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tonyyarussoh00k: yeah :(00:02
tonyyarussoh00k: we should have two more chances, although tonight and tomorrow may be semi-cloudy too.00:03
h00kI've always wanted to see them00:04
tonyyarussoh00k: NWS says "PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND01:12
tonyyarussoTHUNDERSTORMS BEFORE 9 PM..THEN CLEARING.01:12
tonyyarussodown here, which is promising for midnight01:12
tonyyarussoSame thing Thursday - "PARTLY CLOUDY IN THE EVENING THEN BECOMING01:13
tonyyarussoMOSTLY CLEAR.01:13
kermitis there any chance of a second chance at seeing the aurora tonight?01:13
kermitit was too cloudy last night01:13
tonyyarussokermit: Yes - there were multiple flares, so all three nights have nearly equal shots.01:14
kermitcool01:15
tonyyarussoWunderground agrees - 20% cloud cover at 1AM tonight01:15
tonyyarussokermit, h00k:  http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/kp_3d.html01:19
tonyyarussolooks like we're back up to 6 so far tonight01:19
h00kyay!01:24
h00kI might have to out to the airport across the road after the Ubuntu Wisconsin meeting01:24
h00kI wonder if it will be low enough to reach down here01:24
h00ktonyyarusso: ^01:24
tonyyarussodunno, but you have an advantage over me still01:26
h00kLess light polution, that's for sure01:53
tonyyarussoand higher latitude01:55
h00kwe're higher, here?03:04
h00ksure enough.03:05
h00kRhinelander is03:05
tonyyarussogeography fail03:06
h00kno u03:09
exigraffowned03:10
tonyyarussoRhinelander has 0.344848 of a degree on Shoreview.03:11
tonyyarusso(Approximately 24 miles)03:13
h00ktonyyarusso: you're welcome here! I have an excellent view!03:15
tonyyarussoh00k: of just stars so far, or do you have lights?03:16
h00ktonyyarusso: I don't know yet, I'm discussing Wubi in #ubuntu-us-wi03:17
h00kthen I'll head out03:17
tonyyarussoah03:17
tonyyarussoYou're a four-hour drive away though, so maybe not :P03:17
h00kYeah...it's true. Unless you speed!03:18
h00kyou could get here by 103:18
h00kI have a futon03:18
tonyyarussoSo, be there by 1, watch the sky for maybe two hours, then be awake, fed, and driving back here for work by 8AM...03:20
h00kyep. coffee!03:22
exigraffthere are worse ways to spend the evening03:22
h00kI'm going out now.03:43
* Takyoji wonders if there's a reference which has all the commands of all common Linux package managers listed04:48
TakyojiIs there anything else other than dpkg and rpm?04:55
tonyyarussoapt and yum on top of those, yast, portage, stampede, urpmi, zypper, poldek, slackpkg, pacman, smart, equo, conary, and a few others.04:58
tonyyarusso^^ Takyoji04:59
Takyojibut a handful of those are just frontends to apt or yum; correct?04:59
tonyyarussonope05:01
TakyojiI mean05:02
Takyojidpkg and rpm05:02
Takyojiapt being a frontend for dpkg; yum as a frontend for rpm05:03
tonyyarussoPackage file formats:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_package_formats , package management systems:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_management_system#Linux_distributions05:03
Takyojiahh05:03
tonyyarussoSee also http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=package-management05:07
Takyojiyay05:08
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