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Alpha_Clusterhey ubuntu is guna be using bing00:01
TakyojiDon't remind me. :P00:25
TakyojiI love watching IE usage go down00:27
Alpha_Clusterhey bing is better as long as your not looking for technical stuff00:28
Takyojihttp://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-200807-20100200:29
Alpha_Clusterhey i think pretty much anyone who realy knows what they are doing likes seeing that00:30
Alpha_Clusterit looks like chrome has killed opera00:30
TakyojiYea00:38
Takyojialthough I think Opera still rules the mobile and embedded world of browsers00:38
Alpha_Clustereh oprea mini 5 sucks00:43
Alpha_Clustermy BB native browser is better00:43
Alpha_Clusterwatching a video on Windows Phone 7 >.<00:44
Alpha_Clusterit is guna give andriod a good challenge00:44
Alpha_Clusterhttp://channel9.msdn.com/posts/LauraFoy/First-Look-Windows-Phone-7-Series-Hands-on-Demo/00:44
Alpha_Clusterif your interested ^00:45
TakyojiI was implying in terms of usage00:47
Alpha_Clustereh they claim they do but i dont think they really have as much share as they claim unless every symbion phone usses it00:48
TakyojiAdvocating anything of MS on an Ubuntu channel? :P00:48
Alpha_Clusterim not advocating i am pointing out it exists00:48
Alpha_Clusterjust as this is what the other guy is doing00:49
Alpha_Clusteryou have you pay attantion to what all the companies are making00:49
Takyojiotherwise the map demo at TED seemed interesting00:50
TakyojiJust out of curiosity; in what instances would you consider Bing as better; in terms of results?00:54
Alpha_Clustermost normal results i feel it is genearlly better00:54
Alpha_Clustermostly cause it seems better then google at coming up with special searchs00:54
Takyojiin terms of relevance, or?00:55
Alpha_Clusterwell like if you search a moviename it will tell you where its playing00:55
Alpha_Clusterstuff like that00:55
Alpha_Clusterand give you ratings for it think also00:55
Takyojiahh00:55
TakyojiYou mean in terms of being more integrated, or?00:55
Alpha_Clusterhttp://www.bing.com/search?q=avatar&go=&form=QBLH&qs=n&sc=8-400:56
Alpha_Clusterlook at the results00:56
Alpha_Clusterit give me local theaters for the movie00:56
Takyojiahh00:56
TakyojiIs Fennec still considered beta yet, or?00:59
Alpha_ClusterFennec?00:59
TakyojiMozilla's mobile web browser00:59
Alpha_Clusteroh i dont know >.<01:00
Alpha_Clusteri havent heard it in ages lol01:00
Alpha_Clustercan i use it on my blackberry?01:03
Takyoji"Sorry, no plans. Due to its Java-based operating system and the inability to build native components, Firefox is not compatible on the Blackberry OS"01:05
TakyojiAvailable for WinMo, Maemo, eventually for Android, no plans for Symbian, etc01:05
Takyojiaccording to the wiki01:06
Alpha_Clusterlol01:06
Alpha_Clusteryeah which is why nobody will use it >.<01:06
Alpha_Clustermaybe WinMo01:06
Alpha_Clusterbut Andriod has Googles webkit based browser wich beats teh pants off gecko01:07
TakyojiDepends. But in ACID3 testing, yes01:07
Alpha_Clusteralso it supports more html5 codecs01:08
TakyojiWell yea01:08
TakyojiHopefully the buyout of On2 goes well, and hopefully they open the codec eventually01:08
Alpha_Clusterwe can only hope01:09
TakyojiI have a feeling however that Theora might get abandoned as a result; if such were to occur01:10
Alpha_Clusterwell h.264 is a better quality01:11
TakyojiThat's supposedly a misconception, as that issue was resolved a while ago01:11
Alpha_Clusterreally?01:12
Alpha_Clusteri remember theora is compteative at SD01:12
Alpha_Clusterbut i believe it falls behind at HD compression01:12
TakyojiSource being?01:12
Alpha_Clusteri dont remember i havent looke dinto it for months01:14
TakyojiSo you have a Blackberry by the way?01:15
TakyojiDone tethering with it at all, or?01:15
Alpha_ClusterVerizon doesnt like tehtering01:16
TakyojiAwkward; because the person I'm trying to help uses Verizon01:16
Takyojiand has a Blackberry Pearl01:16
Alpha_Clusteryeah they wan tyou to pay extra do do it01:17
TakyojiWell yea01:18
TakyojiI don't think I've heard of a provider that doesn't make you charge for tethering01:18
TakyojiSo what does it take to get a package available by mainstream public in Ubuntu/Debian?01:34
* Takyoji pokes mr_steve, since he happened to ask the question a few days ago01:37
_diabloTakyoji, loooong time, but we'll see01:53
_diablodebian is way longer than ubuntu btw01:53
_diablomr_steve, would def know better01:53
TakyojiHah, didn't know of that01:55
TakyojiErm, I misread it at first01:55
TakyojiI figured Debian would be longer than Ubuntu01:55
tonyyarussoIt doesn't take a long time, just work.01:58
_diabloyeah02:02
katakaioHey team - I just sent a follow-up e-mail about Global Jam. Anyone interested in doing it for our March LoCo event? If so, I'd like to promote it amongst the MN computing groups that I have contacts with.02:19
tonyyarussoThat'd be good, yeah.02:19
Takyojianything in specific planned of what to do, or just "free-for-all"?02:21
_diablokatakaio, not me, sorry.02:21
* _diablo is talentless02:21
katakaioThere are five types of jams we could host.02:22
katakaioI think the Lucid testing one might draw the most interest (and be the most fun for us)02:22
katakaioBut any of them would be great02:22
katakaioThe link to the Jam description is here:02:23
katakaiohttp://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/198102:23
tonyyarussoOooh, Lucid testing would be a good idea.02:24
katakaioI've been doing it already on my sandbox machine, and it's a lot of fun.02:25
_diabloI'd help with that actually :)02:25
katakaioThere ya go :)02:25
katakaioSorry, that's six jams: bug, testing, upgrade, documentation, translations, packaging02:27
rippsI'd be glad to help with Packaging help, but if I attend a Jam, it'll probably be h00k's in Superior, WI02:29
katakaioWhat type of Jam is h00k hosting?02:29
rippskatakaio: he hasn't really decided. Best I've heard is documentation and upgrade testing02:30
TakyojiWhat would be the general workful of testing Lucid?02:30
rippsI offered my knowledge in Packaging/Bug filing, but if nobody cares to learn packaging, not much use02:31
h00kkatakaio: we're not sure yet02:34
katakaioh00k: Oh - hi :)02:34
h00khallow :)02:34
rippsIf I act as a Packaging Tutor, do I have to come up some kind of lesson plan, or can I just assist people who are trying to teach themselves?02:35
katakaioripps: The way I see it, it could go one of two ways02:36
katakaioIt could be a very informative session for the loco members, or it could be more like an installfest02:36
katakaiotonyyarusso: What does the boss have to say?02:37
tonyyarussokatakaio: it sounds good to me, we just need to get the info put together, sent out, answer questions, and get as many people as possible involved in some way or another, regardless of previous experience level.02:37
katakaiotonyyarusso: Unfortunately, my work schedule changed and has me booked during our loco meetings on Mondays - hence my absence :(02:39
katakaioBut I'm still working for Ubuntu . . .02:39
Takyojianyway; as for Lucid, what would be tested?02:40
rippsTakyoji: I'm sure the ubuntu-qa guys can give a list of things to try out02:41
Takyojiand then just bug reporting from there, or?02:41
rippsThat's the basics of it. Use software, find bug, file bug. That's it. If you want to the extra leg work, you can than figure out what's causing the bug and attempt to make a patch or debdiff fixing said bug.02:43
katakaioTakyoji: Yeah. Apport does automatic bug filing for crashes02:43
katakaioIt's a good intro to Launchpad bug filing as well02:43
Takyojiand if the application doesn't crash?02:43
ripps`ubuntu-bug <package name>`02:43
TakyojiI've done a bug report through Apport I believe02:43
Takyojijust once or twice though02:43
katakaioTakyoji: Then you can submit the bug manually through Launchpad, which loco members can help with02:44
Takyojiand so it's intended to be done in a VM, or?02:44
TakyojiOtherwise I have Lucid installed locally on my system as well02:44
rippsubuntu-bug creates a profile and uploads it to launchpad through apport. Use it it for all bug filing as it bundles logs need to help diagnose the software.02:44
katakaioI do it on a sandbox machine myself, or on a separate hard drive02:44
rippsTakyoji: you can use testdrive to run lucid in a VM, make sure you pc is capable of running a VM first.02:45
katakaiobrb, moving from coffeeshop to home02:45
TakyojiI use VirtualBox02:45
rippsI'm using lucid right now as my main OS, and it actually works pretty well.02:46
TakyojiThe only things I have problems with is GDM and minor graphical issues02:46
rippsTakyoji: look for gdm2setup to configure and customize the new gdm. Not as customizable as old gdm, but this allows you change the gdm gtk theme.02:47
Takyojithe other thing I had issues with was trying to install my NVidia driver02:48
Takyojiit just couldn't find a needed package or something02:48
rippsTakyoji: nvidia-current (at least it is in lucid)02:49
rippsAlthough, if you try out lucid, I'd prefer if you'd add the nouveou-testing ppa and try testing that driver out, as that's something we users can help debug.02:50
TakyojiBooting into Lucid on my desktop now03:20
TakyojiSupposedly nvidia_current is installed03:24
TakyojiHow would I be able to debug the GDM issue to a reasonable extent?03:26
* Takyoji pokes ripps03:26
TakyojiWoo, some packages failed to download an update03:27
Takyojior the inverse03:28
TakyojiApparently the packages are not found...03:32
Takyojiempathy, empathy-common, gnome-orca, byobu, tomboy, nautilus-sendto-empathy, nvidia-96-modaliases, nvidia-173-modaliases, nvidia-current-modaliases03:32
* Takyoji pokes at the dead channel03:38
_diablohello03:41
_diabloTakyoji, sorry, I didn't know :(03:41
Takyojixserver-xorg-core supposedly crashed (which is probably the GDM issue) although Apport implies "THe program failed on an assertion failure, but the message could not be retrieved. Apport does not support reporting these crashes."03:43
tonyyarussoanybody good with CSS?03:55
TakyojiYesss03:58
TakyojiI have to admit; it's a bit awkward for nautilus to have tabs on the bottom..03:58
tonyyarussoTakyoji: http://shta.tonyyarusso.com/04:03
tonyyarussoTakyoji: I want the whitespace between and below the menu items to go away.04:03
tonyyarussoIt's supposed to look like http://shta.org/04:04
TakyojiDo you have the same CSS as the original, or?04:07
tonyyarussonot quite04:08
tonyyarussoTheir site is non-validating hand-crafted craptastic HTML; mine is a Drupal 6 theme.04:09
Takyojiahh04:09
TakyojiI'd probably have to poke at it tomorrow; the workstation I usually have all my tools on is running Lucid right now and I'm poking at a few things04:10
tonyyarussobother04:11
tonyyarussoTakyoji: I have a pretty good idea what's happening at least - it's sizing the element to fit the text rather than following my defined sizes.04:13
TakyojiThe link with have to have "display: block" and most likely "float: left" or "float: right"04:13
TakyojiIf you do "display: inline", it won't have padding nor margin04:14
tonyyarussooh04:16
tonyyarussowhy?04:16
tonyyarussooooh, shiny04:16
TakyojiIt's just the stupid that occurs with it04:17
Takyoji"display: block" makes sure the element is on it's own line.04:17
Takyoji"display: inline" lets it be inline, and have no automatic linebreaks before/after the element04:18
TakyojiThus elements can be side-by-side.04:18
TakyojiHowever it doesn't ever seem to obey sizing/spacing when shown as an inline element04:19
TakyojiThus you have to make the elements float left/right, and then clear below it (if I remember correct), so that the elements don't cover anything after it, like it isn't contained in it's parent element04:19
tonyyarussoCould I use a z-index to make an element's text appear BEHIND the background-image of the same element?04:21
TakyojiYou can't have it go behind the background-image04:23
Takyojiz-index is for the whole element04:23
tonyyarussobummer04:23
Takyojinot just text04:23
TakyojiUsually you either: use images and have the text in the 'alt' text attribute of the image tag; or, have the image in the background, but make the foreground text invisible.04:24
* tonyyarusso is getting kind of tired of trying to fix other people's atrocious web sites - why couldn't they just do it right the first time?!?04:24
tonyyarussoForeground text invisible - how?04:24
tonyyarussois invisible a "color"?04:24
kermitfgcolor and no bgcolor04:24
TakyojiNo04:24
kermitand they assumed a different default bgcolor04:24
kermiti always had that problem before compiz negative mode04:25
Takyojivisibility: hidden04:26
Takyojihttp://w3schools.com/css/pr_class_visibility.asp04:26
tonyyarussohmmm04:27
TakyojiIf only I could get bonus points for being an active member on the IRC. :P05:29
tonyyarussofor what, class?05:30
kermiti don't know how to get any points without irc05:31
kermiti'm honestry trying to figure it out though05:31
kermiter, honestly05:31
Takyojifor this channel. :P05:34
mr_steve_diablo, how's it going?16:28
_diablomr_steve, yo, not bad here16:28
_diabloon ubuntu again lol16:29
mr_steveglad to hear it16:29
mr_steveheh, on both counts16:29
_diablomr_steve, how goes the packaging for cnetworkmanager?16:29
mr_stevepending review on REVU16:29
mr_steveI gotta poke the MOTUs again and see if I can get it in before feature freeze, if it's not too late already16:30
mr_steveIf you're itching to use it I can fix up the package in my PPA16:31
mr_steve_diablo, what's your friday look like this week?16:38
_diablomr_steve, ohhh! I am itching indeed!16:38
_diablomy friday is clear this week16:39
_diabloi'm up for it if you are. any news on location?16:39
mr_steveI got nothin'16:39
mr_steveI didn't get a chance to scout around over there16:39
mr_steveI'm going to see if I can find something ahead of time, but otherwise I'll just have to pick another place from google maps to try out16:41
mr_steveOr give Ambrosia Coffee my spare wireless router ;)16:42
_diablolol, we can try going there with a backtrack disc and see if we can fix it for them...17:02
TakyojiOoo, the Ubuntu Software Centre in Lucid is shinier21:56
Takyojiseems to be a few visual tweaks here and there in Lucid22:24
mr_steveYey finally have my NFS mounts working again. I forgot how much fun setting up NFSv4 with Kerberos is23:54
Takyojiheh woo23:55
Takyojiand SD cards still mount as read-only, even in Lucid..23:55
mr_steveThat's odd. I just popped in an SD card and copied a bunch of files to it last night23:56
TakyojiOn some systems it works fine; others it doesn't. Some that it worked fine on, no longer do SD cards properly.23:57
TakyojiWorks on this laptop; doesn't work on the 2 desktops in this household.23:58
mr_steveThat is definitely weird. I haven't had any problems with SD cards at all23:59

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