[08:00] <mdke> kirkland: that's pretty cool. funnily enough we've recently been working on something similar. I'll email you to discuss
[08:20] <mdke> hi glatzor
[08:23] <mdke> glatzor: I noticed there are not many german translations in ubuntu-docs this cycle - is there a shortage of contributors in the de translation team? I'm surprised because it's a large community, and a lot of the other languages have made really good progress
[08:43] <mdke> glatzor: let's chat another time about it, I have to go to work now
[15:08] <kirkland> mdke: hiya
[15:08] <kirkland> mdke: I responded to your email, with a bit more background on my efforts with this
[15:19] <kirkland> mdke: the net is that I'm happy to collaborate, and I didn't know you guys existed :-)
[20:12] <mdke> kirkland: :) welcome and thanks
[20:15] <kirkland> mdke: sure, no problem
[20:15] <kirkland> mdke: I was looking for a way to join the doc team on Launchpad
[20:15] <kirkland> I don't see a "Apply" link as i thought I might
[20:16] <kirkland> mdke: I'm going to capture the highlights of my design ideas in a Blueprint, and we can refine/collaborate on those as appropriate
[20:17] <mdke> kirkland: ubuntu-doc on LP is an umbrella team for a number of other subteams, so we don't add individuals to that; however you might be interested in one of the subteams
[20:17] <mdke> kirkland: blueprint sounds great
[20:17] <kirkland> mdke: gotcha, i'll have a look at those
[20:18] <kirkland> mdke: I'll send you a followup note pointing to the blueprint when I get around to it
[20:18] <kirkland> mdke: ISO testing is hot and heavy right now ;-)
[20:18] <mdke> kirkland: many thanks
[20:18] <kirkland> mdke: you bet.
[20:18] <kirkland> mdke: so you're the leader of the documentation posse, I take it?
[20:18] <kirkland> :-)
[20:19] <mdke> kirkland: we don't really have a "leader"
[20:19] <kirkland> :-P
[20:20] <mdke> bbiab, dinner has arrived
[20:20] <kirkland> mdke: well, I was pointed to you
[20:20] <kirkland> later
[20:43] <mdke> kirkland: I guess I'm the person who bosses others around more than anyone else
[20:44] <kirkland> mdke: I just ran across your blog, saw you were having trouble with at t43 and hard disk detection... is this still a problem?
[20:45] <kirkland> mdke: see the footnote in http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T43
[20:45] <kirkland> "While the physical disk is PATA (IDE), it is accessed through a SATA controller and a SATA-to-PATA bridge. It thus appears as a SATA device to the operating system, which causes some problems under Linux. The SATA-to-PATA bridge also necessitates drive firmware changes, causing a problem with non-ThinkPad hard disks. "
[20:47] <mdke> kirkland: I still have it, but I'm pretty sure now it's a hardware issue, because it always used to work, and often when I cold boot, Windows won't start unless I reboot the system after a "no hard disk found" error
[20:47] <mdke> kirkland: I'm going to send the laptop back as soon as I get around to it
[20:48] <kirkland> mdke: yuck, that's a mess
[20:48] <mdke> kirkland: still in warranty :)
[20:49] <kirkland> mdke: well there you go
[20:49] <mdke> kirkland: thanks anyway
[20:50] <kirkland> mdke: I've only ever owned Thinkpads, but I've owned a lot of them, and I swear by them, and especially their warranty
[20:50] <mdke> kirkland: this one has been pretty flawless.