[06:07] <brobostigon> morning
[09:35] <zxmoypi> o/
[09:38] <Laney> _O_
[09:41] <brobostigon> \o/
[10:04] <gargoyle> *\o/*
[10:35] <zxmoypi> =^..^=
[11:16] <daftykins> morning gang
[11:25] <brobostigon> morning
[11:42] <daftykins> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/17/who_me/ not a bad one today
[14:55] <gargoyle> He he... Well I shall not be casting any stones. I remember exactly where I was when I discovered that oracle db version of MySQL's LOAD DATA IN FILE replaces the contents of the target table and does not append to it!
[14:56] <daftykins> :D
[14:57] <zxmoypi> it's the little differences.... /geek pulp fiction
[16:26] <zxmoypi> grrrr, i changed the res on a new system to rez the monitor can't handle and now i can't set it back...
[16:27] <daftykins> Pi or something else?
[16:28] <zxmoypi> xubuntu on a new hp mini desktop. an ancient vga monitor is all i have
[16:28] <zxmoypi> i can boot up and access disk via usb with generic install of xubuntu. thought i could delete a monitors.xml file as suggested online but no sign of it
[16:29] <daftykins> remind me to gift you the next free monitor i encounter :)
[16:30] <zxmoypi> i suspect i'll just get a cheapy one from argos. i kinda keep meaning to anyway. just annoying is all. i could wipe it and start again but the 300gb of files tranferred on would need to be done again :-)
[16:31] <zxmoypi> used to be when you changed rez it would autochange back after 30 seconds if you didn't say it worked ok. handy feature that :-)
[16:31] <daftykins> do you have SSH enabled?
[16:32] <zxmoypi> i didn't enable it
[16:32] <zxmoypi> hadn't gotten that far yet
[16:32] <daftykins> doh
[16:32] <zxmoypi> yeah
[16:32] <zxmoypi> i could just make it to argos before they shut if i limped off now... :-)
[16:32] <zxmoypi> o/
[16:33] <daftykins> good luck!
[21:26] <zxmoypi> huzzah, a little ctrl-alt-f1; a smidge of X :1 -configure ; and a final sudo cp xorg.conf.new to right location seems to have swung it :-)
[21:27] <daftykins> :D
[21:27] <zxmoypi> scribbles not in vim log for future prevention of wailing and gnashing of teeth :-)
[21:27] <daftykins> are you sporting a super shiny display with modern digital inputs and go-faster stripes now, then?
[21:28] <zxmoypi> nah, being a cheap sod i decided to wait and see if i could find a cheap hdmi monitor in charity shop in town that sells recycled pcs on friday when i will be nearby
[21:29] <zxmoypi> if that had of failed i would have tried a new monitor but only perhaps after trying to install a second xubuntu install and move data from wonky install to good install and then remove wonky install
[21:30] <daftykins> ah poking around from a live session would've been easy peasy!
[21:30] <zxmoypi> that's why i was trying the usb drive with live xubuntu i installed from to see if i could find the wonkiness
[21:31] <zxmoypi> of course searching online found many ways for different ?ubuntus and different versions.
[21:34] <zxmoypi> still easier than the time i got an out of memory message on excel in windows 3.1 days :-)
[21:38] <daftykins> yeah results are always from so long in the past that the wheel has been reinvented many times over
[21:39] <zxmoypi> and the names of all the major players have changed. just flip the mode access standby button.... the wha.....? the off switch! :-)