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doctormomaco: I see him every Sunday now at Grendals.00:03
doctormopaultag: You winding down on BT and UbuntuStudio?00:03
JFo<- building song set lists for Budapest just in case I get to DJ again. :-)00:09
* mhall119 hopes the narwals song is on the list01:34
paultagdoctormo: just BT. Why?01:44
doctormopaultag: curious about your step down email.01:44
paultagdoctormo: ah. Did not know you were on beginners01:45
doctormopaultag: that's the third time you've said that01:46
Pendulumpaultag: you stepped down from BT?01:47
paultagPendulum: yes, it's quite depressing. It's my "Home" team. I'm going to maintain membership, just because it was my first team ( and being on the team when we started it and stuff )01:48
* Pendulum hugs paultag 01:48
paultagPendulum: but I'm leaving all my leadership roles behind me for the BT to try and snag some breathing room01:48
* paultag hugs Pendulum 01:48
Pendulum*nods*01:48
paultagIt's a bit sad, but it's been a while coming01:49
* doctormo hugs Pendulum01:49
* Pendulum hugs doctormo 01:49
Pendulumthere has not be enough hugging in this channel lately01:49
paultag+1 to that01:49
doctormo+101:49
* doctormo hugs jcastro01:50
paultagYeah, it's a shame but I'm getting burned out, so I need to drop weight. Sadsies.01:50
paultagI'll blog about it after the process is in progress, methinks01:50
Pendulumbetter to take care of yourself01:50
paultag+1 Pendulum01:50
* nigelb hugs paultag 03:03
doctormoMost awesome wallpaper, must be seen!03:14
doctormohttp://fav.me/d398ufo03:14
akgraner-androidWoo hoo finally got irc working on my phone...i luv my phone03:57
dholbachgood morning07:38
nigelbhey dholbach :)07:40
dholbachhey nigelb07:40
dholbachnigelb, what's "hello" in Hindi or Malayalam?07:40
dholbachor well, how would you pronounce it?07:40
nigelbdholbach: 'Namaskaram' in malyalam and 'Namaste' in Hindi :)07:43
dholbachah yes, in Hindi I should've known, yes :)07:43
dholbachone of the few non-food-related words I remember ;-)07:43
nigelbhaha07:43
nigelbPaneer must be your favorite food word :p07:43
dholbachone of them, yes :)07:44
dholbachand it's the same in Persian07:44
nigelbAhhh.07:44
dholbachwhat's chicken? morgh?07:45
nigelbMurg in Hindi07:45
dholbach'morgh' in Persian :)07:45
dholbachit always makes me chuckle when I look at a menu :)07:46
nigelbheh07:46
nigelbAll this talk of food reminds me its lunch time ^-^07:46
dholbachok, it's breakfast time, I should put Indian food out of my mind for a bit07:46
nigelbhehe07:47
dpmgood morning all08:07
nigelbhola dpm, ara :)08:11
dpmhey nigelb08:12
dholbachoh no!08:56
dholbach#u-classroom is booked on Friday 4th March already08:57
dholbachpleia2, ^ can we move this somewhere else? :/08:57
dholbachthat's UDW week08:57
nigelblet me look08:58
dholbachthe Fridge calendar says it's booked for ubuntu-meeting and there's no other meeting at the time09:00
dholbachbut https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WeeklyQandA says #u-classroom09:00
dholbachI'll talk to Jono09:00
dholbachhe seems to have set it up09:00
dholbachnigelb, I can CC pleia2 and you09:00
nigelbdholbach: it is the Q and A session.09:00
dholbachyes, I know09:00
nigelbdholbach: Yeah, that'd be great.  Its jono's thing09:00
nigelbdholbach: or you can talk to david mandella and make it right before UDW ;)09:01
dholbachluckily we still have some time09:01
dholbachso I'll suggest to them to move to #u-meeting09:01
dholbachor move it by a week09:02
nigelbIf I'd known of it, we could have fit it into the schedule09:02
dholbachyes09:02
nigelbdholbach: I event went to get rickspencer to do a Q and A inside of UDW.  Sigh.  If I'd known we could have had this Q and A into the schedule09:03
dholbachdon't worry09:03
dholbachit's going to be fine09:03
nigelb:)09:04
dholbachI'll add the other sessions to the classroom schedule now09:04
dholbachif I never said it that explicitly: I hate doing that :)09:04
nigelblol09:05
nigelbI can help09:05
nigelblets split up09:05
dholbachno, it's fine - don't bother :)09:05
nigelbI'll do the last 2 days :)09:05
dholbachwe'll crash Google Calendar or something :)09:05
nigelbhaha, entirely possible :p09:05
nigelbYOu know what, we should automate this09:06
nigelbI'll try to find a way over the weekend (and probably present it at UDW :P)09:06
dholbachagreed - I would need something like that for the patch pilot calendar as well09:06
dholbachat least I installed python-gdata already, but I didn't do anything about it yet :)09:07
dholbachno, not the weekend - it's packed with other stuff already09:07
nigelbLets get some time and hack something to automate this :D09:07
dholbachand dealing with iCal and vCard stuff is really not what I consider "fun weekend stuff"09:08
nigelbhaha09:08
nigelbI'll look it up and figure out a way.  I've got some time.09:08
dholbachnigelb, in the calendar, do I need to specify an event somewhere?09:55
dholbachor is it just helper, instructor, moderated?09:56
* popey hugs dholbach 09:57
* dholbach hugs popey back09:57
dholbachok, I guess I need to add "Event: Ubuntu Developer Week"10:00
dholbachdone10:05
dholbachone problem I can see is that lernid seems to be a bit broken in natty10:05
dholbachpopey, we have that line in the draft email10:18
popeyoh, doh10:18
popeysorry :( (I did read it honest)10:18
dholbachhaha10:18
dholbachbrb10:18
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nigelbdholbach: yes, if you specify event, don't specify moderated10:45
* nigelb looks at cal10:45
dholbachaha?!10:45
nigelbdholbach: if you specify an event, we assume that the event is moderated, which is aways the case10:46
dholbachI did both - should be alright, no?10:47
nigelbdholbach: Its fine.  Less work for next time.10:48
dholbachyeah :)10:48
nigelbdholbach: can you link me to the patch pilot calender?11:37
dholbachhttps://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=6k1e5rq45m1bdqq0n1ge3oqaok@group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Europe/Berlin&gsessionid=OK11:37
nigelbthanks11:37
nigelbdholbach: you've got to do this every month?11:38
dholbachyes11:38
nigelbEw.  No wonder you hate doing this.11:38
nigelbWill try to get you something by monday :)11:38
dholbachwhooo: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=18993015769406911:40
nigelbInvited a bunch of friends :)11:45
nigelbdholbach: btw, erm, we stopped recommended lernid to anyone11:46
dholbachright11:46
nigelbWe = Classroom Team11:47
dholbachI guess it's still in the wiki page instructions somewhere11:47
dholbachI'll talk to Jono about it11:47
nigelbBecause a lot of people had issues and we want to wait till its stable enough for us to spend time debugging11:47
nigelb*for us *NOT* to spend time...11:47
* dholbach nods11:48
dholbachhttp://people.canonical.com/~dholbach/tmp/Bildschirmfoto.png - anything I forgot?11:48
nigelbtalk about #ubuntu-classroom-chat too?11:49
dholbachit's in the link11:49
dholbach:)11:49
nigelbIn that case, all looks good :)11:49
dholbachpublished11:51
dholbachI'll add it to UWN11:52
nigelbwoo :)11:53
dholbachthanks a lot for the help nigelb11:53
nigelbdholbach: No problem.  It is afterall a classroom event :)11:56
duanedesignmorning all12:08
nigelbhey duanedesign12:08
duanedesignhowdy nigelb12:09
dholbachthanks nhandler12:54
nhandlerdholbach: You are welcome. You know that you have access to the ubuntu-classroom blog for posting stuff like this, right?12:54
dholbachyes12:54
dholbachI'll repost it from there in the next few days12:55
dholbachso we keep the message on planet :)12:55
dholbachhi daker12:57
dakerhey dholbach ツ12:57
nigelbnhandler: ping?13:02
mhall119nigelb: I added myself to the lighting session13:47
mhall119for XDG Launcher13:48
doctormoakgraner: Android phone you have and luv?14:36
akgranerdoctormo, Galaxy S - (same one you have)14:37
akgranerbut don't try to get the update - the update from samsung bricked my other Galaxy14:38
akgranerwait for the t-mobile to push their version of the update over-the-air as it's almost ready14:38
doctormoakgraner: Is it? interesting14:39
akgranerthe samsung update required a user to hook the phone to a windows machine to get it14:39
doctormoakgraner: Mine is rooted, should I update anyway? I mean I like what it does.14:39
akgranerno don't do the update14:40
akgranerso not worth it14:40
doctormoThe t-mobile update?14:40
akgranerno the samsung update14:40
akgraneryou would have gotten an email from t-mobile telling you about the update14:40
akgranerdon't use that one - wait on the other update (which is not ready yet but will be soon) and will NOT require you to use a windows machine for the update14:41
akgranerit will be an over the air update14:41
akgranerand it will give you wifi calling14:41
doctormoakgraner: Right, so I don'tbelieve any updates require a windows machine. You can use the sdk to install any updates.14:42
akgranerright now I can't receive or send calls only data over wifi14:42
akgranerno the samsung update requires users to hook phone up to a windows machine to get it14:42
akgranerI spent 3 days dealing with samsung and t-mobile over having to do that14:42
akgranerthey told me it was the only way (for now) so I tried it - and then my phone was bricked - spent another day dealing with them over the fact the application locked up the windows machine in the middle of the update, which bricked my phone, and the emergency recovery software failed - hence the reason I got a new phone14:44
akgranerFound out I am not the only that happened too, the Samsung update is broken, so t-mobile is releasing a new over the air update soon (no what their def of soon is I don't know)14:45
akgranerno [idea] what  - I mean14:45
doctormoWhat is the samsung update exactly? Is it a file? Updates to androids are fairly standard.14:46
akgranerIt enables the Galaxy S to have wifi calling enabled14:46
doctormoYou slap them in the memory card, reboot the device over usb with the _recover_ flag and hold onto your pants.14:47
akgranernot exactly - you have to download some custom samsung application14:47
doctormoakgraner: Can you cabextract it?14:48
akgranerI'll get you a better more technical explanation later today14:48
akgranerdoctormo, I'm an end user for my phone - I don't know about all the stuff your asking :-/ sorry - but I'll find out for you.  I followed the manufactures and re-sellers instructors and so did many others and it failed big time.  So I don't want anyone else having those same issues that's all :-)14:50
duanedesignhello akgraner and doctormo14:50
akgranerdoctormo, I'll get the answers and blog about it in more detail but for now I gotta get back to work :-)  hi duanedesign!14:51
jcastrohey dholbach15:07
jcastrohttp://photos.pixoulphotography.com/Events/UDS-Natty/14450330_Xqidv#1072552440_99kAA15:08
jcastroget down!15:08
doctormohey duanedesign, thansk akgraner15:23
jonohi all15:34
czajkowskijono: were you looking for me last night. took the evening off15:46
jonoczajkowski, I was, we had our call scheduled this week, wanted to reschedule15:47
czajkowskioh I'd forgotten that :o15:47
czajkowskiI never forget :(15:47
czajkowskisorry15:47
jonono worries!15:48
czajkowskijono: 9pm or 10pm on monday? o any time before 5:30pm on monday15:48
jonolet me check my cal15:48
jcastrobbi 10, new session/unity time15:49
dholbachjcastro, oh! my! god15:49
macodholbach: what, did you come across the images he linked yesterday?15:53
dholbachI don't know about pictures from yesterday15:53
macocheck the logs15:56
macohe was finding pictures of you looking silly at uds15:56
jcastroyou mean looking AWESOME15:58
jcastrohttp://photos.pixoulphotography.com/Events/UDS-Natty/14450330_Xqidv#1072549424_Crk3n15:59
popeyWHeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee15:59
jcastrocan anyone explain what the heck is going on there?15:59
czajkowskiand he wonders why I call him dodgey Daviey15:59
jcastrothere's something very english about that whole thing15:59
czajkowskijcastro: what were you doing   http://photos.pixoulphotography.com/Events/UDS-Natty/14450330_Xqidv#1072191959_BNfQD16:01
jcastroI believe the concensus is that I was mid-air-guitar/headbanging16:01
jcastrowhich would make sense16:01
czajkowskiindeed16:02
* czajkowski hugs jcastro 16:02
czajkowskivery special :)16:02
macojono: "no really daviey, im a chair"16:02
dholbachthe best comment I saw about this one http://photos.pixoulphotography.com/Events/UDS-Natty/14450330_Xqidv#1072324655_3ai7N-L-LB was "I can see your natty narwhals"16:03
Davieymaco, uh?16:03
dholbachbut that was on FB :)16:03
macoDaviey: look at the one jcastro linked16:03
dpmcalling it a day, see you all on Monday!16:03
DavieyAhhhhhhhh!16:04
Davieythere are pics16:04
jonoI love Daviey16:04
jono:-)16:04
Davieyheh16:04
DavieyBorris is making some moves in the background16:05
dakerWoow Congrats Mubarak is out!!16:06
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dholbachthis is awesome news!16:10
* dholbach hugs kim0|Celebrating and daker16:10
dakerwell i think Egypt will not sleep tonight :D16:12
dholbachhttp://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/ if you want to see a big party16:12
dakera massive flood on twitter16:24
jcastroman that's awesome16:28
* maco is glad to be nowhere near the egyptian embassy today16:29
mhall119Mubarak is gone?16:29
dakeryeah16:29
dholbachmhall119, yes16:29
mhall119\o/16:29
paultaghuzzah16:30
dholbachmhall119, http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/16:30
mhall119gone gone, or like almost sorta kinda gone but still officially President?16:30
macoresigned16:30
dakermhall119, he resigns as president and hands over power to the Supreme Council for the Armed Forces16:30
JanCactually, sounds more like the military announced he resigned, so let's hope they won't just put another puppet in his place...16:33
dakerthey will not do that :)16:33
mhall119I hope so, it's going to be a crazy time in Egypt for a while though16:34
JanCeh, sounds like the square is getting dangerous because of too many people, let's hope no accidents happen there...  :-(16:35
dakermhall119, i don't think those crazy times will be like the last 30 years16:36
dakerJanC, i don't think you know very well the Muslims16:37
mhall119so is the VP now going to be president?16:38
dakermhall119, no16:38
mhall119did he resign too?16:38
JanCdaker: not sure what that has to do with "the Muslims" ?16:38
JanCno16:38
JanCthe military more or less took over government as far as I understand16:38
dakermhall119, the Supreme Council for the Armed Forces takes the control16:38
mhall119hmm...I'm not sure if that's good or bad16:39
JanCit's good if it's temporary  ;)16:39
mhall119armed forces meaning the army?16:39
dakeryex16:39
dakeryes*16:39
dakermhall119, it's very good16:39
mhall119it was my understanding that the airforce and military police were still loyal to Mubarak16:39
macomhall119: from what an egyptian was posting on reddit about the protests, the military were protecting the people from the pro-mubarak police forces16:40
JanCmaco: sometimes they did16:40
mhall119maco: the army was, yes16:40
mhall119again, my understanding was that some divisions of the armed forces were still loyal to the regime16:40
macooh is this that "there's more than one kind of 'servicemember'" thing that always confuses me?16:41
mhall119yeah, army vs. air force16:41
macowhy cant they all just be army, and then you have the airplane people and the boat people and the ground people16:41
mhall119like how the US has army/navy/air force/marine corp16:41
macowould be so much more understandable16:41
mhall119air force used to be the Army Air Corp over here16:41
macowhy does the US have a navy and marines?16:42
macotheyre both just "fight in water" right?16:42
mhall119different duties16:42
mhall119no16:42
macoO_o16:42
macoim pretty sure navy is water people...and marine...well "marine life" means "aquatic life" so...marine must mean water too...16:43
dakerJanC, have you seen the scene 5 hours ago ?16:43
mhall119marines use the navy for mobility, but mostly fight on land16:43
JanCmaco: and to make things confusing, the navy and the ground troups probably have their own airplanes...  ;)16:43
macoJanC: that shouldnt be allowed16:43
mhall119yes, they all have their own air crafts16:43
macoif you want airplanes, tuse the air force16:44
mhall119I'm pretty sure they all have their own boats too16:44
macoif you want boats, use the water people and darnit you only need one set of em!16:44
jcastrothe navy has more planes than the airforce16:44
jcastroand the army has more boats than the navy16:44
mhall119think of them like different distros ;)16:44
macojcastro: that seems stupid16:44
macodo any of them have any sense of purpose at all?16:45
mhall119man, this AJ live stream is eating up my CPI16:45
mhall119CPU16:45
maco"our job is to pretend to be water people and instead do stuff in air planes!"16:45
mhall119maco: yes16:45
jcastrothe planes go on top of the ships16:45
mhall119the airplanes are used to compliment the water craft16:45
mhall119but the main purpose of the navy is to provide sea power16:45
macohrmph. this is like giving an archer a ole arm16:46
maco*pole arm16:46
macoor putting infantry on horses. they by definition cease to be infantry and become cavalry16:46
* mhall119 goes to see if CNN is coverting this story yet16:46
mhall119maco: well now they all ride in motorized vehicles16:47
popeysimplistic maco is simplistic16:47
JanCwell, the cavalry still has horses for parade days  :P16:48
mhall119yeah, the marines have swords for the same reason16:48
JanCin some armies teh cavalry is on off-road motorbikes now16:48
mhall119there's one for maco, the marines who don't fight on water and carry swords16:48
macoid call that a swordsman16:49
macopossibly a knight16:49
mhall119maco: also, the coast guard isn't part of the navy, go figure that one16:49
popeywe have cross-service boards/councils16:49
macohow shiny is their armor?16:49
mhall119mostly dirty brown or green16:50
macook so robinhood16:50
JanClol16:50
mhall119ha16:50
maconah, he was an archer ;-)16:50
mhall119oh, the VP is announcing Mubarak's resignation now16:51
JanChe did some time ago  ;)16:53
* mhall119 really hopes Egypt gets a civilian, republican government16:53
dakerJanC, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-jJllBxZLI16:53
JanCdaker: like I said, I hope it doesn't get too crowded there (as journalists reports large groups of people from all over the city want to celebrate and are moving towards the square)16:55
JanCyou can only put so many persons on 1m²...16:56
dakerif they are oganized yes :)16:56
mhall119daker: the problem is that when there isn't enough room, people can be accidentally hurt16:58
mhall119I think that's what JanC is worried about16:58
JanCexactly, that's what I mean16:58
dakeryes i know :)16:58
mhall119when 200 people are moving in one direction, and 1 person is going the other way...16:58
dakermhall119, the video say it all16:59
JanCit looked safe at the time of that video, yes17:00
dakermaybe i should show you the video of today17:00
dakerthey were more than 2millions according to Aljazeera in Tahrir square17:01
dholbachcam somebody stickify  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10449345 ?17:03
dholbachand http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10449347 please17:03
dakerhaha rm -rf Mubarak && sudo apt-get install Egypt-2.017:05
popey:)17:06
mhall119lol17:08
dakermhall119, the VP is not anymore VP just because the army takes the control17:13
dholbachalright my friends - keep on celebrating - I call it a day - see you all next week! have a good one!17:13
dakerdholbach, bon week end!!17:13
dholbachdaker, merci mon ami :)17:13
jonocan someone give me access to #ubuntu-classroom17:32
popeyI wonder what news source I am missing.17:33
popeyI have not seen any announcement of these Q&A sessions17:33
czajkowskihmm no jcastro17:33
dakerpopey, each friday there is a Q&A sessions17:34
popeyok, this is news to me17:34
popeywhere was it announced?17:34
AlanBellfacebook17:34
popeyyou are kidding?17:34
dakerthis was announced by jono17:34
AlanBellmost recent stuff17:34
popeywell, that's why I haven't seen it then17:35
AlanBellit seems to be an effective means of reaching oodles of random people and bypassing a lot of Ubuntu geeks17:35
popeySeems that way.17:35
pleia2it should probably be posted on ubuntuclassroom.wordpress.com too (which goes to planet) but I'm not sure who on the classroom team jono is working with17:35
AlanBelldoesn't turn up on my main facebook news feed, only on the "recent crap from everyone" page17:36
jonopleia2, oh that is news to me17:36
pleia2I just got the schedule updated yesterday in the learning events calendar17:36
jonoyeah we need to promote this a little more17:36
popey+1217:36
jonocan someone give me the web link to the online webchat for the two channels?17:37
pleia2http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntu-classroom%2Cubuntu-classroom-chat17:37
pleia2the bot automatically announces it to the ubuntuclassroom feeds on identica and twitter17:38
nigelbmhall119: \o/ thanks17:45
nigelbjono: hey, did you get the conflict fixed for us? :)17:45
jononigelb, conflict? you mean for dev week?17:46
nigelbjono: yup17:46
jononigelb, not yet17:46
jonowill do though17:46
jonoshould be simple enough17:46
nigelb:)17:46
popeyquestions queueing up... :)17:47
nigelbmhall119: I think I might build an app over the weekend and show case it ;)17:47
jonocan someone voice robbie in -classroom ?17:50
nigelbjono: robbie is voiced17:50
jonohe cant speak17:51
doctormoAlanBell: I'm detecting a pattern myself17:51
doctormoThat's not like robbie at all ;-)17:51
AlanBellpleia2: there are better ways of doing a webchat link, you can do one with settings that turn off joins and parts17:54
AlanBellhttp://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntu-classroom%2Cubuntu-classroom-chat&uio=Mj10cnVlJjQ9dHJ1ZSY5PXRydWUmMTA9dHJ1ZSYxMT0yODcmMTI9dHJ1ZQf817:55
AlanBelllike that17:55
pleia2AlanBell: I find that option more annoying than useful so I never looked into it, but I guess for new users it would be better17:55
AlanBell17:49 < runar_> everything i'm seeing are quits and joins17:56
AlanBellfew messages like that in -chat17:56
pleia2yeah, you have to weigh that against the "nothing is happening, my browser is broken!111 hello???" comments17:56
doctormoAlanBell: How do you do that?17:57
AlanBelldoctormo: top left, follow the wizard for add webchat to your website17:57
doctormook, thanks, perhaps we should put that into the link on loco directory?17:58
AlanBelldoctormo: funnily enough, I coded the loco directory webchat integration . . .17:58
AlanBellit doesn't show joins and parts17:58
doctormoAlanBell: I thought I did that part... or maybe I just did the awesome icon for it.17:59
doctormoI forget17:59
AlanBellah yes, I changed the functionality of the awesome icon18:01
AlanBellhttp://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/ubuntu-uk18:01
AlanBellnow in an iframe18:01
doctormoAlanBell: Why? that doesn't seem to make design sense.18:02
AlanBelldid to me18:02
doctormoAlanBell: None of the other buttons do embeded iframes, and what happens if you have javascript switched off?18:03
AlanBellthis one was nicely integrated http://loco.ubuntu.com/irc/18:04
AlanBellthe loco ones launched a whole new window18:05
AlanBelland had confusing joins and parts turned on18:05
AlanBellif people see IP addresses they think it has all gone horribly wrong18:06
doctormotrue18:06
AlanBellI think if you have javascript turned off then it is game over for the webchat anyhow18:07
doctormoAlanBell: But not for info about how to get to irc. Anyway I do think the irc chat button is cool18:11
JanCI think most people who really need a webchat have JavaScript enabled18:12
JanCand often don't know how to disable it...18:13
JanCor know how to re-enable18:13
doctormoJanC: Consider someone who is an expert god of the command line. How will they know what that icon means, how does it translate to a specific irc name18:14
doctormothat they can manually get to.18:14
JanChm, good point, maybe the icon should link to a separate page that includes the correct info18:17
JanCso make sure it points to such a page by default, and if JavaScript is enabled you can still do something different?18:19
JanC(replace the link target with some action when JavaScript is enabled)18:20
AlanBellalt="IRC Channel (#ubuntu-uk)" title="IRC Channel (#ubuntu-uk)"18:51
AlanBell^^ that is how18:51
AlanBellI am totally up for making it better18:53
JanCAlanBell: for peopel who don't see/read alt/title, make it a link with a href to a page that lists the info?19:00
AlanBelldoes <a href="irc:#ubuntu-uk"> have any merit in doing? Does that ever work?19:02
JanCAlanBell: only works in some browsers/systems, better link to a web page that has text (and maybe an irc: link for those with a browser+system that supports it)19:04
JanCnot to mention you would also need to include the server19:04
AlanBellyeah, whatever the syntax is supposed to be19:04
AlanBellirc://irc.freenode.org/ubuntu-uk19:05
JanCit's disabled by default in Firefox IIRC19:05
JanCbut enabled when you install ChatZilla19:05
AlanBellactually kind of works in chromium, launches xchat for me19:05
AlanBellnot sure it would work with empathy19:06
JanCdepends on a combination of browser support and MIME/url registrations19:06
AlanBellthis is a cool feature btw: http://ubuntu-uk.org/todays-chatter/19:06
AlanBellthat would be good to get in loco directory, it always embeds *todays* log for the channel19:07
AlanBelland we have this as the embedded webchat http://ubuntu-uk.org/join-the-conversation/19:07
AlanBellI see webchat as a basic introductory IRC client that will just work in a browser when you happen to arrive, then you get hooked and we start giving out the hard crack19:08
JanCwell, not too much chatter on the ubuntu-be channel outside meetings, so maybe less useful for us  ;)19:08
JanCthe "todays chatter" I mean19:09
AlanBelltrue, ours is a chatty place every day19:09
JanCand I agree that I consider web-chat mostly useful for "newbies"19:09
nigelbAlanBell: I'd +1 chattiness of #ubuntu-uk19:10
JanCalthough occasionally useful for others who are behind a proxy19:10
JanCor need to use somebody else's PC19:11
JanC#ubuntu-nl-offtopic is very chatty too, especially in the evening/night  ;)19:18
nigelbheya sense :)21:21
sensehey nigelb!21:22
senseHow're you doing?21:22
nigelbGood good.  How about you?21:22
duanedesignhello sense21:23
senseFine, had a busy period at school, but things have calmed down a bit now. Currently working on the reorganisation of Ubuntu Nederland.21:23
sensehi duanedesign21:23
duanedesignnigelb: how did your blog come across LinkedIn?21:23
nigelbduanedesign: wait, what?21:23
duanedesignnigelb: I got an email with a digest of different blogs from the Ubuntu Members on LinkedIn21:24
duanedesignnigelb: yours was one of them :)21:24
duanedesignIt was the 'Have an interesting project you want to talk about? | Working with Ubuntu' blog post21:25
nigelbduanedesign: I'm guessign that's synced with planet21:25
duanedesignhmm, interesting21:25
duanedesigncool, just curious if you did something special21:26
nigelbheh, no21:26
duanedesign:)21:26
jcastrohmmmm21:32
jcastrotmobile is giving away phones for valentines21:32
jcastroI am thinking of upgrading21:32
senseGiving away?21:32
jcastrowell, if I go back on contract21:33
senseah21:33
jcastroand they're not free free, they just make you pay more per month21:33
jcastroI am delightfully on a european-style plan21:33
senseI did hear bad stories about T-Mobile in the US, though I don't have any troubles with them here.21:33
sensejcastro: What's the difference between an European-style and an US-style plan? :)21:34
jcastrobut at $500 a pop an upgrade for me and my wife is like $1000 right up front, and that's brutal21:34
jcastroin the US the cell companies subsidize the phones21:34
sensehere too21:34
JanCso "giving away in exchange for a way too expensive contract"  :P21:34
sensePaying up front is only necessary for cheaper contracts.21:34
jcastroso like, my G1 was originally $199 + a 2 year contract21:34
jcastroJanC: yeah, I just need to do the math to figure out if it's worth it21:35
jcastrobut I know if I go there I'm going to get all excited when I play with a galaxy S21:35
JanCthey want to make more money, not less  ;)21:35
JanCjcastro: you can buy subsidized phones in Europe too, it's just cheaper (in the long run) if you pay for your phone immediately21:37
jcastroah21:37
JanCI'm pretty sure US phone companies work like that too  ;)21:38
macoim not sure about that21:38
jcastroI'm pretty sure we get screwed more21:38
JanCmaco: I doubt they give free credit?21:38
nigelbI guessphone calls aer far less expensive for India than anywhere else ;)21:38
macoits like $60/mo if you want to setup a smartphone on tmobile that you bought elsewhere21:38
JanCmaco: heh21:39
macothats no cheaper than having a plan21:39
duanedesignjcastro: here there was a guy that waited 12 hours in front of a verizon store to get the iphone. When the store opened there were only two other people there to get the phone. I lol'd hard21:39
JanCso phone companies prefer to pre-finance your phone (and having to pay intrests themselves) over you doing so?21:40
* JanC thought the US was a capitalist country... :-/21:40
jcastroour telco carriers are pretty backwards21:41
senseThe first contract I can find that doesn't require an up-front fee for the Galaxy S would be € 36,45 a month.21:42
senseGoogle says that is $49,2821:42
JanCsense: you mean a telco-financed phone?21:43
senseyes21:43
JanCand how long does that contract run (minimum)21:43
JanC2 years probably?21:43
senseyep21:43
senseFor one year there is always an up-front fee.21:44
JanCso that's 874,8 € for a Galaxy S, without doing any calls, or do you get any free calls?  ;)21:45
jcastrothe thing is, the phones rev so fast it doesn't seem to make sense to do such an  upfront expense21:45
senseThe cheapest two-year contract is € 21,45($29,00) a month, with an start fee of € 232,00($313,64)21:45
senseJanC: that is calls, texting and web.21:46
* JanC has pre-paid, which costs me < 10 € / month, all calls included :P21:46
JanCno data though21:46
JanCI could get data for 5€ extar or so21:46
senseI've got a very cheap Nokia 6300 with a €6,95/month two-year text-and-voice-only contract.21:46
senseGood enough for now, the contract will end once I start at uni.21:47
paultagI am livid right now. I did a site for someone, and it came out good. I'm no hack, I know when something's good. I just got a *text* telling me to pull it because it looks "bad"21:47
JanCsense: but 6.95 € doesn't include phone calles etc. I guess?21:47
nigelbpaultag: WHAT!21:47
paultagnigelb: yeah. I'm not cheep, either.21:47
senseJanC: Of course, that's what you've got a contract for, for calls and texting.21:47
sensepaultag: That is not nice.21:48
JanCsense: not in .be21:48
paultagsense: yeah, I'm not stoked.21:48
senseThat's not how you treat people who do something for you.21:48
JanCyou get some amount for free21:48
senseof coruse21:48
paultagsense: that's the last time I help out family21:48
macopaultag: oh family's always like that21:48
macoexpect special treatment and extra discounts21:49
nigelbpaultag: never do buisness with family.21:49
macoand think they can push you around21:49
macoyeah, what nigelb said21:49
paultagmaco: it's exteded, so it's just far away enough to where we're not buddies21:49
senseNot always. I did a site for a family member, didn't turn out as bad as what you're describing.21:49
paultagmaco: I've met them like twice before, and my mom was the one to ask me, it's really odd21:49
jcastropaultag: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell21:49
jcastrothis will make you feel better21:49
paultagjcastro: +1 on that21:49
paultagjcastro: that is *exactly* where I see this going21:50
nigelbpaultag: also, http://clientsfromhell.net/ will help21:50
paultagjcastro: so I'm cutting my losses and bailing21:50
JanCpaultag: and now you mom will get the flack from both sides...  ;)21:50
jcastropaultag: smart man21:50
paultagJanC: +1 there21:50
czajkowskiI'm well chuffed http://www.osor.eu/news/uk-government-committed-to-open-source21:50
jcastrodo the next poor sap a favor and send that link to the guy21:50
JanCczajkowski: nice, doing a lightning talk and getting media attention  ;)21:51
paultagheh21:51
czajkowskiaye21:51
JanCand I think osor.eu is relevant media for EU government stuff21:52
senseOSOR is the right place for this, I believe.21:53
JanCgovernment IT departments all over the EU follow that21:53
senseczajkowski: Congratulations on getting mentioned there!21:53
czajkowskithanks21:53
JanCnot all of them, but some of them at least21:53
czajkowskiturns out I speak VERY fast21:53
czajkowski:s21:53
JanCI know FedICT do21:54
JanCczajkowski: for a lightning talk that's okay  ;)21:54
czajkowskiI finished early21:54
czajkowski:)21:54
czajkowskithen had 6 questions21:54
JanCnice21:54
czajkowskithen went and drank a lot of beer!!21:54
JanClol21:54
nigelbpaultag: Web 2.0 is one word I *HATE* hearing right now21:55
JanCand ate chocolate I hope  ;)21:55
czajkowskioh yes21:55
czajkowskiI did a lot of that21:55
paultagnigelb: dude, I'm not happy with them right now, at all. I don't want to hear anything web, at all21:55
paultagThat's the last time I do web work, that's for sure.21:55
czajkowskipaultag: oh cranky tag21:56
czajkowski:p21:56
nigelbpaultag: /nick crabbytag? ;)21:56
paultagczajkowski: no, not cranky tag21:56
paultagczajkowski: I got screwed, it's not my fault this time21:56
czajkowskipaultag: I deal with muppets for you shall I21:57
czajkowskiI need a good old rant at something/one21:57
paultagczajkowski: they're my extended family, and they had me do a website for them. I just got a text saying to take it down because it was "bad"21:57
czajkowski*mutters*21:59
czajkowskisee I've a rule. no work for family.21:59
czajkowskinever lets me down21:59
paultagczajkowski: and it was most certenly not bad, it was work that I stand by, and I don't stand by crap, that's for shit sure21:59
paultagI'd delay and rewrite before I'd give someone crap21:59
czajkowskiindeed21:59
paultagyeah, no more web, and no more family after this21:59
czajkowskisafest22:00
JanC"bad" might mean "not my style"22:09
paultag"hi paul   is there any way to turn off the web page. Its not what we wanted and does not look good"22:09
paultagJanC: that's the text, verbatum22:09
paultagBRB, going to drink wine22:09
JanCpaultag: maybe you'll need something stronger?  :P22:10
nigelbJanC: +122:10
Pendulumpaultag: wine is far too weak for that22:10
JanCOTOH, becoming honest might not fare well among family  ;)22:11
AlanBellpaultag: go get a drink and contemplate what you might put on the website now, if you were evil22:14
paultagAlanBell: yeah, yeah :P23:46
paultag+1 there JanC23:46
paultagPendulum: +1 :)23:46
* JanC sends paultag a Belgian beer over IRC :P23:58
JanCsay, a Cookie Beer ?  ;)23:58

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