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faganinfoturtle: we got really badly spam attacked a few times so its needed01:09
faganwe had like 300 pages of spam before01:09
infoturtlefagan: oh ya?! i see its purpose, its just annoying, can't have it both ways tho01:11
faganinfoturtle: well it was just a plaster over a broken leg01:11
faganwe are changing the website soon I hear so it wont be a problem too much longer01:12
hughberthello there...14:50
hughbertanybody around?14:51
terranmmhmm14:51
terranthough no one has said anything since last night14:51
* czajkowski kicks terran and runs off 14:52
hughbertha ha14:53
hughbertany update on my new poster/logo for ubuntu-ie?14:53
terranczajkowski: I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE YOU CAN'T RUN YOU CAN'T HIDE14:54
hughbertha ha.. do you want to know where exactly?14:54
hughbertha ha...14:54
czajkowskiterran: eh no you don't :)14:54
terranI'll just go to Castleconnell and start yelling her name14:54
hughbertyour looking at me right now ar'nt you?14:55
terranczajkowski: are you back in Castleconnell now?14:55
hughbertyour hiding in those bushes near the trees...14:56
hughberton a separate note does anybody know the name of the hacking group in dublin?14:56
terranTOG?14:57
hughbertor limerick for that matter...14:57
terranMilkLabs14:57
hughbertthats it thanks....14:57
hughbertforgot... blast how could i forget milklabs for god sake...14:57
czajkowskiterran: nope tomorrow night14:58
daviscczajkowski: Hopefully, anyway :-)14:58
czajkowski:(14:59
czajkowski*sniff*14:59
hughbertwhats on tomorrow night?14:59
ebelhiya15:02
czajkowskiebel: ello ello15:02
hughbertebel did you see my poster there?15:12
czajkowskidavisc: much snow up your end ?15:12
ebelposter? no... remind me?15:12
daviscczajkowski: An inch maybe15:12
czajkowskinot too bad15:13
hughberthold on heres a link....15:14
daviscczajkowski: You watching the rainfail radar?15:16
hughberthttp://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=146331115:16
czajkowskidavisc: no... should I15:17
daviscczajkowski: Yes15:17
davischttp://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/index.html15:17
czajkowskihmm15:17
ebelhughbert: looks pretty good :)15:18
hughbertthanks thought you would like it...15:18
hughbertas i said in the post i need to get it approved by ye....15:19
ebelIf you want to clean it up we could put it on the wikipage/etc.?15:19
czajkowskidavisc: not sure I can make sense of that for heathrow15:20
hughbertya will do just wanted to get a wacom tablet for next week hopefully.... for christmas before they close....15:20
ebel:)15:21
ebelwell keep us updated15:21
hughbertor i could just use a felt pen or marker for now... would that be alright with you?15:21
ebelwe will be having an IRC meeting in the middle of january, you could mention it then?15:21
hughbertyep...15:21
hughbertill try to have it finished...15:22
hughbertwhat date is it on?15:22
ebelIt'll be around the middle. not announced yet15:22
ebelNo rush, though15:22
hughbertgrand job...15:23
hughbertit just started snowing outside...15:23
faganyay just ordered my computer15:24
faganand a few other bits and bobs for myself as well15:24
hughbertnice brand new?15:24
faganyep15:24
czajkowskifagan: was that from all your donations15:25
faganczajkowski: nope my grant my donations didnt get me very far at all15:25
hughbertnot good...15:25
hughbertdesktop? what kind of processor?15:26
faganAMD X415:26
faganI was thinking a i7 or and X6 but the X4 was in my price range15:27
hughbertvery nice..15:27
fagan*an not and15:27
hughberti was looking for one for christmas but the funds are running low already...15:27
hughberthow much?15:27
fagan50015:27
hughbertfor the whole lot... thats not bad at all...15:28
faganI spend 100 extra on a headset, mouse and keyboard15:28
fagan*spent15:28
hughbertgrand...15:28
hughberthow much was the AMD X4 though?15:28
faganan X4 is about 100 euro new15:29
faganfrom where I was looking15:29
hughbertmmm...15:29
faganI probably could have built a computer for cheaper but I dont really want to mess around with all the parts15:29
hughberti have a 4 year old AMD X2 that i got for €35 still working like a charm.. ;-)15:30
hughberteven though i paid about 500 aswell...15:31
faganWell X2s are getting a bit dated now since most models around the 500+ range have 4+ processors15:31
hughberti know thats why i wanted a new one....15:31
hughbertyou can still get AM2+ X4 for about 90 squid...15:32
faganyeah I had a single core laptop but it burned out15:32
faganand now im on a 1ghz 6 year old piece of crap15:32
faganive been trying to get money to replace it for 7 months15:32
hughbertmy eee pc burnt out aswell.... spilt tea on it....15:33
faganthe fan broke in mine and started making noise15:33
fagana year later it got too hot and burnt out15:33
fagancompiling code when I was at the shop :)15:33
hughbertnot good what model was it?15:34
hughbertmine was the eee pc 90015:34
faganwell it was a compaq with a nice AMD processor15:34
faganand nvidia gpu it wasnt even that old15:34
faganit was like 2.5 ghz but still single core15:34
hughbertonly 700MHz processor.....15:34
hughbertin my eee pc...15:35
faganI have an ARM processor in my room that was a sample from freescale thats that speed15:35
faganits pretty sweet15:35
hughbertoverclocked it to 900Mhz... when i was playing games and stuff....15:35
hughbertnice... ARM are fantastic.....15:36
faganwow you can play games on 900mhz15:36
faganyeah the fact you can have a computer with no fan is just mind boggling15:36
faganI cant wait till they start coming into desktops and stuff15:36
hughbertfor def the best processor manufactures in the world....15:37
faganwell ARM are just engineers15:37
faganthey dont make the processors they sell designs15:38
hughbertdid you ever see Micromen?15:38
fagannope15:38
hughbertthe BBC docudrama/comedy??...15:38
faganstill nope :)15:38
hughbertwatch that... tis very good....15:38
faganheh im going through firefly at the moment since my friends thought it was rediculus that I never watched it15:39
hughbertwhats that again?15:40
faganfirefly is a 15 episode tv series and movie from the maker of buffy the vampire slayer15:40
faganit was cancelled by fox but fans loved it15:41
hughbertnot too bad (sorry ladys) but is there hot girls in it?15:41
LeftmostDon't fans usually love it?15:41
LeftmostThough I must say, I loved Firefly.15:41
faganLeftmost: hah15:41
faganI mean that a lot of nerds kicked up a big fuss when it got cancelled15:42
LeftmostHaha. That's true.15:42
hughbertha ha nerds...15:42
faganfor only 15 episodes they did get some great comparisons to star trek back in the old days15:42
ebelFirefly is deadly15:43
Leftmostebel abú.15:43
ebelI have a GNU Yacc book signed by 2 cast members of Firefly.15:44
faganebel: sadly I have to correct your grammer "firefly was deadly" :)15:44
ebelI went to see the premier of Serenity in Dublin.15:44
fagandid you see the gross of the film?15:45
ebelfagan: eh? I still think Firefly is deadly.....15:45
faganit was 200,000 less than the cost of film15:45
hughbertill have to look up that now heard good stuff about it alright.. very addictive i heard...15:45
faganthere is talk every year about bringing it back on different networks but its all talk15:46
ebel"Firefly is deadly" = "I think firefly is a deadly show" "Firefly was deadly" = "In the past I thought Firefly was deadly, but I don't think that anymore"15:46
faganebel: ah ok15:46
ebelJust because a TV is no longer being produced doesn't mean it is in the past.15:47
ebelOtherwise practically every book would have to be refered to as "$BOOK_NAME was deadly"15:47
ebelSince, like a TV that's not been produced, no new chapters are being added.15:48
ebelIn short, fagan GRAMMERFAIL :P15:48
faganhehe15:48
faganother than the movie not making much money and the tv show being cancelled they actually made a lot from the dvd bundle of the entire show15:52
LeftmostEnough to convince them to make the movie.15:56
faganyeah but the movie wasnt exactly a raging success15:57
faganbut I suppose 30 million in budget and 29,800,000 profit isnt so bad15:57
fagansince a lot was funded by fans of the show15:57
faganthe only thing that confuses me is the coyboy stuff in the show like the music and the intro16:00
fagan*cowboy16:00
faganthey are in space I dont get how that relates16:00
LeftmostIt's supposed to be a space western.16:00
faganLeftmost: em and that makes complete sense how?16:01
tdr112hughbert: does not like firefly16:01
LeftmostIt makes sense to me. I'm afraid I just don't understand what you don't understand.16:01
faganI get the crossover idea of people in the outskirts of civilisation and against the organised overly strict gov16:03
faganbut other than that :-/16:03
LeftmostUsing those links, he just builds the show based on elements of a western. I really don't know what to say other than that.16:04
faganand then the scifi elements are fine with the space bits but I have a feeling that in the end they were just going to say the whole thing was a dream of a cowboy16:04
LeftmostI don't understand how it's any more strange than Star Wars as a space fantasy.16:04
faganLeftmost: well Star Wars didnt try to link its story with that of a period of history16:05
faganit was a standalone adventure fiction scifi16:05
ebelit's just sorta like a western16:06
Leftmostfagan, I'm sorry, but that seems like an arbitrary distinction.16:06
ebelin the same way that lawyers and judges now look and seem to act like roman senators16:07
ebelAnd the likes of battlestar galactica look like current military structures16:07
LeftmostEspecially when you consider how steeped in Japanese lore Star Wars truly is.16:07
faganwell in a way you can see that the entire thing could be seen as a statement that trends happen in public perception of people in power and power being overly strict16:08
ebelif they can be similar to some parts of history, then why can't firefly be similar to westerns.16:08
faganhuh japanese lore?16:08
ebelIt's just the style.16:08
Leftmostfagan, if you pay attention, Star Wars is really just Kurosawa In Spaaaaaace!16:08
faganlol16:08
ebelthe "the diamond age" is like the victorian era.16:09
* Leftmost hugs his copy of The Diamond Age.16:09
faganwell I just think the western element should have been left out of it and been more of a background influence16:09
faganid say it would confuse people less16:09
Leftmostfagan, I'm serious. The plot of the first movie is almost directly copied from The Hidden Fortress, a Kurosawa film. Jedi are samurai with mind powers.16:10
LeftmostYou're the first person I've met who was confused by it, to be honest.16:10
faganLeftmost: well lucas is a smart man I presume he stole that idea fair and square16:10
ebelfagan: if anything saying "they're castle rustlers in the wild west of space" makes it much less confusing,  less explaining needed.16:10
LeftmostOh, certainly. He doesn't even try to deny it.16:11
faganLeftmost: if you read the reviews for firefly a few others were confused by it16:11
ebelPeople know what westerns are, they know cowboys are theives, that there will be little outposts on the edge strugglying to survive with sometimes hardass sherifs,.16:11
faganI get the idea but if it were me I would have left it out16:11
ebelthey know there'll probably be The Man somewhere who will chase down the cowboys.16:11
LeftmostI think that's a good part of the charm, but that's me.16:12
ebelYou don't need to spend a while explaining that to the audience. They know it already, because they know it's a western16:12
faganLeftmost: I think the drama and the funny bits could have kept that charm up just fine16:12
faganebel: but if it were me doing the show from the start I wouldnt market it like that16:12
ebelYou only need to introduce the characters within the steryotypes (e.g. here's the alliance. "oh they must be the big government bit")16:13
faganI think it would have been less confusing and still have the great stories without all the music and styling16:13
Leftmostfagan, I just feel it would have been a lot more dry. Less flavor.16:13
LeftmostCould use some salt.16:13
fagansalt is bad for your blood pressure :P16:14
ebelfagan: how could having to explain all the characters make it less confusing?16:14
LeftmostAnd yet, if you never ate salt, you'd die. :P16:14
faganebel: well then you can roll out their backstories in a nice way16:15
faganand unfold the story16:15
LeftmostAll your cells would go kablooie.16:15
faganLeftmost: well its in some foods anyway16:15
faganand there is trace amounts in places16:15
LeftmostI'm just sayin'.16:15
faganlike water16:15
LeftmostYeah, but certainly not enough in water to keep you isotonic.16:16
ebelfagan: yes you'd have to explain all that backstory bits. and that would be confusing.16:16
LeftmostAnd table salt is our best delivery method for iodine here in the wesht.16:16
faganebel: well having a bit of stuff to bring up later is always good16:16
faganand if you look closely at the film they didnt do so much of the cowboy stuff in that16:17
faganits a lot more cowboy in the tv show16:17
Leftmostfagan, they certainly leave that possibility open. Hell, there's a lot of backstory we lack because they never finished the series.16:17
faganLeftmost: well the reason why im saying is leave everything open is how buffy did it16:17
faganbuffy didnt reveal much about the characters16:17
faganand they unfolded it gradually16:18
ebelfagan: do you find buffy confusing cause they reused vampires in california?16:18
faganand it worked so so well16:18
faganebel: hehe no I dont16:18
ebelvampires are a central/eastern european thing, what are they doing in western americas?16:18
LeftmostHee16:18
faganwell america is riddled with them16:18
fagan:P16:19
ebelwhy don't they leave the vampires out and unfold the story another way. it would be much less confusing.16:19
faganhehe they did unfold the vampire thing in the film16:19
ebeljust have it as more of a background influence16:19
faganand they did handle the vampire thing in the first episode too16:19
LeftmostThe film and the TV series aren't the same universe.16:20
faganif you watched the first episode of buffy and never looked at the title of the show you wouldnt have a clue what its about till about half the episode in16:20
faganfrom what I remember of that episode16:21
faganjust a normal girl and then weird stuff happens and oh yeah she kills vampires16:21
faganthen keeping it from everyone else then gilles comes in...etc16:21
ebelso essentially, you're in favour of auteurs reusing other parts of mythology/shared culture for some works, but not for firefly/western?16:22
faganebel: well buffy was amazing story telling, firefly in terms of its western style wasnt good in my opinion16:23
faganthe story was good16:23
faganbut it was lacking the drama and atmoshpere of buffy16:23
ebelso essentially, you're in favour of auteurs reusing other parts of mythology/shared culture if there was good drama and athmosphere? :P16:24
faganwell if they do it in a good way yes16:24
LeftmostI thought there was plenty of drama and atmosphere to Firefly. :P16:24
LeftmostIt's not the same drama and atmosphere as Buffy, but that's just fine.16:25
faganLeftmost: there was but the western music didnt really aid the drama16:25
faganso it took a lot away16:25
LeftmostWell first, I disagree. Second, that assumes that just because it doesn't add means it subtracts.16:26
faganI think if he didnt do the western thing and did it more dramatic like buffy and did better music I think it would have lasted longer16:26
Leftmost"more dramatic like Buffy"? I'm sorry, I really just don't understand how it wasn't dramatic16:26
faganwell if you watched the first 2 seasons of buffy it had a great balance of storyline action and character building16:27
faganalong with the subplots of keeping things secret16:27
ebelLeftmost: did you see the bit with nathian fillion in his new tv show going to a halloween party as a "space cowboy"?16:27
faganmaking friends and doing her job killing vampires16:27
LeftmostHa, no ebel, I didn't.16:27
ebel"Didn't you wear that 5 years ago?" "I like it!" :P16:27
LeftmostWhich show is this?16:29
faganLeftmost: buffy16:29
ebelCatle16:29
ebel*Castle16:29
* fagan wants to watch buffy now 16:30
Leftmostfagan, no, I got the Buffy bit. And I don't at all see that Firefly is less dramatic because no one is keeping anything secret. Especially since people keep things secret.16:30
ebelhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q3pdj9p6yI16:30
ebelThere are no secrets in Firefly/Serenity?! er what about river?16:31
faganLeftmost: well with firefly there was the keeping the ship and crew all happy and well and the hot asian chick who got experimented on16:31
ebelAlso did you notice they never say the word "Firefly" in Serenity (I think)16:31
faganthats about the entire story of the first 15 eps16:31
faganoh and hiding the two since they were wanted16:32
ebelasian? Summer Glau is not asian..... she's american/scots/irish/german....16:32
LeftmostLike me! :P16:32
faganebel: she kinda looks like she has a bit of asian in her16:32
faganOh and thats her name I couldnt remember16:32
LeftmostMy computer is making noises which I cannot identify.16:33
faganshe has been on almost every show ive liked in the past few years16:33
faganLeftmost: my old computer had a broken fan and that made lots of fun noises16:33
ebelwhereas I don't think there were any 'secrets' in buffy.16:33
LeftmostThese are clearly noises from a video or a game or something. Probably some Flash thing. But I have no idea where it's coming from.16:33
ebelThe whole show is just "run around and kill vampires and monsters. Every year kill a big one"16:34
faganebel: then I dont think you got the main sub plot bits that were unraveled through the course of the seasons16:35
ebelthere were none16:36
faganebel: there were lots16:36
* fagan watched nearly every episode of buffy and there were lots 16:37
Leftmostfagan, I just don't get what's not dramatic about constantly being on the run from a ubiquitous government, trying to scrape by on the edge of space in a ship that barely holds together, making money as a smuggler, getting into gun fights...16:37
faganhmmmm16:37
faganI still think buffy had a better setup for its story16:38
* fagan feels like a pro troll right now 16:38
ebelfagan: No there weren't.16:38
LeftmostHonestly, even though I liked Buffy, I thought Firefly was a more mature show (in terms of storytelling principles).16:40
fagandont get me wrong I like firefly's story I just think without the western stuff and a bit more drama id say it would have been awesome16:40
LeftmostI think without the western stuff, it would have been boring. :P16:40
LeftmostI've seen space pirates and smugglers before.16:41
LeftmostWhat sets Firefly apart then?16:41
faganits charm16:41
LeftmostI mean, sure, that's not all there is to the show.16:41
faganthe funny lines16:41
faganand the story16:41
LeftmostI just really don't get how the western bit hurt it in any way, or how you think it needed more drama.16:42
faganit would still have all of that without all the western stuff16:42
LeftmostA concrete example would at least let me see it from your perspective.16:42
faganwell its hard to compare against a scenario that wasnt created16:42
faganif they did a non western version id be happy because it would do the arguing for me16:43
LeftmostI'm sorry if this seems argumentative, but you're saying that the western bit hurt it, but you can't describe how without a version that had none of that?16:44
LeftmostPart of why I like the show is that it successfully plays off of an extant genre, one which plays heavily with the antihero, pioneering and action. Take away the western bit, you take all of that away.16:46
faganwell people love the other version I just think id like it more if the western stuff wasnt there16:46
faganI liked the overall story16:46
faganjust not the western theme16:46
ebelYour argument is "The western bit was bad", do you have an actual points? :P16:47
faganhehe other than its distracting from a good story about summer glau16:49
ebelnom nom nom simon16:51
* fagan <3 summer glau btw :)16:51
LeftmostKaylee über alles!16:55
fagan?16:56
LeftmostHmm?16:57
hughbertwell i bid ye a good night, its my birthday tomorrow so the family and myself are going out for a meal tonight..17:06
hughberti see ye when i see ye good luck...17:06
ebelhughbert: happy birthday!17:06
hughbertim the ripe old age of 22 2morrow...17:06
hughbert22 years young as they say...17:07
hughbertThanks ebel...17:07
faganim 2217:07
faganwelcome to the club17:08
fagan:P17:08
faganhappy birthday17:08
hughbertha ha thanks man...17:08
hughbertbetter get a move on... see ya. bye....17:08
terranI totally quit that club last month17:58
faganlol18:00
faganim quitting that club myself in july18:00
fagantoo boring18:00
faganim hoping the 23 club is a little bit cooler18:01
LeftmostI quit a few years ago. Clearly I know what's good for me better than you guys. :P18:01
jtoomeylo all23:36

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