[00:08] Which will be approx. March 18th [00:09] uh, what will? [00:10] * tonyyarusso seems to lack an important bit of scrollback atm [00:10] ah, the beta of Lucid, when M* M* [00:10] YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP [00:10] Takyoji: no, silly, that's already happening! [00:10] will be announced [00:11] ah [00:12] It's quite surprising; it appears my brother finally has interest in OpenOffice because his new laptop was only pre-installed with Microsoft Works... [00:12] hehe :) [00:13] Typically he acts as if price determines value of anything. [00:15] I know it sounds stupid, but it would be nice if Pidgin for example allowed you to set it to have a certain program scan a transferred file first before letting the user access it (such as ClamAV bindings or something) [00:16] For those of us that proudly wear our tinfoil hats as we sandbox/virtualize every application used on our desktops. [00:16] (hence why I'm curious of OpenBSD still yet) [01:05] Anyone know of a decent FLOSS video transcoder? [01:05] I would also like it mint flavor, please. [01:07] er, like ffmpeg? [01:08] Yes, but with a GUI for those whom aren't apt enough to use a CL [01:09] it's not too bad! [01:09] http://linux.die.net/man/1/ffmpeg [01:09] how are you converting things? from what to what? [01:10] it can be as easy as ffmpeg -i infile.format outfile.format [01:11] CLI* [01:11] I mean for a person that barely even knows what a file format is. [01:12] I believe they need it from DVD video (.vob) to a more widely implemented format. [01:12] (or even just a container for that matter) [01:12] I wish Mastroska was more widely supported... [01:13] I wuv that container format.. [01:17] oh,oh, like extracting from a DVD [01:17] dvd::rip perhaps [01:18] The only problem is that they'll very likely be a Windows user [01:19] in that case, consider DVD Decrypter [01:19] and/or DVD shrink [01:19] Handbrake, perhaps [01:19] yeah, Handbrake [01:19] I was looking at Handbrake earlier curiously. [01:20] Otherwise the person it's for is apparently someone of a video production company called "Fox Video Productions" whom also wants a website as well [01:20] handbrake! [01:20] And there's apparently already several other companies with the exact same name... [01:54] Anyone have thoughts on the idea of GPU-accelerated graphics in a web browser, operated by Javascript? :P [01:55] Just to think, like just 8 years ago Javascript used to give people the impression of annoying animated images hovering near the cursor, or flashing text, or a snow effect of asterisks down a page... xP === sparkle_history is now known as sparklehistory [02:42] mine eyes glazeth over [02:43] heh [02:44] * mr_steve is happily failing a match practice test [02:44] grr, *math [03:06] http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=92 Click "Compile and Run" [03:07] That just scares me. A person wrote his own implementation of a QBasic compiler and considerably even a bytecode interpreter, and has the output draw to an HTML5 canvas [03:07] in Javascript [03:08] And wrote a functioning game within it as well === __diablo is now known as _diablo [16:04] tonyyarusso, ping [16:05] <_diablo> I haven't seen him in a while [16:06] _diablo, ok.. I just sent him an email and wanted to see what his schedule was like this afternoon.. it's about a program in Scott Co. who needs some help - with Ubuntu related stuff [16:07] <_diablo> yeah, fair enough. sorry for the lack of help. [16:07] I have to step away for a few hours but should be back after 4pm your time [16:07] _diablo, no worries :-) [16:08] I'll check back a little later.. thx :-) [22:17] akgraner: I'm around atm btw [22:17] tonyyarusso, hey [22:17] did you get my email? [22:18] I did [22:18] just wanted to know if it makes sense to you [22:18] I don't quite understand how it relates to Ubuntu yet though [22:19] he installs ubuntu on the refurbished computers [22:19] or, frankly, exactly what BTYR does. Is that a primary service of theirs? [22:19] and gives the to the families of deployed soldiers [22:20] that is one of the organizations he is working with [22:20] Do you know which other ones? [22:21] nope, but I know it has to do with single moms [22:21] his big issue is support, classes for people he gives the computers too, QA sessions etc [22:22] I see. hrm [22:22] I wonder whether he's had any contact with http://freegeektwincities.org/ also. [22:22] <_diablo> tonyyarusso: any news on the shirts? [22:23] <_diablo> I shared the spreadsheet with you I believe [22:23] _diablo: not that I know of? [22:23] yeah, you did [22:24] I don't think so, he just now started contacting people who he thought might be able to 1) offer help in some fashion 2) help grow the project [22:24] Do you happen to know whether the broader Ubuntu community has any sort of "beginner training" curriculum that we could use if we did do something? [22:25] and since he is installing Ubuntu on them all - I thought it might be something you would want to talk to him about and see if the LoCo team would want to help [22:25] <_diablo> hmmm, how do we define critical mass? [22:25] tonyyarusso, I think the learning team might have some stuff, and with User Days coming up I can ask them [22:26] _diablo: for shirts, by what people are willing to pay versus where the quantity price breaks are. [22:26] akgraner: That would be good to know - we don't really have a good support infrastructure in place yet, so it'd be a bit of a hurdle to get started, so anything that lowers the cost of entry would be helpful. [22:32] akgraner: I added a note to our spec on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MinnesotaTeam/Specs/AreaGroups for reference, although I'm not sure what/when we could commit to offhand. (Ideally someone else would step up to run with it) [23:25] tonyyarusso, sorry had deal with an issue here.. [23:26] tony no worries I'll get you all the info I have and you can talk to the fellow in charge of this. I am going to write up something for the US Teams about this as well to see if it's something they would like to see about starting in their areas.. [23:28] I'll get you all the stuff I can that's floating around out there in regards to the classes and stuff [23:29] tonyyarusso, thanks! :-)