| <DaveMorris> I've brought an external 5 1/2" drive enclosuer, and it even came with a screwdriver! | |
| <Seeker`> i think we need a three pronged attack when it comes to conversion of people | |
| <Seeker`> 1. subliminal | |
| <Seeker`> 2. liminal | |
| <Seeker`> 3. superliminal | |
| <DaveMorris> I failed with my g/f father | |
| <DaveMorris> all because his printer wouldn't work :( | |
| <Seeker`> DaveMorris: Tell him he doesn | |
| <Seeker`> t need a print | |
| <Seeker`> er | |
| * Seeker` thinks he should use the enter key less often | |
| *** DaveMorris changes topic to "Welcome to #ubuntu-uk! http://www.ubuntu-uk.org | Ubuntu FAQ: http://help.ubuntu.com/community/CommonQuestions | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/Gallery/Members add your picture | Next UKTeam Meeting is in #ubuntu-uk on 21st February at 21:00 | Happy 30th Gazzak" | |
| <Seeker`> hes getting ooooooooooooooold | |
| <popey> \o/ | |
| <DaveMorris> yep | |
| <popey> old git | |
| <Seeker`> popey: Pot, let me introduce kettle | |
| <DaveMorris> I'm sure he'll love it when he logs in later on | |
| <popey> oooooooo | |
| <Seeker`> :P | |
| <DaveMorris> yeah, popey looks over 35 | |
| *** popey changes topic to "Welcome to #ubuntu-uk! http://www.ubuntu-uk.org | Ubuntu FAQ: http://help.ubuntu.com/community/CommonQuestions | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/Gallery/Members add your picture | Next UKTeam Meeting is in #ubuntu-uk on 21st February at 21:00 | Happy 30th Gazzak (you old git)" | |
| <DaveMorris> lol | |
| <Seeker`> hehe | |
| <Seeker`> bored | |
| <popey> bed | |
| <popey> nn | |
| <Seeker`> nn | |
| <DaveMorris> I'm just playing with my new dual tuner card for mythtv | |
| <Seeker`> ooh | |
| * Seeker` wants a tuner | |
| <DaveMorris> the tuner is the cheap bit. | |
| <Seeker`> whats the expensive bit? | |
| <DaveMorris> motherboards, disks, cases | |
| <DaveMorris> dual tuner card is £50 | |
| * Seeker` was planning on putting it in his existing TV | |
| <Seeker`> s/TV/PC | |
| <DaveMorris> even if a driver isn't installed it should still appear on with a lspci yeah? | |
| <Seeker`> i dont know | |
| <Seeker`> i think so | |
| <popey> morning ratfans | |
| <popey> /bin/sh: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `'' | |
| <popey> /bin/sh: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file | |
| <popey> bah | |
| <popey> ___________________________ | |
| <popey> < Mooooorning! It's friday! > | |
| <popey> --------------------------- | |
| <popey> \ ^__^ | |
| <popey> \ (oo)\_______ | |
| <popey> (__)\ )\/\ | |
| <popey> ||----w | | |
| <popey> || || | |
| <popey> that's better | |
| <Seeker`> morning | |
| <Seeker`> worktime | |
| <Seeker`> :( | |
| <GazzaK> well.... I don't 'feel' any different | |
| * popey points and laughs at the old man! | |
| * GazzaK cries | |
| <GazzaK> my back hurts | |
| <GazzaK> my legs don't work no more | |
| <GazzaK> my sleeping is shagged! | |
| * GazzaK is soooo old | |
| <GazzaK> popey, !!!!! just noticed the topic!!! | |
| <popey> :) | |
| <GazzaK> you git | |
| <GazzaK> 00:28 you set it too | |
| <GazzaK> did you wait up special like!? | |
| <popey> just got back from pub :) | |
| <popey> oh sorry, no, yes I stayed up | |
| <GazzaK> don't you know - never do anything after getting back from the pub! many mistakes can be made! | |
| <popey> indeed | |
| <popey> for example.. in another channel.. | |
| <popey> 00:35 <@popey> I appear to be farting raw sewage | |
| <GazzaK> ewwww | |
| <GazzaK> lol, d'oh | |
| <GazzaK> did you have a curry on the way home then? | |
| <popey> no I had paella | |
| <popey> went out in Woking with ex-boss | |
| <GazzaK> paella - that explains the farting | |
| <popey> some wine, some guinness, you know how it is | |
| <popey> pub lunch day today \o/ | |
| <GazzaK> yay | |
| * GazzaK is off out for a nice meal tonight :-) | |
| <GazzaK> and last working day for a bit - I have the whole week off next week | |
| <popey> \o/ | |
| <mrben> morning all | |
| <popey> greetings mrben | |
| <Seeker`> mornin | |
| <Seeker`> happy birthday GazzaK | |
| <mrben> yeah - hippo birdie | |
| * mrben has another friend whose birthday is today | |
| <GazzaK> thanks Seeker` | |
| <constrictor> !devices | |
| <ubotu> Sorry, I don't know anything about devices - try searching on http://bots.ubuntulinux.nl/factoids.cgi | |
| <constrictor> what's that link to the supported devices again? | |
| <tsurc> any one know about setting up your own repositories? | |
| <constrictor> !wifi | |
| <ubotu> Wireless documentation can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs | |
| <popey> tsurc: a repository of your own packages or a mirror of the ubuntu ones? | |
| <constrictor> popey guess what? | |
| <popey> wot? | |
| <popey> you bought *another* unsupported card? | |
| <constrictor> i took everyones advice and went to look at the supported device list | |
| <popey> \o/ | |
| <constrictor> and got another card | |
| <constrictor> the thing doesn't work | |
| <popey> what is it? | |
| <constrictor> i think i'm not doing something right | |
| <popey> thats one option | |
| <constrictor> it's a linksys, atheros chipset | |
| <popey> what type of card is it? | |
| <popey> ahhh | |
| <popey> model? | |
| <popey> do lspci then lspci -n | |
| <popey> and get the PCI ID for the devic3e | |
| <constrictor> AR5005G | |
| <constrictor> actually i didn't buy this one, i don't even own it yet so that's a good thing | |
| <popey> eh? is it plugged into the computer? | |
| <popey> (whatever the odd ownership) | |
| <constrictor> but you know edgy pick it up nicely, network applet lists the wireless access point | |
| <constrictor> i just can't connect to it | |
| <constrictor> this is the line lspci gives me | |
| <constrictor> Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5005G 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) | |
| <popey> what signal does network-manager say you are getting? | |
| <constrictor> do you mean strenght? | |
| <mrben> they screwed up madwifi in edgy | |
| <mrben> you might have problems | |
| <constrictor> i see | |
| <constrictor> but does madwifi handle atheros chipsets | |
| <constrictor> ? | |
| <mrben> yes | |
| <mrben> well - it did the one in my laptop | |
| <constrictor> clicking on the access point gives me the usual dialogue to enter the params etc | |
| <constrictor> however it's just a bit off | |
| <constrictor> it asks for the wrong details, always asks for wep never wpa | |
| <popey> constrictor: lsmod | grep zd | |
| <popey> thats a network-manager flaw isnt it? | |
| <constrictor> i get nothing with lsmod | grep zd | |
| <mrben> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1795592 | |
| <mrben> see that and related threads ^^ | |
| <GazzaK> afaik network manager doesn't support wpa correctly | |
| <constrictor> on my dell inspiron though the manager is flawless | |
| <constrictor> that uses an inter prowireless | |
| <popey> constrictor: dmesg | grep ath ? | |
| <mrben> GazzaK: worked fine under dapper for me | |
| <constrictor> got something | |
| <mrben> the standard response on the forums that I can see is to move to ndiswrapper instead of madwifi | |
| <mrben> which is a bit unsatisfactory, IMHO | |
| <constrictor> i'll put it on pastebin popey | |
| <popey> also dmesg | grep eth1 | |
| <popey> assuming eth1 is your net card | |
| <constrictor> it's ath1 | |
| <constrictor> ath0 sorry | |
| <constrictor> NETDEV_UP: ath0: link is not ready | |
| <constrictor> that's the last line i get | |
| <constrictor> i'm going to look at madwifi | |
| <GazzaK> woooo cake! | |
| <constrictor> anyone know what repository it's in | |
| <GazzaK> erm, also the network manager applet needs the etc/network/interfaces file #'d out doesn't it? | |
| <mrben> constrictor: it's in the restricted-modules package | |
| <mrben> but, as noted before, it's broken in Edgy | |
| <mrben> so you might be better going for ndiswrapper | |
| <mrben> ref: those links I sent you | |
| <popey> GazzaK: no | |
| <constrictor> yeah i looked at the disk that comes with the card | |
| <popey> i installed network manager on my laptop last night, made no changes at all | |
| <constrictor> the drivers seem to be bundled with an exe file | |
| <constrictor> i can't find the .inf files | |
| <popey> unzip the exe? | |
| <constrictor> ah ok | |
| <constrictor> one sec didn't bring my docking station so i have to copy it to the network and pick it up here | |
| <constrictor> this is all very exciting | |
| <constrictor> never successfully used ndiswrapper before | |
| <constrictor> my first encounter was in Fedora Core 3 that was a mine field | |
| <DaveMorris> Happy 30h gazzak | |
| <GazzaK> thanks DaveMorris | |
| <DaveMorris> I changed the topic but popey put the old git bit inn :P | |
| <GazzaK> ahhhh | |
| <mrben> GazzaK: oooo - you 30 today | |
| * mrben is 30 in exactly 4 weeks time | |
| *** GazzaK changes topic to "Welcome to #ubuntu-uk! http://www.ubuntu-uk.org | Ubuntu FAQ: http://help.ubuntu.com/community/CommonQuestions | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/Gallery/Members add your picture | Next UKTeam Meeting is in #ubuntu-uk on 21st February at 21:00 | Happy 9th 21st Gazzak (you old git)" | |
| <GazzaK> :-) | |
| <GazzaK> thats better | |
| * constrictor is 25 in a week | |
| <GazzaK> I'm 21 again :-) | |
| <GazzaK> mrben, scary isn't it | |
| <DaveMorris> I put in a new dual tuner card in my mythtv box, and it dosen't appear with lspci, I try putting the old one back in and that dosen't appear either :/ | |
| <GazzaK> it's like OMG, I have to ACT sensible NOW? | |
| <mrben> GazzaK: well lets see - in 2 weeks I head off to Mozambique (in the summer) to work with a relief project, and in April I'm having my first child | |
| <mrben> so - turning 30 is low on my list of scary right now | |
| <GazzaK> yay, kiddies, woooo | |
| * GazzaK gets broody | |
| <GazzaK> I have a neice, she is fantastic | |
| <GazzaK> niece even | |
| <GazzaK> I want to adopt | |
| <mrben> they're always fantastic when you can give them back... | |
| <GazzaK> mwahhhhhhh (all night long) hehe | |
| <DaveMorris> I've got a nepthew but the mother is a bitch and I've only seen him once since he was born (4 months ago) although they only live 5 miles away | |
| * GazzaK is waiting for the laws to change so he can adopt | |
| <DaveMorris> the discrimnation law? | |
| <GazzaK> yeah, at the moment, I cannot adopt, and even if I find a friendly lesbian, I'd pretty much not get any access | |
| <jayteeuk> Happy birthday GazzaK. Welcome to the oldies club. :) | |
| <constrictor> um popey, how do i extract an exe | |
| <GazzaK> :-) | |
| <DaveMorris> who is the oldest in teh channel? Popey? LoudMouthman? | |
| <chaddy> can't be long for Mrs Ben, now, mrben; April is it? | |
| <mrben> april 7th | |
| <chaddy> everything still going well? | |
| <mrben> yup | |
| <popey> constrictor: if it is a windows sfx just unzip it | |
| <chaddy> good, good | |
| * popey is 34 | |
| <jayteeuk> Um... does anyone know why Snort is showing up TCP portscans from Microsoft's IP address range? | |
| <mrben> sore back and lack of energy, but nothing unusual | |
| <mrben> jayteeuk: they've probably been haxxored | |
| <jayteeuk> Is that a typo popey? Shouldn't it be 43? | |
| <popey> O-o | |
| <mrben> jayteeuk: someone sent them an MP3 that says "portscan jayteekuk" | |
| <jayteeuk> :D | |
| <jayteeuk> I just thought someone said popey was ancient, so 34 didn't sound right. | |
| * chaddy is 33, 34 *is* ancient | |
| <mrben> lol | |
| <constrictor> unzip didn't work | |
| <constrictor> are there any additional arguments? | |
| * chaddy would run the .exe in wine, sudo updatedb, grep inf; probably not the most efficient... | |
| <chaddy> s/grep inf/locate inf|grep wine | |
| * chaddy goes off to man unzip | |
| <popey> constrictor: type "file <filename>" | |
| <popey> to find out what kind of file it is | |
| <constrictor> ok | |
| <chaddy> coo, man unzip is a bit of a tome | |
| <popey> but yes, running it under wine is something I have done | |
| <constrictor> MS-DOS executable PE for MS Windows (gui) Intel 80386 32-bit | |
| <constrictor> feel very dumb right now | |
| <constrictor> i was looking at the wrong disk | |
| <mrben> lol | |
| <mrben> doh! | |
| <Seeker`> its too quiet in here | |
| <Seeker`> j #ubuntu-scribes | |
| <constrictor> ok so do i use the NT driver or 9x driver? | |
| * popey ponders ubuntulive | |
| <popey> possibly instead of guadec | |
| <constrictor> ok guys i got something | |
| <constrictor> after installing the inf file i have | |
| <constrictor> net5211 hardware present | |
| <constrictor> what do i do next | |
| <constrictor> ? | |
| <constrictor> i understand i need to blacklist some drivers, how do i do that? | |
| <popey> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper | |
| <constrictor> thanks | |
| <treb0r> WTF? Environmental Product Innovation | |
| <treb0r> http://sustainit.org/news-archive/news_info.php?refnum=1342 | |
| <treb0r> Help save the planet. Install Windows Vista... | |
| <popey> it has good powersaving features :0 | |
| <treb0r> Days after the green party were predicting vista induced climate meltdown | |
| <Seeker`> hmm | |
| <Seeker`> apparently, the publics trust in the government is being eroded by this cash for honours thing. | |
| <Seeker`> Its funny, I thought it was their total incompetance that was doing that | |
| <treb0r> SOmebody told me that the UK government were among the largets MS customers in the world. I can believe it. | |
| <treb0r> largest | |
| <constrictor> card works | |
| <constrictor> now i'm going to try it on my belkin | |
| <constrictor> and see if i can get that to work too | |
| <mrben> treb0r: I think it might be the NHS, rather than the UK govt itself | |
| <mrben> treb0r: although tony blair and friends are about as far up bill gates' arse as they are up george dubya's | |
| <treb0r> We are being led into the digital age by people who are not at ease sending email messages. | |
| *** neuro|irssi is now known as neuro_ | |
| <treb0r> I wonder how much of the NHS budget flows into redmond? | |
| <chaddy> NHS use a fair bit of Linux, afaik | |
| <mrben> do they? since when? | |
| <chaddy> thought a lot of the back end stuff was *nix | |
| <mrben> hmmm - not sure | |
| <mrben> they certainly have a huge contract with EDS (IIRC) for MS stuff | |
| <mrben> it made the press a couple of years ago (and lugradio, for that matter) | |
| <treb0r> I think that it all comes down to money, and the ecosystems that have a grown up around the proprietary model. In one snese it matters more who plays golf with who, not 'which is best tool for the job' | |
| <chaddy> aye, they have nearly a million NHS licences, but Novell managed to get £40 million or so out of them for back end stuff | |
| <chaddy> s/NHS/MS | |
| <mrben> ah. coolies | |
| <chaddy> and MS got raped for the million licences, perpetual rather than the usual annual deal | |
| <snail> does anyone have hints on getting japanese fonts to work in java for dapper? | |
| <constrictor> sorry snail i don't know | |
| <snail> i tried "for pkg in `apt-cache search xfont | awk '{print $1}'`; do apt-get install $pkg ; done" and installed a metric buttload of fonts, but it's still not working, suggesting that it's at the java end | |
| <jayteeuk> I think I just figured out how to flash my BIOS from a USB key drive using almost entirely free software. | |
| <jayteeuk> Would that make a good recipe for the Ubuntu book? | |
| <chaddy> got a link, jayteeuk? | |
| <chaddy> would like to be able to do that | |
| <jayteeuk> I haven't written it up yet. | |
| <jayteeuk> In fact, I haven't actually tested it yet. :) | |
| <chaddy> oh, you worked out how to do it yourself? | |
| <chaddy> kudos if it works | |
| <jayteeuk> I think so. | |
| <jayteeuk> The only nonfree parts are the BIOS manufacturer's flashing program and the BIOS itself. | |
| <chaddy> isn't it possible to flash a BIOS booting from a CD? | |
| <jayteeuk> It's an Award BIOS, so I'm using PHLASH16.EXE as they don't supply a version of WINPHLASH for XP Pro X64. | |
| <chaddy> hmm | |
| <jayteeuk> It should be, yes. If you've got a CDRW spare, or don't mind using a CDR. | |
| * chaddy always has a spare CDRW, being a reformed distro-whore | |
| <jayteeuk> Only thing is, I'm too nervous to try it now in case I brick my laptop. :) | |
| <constrictor> no guts no glory | |
| * popey arrives back from the pub] | |
| <popey> home time | |
| <popey> ttfn | |
| <jayteeuk> No laptop no glory either. :) | |
| <jayteeuk> I think maybe I'll test that it does at least boot first. | |
| <jayteeuk> If it gets that far, I'll probably write it up. | |
| <jayteeuk> With a warning in big red letters including the words "entirely at your own risk" and "without warranty". | |
| <jayteeuk> I haven't updated my LiveJournal for ages, so it'd make a good return post. :) | |
| <constrictor> that's creepy man | |
| <jayteeuk> What is? | |
| * jayteeuk looks around shiftily. | |
| <mrben> posting technical stuff on livejournal........ *shiver* | |
| <jayteeuk> I do it only through lack of an alternative for the moment. | |
| <jayteeuk> And I will have an alternative fairly soon. But until I get my own web site sorted out, LJ it is. | |
| <mrben> :) | |
| <Seeker`> jayteeuk: What host are you going to use? | |
| <jayteeuk> I'll host it on my own machine to begin with. | |
| <jayteeuk> If it gets popular I'll consider "proper" hosting. | |
| <jayteeuk> brb -- hopefully. :D | |
| <constrictor> coming back after a drought in big red letters saying "entirely at your own risk" is creepy | |
| <cypher_666> greetings | |
| <Seeker`> hi | |
| <cypher_666> just thought i would drop in and say hello, im a recent convert to linux and didnt realise the uk had its own special bits | |
| <GazzaK> we are very special | |
| <cypher_666> :) | |
| <constrictor> welcome to ubuntu-uk cypher_666 | |
| <GazzaK> !hi | cypher_666 | |
| <ubotu> cypher_666: Hi! Welcome to #ubuntu-uk! | |
| <GazzaK> so much eaiser :p | |
| <cypher_666> hehe, cool | |
| <GazzaK> arghhh, I won't have internet access for over a week | |
| <jayteeuk> Eeek, how come? | |
| <GazzaK> moving house, and have a week off work | |
| <GazzaK> eeek | |
| <GazzaK> help | |
| <GazzaK> I think I need to see a shrink | |
| <jayteeuk> Internet addiction? | |
| <GazzaK> yeah | |
| <jayteeuk> I feel your pain. | |
| <cypher_666> ive just had a 5 day suspension from the net as i was in hospital...........im so addicted, lol | |
| <GazzaK> how did you cope cypher_666 | |
| <cypher_666> i was unconcious for alot of it, so that helped :) | |
| <GazzaK> yeah, suppose so | |
| <GazzaK> what was it? | |
| <GazzaK> you okay now? | |
| <cypher_666> yeah, i was in for testing of a new diabetes drug | |
| <constrictor> hope you didn't get any swolen feet or anything | |
| <constrictor> fingertips still the same colour? | |
| <cypher_666> everything seems to be okay :) my nurses could read and didnt give me 100X the dose like happened to those guys in the news | |
| <constrictor> yeah | |
| <constrictor> i would be nervous about testing a new drug | |
| <constrictor> do you get a lot of money for stuff like that | |
| <constrictor> maybe i should look into it, i'm skint | |
| <cypher_666> yeah, i did under a week and got like 600 | |
| <cypher_666> the longer studies, like 17 days are about 3 grand | |
| <constrictor> let me know if you hear any tests for contraceptives or something the that | |
| <cypher_666> lolo | |
| <mrben> constrictor: sadly for you, they only supply the drug, not the means to fully test it... | |
| <constrictor> yea | |
| <constrictor> i reckon that too | |
| <constrictor> damn | |
| <constrictor> lol | |
| <jayteeuk> Anyone have experience with SMTP/IMAP servers? | |
| <cypher_666> nothing more than putting the settings provided to me into thunderbird im afraid :( | |
| <jayteeuk> Colleague asking me for recommendations, that's all. | |
| <GazzaK> I still do not see how i'll remain calm and sane for a whole week and a bit of no internet | |
| <mrben> jayteeuk: I've done it under debian | |
| <mrben> jayteeuk: just used the defaults, though - Exim for SMTP, and Courier for IMAP | |
| <jayteeuk> Locally I use Postfix for SMTP and UW-IMAP (I think) for IMAP. | |
| <jayteeuk> Am I correct in thinking Cyrus does SMTP and IMAP? | |
| <jayteeuk> Looks like it does, but I'm still looking for license info.... | |
| <cypher_666> there no ones house you can go and use there net gazza? | |
| <jayteeuk> Piggy-back on someone's wi-fi. :) | |
| <cypher_666> i didnt want to suggest that, but yeah, lol | |
| <GazzaK> might have to | |
| <jayteeuk> With their consent, of course. | |
| <GazzaK> nah :p | |
| *** Pricey is now known as PriceChild | |
| <cypher_666> i thought my wifi box was safe, then i switched to linux and found progs to 'steal' wifi, now im wondering how to secure it against other like minded people, lol | |
| <cypher_666> problem is its a shoddy BT home hub :( | |
| <treb0r> That shoddy home hub runs Linux! | |
| <X3N> and it's your configuration :p | |
| <GazzaK> see ya all on the 12th :'( | |
| <X3N> :o ? | |
| <GazzaK> X3N, i'm off work for a week, house moving, will have no internet | |
| <GazzaK> not sure how i'll cope yet | |
| <X3N> ah | |
| <X3N> i'll print out irc logs and send them via mail to you if you want | |
| <GazzaK> hehe, yay | |
| <GazzaK> is there any meetings i'll miss? | |
| <treb0r> Apparently there is this thing called face to face conversations. Not seen it in synaptic though. | |
| <X3N> probably | |
| <GazzaK> treb0r, I had a had written letter the other day | |
| <GazzaK> I was like O_O wow | |
| <treb0r> I wrote one of them to a girl when I was 18. Many moons ago | |
| <GazzaK> on parchment? | |
| * treb0r blushes | |
| <raws> you can use your hands to write, and like, not type??????? | |
| <treb0r> Nope, I chiselled out of a lump of granite | |
| <GazzaK> thats what they say raws | |
| <raws> wtf????? this is cypher_666, where did this name come from? | |
| <GazzaK> majik | |
| <raws> lol | |
| * GazzaK runs off to find aircrack | |
| <jayteeuk> That BT Home Hub of yours is diddling with your IRC traffic. ;) | |
| <raws> and i cant change my nick as its still in use by someone else (me) apparently...............it must have took umbridge to what i said about it, hehe | |
| <raws> it waited till i left the room then punced :( | |
| <Seeker`> GazzaK: Good luck with the move. See you on the 12th | |
| <Seeker`> Enjoy the rest of your bday | |
| <GazzaK> thanks | |
| <GazzaK> byeeee | |
| <Seeker`> hometime :D | |
| <raws> i remember enjoying hometime once..... | |
| <jayteeuk> I don't miss hometime. | |
| <jayteeuk> I had to drive in the morning for the first time in nearly two years today. | |
| <raws> must have been a shock to the system | |
| <jayteeuk> Nothing has been more effective in making me appreciate the value of working from home than sitting in traffic for nearly an hour. | |
| <raws> i used to love working from home, at the moment im not working anywhere ;) | |
| *** raws is now known as cypher_666 | |
| <cypher_666> yay | |
| <cypher_666> got my name back :) | |
| <jayteeuk> :D | |
| <cypher_666> granted i used to live 2 mins walk away from work, but theres something refreshing about watching other people go to work and you simply have to dial in :) | |
| <jayteeuk> It is nice for me to be able to stay up till midnight, roll out of bed at 8:30am and have time for a shower and breakfast before starting work at 9. | |
| <cypher_666> :) | |
| <cypher_666> no crappy re-cycled air, no flu constantly doing the rounds | |
| <jayteeuk> And although you have to pay for it yourself, you get to choose the coffee. ;) | |
| <cypher_666> eating proper food that wasnt reformed or overpriced | |
| <cypher_666> its going to be a bit harder to work fromhome in my new profession *body piercer* | |
| <jayteeuk> Oh I dunno... | |
| <cypher_666> well i could, but i dont have the £££ to convert a room to a studio.....yet :) | |
| *** elate1 is now known as elate | |
| <cypher_666> anyone having probs getting on ubuntuforums.org? | |
| <cypher_666> nevermind :) | |
| <PriceChild> cypher_666, we just had our ram upgrade :) | |
| <PriceChild> We're back now though :) | |
| <scotia> did have trouble getting ubuntuforums.org but got there via common questions above | |
| <cypher_666> cool, everyone likes more RAM right? | |
| <stdin> I like it more when it's free :) | |
| <cypher_666> free as in beer? ;) hehe | |
| <stdin> heh, don't care as long as I get it | |
| <cypher_666> ive never managed to upgrade my ram once, ive always planned to, but have just ended up bying a new box each time | |
| <cypher_666> so my wallet always cowers when i talk about upgrades, lol | |
| <stdin> what's more expensive, new RAM, or new PC ? :P | |
| <cypher_666> new pc everytime, i think i must get bored easily or somet | |
| * chaddy got half a gig of free RAM a few months ago, through a bureaucratic oversight, happy days | |
| <cypher_666> beaurocratic oversights are always intresting | |
| <DaveMorris> I can always get free PC100 ram from work | |
| <chaddy> evening Owdgit, twager, jamesbrose1 | |
| <jamesbrose1> Hello :) | |
| *** jamesbrose1 is now known as jamesbrose | |
| <jamesbrose> there ;) | |
| <chaddy> even the guy that was full of grim forbodings about an "Ubuntu monoculture" 6 months ago is using it now | |
| <popey> moooooo! | |
| <chaddy> µ | |
| * popey eyes his squid transparent proxy logs and points a finger at his Nintendo Wii | |
| <popey> 1170442461.486 574 192.168.129.204 TCP_MISS/200 320 POST http://rcw.wc24.wii.com/cgi-bin/check.cgi - DIRECT/125.199.254.50 text/plain | |
| <popey> 1170442943.856 854 192.168.129.204 TCP_MISS/200 46211 GET http://news.wapp.wii.com/1/110/news.bin.19 - DIRECT/84.45.224.9 application/octet-stream | |
| <X3N> looks fairly innocent | |
| <popey> sure, just noted it | |
| * X3N notes popey | |
| <popey> BONNNG! | |
| <X3N> looks fairly innocent | |
| <X3N> though looks can be deciving | |
| <chaddy> evening chrisbudden14 | |
| <chrisbudden14> hey there chaddy | |
| <chrisbudden14> how are you | |
| <chaddy> happy as a lark | |
| <chaddy> :-D | |
| <chaddy> how's you? | |
| <chrisbudden14> alright thanks | |
| <chrisbudden14> thinking about what i should do this evening | |
| <willskills> PAAAAAARTY | |
| <willskills> I am off out after my pizza gets here :P | |
| <willskills> hopefully sober me up a bit | |
| <willskills> pup after work with no food never a good idea | |
| <willskills> when you finish at 3:( | |
| <willskills> pub~* | |
| <mancub_> lo all | |
| <alecjw> hey mancub | |
| <mancub_> hey was wondering if anyone was about | |
| <mancub_> had a quick question about ubuntu seemed like the place to go | |
| <alecjw> mancub_, no. no-one ever is in here. it's alwys silent here except for the od hell, hi or lo | |
| <mancub_> but the uk channel seems pretty quiet | |
| <mancub_> haha | |
| <alecjw> mancub_, #ubuntu | |
| <mancub_> fair enough | |
| <alecjw> #ubuntu isnt quite so quiet.... | |
| <alecjw> in fact there are 1003 people there | |
| <mancub_> dont suppose on the off chance youve had any experience setting up a duel boot system on an HP laptop | |
| <mancub_> :O 1003 | |
| <treb0r> it seems to get busier here during the day. geeks at work... | |
| <mancub_> didnt realise was such a big community | |
| <mancub_> haha | |
| <mancub_> work from home so im a geek at all times | |
| <treb0r> what was the question? | |
| <alecjw> mancub_, it's estimated that there are 10 million memebers of the community. to make a dual boot, shrink your windows partition, make an ext33 one and a swap one and you're away | |
| <mancub_> was after advice setting up a duel boot system on an HP laptop | |
| <mancub_> im sure it is possible was jst wondering if it was as simple as all the literatuer says | |
| <mancub_> especially with me being unexperienced | |
| <mancub_> and not wanting to destroy my shiney new laptop | |
| <treb0r> Make sure you have backups beofre anything else... | |
| <mancub_> wise choice | |
| <treb0r> then do what the man says.. | |
| <mancub_> so you reckon as long as i take things slowly should be no problems | |
| <treb0r> It's been a while since I dual booted my laptop, which isn't hp, but it worked fine... | |
| <mancub_> ahh cool | |
| <mancub_> they've been stingy and not given me a proper windows cd just the boot files on hdd | |
| <mancub_> hence my apprihencion | |
| <treb0r> The boot files should be in their own partition. leave it alone, and then you still have the option. | |
| <mancub_> ok cool | |
| <mancub_> am i better to shrink my partion before i start or do it during the ubuntu set up procedure | |
| <treb0r> i'll probably get shot for suggesting this on an ubuntu channel, but i used sysresuecd before installing | |
| <treb0r> http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page | |
| <mancub_> haha | |
| <treb0r> you can shrink your ntfs partition with a nice graphical tool.. | |
| <alecjw> gaprted! | |
| <mancub_> ok guys brilliant will start plotting | |
| <mancub_> looking forward to using ubuntu some tiem soon | |
| <mancub_> thanks for all the help | |
| <mancub_> byee | |
| <treb0r> good luck.. | |
| <mancub_> ty | |
| <Nik_Doof> ack avant looks so good but it doesn#t work properly on twinview | |
| <tsmithe> !avant | |
| <ubotu> Sorry, I don't know anything about avant - try searching on http://bots.ubuntulinux.nl/factoids.cgi | |
| <tsmithe> !info avant | |
| <ubotu> Package avant does not exist in any distro I know | |
| <tsmithe> ok | |
| <Nik_Doof> http://code.google.com/p/avant-window-navigator/ | |
| <tsmithe> why has this seen "so" much action today? | |
| <Nik_Doof> umm? | |
| <tsmithe> well | |
| <tsmithe> i've noticed it mentioned in two channels when i'd never heard of it! | |
| <tsmithe> ahhh | |
| <tsmithe> it was on digg | |
| <Nik_Doof> yah :) | |
| <tsmithe> hehe | |
| <Nik_Doof> looks nice, just shame it sits in the middle of my two monitors :) | |
| <LoudMouthMan> ahh | |
| <LoudMouthMan> ping jono . | |
| <LoudMouthMan> jono .. yove got mail. | |
| <jono> yo | |
| <LoudMouthMan> yeah lots of it .. but 1 from me .. | |
| <LoudMouthMan> hello | |
| <jono> LoudMouthMan: cool, will get to it later, not working now :) | |
| <jono> gonna do Jokosher stuff :) | |
| <LoudMouthMan> ahh then im off to Jokosher to ask a q then . | |
| <jono> :) | |
| <Seeker`> lo LoudMouthMan | |
| <LoudMouthMan> hello Seeker` | |
| <LoudMouthMan> well im at the near end of the week and im only 80% of my things done according to my GTD review . | |
| <LoudMouthMan> im just offski I was just popping in with a joko and ubuntu question so ive got them and now its time to get some sleep . BNI this morning was WAY to early . | |
| <LoudMouthMan> ahh I was waiting for the oblig question there <grin> i see everyone is trained then. | |
| <jamesbrose1> *yawn* | |
| <jayteeuk> Night all. | |
| <jayteeuk> Have a great weekend. |