[10:19] <saispo> hi
[16:50] <michaelramm> hello to all
[17:01] <MenZa> arro
[17:02] <michaelramm> how are things on this Friday?
[17:10] <excid3> school was canceled due to weather, so im doing great :)
[17:12] <michaelramm> that is COOL
[17:12] <excid3> yep just about to go play some Counter Strike Source :D
[17:12] <michaelramm> i wish my work was closed, but I am just on IM/IRC so it is not so bad today.
[17:12] <excid3> haha thats awesome
[17:12] <michaelramm> cool, i remember that game
[17:12] <michaelramm> used to play it a lot
[17:12] <excid3> yeah my buddy found Half Life 2 and CSS together at walmart $5 ;)
[17:13] <michaelramm> then i found WoW, and well, the rest if history
[17:13] <excid3> yeah...
[17:13] <michaelramm> s/if/is
[17:13] <excid3> i played WoW for a week and a half
[17:13] <michaelramm> i have played since launch
[17:13] <excid3> i have dialup at home so i was out at a friend's playing WoW for like 50 hours
[17:13] <excid3> in the week and a half
[17:14] <michaelramm> I played it for 1.5 yrs on dialup
[17:14] <excid3> nice
[17:14] <michaelramm> plays just fine
[17:14] <excid3> i dont bother doing stuff on my dialup except IRC and forums
[17:14] <excid3> lol
[17:14] <michaelramm> except the BIG dungeons with 15+ people
[17:14] <excid3> yeah i bet
[17:14] <michaelramm> then not so good
[17:14] <excid3> i also didnt want to spend the $
[17:14] <excid3> lol
[17:14] <michaelramm> yeah, i am growing bored with it
[17:15] <michaelramm> i haven't played in almost a month
[17:15] <michaelramm> will probably cancel before next cycle
[17:15] <excid3> maybe thats a good thing :P
[17:15] <michaelramm> where are you in school?
[17:15] <excid3> im a freshman
[17:15] <excid3> i got to southern illinois
[17:15] <michaelramm> cool, i was born in Peoria
[17:15] <excid3> oh thats awesome
[17:16] <excid3> i was born in springfield and moved to jacksonville
[17:17] <michaelramm> my dad is from Normal and my aunt still lives there
[17:18] <excid3> cool
[17:18] <excid3> where do u live now?
[17:18] <michaelramm> Alabama
[17:19] <michaelramm> in Tuscaloosa, where the University is located
[17:19] <excid3> nice
[17:19] <michaelramm> came here for school in 1990 and never left
[17:19] <excid3> haha sweet
[17:19] <excid3> how old are you?
[17:20] <michaelramm> so do use ubuntu on a laptop (i gather from your presence in the channel)?
[17:20] <michaelramm> 36
[17:21] <excid3> haha yes i do
[17:22] <excid3> ive got a dv9000t
[17:22] <excid3> i wrote a tutorial back around when feisty was released
[17:22] <michaelramm> cool..my sis works for HP in their corp offices
[17:22] <excid3> nice
[17:23] <michaelramm> i have a thinkpad T43 that is going full ubuntu this weekend
[17:23] <michaelramm> it is my work one, so I will have to run XP in virtualbox
[17:23] <excid3> ah yeah
[17:23] <excid3> im sadly dual booting hardy and vista
[17:23] <excid3> my printer kills xp every time
[17:24] <excid3> the drivers arent compatibile with sp2 for some reason
[17:24] <excid3> and then it kills services.exe which in turn shuts down windows
[17:24] <michaelramm> what printer
[17:24] <excid3> hp c3180
[17:25] <excid3> wroks perfect in linux which is fine with me but id rather use office 2k7 over OOo
[17:25] <michaelramm> that is strange..is that an all in one device?
[17:25] <excid3> yeah
[17:25] <excid3> ive researched it
[17:25] <excid3> its a known problem with HP
[17:25] <excid3> lol
[17:25] <excid3> downloaded the neweest drivers...same thing
[17:28] <excid3> have you tried out hardy?
[17:29] <michaelramm> no, not proficient enough in linux to mess with alphas
[17:30] <excid3> lol
[17:30] <excid3> i have found it better than gutsy all around so far
[17:30] <excid3> well until the update the other day...it broke a bunch of things
[17:30] <excid3> but i think that got fixed yesterday or the day before for me
[17:31] <excid3> i havent tried to fix anything...ive just been updating it daily seeing what breaks what doesnt
[17:31] <excid3> i use vista as my main os because i find it easier to use office 2k7, visual studio and my games in it
[17:31] <michaelramm> alpha 5 is supposed to come out today
[17:31] <excid3> orly?
[17:31] <excid3> sweeet
[17:44] <excid3> well im off to go play some old school quake3 arena ;)
[17:44] <excid3> ttyl guys
[19:26] <michaelramm> welcome back
[19:26] <michaelramm> excid3:i took a whole lunch hour while you played.
[19:27] <excid3> haha i went to lunch too
[19:28] <excid3> i played for a little while and then downloaded some montages of quake 3
[19:28] <excid3> i love that game soooo much
[19:28] <excid3> lol
[19:29] <excid3> what kind of job do you have?
[19:31] <excid3> brb
[19:31] <excid3> its ubuntu time...i cant take this damn vista anymore
[19:39] <excid3> ok back
[19:40] <michaelramm> I am an IT Manager for a small municipality in alabama
[19:40] <excid3> thats pretty sweet
[19:41] <michaelramm> it is ok
[19:41] <excid3> lol
[19:41] <excid3> what do u have to do?
[19:41] <excid3> i love programming so hopefully i can score a good job with some company
[19:41] <excid3> ive been doing C++ and Qt lately
[19:46] <michaelramm> i am redesigning our network now
[19:46] <excid3> thats cool
[19:46] <michaelramm> implementing a wide area network
[19:46] <excid3> i never really got into networking too much
[19:46] <michaelramm> playing in cisco routers a lot
[19:46] <excid3> i took cisco in highschool
[19:46] <excid3> lol
[19:50] <excid3> well hey im going home for the weekend...back to my good old dialup
[19:50] <excid3> ill talk to you guys later whenver i get back...
[19:50] <excid3> cya