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`zillahi03:29
`zillaham having ubuntu problems tonight  :(03:30
=== `zillah is now known as zillah
DoubleBHello everybody03:31
startrekkerhi03:31
zillahhi03:31
DoubleBmake it so03:33
startrekker:)03:34
DoubleBstartrekker, are you old school or a TNG guy?03:38
zillahwhat's everybody up to tonight?03:38
startrekkerI like everything but the new one03:39
startrekkerDS9 is the best imho03:40
DoubleBWatching Ice Road Truckers03:40
startrekkerplaying GTA403:41
DoubleByeah i liked DS9 also.03:41
zillahi can't get sound on a new laptop that i put ubuntu on  :(03:43
startrekker10.10?03:43
zillahyeah03:43
startrekkerHave you gotten all the updates?03:44
zillahnot yet03:44
DoubleBhmm03:44
zillahi'll try that03:44
startrekkerthat fixed mine :)03:44
zillahi'm having problems installing windows 7 on here too03:44
DoubleBwow03:45
startrekkerI usually put win7 on first then linux03:45
DoubleBstep away from the laptop03:45
zillahif i install windows first, ubuntu doesn't see any partitions03:45
DoubleBthat is the way MS made win7 so you can't install Linux :P03:45
startrekkerI never had any problems doing both03:46
startrekkerif you aren't playing games on m$ I'd suggest virtualbox03:46
zillahi installed osx 10.5 first...i think it did some weird things to the partition tables that window didn't correct03:46
startrekkeroh hackintosh or actual mac03:47
zillahi may go that route03:47
zillahhackintosh03:47
zillahbut i gave up, hardware support was a nightmare03:47
startrekkerwhich kinda laptop?03:47
zillahacer aspire 7736z03:48
DoubleBdownload partition magic and fix the tables?03:48
DoubleBwhen did you buy that?03:48
zillahi didn't, it's a repair that hasn't been picked up for 3 months03:48
zillahi took the hard drive out and put another one in, i'm just going to use it and if they ever come back for it, i'll just put their drive back in03:49
startrekkerfunny03:49
startrekkerI think I'll go pickup my laptop03:49
startrekkerj/k03:50
zillahi have a desktop that i can't figure out what to do with either...it's been there almost 6 months i think03:50
DoubleBwow03:50
startrekkerso how hard was it to get OSx on03:50
zillaheasy, i used ipc prepatched iso03:51
DoubleBoh has biz picked up after the bolidays?03:51
zillahi installed 10.6 from a retail disc using a bootloader disc, but it wouldn't boot after the install03:51
zillaha little bit, but it's nothing like it was a couple months ago03:52
DoubleBjust don't update it right? :P03:52
zillahright03:52
zillahi told jennifer tonight i need to just sell every computer i have and get a macbook lol03:53
zillahand just have mac os, win7, and ubuntu03:53
zillah:D03:53
DoubleBpeople will be bringing in their christmas cmputers infected with Norton Trail version on them soon enough :D03:53
DoubleBtrial*03:53
startrekkerWhy can't they just sell clean computers03:54
zillahlol exactly03:54
DoubleBbloatware=$03:54
startrekkerfirst thing I do is wipe it and put a clean os on :)03:55
zillahthat's why restore discs=garbage03:56
startrekkerat least apple doesn't bloatware their machines03:56
DoubleBheh03:56
zillahjust bloated price tag  :P03:56
DoubleByeah but soon they will have an app store. next we will be jailbreaking our macs :P03:56
zillahlol probably03:57
startrekkerI saw somewhere a patent for a iPad Slider that looked pretty interesting03:57
startrekkerif Steam would just make a linux client03:58
zillahi can't decide if i want to upgrade the mac mini to lion03:58
zillahit seems kinda slow already with snow leopard03:58
DoubleBmaybe lion will run better03:58
zillahwe're going to memphis on friday, want me to pick you up a copy of ilife?03:59
zillahso...what's the big deal with steam?  what does it do?03:59
startrekkerits like itunes but for games04:00
zillahoh ok04:00
startrekkerthey have specials and you can get $50 games for 1.99 sometimes04:00
zillahthat's cool04:00
startrekkerthey have a mac client04:01
zillahyeah, i've heard a lot of people talking about it04:01
DoubleBno iLife for me04:01
zillahi haven't played with it much...i did make a slideshow that was like 6 minutes long the other night and it took about 2 hours to render lol04:03
az7what is up all?04:04
DoubleBhey04:04
zillahhey az704:04
az7yeah, steam needs to do a linux client04:05
zillahand there needs to be a linux netflix client  :)04:06
az7that'd be nice too.. screw silverlight btw04:06
az7well more DRM.. cause i think it works with the mono plugin.. but still04:06
startrekkerhtml5 would be nice04:06
az7that would be pretty sweet04:06
zillahthat's one of the reasons i want to be able to dual boot this laptop04:06
az7does it work in vmware or wine?04:07
startrekkerhaven04:07
startrekkert tried04:07
DoubleBI haz Roku and it runs linux so Where is my app for Ubuntu!04:07
zillahi've read where some people have gotten it to "sorta" work with wine04:07
zillahamen DoubleB04:08
az7i'll 2nd that04:08
DoubleBroku may pay licenses for h.26404:10
zillahwow, ubuntu 10.10 base install already has 200+ updates to download04:11
startrekkerand I bet one of them fixes the sound issue04:11
zillahi hope so  :)04:11
DoubleByay go 10mB centurylink!04:11
DoubleBMb*04:11
zillahi just hope when i get ready to try to install win7 again i don't end up re-installing ubuntu too04:12
zillahyeah, it's been more like 0.10 Mb since xmas04:12
startrekkeri'd do that first04:12
zillahi'll wait on win7 unless i really need it for something first04:13
zillahmy desktop has a windows drive in it and i haven't ever booted to it lol04:13
zillahi forgot it was even in there until just the other day04:13
DoubleBdid every one get xbox live for xmas or something? :P04:14
zillahlol probably04:14
startrekkerI don't have an xbox but I want a kinect to play with04:14
zillahwe know they aren't using Limewire :P04:14
zillahyeah, that would be cool04:15
DoubleBha no now it is piratewire04:15
zillahgrrrr it's moving at 50-80 kB/s04:18
zillahmaybe i should notify them that i have an FCC router coming04:19
DoubleB>D04:19
zillahi still haven't gotten notice that it actually shipped though, i wonder if the FCC is going to drop the ball on this one too04:20
DoubleBLOL04:21
zillahi put in a change of address for my ham license when i moved a few years ago and it still hasn't gone through04:21
DoubleBIt has a curse word filter04:21
zillahi think i've moved 5 more times since then04:21
zillahwhat does?04:21
zillahthe router?04:22
zillahLOL04:22
startrekkeri've always wanted to get a ham license04:22
zillahit's not too bad, you can get the entire question pool and read through it beforehand04:22
startrekkerdidn't they take out the morse code portion04:23
zillahand now you don't have to know morse code to get a general or amateur extra04:23
DoubleBif youi want your change of address you will have to rattle someone's cage04:24
startrekkerhow much is a decent radio setup?04:24
zillahyeah, before you could get a tech license with no code, but you couldn't use much outside of 2m04:24
zillahdepends on what you're wanting to do with it04:24
zillahif you just want to talk on a local repeater you can good a good mobile for under $100 on ebay, then you just need some copper tubing for a j pole antenna and a good power supply04:25
zillahwhere are you located startrekker?04:25
startrekkerconway04:25
zillahah, you should be able to find lots of hams around you that would probably help you out04:26
zillahthe guys up here gave me a couple tuners and antennas and stuff when i was starting out04:26
zillahi took my test at batesville on the ARRL field day04:27
zillahbut then i joined the Lawrence County club since it was the closest to home04:27
zillahhttp://cgi.ebay.com/Icom-IC-25-2m-FM-transceiver-SN18848-/260717090562?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cb3f3170204:30
zillahi have one of those, it was my first 2 meter04:30
zillahmine is the 25-A though, i think it's a little higher wattage04:31
startrekkerdoesn't ship to the US04:32
zillahyeah, i noticed that04:34
startrekkerthat kinda odd04:34
zillahhe does if you sign a waiver it looks like04:35
zillahwow, there isn't near as much ham radio stuff on ebay anymore04:37
zillahhttp://cgi.ebay.com/Radio-Shack-HTX-252-cosmetically-beautiful-2m-144-/260717132764?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cb3f3bbdc04:37
zillahthat radio shack one is pretty cheap04:38
zillahif you have the money though i would go for something that is 2m/440, you might get a little more use out of that04:39
startrekkerthanks for the advice04:41
DoubleByeah I should become a ham it w ould have been great during the ice storm04:41
startrekkeryou able to pickup slow scan tv stations?04:42
zillahi've never tried, i don't have the equipment for it04:43
zillahbrb reboot04:43
DoubleBit may not reboot :P04:45
startrekkerwhats the linux equiv of a blue screen of death04:46
zillahyou rock...i have sound now04:48
DoubleByay!04:49
zillahi'm not used to upgrades fixing things in linux lol04:49
startrekkerwhen I first switched to 10.10 I had to get all the future releases to get sound working04:49
startrekkernext time the updates fixed it04:49
DoubleBubuntu is pretty good at that. updates have fixed video problems for me before04:50
startrekkerhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/57930004:50
zillahi guess i'm still using 9 on the desktop04:50
startrekkeri'm actually rocking fedora 14 right nwo04:52
DoubleB10.4 on my eee pc. unity is to annoying for a small screen04:52
startrekkertried netbookremix?04:52
startrekkerI had that one my 900a04:52
zillahi've only used fedora on servers04:52
zillahi think that's what he's talking about, it has the unity interface04:53
DoubleByes that is what I am running now. the unity 10.10 panel gets in the way. needs quto hide04:53
startrekkeri wanted to try something differnt04:53
DoubleBauto*04:53
zillahreplace it with window maker  :)04:54
zillahlooks good even at 640x480 lol04:54
DoubleByeah or lxde04:54
DoubleBxfc04:54
DoubleBnetbook 10.04 is fine for now04:54
startrekkerisn't ubuntu going to unity across the board?04:55
zillahi think so, hopefully they'll improve on it a lot first04:55
DoubleByes04:55
zillahi was pretty annoyed with it on a netbook too04:55
DoubleBall i want is auto hide of the panel dock thing04:55
startrekkerI kinda liked it04:56
DoubleBthen i could use unity04:56
DoubleBit was nice to look at great icons04:56
startrekkerI didn't like having a windows program in the repo04:56
zillahi do think the panel takes up too much space, and on a netbook you don't have much to spare04:56
DoubleBpurple04:56
zillaha windows program?04:56
startrekkerprogressquest04:57
startrekkerit installs wine04:57
zillahah04:57
startrekker(sudo apt-get install pq04:57
startrekkerthat kinda put me off a bit04:59
startrekkerwhats next have 8bit games install dosbox for you?04:59
zillahthat is one of the oddest games i've ever seen04:59
startrekkertrue but having something that you can install through apt being a windows program seemed really really wrong to me05:00
zillahmakes me wanna play nethack though :P05:00
zillahi agree about the windows thing though05:02
DoubleBsham wow!05:02
startrekkermakes you say wow everytime05:02
zillahhey, my webcam even works  :)05:03
DoubleBkaboom cleans spaghetti out of the shower05:03
zillahLMAO05:03
DoubleBI think some logitechs do05:03
startrekkerif you are eating spaghetti in the shower you've got a serious problem05:03
zillahLOL05:03
DoubleBnot as bad as having sex in a vase05:04
startrekkerwith a working credit card you can pay for dvd codecs from fluendo05:06
zillahi can't remember what i used to use to watch dvds on linux05:08
DoubleBinstall libdvdcss2 and totem will do it05:10
DoubleBstartrekker, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE_IcfYEH4o05:10
zillahyeah, that's probably what i was using05:10
zillahi just want a good DLNA client for linux05:11
zillahthat would make me happy05:11
startrekkerhttp://medibuntu.org/05:12
DoubleBwhat webcam do you have?05:12
startrekkerthat was great I'm sure you've all seen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWRyj5cHIQA05:13
zillahit's just the one that's built-in05:14
zillahlol yeah startrekker05:14
startrekkerits been fun05:17
zillahheading out?05:17
startrekkeryeah I've got a warm bowl of spaghetti in my bathtub calling my name05:17
zillahlmfao05:17
DoubleB>-D05:18
zillahbefore long i'm gonna head downstairs and look for that vase05:18
zillah:P05:18
DoubleBlmfao05:18
zillahnice meeting you startrekker05:18
startrekkerand you05:18

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