[02:50] <ous> hi all
[02:51] <ous> so I'm a Lebanese living abroad, but I'm curious: what's the penetration of ubuntu like on the ground over there?
[02:53] <ous> oh... forgot about the time difference
[02:59] <rapacity> d:
[03:06] <rapacity> I know more people using ubuntu than people using macs? if that counts, haha, though I don't have any statistics
[03:09] <ous> well that's kinda cool
[03:09] <ous> yeah stats on any linux are kinda sketchy
[03:10] <ous>  does the loco there do much activities/ meet ups?
[03:11] <rapacity> no, :p
[03:12] <rapacity> we sortof tried, but not many people show up
[03:12] <ous> I imagine its a niche thing
[03:13] <rapacity> tbh, I don't even use ubuntu d:
[03:13] <ous> what do you use?
[03:13] <ous> just curious
[03:13] <rapacity> debian, though I've been thinking of switching to arch
[03:16] <ous> the latest "squeeze"?
[03:16] <ous> also arch would be interesting for tinkering... though not sure I have much time for that
[03:16] <rapacity> no ;P I'm on sid/experimental
[03:17] <ous> oh ok
[03:17] <rapacity> ah
[03:17] <rapacity> well I recently tried using arch for a server
[03:18] <rapacity> and liked it, it has very up to date packages
[03:22] <ous> yeah I imagine a rolling release is pretty nice for staying upto date
[03:27] <rapacity> in unrelated news, ipv4 exhaustion ETA 1 day \o/
[03:27] <ous> lol really? been reading about it...
[03:27] <ous> so what next, put a big "no vacancy" sign?
[03:28] <rapacity> ipv6 \o/
[03:28] <ous> I just can't understand why they didn't make ipv6 backward compatible
[03:29] <ous> yeah the upgrade though is gonna be messy
[03:30] <rapacity> hehe, though I'm happy I'll finally be able to allocate my own lame hex speak ip :p
[03:30] <rapacity> :DEAD:BEA7:
[03:31] <rapacity> currently ogero doesn't seem to support ipv6 :<
[03:32] <rapacity> hoping that the exhaustion will compel it to finally take action :/
[03:37] <ous> yeah... so is the internet there still pretty slow?
[03:38] <rapacity> yeah, but bandwidth is a bigger problem imo
[03:38] <rapacity> I'm capped at 4gb per month
[03:40] <rapacity> I'm using the 512K plan
[03:40] <rapacity> on the 2.3Mbps plan you only get 8gb bandwidth :p
[03:46] <ous> That's pretty pathetic
[03:47] <rapacity> yep
[03:47] <ous> I read an article not too long ago that there were plans to remedy the situation by extending additional high speed links to europe
[03:48] <ous> I imagine that things are on hold atm
[03:48] <rapacity> :p I think it's all empty promises
[03:48] <rapacity> they've been talking about adding more bw for years
[03:48] <rapacity> and nothing has changed, the prices/packages haven't changed
[03:49] <ous> sigh... so do you have dsl?
[03:49] <rapacity> ogero charges 1$ per 100mb
[03:49] <rapacity> they're making alot of money out of this
[03:50] <ous> making alot of money and in the process hampering economic growth of the country
[03:50] <rapacity> I doubt they'd do something to jeopardize this arrangement
[03:50] <rapacity> :p corporations only care about making profit
[03:50] <ous> though to be fair there are bigger things that contribute more towrds that
[03:50] <rapacity> yeah I'm on dsl
[03:50] <ous> true
[03:51] <ous> well it was good talking to you
[03:51] <ous> you have a good night/morning
[03:52] <rapacity> to you too d:
[22:56] <youssefchaker> anybody on here by any chance?
[22:58] <youssefchaker> anyone on ubuntu getting crashes?
[23:02] <rapacity> requiem got some crash recently, something about an NFS error, and lots of seevices not starting
[23:02] <rapacity> though I don't use ubuntu so d:
[23:14] <youssefchaker> it's been happening the past couple of days
[23:14] <youssefchaker> i updated some stuff yesterday
[23:14] <youssefchaker> i have been away for 3 weeks
[23:14] <youssefchaker> so i have no idea what might have happened
[23:14] <youssefchaker> i keep my desktop on even when i'm away!
[23:20] <youssefchaker> thanks though