[00:59] <pleia2> shipit request to canonical for the conference pack has been sent
[00:59]  * pleia2 goes to catch train
[16:51] <seidos> so i'm trying out 10.10 from a pressed cd.  first time after clicking "try ubuntu" the "processing icon" just looped
[16:51] <seidos> it's working from a second attempt
[16:52] <seidos> i wonder if i should create a bug for that glitch
[16:53] <seidos> anyway, doesn't matter, the whole point was to upgrade to 10.04...better get working on that.
[16:57] <jtatum> ok
[18:16] <Eureka> wiki: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/Scale9x edited
[19:57] <MarkDude> http://portablelinuxapps.org/
[19:57] <MarkDude> What do folks think of carrying apps on a usb drive?
[19:59] <akk> I think it makes a lot of sense.
[19:59] <MarkDude> Me too
[19:59] <akk> For some apps it doesn't work so well, because they keep a lot of state (eclipse, openoffice)
[19:59] <akk> but for others it works great.
[20:00]  * MarkDude was doing the same thing using wine for the native MS pertable apps
[20:00] <MarkDude> yep, like gpoddder would be great to have installed on a device
[20:00] <akk> Portable apps are much easier on linux than on MS.
[20:00] <akk> Most of them can be run in-place, without running some kind of installer first.
[20:01] <akk> Or you can run a wrapper script that resets $HOME or comparable env variables.
[20:03] <MarkDude> that is the intersting part to me
[20:03] <MarkDude> use of ~
[20:04] <akk> I'm in the middle of fighting that battle with eclipse -- trying to make an eclipse that isn't dependent on being in a particular user's homedir.
[20:06] <nhaines> akk: symlink?
[20:08] <akk> nhaines: I wondered if that might work, but the problem is, when you run it it writes various absolute paths in about 50 different places.
[20:08] <akk> So even if you have a symlink, it might follow the symlink and write the real path, not the symlink one
[20:09] <akk> so what I'm trying first is seeing if I can remove all the dirs that include those paths (and git exclude them) so eclipse will regenerate them for each user.
[20:32] <Eureka> wiki: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/Scale9x edited
[21:08] <MarkDude> akk I ran into the home problem trying to make a custom Severed Fifth install, I needed to have it write to various parts of $home
[21:09] <MarkDude> There were too many variables that could mess it up, so i decided not to make something that was broken :)
[21:13] <akk> Things like that can get fiddly, for sure.
[21:21] <Eureka> wiki: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/Scale9x edited
[22:43] <erichammond> I could bring to SCALE a Linksys WRT54GS (4 ports + wireless-G).
[22:43] <erichammond> Were folks looking for something more substantial or would that be helpful?
[22:44] <MarkDude> erichammond, it wont take up much space.. even if not used :)
[23:05] <Eureka> wiki: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/Scale9x edited
[23:41] <pleia2> erichammond: I think that'll be sufficient :)
[23:45] <Eureka> wiki: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/Scale9x edited
[23:46] <erichammond> My company can print a hundred or so 8.5"x11" foldable paper sleeves once somebody figures out the final new design.
[23:52] <erichammond> Random thought: I use Ubuntu to control some networked digital security cameras at work.  If there was a spare computer, I might be able to set up a demo of such a security system with a couple cameras at the booth using open source software.
[23:53] <pleia2> that would be really cool