/srv/irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/12/30/#ubuntu-us-mn.txt

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Visiblejunkyou guys in the cities then?02:42
TakyojiFaribault, for me02:43
TakyojiMost are in the cities it seems, yes02:43
tonyyarussoYeah, most are.02:43
Visiblejunkcool, I just installed ubuntu and am figuring out the basic stuff02:44
TakyojiWoo02:44
Visiblejunknot as much command line as I thought02:44
tonyyarussoAlphaCluster spends some of his time here, some near Bemidji, ripps is in Duluth, not actually sure about a number of other people here atm.02:44
tonyyarussonot really, no02:44
TakyojiCommand line usage is a very big misconception02:44
tonyyarussoI use a command line a lot, but you certainly don't *have* to - I just like to.02:44
TakyojiIt seems when you say "Linux" people think "command line"02:44
Visiblejunkyeah it seems like everything can be done in gui02:44
Visiblejunkwell yeah i have been trying to ... like see how it works02:45
Visiblejunkyou guys running compiz at all?02:45
VisiblejunkI think I'd have to mess with my drivers to get it to work02:45
tonyyarussoYeah, but just the default effects.02:46
Visiblejunkso I have been looking throught stuff and learned of the "man" command then I did man net in terminal02:47
Visiblejunkreading that made me think you could hack the shit outta someone02:48
Visiblejunkis that what people use to do that then?02:48
tonyyarusso(Careful with the language)02:48
tonyyarussoThere are various things, depending on what you're trying to do.02:48
tonyyarussoMost of the people here are in the business of blocking network attacks though, not committing them.02:49
Visiblejunkyeah understandable, but that had warnings galour02:49
Visiblejunkright, need to know how they work before you could block I'm guessing though02:49
Visiblejunkso like what is there to do in linux that you can't do in windows that noobs don't know about02:50
tonyyarussoWell, there are a lot of things that you *can* do in Windows, but are WAY easier in Linux, like running a web/mail/caching/ftp/etc. server.02:51
tonyyarussoAnd various sorts of software development.02:52
Visiblejunkeven while running your desktop then02:52
Visiblejunkyeah thats why i installed02:52
tonyyarussoAnd, you know, browsing the web without getting a billion viruses.02:52
tonyyarussosure.02:52
Visiblejunkhmmm02:52
tonyyarussoIf you get into the command line stuff, the text processing tools are awesome.02:53
Obsidian1723hey tony, in fense of the CLUI, many Linux applications are merely GTK front-ends for command line programs. On that same note, often times features available in the CLUI are not available in the GUI, thus the CLUI is better. You can also script for the CLUI, something you cannot for the GUI.02:53
tonyyarusso(although also available on Windows through things like Cygwin)02:53
Visiblejunki guess running a server would be cool, but what are the benefits these days when I have tons of space on a gmail account02:53
Obsidian1723If you are going to admin in Linux, you need the CLUI. Period.02:53
Visiblejunkclui =? command line user interface ???02:53
Obsidian1723yeah02:54
tonyyarussoObsidian1723: No, if you're going to admin *efficiently*, you need the CLI.  You can do it either way, it's just easier if you know your way around commands.02:54
Obsidian1723Well, there are things that cannot be done i nthe gui.02:54
tonyyarussoVisiblejunk: Well, for one, I'm currently chatting with you from a server in New Jersey that is on 24/7, so I never log off.02:54
Obsidian1723iptables for instance. gufw or firestarter or even fwbuilder, severely lack.02:54
tonyyarussoThere are also web sites there.02:54
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Visiblejunkhmm ok yeah haha, i was talking about the FTP kind of servers i suppose02:55
Obsidian1723Like as part of my ubuntu install script for a desktop, I configure iptables all from the CLUI.02:55
Visiblejunkwhat made me install ubuntu was when comcast went out and the cause was DNS servers and I had no idea about that and wanted to know more about the net02:56
Obsidian1723Right on...02:57
Visiblejunkso... is my assumption that linix or unix people made the net... correct?02:57
Visiblejunki mean more or less02:57
Obsidian1723Actually DARPA and the NSF made it.02:57
tonyyarussoWell, sort of?02:57
Visiblejunkyeah but linux made it usable for consumers02:57
Visiblejunkright?02:57
tonyyarussoDARPA and NSF did it, but it was developed at the same time as Unix, and used Unix to work, so they were pretty hand-in-hand.02:58
tonyyarussoLinux didn't come around until 1991.02:58
Obsidian1723UNIX for the back-end, Windows desktop for the end-user.02:58
tonyyarusso(and wasn't really usable for another ten years after that)02:58
Obsidian1723When the web could do images in 1991/92 was when it blew up.02:58
* Obsidian1723 started on the net in '78.02:59
Visiblejunkright thats the basics, how does one go about learning the details02:59
Obsidian1723Visible, if you are new to networking, checkout Hobbes Internet TIme Line for an overall history of the Net, and also learn the basics of networking, the OSI Model, etc. That will give you a good foundation to start with.03:00
tonyyarussoObsidian1723: You're enough of an old fart to appreciate this - the guy who invented the "Reply" button in e-mail was over at my house a few days ago for dinner.03:00
Obsidian1723You learn the basics first.03:00
Obsidian1723Nice!!03:00
sparklehistorytonyyarusso: Who was that?03:00
Obsidian1723Visible, you can't understand ATM, MPLS, Load-balancing, etc unless you know how TCP/IP works, how the OSI works, etc.03:01
Visiblejunkwhats the etc? I'm seriously taking notes03:01
tonyyarussosparklehistory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email#From_SNDMSG_to_MSG03:01
Obsidian1723a lot man, a hell of a lot.03:01
VisiblejunkTCP/IP where is the playground for that then03:02
Obsidian1723tony RFC 82203:02
Visiblejunkwhat do you play around with03:02
Obsidian1723Sept 198003:02
Visiblejunkto understand it03:02
Obsidian1723Me?03:02
tonyyarussoObsidian1723: yup03:02
Obsidian1723Dude, I grew up with it. Started in 78 at age 11. Im 43, I have 32 years of living with it as stuff was created.03:02
Visiblejunkyeah sure, what do you play with to learn the TCP/IP and OSI stuff03:02
Visiblejunkhaha03:03
Visiblejunkyour that guy03:03
Obsidian1723I read?03:03
TakyojiWireshark is a useful tool03:03
Takyojiand reading of course03:03
Obsidian1723nmap too03:03
tonyyarussoObsidian1723: Although I see it labeled as August 1982.03:03
Obsidian1723Maybe I'm thinking of another one> Lotsa rfcs03:03
Obsidian1723Visible, gets some stuff for the Network+ course03:04
Obsidian1723buy that book, that covers a lot.03:04
Obsidian1723tony wireshark is good, etherape, etc. I'm a fan of namp, you can mape out an entire network with it. By using zenmap for the GUI front-end, you can even export to a JPEG of the network, save it, edit it, etc...03:05
Visiblejunkwhat book? is it called Network+03:05
Obsidian1723Good stuff.03:05
Obsidian1723Yeah, CompTIA Network+03:05
Visiblejunkyeah well i should tell you my background ... I have a degree in math and stats and have learned a bit about the RSA algorithm03:06
Visiblejunkso kind of learning how that stuff works is interesting to me03:07
Visiblejunkyou know RSA then?03:07
Obsidian1723http://dl.dropbox.com/u/914191/CTRL%2BALT%2BDelete%20Creator.flv <--tony03:08
Obsidian1723What about RSA?03:08
tonyyarussoVisiblejunk: If you're looking for some background reading, some good (and huge) texts on the subject:  http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Networks-5th-Andrew-Tanenbaum/dp/0132126958/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1293678268&sr=1-2 , http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Networking-Top-Down-Approach-5th/dp/0136079679/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1293678421&sr=1-1 , ...03:08
Obsidian1723I use it often to get into government machines.03:08
tonyyarusso... http://www.amazon.com/Network-Networks-Networking-Course-Technology/dp/1423902459/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1293678455&sr=1-1 , http://www.amazon.com/Practice-System-Network-Administration-Second/dp/0321492668/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1293678495&sr=1-1 , http://www.amazon.com/UNIX-Linux-System-Administration-Handbook/dp/0131480057/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1293678495&sr=1-303:08
Obsidian1723http://dl.dropbox.com/u/914191/CTRL%2BALT%2BDelete%20Creator.flv <--tony03:08
Visiblejunkhaha yeah right03:09
Visiblejunkif it isn't secure, thats what I want to learn, so if you get around it thats cool man03:09
Obsidian1723yeah right what?03:09
Obsidian1723Nothing is 100% secure. Security is not a pieceo f hardware or software. It is not a setting. It is a mindset. A way of thinking, acting and being 24/7/365.03:10
tonyyarussoVisiblejunk: Alternatively, just buy me the first and last books on that list, and I'll lend them to you ;)  (I have 2, 3, and 4 already)03:10
Visiblejunkfrom my understanding you would have to install something on the system that encrypts the message to figure out the decryption code03:11
tonyyarussoObsidian1723: 365.2503:11
Visiblejunkby something i  mean a keylogger probly03:11
Visiblejunkcan you torrent those books or are they too obscure03:12
Obsidian1723Well, usually with RSA there is a fob, and thatchanges every so often. Youd need to know the algorithim.03:12
tonyyarussoThey're certainly not obscure, but we don't discuss illegal filesharing on this network.03:12
Obsidian1723If you want to hack crypotography, you STILL need to know the basics first.03:12
tonyyarussoYou can probably buy them in e-book form though.03:13
Visiblejunkhaha for sure, i don't expect instant gratification03:13
Obsidian1723:D03:13
Visiblejunkjust looking for something to learn about long term03:13
Visiblejunkbecause as a math guy, you set in on a lecture and they show you a proof of the time it would take to break the algoritm03:14
Visiblejunkand after that lecture you think its unbreakable, but there must be ways around it03:14
Obsidian1723Start with the basics, go from there. what is your end goal? Security? Databases? just knowledge overall or a speciality?03:14
Visiblejunkwell if I could understand RSA in its application that would be cool03:15
Visiblejunkthe chaulk board is a lot different from a computer03:16
Obsidian1723yeah but you cant understand that until you understand the other stuff.03:19
Visiblejunksweet, so i'll be working on these books for a while then I'm guessing03:21
Obsidian1723yuppers.03:22
Visiblejunkyou guys on here a lot, if I had a question about something would it be bothersome to ask it then?03:22
Obsidian1723I'd suggerst Network+ > Linux+ > Security+03:22
tonyyarussoyup03:22
Obsidian1723then CCNA03:22
tonyyarussoIf tonyyarusso if offline, something's probably wrong :P03:22
Visiblejunkyup as in bothersome..? hah03:22
tonyyarusso(If I'm not here physically, it will be logged and I can reply later.)03:22
tonyyarussooh, no.  to the "on here a lot"03:23
Visiblejunkthats dedication man03:23
tonyyarussoThere are also a bunch of other channels, like ##networking, that may interest you.03:23
Visiblejunkhaha yeah i'll check them out, I just came here since I saw a bunch of local channels and looked up minne03:24
Visiblejunkis there another layer to this server, since I looked on the logs, at least for today it was pretty bare until I came on here and started asking stuff03:27
tonyyarussoThis particular channel is usually somewhat slow, but other channels can be quite the opposite (#ubuntu, for instance).03:29
Visiblejunkhow many members do you guys have? any particular projects you work on or goals?03:30
TakyojiNothing in specific currently03:31
TakyojiWould like to; but just have to get people active, and get people.03:31
Obsidian1723tony did you ever hook up with free geek?03:33
tonyyarussoObsidian1723: not so far :S03:34
tonyyarussoObsidian1723: Somebody certainly could, but I haven't had a chance personally.03:34
Obsidian1723ah.. figured itd be a good partnership.03:34
tonyyarussoVisiblejunk: You'll find some stuff in the beginnings of outlining on Launchpad and the Wiki, but nothing's really taken off much yet.03:35
Visiblejunkyeah i was just reading that03:37
Obsidian1723visible, after you get the basics down and then some, maybe look at pen testing.03:37
Obsidian1723Sounds like your area.03:38
Visiblejunkgonna need to elaborate or wait for me to goodle that one03:38
Visiblejunkgoogle*03:38
tonyyarussopen = penetration, ie network vulnerability testing03:38
Obsidian1723penetration testing03:38
Takyojihttp://freegeektwincities.org/03:38
Visiblejunkhaha i swear i was going to ask that03:38
Visiblejunklike is that the point of it being open source03:39
Visiblejunkto look for weakness and fix it03:39
Obsidian1723Ever see BackTrack?03:39
Visiblejunknope03:39
Obsidian1723or if you like Gnome, GnackTrack03:39
Obsidian1723It's for vunerablity testing03:39
Visiblejunk(still new to this os) is the gnome the gui version and backtrack the command line03:39
Obsidian1723BackTrack has a GUI, just not in Gnome03:40
TakyojiGNOME is the desktop environment03:40
Obsidian1723In Linux, you have ther kernel, the core of the OS, then you have applications surrounding it, all command line.03:40
Visiblejunkyeah thats what ive come to gather, but its a bit deeper awnser im sure03:40
Takyojiother desktop environments include KDE, Xfce, LXDE, and much more03:40
Visiblejunkhow many lines of code is the kernal?03:41
Obsidian1723On top of that, you have Widow Server like XFree86, X.org03:41
tonyyarusso"Lots"03:41
Visiblejunkor is it even code at all03:41
TakyojiCouple billions I believe03:41
Visiblejunkis it human or machine at that level?03:41
Obsidian1723on top of that, Window managers like FWVM, Metacity etc03:41
tonyyarussoAre we into billions?  I don't think we're into billions...03:41
Obsidian1723on top of that desktop environments, like KDE, XFCE, Enlightenment, Gnome, etc03:41
Visiblejunki know doom 3 engine was millions03:41
Obsidian1723No, 3 million I believe.03:41
Obsidian1723Not billions03:42
tonyyarussoTakyoji: 13.5 million in 2.6.35, according to Wikipedia.03:42
Visiblejunkis there a good visual of the hierchy of the os?03:42
Obsidian1723Google FHS03:42
Takyojiahh03:42
Obsidian1723that shows the File Hierarchy System03:42
tonyyarusso324 million in all of Debian 5 "lenny", however they're measuring that.03:42
Obsidian1723but whaty ou want is probably deeper than that...03:42
Takyojihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard03:42
TakyojiPersonally I've been wanting to have some project to diagram the structure of a Linux distro and so on03:43
TakyojiLike of how all the components relate with each other03:43
Obsidian1723Linux is a modular OS, vs Windows which is monolithic. When you look at Linux, realize it's more than just a technical deal. It's not only technical, sure, that's the end result of the beginning, which is a philosophy of design, the implmentation of it is the pilitical and technical side, with technical being the result.\03:44
Visiblejunkcan someone send you a link on here that says like wikipedia.org/bahaha/blah but it's really meatspin or something???03:44
Obsidian1723Linux is Linux. Its those political, design philosophies that vary.03:45
Visiblejunki got everything out of that cept "pilitical"03:45
Obsidian1723political03:45
Visiblejunkhaha right03:45
tonyyarussoCareful now - Linux is a monolithic kernel, but a modular OS :P03:45
Obsidian1723You can add or remove modules to the kernel. Its modular.03:45
TakyojiWikipedia will chop you up and serve you as burgers for such spammery03:45
Visiblejunkso in lamens, linux is legos building a shape and windows is one block carved out into shape03:46
TakyojiYus03:46
tonyyarussoObsidian1723: "Modular operating systems such as OS-9 and most modern monolithic operating systems such as OpenVMS, Linux, BSD (and its flavors FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD), and UNIX variants such as SunOS, and AIX, in addition to MULTICS, can dynamically load (and unload) executable modules at runtime. This modularity of the operating system is at the binary (image) level and not at the architecture level. Modular monolithic ...03:46
tonyyarusso... operating systems are not to be confused with the architectural level of modularity inherent in Server-Client operating systems (and its derivatives sometimes marketed as hybrid kernel) what use microkernels and servers (not to be mistaken to modules or daemons)."03:46
TakyojiThere's so much more variety in Linux03:46
tonyyarussoLinux is a monolithic kernel.03:46
tonyyarusso(pedantry!)03:47
Obsidian1723Visible, for example..... Debian is free. they want only free software, and yes, you can add mp3 support to Debian, but with some work. Its not their goal to really support that or have Debian's users desire it. Contributers to Debioan are coders mainly, whereas with Ubuntu, a fork of Debian, anytone can contribute. Ubuntu's code is based off of Debian's of course, but with easier support for non-free software.03:47
TakyojiI have yet to see someone write their own desktop environment for Windows.03:47
Obsidian1723tony I guess we are aruging semantics then :D03:47
Obsidian1723You cant really write that for Windows since youd have to replace so much of Windows that you cant ever see.03:48
Obsidian1723You can replace teh shell, modify things, but never replace them in Windows.03:48
TakyojiOne thing I never really understood until like 1-2 years later was the different between open source and free software (as per Free Software Foundation)03:48
tonyyarussoTakyoji: KDE runs on Windows these days.03:48
Visiblejunkyeah, so in linux if you don't like something very specific it is realistic that you could alter it..?03:48
Obsidian1723Well, Open vs Free is a political thing, like GNU/Linix vs Linux.03:49
Visiblejunki know that, thats not technical or hard to understand03:49
tonyyarussoObsidian1723: Dude, this is IRC - like 80% of conversations are arguing semantics!03:49
Obsidian1723For all Stallman is for with software, his main concern isn't software at all, but at his core, he is about freedom overall.03:49
Obsidian1723hahaha true that tiny, but in what way do you mean, "arguing smenatics"? ;)03:49
TakyojiWell, there are distinctions.03:49
Obsidian1723tony, I meant03:49
Visiblejunkhe said seman haha03:50
TakyojiOpen source is about having source code available and editable. Free software is about persistence of that freedom.03:50
Visiblejunkgot it03:50
Obsidian1723Still, I think people can get too caught up in the minutuae and miss the larger picture of things, be it religion, software, anything.03:50
TakyojiBSD licenses are OSI-approved, but not considered "free software"03:50
Obsidian1723right03:50
TakyojiIn the end, it's really all about spreading Communism and Linux zealotry. :D03:51
Obsidian1723YES!!!03:51
Visiblejunkso back to the point, they are both monolithic then?03:51
Obsidian1723Windows yes, Linux no.03:51
Visiblejunkhrurm reread time03:51
TakyojiDon't you mean the opposite?03:51
TakyojiAlso, isn't Windows like a hybrid of two structures?03:52
Obsidian1723no03:52
tonyyarussouhhhhh, BSD licenses are totally free software.  Just not FSF-friendly.03:52
TakyojiOoo, diagram: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_kernel03:52
Obsidian1723Windows started out as a GUI which ran on top of DOS, back in the Windows 3xx days03:52
Obsidian1723well, before that too of course03:52
TakyojiWhen I say "free software" I'm referring to the FSF definition. :P03:52
TakyojiFREE AS IN FREEDOM, NOT FREE BEER!03:53
TakyojiYou alcoholics..03:53
Obsidian1723You ran MS-DOS, and if you wanted or needed to, you could boot Windows, but you didn't NEED to boot Windows until Windows95.03:53
Takyoji:P03:53
Visiblejunkmyst and duke3d days you mean..?03:53
tonyyarussoTakyoji: "A free license may also permit other ways of releasing them; in other words, it does not have to be a copyleft license. However, a license that requires modified versions to be nonfree does not qualify as a free license. "03:53
* Obsidian1723 still has a copy of Windows 3.1.1.03:53
Visiblejunkwas there other gui's for pc's that booted from dos?03:53
Obsidian1723Not that I remember. for al ong time, no one used a GUI.03:54
Obsidian1723Linux is like DOS on acid.03:54
Visiblejunksave that for the race war zombie apocolyspe , might come in handy03:54
TakyojiNot from DOS03:54
TakyojiWhat was of OS/2?03:54
tonyyarussoTakyoji: That's from the FSF Free Software Definition article, btw.03:54
Obsidian1723When I started out, MS was a 3 year old company hahaha03:54
TakyojiWhy didn't you blow up their HQ then? D:<03:55
Visiblejunkok skeletor03:55
Obsidian1723had I of known............03:55
Obsidian1723besides, watching that assclown Ballmer is fun.,03:56
TakyojiWhy oh why did Sun have to buy VirtualBox, and then Oracle buy Sun?03:56
Obsidian1723VB 4 is out now...03:56
TakyojiWas MySQL originally independent, or was it a product of Sun?03:56
TakyojiI know, I installed it last night03:56
Obsidian1723me too03:57
TakyojiI laugh at how Ballmer reacts at things03:57
Obsidian1723I met that guy once.03:57
TakyojiWhen he laughs at competition, say's they're (Microsoft) better, but the competitor prevails. xP03:57
Obsidian1723wack job03:57
Obsidian1723yeah03:57
Visiblejunkits all about the confidence man03:57
TakyojiThey still can't even get an iPad imitation out yet. xP03:57
Visiblejunklol03:57
tonyyarussoTakyoji: MySQL was originally independent, a project of Monty Widenhaus.  He sold it either directly to Sun or possibly through another step.  Monty is now the head of Monty Program AB, the firm behind the MariaDB fork.03:58
Takyojiahh03:58
Visiblejunkyeah ms is not the future... or so it looks atm03:58
tonyyarussoTakyoji: (also, mneptok works for M.P. AB)03:58
TakyojiMariaDB; that's..03:58
* Takyoji tries to remember the correct term03:58
TakyojiA non-relational database, with MySQL as the backend, yus?03:58
tonyyarussoNo.03:59
tonyyarussoNot at all.03:59
Obsidian1723Did you hear the latest? That are taking WindowsCE for the portability factor, ME for the simplicitic hardware support, and finally NT for the robust nature, and combining it all ine one cohesive OS to be called WindowsCE-M-ENT. Of course it will be so heavy, I doubt it will ever boot up.03:59
Visiblejunkdo you guys ever meet in person?03:59
tonyyarussoMariaDB is the MySQL code, minus the MySQL trademark, plus patches.03:59
tonyyarussooccasionally, yes.03:59
TakyojiI've heard that gag before. :P03:59
Takyojiahh; didn't know03:59
Visiblejunkhmm any upcoming?04:00
tonyyarussoThere's a LUG in the Twin Cities area that has significant overlap with this group that meets once a month at TIES in St. Paul.04:00
Takyojihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mojgIVwQqaQ04:00
tonyyarussoGoogle for "Penguins Unbound".  If you follow the mailing list, the guy who runs it is Brian Dolan-Goecke, and he sends announcements a little bit ahead of time.04:01
tonyyarussoWe'll probably organize LoCo events for the next releast in April if nothing else before then.04:01
TakyojiAnyway, as I was saying; anyone think Unity is like Windows 7 and Mac OS X in one? :P04:01
Takyoji(earlier)04:01
Obsidian1723what do ya think of wayland?04:01
TakyojiIs Wayland the X11 replacement; also to be in 11.04, or?04:02
tonyyarussoyeah04:02
tonyyarussoI don't think Natty has it though.04:02
TakyojiKind of pathetic that Unity seems to require 3D graphics acceleration..04:02
TakyojiWhen I was running it in Virtualbox, it complained about such, and just booted a normal GNOME environment04:03
TakyojiBut when I installed guest additions, and enabled 3d graphics acceleration, it did load when I restarted.04:03
Visiblejunkok that whole nascar reference reminds me of this video, all of you if you are proper minnesotan yanks will die watching this04:03
Visiblejunkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z0Z0WhL2aE04:03
Obsidian1723wayland is the x.org replacement, probably post 12.04LTS, but supposedly, Fedora 15 will have it.04:04
Obsidian1723code is still too wet, like Unity.04:04
TakyojiBut yea, I'm definitely all for Wayland04:05
TakyojiSince I do believe that would be very nice for energy-efficiency04:05
Obsidian1723Wyalnd with Compiz heheh04:05
Obsidian1723sweet04:05
Takyojirather than piping an X session through the network stack..04:05
tonyyarussoThe idea is interesting, but a) getting the drivers to work will be hell, and b) really?  Is there nothing else broken that we should bother fixing first?04:06
Obsidian1723who knows...04:06
Obsidian1723I think for things to crow, to be innovative, change must happen in a major way.04:07
Obsidian1723grow04:07
TakyojiGot a kick out of the video04:15
Visiblejunkhaha yeah isn't it ridic04:16
Takyojiotherwise I think it should be possible of having some X11/Wayland abstraction layer04:16
Visiblejunkno one would blink an eye at you here, maybe a stare or two lol04:16
Takyojiand man I haven't seen Brainiac in a long time04:17
Takyoji(I believe one of the folks in the video was/is the host for Brainiac)04:18
Visiblejunkhmm no idea what that is ...04:19
TakyojiI shall show you04:20
TakyojiIt's pretty much like "British MythBusters": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QheJ2Gc9l2c04:23
Visiblejunkahh cool, hey you on the mailing list for this penguins unbound?04:23
Visiblejunkyou make a user name or something04:23
Takyojihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yex063_Fblk04:23
TakyojiThey sometimes just post to the ubuntu-us-mn mailing list whenever there's an event hosted by Penguins Unbound04:24
tonyyarussoVisiblejunk: PU doesn't have it's own mailing list - they use the one for the now-largely-defunct TCLUG and ours.04:24
Obsidian1723TCLUG is defunct?04:25
TakyojiI believe so04:26
Obsidian1723bummer04:27
Visiblejunkhmmm so how do I get on the mailing list?04:28
Takyojihttps://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-mn04:29
Visiblejunki think im on the mailing list, how often does something interesting come up on it04:39
tonyyarussoDepends on how often you post something interesting ;)04:42
Visiblejunkthere is a whole section of the internet that id say 90% of guys would find interesting ; )05:20
tonyyarussouh, no.05:21
Visiblejunkno sense of humor05:27
TakyojiI think we really should also advocate the IPv6 transition as well06:05
Takyojisince I don't think anyone in Minnesota (as of activists) of doing anything about it06:05
tonyyarussoWhy would you need activists for that?06:06
TakyojiAnyone else agree that the most companies that release open source and proprietary versions, usually overly-cripple the open source version, and really shove the proprietary version?22:56
TakyojiGood lord SugarCRM's open source version is so over-commercialized. It's like the whole thing is a big advertisement for the "enterprise quality" (proprietary) version; at least like 7 or so times.22:57
Takyoji"Hay look, we're open source, we care! :DDD"22:57
tonyyarussoprobably true22:58
rlaagerTakyoji: Patch out the ads in the Debian package then. ;)23:05
rlaagerBut yeah, that sort of behavior is annoying.23:05
rlaagerBy the way, I'm finally getting back to setting up unison for file syncing. It's working well, so far.23:06
rlaagerMy use case is that I want to sync a particular directory on my laptop with my home directory on the file server at work.23:07
TakyojiIs there a way to "capture" what is used for an asterisk in bash?23:22
TakyojiBecause, I don't believe this would really work for example: ffmpeg -i *.VOB (some parameters) *.flv23:23
TakyojiIn other words, converting non-CSSed DVD video to FLV files.23:23
TakyojiAs I believe the asterisk in the latter statement would try to look for all .flv files, when that's actually intended to be the output file23:24

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