| <mafitzpatrick> ...and is it a collaborative editing session back here? | |
| <LoudMouthMan> I will be making it available all day and seeing if I can sneak it under Jonos radar till 9 ! | |
| <mafitzpatrick> Ok, great. I'll take a look during the day tomorrow & early evening and see if there is anything I can help with. | |
| <mafitzpatrick> Thanks again for all the hard work. | |
| <mafitzpatrick> Goodnight all! | |
| <anti-net_> Im also going to hit the sheets, Night all | |
| <LoudMouthMan> there updated.. im going to update the minutes. | |
| * dsas looks at all the LoudMouthMan mail he's getting | |
| <LoudMouthMan> dsas .. sorry dude ! | |
| <LoudMouthMan> hey who provided me the smurf link ? | |
| <dsas> LoudMouthMan: The IRC logs? me | |
| <MattJ> We should get Bill Clinton doing some promotional stuff: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5388182.stm | |
| <MattJ> :D | |
| <LoudMouthMan> hmm, how can I embed stuff preformatted witout any other stuff added ? | |
| <LoudMouthMan> im a twiki wiki chap and I dont think my wikiness extends correctly | |
| <dsas> LoudMouthMan: I think {{{ CONTENT }}} | |
| <dsas> LoudMouthMan: I may be wrong though | |
| <LoudMouthMan> give the boy a gold star ,... spot On ! cheers man! | |
| <LoudMouthMan> hey dsas can you add me your amazing knowledge of wikiness and tell me why my meetingnotes link is not working ? | |
| <LoudMouthMan> https://wiki,ubuntu.com/UKTeam/MeetingNotes/ should link to my notes but it doesnt! | |
| <dsas> on which page is the link? | |
| <LoudMouthMan> above | |
| <LoudMouthMan> oooh i see it | |
| <binary2k2> the page you made has a lower case K in UK https://wiki,ubuntu.com/UkTeam/MeetingNotes/ | |
| <dsas> there's a comma in the address | |
| <binary2k2> amd the comma :P | |
| <LoudMouthMan> nah that was me typing it | |
| <binary2k2> this link works here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UkTeam/MeetingNotes/ | |
| <LoudMouthMan> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/MeetingNotes/20061113Meeting | |
| <LoudMouthMan> should be able to be linked from | |
| <LoudMouthMan> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/MeetingNotes | |
| <dsas> because the link starts with a number I think | |
| <dsas> or because a section of the link starts with a number | |
| <LoudMouthMan> ugger I cant catch a break with this wiki <grin> | |
| <LoudMouthMan> sorry im such a twiki user I cant break a habit | |
| <dsas> LoudMouthMan: I've surrounded the link with ["LINK"} | |
| <LoudMouthMan> thanks | |
| <dsas> You have to explicitly tell it, that it's a link for some reason. | |
| <dsas> LoudMouthMan: Am I ok to go through ApprovalApplication and wikify some of the links? | |
| <LoudMouthMan> dsas.. PLEASE ! | |
| <LoudMouthMan> I am very much a Blue Peter person.. i can do all the heres what we need to do stuff but I find its the people I work with who are the Heres one i made earlier producers who make it go from a cardboard tube to tracy island ! | |
| <dsas> heh, I'm more vise versa most of the time. | |
| <dsas> LoudMouthMan: I've wikified some stuff, it possibly makes the text seem awkward though (see the bottom of the page) | |
| <dsas> LoudMouthMan: Do we want a nested list beneath meetings? one bullet point being the lug thing, the other being the meetings | |
| <LoudMouthMan> sound good , and looks good | |
| <LoudMouthMan> cheers Dsas. | |
| <dsas> no problemo | |
| <LoudMouthMan> right im off .. | |
| <LoudMouthMan> laters people .. | |
| *** martin__ is now known as mafitzpatrick | |
| <chaddy> morning all | |
| <popey> morning ratfans | |
| <popey> lo | |
| <LoudMouthMan> hello | |
| <LoudMouthMan> whoops I forgot this autoloaded.hmmim off to work. | |
| <LoudMouthMan> down to hove to install ,. yep yet another netgear | |
| <LoudMouthMan> good meeting last night though I thuoght. though once we are rolling I think once a month will enough. | |
| <mrben> does anybody else here use the remote desktop/VLC regularly with Ubuntu? | |
| <popey> s/vlc/vnc? | |
| <popey> yes | |
| <mrben> oops ;) | |
| <mrben> have you had any problems with it in Edgy | |
| <mrben> because it keeps refusing my password | |
| <popey> nope | |
| <mrben> damn | |
| <mrben> it's really annoying, when I get to work and can't log in | |
| <popey> windows client to edgy server? | |
| <mrben> yes | |
| <mrben> tightvlc | |
| <mrben> tightvnc | |
| <mrben> dammit | |
| <popey> what vnc server? | |
| <popey> vino? | |
| <mrben> whatever the default in Ubuntu is | |
| <mrben> on the 'remote desktop connections' setting | |
| <popey> the one in System --> Prefs | |
| <popey> yeah, vino | |
| <mrben> yes | |
| <mrben> is there a way to reconfigure it on the CLI? | |
| <popey> well, you could always install vncserver and spark up vncserver | |
| <popey> separately from vino | |
| <mrben> true | |
| <mrben> but that seems a little excessive.... | |
| <mrben> interestingly, vncviewer and vncpasswd appear to be installed by default | |
| <popey> found the problem with that screencast by the way | |
| <mrben> will the vncpasswd program affect the vino settings? | |
| <popey> and re-recorded some of the audio - am uploading again now | |
| <popey> dunno | |
| <mrben> cool | |
| <gord> boo for mornings | |
| <popey> yay for coffee | |
| <Adam_screen> Mmm, coffee | |
| <Adam_screen> Morning all | |
| *** Adam_screen is now known as AdamBagnall | |
| <popey> hello AdamBagnall | |
| <AdonaiUK> hi all | |
| <popey> hello! | |
| <AdamBagnall> Hello AdonaiUK | |
| <AdonaiUK> hello AdamBagnall | |
| <AdonaiUK> hello popey | |
| <mrben> hello | |
| <popey> it's a veritable hello-a-thon | |
| <gord> pfft, too many hellos spoil the broth, and thus, ta-ta | |
| <popey> greet-a-thon sounds better | |
| <AdamBagnall> Just think, if this was Ubuntu-fr we'd have worn all our lipstick off with that much kissing | |
| <AdonaiUK> lol, you're right gord, sorry about that... | |
| <AdonaiUK> lol | |
| <popey> lol | |
| <mrben> lol | |
| <popey> hello! | |
| * popey decides not to start that again | |
| <mrben> :) | |
| <popey> You know the phrase "paper jam".. it makes me think of jars with red jammy paper in, not paper stuck in printers | |
| <AdonaiUK> :-) | |
| <popey> I think I have Eddie Izzard to thank for that | |
| <popey> Collegue: "Aaargh, paper jam!" | |
| <popey> me: "Oh really, yummy!" | |
| <mrben> lol | |
| <AdonaiUK> what flavour? | |
| <mrben> strawberry | |
| <AdonaiUK> love the orange one... | |
| <AdonaiUK> but nevermind, strawberry is ok for me too | |
| <popey> i think it would have to be strawberry, yes | |
| <AdamBagnall> Is there a raspberry one? | |
| <AdonaiUK> the majority wins, strawberry then | |
| <AdonaiUK> no AdamBagnall but we have a lovely blackcurrant one... | |
| <AdonaiUK> you fancy? | |
| <AdamBagnall> Ooh yes | |
| * AdonaiUK gives AdamBagnall a toast with blackcurrant jam.... Enjoy it!!! | |
| <mrben> to be honest, when it comes to eating, you want toast, with a big wadge of real butter, and some decent marmalade | |
| <mrben> I quite like Seville Orange marmalade | |
| <mrben> although lime marmalade is pretty good too | |
| <AdonaiUK> I agree | |
| <JD> morning | |
| * JD is surprised not to see any UK Debian developers in here | |
| <mrben> JD: the clue is in the channelname.... | |
| <mrben> ;) | |
| <popey> mattl is a debian developer isn't he? | |
| <JD> don't recognise him | |
| <AdonaiUK> JD: are you developer? | |
| <LoudMouthMan> Hello . | |
| <LoudMouthMan> So i have passed the page to jono and asked for his comments. | |
| <JD> AdonaiUK: maintainer | |
| <LoudMouthMan> Hey Pricechild | |
| <mattl> popey: i'm not a DD yet. | |
| <LoudMouthMan> hmmm do we have a) a lag or b) a split because this channel seems quiet. | |
| <GazzaK> hey LoudMouthMan morning | |
| <AdonaiUK> JD: ah ok, just curiosity... | |
| <AdamBagnall> LoudMouthMan: I think everyone's just lurking | |
| <PriceChild> Hello there | |
| <LoudMouthMan> ahh okay .. hehe | |
| <PriceChild> i don't think there's any split | |
| <PriceChild> #ubuntuforums seems about right | |
| <LoudMouthMan> yeah its just wierdly quiet then apparently random comments coming in . | |
| <LoudMouthMan> plugger <grin> | |
| <JD> AdonaiUK: if you care, I maintain irssi | |
| <LoudMouthMan> hmm, you see. | |
| <AdonaiUK> sorry, I'm not very familiar with English acro, what irssi means? | |
| <LoudMouthMan> irssi is not a abbreviation, but the name of an IRC client I believe | |
| <AdonaiUK> ah ok, ty | |
| <LoudMouthMan> thats okay | |
| <littletank> Hi just checking to see if have remembered | |
| <LoudMouthMan> hello Littletank. | |
| <littletank> hi be back soon | |
| <littletank> I am back | |
| <LoudMouthMan> ohhh kay ! | |
| <littletank> I am trying to learn the use of chat | |
| <littletank> having followed the instruction give recently | |
| <littletank> sorry given | |
| <LoudMouthMan> ahh excellent | |
| <littletank> my typing is slow and not as good as it might be | |
| <LoudMouthMan> okay , well in here we mostly type so fast we are also quite rubbish. so no worries about spelling | |
| <littletank> thanks that's encouraging | |
| <AdonaiUK> that's good to me too.... my spelling isn't so good | |
| <AdamBagnall> well ur gramma is ok u rembered ur 's | |
| <littletank> nice to know that I am not on my own | |
| <AdonaiUK> me neither hehe | |
| <littletank> now that I am satisfied that I can connect and use xchat it is time for me to go and try something else - cheers | |
| <LoudMouthMan> bye | |
| <LoudMouthMan> well that was pleasant. | |
| <popey> JD: \o/ irssi | |
| <AdonaiUK> yes, indeed | |
| <AdonaiUK> sorry, question (again) what NOC means? | |
| <AdonaiUK> nights on call? | |
| <JD> network operations centre | |
| <AdonaiUK> ahhh oki, tahnks a lot :-) | |
| <AdonaiUK> thanks* | |
| <popey> yay | |
| <popey> another screencast published | |
| <popey> http://quickones.org/Customising_Ubuntu_Desktop | |
| <LoudMouthMan> yeah! | |
| * LoudMouthMan just finished listending to HLR | |
| <binary2k2> somehow I screwed up my IRC vid, multicoloured pixles everywhere :( | |
| <popey> :( | |
| <binary2k2> i'm gonna have to re-record it now | |
| <popey> that's disheartening | |
| <binary2k2> that's the word i was lookin for :P | |
| <popey> i felt let down when my gaim ones audio screwed up and I had to record it | |
| <popey> re-record | |
| <PriceChild> quickly guys.. | |
| <PriceChild> waht does hdparm -d1 /dev/hda do? | |
| <binary2k2> enable DMA | |
| <PriceChild> Ok thanks | |
| <popey> the man page explains it quite well | |
| <PriceChild> i just wanted to check quickly it wasn't an evil command | |
| <binary2k2> if you see someone called kubuntu-user come in soon, you'll know it's me doin the screencast ok :P | |
| <popey> \o/ | |
| * popey will try to hold his farts in | |
| <LoudMouthMan> no thats no an evil command. evil commands usually start with setup.exe | |
| <PriceChild> ha ha :) | |
| <LoudMouthMan> that explains the hackergotchis then! | |
| <PriceChild> binary2k2: so nothing rude? :P | |
| * LoudMouthMan holds back on father ted quotes. | |
| <binary2k2> no, unless you want me to show the world how rood we all are :P | |
| <PriceChild> :) | |
| <LoudMouthMan> we rood ? you calling us Jar jars ? | |
| <binary2k2> i'm sure i ment rude there, but oh well | |
| <binary2k2> LoudMouthMan: that'll be wood :P | |
| <LoudMouthMan> hey no wood on channel ... hahah gotcha | |
| <LoudMouthMan> right . time to go do some chargeable work | |
| * flurble stabs JD | |
| <JD> flurble: that's not entirely nice | |
| * flurble stabs JD with a squishy purple thing | |
| <mrben> fnar | |
| <JD> flurble: still not sure that's much better :P | |
| <JD> anyway, isn't that mine? | |
| <flurble> *puppydog* | |
| <flurble> can I keep it? | |
| <kubuntu-user> hello | |
| <AdamBagnall> Hello kubuntu-user | |
| <kubuntu-user> how are you all? | |
| <kubuntu-user> ok then, I'm off. see you soon | |
| * AdamBagnall checks | |
| <AdamBagnall> I'm fine thanks | |
| <binary2k2> AdamBagnal: thanks for talkin to me :P | |
| <AdamBagnall> Hehe, screencasting again? | |
| <binary2k2> yep, how to connect to IRC with Konversation :D | |
| <binary2k2> next is, how to connect to IRC with Kopete :P | |
| <AdamBagnall> I guessed you were screencasting by the username | |
| <binary2k2> :P | |
| <binary2k2> no one's registered it so it's a good choice | |
| <popey> :) | |
| <popey> Hellooooo! | |
| * binary2k2 waves to popey | |
| <AdamBagnall> Argh, it's popey | |
| <popey> \o/ | |
| <sheepeatingtaz> Do we have to stand when popey enters the room, or was that just a rumour I herad ;) | |
| <sheepeatingtaz> *heard | |
| <popey> oi! | |
| <popey> leave it sheepy | |
| <popey> oh and welcome to HantsLUG by the way :0 | |
| <sheepeatingtaz> me? | |
| <popey> yeah, you signed up to the HantsLUG mailing list didn't you? | |
| <sheepeatingtaz> yeah, I was on the old one though aswell. It's the most technical of the mailing lists (that I've found, at any rate) so I find just lurking helps me out with the whole learnoing curve | |
| <popey> oh, didn't realise you were on the old one | |
| <sheepeatingtaz> I lurk on a lot of lists :) | |
| <sheepeatingtaz> gives me something to read on slow days like today | |
| <popey> what, arguments about debian and mozilla :) | |
| <sheepeatingtaz> well, that seems to be specific to today! | |
| <flurble> and yesterday | |
| <popey> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6144782.stm | |
| <popey> \o/ | |
| <popey> glad that story made the bbc | |
| <mrben> cool | |
| <sheepeatingtaz> a colleague showed me that this morning, I meant to pass it on but forgot | |
| <mrben> do we know dave mitchell? | |
| <mrben> wow - £55.23 | |
| <mrben> I was expecting it to be less | |
| <sheepeatingtaz> I wish I'd thought of it when I bought the laptop. | |
| <mrben> makes me wonder whether or not the Linux emporium is doing likewise | |
| <popey> I'll definately do it on the next machine I buy | |
| <mrben> and thus making a little bit of extra profit | |
| <popey> doubt it | |
| <AdamBagnall> I wish I'd thought of it too, although my laptop is a Lenovo from DABS, it might be easier with DELL as you're dealing with the manufacturer directly | |
| <popey> set yourself up as a vendor and the (IBM, DELL etc) will gladly sell you naked PCs | |
| <mrben> I think my wife would've revolted had I tried to get her to not have winxp on her laptop | |
| <popey> you need to sell a minimum number of them, but it's still not underhanded | |
| <sheepeatingtaz> Mine was from Tesco :) I didn't even boot into windows before putting Edgy on, just into the BiOS to make sure it would boot from CD first | |
| <popey> my wife had no choice | |
| <popey> I gave her debian initially, and now ubuntu | |
| <mrben> last version of Windows I paid for was the Win95 Upgrade boxset that I got 2nd hand | |
| <sheepeatingtaz> I'm trying to ween Lisa onto linux by lending her my laptop when she can't be bothered to go upstairs to use her computer :) | |
| <mrben> :) | |
| <mrben> heather was on an ubuntu desktop before she got her laptop | |
| <mrben> sadly she specifically asked for a copy of Office for her work | |
| <mrben> :( | |
| <mrben> it was a sad day | |
| <popey> http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpc.watch.impress.co.jp%2Fdocs%2F2006%2F1111%2Fps3.htm&langpair=ja%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools | |
| <popey> oooo ps3 guts | |
| <dsas> Now network-manager works with my laptop my girlfriend swaps between Ubuntu at mine and Windows at hers without a care | |
| <mrben> sadly for me, the edgy update seemed to screw up my wifi settings, and I haven't been able to get wifi back yet | |
| <mrben> :( | |
| <mrben> really need to get that fixed ;) | |
| * sheepeatingtaz hugs the intel chips in his laptop | |
| <mrben> it's annoying, because it had been working fine since warty | |
| <MAG_> does anyone know how to remove posts from launchpad support? I thought I'd try and help out by offering some advice, but my Out Of Office (boo!) triggered additional posts that I want to remove. Can it be done, or shall I just hang my head in shame for a bit? | |
| <mrben> and had network-manager working too, from dapper | |
| <sheepeatingtaz> I have to admit, I'm having a 'mare with the secret ubuntu installion I have on Lisa's PC that worked pre-edgy | |
| <sheepeatingtaz> with the wireless, that is | |
| <sheepeatingtaz> I just haven't got around to trying to fix it yet | |
| <mrben> sheepeatingtaz: wifi stuff is the most annoying to fix on a laptop, because you have to take it to a wired place.... | |
| <flurble> or stick a pcmcia wireless in | |
| <sheepeatingtaz> mrben, I'd contest that with lisas's desktop: it a great big beast that *had* wireless working on i, so was moved upstairs, and I don't have enough cable to wire it up to fix the problem. | |
| <mrben> sheepeatingtaz: sorry - my grammar was ambiguous | |
| <mrben> sheepeatingtaz: I meant that _on a laptop_ wifi is the most annoying to fix | |
| <sheepeatingtaz> ah, I see :) | |
| <mrben> rather than wifi being more annoying to fix on a laptop rather than a desktop | |
| <mrben> ;) | |
| *** DarkFlibb is now known as DarkFlib | |
| <loudmouthman> Afternoon all. | |
| <loudmouthman> I am rather cheekily coming to you from the server room of a clients. whilst i rebuild their payroll pc.! | |
| <loudmouthman> so i thought I would give irssi a roll | |
| <AdamBagnall> loudmouthman: Can you put me on their payroll <grin> | |
| <loudmouthman> AdamBagnall I could but youd actually have to work here and be on TimeMaster so i dont think it helps. | |
| <loudmouthman> i just read the irssi-manual.txt I love the way it ends at section 11 with , "I got bored of writting these so there is no more documentation here" | |
| <AdamBagnall> Damn. There must be *some* way I can get money for doing nothing | |
| <kikiwitch> hi | |
| <kikiwitch> adam? | |
| <AdamBagnall> Helloooooooooooooooo | |
| <kikiwitch> =) | |
| <popey> uh-oh | |
| <kikiwitch> we just drove past basingstoke | |
| <kikiwitch> | |
| <AdamBagnall> :-o | |
| <loudmouthman> Adam there is but first you have to bereally really rich | |
| <AdamBagnall> That rules that idea out then | |
| <AdamBagnall> kikiwitch: you should have come and rescued me from this terrible boredom at work | |
| <kikiwitch> =) | |
| <kikiwitch> we have to get to dorset | |
| <loudmouthman> popey why uh -oh ? | |
| <loudmouthman> oh .. never mind <grin> | |
| <AdamBagnall> Are you going to Dorset for your interview? | |
| <kikiwitch> no | |
| <kikiwitch> i got the contract | |
| <kikiwitch> starts monday | |
| <AdamBagnall> Wahey, well done | |
| <kikiwitch> :) | |
| <kikiwitch> ty | |
| <loudmouthman> So what is kikiwitch up to now ? | |
| <AdamBagnall> you dont want to know | |
| <loudmouthman> oh | |
| <loudmouthman> he | |
| <loudmouthman> i really really hate repairing windows ! | |
| <kikiwitch> irc on my phone :) | |
| <kikiwitch> im going on holiday | |
| <AdamBagnall> So that's why it's started raining today | |
| <kikiwitch> yeah | |
| <kikiwitch> why uh oh popey? | |
| <kikiwitch> =// | |
| <AdamBagnall> I think you've scared popey away | |
| * kikiwitch stops wasting her 3g data | |
| <kikiwitch> byeee | |
| <kikiwitch> xxx | |
| <AdamBagnall> byeee | |
| <loudmouthman> cutomers on phone . why do they repeat themsleves . despite me giving the answer... its bloody infuriating | |
| <loudmouthman> they say . oh the image on page x is wrong. so you say okay Ill look at that when im back at the office. they say its just the the page image is wrong. yes you say , you know and understand and will call them later. but the image says the customer at which point i press the special button on my phone which sends a special forehead slap at the customer to tell them to go away ! | |
| * sheepeatingtaz wants a button like that on my phone :) | |
| <loudmouthman> or how about the its really urgent you fix this clients who dont realise you need to get off the phone to fix it. so they hang on repeating themselves and interupting you which delays the fix to really urgent issue X | |
| <loudmouthman> sigh . | |
| <loudmouthman> I hate people and love crowds. im just a complex guy ! | |
| <loudmouthman> i am now officially in windows TIME | |
| <loudmouthman> where the status bar proclaiming 27 minutes remaining has sat for 14 minutes now as the flash screen scroll on by to tell me how wondeful XP will be | |
| <loudmouthman> sheesh we get stick when our free and open source software doesnt work well but I ask you who can I harass about this shoddy install mechanism eh ! | |
| <loudmouthman> putting up non moving status bars is about as smart as putting PTO on both sides of peice of paper. | |
| <GazzaK> I saw a funny thing like that on a toilet wall | |
| <GazzaK> one said had "for cubicle tennis look left" and the other side had "for cubicle tennis look right" | |
| <loudmouthman> <grin> | |
| <loudmouthman> meanwhile a small part of my soul and life is sucked into the inexorable vortex that is he unmoving "completing installation.. " status bar. | |
| <GazzaK> OMG it is flooded outside | |
| <loudmouthman> Gazzak where are you ? Holland ? | |
| <GazzaK> essex | |
| <GazzaK> the carpark is a few inches in water | |
| * loudmouthman whoops for joy as th CD spins up and the status bar moves to completed ! | |
| <GazzaK> loudmouthman~ kill it | |
| <loudmouthman> nah its done.. I think its a game of chicken with the OS install | |
| <loudmouthman> I think the developers deliberately dont move the status bar but change the text. You play chicken by deciding to leave it or reboot it ! | |
| <loudmouthman> welcome back pricechild | |
| <PriceChild> Thankyou | |
| <loudmouthman> ahh now its moved to "registering components" and again its time to play will it ? wont it ? with the install | |
| <loudmouthman> remind me again how this is a better product ? | |
| <loudmouthman> gazzak. are you standing in a carpark whilst chatting online ? | |
| <loudmouthman> oh I know how you do it. you wrote some code and just used Floats ! | |
| <GazzaK> loudmouthman~ no, sorry, I know i'm a bit odd and all that, but no, I am in my office | |
| <loudmouthman> So what do you do then ? | |
| <GazzaK> hide mostly | |
| <GazzaK> if I fail at hiding, I fix computers | |
| <loudmouthman> in essex ? in the rain ? | |
| <GazzaK> erm... | |
| * GazzaK spanks loudmouthman for being silly | |
| * loudmouthman checks the channel is #ubuntu-uk and not #whiplash | |
| <loudmouthman> remember the safe word is bananas | |
| <GazzaK> damn you tease, there is no such channel | |
| <loudmouthman> there could be but I cant be arsed to work out how to do multiple windows in irssi-text | |
| <GazzaK> hehe | |
| <loudmouthman> right lets see if this has worked. | |
| <loudmouthman> aaaaargh its still logging the userin then straigh back out ! | |
| <GazzaK> format it first then loudmouthman | |
| <GazzaK> did you just try a install onto of an install? | |
| <GazzaK> s/onto/ontop | |
| <loudmouthman> fuck fuckity fuck fuck duck fuck fsck . why cant they et me switch to a console and fix it in at command line ! | |
| <loudmouthman> yes on account of having restored to the new hardrive ( drivesnapshot ) the machine is just not logging in any users ! | |
| <loudmouthman> and rebooting to safe mode gets me the same! | |
| <loudmouthman> aaaaaargh this is all text book msce stuff and it doesnt fix it.. | |
| <loudmouthman> right thats its im puttin ubuntu . codeweaver and sage on this machine at least I know that will workd | |
| <GazzaK> just do a reinstall from scratch, why did you not want to do that before? | |
| <loudmouthman> it looks like each users .DAT reg file is corrupted some way | |
| <GazzaK> use a hammer? | |
| <GazzaK> that works for me | |
| <loudmouthman> we cant locate the sage payroll software and drivers for the machine | |
| <GazzaK> haha | |
| <GazzaK> <sorry> | |
| <loudmouthman> no probs | |
| <GazzaK> whose responsibilty is it to keep control of software? | |
| <loudmouthman> the previous inedequete clients support companay | |
| <GazzaK> there we go, make them buy it again | |
| <GazzaK> sue the previous support company | |
| <loudmouthman> thats not exactly a fix for now though is it .. and its really windows fault for not having better devicemanager capabilities. | |
| <GazzaK> sorry, but I hate sage, and I try to do anything possible to make it so any apps and the like here can just be reinstalled no issues | |
| <GazzaK> even notes is easy compared to sage stuff | |
| * GazzaK runs away from 'puter at mention of sage payroll software | |
| <loudmouthman> yes thats what myother clients get. its called a LOG BOOK <grin> or SiteLog. but most other support companies never bother | |
| <loudmouthman> they just wing it | |
| <loudmouthman> time to advise them to buy Sage Online . Online50 | |
| <loudmouthman> ahh this is better | |
| <loudmouthman> now I can log in bu the activate windows window is hanging | |
| <GazzaK> we run ghost here, it is great as I can "rebuild" a machine in five minutes | |
| <loudmouthman> brb | |
| <loudmouthman> back | |
| *** anti-net is now known as anti-net_ | |
| <anti-net_> hey all | |
| *** AdamBagnall is now known as Adam_screen | |
| <Adam_screen> Home time :-) Bye all | |
| <anti-net_> cya Adam | |
| <mrben> bye | |
| <popey> moo | |
| <anti-net_> you sound like my mother popey | |
| <popey> o_O! | |
| <anti-net_> moo, cow, mother = cow | |
| <popey> harsh | |
| <anti-net_> But true, I am no liar | |
| <anti-net_> so whats going to happen with the Approval Application, im pretty new here so I don't quite understand how it works, Is jono going to look over it and see if Ubuntu-UK is ok to be Approved? | |
| <popey> that's how I understand it | |
| <loudmouthman> yes .. though .. theres been much jono silence recently | |
| <anti-net_> do they base our application on how much we'd added to the community and such like? | |
| <loudmouthman> ive passed it to jono to okay and were kinda late if jono doesnt get to it today. its more likely he will come back with corrections which will need to be acted upon. if not though he may decide to take it forward | |
| <loudmouthman> frankly though id love to have had some input from Melissa Draper but ive not heard a peeep from the other side of the world! | |
| <anti-net_> who is Melissa Draper? | |
| <loudmouthman> UKTeam Leader for Aus | |
| <anti-net_> ah ok | |
| <popey> phew | |
| <loudmouthman> pugh | |
| * popey finally manages to unbork the screencasts that were borked | |
| <mrben> \o/ | |
| <popey> tell me about it :) | |
| <popey> painful when you have to transcode on the only linux machine in sight - a 1GHz celeron | |
| <anti-net_> thats gotta hurt | |
| <andy101> popey: is it audi and video in sync now? | |
| <popey> yes | |
| <andy101> s/audi/audio | |
| <loudmouthman> grrr bloody windows activation bug. it logs you out before it logs in enough to run the windows activation program. | |
| <loudmouthman> you had a day off today then popey ? | |
| <anti-net_> I don't know if you guys have seen this, but it made me chuckle: http://www.msfirefox.com/ | |
| <PriceChild> yeah | |
| <PriceChild> is that the one with the mars landings or something like that? | |
| <anti-net_> no its a firefox "fork" made by "microsoft" | |
| * DarkFlib wonders why mark shuttleworth publishes his phone number in lectures that are being recorded and made availible on google video... doesn't he find that it gets abused | |
| <DarkFlib> ? | |
| <loudmouthman> call him and ask ? | |
| <popey> i would expect it doesn't get abused | |
| <DarkFlib> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1165754797197197496 | |
| <DarkFlib> there are always some people with no sense | |
| <DarkFlib> 51:37 is the time index | |
| <popey> i ahve already seen that video :0 | |
| <popey> :) even | |
| <loudmouthman> heheh jst had to do the Windows activation phone confirmation. and have a pissing match about Certificates of Authenticity. I won yay! | |
| * popey is glad he doesn't have to do that kind of stuff | |
| <DarkFlib> loudmouthman: congrats... they don't back down easily | |
| <anti-net_> hmm yes congrats, its not easy fighting with microsoft, they have lawyers, and call centers :o | |
| <loudmouthman> well Its a HP oem machine and OEM installid on the box. so its the same cpu and the same hd its just reinstalled using their repair technique . but ive got some thing to blogwhinge about now. | |
| * anti-net_ is so glad he does't own a windows box | |
| <loudmouthman> yeah and I have conference dial in heheh so I had HP customer services on the other line and a call to my legal beagle. | |
| <loudmouthman> it was almost a news story :-( | |
| <loudmouthman> but thanks.. its taken 4 hours to rebuild and recover this box. | |
| <anti-net_> we should send some of our Ubuntu-UK Army, armed with Ubuntu CDs to the MSHQ in the UK at about 5:30 to hand out CDs | |
| <loudmouthman> if it had been any other non Genuine Advantage crippled system it would have been quicker | |
| <DarkFlib> that could be a nice publicity event | |
| <anti-net_> I'll do it | |
| <loudmouthman> sound like fun . | |
| <loudmouthman> im in . | |
| <anti-net_> im use to getting hit in the face by MS folk | |
| <loudmouthman> but lets pick the Vista UK Launch day | |
| <DarkFlib> If I was local, I'd do it | |
| <anti-net_> DarkFlib, theres things called Trains :) | |
| <DarkFlib> no money currently | |
| <DarkFlib> :( | |
| <loudmouthman> why would trains want a ubuntu disk ? | |
| <anti-net_> Heh | |
| <anti-net_> you know what I ment | |
| * loudmouthman does happy dance as machine reboots and logins and starts okay for third time. | |
| <andy101> maybe they want to be more reliable, they can't get much worse, darn trains | |
| <loudmouthman> from tracks to launch pads.. hey its virgin intergalactic rail | |
| <loudmouthman> right im off home I'll see you lot online laters. | |
| <DarkFlib> k..later dude | |
| <anti-net_> hmm I gotta head off to my A+ class in a bit | |
| <DarkFlib> got a lot of A+ tuition material here | |
| <anti-net_> apartly its all changed this year | |
| <anti-net_> according to my lecture | |
| <DarkFlib> they can't change too much | |
| <DarkFlib> but yeah... there are significant changes | |
| <DarkFlib> could drop 15% from what I was told | |
| <anti-net_> learning the stuff is easy, problem is (from my expenerice,) they ask strange questions in exams to catch you out | |
| <anti-net_> they did that in my GCSEs atleast | |
| <anti-net_> you'll be going along quite happily in maths and they slid in an english question :) | |
| <DarkFlib> I passed on General Studies A Level even tho it was 50% Social Science stuff and I had no knowledge in that stuff | |
| <DarkFlib> I'm okay at taking ball park guesses and being accurate | |
| <andy101> everyone passed general studies | |
| <DarkFlib> not on the exam I did | |
| <anti-net_> the course im currently doing at college does't have any exams, just code code code code :) | |
| <DarkFlib> I got a B... many came out with D,E or N even | |
| <DarkFlib> but that was over 10 years ago now... | |
| <DarkFlib> they messed the exams about a lot back them | |
| <DarkFlib> and they are still doing so | |
| <anti-net_> yeah | |
| <anti-net_> thats why I didnt do A-levels | |
| * andy101 thinks I got a C, but seems none of my University choices accepted general studies I didn't really bother with it | |
| <anti-net_> im off, bye bye! | |
| <popey> o/ | |
| <DarkFlib> night | |
| <DarkFlib> gonna eat dinner and chill for a bit | |
| <LoudMouthMan> Evening all | |
| <AdamBagnall> Evening LoudMouthMan | |
| <chaddy> gah, nvidia driver has ceased operations, /me sees a long night of woe ahead | |
| <DarkFlib> the nvidia driver has quite a few bugs, main reason I can't move onto linux full time atm | |
| <DarkFlib> only my workstation left | |
| <X3N> DarkFlib: what do you do that you can't do ? | |
| <DarkFlib> just a few little bugs here and there... I gave you for now... | |
| <DarkFlib> filed the bug reports on the beta driver.... probably try again when I have time | |
| <DarkFlib> gave up | |
| <DarkFlib> even | |
| <DarkFlib> trying to multitask too much | |
| <DarkFlib> my mental threads are over writing each others data... | |
| <DarkFlib> :P | |
| <X3N> where is MS uk headquaters ? | |
| <X3N> *are | |
| <DarkFlib> it was just stuff that people would rarely need unless they were doing 'edge' stuff | |
| <grifferz> reading isn't it? | |
| <DarkFlib> checking | |
| <X3N> they do have some big offices in reading | |
| <X3N> yeah it is | |
| <X3N> RG6 1WG | |
| <DarkFlib> wokingham, reading | |
| <DarkFlib> RG4 and RG6 | |
| <DarkFlib> google maps knows | |
| <X3N> I doubt there would be any press there though | |
| <DarkFlib> just off the A4 | |
| <DarkFlib> invite press... | |
| <DarkFlib> and take pictures of it anyway | |
| <DarkFlib> make them availible to interested people | |
| <mattl> chaddy: nvidia driver ceased operations? | |
| <DarkFlib> hmmm... 3 hour train ride to wokingham from Leicester | |
| <DarkFlib> Leicester -> London St Pancras -> London Paddington (Tube) -> Reading -> Wokingham | |
| <DarkFlib> hmmm £49.50 Saver Return | |
| <X3N> heh | |
| <X3N> i'm just west drayton -> reading | |
| <X3N> well, bus/cycle from uxbridge | |
| <DarkFlib> National Express £15.60 Leicester -> Oxford... then local transport by the look of it... | |
| <chaddy> mattl: it's ok, I just hadn't rebooted since messing about with it, getting a legacy driver now | |
| <X3N> oxford to reading is about 20mins | |
| <DarkFlib> and companies keep wanting me to commute to Reading every day... | |
| <DarkFlib> roflmao | |
| <DarkFlib> if they aren't willing to assist in helping me reloacate.... its pointless even considering it until I have transport again | |
| <mattl> chaddy: what version of nv do you have? | |
| <chaddy> was 8774 | |
| <mattl> hm. are you using the non-free one? | |
| <DarkFlib> maybe I should take a job and take a tent down with me for the week | |
| <chaddy> yes, I'm naughty that way | |
| <mattl> :O | |
| <chaddy> gives me grist for angry emails to corporate scumbags | |
| <mattl> just get a mobile phone contract. | |
| <popey> moo | |
| <AdamBagnall> baa | |
| <chaddy> µ | |
| * popey wonders if it's coincidence that someone else in here has had problems today with the nvidia driver | |
| <popey> just stopped working yesterday when i rebooted | |
| * popey switches to the packaged driver rather than the beta one | |
| <chaddy> I'm generally having a worse time of it since edgy was released than I was when it was in beta | |
| <chaddy> hardly getting any time to mess with it at the moment, either, which is frustrating | |
| <LoudMouthMan> popey coincidence.. possibly . mind you ive had two clients in twodays who have had USB cables which caused the machines to crash, and ive never seen that either. so if anyone has met a supermodel recently then im keeping my fingers crossed for tricia helfer visiting Gatwick. | |
| <AdamBagnall> I'm using the latest stable nvidia drivers from deb http://albertomilone.com/drivers/edgy/nonlegacy/32bit binary/ and I've had no problems. | |
| <chaddy> I wonder if they have 64bit ones... | |
| <AdamBagnall> I think so | |
| <dsas> hallo all | |
| <AdamBagnall> Evening | |
| <LoudMouthMan> hey Dsas | |
| <chaddy> deb http://albertomilone.com/drivers/edgy/nonlegacy/64bit binary/ <--coo | |
| <AdamBagnall> Evening tsmithe, How's the coursework? | |
| <tsmithe> done! woop! | |
| <tsmithe> 4300 ish words | |
| *** tsmithe is now known as I | |
| *** tsmithe_ is now known as tsmithe | |
| *** tsmithe is now known as Y | |
| *** Y is now known as tsmithe | |
| <chris> ? | |
| <chaddy> lo chris | |
| <chris> Just wondering if there is anyone out there.. :-) | |
| <chaddy> oh, yes, there's heaps of us | |
| <chris> Argh... I cant keep up with reading all the conversations ;-) | |
| <tsmithe> im here too! | |
| <chris> Hi there | |
| <tsmithe> yo1 | |
| <tsmithe> ! | |
| <tsmithe> even... | |
| <chris> Just wondering if anyone has got VPN working with M$ networks? | |
| <tsmithe> the civil service? | |
| <tsmithe> well, they do.. | |
| <littletank> Hi - what is the topic set by LoudMouthMan? | |
| <littletank> Ah, I get it. Is it the welcome message? | |
| <grifferz> sort of. the channel topic is displayed on join | |
| <tsmithe> "/topic" | |
| <littletank> OK, do I assume that everyone has upgraded to Edgy? | |
| <grifferz> I'm still using breezy | |
| <tsmithe> why!? | |
| <LoudMouthMan> Well yes a welcome message , thanks for reading it by the way, and a sort of current topic and trend message place | |
| <grifferz> because if it's not broken don't fix it | |
| <LoudMouthMan> yes im still on dapper here. | |
| <LoudMouthMan> Edgy makes me edgy but I may feel frisky for fiesty what with its once click get it down dirtiness. | |
| <littletank> I will stay with Dapper until I am confident about changing. | |
| <tsmithe> stay with dapper | |
| <littletank> Thanks for the short chat - bye for now | |
| <tsmithe> wow that was strange... someone not forever on here! | |
| <popey> oi! | |
| * popey is installing edgy on another partition | |
| * popey is somewhat miffed at the nvidia drivers | |
| <anti-net_> Evening all | |
| <popey> lo | |
| <X3N> what are you up to popey ? | |
| <popey> getting annoyed | |
| <X3N> that doesn't sound much fun | |
| <anti-net_> due to nvidia drivers? | |
| <popey> yes | |
| <anti-net_> try them on Windows, then they seem easy | |
| <popey> shutup | |
| <popey> i don't use windows | |
| <anti-net_> Yes sir | |
| <popey> :) | |
| <anti-net_> ....wanknut | |
| <popey> ooohkay | |
| <anti-net_> :P | |
| <X3N> bitch fight | |
| <popey> not in the mood tonight :( | |
| <anti-net_> and im to weak.... | |
| <popey> had mobo, both video cards and psu replaced today in pc | |
| <popey> so i had to move it so engineer could do all that | |
| <popey> (warranty) | |
| <popey> now I flat can't get it to boot to x | |
| <popey> i can get the shitty nv driver to work but it's awful | |
| <popey> meh | |
| <dsas> you're trying to get binary drivers to work? | |
| <popey> i previously had them working | |
| <popey> until i powered down last night | |
| <X3N> are these the beata ones ? | |
| <popey> rebooted to have a deceint system for the engineer to test | |
| <popey> yes | |
| <popey> er | |
| <popey> no | |
| <popey> both | |
| <popey> :) | |
| <popey> tried latested released and the beta ones | |
| <popey> it was running fine yesterday | |
| <popey> am installing edgy on another partition right now (talking to you from the live cd) | |
| <popey> so i can test it to make sure I am not mad | |
| <X3N> must have been some updates that hadn't have been applied maybe ? | |
| <popey> pass | |
| <popey> i am up to date | |
| * dsas does the binary drivers are evil dance | |
| <X3N> I mean applied by rebooting ? | |
| * dsas hides | |
| <popey> oh i see | |
| <popey> yeah, it's been up for a week or so | |
| <popey> could well be but I don't recall a kernel or related driver update | |
| <dsas> i've not had any edgy kernel/X updates yet. | |
| <popey> well exactly | |
| <X3N> I have but i've not installed them | |
| <popey> right, reboot time | |
| <X3N> these are pending upgrades on my edgy system: | |
| <X3N> The following packages will be upgraded: info libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libavahi-glib1 libimlib2 libmagick9 libpq4 librpm4 linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17-10-generic linux-restricted-modules-common nvidia-glx rpm | |
| <X3N> those restricted modules and the nvidia glx might be something to do with it | |
| <popey> \o/ | |
| <popey> booted to a clean edgy install | |
| <popey> here's a wieredy | |
| <anti-net_> :D | |
| <popey> the install (that is broke) on /dev/sda hangs on boot, this one doesn;'t | |
| <popey> (on /dev/sdb | |
| <popey> the difference being that this install was just done from a final release of edgy, and the other one was a dapper install that was tracking edgy from about mid september | |
| * popey is now somewhat happier | |
| <popey> although now I need to move all my stuff over | |
| <popey> and will of course try the nvidia-glx driver | |
| *** tsmithe is now known as odin | |
| <popey> also worth noting | |
| <popey> the other install must have been really badly broken because cpu frequency scaling didn't work | |
| <popey> now it does | |
| *** odin is now known as zeus | |
| *** zeus is now known as jupiter | |
| <popey> oi! | |
| <popey> jupiter | |
| <jupiter> hi | |
| <popey> stoppit | |
| <jupiter> sorry - smiting | |
| <popey> hehe | |
| *** jupiter is now known as tsmithe | |
| <popey> a likely excuse | |
| <tsmithe> indeed: that's why i had to be a few gods | |
| <popey> clearly | |
| <tsmithe> so it is in fact likely | |
| *** tsmithe is now known as pharoh | |
| <pharoh> and now im pharoh | |
| *** pharoh is now known as pharaoh | |
| *** pharaoh is now known as tsmithe | |
| <anti-net_> don't you just hate it when people chage there nick loads | |
| <tsmithe> i was busy smiting | |
| <LoudMouthMan> yes its almost as rude as point out peoples failings publically ! | |
| <tsmithe> i dont really see why | |
| <LoudMouthMan> he said with a not to ironic grin | |
| <LoudMouthMan> tmsithe. dont ! move away from the topic. | |
| <tsmithe> people often point out my failings publicly | |
| <anti-net_> I will, but im an evil evil evil little child | |
| <LoudMouthMan> tmsithe. if I could have a word prvtly im happy to explain <grin> | |
| <LoudMouthMan> yes but its not Ubuntu . | |
| <LoudMouthMan> and even saying that is not Ubuntu .. so thats a conundrum | |
| <LoudMouthMan> okay so .. no jono all day ! | |
| <LoudMouthMan> and no response to emails ! | |
| <anti-net_> thats not good for our application | |
| <LoudMouthMan> no its not ..especially since theres no alternative or awareness of forwarding. | |
| <anti-net_> has't it got to be in by the 17th as a limit tho? | |
| <tsmithe> what in by 17th? | |
| <dsas> i'm sure he'll be fairly busy - he's still in SF at the confrence is he not? | |
| <anti-net_> Not sure | |
| <anti-net_> he said (i think) he was there for a week or so | |
| <LoudMouthMan> right .. im going to track down a SF team member and get them to print it out then . back in a bit. | |
| <dsas> there's a canonical conference for the entirety of this week yes. | |
| <anti-net_> hes properly out enjoying some of the intresting parts of SF ;) | |
| <grifferz> castro? | |
| <LoudMouthMan> yeah Billy was teasing me about it ! | |
| <popey> AdamBagnall: you aobut? | |
| <LoudMouthMan> blimey I think one by one Ubuntu members are disappearing. | |
| <popey> from? | |
| <popey> the planet? | |
| <LoudMouthMan> popey you sure this isnt some ship in a bottle and were all figments of your screencasts ? | |
| <popey> Muhahahahahaaaaaaaa | |
| * popey farts on ubotu | |
| <LoudMouthMan> as you re run them the list gets smaller and smaller until eventually an annoying young starfleet cadet wannabe will.. wait no .. that does work.. Tony looks terrible in spandex | |
| <popey> WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH | |
| <popey> star trek reference at warp factor 9 over my head | |
| <LoudMouthMan> yeah . | |
| <LoudMouthMan> right. | |
| <LoudMouthMan> you can quote wopr and shall we play a game . .but ST .. to geeky ? | |
| <popey> my computer hostnames are named after computers | |
| <anti-net_> ST is pretty geeky, espically if you got thos pointy ear addons for your own years | |
| <popey> the one I am sat at is called WOPR :) | |
| <anti-net_> ears* | |
| <LoudMouthMan> you sir do not have enough cultural refernce in your diet ! | |
| <popey> st != culture IMO | |
| <LoudMouthMan> hey anything is a culture. | |
| <popey> i have never been a fan of st | |
| <popey> it's too cheap | |
| <LoudMouthMan> if you leave it in the sun long enough | |
| <anti-net_> IRC is a culture, the worst kind :-) | |
| <LoudMouthMan> hmm to be clear im no "fan" im more Westwing and firefly . | |
| <LoudMouthMan> but a healthy dose of geek culture mixed with Keven Smith, Free Enterpise and the gilmore girls goes a long way to resetting my social batteries. | |
| <dsas> I thought that said Westwood upon first glance | |
| <LoudMouthMan> dsas theres a sharp invective in this comment, kindly run into it! | |
| <dsas> Could I just cut off my ears? | |
| <LoudMouthMan> would it help ? | |
| * anti-net_ hands dsas the ear-cutting device | |
| <dsas> it's mean no more westwood | |
| * dsas makes the bomb noise | |
| <dsas> kevin smith \o/ I'm trying to educate one of my housemates in his greatness. I'm not managing much. | |
| <LoudMouthMan> so anyway . returning to the point AdamBagnall is on channel but not in focus i guess | |
| <LoudMouthMan> when you can show an appreciation of both "Pi" and "Spaced invaders" whilst understanding the kitch delivery that is "Clue" with the nuanced observations of "Clerks" then you my son are truly a geek. | |
| <dsas> i'm half way there then. | |
| <LoudMouthMan> oh and it helps to have watched Simon Pegg on Spaced and wonder where he was hiding the camera that recorded your batchelor life. | |
| <popey> w000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000t | |
| <popey> I say | |
| <dsas> my batchelor life consisted of watching kevin smith and the young ones repeatedly, computer games and spending unhealthy amounts of time on the computer | |
| <popey> W0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000T! | |
| <popey> http://gallery.popey.com/gallery/screenshots/Screenshot_003 | |
| <popey> screens fixed | |
| <dsas> now I'm down to just the unhealthy computer times | |
| <popey> video cards fixed | |
| <popey> evil binary nvidia drivers installed | |
| <popey> \o/ contact! | |
| <LoudMouthMan> heheh . | |
| <anti-net_> congrats popey :) | |
| <LoudMouthMan> so speaking of evil .. and well done popey . | |
| * dsas applauds popey | |
| <LoudMouthMan> is it joomla or mambo were supposed to support ? | |
| <dsas> joomla are the good guys | |
| <dsas> apparently | |
| <popey> drupal! \o/ | |
| <LoudMouthMan> or is it a big arsed mess and im best to use drupal | |
| <MattJ> Joomla ^^ | |
| <AdamBagnall> I've returned to my computer to discover xchat flashing. Who hath summoned me? | |
| <popey> me | |
| <popey> but no need to worry | |
| <popey> stand down soldier | |
| * AdamBagnall stands down | |
| <LoudMouthMan> Adam dont go away and leave us like that. we get lonely and if you dont stop by and feed us strings we get hungry, we are all just words in your head projected onto this screen . dont leave us again like that ! | |
| <LoudMouthMan> if you dont stop and play .. bad things might happen <grin> | |
| <dsas> if you do stop and play you may turn out like LoudMouthMan | |
| <popey> *shudder* | |
| <dsas> crazy. | |
| * AdamBagnall feed LoudMouthMan some more strings. They should keep him quiet for a while | |
| <LoudMouthMan> hey. in my head the audience all clap when the little light goes on okay ! | |
| <LoudMouthMan> frankly i was always amazed to discover that most people inner dialogues didnt include laughter tracks and "previously on " dialog | |
| <popey> http://tumbleweed.popey.com/ | |
| <dsas> i was just wondering if there was an opposite to j.p.c | |
| <LoudMouthMan> your too sane Popey thats why | |
| <popey> maybe | |
| <popey> or mabye i project a certain persona in here | |
| <popey> one that conflicts with my real side | |
| <popey> or maybe not | |
| * popey rips off ubotus head and shits down its neck | |
| <dsas> my inner dialogues are like clerks soliquies but less interesting. | |
| <anti-net_> popey, thats disguesting | |
| <popey> hello ubotu | |
| <popey> it's a cultural reference anti-net_ | |
| <LoudMouthMan> popey. um . maybe ubotu is idling ? | |
| <LoudMouthMan> hey Ubotu you there dude ? | |
| <dsas> !enter | |
| <dsas> ubotu: !enter | |
| <dsas> this bot IS idle. | |
| <LoudMouthMan> oh i see a bot | |
| <popey> i think he has "issues" | |
| <LoudMouthMan> tooo too tired. | |
| <AdamBagnall> I think someone's installed windows on LoudMouthMan. He's acting a bit odd | |
| <LoudMouthMan> i remember perlmonges bots where channel smart to actually have eliza ( sic ) conversations. | |
| <ubotu> Please don't use the "enter" key as punctuation! It spams the channel and can be annoying. | |
| <dsas> wow. lag. | |
| * dsas tells ubotu off for public admonishments | |
| <LoudMouthMan> so we have two bots or is this someone elses bot ? | |
| <dsas> ubotu is the standard ubuntu bot. | |
| <ubotu> Sorry, I don't know anything about is the standard ubuntu bot. - try searching on http://bots.ubuntulinux.nl/factoids.cgi | |
| <dsas> the LoCoBot is jsut for logging I think. | |
| <dsas> ubot can tell you interesting things.. | |
| <LoudMouthMan> in my day we hired orphaned indian children from the streets of calcultta to be our bots | |
| <dsas> ubotu: automatix | |
| <ubotu> automatix is a script that tries to install some software, and often fails and breaks systems. We don't provide support for it, and we strongly discourage its use. | |
| <AdamBagnall> Very useful information indeed | |
| <anti-net_> ubotu: Tomboy | |
| <ubotu> Sorry, I don't know anything about Tomboy - try searching on http://bots.ubuntulinux.nl/factoids.cgi | |
| <dsas> !package tomboy | |
| <anti-net_> dumb asss | |
| <ubotu> Sorry, I don't know anything about package tomboy - try searching on http://bots.ubuntulinux.nl/factoids.cgi | |
| <AdamBagnall> ubotu: ubotu | |
| <anti-net_> ubotu: butt rape | |
| <ubotu> Sorry, I don't know anything about butt rape - try searching on http://bots.ubuntulinux.nl/factoids.cgi | |
| <LoudMouthMan> sigh . .bots . just one more thing new people will have to learn. | |
| <dsas> you don't have to learn them. | |
| <anti-net_> Heh, sorry LoudMouthMan | |
| <dsas> tbh it's mainly used in #ubuntu | |
| * AdamBagnall cries. Ubotu ignored me | |
| <LoudMouthMan> I wasnt planning to . but I worry about new user experiences all the time | |
| <anti-net_> to ubuntu? or to #ubuntu-uk? | |
| <LoudMouthMan> both , either any | |
| <LoudMouthMan> when i say I worry I mean . I make it a personal list | |
| <LoudMouthMan> on this list are things which are part of this whole society online that people ar discovering. | |
| <LoudMouthMan> and ironically im meeting more people new to the net on secondlife who are totally new to computers. | |
| <dsas> you don't dumb down society so a newborn baby can cope. You just make it as easy as possible to learn whatever they want to learn. | |
| <anti-net_> does secoundlife work on Linux? | |
| <LoudMouthMan> so i wonder about what ways people want to use and learn and get involved.. the tirangle thing again | |
| <anti-net_> I thought it was only Mac+Win | |
| <dsas> anti-net_: I think they were planning it. | |
| <dsas> anti-net_: Not sure if a beta is out tbh | |
| <MattJ> !botabuse | anti-net_ | |
| <AdamBagnall> I know the alpha is out | |
| <MattJ> :) | |
| <anti-net_> Sorry :P | |
| * MattJ kicks ubotu | |
| <MattJ> oops | |
| <MattJ> Anyone here from the Midlands? | |
| <grifferz> I was born in birmingham, but I don't live there now | |
| <LoudMouthMan> Sussex here . | |
| <AdonaiUK> Margate here | |
| <dsas> I'm from the midlands | |
| <dsas> Live in Staffs for uni, from Chesterfield, Derbyshire when not in term time | |
| <grifferz> I went to staffs uni also | |
| <dsas> grifferz: Stafford campus? | |
| <AdonaiUK> from Canary Islands (Spain), living in Margate, kent | |
| <grifferz> yep.. class of '98 | |
| <dsas> cool, computing I presume? | |
| <MattJ> Ah, I'm from Worcester | |
| <MattJ> Someone abused ubotu too much :P | |
| <dsas> MattJ: One of my mates is from nearby (ish) Redditch | |
| <grifferz> yes. the octagon was pretty new then. what do you study? | |
| <dsas> s/mates/housemates | |
| <dsas> grifferz: Computing Science | |
| <grifferz> is alasdair macdonald still a techie there? actually I heard he was doing some teaching now.. | |
| <dsas> grifferz: There's a young-ish lecturer called Al-something, he teaches internetty things. | |
| <dsas> hmm, I think I'm thinking of Alister Dawes actually | |
| <grifferz> I see he does :) | |
| <grifferz> http://www.staffs.ac.uk/directory/viewperson.php?staffid=126 | |
| <dsas> he's still listed on the tech support list. possibly he does some networking stuff though, some of the networking techies help out on that. | |
| <grifferz> back in 94-98 he was a lowly technician and spent too much of his time trying to stop using bringing coffee and food near the machines :) | |
| <dsas> We still have those guys, they do that, change ink/paper and play games on the internet. | |
| <dsas> Uhm, allegedly | |
| <grifferz> :) | |
| <dsas> though to be fair, some of the people do abuse the labs with food and drink. | |
| <dsas> leaving their rubbish all over when there's a bin by either exit | |
| * dsas fumes | |
| <anti-net_> pish | |
| <anti-net_> at our college people abuse the hardware | |
| <anti-net_> you open a optical drive and half a CD tray will fall out | |
| <anti-net_> and all the keyboards and mice have a strange gray/brown tint to them becuase our college does't clean or replace I/O devices | |
| *** chrisj is now known as ChrisJ | |
| * dsas looks at his keyboard | |
| <anti-net_> Heh | |
| <LoudMouthMan> right time for beds. | |
| <LoudMouthMan> laters | |
| <dsas> g'night LoudMouthMan | |
| <anti-net_> night LoudMouthMan | |
| *** ChrisJ is now known as Chris_J | |
| <AdamBagnall> Night all | |
| <AdonaiUK> off to bed too | |
| <AdonaiUK> nite | |
| * dsas watches them drop like flies | |
| <anti-net_> Would appear that way yes | |
| * dsas carries on with his coursework | |
| * chaddy rattles against the window pane for a while | |
| <chaddy> nn all |