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dragonWho's grabbing a bite before or at the Ubuntu Hour tonight?00:13
jtatumdragon: i reserved the board room at pizza my heart for after the hour if you can wait ;)00:26
dragonjtatum: sounds good. 8pm-9pm?00:28
jtatumi did 8-10 for good measure :)00:28
jtatumi like that room. comfy seats and lots of power00:29
dragonalright, I'm in.00:29
jtatumargh. trying to stop using emoticons for the rest of the year and failing miserably.00:30
dragonyou did it right though?00:31
akkIt's a tough habit to break.00:31
jtatumyes, dragon, it's done00:32
jtatumindeed akk. but also it's obvious that my emoticon usage was out of control.00:32
dragonjtatum: I was referring to the smiley. I mean :) looked fine to me in that context.00:33
akkI use them a lot more than I ought to, and have been trying to cut down.00:33
* pleia2 has out of control emoticon usage00:34
jtatumdragon: even if it's appropriate for the context and situation, i'm just trying to flat out stop.00:34
pleia2but I don't mind :)00:34
dragonjtatum: fair enough ;)00:34
akkIs this like blowing cigarette smoke at someone who's trying to quit, you two?00:34
* akk struggles and manages not to tack a smiley on the end of that00:35
pleia2hehe00:35
dragonExcept smileys don't cause cancer, or do they?00:35
pleia2I try very hard to keep them out of written word outside of chat (blogs, emails) but even that is hard these days00:36
yantrashilpiakk: put on yer :) and do a happy dance00:36
yantrashilpiaddictions are good sometimes.00:36
jtatumhehe00:50
jamaltasounds fun, sorry i can't make it again00:55
jamaltawork has been crazy this week, so i can't get out with enough time to get all the way down there00:56
jtatumbummer jamalta00:56
jamaltajtatum: i know :(00:56
jamaltatelepathy and i want to get around to meeting up with you already00:56
pleia2we just assume you moved back to florida and aren't willing to tell us00:57
jamaltapleia2: not true :(00:58
jamaltai'm around00:58
pleia2suuuure :)00:58
jamaltasort of. :\00:58
jamaltai'm sure the FL team would be happy if i moved back, haha.00:58
jamaltayou guys have been stealing their members lately :P00:58
pleia2california does that00:59
jamaltahow many of us have moved out here this year.. 3 i think?00:59
jamaltayeah, :P00:59
* MarkDude just got off the phone with Norm aaditya - that show will be real interesting01:39
MarkDudeHe told me that after he laughed for about a minute or so.01:40
MarkDudeI will share a link with pictures he took of the cast01:40
MarkDudein OT01:40
dragonMarkDude: the TV show?01:41
MarkDudeNo the theater that Suzanne invited us to01:41
dragonoh that, alright. So far I'm definitely coming.01:41
MarkDudeMe too , I think we might need eye-bleach tho.01:42
dragonlol. btw I totally forgot to ask norm for the pics from the party we had at Saxbys.01:42
MarkDudeUp until today I had never seen any of ufonorms pics01:42
dragonand I accidentally checked his flickr profile to see if he uploaded them there. >.<01:43
MarkDudeThumbnails were enough01:43
MarkDudelol01:43
MarkDudeHis pg and r rated pics go up on GK01:43
MarkDudehe has 2 gears apparently01:43
MarkDudeX and helping gk01:44
dragonHaving two separate flickr accounts for those would be a great idea.01:45
MarkDudeHe is pretty famous, every time I go out with him, people recognize him.01:46
MarkDudedragon, I went to call you earlier, and your voice sounded weird, until I realized I had called Ashe esh by accident01:59
MarkDude*A* names close to each other01:59
dragonoh haha. Remember the consecutive A's.02:00
MarkDudeWell he has consecutive *ee*s02:05
dragonat one time my classmates started calling me "double A" for some reason.02:06
crashsystems1Did someone say my name?02:06
dragoncrashsystems1: not me02:07
dragonoh wait, I just did.02:07
crashsystems1:p02:07
crashsystems1On my way to the meet up02:08
MarkDudeTriple A would work for a nickname for you if you did not already have dragon02:09
dragonUbuntu Hour? See you there!02:09
dragonMarkDude: triple/02:09
dragons/\//?/02:09
MarkDudestanding for *awesome*02:11
MarkDudemaybe agro?02:11
* MarkDude would figure it out02:11
MarkDudeBethany is happy with the nick Mistress Queenlove :)02:11
MarkDudeA-hole? Admin? Action?02:12
MarkDude:)02:13
dragonಠ_ಠ02:13
MarkDudeAnti-gravity?02:13
MarkDudelol02:13
crashsystems1Yay, track blockage!02:18
MarkDudeaudacious? Ananda? Ace?02:21
* MarkDude can tell people you are really 57 and it stands for *ageless*02:21
* MarkDude will stop with the A names, now. I think I have the flu/cold now. My appetite is gone :(02:22
pleia2oh no02:24
crashsystems1I am here02:53
biosshadow-w_hellos03:23
pleia2hello03:23
nhainesDo we know what's going on with the Ubuntu Hour San Diego project?03:26
nhainesAre there going to be more in the future or should I return the CDs to the LoCo?03:27
pleia2the last one was on the 20th, based on discussions it looks like they'll be planning more03:28
nhainespleia2: thanks.  I'll keep an eye out then.03:30
biosshadow-wthere we go03:42
biosshadow-wsorry folks03:42
nuboon2age__We're here at the after party for The Ubuntu Hour: San Jose.  had a nice little turn out of 8 people and we got to pitch Ubuntu to the manager of Philz(!)06:06
akkyay06:08
nuboon2age__we'll be taking off in a few minutes.06:09
nuboon2age__crashsystems made it and his friend bioshadow06:10
nuboon2age__aaditya, byron, jtatum, scott, moi, crashsystems and bioshadow, and the manager of Philz, Valdimar06:17
nUboon2Agejtatum & jledbetter, The Lindependence/Ubuntu Hour: Santa Cruz rev 0.1.will be 12/29/2010.16:13
nUboon2AgeDetails and RSVP: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/574/detail/16:14
nUboon2AgeMarkDude: ^^^16:15
nUboon2AgeI'm not sure if they'll RSVP, but lcafiero and quaid will be there.16:15
jledbetternUboon2Age, Thank you! I think we're going to it already. I have some fam there.16:16
nUboon2Agesweet! jledbetter16:16
nUboon2Ageyeah, i see now you two are already rsvp'd, but jtatum was asking about the date last night.16:17
jledbetterOkie16:17
Eurekawiki: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/UbuntuHours edited16:22
yantrashilpihey y'all, how was the ubuntu hour last night?17:10
nUboon2Ageyantrashilpi, i thought it was pretty good.  8 people and got to 'sell' Ubuntu to the manager of Phillz(!).18:28
pleia2cool :)18:29
nUboon2Ageyeah he's an artistic/designer sort and i showed him gimp, inkscape and at least the blurbs off of USC for several CAD packages.  Valdimar is his name. pleia218:31
akkyay18:31
akkthough I mostly don't hear good things about the state of CAD on linux18:31
nUboon2Agei gave him a 10.10 destop and 10.04 server (for a friend of his), (which is what i had on me at the time, although what he really preferred was 10.04 desktop)18:32
akkIf he's new to linux, why does he have a preference of 10.04 over 10.10?18:33
nUboon2Agei told him it is easy to download and burn w/ the instruction at Ubuntu.com though.  I also told him about wubi-install.com18:33
nUboon2Agebecause he wanted the LTS akk18:33
akkAh, doesn't want to upgrade often.18:33
nUboon2Ageexactly akk18:34
akkIf he wants to do graphics stuff, though, keeping up with latest versions is helpful -- those apps do improve.18:34
nUboon2Agea lot of people don't want to upgrade every 6 mo. from what i've found.18:34
nUboon2Ageyeah, its a dilemna for sure akk18:35
akkI find that being a year back isn't a problem, but by 1.5 years the desktop is getting a bit stale and I'm way behind in features and support.18:35
nUboon2Agean LTS, especially Lucid won't be a problem though imo. akk18:35
nUboon2Ageits a huge hit!18:36
akkI'm talking about LTS. I had several machines on hardy.18:36
nUboon2Ageyeah Lucid is a different story18:36
nUboon2Ageits an enormous hit18:36
akkWhy? Hardy was quite solid and popular.18:36
nUboon2Ageyes it was, but Lucid has taken popularity to a whole new level for Ubuntu akk18:37
nUboon2Ageas a matter of fact18:37
akkLucid is very good now (I'm still using it) but meanwhile, gimp and inkscape and firefox are moving on, and in another 6-12 months people are going to want newer versions.18:37
nUboon2Agei was talking to jtatum about creating a project to make sure the most important stuff gets properly backported to Lucid since its so dang popular.18:38
nUboon2Ageakk: ^18:38
nhainesakk: I know they're trying to offer updates to major apps on a more stable, rolling basis.  Maybe this will be availalbe for 10.04 LTS as well when they have everything in place.18:38
nhainesakk: because otherwise I quite agree with you.  :)18:38
akkThat would be very nice, and would have made hardy usable for a lot longer.18:38
nUboon2Ageyes, even now i'd like to be able to use Hardy since it works better on certain hardware.18:39
akkFor gimp, the limiting factor that always makes it hard to upgrade is gtk libraries. Not sure if that's true of inkscape and firefox too.18:40
akkA lot of kde apps do that too, depend on cutting edge features from library versions that the ubuntu LTS doesn't have.18:41
akkIf there were backports of the latest gtk and qt libs that would be fantastic.18:41
nhainesThat tends to break other stuff, too, unfortunately.  :(18:44
akkThey'd have to coexist side by side, certainly, and not be the default.18:45
akkUbuntu already does that for lots of libraries and packages, even by default without backports.18:46
nUboon2Ageaaditya: here's that Wubi bug i was telling you about at The Ubuntu Hour: SJ last night:  https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi/+bug/61089819:03
nUboon2Ageaaditya: if you would mark on the bug that it affects you too (even if its actually a friend) it helps to give focus to the bug.19:04
akkDoes marking "affects me too" automatically cc you? I've always wondered that (always add myself to the cc manually since I'm not sure).19:08
jdeslipakk: I think it does19:15
nUboon2Agei'm not sure if it subscribes you automatically or not akk, but that seems like it would be simple to check and see if your name pops up on the subscriber list after marking it.  i don't think it does.19:15
akkIt doesn't pop up on the visible subscriber list, no.19:16
nUboon2Ageakk: then i don't think it does19:16
nUboon2Agei think the subscriber list is accurate akk19:17
nUboon2Ageakk: yeah i just tried it too and no dice.  i think you have to manually subscribe.19:18
akkBummer ... okay, will keep doing that.19:20
nUboon2Ageyeah, imo to really stand up and say you're concerned about a bug you have to mark yourself affected, subscribe and add a comment. :-/ akk19:23
nUboon2Ageand even when it has a long list of affected by and subscribers, most of the time the bug will just sit there indefinitely. akk :-/  imo we'd do well to figure out how to martial our devs to take care of bugs better than we do.19:24
jtatumhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/BestPractices: "Don't report 'me too' on someone else's defect report."19:24
nUboon2Agejtatum: thats an empty page.   well i totally 100% disagree with that statement anyway.  there'd be no point in having an 'affected by' button then. .  although you do need to have firsthand experience with it and hopefully can  reproduce it.19:29
jtatumaffected by button doesn't spam everyone with "me too" :) we're talking about two different things19:29
pleia2the colon is not part of the URL19:29
pleia2but jtatum and the fected by and subscribers, most of the time the bug will just sit there indefinitely. akk :-/  imo we'd do well to figure out how to martial our devs to take care of bugs better than we do.19:30
pleia2oops19:30
pleia2but jtatum and the BestPractices documenation is correct "me too" notes just bug people19:31
pleia2if you have additional useful info to add about the bug to help them find a fix it's good though :)19:31
nUboon2Agewell if you mean literally don't post a comment that says "me too", yeah of course i agree19:31
nUboon2Agebut if you are sure you have the same bug and have additional info, then by all means post a comment.19:32
pleia2your comment sounded like your process is alawy "affect button, subscribe, add comment", I'd argue that you only add a comment when you actually have something useful to add19:33
pleia2always19:33
nUboon2Ageyeah i meant what you said pleia219:33
nUboon2Ageusually i have something useful to add though. :-D  pleia219:34
nUboon2Agefrom working in QA for many years.19:34
jtatumi mention this, nUboon2Age, because posting "me too" comments is a very common problem. it's why the 'affects me too' link was added. if you have to read a few bug reports that are flooded with '+1', 'me too', 'i agree', it gets old.19:34
jtatumalso as a user, when i subscribe it's because i want to know when progress is being made, not when someone else has the issue19:35
nUboon2Agejtatum: okay so i think we've established we agree19:35
jtatumcool19:36
nUboon2Ageimo you rock jtatum19:36
nUboon2Ageprobably jledbetter would agree that jtatum rocks. :-D19:37
jtatumhehe, thanks19:37
pleia2we all agree19:40
nUboon2Agegroup hug19:40
pleia2:)19:40
akk:)19:41
akkBTW, is it annoying to post "Still happens on $ubuntu_version" comments?19:41
akkAssuming of course that you don't add "You suck, I can't believe this bug has sat for TWO YEARS NOW, fix it or I'll switch to Windows!!!"19:42
akkI ran across a bug last night that was last commented on in 9.something, wondered if it was worth commenting that it still happens in lucid.19:42
nUboon2Ageakk: imo reporting that it is still happening on later versions is vital info.19:43
jledbetternUboon2Age, Yes20:56
nUboon2Agejtatum:  do you have any opinion on where/when you'd like us to have The Ubuntu Hour: Palo Alto on Dec 30th?  jledbetter21:21
jledbetterSomeplace *awesome*21:21
nUboon2Age:-)21:22
jledbetterHas to be a coffee shop type place right?21:24
jledbetternUboon2Age, http://www.philzcoffee.com/  ?21:27
pleia2only in the sense that it's good if you can have casual discussions with random people21:27
nUboon2Agejledbetter: doesn't absolutely have to be a coffee place, but that tends to be good21:27
nUboon2Agejledbetter: Philz is an idea i hadn't thought of.  there present location's not too conducive for mass transit, but their future location looks like a possibility, though its at University instead of California Ave.  Not a bad idea though.21:30
jledbetterLast time I was there, I went someplace near Stanford that was great but don't remember the name. Not sure how it'd be for mass transit since I had a car.21:31
nUboon2Ageif its somewhere near Stanford its probably fine for mass transit.  so if you might recall some clues that place might work well. jledbetter21:33
nUboon2Agewas it on El Camino jledbetter?21:34
jledbetterMaybe. It was dark and I was wandering. Not Pizza My Heart though. Went there too.21:35
jledbetterMight be too close to shopping which might be crowded? I dunno.21:35
nUboon2AgeEl Camino is the main road, which goes roughly north/south21:36
nUboon2Agewas it near Pizza My Heart jledbetter?21:37
nUboon2Ageor if you might recall other things that were near it, that could help jledbetter21:38
jledbetterIt was dark. There was a restaurant. Not near Pizza My Heart. McDonald's? Ok, might have been in Stanford Shopping Center.21:39
jledbetterI was staying at SLAC21:40
jledbetterPhilz might be too small, but they look highly rated for coffee and such.21:41
nUboon2Ageyeah philz last night was nice.  sometimes a little on the too small side.21:41
nUboon2Agethe issue with their present location is distance from train and bus21:42
nUboon2Agei just called them and they don't have a date yet for their new location opening.  6-9 mo. maybe21:42
jledbetterOh, it was at Philz last night? Well, drat.21:43
nUboon2Ageno, no drat about it.  they were good. jledbetter21:43
nUboon2Agejust that the one in PA is on middlefield which is pretty far from Caltrain21:43
jledbetterGMTA I guess.21:43
nUboon2Ageyeah, i sort of stumbled on them via browsing the web.  then i went and checked it out and liked it (though the smalle size is not perfect) jledbetter21:45
jledbetterhttp://www.yelp.com/biz/tootsies-at-the-stanford-barn-palo-alto ?21:45
jledbetterYes, bigger would be better and wi-fi. Tootsie's doesn't have wi-fi.21:45
jledbetterAnd they close too soon. Gracious. I should read more carefully.21:48
nUboon2Agethey don't have wifi?  i was just trying to find that out.  where'd you see that? jledbetter21:49
jledbetterWi-Fi:21:50
jledbetter    No on their yelp page. Might be out dated though. But they close at 5.21:50
nUboon2Ageoh, i see only open till 5. darn21:50
jledbetterThat looks like a great place though. Might have to check it out earlier.21:51
nUboon2Ageso i take it that was the place you'd been to jledbetter?22:06
nUboon2Ageor i guess not from your last post22:06

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