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oushi all02:50
ousso I'm a Lebanese living abroad, but I'm curious: what's the penetration of ubuntu like on the ground over there?02:51
ousoh... forgot about the time difference02:53
rapacityd:02:59
rapacityI know more people using ubuntu than people using macs? if that counts, haha, though I don't have any statistics03:06
ouswell that's kinda cool03:09
ousyeah stats on any linux are kinda sketchy03:09
ous does the loco there do much activities/ meet ups?03:10
rapacityno, :p03:11
rapacitywe sortof tried, but not many people show up03:12
ousI imagine its a niche thing03:12
rapacitytbh, I don't even use ubuntu d:03:13
ouswhat do you use?03:13
ousjust curious03:13
rapacitydebian, though I've been thinking of switching to arch03:13
ousthe latest "squeeze"?03:16
ousalso arch would be interesting for tinkering... though not sure I have much time for that03:16
rapacityno ;P I'm on sid/experimental03:16
ousoh ok03:17
rapacityah03:17
rapacitywell I recently tried using arch for a server03:17
rapacityand liked it, it has very up to date packages03:18
ousyeah I imagine a rolling release is pretty nice for staying upto date03:22
rapacityin unrelated news, ipv4 exhaustion ETA 1 day \o/03:27
ouslol really? been reading about it...03:27
ousso what next, put a big "no vacancy" sign?03:27
rapacityipv6 \o/03:28
ousI just can't understand why they didn't make ipv6 backward compatible03:28
ousyeah the upgrade though is gonna be messy03:29
rapacityhehe, though I'm happy I'll finally be able to allocate my own lame hex speak ip :p03:30
rapacity:DEAD:BEA7:03:30
rapacitycurrently ogero doesn't seem to support ipv6 :<03:31
rapacityhoping that the exhaustion will compel it to finally take action :/03:32
ousyeah... so is the internet there still pretty slow?03:37
rapacityyeah, but bandwidth is a bigger problem imo03:38
rapacityI'm capped at 4gb per month03:38
rapacityI'm using the 512K plan03:40
rapacityon the 2.3Mbps plan you only get 8gb bandwidth :p03:40
ousThat's pretty pathetic03:46
rapacityyep03:47
ousI read an article not too long ago that there were plans to remedy the situation by extending additional high speed links to europe03:47
ousI imagine that things are on hold atm03:48
rapacity:p I think it's all empty promises03:48
rapacitythey've been talking about adding more bw for years03:48
rapacityand nothing has changed, the prices/packages haven't changed03:48
oussigh... so do you have dsl?03:49
rapacityogero charges 1$ per 100mb03:49
rapacitythey're making alot of money out of this03:49
ousmaking alot of money and in the process hampering economic growth of the country03:50
rapacityI doubt they'd do something to jeopardize this arrangement03:50
rapacity:p corporations only care about making profit03:50
ousthough to be fair there are bigger things that contribute more towrds that03:50
rapacityyeah I'm on dsl03:50
oustrue03:50
ouswell it was good talking to you03:51
ousyou have a good night/morning03:51
rapacityto you too d:03:52
youssefchakeranybody on here by any chance?22:56
youssefchakeranyone on ubuntu getting crashes?22:58
rapacityrequiem got some crash recently, something about an NFS error, and lots of seevices not starting23:02
rapacitythough I don't use ubuntu so d:23:02
youssefchakerit's been happening the past couple of days23:14
youssefchakeri updated some stuff yesterday23:14
youssefchakeri have been away for 3 weeks23:14
youssefchakerso i have no idea what might have happened23:14
youssefchakeri keep my desktop on even when i'm away!23:14
youssefchakerthanks though23:20

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