[06:50] <brobostigon> morning boys and girls.
[07:20] <knightw0rk> morning peepz
[07:20] <knightw0rk> hey brobostigon
[07:24] <brobostigon> hi knightw0rk
[07:27] <knightw0rk> how is it hanging today man
[07:31] <brobostigon> starting to write a business plan, doing some basic viability mathematics.
[07:32] <knightw0rk> aha going into business for yourself ?
[07:33] <brobostigon> maybe, hence i am calculating possible viability.
[07:57] <brobostigon> knightw0rk: i just did a calculation using the basis of average commercial property cost and other costs and need ro run a profit of £2016 to cover my basic costs.
[07:57] <brobostigon> per month*
[07:59] <knightw0rk> I know the dril :) this is your 'flotation rate'
[08:00] <brobostigon> yes, just to keep myself alive.
[08:00] <brobostigon> :)
[08:14] <knightw0rk> switching inbetween contracts , might be home for a couple of weeks so that "flotation rate" has been very much on my mind lately
[08:20] <brobostigon> i can imagine.
[08:26] <knightw0rk> We have some buffer and we also have our own clients for who we have running projects
[08:26] <brobostigon> thats good.
[08:29] <knightw0rk> yeah , but stil, a bit nervous
[08:31] <brobostigon> understandable.
[08:40] <brobostigon> i recalculated it, its infact around £2800pm.
[09:30] <zmoylan-pi> first world problems... https://scontent.fqlf1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/36189272_1909010842498120_9034126938750320640_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&_nc_eui2=AeF6MG2an2fxZcHf9ZxLKb2-0hH8jZp7sdghIini-kyK1TJg8qwXQYCIenupe6PV9AMuLffiEJ-Hb8Biy8nc7Iqwsvv5l2yk8HlzM0NX4_pLIg&oh=bf59772a0cbbb9235f2c0bc7e9891d89&oe=5BB27035
[14:26] <Riddell> popey: did you have an issue with the slimbook?
[17:35] <popey> Riddell: nothing significant, no. :)
[17:35] <popey> It's a great machine
[17:36] <popey> The only oddity was that it seemed to ship by default with power management off and wifi off. So when I close the lid, the battery died (it didnt suspend)
[17:45] <marshmn> hi all; anyone here use Google's Compute Engine etc?
[17:46] <marshmn> today it's not letting me boot my VMs saying that resources aren't available in my zone; but even trying another zone I'm getting the same message
[17:46] <marshmn> just wondering if others are having issues today too
[17:47] <marshmn> I'm not that familiar with Google Cloud TBH - I use AWS for most things like this
[18:07] <Riddell> popey: did you have to do anything to fix that?
[18:07] <popey> Riddell: click the blue box to enable wifi, click the blue box to enable power management :)
[18:07] <popey> So I consider it 50% pilot error ;)
[18:07] <popey> and 50% odd defaults
[18:08] <popey> I think the battery died 3 times with the lid shut before I realised what was happening.
[18:08] <popey> The slimbook 2 has a sleep (power) light on the keyboard, so invisible when the lid is shut, which is bizarro design, but not much slimbook can do
[18:08] <Riddell> I've reinstalled my slimbook 2 loads of time and never had that issue
[18:09] <Riddell> I wonder where it picked that up from
[18:09] <popey> odd, this was as delivered
[18:09] <Riddell> I'll talk with them at Akademy about it
[18:09] <popey> ok :)
[18:10] <popey> Riddell: btw, on another podcast (Big Daddy Linux) last weekend they asked me to suggest a distro to challenge them all to test. Naturally I suggested KDE Neon :)
[18:10] <popey> s/distro/iso/ ;)
[18:11] <Riddell> ooh a challenge
[21:56] <daftykins> diddledan: apparently you can has moneys \o/
[21:56] <diddledan> yey
[21:57]  * diddledan plans a splurge
[21:57] <daftykins> :D
[21:57] <daftykins> also managed to change their password on the site since it was a word featured on the site itself :( not too great
[21:57] <diddledan> eep
[21:58] <daftykins> probably had a hand in things being taken over last time
[21:58] <diddledan> maybe, yeah
[21:59] <daftykins> in other news how's this for a joke domain co, blacknight.com the Irish one
[21:59] <daftykins> "sir in order to transfer this .gg domain from another of our customers to you, we ignore the EPP code and ask that you ask the current holder to release it"
[21:59] <daftykins> nice job folks, so then once that bit is done...
[22:00] <daftykins> "yeah we don't have a DNS management transfer process, so what you'll have to do is ask the previous guy to cancel it - then you can add it and add the records manually - if you're quick there will be no downtime!"
[22:00] <daftykins> sweet 8D
[22:00] <diddledan> wat
[22:00] <diddledan> that's a bit nuts
[22:00] <daftykins> mmhmm :D
[22:00] <diddledan> "do it quickly" is not the answer
[22:00] <diddledan> .. to any question
[22:01] <daftykins> so to them, a transfer and ownership is solely who's paying at renewal time
[22:08] <daftykins> on all other things i won besides convincing my mate not to use technologies he doesn't understand how to maintain :D