Canalplan Blogs - Recent Global Posts http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk A collection of blogs associated with Canalplan Sat, 04 May 2013 17:32:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Well I spent most of today doing nothing http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CanalplanBlogsMasterSiteFeed/~3/GIKEGs7GLgA/ http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/steve/2013/05/04/well-i-spent-most-of-today-doing-nothing/#comments Sat, 04 May 2013 17:32:22 +0000 steve http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/steve/2013/05/04/well-i-spent-most-of-today-doing-nothing/ Well nothing of any great consequence anyway. I found some old tapes and on one of them was a recording of "Call My Bluff" from the cabaret at Chronoclasm way back in 1990. I also found one of the few Phonoclasm I tapes (recorded at Iconoclasm in Leeds in 1989). Somewhere I do have the master tape of Overture 1945, but I seem to have mislaid it which is a bit of a bugger.

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I guess the fail2ban firewall rules aged out as the same suspects are back trying to use my server to send spam:

Relay access denied; from=<test@live.com> to=<therichsheickc@yahoo.com> proto=ESMTP helo=<[192.168.2.33]>

Comcast and RoadRunner obviously don't give a shit that their systems are spewing spam as I've emailed them several times about this but they have apparently done nothing

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This is MY Chaiir
We took Crystal up to my parents for the Easter weekend, primarily to give her a break from the hassling she gets from Chester. As you can see she settled in very quickly and decided that she was going to claim one of the chairs as her own

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I got Xubuntu installed on a HP G7 dual boot with Win 7 with UEFI boot without any real problems so when we got a new laptop with Win 8 I thought this would be as easy.

Nope - I wasted hours trying to get things to work properly and it never did. 

There is this long standing belief that Linux is for geeks and its all command line and hacking of configuration files. This actually isn't true - the modern distros are very GUI friendly and the installation is slick...... well its not true until it comes to dual booting Windows 8 and Linux on UEFI hardware... How  do Canonical (and other distro companies) expect to get Joe Public to try Linux when to get it to work you have to do:

: We need to install boot-repair now. Ensure you're connected to the internet and then open a terminal and type the following commands:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt-get update

     sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair

This should add the necessary repo, update, download and install boot-repair and then run it.

Step 9: In boot-repair, click 'Advanced Options', and then the 'Grub location' tab.

Step 10: You should see a separate /boot/efi partiton. Make sure the correct one is ticked and selected.

If you aren't sure which is your EFI partition, open another terminal and enter:

    sudo parted /dev/sda print

(assuming your drive is on sda of course)

You should see which is which on the list this creates.

Step 11: Click 'Apply' in boot-repair. It takes a while to complete the process, and partway through will give you some commands to remove and re-install GRUB. Follow the instructions to the letter until the process completes.

Step 12: Reboot, go back into the bios and change the bios mode back to UEFI. Save and exit and you should now find yourself with a GRUB menu within EFI.


Of course it might not work or if you are lucky it might work but your boot menu is a stupid length with all sorts of odd entries on it because there is a bug in grub2's os-prober whcih creates the wrong style (BIOS) chain boot entry

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1024383

This is a bug that is critical and has been open since July last year but has no-one assigned to it.

So you can turn off os-prober to eliminate the rogue entries in one of two ways:

gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true

or turn off executable bit
sudo chmod a-x /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober

and then re-run the update-grub process.
sudo update-grub
 

Seriously? You expect Joe Public to start manually adding repositories and running utilities from the command line, and then possibly editing configuration files just to get it to boot properly?   Isn't this just what you've all been saying you don't need to do to get Linux working nowadays.....

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Comfy Cat
No wonder there was a large lump in the bedding

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I've got a a few things to try to see if I can get that bit to work but to be honest if I have to live with a rescan at start up its not that bad.. well it wont be if the bug with it crashing when you pause tracks in iTunes 11 can be resolved... if it can't then its a complete and utter pain.

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Now all I need to do is work out how to fix the daap server from crashing when you pause tracks in iTunes11 

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You will tickle my tummy!!

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She really isn't this fat.... 

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"Just a dusting"  is what my step-son said when he saw this.

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Ominous looking sky!
I was walking down to the road to get to Sainsburys and it just looked so grim!

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Reshared post from +Wil Wheaton
#Homebrew question: I'm making a barley wine. My boil gravity should be 1.106. Hydrometer reads 1.042, and at 140* the adjusted SG comes out to more like 1.06. Iodine test says I have all the sugars out.

I mashed 22 pounds at 148 for 90 minutes, just like the book said. I have collected just about 6 gallons.

Did I sparge too fast? Do I put the wort back into the mash tun and keep it there for X minutes or something? Am I going to have to put LME or DME into the boil?

I will be very unhappy if I fucked this up beyond salvaging. Any help you can give me would be much appreciated.

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Or do they think the people they are sending their shit to are? No... please do NOT answer that.

Witness this wonderful pile of crap that landed in my spam bucket today:



From: Chief Executive and Permanent Secretary
HM Revenue & Customs - 100 Parliament Street
London, SW1A 2BQ. United Kingdom
Department:  Audit and Risk Committee Team
Telephone: 070 4577 2860 (Int:+447045772860)
Telephone: 070 4577 9897 (Int:+447045779897)
 
Message: Sole Beneficiary
File Code: RC/8366-32
 
This message is to notify you of a very important information which will be of great help to redeem you from all the difficulties experienced in securing your fund payment due to inappropriate documentation of your case file presently forwarded to our agency for correction.During the course of our investigation on the issues delaying the payment of your fund here in United Kingdom, we have reviewed several cases of delayed payments including your records and have approved to release most unpaid funds which includes contract/inheritance funds,Gambling/Lottery awarded funds (sponsored by multinational companies)and other international suspended/withheld funds yet to be paid to its beneficiary's foreign account.

In view of the above, we have immensely sorted out issues with the regional financial units in charge of your transaction and our extensive investigation confirmed that you are the original beneficiary shortlisted to receive an unpaid sum of $15,000,000.00 USD which is presently approved for payment pending your acknowledgment to this information. According to the information received, those representing you have failed to credit your funds into your international bank account and any correspondence in regards to your claim sent to them again, we will not be able to help nor advice you outside our jurisdiction and dispensation of power and duty. Further to this development, we are yet to confirm your original identity in order to be sure that your email address is not hacked or being accessed by an unknown personality and that we are paying this $15,000,000.00 USD directly to the beneficiary's details we have on file. Therefore, we request that you forward a copy of your identification card within 7 working days for confirmation.

This review is being undertaken to ensure that we confirm to the latest regulatory requirement of the Inland Revenue Services before you are issued an application for payment. If your identification card is not received for payment verification within this period, you will never be paid and we will be compelled to seek legal representation from our in-house attorney to terminate your payment until further notice.

For more information, kindly forward all inquires and requirements to us for confirmation.
 
Yours Sincerely,
Ms. Lin Homer.
(Chief Executive Officer).
HM Revenue & Customs.
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Disclaimer: The information in this email and in any files transmitted with it is intended only for the addressee and contains confidential and/or privileged material. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you receive this in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the material from your computer. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited.


Dollars? Wasn't this sent from HMRC?
Identify card? What sort of complete and utter bullshit is that? 

And I know HMRC outsource a lot of stuff but I think they make sure the people doing the work can write good English.

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