| cyberanger | hey mac9416 | 00:36 |
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| mac9416 | Hey, cyberanger, wrst! Sorry, I was afk. | 00:45 |
| mac9416 | How're y'all? | 00:45 |
| wrst | good mac9416 how have things been going for you? | 00:46 |
| mac9416 | Pretty good, even though I just upgraded an offline machine from an alternate CD and screwed it up royally. | 00:46 |
| mac9416 | But this apple cider sure tastes fine. :-) | 00:47 |
| mac9416 | And a bug I reported two months ago just got some attention. | 00:47 |
| wrst | well that is good what bug? | 00:48 |
| mac9416 | https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/653293 | 00:49 |
| mac9416 | bbiab | 00:52 |
| wrst | oh goodness mac9416 i had noticed that glad you thought to file a bug! | 00:53 |
| cyberanger | my T-Mobile G2 is awesome, has been rooted for a few weeks, with cyanogenmod installed right after, and now it's sim subsidy lock is removed, woo hoo yes! | 01:14 |
| wrst | congrats cyberanger, even though i have no clue what you just said | 01:15 |
| cyberanger | and thanks to connectbot or andchat (I choose connectbot) I'm able to share this news with you all | 01:15 |
| * cyberanger wishes he had a spare android phone to hand wrst to let him enjoy some city tech in the boondocks | 01:16 | |
| cyberanger | mac9416: so to answer your question in one word, Sweet | 01:17 |
| cyberanger | wrst: android is linux (very oversimplified) rooting (getting root on an android) isn't as simple as sudo | 01:17 |
| wrst | i wish you had an android phone to hand me also, i've been on the hunt for one eventually i will get one just because of it being linux open more or less etc etc | 01:18 |
| cyberanger | and (oh, this one's gonna burn a little) installing cyanogenmod is like going from ubuntu to crunchbang, much faster | 01:18 |
| cyberanger | the last part isn't as simple to explain, luckily I just switched to my desktop now, so I'm not all thumbs | 01:20 |
| cyberanger | T-Mobile, AT&T, and many other carriers in other countries (and smaller ones here) use GSM | 01:21 |
| cyberanger | the phones are all (oversimplified) the same, switching service is as easy as taking a plastic chip that comes with the phone (this is the sim card) and sticking it in the phone | 01:23 |
| cyberanger | but the two big carriers here (and others too) pay for the phones full price, with a sim lock (T-Mobile uses the term SIM Subsidy lock, there are more than one kind of sim locks, but I've only ever seen a subsidy lock in use) | 01:25 |
| cyberanger | and you get it cheaper, becuase part of the phone cost is in the phone bill | 01:25 |
| cyberanger | that lock prevents me from using it with anyone but the carrier I bought the phone from, till it's unlocked, which in my case is today | 01:26 |
| cyberanger | wrst: make sense? | 01:26 |
| wrst | ha ha yes | 01:27 |
| cyberanger | this will be useful some point in 2011 (forget back to the future, I'm heading back to canada. (I hate being a tourist, but I don't mind visiting an intresting place) | 01:33 |
| cyberanger | ) | 01:33 |
| cyberanger | four phones I own are unlocked now, gotta see about a 5th | 01:34 |
| wrst | well cyberanger i'm about to see if i can get natty to install again... yesterday was not such a good attempt | 01:35 |
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| === wrst_wee is now known as wrst_natty | ||
| === pleia2_ is now known as pleia2 | ||
| cyberanger | wrst: what went wrong | 01:55 |
| cyberanger | wrst_natty: what went wrong | 01:56 |
| cyberanger | what went wrong, your CLI usage seems right ;-) | 01:56 |
| * cyberanger thinks he just came up with something clevar, must try it | 02:00 | |
| wrst_natty | cyberanger: never would boot yesterday | 02:01 |
| wrst_natty | tried todays daily image and there is unity... sorta but making progress, i think :) | 02:01 |
| wrst_natty | well i'm signing off cyberanger while this is installing | 02:03 |
| cyberanger | wrst_natty: maybe using a netisnt would help | 02:06 |
| cyberanger | and see you later (with weechat I hope, where's quassel ;-)) | 02:07 |
| cyberanger | wb excid3 | 03:03 |
| excid3 | hey cyberanger | 03:13 |
| excid3 | irccloud just didn't reconnect to all my channels | 03:13 |
| cyberanger | all? what ones did it not miss ;-) | 03:15 |
| cyberanger | excid3: ^ it sounds like a good service, but that sounds like a bad glitch | 03:20 |
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| * wrst yawns | 21:59 | |
| * wrst pokes cyberanger to see if he is still alive | 22:03 | |
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