irclog2html for #gllug on 20031226

00:00.15new2unixXmas is over. Yipee!
00:00.32LeedsYipee?
00:00.53Copenew2unix: I dunno - it always works; and it just worked in knoppix
00:01.16new2unixLeeds: yeah. It lost its sparkle when i was very young
00:01.17CopeBut it just isn't doing anything
00:01.32new2unixCope: mouse driver installed?
00:01.42Leedsnew2unix: :-(
00:01.46Copenew2unix: I have no idea.
00:02.15Leedsthis is the first Christmas in years I've noticed
00:02.25Copenew2unix: I've never had any problems with a mouse in 4 years of using linux so i don't even know how they work
00:02.58CopeI haven't really had a christmas
00:03.26new2unixok. i'm not an Xpert, wait till the morning when the others drop by. but i think gpm needs to be installed.
00:04.21new2unixCope: General Purpose Mouse Interface
00:04.23CopeSeems very unlikely; as gpm is a generic mouse driver that I use in console that is not installed by default
00:04.43CopeBut the mouse still works in X
00:05.20new2unixOh ok. well i really dont know, sorry :(
00:06.11new2unixCope: what warning, errors do you get?
00:07.09Copenew2unix: Nothing; I just get a mouse pointer in the middle of the screen that doesn't move.
00:11.36new2unixwhats your default screen like? It isnt too high is it?
00:12.25CopeNo
00:12.38Copeeverything is fine apart from the inability to move the pointer
00:15.01Leedsyou can tell X to use gpm as the mouse driver...
00:22.47CopeYay!
00:23.05CopeChanged protocol from auto to ps2 and we're there.
00:46.22highburythe general rule of thunm currently is X will "Just work" (tm) under Knoppix, then steal the config file to get running on your own set up
00:46.56highburyanyways have a cool yule guys .... nn
00:47.03Leedsnight highbury
00:47.30Copehighbury: yep, did that, but for the mouse not working.
00:47.42Copenn highury
00:53.34Leedsnews update from Beagle: nothing found by Jodrell Bank :-(
01:00.25CopeHmm... what could I use to launch windows and menus, to go with metacity?
01:05.24Leedsthe GNOME panel, traditionally
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08:39.14evangineermorning peeps
08:39.39evangineeribot beagle
08:39.41somebody said beagle was a nose with a dog on the back of it
08:40.11evangineeribot beagle2
08:40.14no idea, evangineer
08:41.32Leedspretty much sums it up :-(
08:43.16evangineerAh well!  What's the next window of opportunity for communication?
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08:44.08Leedsthee are 2 windows today, I think, then they start to give up
08:44.58Leedsah, no
08:45.04Leedsone today, one tomorrow...
08:45.21Leedsat around 2320 both days
08:48.18evangineerGuess that's it then until 2320.  How was your Xmas day?
08:50.05Leedsnot bad... didn't do much
08:50.07Leedsyou?
08:51.02evangineerWent to my mum's, ate until stuffed, went home to sleep it off!
08:51.46Leedsnice
08:53.12evangineerHung out with my brothers, watched Tomorrow Never Dies and Some Like It Hot
08:54.20evangineerresuDaed: Some Like It Hot, they just don't make screwball comedies like they used to.
08:55.36evangineerOuch! X-Chat expanded Re to resuDaed :-(
09:01.01Leedsundeed
09:17.42evangineerAck! DHCP is still broken, it was working a couple of days ago.
09:19.39evangineerLooks like the DHCP requests are getting caught on the firewall.  I haven't changed the ruleset, so they shouldn't be caught.
09:26.42evangineerAh I see!, the rc.firewall-2.4-stronger firewall ruleset doesn't allow internal DHCPd requests by default!
09:38.47evangineerRestarting the firewall with the modified ruleset hasn't quite done the trick.  DHCPd is receiving a DHCPDISCOVER and responding with a DHCPOFFER, but my client is not getting the offered IP address.
09:42.43evangineerDoh! I had fixed the INPUT rules, but not the OUTPUT rules.
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09:53.09evangineerIt's working now! Both my Linux and W2K clients are getting their IP addresses!
09:53.52evangineerW2K DHCP client implementation looks a bit broken to me judging by /var/log/messages though.
09:56.46evangineerTime to see if this laptop will work with my local DHCP server.
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10:02.20evangineerThis laptop works with the internal DHCP server now.
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10:13.52evangineerntl web proxy seems to be in bad shape right now.  www.theregister.co.uk and www.theinquirer.net are coming up very slowly.
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10:19.26zacharyHappy Boxing Day, 7th day of Hanukkah and 1st day of Kwanzza
10:28.36evangineerHappy holidays zachary
10:50.35evangineerevangineer is quite amused by http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1420046,00.asp
11:45.18wethrinHi
11:46.27evangineerHey wethrin
11:48.08wethrinGrmpf. I is not well.
11:48.31wethrinAnd $swerver restarted last night again. For some reason, Clam AV doesn't want to come back up properly
11:50.26evangineerI had some DHCP troubles myself, but that was down to a misconfigured firewall which I've fixed.
11:50.36wethrin:)
11:51.24evangineerSo what ails you, food, flu, or something else?
11:52.07wethrinA cold. Overnight it's moved down into my throat
11:52.20wethrin"The coughing, she hurts"
11:52.49evangineerUrgh!  I hope you're taking something for that.
11:58.17wethrinWhat?
12:02.18evangineerTaking something for the cold, that is!
12:02.27wethrinYes, what? :)
12:03.33evangineerPerhaps Lemsip Cold and Flu capsules - the strong ones!
12:04.45wethrinYes....I'm not sure if there are any downstairs.
12:04.49wethrinAnd I think Tesco is closed today
12:09.18evangineerMaybe you should phone Tesco to make sure that it is indeed closed or not?
12:10.15wethrinThere appears to be some medication available in the house
12:10.49CopeSorry you're feeling ill, old thing.
12:12.03wethrinThanks :)
12:13.15wethrinI have a throat sweet.
12:13.33Xiaoqihello everyone!
12:15.32CopeHi Xiaoqi.
12:15.40wethrinhihi
12:16.16Copewethrin: know a quick and easy way to make an xterm have a bigger window and bigger font? On 1600x1200 the current one is a bit small.
12:18.24wethrin<PROTECTED>
12:19.34zacharywethrin: Anything sugary, hot water & lemon juice for the throat. Paracetramol(sp) for fever. Push fluids Otherwise there is nothing you can do for a cold except to ride it out. Now I sound like one of your parents, right?
12:20.17wethrinYes, dad :)
12:20.53zacharyok, now shut your computer down and get some rest.
12:23.06wethrin:)
12:23.26wethrinI have stuff to do, though
12:30.21JDhi alll
12:31.48JDdid I miss anyone?
12:33.46wethrinevangineer
12:36.35CopeHi JD
12:40.11evangineerwethrin?
12:40.14wethrinHi
12:40.18wethrinJD missed you
12:40.50evangineerNo probs, I'll just sulk
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12:42.32jason_ukfsnhello folks
12:42.37CopeHi Jason
12:42.50jason_ukfsnHi Cope. Are you around today?
12:42.53evangineerHey jason
12:43.01wethrinCould someone quickly send a test email to dan@eco.li, please?
12:43.31jason_ukfsnI'll be in the area this afternoon if you want to get that drink
12:43.39evangineerwethrin: done
12:43.40jason_ukfsnwethrin - domain not found
12:43.51wethrinevangineer: Thanks
12:43.57wethrinjason_ukfsn: Huh?
12:44.42jason_ukfsnwethrin just me being stupid and typing .il instead of .li
12:44.50wethrinAhh :) I do that quite often.
12:44.51evangineerdig says that eco.li is on  195.82.99.7
12:44.55wethrinYes, that seemed to arrive, thanks.
12:45.05jason_ukfsni've sent one now
12:45.07wethrinYes, but that's not where the mail goes to (yet)
12:45.30wethrinThanks - got both of yours :)
12:47.10wethrinGrmpf. *bangs his head*
12:47.35JDooh hi jason_ukfsn and sorry evangineer
12:47.56jason_ukfsnhi JD
12:48.02jason_ukfsnenjoying christmas?
12:48.10evangineerJD you are forgiven.
12:48.25JDjason_ukfsn: not particularly
12:48.38wethrinHmm.....does Exim to odd things if it's unable to send mail to a particular domain for some time?
12:48.52JDwethrin: it keeps it in the queue
12:48.58wethrin(i.e. will it automatically decide to use the backup MX?)
12:49.00JDuntil it gets bounced
12:49.15JDit should try MXs in order until it sends it
12:49.19wethrinOkay.
12:49.28JDif it completely fails then it waits for a retry
12:49.47wethrinIt does keep a record of 'oh, I haven't been able to send to the primary for some time; I'll stick with the secondary for a few more hours'?
12:49.49wethrin*doesn't
12:49.51JDauiu
12:49.53JDaiui
12:50.12JDerm it does seem to keep a record of something about hosts being crap iirc
12:50.24JDbut I;m not certain what exactly
12:50.50wethrinAhhhh.......that might explain a bit
12:51.37wethrinThe US server has been going down more than Jenson at a Gllug meeting
12:52.42JDwethrin: meow
12:54.55wethrinHmm. I guess I should ride out for the next 24 hours and see if it'll come alive again
12:56.04jason_ukfsnwethrin - I take it you've tried etrn?
12:56.24wethrinNo...
12:56.51jason_ukfsnthat should prompt the server to attempt delivery of any mail in it's queue for the specified domain
12:57.40wethrinSo I need to connect to the mail server, EHLO it, and type ETRN?
12:58.20jason_ukfsnyou don't need to ehlo unless you are unsure it supports etrn and want to check
12:58.30jason_ukfsntelnet host 25
12:58.33wethrinIt does, but gives me an administrative prohibition
12:58.38jason_ukfsnetrn domain.name
12:58.39jason_ukfsnquit
12:58.50wethrinETRN eco.li
12:58.51wethrin458 Administrative prohibition
12:59.10jason_ukfsnoh dear. sounds like you are going to have to wait then.
12:59.14wethrinYes.
12:59.31wethrinGrumble. Stupid piece of crap machine.
13:00.05wethrinclamd doesn't come up properly on startup. So mail can't get into the queue on the server. I need to start clam manually.
13:00.28jason_ukfsndon't you have it called from the mta startup script?
13:00.47wethrinNope. I've got clam and spamd running from separate startup scripts
13:00.56wethrinOdd thing is that when I do /etc/init.d/clamd start, it works fine
13:01.34jason_ukfsnso what's in the script that isn't right?
13:01.39wethrinI don't know
13:01.58wethrinIt just doesn't seem to want to start on bootup
13:02.06wethrin/etc/rc3.d/S82clamd is linked properly
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13:03.05JDhi cupis
13:03.09cupishello
13:03.32jason_ukfsnhey cupis
13:03.38cupishi jason
13:03.43cupishow wa everyone's Christmas?
13:03.51wethrinhi cupis
13:04.03jason_ukfsni'm still enjoying mine cupis. Hopefully I have another ten days after today as well
13:04.13cupisjason_ukfsn: :)
13:05.43jason_ukfsnwethrin what are the dependancies for clamd?
13:07.59jason_ukfsnJD - make sure the cinema you go to wont need to have a break - the second time I watched the film was a bit ruined by the break.
13:08.26jason_ukfsnit was also ruined by the bastard kids in the row behind me who wouldn't stop laughing and shouting.
13:08.48jason_ukfsnI had to offer to break the arm of one of them at the start of the film when he started throwing popcorn at me.
13:09.41jason_ukfsnsome of the other adults there gave me dirty looks at that however it wasn't long before they were making similar comments
13:09.48wethrinjason_ukfsn: No dependencies, I think
13:10.13Copeany lotr films.
13:10.36wethrinWell, you should :)
13:12.36jason_ukfsnevangineer - gandalf is particularly good in the battle scenes in ROTK
13:12.36evangineerAnyone implemented fwsnort and/or psad
13:12.56wethrinDuck++
13:13.01JDduck is good
13:13.04wethrinBack later.
13:13.08JDI want duck
13:13.27JDduck?
13:13.31jason_ukfsnCope - do you have a DVD player or DVD drive in PC?
13:13.36evangineerjason_ukfsn: I'll be sure to see RoTK then.
13:13.51wethrinJD: If you think you should
13:14.34jason_ukfsnIf you do I can borrow you the first and second films on DVD (the former is a screener and the latter may not play if you're player is strict about indexes)
13:14.38Copejason_ukfsn: No, but I have a contraption that can be contrived to play dvds on my monitor
13:14.44wethrinRight, anyway. Byee
13:15.07evangineerSee you later wethrin
13:17.20jason_ukfsnI enjoyed Revolutions - you do have to have seen Animatrix to get it properly though.
13:17.48JDjason_ukfsn: I think you need to play the game too aiui
13:18.03jason_ukfsnJD - I've not even seen the game
13:18.10zacharyjason_ukfsn: Yes, I agree. (I haven't played the game)
13:18.29evangineerI have seen some of the Animatrix, mainly Second Genesis or whatever it's called
13:19.02evangineerI've seen just about all the cut scenes from the game.
13:19.28JDevangineer: the last short is very good (the girl in the old house)
13:19.39jason_ukfsnI picked up a copy of animatrix from Ebay and I'm very happy I did
13:20.37evangineerI'll have to see if my brother has animatrix in his extensive collection.
13:21.43zacharyNext gllug meeting, show animatrix from noon-12:30.
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13:23.23evangineerzachary: really?
13:23.39stephanbXiaoqi: merry xmas !
13:24.04jason_ukfsnzachary just don't announce it as it would be copyright violation. :(
13:24.05zacharycould, just not announce it, so it is not a public screening.
13:24.12stephanbwoaow so many people online today !
13:24.41stephanbCope: any more thoughts on your PC based TV set ?
13:25.04zacharyWe could call it an educational study / philosophical debate.
13:25.39evangineerzachary: sounds good to me ;-)
13:25.57jason_ukfsnhas anyone here used a DVBs (satellite) card?
13:26.19Copestephanb: Yeah, subsequent investigation revealed that the motherboard in the pc in question only supports AGPx2 so I think I'll wait and save up.
13:32.43stephanbCope: i just checked, my mb is 133MHz FSB, APGx4. I use an nVidia TNT2, and the nVidia drivers are required if i intend to scale the video buffer
13:33.47stephanbjason_ukfsn: no, but my tv card encodes analog tv into mpeg-2. what would you like to know about dvbs ?
13:35.22Copestephanb: Hmm...
13:36.00jason_ukfsnstephanb: I have a Sky mini dish but don't use it at the moment. I'm thinking of hooking it up to a DVB card and trying to get German freeview channels for my wife
13:41.01stephanbjason_ukfsn: this is more a frequency allocation / descrambler / size of dish question. Are those german channels on the sky satellite ?
13:42.09jason_ukfsnI know they were on Astra satellites several years ago however I am not sure now.
13:42.49jason_ukfsnIf not I know it will be necessary to align the dish to point at other sats but I hope not.
13:43.10JDooh a stephanb
13:43.20stephanbCope: maybe it's above your budget, but if i were building a pctv i would look into shuttle-pc mini-itx systems. And i would avoid the via C3, don't think it's powerful enough to decode mpeg-2.
13:43.45JDsome of the via boards have mpeg2 stuff on board
13:43.55jason_ukfsnstephanb how about one of the C3 Nehemia (sp?) boards with onboard MPEG decoder?
13:46.15stephanbjason_ukfsn: oh yes you won't catch astra with a dish pointing to the sky satellite, you'll have to realigh it. also check that your dish is big enough and that the lnb can get the astra frequency bands
13:47.02stephanbjason_ukfsn: there is an article on this board in the current issue of linux format. The drivers for the mpeg decoder are in development.
13:47.04jason_ukfsnI thought Sky were still on the Astra satelittes?
13:55.16stephanbjason_ukfsn: this is correct, sky digital comes from ASTRA2. It seems to me that most german free channels are on ASTRA1 analogue
13:58.08jason_ukfsnAh. I didn't keep my old Sky analogue dish when I moved house - did keep the analogue sky box though. :(
13:58.43stephanbjason_ukfsn: ARD, 3SAT, ARTE, Bayerisches Fernsehen, ... analogue, orbital position 19.2E
13:58.58stephanbjason_ukfsn: http://www.ses-astra.com/tv-radio/guide/lineup/markets/UK_all.htm
14:00.08stephanbjason_ukfsn: for astra 1C, you will need a 60cm dish.
14:02.29jason_ukfsnI'll have to check and see whether any of the neighbours has one they're not using any more.
14:03.02jason_ukfsnI know that there is one on the wall of the building and there are planning issues with adding any more dishes
14:04.00stephanbjason_ukfsn: any way a DVBs card is useless for astra 1C
14:04.58jason_ukfsnah yes I should have thought 'D' being the obvious indicator.
14:05.16jason_ukfsnI do have the old analogue receiver though so that should do.
14:05.27stephanbjason_ukfsn: if there is already a dish, and it's large enough, you may just need to add a lnb
14:16.42jason_ukfsnthanks stephanb. I'm heading into town now. Hopefully back online in about 30 minutes
14:21.09wethrinBlah
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15:23.32evangineerwb jason:
15:23.51jason_ukfsnI've just arrived
15:23.53jason_ukfsnre all
15:24.29evangineerWhat's town like?
15:24.38jason_ukfsnwhich town?
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17:17.27wethrinwb
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17:50.44zacharyhey wethrin, did I miss anything?
18:02.25Cope|Pub~
18:34.57wethrinzachary: Nope
18:37.25zacharyWe need some dialog going. How about starting a rumor?
18:37.47wethrinBets on how many new boyfriends Jenson will have next year?
18:39.25zacharyI didn't keep track of her 2003 stats. So I couldn't make an educated guess.
18:39.39wethrin4
18:40.19zacharyIf she forgets to take her anti depresants. I'll go with 6.
18:40.44wethrinHeh :)
18:41.16zacharyMS is sponsoring our Spring Install Fest!
18:41.30wethrinOh?
18:43.58wethrinSponsoring how?
18:45.49zacharyDonations of box versions of Windows XP and Office. I think it's an attempt to lure people back.
18:45.58wethrinMuahah.
18:46.32zacharyPlus a demo on the current state of Longhorn.
18:46.34wethrinSo we have a Gllug quiz - top performers get the SUSE boxes, and the bottom people get the Windows boxes as booby prises?
18:46.38wethrin*prizes
18:46.39wethrin:)
18:47.37zacharybrb
19:06.49wethrinw00t. My email's finally decided to come through :0
19:06.50wethrin:)
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19:23.00XmasHuhnhi
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19:24.28wethrinHuhn!
19:24.39XmasHuhn:)
19:24.43wethrinNadolig Llawen!
19:24.52XmasHuhnum...
19:24.55XmasHuhnFrohe Weihnachten?
19:25.03wethrinAuch :)
19:25.06wethrinJa.
19:26.07XmasHuhn:)
19:27.27wethrin:)
19:32.17wethrinbiab
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20:21.37wethrin'lo
20:23.43wethrinHi
20:24.06wethrinI really need to recable the speakers
20:24.32wethrinI'm just using shitty cables :)
20:24.46wethrinI've got some better ones, but it'll probably take most of an hour to recable
20:24.54wethrin(it's in an awkward position)
20:26.23Copeannoying...
20:29.35wethrinYep
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20:32.51wethrinHey omphe
20:33.02ompheevening all!
20:34.21CopeHello
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20:47.13highburyI have a friend who has an old Apple, what distro is recommended?
20:47.43ompheMotorola or PowerPC?
20:47.57wethrinMacOS 7 or 8?
20:59.52Copemozrat!
21:00.30Copehigbury: netBSD?
21:06.29mozratCope!!
21:06.45mozrathighbury: Debian!
21:08.25omphehighbury: debian works on everything, but YellowDog is recommended for newcomers
21:08.26wethrinDebian sucks.
21:08.33wethrinGo for NetBSD :)
21:08.41mozratibot lart wethrin
21:08.44mozratwoot
21:09.47mozratgo on then wethrin.... for some conversation. why does debian suck?
21:10.36wethrinI like annoying the "everyone *must* use Debian"-crowd of people :)
21:11.06wethrinPlus it's always had some problems whenever I've had to use it
21:11.28mozratif i ever see any of them I'll pass your compliments onto them ;-) .. highbury asked, and debian works fine on ppc (so does YD)
21:11.59wethrinOh, plus the attitude of a lot of Debian users/developers *really* pisses me off.
21:12.21mozrataptitude?
21:13.24CopeWhy do so few people here use redhat or mandrake, I wonder. Seems there are bags of debianites and some faithful slackers.
21:13.49wethrinQuite a lot of people use RedHat
21:14.39mozrathow about a quick straw poll
21:15.13wethrinYellow, and about yea long.
21:16.18Copemozrat: slackware on one box, netbsd on another and a debian partition to play on.
21:17.37mozratredhat at home.... debian on laptop and work pc (windows cd-rom in bottom of wardrobe)
21:18.13omphedebian ix86 (3), debian ppc(1)
21:18.30wethrinOS X at home
21:18.38wethrinAnd lots of other systems beside
21:18.58mozratoh and a zaurus - openzaurus
21:19.03Copeme too!
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21:34.00mozratHmm.... laptop froze then. Hope thats not a sign of things to come
21:34.39CopeBloody debian :o)
21:36.57mozrat:=(
21:39.30mozratI'm going to install a IRC server at work.... Looked at dancer-ircd (which this channel runs over) but wanted something with the ability to force authentication, and basically disallow public access to channels. Does such a creature exist?
21:41.55evangineerwethrin: my straw poll entry - slackware on four boxes
22:08.29wethrinI only work for SUSE
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