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dmcgloneHiya pals02:29
canthus13Good morning.02:35
dmcglonewhat ya up to today?02:36
canthus13not much.02:37
dmcgloneI'm back over to Gnome at the moment :-( stability in KDE is crappy at the moment02:38
canthus13s/crappy at the moment/crappy/02:38
canthus13and s/stability in//02:38
canthus13Fixed. :)02:38
dmcglonelol02:39
dmcgloneI can't say too much for Gnome either. today I right clicked on network manager and the whole computer froze, I had to do a hard shutdown02:41
dmcgloneanyway, I gotta step out of here and get me some rest02:43
dmcgloneI'll see everyone probably tomorrow02:44
canthus13Wow.  have fun.02:44
dmcgloneI'll try02:44
dmcglonelol02:44
dmcgloneg'night, have a good one02:44
paultagHowdy, all03:05
BiosElementAhoy paultag03:06
Unit193Hey paultag03:06
paultagahoy03:06
paultaghey Unit19303:06
canthus13Woo. I'm now a wanted man in Texas.03:37
* canthus13 just got an arrest warrant notice in the mail for a speeding ticket.03:38
Unit193canthus13: Run for you life!! ;)04:03
Cheri703?04:04
canthus13Cheri703: Texas has issued a warrent for my arrest.  For a speeding ticket. from 12 years ago.04:04
Cheri703ha, nice04:04
Cheri703how did you find out?04:04
canthus13Cheri703: A card in the mail.04:05
Cheri703dang...what do you do with that?04:05
canthus13Stay out of texas 'til I can afford to pay.04:05
Cheri703can I ask how much it is? does a speeding ticket accrue interest/fees?04:06
Unit193Did you even know about it before?04:06
canthus13I forgot about it..04:13
canthus13It's almost 800 bucks.. Speeding, failure to change address, and associated crap for not showing up in court.04:13
Cheri703:/ people always ask what could happen if they disregard an out of state ticket...but if you were living there at the time I guess it's different04:14
canthus13You stay the heck out of that state.. and don't try for a job that requires a criminal background check.04:14
Cheri703:/ good thing you have a job then04:15
canthus13Yup.04:15
canthus13I'm gonna get it paid.  Eventually.  I'll call and see if they'll take some sort of payment plan.04:16
BiosElementOuch. Best bet would be to plead your case and hope for the best. >.< If you 'really' forgot about it I'd presume they'd at least hook you up with a plan.04:18
* canthus13 isn't going anywhere near Texas to plead his case. They can't touch him outside Texas, so they can wait.. Once it's paid, he'll be fine.04:19
canthus13I'll still check and see about payment arrangements, though.04:20
BiosElementOr you hope they can't touch you outta state. >.> They can still screw things up pretty decent heh04:21
canthus13Although, it's a good excuse to avoid the inlaws... :)04:21
canthus13They can't. no state will extradite for a traffic violation.  They won't even bother arresting.  Texas isn't going to send an ADA to present an extradition case for a traffic ticket, either.04:21
canthus13Apparently, though, texas courts have been doing this a lot... Issuing warrants for stuff as far back as 20 years...04:22
canthus13I guess they just try to scare the crap out of people in hopes of collecting some fines.04:24
BiosElementIronically state courts don't think there's a limit on how far back they can go too...somehow I don't think speeding tickets count in the same category as murder...04:25
Cheri703that's nice, when rape and such have statutes of limitations >.<04:26
BiosElementDepends on the state.04:27
BiosElementMurder isn't dictated on the federal level either04:28
BiosElementWhen state/fed laws start mixing, things get so bloody messy >.<04:28
canthus13Actually, there's a statute of limitations.. But since I've been found guilty in absentia, they don't have to worry about it. Now it's a debt owed to a court. no limit on that.04:31
Unit193anyone use the getdeb repo?05:10
Cheri703only once05:11
canthus13years ago.05:13
Unit193They didn't just add the repo? (apt-get repo)05:15
Cheri703I added it to get pidgin 2.7.705:17
Cheri703this had directions for adding it: http://www.webupd8.org/2010/11/install-pidgin-276-in-ubuntu-with-msn.html05:17
Unit193If I install linux for a friend/relative I'm going to add Getdeb and Medibuntu repos :)05:20
Cheri703good call05:21
Unit193Why is DVD not supported by default? (I don't remember)05:22
Cheri703copyright issues if I recall05:23
Unit193I asked to see if it was because it was "non-free" (Mint has it by default)05:27
canthus13DeCSS is illegal to distribute in some countries.05:27
canthus13The US is one of those countries.05:27
Unit193Thanks canthus1305:28
canthus13Yup.05:28
=== Unit1931 is now known as Unit193
Unit193Can libdvdcss really enable you to play other region code disks? (from what I see "it will try its best")05:46
Unit193(client went crazy don't know if I said that)05:47
BiosElementIn concept. >.>06:05
BiosElementAnd Wallstreet Journal needs to fire their writer06:05
BiosElementhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704679204575646840288688392.html06:05
BiosElement"drives up the volume of traffic that companies such as comcast corp must carry"06:06
BiosElement^Yeah, how nice of them carrying all that data for free. Awesome how they're all out to help the world eh? ;)06:06
Cheri703any of you programmer types around tonight? paultag BiosElement ? anyone else that programs and I don't know about?07:11
BiosElementMmm Yes?07:11
Cheri703copied from another room earlier: in ubuntu-accessibility we were talking about the need to make signing the CoC easier, and I thought of having a gui app that would: generate a gpg key, store it, let you import files/text to sign, then output a file/text to be copied and uploaded07:14
Cheri703NO idea if/how it'd be possible07:14
BiosElementIt'd be possible, although I don't remember how launchpad manages the CoC, I think it was a pain though. It's totally possible though, nothing terribly complex as long as the launchpad folks liked the idea and I don't see why they wouldn't.07:15
Cheri703well, I'm not even saying that the program would do the uploading, just the creation FOR uploading07:15
Cheri703basically it'd present the text so you could copy/paste easier07:16
BiosElementThen yeah, that actually should be pretty simple to do.07:16
Cheri703without creating/opening/closing/whatever the file a bunch of times and using cli07:16
Cheri703:D07:16
Cheri703that'd be awesome07:16
Cheri703because on the site, the steps are fairly straightforward, it's the local steps that are dumb07:16
* Cheri703 wonders if BiosElement a. has free time, b. likes cookies, c. wants to be her new best friend :D07:17
BiosElementHeh it'd be pretty simple to do. ^_^07:17
BiosElementI'd say I would but I'm overbooked at the moment to begin with project-wise. I'll toss it on my todo but you'd probably have better luck sending it to the mailing list or forums.07:18
Cheri703understandable :)07:19
Cheri703any basic thoughts on implementation? language, etc? so I could point it in the right direction?07:20
BiosElementMy knee-jerk reaction would be python using something like py-gtk or whatever the gnome folks use these days. >.<07:21
Cheri703ok07:22
BiosElementNight folks ^_^07:24
Cheri703night07:25
Cheri703and thanks07:25
Navirio1http://consumerist.com/2010/11/guy-pays-20-million-to-scammers-who-said-his-hard-drive-was-infected.html12:58
Navirio1best article ive ever seen on consumerist!12:58
paultagCheri703, yo14:01
Cheri703hey paultag14:51
paultagCheri703, I'm around :)14:53
paultagCheri703, I saw the ping14:53
Cheri703:) did you see the questions I was asking BiosElement after it?14:54
paultagOh, no. sec, scrollup time14:54
paultagCheri703, ahha, duane and I were just poking back and forth about that14:55
paultagCheri703, you can, no problem, it might just be funky. I like having people forced into reading the document ( personally )14:55
Cheri703well, being force into reading it is all well and good, but the actual signing process...14:56
thafreakMorning14:56
Cheri703*and you don't actually HAVE to read it to sign it as is14:56
paultagCheri703, true14:57
Cheri703that's why I think not only outputting the signed file, but displaying the proper "paste into the box" text would be good14:57
Cheri703I had some confusion when I did it about how to get the final info to put into LP14:58
Cheri703and I don't think an app JUST for the CoC, but for gpg signing in general14:59
thafreakCheri703: something like that sounds like an ideal use of ubuntu-quickly14:59
thafreakubuntu quickly makes it pretty easy to build python-gtk apps for integrating with ubuntu15:00
Cheri703I am not a programmer :/15:00
paultagthafreak, that and there are no GPG bindings for Python that work15:00
thafreakMaybe you are, and you just don't know it yet :)15:00
paultagthafreak, it's only C / C++, so you'd have to use C+GTK+15:00
thafreakit's called subprocess module taggy15:00
paultagthafreak, I know, but you have to use stdio with non-printing input, so it needs a term + ncurses15:01
thafreaksubprocess.popen('gpg -blah blah blah')15:01
paultagthafreak, so you can't slap it into the interface, or pipe the password in over stdio15:01
paultagthafreak, it gets it off the term, so you'd have to embed a term15:01
thafreakare you sure about that?15:01
paultagthafreak, or write it in c15:01
paultagthafreak, yes15:01
thafreakHow does seahorse do it?15:01
paultagthafreak, they wrote a fork of pyme, which is harder to use then anything else in the world15:01
paultagthafreak, I did this with Doctormo a few months ago15:02
paultagthafreak, we were going to write a beginners GPG tool15:02
paultagthen we gave up because it's too fucking hard15:02
paultaghttps://launchpad.net/starfish15:02
paultagThat's what we had. My code is still checked in15:02
thafreak--passphrase-fd15:02
paultag**DEACTIVATED** The requirements for this project are too high and the libraries available to gpg are too broken to make this project possible. We may revisit it if the situation with gpg improves.15:03
thafreakOR py expect15:03
paultagEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWW15:03
paultagexpect is suck a kludge15:03
thafreakI'm just sayin15:03
paultagit's screenscraping15:04
paultagthafreak, just use C15:04
thafreakc defeats the "do it easily" part15:04
paultagthafreak, for the coder15:04
paultagthafreak, not the user15:04
thafreakdude, gpg can use file descriptors...15:05
paultagthafreak, rock on15:05
paultagthafreak, that would help15:05
thafreakprobably can wire it up with subprocess then15:05
paultagthafreak, I'm sure :)15:06
paultagthafreak, prototype it15:06
thafreakI will...once I finish my group project for school15:06
Cheri703well, I have to head out, woke up WAAAAAY later than I should have. I appreciate the thoughts on it :)15:06
paultag:P15:06
Cheri703thafreak: if you want more info about what exactly I was picturing, let me know :)15:06
paultagthafreak, good catch, you rock15:10
thafreakNo prob, and seriously, after the holidays, remind me about this, I will gladly take a project like that on.15:27
thafreakI just need to get school done, and graduate, then as soon as I graduate, Christmas is like a few days later...15:28
paultagthafreak, dude, for sure15:28
paultagthafreak, I totally get it15:28
thafreakBut I'm already filled with hope for a fun and prosperous new year15:29
thafreakFilled with projects that *I* want to do15:29
paultag:)15:29
TheErkHerro20:59
Unit193Hey TheErk21:00
TheErkGreetings comrad21:00

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