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02:28.32DocScrutinizer05great work, alas on a completely fsckdup item. I never got the rationale to not offer the much easier timezones and instead force people to pick closest town to their own position which will get pretty annoying when you're not familiar witg geography of the country you're just in
02:29.04DocScrutinizer05that's of course not ade's fault but a general unix7linux idiocy
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08:24.25sixwheeledbeastI would suggest that people may know the closest large town/city but not the timezone they are in. It therefore makes sense to use approximate location over timezone. Also I would assume that GPS could locate your position and change timezones as required.
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09:57.45_ade_freemangordon: would you see it as an issue to also modifify the (flat file) database in libcityinfo0-0 if we want to update the timezones?
09:58.02_ade_freemangordon: and how do you get from the glibc bz2 file to the actual deb file?
09:58.17_ade_freemangordon: the timezone files are generated during the build of the deb file it looks
09:58.52freemangordon_ade_: (re deb) - dpkg-buildpackage should do the job, iirc you need to have the kernel sources installed
09:58.59freemangordonmerlin1991: ping, see ^^^
09:59.32freemangordon_ade_: what kind of database is that?
09:59.40_ade_just an ascii file
09:59.57freemangordondo we have the sources?
10:00.14freemangordon(debian packaging, etc)
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10:00.43_ade_An ASCII file is no issue :) libcityinfo itself is closed iirc
10:01.13freemangordonhmm, where is that db? /usr/share/clock/wdb ?
10:01.17_ade_yep
10:01.38freemangordonhmm, 8164 Mar 31  2010 /usr/lib/libcityinfo0.so.0.0.0
10:01.49freemangordonI guess I'll have to RE that
10:01.54freemangordonit shouldn't be that hard
10:02.06_ade_not really needed for this
10:02.18freemangordonI know, but while we're on it
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10:03.03freemangordonyep, 9k x86 binary, I need 1-2 days
10:03.31_ade_If would rather see a RE for custom ringtones :)
10:03.41freemangordon_ade_: hehe
10:04.00freemangordonI know, but libhildonblabla lib is a huge one
10:04.12freemangordonnot impossible though
10:04.32freemangordonbut there are really higher priority issues IMO
10:04.50freemangordon_ade_: why don;t you fire up IDA and RE it?
10:05.00freemangordonI'll help you with whatever needed
10:05.39_ade_I thought it wasn't, but back then you gave priority over the certificate stuff.
10:06.22freemangordonI still think certificate stuff had higher priority :)
10:06.47_ade_I am afraid you are one of the few how is capable of the RE stuff sadly
10:07.10freemangordon_ade_: ever tried it? it is not a rocket science
10:07.26freemangordonnot that it is easy, but not impossible
10:07.46freemangordonand hexrays is doing GREAT job to make it easier
10:08.12_ade_How do you want to continue with the tz stuff? I can try to create a deb for now.
10:08.25freemangordonthat one will be great
10:08.41freemangordonyou mean debian source, right?
10:09.20_ade_Yes, but to see if it is correct, I would like to create a deb
10:09.54freemangordon_ade_: sure, but I'll need the source package, so I will put REed libcityinfo there
10:10.18_ade_Oh, you mean libcityinfo?
10:10.22freemangordonyep
10:10.31freemangordonwhat else?
10:10.48freemangordonlibc6?
10:11.12_ade_I was talking glibc, as the tz files are in there
10:11.51freemangordon_ade_: oh, yeah, sorry :). so, I will need a .patch changing whatever needed in libc6 source code.
10:12.29freemangordon_ade_: I gtg in 5 minutes, will pester merlin1991 as he was the last to build glibc, just a couple of days ago
10:12.36_ade_And an can only tell that to change if I can create a correct deb
10:12.43_ade_okay, later..
10:13.03freemangordon_ade_: iirc you only need the kernal sources installd
10:13.09_ade_thanks
10:13.14freemangordonor rather - kernel headers
10:13.24freemangordonbye for now, bbl
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10:18.47_ade_ping sixwheeledbeast
10:19.24sixwheeledbeast_ade_: pong
10:20.00_ade_have you been using/testing EasyList lately?
10:20.44sixwheeledbeastI have it installed with a list but I can't say I have used it in anger.
10:20.51sixwheeledbeastwhy?
10:22.50_ade_sixwheeldbeast: I rewrote the sync part, I was wondering if someone was interested in that. You will need to have a webservices running on a pc/server for that so you can sync both ways
10:24.47sixwheeledbeastI'll have a look, doesn't it use william's server somehow?
10:25.41_ade_no, not anymore. That was too limited for me (only a special synclist etc).
10:26.42_ade_Well, maybe I will post an update om TMO some time in the future about that
10:27.51sixwheeledbeastcool, that put me off using it TBH. I use Qalender for my notes now, but I will certainly test this application for you. Have you requested to be a maintainer of the package?
10:28.57_ade_sixwheeledbeast: no. But he gave up maintaining it a long time ago. So I could ask him.
10:31.00sixwheeledbeastIf no response from him use the package interface to request to be maintainer and techstaff can approve. This goes for all packages to wish to fix ;)
10:32.44_ade_sixwheeledbeast: this one will do :)
10:33.57sixwheeledbeast:P
10:41.07sixwheeledbeastTBH you may as well push your latest version to -devel. you can do that without being a maintainer IIRC. All the versions in extras, testing and devel are the same so it will not make any difference.
10:41.27sixwheeledbeasthttp://maemo.org/packages/view/easylist/
10:41.41sixwheeledbeastlast update was Nov 2011 as you say.
10:43.38_ade_sixwheeledbeast: yes, you can always push a version to extras-devel, regardless ownership. Willem has explicitly stated he is no longer maintaining it (same goes for the N9 version)
10:45.39sixwheeledbeastOk well if you wish, request to be a maintainer and it will get sorted. I can see you have contributed patches in the current versions.
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14:09.03freemangordonarcean: ping
14:20.41DocScrutinizer05sixwheeledbeast: ((may know the closest large town/city)) no, I often don't. Particularly I dunno which of several chinese or whatever towns is closest to my own town/village that I often can't even spell the name
14:21.09DocScrutinizer05GPS would be the most reasonable way to implement that
14:21.45sixwheeledbeastYou wouldn't have to speel you have a list :)
14:21.46DocScrutinizer05I can't see particular rationale why I have to select Germany/Berlin when I'm ~1000km away, in Munich
14:21.53sixwheeledbeasts/speel/spell/
14:22.58DocScrutinizer05sorry, I think this approach is based on assumtions about knowledge in users that is not generally granted
14:24.44DocScrutinizer05the most sane approach though would be to enter the time as read from a local clock and the UI filters out all settings/towns that would not result in this time to be your device system time
14:25.43DocScrutinizer05this way I easily "know" about my local TZ
14:26.52sixwheeledbeastWell I live 200miles away from our capital city but I know what it is. Timezones are closely linked to capital city's for most places
14:26.58DocScrutinizer05even when I got NFC about the name of the village i'm in, least about near big towns
14:27.23DocScrutinizer05sixwheeledbeast: heck, you're talking about YOUR capital
14:27.44DocScrutinizer05e.g. in australia I wouldn't even know what IS the capital
14:28.26DocScrutinizer05this whole city approach is fubar by design
14:28.37sixwheeledbeastSurely you know the capital city of the country you travel too.
14:28.49DocScrutinizer05aha, why do you think so?
14:29.10sixwheeledbeastFWIW Australia is Canberra
14:29.19DocScrutinizer05do you think in china it makes any difference for TZ when I know it's called Beijing
14:29.35DocScrutinizer05same for australia
14:30.22DocScrutinizer05when capital was always the only relevant choice for TZ setting, then you can reduce that to country without even naming the capital
14:30.35sixwheeledbeastWell you normally fly into an airport in a big city with it's name on it
14:30.59DocScrutinizer05yeah, and more often than not this airport is not in TZ list
14:31.27DocScrutinizer05airports rarely are *in* big cities
14:32.21DocScrutinizer05and even when they are named according to next big city maybe 100km away, that big city also rarely ever shows up in TZ list
14:32.22sixwheeledbeastWell "associated" to big cities, there's no room in the city for a runway
14:33.05DocScrutinizer05the concept is fubar, unless you use the 2enter local current time" approach
14:33.23DocScrutinizer05I can find a clock almost everywhere
14:33.41DocScrutinizer05and usually it's correct time it shows
14:34.37DocScrutinizer05so when I enter the time of novosibirsk it probably will filter out moscow from the towns to select from
14:35.38DocScrutinizer05no need to know about capital, nor about next big city that is more relevant for TZ than that capital
14:36.05DocScrutinizer05odds are that only one russion town with correct TZ stays after filtering
14:36.13DocScrutinizer05Russian*
14:36.56DocScrutinizer05and if there are two, then odds are it doesn't matter which of them I pick, since they are same TZ, incl DST and all, anyway
14:37.41sixwheeledbeastLook at the US, if you fly over there an input the state you are located at you will get the correct timezone.
14:38.19DocScrutinizer05I more than once found myself trying "let's try this one. Meh, 1h+ off. OK this one then. Meh, 1h-. Maybe this..."
14:39.16DocScrutinizer05sixwheeledbeast: I don't want to hear about a selected usecase where it works
14:39.32DocScrutinizer05I say the approach is braindamaged by design
14:39.46DocScrutinizer05even when it sometimes "works"
14:40.13sixwheeledbeastAustralia is the same too, I don't have an issue with it TBH
14:41.15DocScrutinizer05I'm not interested in (learning about) next city listed in TZ list, when I already have suffient easily acquired data (local time) that perfectly determines the TZ I need to set in my device
14:42.29DocScrutinizer05it's a approach for a worlclock, but not for setting your TZ
14:43.19FIQhi
14:43.38DocScrutinizer05I know Rster lives in Sydney, so I try to find Sydney (or a town close to it, annoying enough) in my KDE clock applet to know gis local time
14:43.40FIQsince latest CSSU update, I've had issues with the battery indicator
14:44.07sixwheeledbeastWell there kinda linked
14:44.16DocScrutinizer05for setting TZ of my mobile phone I prefer to enter the local time of that bush airport I landed and that's all i need to do
14:44.19FIQit's "good enough", but it's having trouble noticing low battery correctly
14:44.19sixwheeledbeastFIQ: CSSU-T update?
14:44.27FIQthumb
14:44.36FIQsec
14:44.51FIQTmaemo9.1
14:45.02FIQfrom 8.3
14:45.35FIQit started showing %, but this data is no use since it's just a number representation of the battery icon and not exact
14:45.51FIQbut that's not the issue (other than that this is redundant)
14:46.15FIQthe issue is that it goes to sudden "Battery dead, charge battery!" warning from green
14:46.36FIQand occasionally the icon goes *backwards* from red back to lowest green
14:47.13DocScrutinizer05hehe
14:47.16FIQI've seen the latter only once before this CSSU update, but this update has given the indicator more issues
14:47.58sixwheeledbeastKinetic charging :P
14:48.03DocScrutinizer05i finally have to edit the meanwhile incorrect phrase "CSSU is recommended for every user"
14:48.57FIQPerhaps these issues are caused by me never charging on device? and thus it is having trouble calibrating the displaying?
14:49.23FIQAt least there was such need for the non-core (non CSSU) version of "more detailed info"
14:49.38FIQthat you had to use device for charging for it to work correctly
14:51.05sixwheeledbeastthe battery indicator has never been truly accurate, I have experienced this "backwards" on all flavours
14:51.11FIQoh and DocScrutinizer05, fyi before you draw any conclusions - there's nothing wrong with the batteries I carry right now, no damage, no weird issues (apart from since last CSSU), no sparks, or any similar issues
14:51.38FIQsixwheeledbeast: mkay, well I never did until now strangely
14:52.46FIQ(apart from once, as said, several months ago)
14:57.38DocScrutinizer05FIQ: I'm sure your battery is not the culprit
14:58.31FIQalso
14:58.34FIQ[15:48:03] <DocScrutinizer05> i finally have to edit the meanwhile incorrect phrase "CSSU is recommended for every user"
14:58.48FIQkeep in mind, I do use the T branch :p
14:59.03FIQpretty sure CSSU-stable is intended to be... well, stable
14:59.07FIQand recommended
14:59.08FIQno?
14:59.28FIQwhile testing which I use is expected to have issues
14:59.53FIQwhich needs to be taken care of before even considering moving these to stable
14:59.57DocScrutinizer05battery applet is hard to het right, seen a lot of tuning over the last decade (yes the concepts origin even in pre-symbian times) and recent "improvements" done to it always planned to overcome one annoyince and missed about the linked other 5 annoyances the fix would introduce
15:02.21DocScrutinizer05the problem is different users have different expectations regarding battery meter
15:03.27DocScrutinizer05what you blame as a bug (phantom charging going from red to green) is correct representation of what actually happens for other users
15:04.11DocScrutinizer05it's a question to *define* what that meter actually *means*, to start with
15:05.42DocScrutinizer05is it voltage? remaining energy (Watt-hours)? remaining ampere-hours? remaining operation time at average power consumption? on current consumption? on max consumption?
15:06.02DocScrutinizer05is it average of last 5 min? of last 30s?
15:06.37DocScrutinizer05is it relative to a new battery, or to the status of this particular battery?
15:06.55DocScrutinizer05is it linear or logarithmic?
15:07.05DocScrutinizer05or even with an offset?
15:07.31DocScrutinizer05to give an additional hour of operation time when meter reaches ZERO
15:08.17DocScrutinizer05shall it make assumptions of (future) usage?
15:08.58DocScrutinizer05based on what? current cell coverage/signal, or worst case signal?
15:09.10DocScrutinizer052G or 3G
15:09.22DocScrutinizer05how much data traffic?
15:09.44FIQif you're going to list every single expectation, you'll be here for a year ;)
15:09.45DocScrutinizer05ask 100 users and you get 350 notions
15:09.58DocScrutinizer05yep, exactly
15:11.40sixwheeledbeast:nod: to all of the above.
15:12.15DocScrutinizer05best approach was a pretty comprehensive rich battery diagnostics page, listing all relevant parameters like e.g. bq2k-detail2 does, and make user pick the value she wants to get displayed in applet gauge bar
15:13.43DocScrutinizer05even allow to enter simple mathematical equations in a shell or C syntax to calculate what to display on apllet
15:14.09DocScrutinizer05my dream OS
15:14.36DocScrutinizer05alas common take on such thing is "waaay too complex for average joe"
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