IRC log for #gllug on 20071206

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12:04.46Ch0HagI don't understand these people who say Linux is difficult these days.
12:04.55Ch0HagI had no idea how to use my scanner in OS X.
12:06.12Ch0HagIn Gnome you just load 'Image scanning program'.
12:06.20Ch0HagNot that I use Gnome myself.
12:07.14Ch0HagISTR that even in Windows it's almost straightforward.
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12:16.15zmey_gCh0Hag: quite agree with you on this. btw installed Fedora8 last week and very happy with it even though always consider myself debian man. very nice distro.
12:25.26Ch0HagTell me that when Fedora 9 comes out.
12:27.54zmey_gCh0Hag: :) sure. keep listen to me. which distro do you use?
12:28.01Ch0HagDebian.
12:28.09Ch0HagBut I give the lusers Ubuntu.
12:28.34Ch0HagThe Mac runs OSX until I can download^Wbuy the latest version and change it to dual OSX/Ubuntu.
12:29.00zmey_gchoice of the champions. me too.
12:36.53dick_turpinHa ha my Nokia N810 has arrived!
12:46.10halisweet
12:46.14halihow's the keyboard?
12:48.43dick_turpinhali: I'm not allowed to play with it until Christmas day I can only drool over it until tonight
12:49.05dick_turpinhali: When the misses will take it off me and wrap it
12:53.25zmey_gdoes anybody had an any experience with HP 530 laptop?
12:54.34dick_turpinzmey_g: Wassup?
12:55.00zmey_gjust ordered it
12:55.11dick_turpinNice
12:55.46zmey_gall reviews are good, but just curious was it a good choice.
12:56.38dick_turpinzmey_g: Dunno, should be HP is pretty good quality
12:57.50zmey_ghad to choose between toshiba satellite and hp. decided to go for hp
12:58.18zmey_gfor my son christmas present
12:59.05dick_turpinTosh is nice too I have an M2 Tosh
12:59.27zmey_glooking forward to be shot by own son in Quake 3 tournament.
12:59.45dick_turpin:-)
13:00.15zmey_gdick_turpin: i have toshiba satellite pro A100. cant complaint
13:01.21dick_turpinMine runs ArchLinux but I've started messing around with Linux Mint
13:01.43zmey_gbut decided to go for diversity as well to give equal opportunities to all brands. :)
13:02.08zmey_gMint is nice
13:03.37dick_turpinYeah I'm pretty impressed its a more palatable version of Ubuntu for me
13:04.50zmey_gi had Celena-rock solid distro. than upgraded it to Daryna it becomes broken a bit, returned back to celena
13:05.35zmey_gthan moved to Fedora8 just week ago to give it a try, very happy so far
13:05.38dick_turpinHm I had about 10 minutes play with it last night
13:05.53zmey_gdaryna?
13:06.22dick_turpinI chose to have Root user but my choice seems to have been ignored (daryna)
13:06.40zmey_gworked for me
13:07.12dick_turpinI don't like sudo just a personal choice really
13:07.49zmey_gi think they have mint config tool in System tools and you can change it to root
13:08.37zmey_gyou can cancel fortune wishes if you want too as well
13:08.48dick_turpinYeah, I had to install Nvidia and tweak the settings (I always have to its my Monitors fault)
13:09.09dick_turpinAnd downloaded 122 updates
13:09.32zmey_gi have radeon express m200. too bad
13:09.48dick_turpinNvidia 6200
13:09.58zmey_galways have something to do with it
13:11.01zmey_gati has badly drv. i wish they woud do something
13:11.44dick_turpinNa every distro thinks my monitor does 75 hertz, it don't its 60 Hertz
13:11.55zmey_g:)
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14:18.21goibhniuhmm .. is www.gllug.org.uk down?
14:19.36wethrinEither that, or the Durham network's fucked again
14:19.40wethrinBoth are likely
14:29.23dick_turpingoibhniu: Your mums let you out to play then?
14:31.07goibhniuI told her I was doing my homework on the internet :D
14:33.16dick_turpingoibhniu: Phew, so the curfew is lifted then?
14:35.57goibhniu:D
14:36.23goibhniuI see you're floggin them EEEs
14:36.35goibhniuI saw one the other day down town
14:36.47goibhniubeen considering it for me Ma
14:37.34dick_turpingoibhniu: I've had an enquiry for 10 of em
14:38.00goibhniuin one load?
14:38.07goibhniuthat sounds pretty good
14:38.13goibhniuare they selling well?
14:38.31dick_turpingoibhniu: Yeah trouble is they are now in constraint
14:39.00goibhniuyou can't get enough?
14:42.28dick_turpingoibhniu: Heard Linux Outlaws? Guess who gets another mention?
14:43.12goibhniudick_turpin: what does it mean, that they're in constraint .. that's sales sp33k
14:43.21goibhniuI didn't hear it yet
14:43.34goibhniuI was just listening to tllts earlier
14:43.52goibhniuapparently Linux Format went around slating all the US linux podcasts :D
14:44.07dick_turpingoibhniu: Constraint = Cant get em, there are some hooky Chinese ones on eBay though
14:44.25goibhniubut they interview the new arch dictator
14:45.01dick_turpingoibhniu: Did you see the Arch fuck up?
14:45.11goibhniudick_turpin: but you mean .. the phones are hoppin for them .. and you can't get enough? .. or you got an order for 10 and it's not gonna happen?
14:45.21goibhniuno .. what did they do now?
14:45.30dick_turpinhttp://archlinux.org/news/369/
14:46.14dick_turpingoibhniu: No got an enquiry for 10 but cant get em so customer went off in a huff
14:46.24goibhniuah
14:46.41goibhniuso does that bug mean bash was broken for lots of people?
14:46.51goibhniucould you even run pacman?
14:47.11dick_turpinNot for me I've not updated for about three weeks now :-)
14:47.21goibhniuyeah, it's scary
14:47.32dick_turpinMan I was lucky
14:47.53goibhniuI was discussing arch with someone the other day
14:48.05dick_turpingo on
14:48.12goibhniuapparently it's a very controversial idea to keep a spare kernel around in case the upgrade goes wrong
14:48.26dick_turpinpays though
14:48.30goibhniuthey prefer to just replace it and hope for the best
14:48.47dick_turpinrotflmao "Hit it and hope"
14:48.53goibhniuit sounds like they don't want it
14:49.08goibhniuthe only way to do it is to install your own one
14:49.09mikejwwant what?
14:49.36dick_turpinI'm playing with Linux Mint at the moment and I'm very impressed
14:49.41goibhniuthey don't want to leave old kernels on your machine
14:49.46goibhniuit's dirty or something
14:49.57mikejwweird
14:50.06goibhniueven though ... kernel upgrades for arch do go wrong .. very badly wrong
14:50.19mikejwit's nice to have options
14:50.35goibhniuand then the solution is "oh just simply boot up a live cd, chroot, compile a fresh kernel ... blahdeblah"
14:50.46mikejwhmm
14:50.54goibhniuyeah ... maybe I don't understand the situation
14:51.13goibhniuI'm more scared of arch than ever now though :D
14:51.19mikejw:D
14:51.21goibhniumikejw: did you stick with gentoo for a while?
14:51.29mikejwstill rocking out with it yep
14:51.34goibhniuspicy :D
14:51.49mikejwI haven't played with it too much though since setting it up...
14:51.49dick_turpingoibhniu: Rewind you've lost me a bit
14:52.29mikejwI have no personal computer of my own right now, apart from a Dell pentium 3 that has slackware on it and gives me access to my mp3s :/
14:52.34goibhniumikejw: there are some extras I like to install for making life easier
14:52.59goibhniuah ... shazbot :(
14:53.16mikejwyeah I'd like to start learning about ebuilds and stuff at some point
14:54.00goibhniudick_turpin: arch keeps one and only one kernel on your machine at any time == /me scared of going near it
14:54.03mikejwyeah I'm humming and harring over what hardware to get hold of next
14:54.28goibhniuI got a quad core jobbie recently .. it's an animal
14:54.57goibhniua few things don't work on it under ubuntu though
14:54.57etorixddr3 is too pricy still
14:55.20dick_turpingoibhniu: But openSUSE F8 and some others do exactly the same they remove your current install the new
14:55.45goibhniudick_turpin: ubuntu keeps them all there
14:55.56mikejwmaybe I should get one of those asus eee things so that it won't be so much of a big deal when it get's doused in wine
14:56.08goibhniuyeah, they're tempting alright
14:56.21goibhniudid you drown your laptop?
14:56.36mikejwI did :(
14:56.48goibhniuoh gawd!
14:56.58dick_turpingoibhniu: I'm wondering if I should have gone for an asus eee rather than the Nokia N810
14:57.02mikejwsuper bum-steer
14:57.39dick_turpinmikejw: Did it spark and give off a little puff of smoke?
14:57.47goibhniudick_turpin: they're both spicy aren't they? the nokia's much smaller too I spose
14:58.06dick_turpingoibhniu: I have mine sat next to me now :-)
14:58.35mikejwa whole glass of red wine went over the keyboard while it was on
14:58.40mikejwand then it died
14:59.05goibhniudid you salvage the hd or anything?
14:59.09dick_turpinmikejw: Has it dried out? Will it fire up?
14:59.16mikejwnay
14:59.44mikejwthere wasn't anything on it important fortunately
15:00.53mikejwwell there was some stuff but it was all backed up
15:01.15mikejwthank goodness
15:05.15zmey_ggoibhniu: hi, how doing!
15:05.57goibhniuah zmey_g! .. I meant to get in touch!
15:06.05goibhniuI'm pretty good thanks
15:06.26zmey_gso is the mouse ok?
15:07.29zmey_gcan't stop myself thinking of it.
15:07.33goibhniuah yes ... it's settled in nicely :D
15:07.43zmey_goh good!
15:07.47goibhniuwell, I haven't set up the keys or anythign
15:08.06zmey_gwhy?
15:09.28goibhniudidn't try :D
15:10.13goibhniuI think I'll set the squeeze to use the compiz scale thing
15:14.33dick_turpinOoh quick looks like gllug list is building up to a petition in favour of topless linux models is that the coupe or the four door version?
15:17.51Ch0HagMore common accusations [of the gtk/gnome crowd] include ... "slavish devotees of emulating every design mistake Microsoft has ever made".
15:17.56Ch0HagCan't find any way to disagree with that.
15:28.13goibhniuCh0Hag: is that gtk folks accusing qt of that?
15:36.11Ch0Hagaccusations of, not accusations by.
15:38.17dick_turpinmikejw: IBM X40?
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15:49.42DJ_InstincTany1 here doing VoiP on uk ADSL?
16:12.43dick_turpinanyone know how do I hide the n=somename@yadder.yadder stuff? in irssi? I have autorealname.pl which is enough for me
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17:22.44Paul_UKDJ_InstincT: is the voip just for you?
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19:14.35DJ_InstincTPaul: I am looking for ADSL for small company with a couple of IAX lines; just going to use line for VoiP. Ideally want low contention and packet loss etc..
19:18.06rhoweWell, contention is pretty much fixed for ADSL, at least from the IPstream resellers
19:18.22rhoweI think BT do ~20:1 on business DSL, and ~40:1 on residential. Not too sure though
19:18.30rhoweOh, well fine, leave then
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20:00.48highburyarghhh, I'm trying to retrieve mail from a pop3 server via kmail, and the retrieval keeps hanging then timing-out during download
20:05.13highburyI could use fetchmail instead, but really just want to download the files straight into mbox folder, and not have to route it via my MTA
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