead - just 'cos I have got the millions that it requires to work - doesn't mean the code 'expired'.01:05
daftykinssounds like a semantic argument01:06
AuroraAvenuesounds like I am talking to another gnomed person. oh well.01:07
daftykinsi run Windows actually01:07
AuroraAvenuefigures.01:08
daftykinsis there a particular reason you're trying to make this personal?01:08
AuroraAvenuebye pal. don't take it personally.01:08
daftykinsyeah please don't come back with this poor attitude01:08
AuroraAvenuelovely.01:09
AuroraAvenuebye.01:09
leftyfbpragmaticenigma: I'm sure they'll be removed at some point between today and tomorrow. They seem to think it's ok to repeat the same question every 3 minutes02:29
leftyfb"<fundies>leftyfb, i wait over 3 minutes every time"02:29
pragmaticenigmaI know, we've provided them with all they could possibly need. The answer was there the whole time... file a stinkin' bug report.02:31
leftyfbit's not a bug02:32
pragmaticenigmathey have a failure to understand how backports work02:32
leftyfbit's them refusing to accept "you are doing things that aren't support"02:32
pragmaticenigmabackports requires someone to backport it in the first place... that's why their not getting what they want02:33
pragmaticenigmaanyways.. .time for sleep02:34
pragmaticenigmanight all (or morning as some may be)02:34
Bashing-omNN pragmaticenigma - sleep well on job well done :)02:36
daftykins\o02:36
leftyfbok, I'm done. Seems to be a trend tonight02:43
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lotuspsychjegood morning to all04:11
Bashing-omlotuspsychje: WB :)04:13
lotuspsychjehey Bashing-om crowdy?04:15
Bashing-omlotuspsychje: A bit going on .. not a lot ..04:17
lotuspsychjecool04:18
lotuspsychjeand morning guiverc04:18
xangua10 pm here04:28
Bashing-om23:35 here .04:35
guivercsorry lotuspsychje; i'm not very observant (& howdy to everyone else I ignored?!!)05:44
lotuspsychjeguiverc: no sweat, we are used to long idles here05:49
lotuspsychjelife on nr1 then irc05:49
guivercyou're well & ready for your day?05:49
lotuspsychjeyeah06:13
ducassegood morning, everyone06:15
Bashing-ommorn'n ducasse o/06:16
ducassehiya Bashing-om - how are you? your session been busy?06:17
Bashing-omducasse: All well - considering - .. and yeah busy session .. got a dilly of one work'n now :)06:18
ducasseBashing-om: i can see that :) good you're kept busy ;) i've got to wake up a bit before i do anything, i think06:22
Bashing-omducasse: Coffee is good !06:24
ducassei used to drink coffee when i was working, but not anymore - now i get my caffeine from coke06:26
lotuspsychjehey ducasse06:30
ducassehi lotuspsychje - how are you today?06:34
lordievaderGood morning06:35
lotuspsychjefine here tnx ducasse06:36
lotuspsychjehey lordievader06:36
ducassehi lordievader - all going well?06:36
lordievaderHey ducasse lotuspsychje06:36
lordievaderDoing allright here, how are you guys?06:36
ducasseall well here, thanks - nice weather too. maybe a little snow will melt today, with some luck.06:38
Bashing-omTemp: 68°F (20°C) ~ Overcast ~ Humidity: 78% ~ Wind: From the ESE at 7 MPH ~ Alert: Flood Watch ~ Observed: Tue 27, 01:5506:49
lordievaderNice and warm there Bashing-om06:51
lordievaderHere is will be max 9 degrees.06:51
lordievader(celcius)06:52
ducassecurrently -4°C here, hoping for some improvement now that the sun is out06:53
Bashing-omducasse: Come on sun shine .. - I been cutting grass for a couple of weeks already - .06:56
ducasseBashing-om: fixed any of the mowers yet? ;)07:02
Bashing-omducasse: Nope ..  the big mowers ..on my do-to list .. been at it with the old human powered rotary mower :)07:12
ducassehuman powered is a pretty safe fallback :)07:17
Bashing-omducasse: No gas, no oil to worry with :)07:24
ducasseand no motors that fail on you :)07:28
lotuspsychjebbl work, have a nice1 guys07:30
Bashing-omducasse: and look at the good exercise that is provided :P07:32
ducasseBashing-om: hehe, exactly :) you'll be really fit now that you've stopped smoking(?) ;)07:33
Bashing-omducasse: smoking .. still a work in progress - but still holding !07:34
ducassetakes time, especially when you've been smoking for many years07:35
Bashing-omducasse: A nasty addiction . I have high hopes I will beat it this time .. ( I have made the attempt so many times ! )07:48
ducasseBashing-om: i plan to quit myself in the not-so-distant future, already got the patches to get me through the beginning07:50
Bashing-omducasse: I tried the patches .. did not work out for me ... I did cold turkey 'til O could not take it anu more .. now on a scheduled withdrawal .07:52
ducasseBashing-om: i've already started reducing my intake, so i smoke less than i used to. hopefully that will help some.07:53
Bashing-omducasse: I do 6 or less hits on a 2 hour schedule .. and tough that lasr 30 minutes out :)07:57
ducassemust be 2 lomg hours :)08:02
ducasse*long08:02
Bashing-omducasse: Amazing how long when you are watching that clock :P08:04
ducasseBashing-om: :)08:10
ducassehave you tested upgrading to bionic yet, or just done a clean install? thinking of upgrading my laptop today...08:11
Bashing-omducasse: No, on bionic I did a clean install . Still prefer 16.04 xfce .08:13
Bashing-omducasse: Ny mind is pretty set to do a core install of 18.04 and run xfce there also .. shame that xfce will not do wayland .08:15
ducasseBashing-om: yeah, they'd need to rewrite it for gtk3 and write a new compositor - basically a whole new de08:18
Bashing-omducasse: Uh Huh ,, not goung to happen .08:20
Bashing-omducasse: We will just have to wait and see how popular wayland becomes :)08:21
ducasseBashing-om: aiui a rewrite for gtk3 is underway, but i don't know how far they've come08:21
Bashing-omgtk3 has been forthcoming for a spell now . Us a pain to keep up with the proper engine .08:22
Bashing-omus/is*08:22
ducasse...and gtk4 is already on the horizon.08:24
Bashing-omwow ,, had not heard gtk4 .08:26
ducasseBashing-om: iirc work on it is supposed to start this year08:38
Bashing-omducasse: One thing for sure .. 'buntu is a fast moving target .08:40
Bashing-omNother thing for sure - well past beddy bye time .. Nighty nite .08:51
guivercFrox, what is your background (or how long had you been using windoze; how well did you understand what the OS did etc I think i'm asking; or how much do you want to know..)10:11
Froxguiverc, well at the moment i am a student who learns java (basic level e.g loops, arrays, etc) I have been using windows as far as I can remember10:15
guiverchave you tried youtube etc?  (to learn) - it seems popular (not my cup of tea really)10:15
guivercmy preferred method (as a student) would be libraries; go in and study anything about posix/unix/linux (all ~equal).. buying books is expensive; university libraries are the best imho...10:17
Froxyoutube is in my opinion not the best place to learn linux :p There are a lot of videos but I couldnt find a channel which has a good structure10:17
Froxand content for beginners10:18
FroxThe most channel I found had like 10 vids with different topics and that was all10:18
guivercbeyond the study (eg. books in libraries), ideally you want to find a group where you can ask questions (why is this? why does that work etc), even as a beginner I think uni.libs are great (most books are beginner level even there)10:19
guivercgroup - could be a group on social media (g+ or wherever you're comfortable); if you're using Ubuntu you could always come in here (#ubuntu for support questions about your Ubuntu)10:20
FroxDo you have any good books to suggest me?10:22
guiverclooking -- alas most of my books are old ... what do you want to do with your Ubuntu (or GNU/Linux)?10:23
guivercanother GREAT thing about GNU/Linux books - there are tons of PDF etc. books available for download & reading offline... eg. want to learn python? the book I recommend is "Dive into Python" which you can download free....10:24
FroxFirstly to learn how to use the terminal I guess :p10:24
guiverc(nah I won't look; too many to pick from) .. I'd suggest whatever books you find. I learnt unix in the mid-80s and can still use 75% of what I learnt then.  We used SH(ell), which was replaced by BASH (used today; a superset of SH) hence commands haven't changed much. Most of any GNU/Linux (eg. RedHat/CentOS) also applies in Ubuntu/Debian.10:28
guiverceven a apple mac uses BASH..  CSH is favored (C shell) by BSD's, but is still a superset of SH so mostly the same.10:30
guivercone book i like - "linux in a nutshell" (o'reilly), but its more a reference book, not tutorial...   I'd start by looking for free books available online (many titles are - many because of GPL license requirements)10:32
ducasseFrox: you can try this, most of it also applies to ubuntu: https://debian-handbook.info/10:35
ducassealso try the ubuntu server guide10:36
ducasse!server10:36
ubot5Ubuntu Server Edition is a release of Ubuntu designed especially for server environments, including a server specific !kernel and no !GUI. The install CD contains many server applications. Current !LTS version is !Xenial (Xenial Xerus 16.04) - More info: http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition - Guide: https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide - Support in #ubuntu-server10:36
guivercdon't forget the Ubuntu Manual (ducasse gave link in #ubuntu) - its for Ubuntu 16.04 but is pretty good for beginners (mainly gui from memory; I don't recall much terminal..)10:38
FroxSomebody suggested me this one before which looks interesting "Linux Command Line A Complete Introduction by William E. Shotts, Jr."10:39
ducassewhen it comes to unix books, anything from o'reilly is generally good, in my experience10:41
guivercit 'rings a bell' (sounds familiar) but I don't know it; i concur with o'reilly, but have many good books from elsewhere (i like books, have lots of em)10:42
guivercthought:  when trying to learn; set yourself a goal.  (eg. hello world program). to help writing a program, set yourself a purpose & code it. create a file of random chars (or grab a text file), sort it using term.  create a new file from it using only the 4-7th words from each line (or something.. ie. set a goal & work out commands to achieve it...)310:45
guiverc(my point was; rather than sit & wonder how to use it - set yourself some goal & use commands to accomplish it  my example maybe (extracting specific words) is pretty easy to do in sh/bash/..)10:46
guivercyou know the `man` (manual), `info` etc commands (they are really reference, rather than tutorial, some tutorial info exists in from memory; but its pretty basic..)10:48
guivercducasse, it's a shame the Ubuntu Manual won't be updated for 18.04 :(10:51
guivercFrox, maybe this is worth a scan https://askubuntu.com/questions/151488/what-is-the-best-way-to-learn-how-to-use-ubuntu-with-terminal10:55
guivercWilliam Shott's book is available in PDF format free online - download & read it (It looks like one I do have - I think my old copy is Unix Command Line) - buy a copy if you like it & want to support the author (if you can..)10:57
Froxguiverc, thank you for the link :)11:02
guivercYou're most Welcome..   You can come back with questions anytime  (if you get other people you may get better ideas too)11:03
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pragmaticenigmanacc, going to step into the frying pan with fundies?15:15
leftyfbrun away!15:17
pragmaticenigmaleftyfb, right? looking it at it... there is no documentation for installing travis-ci locally... so I have no idea what he was doing... travis-ci is meant to be used through their domain15:20
naccpragmaticenigma: last i checked, they just wanted help with backportpackage, at my suggestion15:21
pragmaticenigmanacc, they were looking for libgrpc-dev .. they weren't having any luck with the tool searching the universe repo15:34
kostkon!info firefox xenial15:37
ubot5firefox (source: firefox): Safe and easy web browser from Mozilla. In component main, is optional. Version 59.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 (xenial), package size 45183 kB, installed size 174332 kB15:37
kostkonnot yet?..15:37
daftykinsare you after .0.2 or something?15:38
kostkonyep15:38
naccpragmaticenigma: ok15:38
daftykinsheh version chasing :P15:41
kostkonadmittedly it's just that. most changes in .0.2 are bug fixes for windows15:48
pragmaticenigmanacc, I don't believe it exists in universe, but fundies became rather discontent with our answer of needing to file a bug report15:52
pragmaticenigmawhat's in .0.2 kostkon that is so aluring?15:53
daftykinsnothing, as was just said15:54
kostkonyep nothing15:55
pragmaticenigmaoh, missed that... mind is in a couple places at the moment15:58
naccpragmaticenigma: well, it does in 16.04 and on15:58
naccpragmaticenigma: seems particularly strnage to get tor, if you care about privacy, and then use a ppa to install it, which means you give some rando root16:24
daftykinsxd16:24
daftykins* xD16:24
nacci guess that's just my opinion, though :)(16:25
pragmaticenigmawhich is why I wasn't advocating it... I'm pretty sure many of us use Tor (I use it mostly to test my set from outside my network)... I was trying to find the documentation that discouraged using PPAs or installing into /opt16:26
pragmaticenigmacouldn't find it fast enough16:26
nacc!ppa says the unsupported bit16:27
ubot5nacc: I am only a bot, please don't think I'm intelligent :)16:27
pragmaticenigmaI know the tor-browser is included in Ubuntu's main repo... but it's almost always out of date16:27
nacciirc16:27
naccyeah16:27
lotuspsychjegood evening to all17:21
pragmaticenigmaevening? it's lunch time here!17:32
lotuspsychjepragmaticenigma: welcome to ubuntu timezones :p17:32
lotuspsychje19h3317:33
lordievaderUbuntu timezones... You know what we should do is fork a timezone and make it so that it is allways time for coffee... or beer...17:52
lotuspsychjelol17:53
pragmaticenigmait's 5:30 somewhere18:15
lotuspsychjepragmaticenigma: you lunch at 5h30?18:15
pragmaticenigmaI "lunch" at 1100 Central Prevailing Time18:26
kostkonin internet time please18:28
pragmaticenigmaat present it would be 1600 UTC during Dayling Saving Time18:29
pragmaticenigmaDaylight18:29
lotuspsychjenite nite all, tv time18:30
kostkonno, this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time18:30
kostkoni really need to change the battery in my swatch. it's like this one http://gadgetboy.org/archives/2012/7/15/its-time-to-bring-back-the-beat.html18:32
pragmaticenigmayeah, that was destined to fail when the time zone choosen wasn't GMT/UTC18:34
kostkonit was doa yeah18:39
pragmaticenigmaKind of like my3words is doa18:39
kostkonsame concept same outcome lol18:41
daftykinshrmm some Ryzen 2 numbers leaking out - https://videocardz.com/75504/cpc-hardware-amd-ryzen-7-2700x-review-goes-online#disqus_thread18:44
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pragmaticenigmaleftyfb, they're technically not wrong :-/23:03
leftyfbB.S.23:03
leftyfbguidelines aren't black and white23:04
pragmaticenigmaI dunno, the guidelines only mention channels, nothing about networks23:06
daftykinswhat're the commoners doing now? :)23:06
pragmaticenigmamoot point anyways, they got what they came for and hopefully move on23:07
pragmaticenigmaoh nothing special daftykins23:08
daftykins:/23:09
leftyfbNext time I'll answer them with a contradicting answer in each channel23:14
leftyfbthen when they call me out on it , I can point them to why it's a bad idea23:14
daftykinsoh you had a cross-poster? deal with it directly, simple23:15
leftyfbthey seemed to have thought that because it was across different networks that it was ok23:16
leftyfblike that makes a lick of difference to the reason behind not doing it23:16
daftykinswhat other network, Mint's channels or something?23:16
leftyfbEFnet, not that it matters23:17
daftykinswell i'd be curious the channel in the other place, so yeah it does23:17
daftykinsused to get Mint users lying that they run Ubuntu so they could get support23:17
leftyfbthe point is, you're looking for immediate help from several people at the same time while not devoting yourself to troubleshooting with either one of them. Also potential contradicting answers23:18
daftykinsyou don't need to preach to the choir, avoiding my questions is pretty annoying though23:19
leftyfbI answered your question immediately23:20
daftykins< daftykins> well i'd be curious the channel in the other place23:25
daftykinsi really hope this isn't how you guys are in #u23:25
leftyfb#ubuntu23:28
daftykinson efnet as well?23:29
leftyfbyes23:29
daftykinshrmm didn't know they had one, how rude!23:31
leftyfbI've been on there longer than freenode23:32
pragmaticenigmaIs the EFNet room officially by canonical? I would assume freenode is, since Canonical puts it as the default network in hexchat installs23:34
daftykinspretty sure it's only freenode23:34
leftyfbno, it's not official23:42
leftyfbbut it used to be a lot easier to get help there back in the day when freenode was just too busy23:42
leftyfbit used to be pretty active23:42
pragmaticenigmaah, okay23:43
pragmaticenigmawhats next for fun tonight leftyfb do ya think? return of fundies?23:46
leftyfbas soon as the hellstorm at work is over, I'm done for the night. My fingers hurt I've been working so hard today. And I'm supposed to be off this week to take care of my 3 month old who came home from the hospital for the first time this weekend23:47
naccpragmaticenigma: fundies has been getting help in #ubuntu-devel23:49
naccwhich was the wrong place to direct them to by whomever did, but it's fine23:49
pragmaticenigmaah, another cross posting :-(23:49
pragmaticenigmaoh, they probably found there way on their own... is it still the libgrc issue?23:49
naccyes23:49
leftyfbaww, we missed it23:50
pragmaticenigmafor reference was it possible to do the backport?23:50
naccpragmaticenigma: no, and they don't need to23:50
naccwell, i mean, yes it's possible, just difficult23:51
naccand they didn't want to do the necessary work, afaict23:51
pragmaticenigmayeah, we ran into the same problem  in main chat... alnong with not so nice things said about ubuntu and the volunteer help they were receiving23:53
naccpragmaticenigma: yeah, that continued too23:54
daftykinssounds like a delight23:55
pauljwheheh...23:56
pragmaticenigmaevery moment XP23:57

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