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sivangnight!12:01
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enricoHello!07:35
enricoplovs: are you at the keyboard?07:35
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ChrisHenrico: Hey... I have three complaints in the #ubuntu-doc report? ;)11:01
enricoThree?11:03
ChrisHenrico: baz, moin, my hard disk :)11:05
ChrisHenrico: I better watch what I say for I will read it later on the list. ;)11:05
enricoOh, come on, your HD was not a complaint :)11:05
ChrisHenrico: You should have heard me swear at my PC last night. :)11:06
enricoChrisH: read ubuntu-doc in a minute and see me swear...11:06
ChrisHenrico: Ah... Enrico "Backspace" Zini :)11:18
enricoChrisH: grrr... so grrr...11:20
ChrisHenrico: The ubuntu live CD rescues me last night btw. :)11:21
enricoOh, so!  Are you up and running again now?11:21
ChrisHenrico: After Partition Magic and gpart failed to restore my partition table that was crashed by either Windows or grub (no idea what it was) I just booted the live CD and... presto... I could read and backup my old partitions.11:21
enricooh11:22
ChrisHenrico: But cfdisk, sfdisk and fdisk all fail to read the partition table. No idea how it did it.11:22
enricoIt seems like a bit too powerful, but cool!11:22
ChrisHenrico: I'll just dd of=/dev/hda the disk later and reinstall everything. Home directory is in NFS, data is in NIS... should be easy going.11:22
ChrisHenrico: Knoppix could have been good, too, but it didn't like my NIC.11:22
ChrisHenrico: So this is a *good* story you may post on the list. :)11:23
enrico:)  I'll do it tomorrow11:24
enricoI mean, in tomorrow's edition11:24
enricoNow, it's time to go downstairs and make sushi!11:24
ChrisHHand crafted? Nice.11:24
enricosure!11:25
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sivanghey folks01:36
sivangwhat's cooking?01:36
sivang:)01:36
ChrisHsivang: Nothing. Sushi is eaten cold. :)01:53
=== ChrisH prays that his last christmas presents will be delivered today
=== sivang is the only one who doesn't get xmas presents. :(
ChrisHI could well skip x-mas. Can't hear the "but this year we will not spend money on presents" sentence. Same lie as every year. :(02:01
=== sivang still wants a xmas present :)
ChrisHsivang: What do you wish for?02:09
ChrisHsivang: Do you celebrate x-mas that much in il?02:15
sivangChrisH: no :) I just wish for a present :) a new laptop? :)02:24
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froudpotting around the ubuntu web site. where can is co src's for docs08:36
froudsvn cvs?08:37
froudanyone tuned08:39
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sivangthat was strange08:52
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sivanghey froud , what were you looking for?08:54
froudI'm looking for a svn or cvs to checkout docbook srcs08:55
froudloads in the wiki, I see this, but what's in the source08:55
sivangeh08:55
sivangjust a sec, I'll give you the svn info08:55
froudperhaps I'm just confused08:56
sivangno you're right :)08:57
sivangwe have many stuff on the wiki,08:57
froudyes was reading08:57
sivangbut there is 1 big handbook, 1 faq, 1 quickbook08:57
sivangin the svn,08:57
froudbut now I am looking for Docbook sources to checkout08:57
sivangthe problem is that it's admin is currently on vacation :(08:58
sivangbut we're working to fix this up - please talk to enrico when he's online here,08:58
sivanghe has mirroed the archive08:58
sivangplus08:58
froudSo no information on the website to where and what about svn08:58
sivangthis is the info, see if you can checkout sometime when the server comes back again.08:58
sivangPath: .08:59
sivangURL: http://69.155.172.150/faq08:59
sivangRepository UUID: 1e033ed4-87e8-0310-8703-d68c7bbd86c908:59
sivangRevision: 9408:59
sivangNode Kind: directory08:59
sivangSchedule: normal08:59
sivangLast Changed Author: plovs08:59
sivangLast Changed Rev: 9408:59
sivangLast Changed Date: 2004-12-23 00:37:12 +0200 (Thu, 23 Dec 2004)08:59
sivangsvn co http://69.155.172.150/faq08:59
sivangshould do it, when it's up.08:59
sivang(it's currently down from here)08:59
froudok wheres the info on creating and submitting patches09:00
froudI want to start in the source by reading and will edit as I go.09:01
froudNothing major at first09:01
froudLearn your system and then move up09:01
sivangwhen you'll manage to checkout, just go over the sources.09:02
sivangwhen you have a patch, you can send it on the mailing list and people would review it and patch it. If you get big in changes, we will give you svn access.09:03
froudyep that's my plan. how do you like patches small bits are long and large :-)09:03
froudI see so they dont mind patches on the list, ok09:03
sivangno we don't.09:03
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sivangactually, as the current svn server is down,09:03
sivangso it's would be great.09:03
ChrisHGreat...09:03
sivangChrisH: what the hell with the SVN server?09:04
sivang:)09:04
ChrisHsivang: Better ask what the hell is going on in my network!09:04
sivangoh god09:04
sivangsorry I asked..09:04
ChrisHsivang: My workstation had the disk crash. You know that.09:04
sivangChristams taffic?09:04
sivangyes09:04
ChrisHsivang: Now the main server (torf=firewall) started to beep a few hours ago. I didn't understand why.09:04
sivangoh god.09:04
ChrisHsivang: After a reboot the BIOS told me the CPU would be 95 hot09:05
sivangeh!!!!!!!!!1109:05
ChrisHsivang: CPU fan stopped working.09:05
sivangis he ok? I care for this little machine..09:05
ChrisHsivang: CPU crashed, took the mainboard with it.09:05
ChrisHsivang: Then I thought I'd try the CPU in Pamelas PC.09:05
ChrisHsivang: Guess what...09:05
ChrisHsivang: Mainboard broken, too.09:05
ChrisHsivang: Two PCs to hell just because of a tiny CPU cooler.09:05
=== sivang moans the death of torf. :(.........
ChrisHsivang: Just went to the PC shop and spent 500 Eur on new hardware just for the sake of a stupid CPU fan.09:06
sivangmy god09:06
sivangthat's so bad09:06
ChrisHsivang: It hadn't been so bad if not everything else in my network would go wild at the moment.09:06
=== ChrisH is severely pissed
ChrisH...and that one day before christmas09:06
sivangwhat else has gone bad?09:06
ChrisHAt least torf seems to be restored.09:06
sivangah so his back alive? Phew09:06
ChrisHsivang: My own PC... where I could hardly restore anything.09:06
sivangyes I heared about the crash,09:06
sivangwell I had something like that 6 months ago - 09:07
ChrisHsivang: I need to switch it off again in a few minutes to close the case and put it back into the 19" rack.09:07
sivangeventually I had to buy a new machine.09:07
ChrisHsivang: The disk crash wouldn't be too bad either because most things are on the file server (torf) and backed up daily.09:07
ChrisHsivang: Just that I was working no a giant video project about Marco and needed to put the 50 GB of data on my PC. And all of a sudden that partition with the video data on it disappeared.09:07
sivangChrisH: sure, I am not concenred about torf's uptime - just want it to live :)09:07
ChrisHsivang: 3 of 4 PC are broken at the moment!09:08
ChrisHsivang: You could try if email works again. I'm just checking everything. And if http://workaround.org works.09:08
sivangChrisH: maybe it's a bad luck day? You should take some time off and come back after christmas, like everbody else.09:08
sivangI'll check that now.09:08
ChrisHsivang: I'll surely not do much for Ubuntu in the next two days anyway. :)09:08
ChrisHsivang: thanks09:08
ChrisHGAH!09:09
ChrisHIt's so depressing I can hardly suppress a smile. :)09:09
sivangspeaking of crashed machine, I wonder what goes with the SVN server..erghghh09:10
sivangpeople want to help, and all I can tell them - post the patch to the mailing list09:10
sivang:)09:10
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ChrisHThe SVN server is really driving people nuts and away. But if we had moved it back to my server it would have been broken now, too. :)09:11
sivangtrue09:11
ChrisHLet's wait until after x-mas and have the svn repo moved to canonical asap09:11
sivangyes!09:11
sivang_ASAP_09:11
ChrisHThe -doc team seems to be built on the same indian graveyard as my 19" rack09:11
ChrisHHardly anything is going as expected atm.09:12
ChrisHbbiab... rebooting again.09:12
froudsivang, seems like this may take some time. perhaps you have a working copy of HEAD and can export a pritine copy09:13
froudI will start with that and merge into my wc when I can do a co09:13
froudif you put it on the net i'll wget09:14
sivanghmm, I am just fraid you'll work on stuff which already or will be simul. worked on through the repo, then it would be a pain patching it..09:16
sivangbut I can put it there even for you to give a glance09:17
sivang:)09:17
froudill do svn up before I merge09:17
sivangok.09:17
sivangHave to get some food09:18
froudok I have to go myself. send mail to sean@inwords.co.za with the uri09:19
froudI'll check for svn in the morning09:19
cenerentolaciao09:26
plovshi guys09:38
sivanghey plovs 09:53
sivangdo you know what goes with the svn server?09:53
plovsnothing, it is being depressed, then it does nothing09:58
sivangah ok09:58
plovsi suppose John has a bas isp, and since he is on vacation, he doesn't notice, so doesn't yell at anyone09:58
plovsbad isp09:58
sivangI see.09:58
sivangWell, we should get it into canonical server farm ASAP09:59
plovsagreed09:59
plovsat least my doc goes ahead09:59
plovswhat are you doing atm?09:59
sivangwhat doc of yors?10:00
sivangworking on gst,setting the israeli ubuntu web server (zope), and hopefully when svn is up writing some stuff in my section of the handbook10:01
plovsalso zope? why?10:01
sivangI want a content management system.10:02
sivang:)10:02
sivangfor the main website, and I am going to set up a wiki for the live stuff.10:02
plovswhere is the server located, at home with you?10:04
sivangnot, smurifx is kindly providing webspace for country teams.10:05
plovsnice, on debian?10:06
sivangno idea10:06
sivangI think on ubuntu servers.10:06
plovsi doubt ubuntu servers run ubuntu :-)10:06
sivangwell, they do :)10:07
plovsyour kidding!10:07
sivangubuntu is _really_ suited to be a server machine, and all of the canonical servers - run warty10:07
sivangI am _not_ kidding.10:07
plovswow10:07
sivangwhy are you surprised?10:07
plovsi only use debian10:07
plovsubuntu is so desktopish10:08
plovsbut obviously i;m wrong10:08
sivangWell, I'm not sure how suited it is for low end servers like my debian router, but if you have two G5 servers :)10:08
sivangthere are 2 G5 Apple servers in the canonical computer farm :)10:08
plovsi only have intel servers, but g5's would be great :-)10:09
plovsoff course ubuntu _is_ debian10:10
plovsand debian rocks10:10
plovsi am thinking about putting debian on my work laptop G410:11
plovsubuntu i mean10:11
plovssivang: what are you doing on gst?10:14
sivangplovs: extending the users profile mechanism to allow for templates of users to be added to the system, enabling a set of different default groups per each10:14
plovsnice10:18
plovsin python?10:18
cenerentolawhat is gst?10:21
cenerentolai know you'll hate me for this...10:21
cenerentolabut hey presto... a G5 it's a masterpiece of Sylicon Art... how can you avoid Mac OS X?10:22
cenerentolahow would you exploit all its registries?10:22
cenerentolathis thing make me blue.. but there's no Linux Distribution hand-crafted for ppc10:23
cenerentolaplovs: you should try SPARC10:23
cenerentolaim actually looking for ppl to help fabbione [and me]  porting ubuntu on SPARC architecture..10:24
cenerentolathen the last step is ARM/MIPS... RISC POWER:10:25
cenerentola.10:25
plovscenerentola: try OSX for a while, and you'll know why you want to install linux on it10:25
sivangplovs: perl / gtk / C10:26
plovsand yeah, i would like to have a sparc, but they are # bit to $$ for me :-(10:26
sivangcenerentola: I think they have||working-on a special kenrel for the inhouse kernel to use it to maximum.10:26
sivang*im house server.10:27
sivangergh!10:27
sivangin house servers.10:27
cenerentolain house?10:27
plovs:-)10:27
sivangin house server of the firm.10:27
plovsin the house and outside on the street?10:27
plovs:-)10:27
plovssorry10:28
cenerentolasivang: i cant get you.10:28
cenerentolaplovs: you own a g5 and you say that sparc are too expensive?10:28
plovscenerentola: in house is an idiom for in the company10:28
sivangcenerentola: I think canonical has someone working||finished-working on a spcial kernel that will run the G5s10:28
cenerentolasivang what kind of university do you attend?10:28
cenerentolasivang: yep but all the rest.. is not optimized10:28
sivangcenerentola: it's not me hehe :) I just use thier wonderful library and broadband from time to time10:28
plovscenerentola: i have a G4, and it is not _mine_ it belongs to my work10:29
sivangcenerentola: www.technion.ac.il10:29
cenerentolasivang: yep what course?10:29
sivangcheck it out, you might want to do your Ph.D here :)10:29
cenerentolaplovs: right.10:29
plovssivang: it is not only canonical, several people are working on the G5 kernel, i read it somewhere, google knows10:29
sivangcenerentola: plovs said it even better than me :)10:30
sivangWRT the G5 specialized kernels.10:30
sivangI myself have a personal problem with such closed hardware, I think intel can and will supress them in some point of time.10:30
plovssigh, that would be nice to use10:30
sivangplus I really like intel's approach for open hardware.10:30
plovssivang: actually it is not closer then intel, more open actually10:31
sivangI may get a pegasus PC , when I have a couple of pounds to through.10:31
plovsthe powerpc chip at least is well documented10:31
cenerentolasivang: intel is not open..10:31
sivangplovs: it is? so how come I can't go and buy ASUS's G4 for half the price? :)10:31
cenerentolasivang: intel's are the worst thing, i mean hw, on this heart.10:31
plovssivang: because the market is too small10:32
sivangintel is not open? so explain to me how come the first platform linux ever powered was i386 ? :)10:32
sivangplovs: only 6 months ago I heared from IBM that they are planning to lease it out for other companies as well, still nothing conceret.10:32
plovsactually several companies make powerpc, and it is a very nice platform, it runs slower, so less heat10:32
plovsibm, motorola10:33
sivangplovs: gemme some names :)10:33
sivangother then pegasus10:33
sivang:)10:33
cenerentolasivang: have you ever heard of RISC architectures?10:33
plovsintel is not open, why do you think we have all those horrible bioses on intel and not on powerpc?10:33
sivangplovs: this is because forms like dell and gateway hack their own bioses, and intel can't possibly be hold responsible for they b0rked code :)10:34
sivangLinux works perfectly with a standrad AMI/Phoenix bioses, as per my experiance though.10:35
cenerentolasivang: please +ignore your thoughts please ;)10:35
sivangcenerentola: hey andrea, I'm not that hooked on it, I just like cheap things :))10:35
sivangactually, I admire RISC archs, they are MUCH superios 10:35
sivangsuperior.10:35
sivangbut, they cost...:(10:35
cenerentolaok buy a playstation10:36
cenerentolaits MIPS10:36
sivanghehehe10:36
plovspowerpc is used in: tivo, amiga, the new xbox (!)10:36
sivangM$ laied hands on the POWER arch! nononono!10:36
sivang:)10:36
plovssee: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC10:36
plovspowerpc is really cool, but intel is very powerfull, and with chips, the more you sell, the cheaper they get10:37
cenerentolaplovs: well dont worry they, intel, wont go over 3 ghz..10:37
cenerentolaonly because... they can't10:37
plovssivang: those bioses are crap, really bad10:37
plovsopenfirmware is faster, smaller and more configurable, especially for clusters and stuff10:38
sivangplovs: it depends what you want, if you need fast floating point cruncher, well, intel can get to 4GHz and still POWER will win :010:38
sivang:)10:38
plovswhy do you think people are trying to make openfirmware for intel?10:38
sivangplovs: do you have anything I can read about intel "closed" approach to hardware?10:39
plovsgoogle centrino10:39
plovsfor example10:40
plovsoff course i386 itself is pretty open10:41
plovsbut still, intel is still a real american company10:42
plovsbut i386 is still the cheapest overall line of processors10:42
plovssivang: a very nice article: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=399710:45
cenerentolaplovs: i386 its not pretty open..10:46
sivangcenerentola: pleae elaborate.10:46
cenerentolasivang: just send an email to alessandro rubini [the one who wrote "linux device drivers"]  saying that you support x8610:47
sivangand ?10:47
sivang:)10:47
cenerentola...feel the pain10:48
plovscenerentola: all the specs of most i386 processors are known afaik10:49
plovssivang: powerpc processor are just better, but better does not alway win10:50
cenerentolayep but that's not 10:50
cenerentolaOPEN ARCHITECTURE10:50
cenerentolaplovs: powerpc are better.. but with linux you dont exploit them all10:50
plovscenerentola: why do you think that OSX runs better on powerpc then linux? the OSX kernel is open, it can not have any secrets10:51
plovsdarwin is bsd licensed, linux can just copy and paste if they would like to10:52
cenerentolaplovs: you are right... but programs for mac os x are written for that very architecture..10:53
cenerentolaoptimized for it..10:53
cenerentolayou can't always have optimization and portability at the same time10:53
plovscenerentola: the only problem with the G5 is the hardware apple added to it, some is really closed like the airport cards etc, but the powerpc is not the problem afaik10:54
cenerentolawhat i mean is that if you dont use mac os x..10:55
cenerentolayou are not going to use at best every sylicon cell of the processor..10:55
plovslinux outperforms freebsd, the last time i checked ed ergo, it outperforms osx, especially in the long run10:55
plovsthe kernel is what counts10:56
plovsthe freebsd kernel is slower then the linux kernel10:56
plovsnot that i would notice it, it is not as if freebsd is like windows 95 or something10:56
cenerentolaplovs: no that's not..10:57
plovsibm actively promotes linux on powerpc, rs6000 etc, many big ibm machines are powerpc10:57
cenerentolafreebsdk can be slower than linux.. but what does matter with code optimization..10:58
cenerentolais like writing in assembly or c++10:58
cenerentolaIBM ignored the who personal computer concept then they saw Apple computers moving in to a new market. IBM decided they need a piece of that pie but Apple had such a lead that there was no way to design an purely IBM product bring competition to Apple. In an effort to keep the architecture from being open IBM kept BIOS top secret and very proprietary. The rest of the PC was just off the shelf componets bought from various vendors. Like Intel for ex10:59
cenerentolabtw10:59
cenerentolaplovs, sivang , everybody: Buon Natale.11:00
plovscenerentola: agreed, ibm gave apple a compiler for the G5 (64-bit stuff?) that will make OSX fast, it is a better compiler then gcc11:00
plovsa good idea, sivang, cenerentola good night, all, good night!11:01
cenerentolaciao plovs11:03
cenerentolagood night11:03
cenerentolaciao sivang ciao everybuddy11:03
cenerentolapeace11:04

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