[01:51] <technomensch> hey rocket, you in?
[01:51]  * Rocket2DMn peeks
[01:51] <technomensch> hehe
[01:51] <technomensch> how you be?
[01:52] <Rocket2DMn> doin ok, and you?
[01:53] <technomensch> sleeping with the devil, my new laptop
[01:53] <technomensch> note to self, and anyone else crazy enough to use gparted to clean up vista. DON'T.
[01:54] <technomensch> it looks like I'm finally going to have to create a Vista dual-boot installation guide because the forums are no help when we get stuff like this
[01:54] <technomensch> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=977567
[01:55] <Rocket2DMn> dual boots are not hard to setup
[01:55] <technomensch> this is not as easy for <<beep>> https://help.ubuntu.com/8.10/switching/installing-partitioning.html
[01:55] <technomensch> ordiniarly, you'd think
[01:56] <Rocket2DMn> so you currently have Ubuntu installed and want to put Vista on it now?
[01:56] <technomensch> but for some reason, the partition tool is not seeing the large 15 gb I left open
[01:56] <technomensch> other way around
[01:56] <technomensch> the computer came with vista, partitioned into 3 drives
[01:57] <technomensch> 10gb of an eisa recovery, 45+ of vista and 45+ of storage
[01:57] <Rocket2DMn> ok, its easier that way
[01:57] <technomensch> it should be
[01:57] <Rocket2DMn> where do you want your Ubuntu partitions to be
[01:58] <Rocket2DMn> how much space do you want to dedicated to UBuntu and VistA?  Do you want to keep the data partition?
[01:58] <technomensch> i wnat it in the 15 gb of free space I created using gparted.
[01:58] <technomensch> except when I use "guided- use the largest continuous free space", it takes over the whole drive
[01:58] <Rocket2DMn> do manual partitioning
[01:58] <Rocket2DMn> set your root, swap, and /home if you want
[01:59] <Rocket2DMn> you just gotta partition that 15GBs down into segments
[01:59] <technomensch> I must confess, I've never been good at manual partitioning.  I've been spoiled rotten.
[02:00] <technomensch> I kinda gathered that based on that comment
[02:00] <Rocket2DMn> well no way to learn like doing it yourself
[02:00] <technomensch> ::nod::
[02:03] <Rocket2DMn> i was doing forum support when you messaged me, i dont get to do it much these days
[02:03] <Rocket2DMn> short on time and energy
[02:05] <technomensch> ::nod:: I hear ya.  I've been so slammed I haven't gotten back to the docs clean up I was doing
[02:06] <technomensch> but at least now I think I can clean up this: https://help.ubuntu.com/8.10/switching/installing-partitioning.html
[02:06] <Rocket2DMn> thats an official doc, so you gotta go through more official routes to get tha tupdated
[02:06] <technomensch> ::nod:::
[02:06] <j1mc> anyone thinking of going to this? http://www.writersua.com/ohc/index.html
[02:07] <Rocket2DMn> what the heck is that? are you spamming us?
[02:07] <j1mc> Rocket2DMn: heh, no, i'm not spamming you
[02:07] <j1mc> i'm a member of the ubuntu-doc-committers team on launchpad
[02:07] <j1mc> i do the docs for xubuntu
[02:08] <Rocket2DMn> oh ok, good, b/c i dont have ops in this channel, lol
[02:08] <j1mc> i was thinking of going to that, and wanted to see if other people were maybe going to that?
[02:08] <j1mc> there is an earlybird registration deadline today
[02:08] <Rocket2DMn> never heard of it
[02:09] <j1mc> np
[02:09] <Rocket2DMn> i need to get back to doing wiki documentation soon, ive gotten very sidetracked with life
[02:10] <technomensch> rocket, you're on planet ubuntu, right?
[02:10] <Rocket2DMn> no, i think that is for Ubuntu Members
[02:11] <Rocket2DMn> im applying for membership at the next Americas board meeting (whenever that turns out to be)
[02:11] <technomensch> not sure.  the guy who is handling it for the community team had recommended that I use that as a jumping off point for communication.  I say in their meetings at the googleplex
[02:11] <technomensch> I mean, saw @ their meeting
[02:12] <technomensch> that they need to improve communications between teams
[02:12] <Rocket2DMn> i think planet ubuntu is a collection of blogs more or less
[02:12] <Rocket2DMn> yeah communication between teams is important, we've done some of that with the Beginners Team
[02:12] <technomensch> well I've always admired what you guys are doing on that team
[02:13] <technomensch> did I tell you I finally heard back from the guy running that hardware website?
[02:13] <Rocket2DMn> no, you didnt
[02:13] <Rocket2DMn> what did you hear?
[02:14] <technomensch> there is a guy on the QA team that is working with cannocial to figure out exactly what to do about the hardware
[02:14] <technomensch> so I put him in touch with them and we were doing email conversations for a bit
[02:14] <technomensch> come to think of it, I need to follow up on  that
[02:14] <technomensch> I know they've been busy @ can...
[02:15] <technomensch> he did seem interested about wanting to know what could be done to help
[02:15] <technomensch> even though it took about a month or so to hear back from him.  might not be an address he was checking often
[02:15] <Rocket2DMn> cool, i like to do triage hardware bugs on LP as well, since the kernel team has their triage process well documented
[02:16] <Rocket2DMn> do you remember that Foxconn mess last July?
[02:16] <technomensch> groovy
[18:04] <nixternal> mdke: I have talked with evand here at UDS about the Ubiquity installer stuff where they wanted some documentation during the install...like 3 sentneces about different areas of Ubuntu while people are doing the install
[18:04] <nixternal> I am sure you remember that spec from last year, so it seems they are finally going forward with it...I figured you would probably head up the Ubuntu side of it..I will keep you informed if I find out anything else
[19:28] <nixternal> mdke: if you get a chance, could you do one of two things: either 1) add me as an admin to the Ubuntu Core Doc members, or 2) unsubscribe the Ubuntu Core Doc members, or the committers from bug #224971 ... I am tired of receiving those useless updates
[19:28] <nixternal> thanks!
[19:28] <nixternal> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu-doc/+bug/224971
[19:29] <jjesse> unsubscribe me as well