| *** lawrencelong is now known as trashbat | |
| <trashbat> hello | |
| <trashbat> cryed wolf? | |
| <cryedwolf_> safe | |
| <trashbat> safe man this is soo cool | |
| <trashbat> thnks for helpin me | |
| <constrictor> good night guys | |
| <cryedwolf_> nite | |
| *** lawrencelong is now known as trashbat | |
| <X3N_> best time NOT to walk in on a party is when security arrives to dish out a bollocking :/ | |
| <bugbot> New on planetuk: Caroline Ford: secretlondon @ 2007-02-20T01:29:00 <http://secretlondon.livejournal.com/128834.html> | |
| <sheepeatingtaz> Good Morning All | |
| <GazzaK> morning sheepeatingtaz | |
| <GazzaK> baaaa | |
| <Seeker`> mornin | |
| <loudmouthman> well God bless gnome partion editor , a very linux reluctant client of mine resorted to using it after he installed exhange on the wrong partition <grin> . It reminded me of "now get out of that" | |
| <mattl> heh. best graph ever. | |
| <mattl> http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42589000/gif/_42589995_weight_perception203.gif | |
| <Seeker`> lo loudmouthman | |
| <loudmouthman> hey seeker | |
| * loudmouthman marvels at the miracle of client hindsight! some clients <grrrrr> | |
| <loudmouthman> right off to clients again <sigh> . they want exhange because they need shared calendars and addressbooks ! and sunbird aint cutting it . grrrr | |
| <Seeker`> beryl is borked again | |
| <popey> </unsurprised> | |
| <mattl> Seeker`: what video card do you use? | |
| <dotwaffle> be a man! Use your desktop without 3D acceleration! (he says, writing from iTerm in OSX) | |
| <popey> uh-oh | |
| <popey> incoming! :0 | |
| <mattl> popey: :p | |
| <popey> ;) | |
| <Seeker`> mattl: intel 945 i think | |
| <mattl> yay. | |
| <mattl> popey: see. | |
| <popey> heh | |
| <popey> 53 | |
| <GazzaK> eeek, I sent an email to my local site, all staff, and forgot to turn off read receipts, eeek, what a idiot I am | |
| <mattl> read recipts? | |
| <GazzaK> emails saying "so and so has read your email" | |
| <GazzaK> turned on by default in lotus notes | |
| <Seeker`> GazzaK: How many people on site? | |
| <GazzaK> 150 odd | |
| <medders> a filter should sort that out shouldn't it? | |
| <medders> or at least hide the problem :) | |
| <mattl> GazzaK: so you're the Lotus Notes user. | |
| <GazzaK> and I also forgot to alter the "reply to" address to something stupid like "rtfm" so I'll probably get stupid replys too | |
| <GazzaK> MattJ, there has to be like one company still using it (it's poo) | |
| <GazzaK> oops, mattl | |
| <MattJ> ^^ | |
| <popey> GazzaK: sorry, should get to your request today (lug.org.uk) | |
| <GazzaK> yayayyayayayayaayyyyy | |
| <popey> mattl: whats the status of mp3 these days? license wise? | |
| <mattl> popey: can i have awesome.glug.org.uk ? | |
| <GazzaK> I got the okay from the current lugmaster :-) | |
| <mattl> popey: still patented. | |
| <popey> ok, ta, saw you talking about it recently | |
| <mattl> yeah, i'm not especially worried about it, personally. | |
| <mattl> but you can playback mp3s with free software. | |
| <Seeker`> when does the patent expire? | |
| <popey> depends on the term, which depends on the patent | |
| <popey> http://mp3licensing.com/patents/index.html | |
| <popey> http://mp3licensing.com/licensees/index.asp lots of people have licensed it | |
| <mattl> mp3 is becoming less relevant. | |
| <popey> very very slowly | |
| *** neuro|irssi is now known as neuro_ | |
| <trashbat> signoff | |
| <trashbat> * | |
| <popey> trashbat!? | |
| <popey> nathan barley!? | |
| <popey> GazzaK: ping-a-ling | |
| <GazzaK> popey, ding dong | |
| <gord> happy pancake gonna get fat cos I love pancake pancake pancake day! | |
| <gord> pancake! | |
| <GazzaK> PANCAKE DAY!!!111!!!!1 | |
| <mattl> is it? | |
| <DaveMorris> yep | |
| <mattl> i'd better eat all the leftover batter in my flat before lent. | |
| <popey> mmmm batter | |
| <popey> reminds me of a rude viz story which I clearly cant talk about here or tsmithe will start saying !ohmy all over the place | |
| <popey> !ohmy | |
| <ubotwo> Please watch your language and keep this channel family friendly. | |
| <DaveMorris> well we just need an adult bot, which people subscribe to and tou send it to the bot via pm, and the bot then sends it to you via pm | |
| <popey> or #ubuntu-adult :) | |
| <gord> bleh, walking whist holding coffee and sneezing is not a good combination | |
| <popey> heh | |
| * Seeker` has already been practicing making pancakes | |
| <popey> Sophie was alarmed the other day when she sneezed and farted at the same time | |
| * popey will make some pancakes later | |
| <Seeker`> I had some on friday, and on sunday | |
| <mattl> popey: This is where you do the punchline and say Sophie's your pet hamster/parrot. | |
| <mattl> !ohmy | |
| <ubotwo> Please watch your language and keep this channel family friendly. | |
| <gord> last year I pretty much made it pancake month, felt a bit ill at the end of it so this year its just pancake day -_- | |
| <mattl> heh | |
| <Seeker`> gord: I know what you mean | |
| <mattl> i choose to eschew christian events like today and instead support days that my own church has. | |
| <popey> I pick and choose the bits and pieces from other peoples religions that I like | |
| <popey> (like eating turkey and pancakes [not together]) | |
| <popey> and throw away the bits I dont like | |
| <gord> I generally just chose the holidays, the rest seems to just be bad stuff | |
| <popey> (believing in God etc) | |
| <DaveMorris> I'm like popey | |
| <DaveMorris> if I don't believe in Heaven and Hell I can't go to Hell. :) | |
| <popey> Richard Dawkins does a good talk on that | |
| <popey> aaanyway | |
| <gord> if theres one thing that keeps an irc channel happy, its not having talks about religion ;) | |
| <popey> GazzaK: about colchester.. prv when you have a moment | |
| * GazzaK bought pancake making stuff yesterday :-) | |
| <DaveMorris> my teeth are gonna rot with all the syrup :) | |
| <mattl> GazzaK: eggs and flour? :p | |
| <DaveMorris> and milk | |
| <gord> bleh. syrups an american thing. its lemon from a squeesy lemon shaped bottle and sugar | |
| <GazzaK> and lemon juice | |
| <GazzaK> and maple syrup | |
| <DaveMorris> yeah, I have lemon and sugar on every other one, and Llyons Golden Syrup on the other | |
| <gord> hurrarh, Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe is on tonight. love that show | |
| <popey> ditto | |
| <gord> hrmm aparently I missed an episode, this is why we need a bbc net service thats drm free | |
| <DaveMorris> cough torrent cough | |
| <Seeker`> gord: Fresh lemon is better. it doesn't taste like washing up liquid | |
| <gord> nothing that has come in a bottle shaped like the item its supposed to represent has ever tasted better than its natural counterpart | |
| <DaveMorris> apart from that fake dog poo I bet | |
| <mattl> DaveMorris: that er.. wasn't fake. | |
| <bugbot> New on planetuk: Jono Bacon: Ubucon Sevilla <http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=899> | |
| <mattl> where is this planetuk? | |
| <medders> mattl: http://www.ubuntu-uk.org/planet/ | |
| <mattl> medders: thanks. how do i get onto that? | |
| <medders> mattl: apparently you just add your feed to here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ubuntu-uk.org/planet/ | |
| <Seeker`> mattl: It takes a couple of hours to pick stuff up | |
| <mattl> cool :) | |
| <X3N_> can you see this album ? http://brunelac.facebook.com/album.php?aid=1120&id=501924751 | |
| <jamesbrose> !!! Dell on linux?! | |
| <ubotwo> Sorry, I know nothing about that - try http://help.ubuntu.com/community/ | |
| <jamesbrose> Linux on dell I mean :] | |
| <jamesbrose> http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/19/2212213 | |
| <Seeker`> X3N_: No | |
| <Seeker`> Have there been any posts to the ubuntuuk list since fridaY? | |
| <GazzaK> not which I've seen | |
| *** neuro|irssi is now known as neuro_ | |
| <GazzaK> last one I saw was Fri Feb 16 20:06:20 GMT 2007 | |
| <Seeker`> GazzaK: ditto | |
| <GazzaK> what can I get my mother for her birthday (which is today, so I need to get it on the way home) | |
| <DaveMorris> flowers? | |
| <mattl> cider and cake | |
| <DaveMorris> Choclate? | |
| <DaveMorris> M & S gift vocher | |
| <mattl> a st bernard | |
| <sheepeatingtaz> Ubuntu CD? | |
| <GazzaK> mattl, nice idea, I'd love a St Bernard | |
| <GazzaK> sheepeatingtaz, done that already | |
| <krateein> Hey everyone, I know this isn't the support channel but i just seem to get ignored there so any help would be appreciated. I'm having trouble installing Linux on my old machine. I Wiped the hard Drive of windows but when insert the CD (it is definitely burned correctly) nothing happens. I just get the message Verifying DMI Pool data ... Invalid system disk replace the disk and then press any key. Is it because i only have 64 | |
| <ormiret> krateein: sounds liek your mahine isn't booting from CD check the boot order in the bios. | |
| <neuro_> ormiret: see #ubuntu | |
| <neuro_> am answering there :> | |
| <ormiret> OK :) | |
| <neuro_> i deleted my ubuntu VM at work today :( | |
| <neuro_> wasn't using it, was chewing up 8 gig of space on my fc6 workstation :( | |
| * GazzaK hugs popey | |
| <LoudMouthMan> Hey Peeps, | |
| <LoudMouthMan> Hey Gazzak is that you starting a lug up there ? | |
| <GazzaK> yep | |
| <popey> evening all | |
| <PriceChild> LoudMouthMan, still no word on when the form ML will be created which is annoying me | |
| <PriceChild> *forum | |
| <LoudMouthMan> indeed. | |
| <mdke> you decided to go with a forum in the end? | |
| <LoudMouthMan> no , nothing decided yet. | |
| <mdke> a trial run? | |
| <constrictor> how do i record video streams | |
| <constrictor> ? | |
| <LoudMouthMan> mdke pricechild and I are just seeing what if anything will / can be done on a seperate list/group/forum. | |
| <PriceChild> boo :) | |
| <PriceChild> mdke, yeah I'm hopefully getting an ubuntu-uk-forums mailing list to integrate into a uk subforum.... but still no reply from the ML admins :( | |
| <mdke> ah. Why not try the existing ubuntu-uk mailing list? | |
| <PriceChild> because we don't want to flood it if things are too mad... don't want to annoy existing ML users | |
| <LoudMouthMan> and we wanted to have something Neuro_/Mdke could compare/contrast/report on as well . | |
| <mdke> hmm. You can just send one test message, I'm sure that won't annoy anyone :) | |
| <PriceChild> ubuntu-uk ML users will use ubuntu-uk-forums if they want to... see how well things work | |
| <PriceChild> mdke, oh no we "know" the technology works | |
| <mdke> PriceChild: right, so why the need to test? | |
| <PriceChild> mdke, well do you like the idea of suddenly letting >200,000 forum users loose on your mailing list from the forums? | |
| <mdke> well, I don't mind it personally. But I understand the question | |
| <mdke> I just don't see how a test is going to help people take a view as to the answer | |
| <PriceChild> I just don't wanna have you guys shouting at me if you get flooded :) | |
| <PriceChild> I'd much rather see the level of traffic we get first, then push it on the main list if it seems good | |
| <LoudMouthMan> mdke i dont think people will take a view no the answer I think though if it just gets done then we can agree that it can be trialled/reviewed which is further than we have gotten before. | |
| <LoudMouthMan> and im with Pricechild I want to know what happens before we apply anything as part of a trial / concept | |
| <LoudMouthMan> its about finding ways to communicate and stay open and reach the low hanging fruit and to have answers and share them. | |
| <mdke> PriceChild: but you won't get a realistic idea of the traffic on a test forum | |
| <popey> 19:48 < PriceChild> mdke, well do you like the idea of suddenly letting >200,000 forum users loose on your mailing list from the forums? | |
| <popey> to be fair, that *wont* happen | |
| <PriceChild> popey, yeah i know not every one will be on... | |
| <popey> you are not going to get all 200K users suddenly appear in a UK loco forum | |
| <PriceChild> hardly any compared | |
| <PriceChild> popey, haha yeah I know | |
| <PriceChild> mdke, its not a test forum... | |
| <popey> who needs to be poked to get this done? | |
| <PriceChild> mdke, It will be a normal subforum on ubuntuforums.org like all the others, its just the mailing list that could be temporary | |
| <PriceChild> popey, Im' waiting for a reply from rt@canonical | |
| <popey> admin for the list rather than admin for the forums then? | |
| <PriceChild> yes | |
| <PriceChild> ubuntu-geek can add it in a few minutes when its ready | |
| <mdke> PriceChild: so you are essentially implementing a separate forum to the mailing list, with a view that *possibly* it might be merged with the ML at some stage | |
| <mdke> if it becomes clear that a merge isn't possible for whatever reason, will you close the forum, or keep it running as a separate means of commuication? | |
| <LoudMouthMan> I think we are implementing a seperaet list/forum thingies withthe view to testing the results and the volumes its just an attempt to move things forward. | |
| <PriceChild> mdke, Well that's a choice we don't have to make yet. | |
| <PriceChild> mdke, and all the ubuntu-uk pro ML people can see how well the integrated mailing list works before we make that decisino | |
| <popey> I am interested to see how it copes with non-forum users posting to the ML | |
| * mdke shrugs | |
| <mdke> I would have said just tie it directly to ubuntu-uk and be done with it | |
| <mdke> anyway, gtg now | |
| <popey> ttfn | |
| <PriceChild> hehe :) | |
| <LoudMouthMan> yeah SG-1 is comming <grin> | |
| <PriceChild> cya mdke | |
| <popey> next meeting is tomorrow at 21:00 yes? the /topic is right? | |
| <LoudMouthMan> yeppers | |
| <daviey> Has anybody here got there ubuntu cert? | |
| <popey> doubt it | |
| <popey> it's lpic 101, 102 and 199 isnt it? | |
| <daviey> hmm, not sure | |
| <daviey> I didn't realise we were doing 2 types, desktop & engineer | |
| <daviey> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EngineerCertification | |
| <popey> er | |
| <popey> thats just a wiki page | |
| <popey> doesnt look too official yet | |
| <popey> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EngineerCertification/CertObjectives | |
| <daviey> looks interesting. | |
| <nikdoof> heh wish i had the money to get some linux certs | |
| <daviey> get somebody to pay for you. ;) | |
| <nikdoof> hehe, i'm just a lowly helpdesk monkey, no chance of getting money for that | |
| <X3N_> hello mr butlershouse | |
| <X3N_> and here it is.. in all it's glory: http://photos.x3n.me.uk/Events/pranks/01.jpg | |
| <daviey> X3N_, oh how i miss the days | |
| <X3N_> :) | |
| <X3N_> definately the best fun i've had in ages | |
| <jamesbrose> Darn more problems with VM workstation!! | |
| <jamesbrose> Getting the error ""Unable to change virtual machine power state: Failed to connect to peer process." when trying to start a VM | |
| <daviey> jamesbrose, did you 'shut down' correctly when you last used it? | |
| <daviey> I had a similar/same error when i killed vmplayer without shutting down | |
| <jamesbrose> daviey, no :/ Although, I get the same error when trying to start a completely new VM | |
| <daviey> jamesbrose, how did you install VM? Is it just vmplayer. Has it ever worked? | |
| <jamesbrose> daviey, Its vm workstation. I used to have VM Server installed, but removed it and installed this. | |
| <jamesbrose> It used to work on server.. | |
| <jamesbrose> I will try vm server again | |
| <daviey> vm workstation has never worked? | |
| <jamesbrose> nope | |
| <daviey> Could be something wrong with conf/settings left behind with the server edition | |
| <daviey> Is it worth trying vmplayer, to see if it works? | |
| <jamesbrose> Yeah, will give it a go | |
| <jamesbrose> It wouldn't bother me using vmplayer, since i've already made the vm | |
| <daviey> jamesbrose, tbh - i use vmplayer and create my images at www.easyvmx.com | |
| <jamesbrose> daviey, ah wow, I never new it existed :] | |
| <jamesbrose> daviey, yay! vmplayer works fine :] | |
| <daviey> good stuff | |
| <daviey> I have heard that virtualpc is quite good; but i haven't tried it | |
| <X3N_> ms virtual pc ? | |
| <daviey> X3N_, no |
