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mdkehi all12:09
kbrookshi mdke 12:09
kbrooks'all questions are welcome'? huh?12:09
Burgundaviasalut12:09
mdkekbrooks, ?12:09
mdkehey corey12:10
mdkehow's it going?12:10
Burgundavianot bad12:10
Burgundavianun is starting to come around12:10
mdkeBurgundavia, the other day when I spoke to Mez he told me that the intention of the guide was not to write new documentation at all, but to provide links to existing documentation on the wiki. He said that perhaps people had misunderstood that and he would sort it out at their next meeting12:11
Burgundaviacool12:11
Burgundaviaand mez already killed one of their "docs"12:11
mdkeyes12:12
mdkehe suggested one of us attend the meeting too12:12
BurgundaviaI am going to be at the meeting, baring crazy life shit12:12
mdkegood12:12
BurgundaviaI had another crazy idea today12:12
Burgundaviabasically a computer recipe card, that sits in the kitchen and uses wireless to communicate with the home pc12:13
mdkenice one12:13
Burgundaviathus cook chooses recipe on the home computer and beams it to the computer12:13
mdkeit could run the gnome recipe app ;)12:13
Burgundaviathinking of extending grecipes12:13
Burgundaviaas it can now run on windows12:14
mdkereally?12:14
BurgundaviaI think so12:14
mdkeawesome12:14
Burgundaviafigure I need a price point of about 100 dollars12:14
Burgundaviawould like a touchscreen, but don't know if that is doable12:16
mdkeits a lovely idea12:16
Burgundaviathink it would sell?12:17
mdkeif I had the money I'd back it12:17
Burgundaviahmm, hdb might be interested12:18
Burgundaviaas it would run micro-ubuntu inside12:18
Burgundaviahbd, rather12:18
mdkeyeah possibly12:19
mdkedo you have the expertise to make it?12:19
BurgundaviaI can do the sales12:19
Burgundavianeed to hire some people to do the actual engineering12:19
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mdkekbrooks, what's up man?12:21
Burgundaviain other news, I have finally subscribed to planetkde.org, to see what the other side is thinking12:22
mdkeheh12:23
mdkedark side eh12:23
Burgundaviano, the dark side is MS12:24
Burgundaviathe other side is DKE12:24
mdke;)12:24
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mdkei need to get my gnump3d server working again12:29
BurgundaviaI really don't understand people who use non-gettext translation stuff12:32
Burgundaviawhy??12:32
JanC"the other side" is a biker's PUB in Torhout, Belgium  :)12:32
Burgundaviapeople claim that gettext is "limited"12:34
Burgundaviais this true?12:34
JanCyes, but most of the alternatives are limited too12:34
Burgundaviaok12:34
Burgundaviaare there plans to extend gettext?12:35
JanCthat won't be easy in some cases12:35
BurgundaviaNikerabbit Burgundavia: it's grammar support is limited to plurals12:35
JanCone potential problem I know is where the original language (mostly English) has a word/sentence that has to be translated in 2 or more ways in other languages12:36
Burgundaviaouch12:36
Burgundaviaany translation is not easy12:37
JanCand other reasons to not use gettext are legacy systems of cource12:38
JanCof course12:38
Burgundaviathis is not a legacy system we are talking about12:38
JanClike OOo12:39
Burgundaviamozilla rejected gettext as well12:39
JanCyeah12:39
JanCthey use a more or less SGML/XML-specific format12:40
kbrooksmdke, hanging out 12:40
Burgundaviawhat advantage does that bring?12:40
mdkekbrooks, what did you mean by " [23:09]  < kbrooks> 'all questions are welcome'? huh?12:40
JanCprobably because their UI is written in XML ?12:40
JanCthe XML parsers do the translation12:41
Burgundaviaare there technical advantages of the mozilla system of the gettext one12:41
Burgundavia?12:41
JanCprobably only in their specific case12:41
JanCtheir translations use DTDs to define XML entities12:42
JanCsimilar to &amp; --> "&" symbol12:43
Burgundaviaok12:43
BurgundaviaI really don't understand translation12:43
Burgundaviaprobably because I have never done it, being a mostly-mono lingual english Canuck12:43
JanC:)12:44
JanCI have done some English -> Dutch and one French -> Dutch translations12:44
JanCand I'm on some translation mailing lists12:45
Burgundavialudde Burgundavia: gettext is not powerful enough for openttd12:46
Burgundavialudde Burgundavia: it has no support for genders, cases, recursive strings or any of the other things openttd uses12:46
JanCthat seems like they have rather special needs, but it's a good example that gettext can't be used everywhere...12:49
Burgundaviaa game12:50
JanCor it would probably involve more work using gettext instead of their own system12:50
kbrooksmdke, /topic01:01
mdkekbrooks, yeah i see it. Did you have a question?01:02
Burgundaviaanybody here setup a synaptics touchpad?01:13
Burgundaviahttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/SynapticsTouchpadHowto this page needs some help01:13
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rob^hey, did anyone know what Mez wanted?01:54
rob^mgalvin ping02:00
mgalvinrob^, pong02:12
rob^hey, just an idea I had for the faq guide, I was thinking of making it use Synaptic instead of all the apt-get commands02:12
rob^might be a bit of work though02:12
mgalvinit would be a bit of work plus the users would have to search for each package in order to select and install02:13
mdkei would say that is a really important idea02:13
rob^mgalvin, I could include an explination at the start of the faq explaining how to use Synaptic and apt-get02:14
mgalvinalthough it would be a bit more gental for new users who are not comfortable on the cli02:14
mgalvintrue02:14
mgalvinits a good idea02:14
rob^cool, I'm glad you think so too02:14
mdkei think its essential02:15
mgalvinhmm should we include instructions for both or would that be over kill02:15
rob^I'll do some work and submit a patch later02:15
rob^I think just a short thing on apt-get explaining that if they want to use it, just take the package names and plug them into an apt-get install blah02:15
mgalvingood point, go for it02:16
rob^:)02:16
rob^I will02:16
mgalvin:)02:16
mdkenice one02:18
rob^are there any #ubuntu ops around?02:30
mdke--> bed02:32
rob^nah its ok02:32
rob^some knob printing out ascii art in there02:32
kbrooksthe ops know02:40
rob^yeah02:40
rob^that was 10 minutes ago02:40
rob^whats the literal expression for >04:39
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mgalvinrob^, &gt;04:50
mgalvinhi jsgotangco04:51
jsgotangcohey04:51
jsgotangcohows it going04:51
mgalvingood, yourself?04:52
jsgotangcooh just enjoying a lazy sunday morning heh04:53
jsgotangcoim looking at the online classifieds04:53
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rob^mgalvin, thanks05:01
mgalvinrob^, np06:10
mgalving'night all06:10
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rob^KABOOM!07:45
Burgundaviacreate a CategoryLaptop on the wiki?09:47
robitailleBurgundavia: yeah...that's a good idea.  There are quite a few laptop pages there, and it's bound to increase with the emphasis over laptops nowadays09:51
Burgundaviaok09:51
BurgundaviaI have been flooding some peoples inboxes09:51
Burgundaviaseen that robitaille ?09:51
robitailleabout your MOTU pages?  yeah, quite a few a changes there tonight from you09:52
Burgundaviamost of my 10,000 edits on wikipedia are cleanup edits09:53
robitailleI get all the wiki changes in a email folder, then I quickly scan them from time to time to pick the interesting ones.  It's a good way to have a feel of what's going on, and which topics are active09:55
Burgundaviathinking of creating a central page for laptops09:55
Burgundaviacalled laptop support09:55
robitailleby the way, I have to reply to your blog entry at one point (probably not tonight; it's getting late).   I like my console and my xterms :)09:56
Burgundaviaconsoles are fine09:56
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BurgundaviaI and Aunt Tillie don't want to have to use them09:56
BurgundaviaI also find the CLI to be quite powerful09:57
robitailleI personally find the GUI to, more often than not, get in my way of doing things on a computer. 09:58
BurgundaviaI like pretty desktops09:59
Burgundaviathat is why I hate KDE/older DE's09:59
Burgundaviaand windows09:59
BurgundaviaI don't find them pretty09:59
Burgundaviathose icons are great, but they waste a lot of vertical space10:00
Burgundaviaobserve --> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingSpec10:00
robitailledo you read Wired magazine?  There was an Apple ad on page 2-3 showing their Dashboard...it looks gorgeous; at least compared to the usual XP we see in many ads.10:01
Burgundaviayes10:01
=== rob^ plans to buy a laptop and run Ubuntu on it soon, so bookmarks that page
Burgundaviabeagle/blam/nm-applet take up too much space on my notification are10:01
Burgundaviaaa10:01
Burgundaviaas they take up extra blank space10:02
robitailleLaptopTestingSpec10:02
robitailleLaptopTestingSpec, is that part of the LaptopTesting Team thinggy?10:02
Burgundaviayes10:02
robitailleI wonder when it's will get going...unless it has already?10:03
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BurgundaviaCategoryLaptop or CategoryLaptops ?10:07
robitailleCategoryLaptops... but I'm french...english language questions are not my department :)10:08
Burgundaviahmm10:08
Burgundavianeed to find an english speaker10:08
rob^?10:08
Burgundaviasee above10:09
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BurgundaviaCategoryLaptop or CategoryLaptops ?10:10
rob^laptop10:10
rob^but they are commonly refered to as a notebook nowdays10:11
robitaillein french,  often they are called "portable".  When I make the mistake in english, people look at me strangely :)10:12
rob^:)10:13
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Burgundaviathere are a lot of useless pages on the wiki10:15
Burgundaviahmm10:15
BurgundaviaI am thinking of changing all those categories10:15
Burgundaviasplitting it to LaptopSupport and LaptopTesting10:16
Burgundaviawhat do you think?10:16
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robitailleWhy? LaptopSupport and LaptopTesting could fit both in one Laptop category.  10:17
Burgundaviabut they category to 2 different sets of users10:18
Burgundaviathose who want to see what works, and those who wish to work on getting it working10:18
robitailleand some pages will fit in both categories.  personally I think that's getting to be too fine of a separation between the two.  It's easier to keep them into one.10:19
Burgundaviaok10:19
Burgundaviaok10:19
BurgundaviaI am going to get some of the misnamed stuff killed though10:20
Burgundaviayou probably saw the posts10:20
robitaillesort of...my email is up and down tonight while I migrating to mutt-ng at home after finally managing to compile it with the options I wanted.10:21
Burgundaviaadd wifi to categorylaptop ?10:24
robitailleno sure.10:28
robitailles/no/not10:28
Burgundaviaalready done10:28
robitaillebut leaning toward yes :)10:29
Burgundaviamost wifi users are currently laptop users10:29
Burgundaviawe need a wiki work day10:30
robitailletha'ts a good idea.  Don't plan it during the week I'll be on the beach :)10:33
Burgundaviadue to locking we just divide into groups10:33
Burgundaviawork on seperate areas10:33
robitaillein many ways, that's the point of an official Wiki teams, with priority given on some aspect of the wiki during some period of times.10:34
robitailleI have to go to bed soon... good night.10:34
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vendathat sucks, if you have sunjava installed and then apt-get ant, it installs gcj and wipes out your install of sun java10:44
vendawho the $#@^&% are they do do that10:44
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vendaI thought sun-j2re1.5 was in multiverse11:02
Burgundaviayes11:16
Burgundaviathat is going to suck in breezy11:16
vendawhy can't I find it?11:16
vendawas it taken out?11:16
vendagcj sucks socks man11:17
Burgundaviajre was was only in the hoary-extras11:17
Burgundaviaand one of the backports servers is currently down11:17
vendamost java apps dont run on it, can't even start em11:17
vendaI dont have backports11:17
vendano will use them11:17
vendaYou know this respository stuff is all nice when its working11:18
vendabut if they go down you're %$#ed11:18
vendaand you are at the mercy of whatever they do in that repos :-(11:19
vendawhat ubuntu needs is what SuSE has11:21
vendayou can have multiple java installed11:22
vendathen just do11:22
vendasetjava {version}11:22
vendaSuSEconfig11:22
vendaand walla swapped between java versions11:23
vendaSuSE still rocks better than Ubuntu in these types of places11:23
Burgundaviadebian and their policy on stuff being DFSG-free meant that some stuff has been excluded11:23
Burgundaviaand thus elegant solutions like that have not been developed11:24
vendaexactly, which raises the question, is that what users want?11:24
Burgundaviain the end, yes11:24
vendano, I don't agree that users only want DFSG-free11:25
vendathey want simplicity that works11:25
Burgundaviayes, to a certain extent11:25
Burgundaviabut their insistence on DFSG-free has moved a lot of people11:25
vendait's only the religious hard core that are stuck on that11:26
vendaI think this is one of the downsides of developing on Debian11:26
Burgundaviadebian was probably quite important is the freeing of QT11:26
vendaDistro's like Fedora and SuSE can do these things for their users11:27
Burgundaviafedora is crap11:27
Burgundaviathere is a lot of things that need fixing that can be done within DFSG-fre11:27
Burgundavialike better laptop support11:27
vendathat is irrelevant11:27
vendathey can be fixed11:27
Burgundaviaright11:27
Burgundaviaand why is Ubuntu eclipsing just about every other distro out there, and still being mostly true to the DFSG?11:28
vendathe perspective that Fedora is crap is a personal point-of-view11:28
Burgundaviafedora is a testbed11:28
Burgundaviaand nothing more11:28
vendaagain a personal point of view. Linux in general is one big testbed11:29
vendawe all are the testers11:29
Burgundaviathen so is windows11:29
vendanot treally11:29
vendawe all test linux and patch its problems11:29
vendams does not do that11:30
Burgundaviayes, but the problems get fixed11:30
Burgundaviams doesn;t fix them11:30
vendayes that's why I say part of linux is that it is a testbed11:30
vendaits why Linux becomes a better OS in long run11:31
Burgundaviabut if the same problem exists in windows and linux, I would bet a small fortune it would be fixed in linux sooner11:31
vendayes, but we're not debating linux vs. windows11:31
BurgundaviaDFSG-free is quite important to users, even though they may not know it11:32
vendaI am just saying that distros such as SuSE and Fedora have more freedom to do things11:32
Burgundaviathe bug, DFSG-nonfree manifests itself in many ways11:32
Burgundaviasuch as with skype and other non-free crap11:32
vendaSure, but users want these things11:32
Burgundaviano11:32
vendaand generally endup installing it11:32
Burgundaviausers want a system that is well integrated11:33
vendaexactly11:33
Burgundaviafree apps are much better integrated than non-free11:33
vendabut integration has nothing to do with DSFG-free11:33
Burgundaviaas linus says "if it is not in the tree, we don't care"11:33
vendahmm, yeah but he is a bit of a tyrant11:33
Burgundaviain other words, if our changes broke your non-free app, sorry, but your problem11:33
Burgundaviathe other way is the ms way11:34
Burgundaviawhich involves leaving all kinds of legacy crap behind, because some app somewhere may need it11:34
vendaso why then do so many people install non-free stuff if they dont want it?11:34
Burgundaviathey want the funcationality11:34
vendalook at our debate with FAQGuide and backports11:34
vendayes, but if that functionality is not avialable free, then I think a distro needs to be flexible11:35
Burgundaviamostly the non-free stuff people install is w32codecs11:35
vendaexactly11:35
vendaand skype11:35
Burgundaviaand due to patent issues, no company can commit money to getting free versions working11:35
vendathere are a few places like this11:35
Burgundaviaonce patent issues are truly dead in europe, then companies can start funding this11:36
vendasure, but in the interim?11:36
vendaone one hand being hardline is good from a longterm perspective, but really not good for adoption rate now11:36
vendaI dunno, I think middle ground is better11:37
Burgundaviakind of the chicken and the egg11:37
vendahelp non-free to understand the model11:37
Burgundaviathere has been no work on a (l)gpl flash implemenation because a non-free exists11:38
vendadon't exclude it based on radical doctrine11:38
Burgundaviain fact, the non-free was released to kill the free one11:38
vendawell the none free is better :-)11:38
Burgundaviabecause nobody ships the free one11:38
vendait works11:38
Burgundaviaand thus is gets no mindshare11:38
Burgundaviaand no developers11:38
vendathat what users want now11:38
vendausers dont care about the free agument now, they want it to work now11:39
vendaand they want it to work very well11:39
vendathe non free flash works very well11:39
vendaand sun java is better than gcj11:40
vendaI cant run gcj11:40
vendamy apps dont support it11:40
BurgundaviaI suspect once that we get the gcj stuff into breezy, the quality will increase dramatically11:40
vendaso11:40
Burgundaviaas more users mean more testers and possibly more develoers11:40
vendaif I need to instal ant, I must manually do it and that will result in my sun java breaking11:41
vendamanually do it or11:41
vendanot good11:41
vendahere is a user perspective11:41
vendaI need sunjava11:41
vendabut if I install ant my sunjava is replaced by gcj, and my apps dont work11:42
vendathat sucks11:42
Burgundaviathen file a bug about it11:42
vendathe problem is in the symlinks11:43
vendawhen you install gcj11:43
venda/usr/java/jre1.5.0_01/bin/java /usr/bin/java11:43
venda/usr/java/jre1.5.0_01/bin/java_vm /usr/bin/java_vm11:43
vendait overwrites the above11:43
vendaso if I want both I must now create scripts to do it11:43
Burgundaviathen file a bug, irc != bugzilla11:44
vendaseems to me that installaion of gcj should test java -version before installation and install scripts for switching between java versions11:44
vendalike to discuss it first :-)11:45
Burgundaviavenda, I can do nothing about it. I understand you, but file a bug about it11:45
Burgundavias/discuss/bitch11:45
vendabye11:46
Burgundaviacya11:47
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vendacan anyone define for me what the "enterprise edition" of Ubuntu is?04:12
sivangvenda: there's an enterprise edition?04:53
vendaseems that is a dig at RH04:53
vendathere is a standard support edition and an extended support edition04:53
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kbrookshi07:48
kbrooksok then08:14
kbrooksi'd like to talk....08:14
vendatalk08:14
vendawhat's on your mind?08:14
kbrookshmm08:16
kbrooksI think the sound situation in Ubuntu is annoying to newbies to Ubuntu.08:17
vendahow's that?08:21
vendais your sound not working?08:21
kbrooksno08:22
kbrooksi read #ubuntu08:23
kbrookssomeone there.....08:23
kbrookshad problems with sound08:23
vendasorry I am not tuned to #ubuntu08:23
vendaso you wil have to explain why08:23
kbrookslol08:23
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kbrooksmdke, so.....10:14
kbrookswassup10:14
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mdkekbrooks, not much, yourself?11:45
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kbrooksnm11:57

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