| doctormo | hey duanedesign | 00:14 |
|---|---|---|
| doctormo | Got a test suite for dbus event signals in python, Mwhahaha, now I can take over the world! | 00:42 |
| doctormo | Amendment: this was quite tricky, you should see the includes for the base module: os, sys, threading, subprocess, signal, atexit, gobject, time and logging. heh all the cool kids modules. | 00:44 |
| duanedesign | hey doctormo ! | 00:52 |
| duanedesign | i started playing around with designing some stuff. | 00:53 |
| doctormo | duanedesign: oh? want to show it to me? | 00:54 |
| duanedesign | let me see, i think i have somme here | 00:54 |
| duanedesign | doctormo: here is one. http://people.ubuntu.com/~duanedesign/peopleAll-small.jpg | 00:58 |
| doctormo | duanedesign: I like it, I think you need to increase the brightness and contrast between the orange and purple elements, and make the text stronger somehow. | 00:59 |
| doctormo | also, jpeg is a bad format for any design/production, it's lossy compression will give you nasty artifacts with printing and transmition. | 01:00 |
| duanedesign | doctormo: /5 | 01:20 |
| duanedesign | oops P | 01:20 |
| JanC | doctormo: your description of JPEG makes me think about Google's new fantastic unique space-saving "we can make files smaller by losing quality" WebP format... ;) | 02:21 |
| doctormo | JanC: It's not that bad! | 02:21 |
| doctormo | http://ubuntu-artists.deviantart.com/gallery/24290476#/d2zsebq | 03:02 |
| JanC | doctormo: that reminds me, I have to see when Sintel will be ready ;) | 03:11 |
| doctormo | JanC: yesterday | 03:12 |
| JanC | oh, so I can expect a DVD soon... :-) | 03:12 |
| JanC | I actually saw a peview at Libre Graphics Meeting | 03:13 |
| JanC | preview | 03:13 |
| JanC | hm, I get errors when trying to access their site :P | 03:14 |
| JanC | so I saw part of it before the official première, including some of the problems they had, errors they made, how they work, etc. | 03:15 |
| JanC | that was really interesting to see | 03:16 |
| JanC | I wonder if they will free the recording that was made of that talk now | 03:16 |
| doctormo | JanC: Did the news not reacht he planet? | 03:26 |
| JanC | I don't read the planet every day ;) | 03:26 |
| JanC | actually, there are so many news sources in open source that I don't know what to read first anymore ;) | 03:27 |
| czajkowski | aloha | 08:40 |
| nigelb | morning | 08:40 |
| vish | doctormo: hey, any news on that ip ban ? or is that something i should be resolving at my end? seems like yours is the only site i might not have access to.. :( | 10:13 |
| nigelb | vish: did you wait for like 1 minute? | 10:14 |
| vish | heh, but i do read your blog via liferea! ;p | 10:14 |
| nigelb | it took some time to load up | 10:14 |
| vish | nigelb: yea, no luck here.. | 10:14 |
| nigelb | ugh | 10:14 |
| nigelb | jussi: Its so beautiful! | 11:58 |
| jussi | :D | 11:59 |
| nigelb | Interesting suit though | 11:59 |
| nigelb | strangely it reminded me of dracula cartoons :p | 12:00 |
| * nigelb runs. Fast. | 12:00 | |
| nigelb | jussi: the ones were you both stand on rocks => who chose that setting? | 12:01 |
| nigelb | That made me think like you were in the sky :) | 12:02 |
| jussi | nigelb: the photographer suggested and we approved. | 12:11 |
| nigelb | jussi: It was a very good idea :) | 12:26 |
| duanedesign | morning all | 12:59 |
| nigelb | morning duanedesign | 13:00 |
| Pendulum | hiya | 13:11 |
| nigelb | hey :) | 13:12 |
| akgraner | Woo Hoo - it's the weekend :-) | 13:38 |
| nigelb | gosh, its saturday evening already | 13:38 |
| akgraner | nigelb, :-) | 13:39 |
| akgraner | I am acknowledging west coast time today so I get 3 more hours of weekend :-) | 13:40 |
| nigelb | you're on the west coast? | 13:41 |
| akgraner | nope | 13:41 |
| akgraner | that is just the time zone I am executing today with | 13:41 |
| nigelb | but your body probably thinks it is :p | 13:41 |
| nigelb | aah :) | 13:41 |
| AlanBell | I would love to do the xkcd 28 hour day thing | 13:47 |
| nigelb | I tried. Painful. | 13:47 |
| vish | popey: in UK english its "Open Trash" and "Empty Trash" … | 14:35 |
| vish | maybe 'the' british need to many 'the' ;p | 14:35 |
| vish | err! in US english | 14:36 |
| vish | too... | 14:36 |
| * vish sleeps! | 14:36 | |
| nigelb | its too early | 14:36 |
| vish | yea, just a short nap :D | 14:38 |
| nigelb | hah | 14:39 |
| nigelb | AlanBell: ping, around? | 15:26 |
| nigelb | AlanBell: who runs the bot that publishes the rss feeds from ubuntu-uk planet in the #ubuntu-uk channel? | 15:27 |
| AlanBell | daviey I think | 15:34 |
| AlanBell | popey would know for sure | 15:34 |
| nigelb | popey: ^^ | 15:35 |
| nigelb | AlanBell: I realized that cia bot for bzr can only do client side, so if you want to do actual server side, you neeed rss feed from launchpad | 15:36 |
| nigelb | planning on writing something for that to use in #pollka :) | 15:36 |
| AlanBell | is bug 585940 assigned to the right person? | 16:46 |
| ubot2 | Launchpad bug 585940 in ubuntu-website-content "Text reads "not recommended" for 64-bit (affects: 74) (heat: 367)" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/585940 | 16:46 |
| AlanBell | actually it looks like it is Gerry's thing | 16:49 |
| popey | AlanBell / nigelb yes, daviey set it up | 16:53 |
| nigelb | popey: ok! thanks, I'll talk to Daviey :) | 18:55 |
| sense | good evening | 20:41 |
| duanedesign | hey there sense | 20:43 |
| sense | hi duanedesign | 20:43 |
| duanedesign | sense: up to anything interesting this evening? | 20:49 |
| sense | duanedesign: Not much, I'm recovering from today's hard work in preparation of our move to Dokkum. | 20:50 |
| sense | :) | 20:50 |
| sense | duanedesign: What about you? | 20:53 |
| duanedesign | sense: been doing skthches for a webdte I am going to make | 21:25 |
| sense | duanedesign: Is it going good? | 21:25 |
| duanedesign | sense: i think so | 21:28 |
| sense | good | 21:28 |
| duanedesign | sense: i am using a CSS Framework | 21:28 |
| sense | duanedesign: How does such a thing work? | 21:28 |
| duanedesign | this my first time to use one. I am using the 960 grid system | 21:29 |
| * AlanBell would like to burn 960gs and all that use it | 21:30 | |
| AlanBell | such an insanely bad idea | 21:31 |
| nigelb | fluid is way better | 21:31 |
| AlanBell | yup | 21:32 |
| duanedesign | AlanBell: why is that | 21:32 |
| nigelb | people who tend to be desingers love 960 | 21:32 |
| AlanBell | *I* choose how wide I want my browser | 21:32 |
| nigelb | +1 | 21:32 |
| AlanBell | which could be quite narrow, sitting alongside other windows | 21:32 |
| doctormo | AlanBell: No, your browser width is my choice, remember when you sold me that right? | 21:33 |
| AlanBell | or it could be the full width of my 2048 wide monitor | 21:33 |
| AlanBell | and I could be randomly choosing bigger or smaller text sizes | 21:33 |
| AlanBell | I have been picking apart the web team's wordpress theme to fluidise it | 21:36 |
| AlanBell | http://beta.ubuntu-uk.org/ | 21:36 |
| AlanBell | now fluid, it works fine | 21:37 |
| nigelb | ok, bed time. Later all. | 21:37 |
| AlanBell | bye nigelb | 21:37 |
| * popey hugs AlanBell | 21:41 | |
| AlanBell | http://beta.ubuntu-uk.org/2010/09/29/announcing-the-new-ubuntu-uk-org/ same thing with a fixed width right sidebar | 21:42 |
| popey | we need to give you the new uupc logo :) | 21:49 |
| popey | i dont think we'll put it on the uupc site until next season though | 21:49 |
| popey | so probably best to leave it as is for now | 21:49 |
| popey | would be lovely to revamp both sites at once :D | 21:49 |
| * popey drops a massive hint to AlanBell | 21:50 | |
| AlanBell | :) | 21:51 |
| AlanBell | that is probably something to discuss over beer popey | 22:05 |
| popey | yes! | 22:12 |
| vish | popey: from nautilus menu File » Create Folder / Create Document is what i have here, what is it in UK english.. ? | 22:14 |
| vish | popey: iirc, gnome HIG specifies against excessive use of "the" … i need to find the line.. | 22:15 |
| popey | probably written by americans | 22:16 |
| vish | hehe! | 22:16 |
| vish | pcutler? isnt british? | 22:16 |
| vish | oh wait it was Calum, irsh or living in ireland.. | 22:16 |
| vish | popey: well if it is "create the document" then its consistent, else it brings in a new inconsistency ;) | 22:17 |
| vish | and more bugs \0/ | 22:17 |
| popey | hmm | 22:20 |
| AlanBell | it would be "create a document" | 22:21 |
| AlanBell | and create a folder | 22:21 |
| vish | heh yea | 22:21 |
| AlanBell | and connect to a server for that matter | 22:21 |
| popey | :( vish | 23:00 |
| vish | popey: hehe, that was just a joke ;) | 23:01 |
| popey | didnt come across that way | 23:02 |
| vish | popey: oops! :( | 23:02 |
| popey | where is the specific section in that very long document about 'the'? | 23:02 |
| popey | searching for the word 'the' isnt fruitful or efficient | 23:03 |
| vish | adjectives use | 23:03 |
| popey | specifically? | 23:04 |
| vish | there is a section about it and mentions to not overuse it.. also » http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/menus.html.en | 23:04 |
| popey | yes, I'm trying to find the section you mention, can you quote it? | 23:05 |
| popey | so I can find it | 23:05 |
| vish | Use adjectives with caution. If an adjective is necessary to differentiate between items, then use adjectives. In all cases, test whether the phrase can stand alone without the adjective. | 23:06 |
| AlanBell | http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdp-style-guide/stable/grammar.html.en | 23:07 |
| AlanBell | "the" is not an adjective | 23:07 |
| * czajkowski is having flash backs to her junior cert English | 23:08 | |
| vish | grr! | 23:08 |
| * vish bad at grammar :D | 23:08 | |
| czajkowski | vish: tis fine, just sometimes as it's not your 1st language you may be too literal | 23:10 |
| AlanBell | the rules on the definite article "the" don't appear to apply to this context as it is not at the beginning of the string | 23:11 |
| vish | czajkowski: heh, actually i was good at it at one point :) , but lost touch recently :( | 23:11 |
| AlanBell | and we should always remember that software does not want to be anthropomorhisised | 23:12 |
| vish | well, sometimes they can be adjectives? http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adjectives.htm | 23:13 |
| popey | it really does feel like the grammatical rules of one nation are being used to dictate what other nations/locales/languages do | 23:16 |
| popey | which is frustrating | 23:16 |
| AlanBell | I think that is wrong | 23:16 |
| * AlanBell is cautious of grammar rules found on .edu websites | 23:17 | |
| * popey blames webster for much of this | 23:17 | |
| AlanBell | the article isn't part of the adjective | 23:17 |
| AlanBell | in the colourful paragraph with the pink and blue they didn't highlight the articles | 23:18 |
| vish | gah! articles! | 23:18 |
| popey | especially when people outside the UK and who are _not_ US citizens or US educated dictate the policy in the UK! | 23:19 |
| * popey says "bah" once more and goes to bed | 23:19 | |
| AlanBell | From The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Styleby Bryan Garner. Copyright 1995 by Bryan A. Garner. Published by Oxford University Press, Inc., www.oup-usa.org, and used with the gracious consent of Oxford University Press. | 23:19 |
| AlanBell | so there is a dictionary from Oxford to tell Americans how to get it wrong! | 23:20 |
| AlanBell | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjective interestingly wikipedia talks about articles used as adjectives | 23:22 |
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