| munz_werk | morning | 13:17 |
|---|---|---|
| crashsystems | Good morning Florida. It must be a sane hour to be awake there, isn't it? | 13:31 |
| munz_werk | mornin crashsystems | 13:32 |
| crashsystems | hello | 13:33 |
| mhall119 | crashsystems: have you not slept yet? | 13:34 |
| crashsystems | no | 13:35 |
| crashsystems | I gave up and went to starbucks. got here just a minute ago | 13:36 |
| crashsystems | on the plus side, I'm in san fran, which is fun | 13:39 |
| DammitJim | morning | 13:42 |
| crashsystems | hello | 13:42 |
| dantalizing | morning | 13:44 |
| DammitJim | any of you on Tmobile? | 13:44 |
| DammitJim | dantalizing, are you running boxee at home? | 13:45 |
| crashsystems | I am | 13:45 |
| dantalizing | tmo ftw | 13:45 |
| crashsystems | on tmo, that is | 13:45 |
| crashsystems | I'm not liking tmo in SF | 13:45 |
| DammitJim | why not, crashsystems ? no 4G? | 13:45 |
| dantalizing | DammitJim: yes running boxee, but primarily use xbmc | 13:45 |
| crashsystems | I go into any building that does not have ample windows, and no reception | 13:45 |
| DammitJim | dantalizing, how do you use both? | 13:45 |
| DammitJim | oh, right, crashsystems that's a problem even here in Lake mary | 13:45 |
| dantalizing | DammitJim: quit the app and start the next | 13:46 |
| crashsystems | I don't get any reception at home in sunnyvale. fortunately I use wifi to make calls there | 13:46 |
| dantalizing | mmm ... kineto | 13:46 |
| DammitJim | dantalizing, so you are running just ubuntu as the os? | 13:47 |
| DammitJim | I mean... not the xbmc build | 13:47 |
| DammitJim | what ISP do you have out there, then, crashsystems ? | 13:47 |
| crashsystems | comcast | 13:47 |
| dantalizing | DammitJim: yes | 13:47 |
| dantalizing | DammitJim: i used the xmbc live iso from usb to install xbmc, then added boxee | 13:48 |
| DammitJim | how does that work, dantalizing ? can you just quit xbmc and then where does it go? | 13:49 |
| dantalizing | just goes to the user desktop | 13:49 |
| DammitJim | I'm really considering doing the xbmc install like yours but because of the remote control features | 13:49 |
| dantalizing | i like the android remotes | 13:50 |
| dantalizing | they're cool | 13:50 |
| dantalizing | the xbmc one has been flakey for me since the last update ... but still cool | 13:50 |
| DammitJim | android remotes for what? | 13:50 |
| DammitJim | boxee and xbmc? | 13:51 |
| dantalizing | the android xbmc & boxee remote apps | 13:51 |
| dantalizing | personally i prefer the wiimote plugin for xbmc though | 13:51 |
| DammitJim | I guess for those you have to have the latest version of xbmc and stuff | 13:51 |
| DammitJim | I like the RF remote I currently have, but there are times when the app closes and I have no way to restart it LOL | 13:52 |
| dantalizing | really? | 13:52 |
| dantalizing | how did you install? | 13:52 |
| crashsystems | there are IR remotes you can get that work great with boxee/ubuntu | 13:53 |
| dantalizing | someday i want to get them working with my harmony remote | 13:54 |
| DammitJim | dantalizing, you can! all you need is an IR to usb adapter | 13:55 |
| dantalizing | supposedly its just a media center remote to boxee/xbmc, but i've not gone back to try it | 13:55 |
| DammitJim | dantalizing, yeah, I bought a media center remote, but don't use the remote LOL | 13:55 |
| dantalizing | are you using the harmony remote with it? | 13:55 |
| DammitJim | the good thing about the remote is that I "taught" the RF one from the IR one... so that was easy | 13:55 |
| DammitJim | no, I have the Universal RF-20... it's old, but it does the job | 13:55 |
| dantalizing | oh thats right you have the rv | 13:56 |
| dantalizing | *rf | 13:56 |
| crashsystems | http://crashsystems.net/2010/01/streamzap-boxee-ubuntu/ | 13:56 |
| dantalizing | someday when i grow up i'll sit down and do that | 13:56 |
| dantalizing | i've been holding off until i get my new dedicated machine | 13:57 |
| dantalizing | my asrock | 13:57 |
| dantalizing | still ...waiting ... | 13:57 |
| dantalizing | crashsystems: does taht just come with a dongle and a remote? | 13:58 |
| DammitJim | your ass rocks? what? | 13:58 |
| DammitJim | dedicated machine for what? | 13:58 |
| crashsystems | its not a dongle, but it is a usb device | 13:58 |
| crashsystems | and it has the remote too | 13:58 |
| crashsystems | it has a usb rf reader on the end of a cord, so you can put it wherever you want, and not have to aim the remote at the back of your computer. | 13:59 |
| dantalizing | DammitJim: http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Dual-Core-Atom-Wireless/dp/B002WP4AZC/ref=sr_1_cc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1297692060&sr=1-1-catcorr | 14:01 |
| dantalizing | dedicated machine for xbmc/boxee | 14:01 |
| DammitJim | oh | 14:01 |
| DammitJim | that's the guy that is super power efficient? | 14:01 |
| DammitJim | dammit... I have to remember to bring the cleaning duster home today to blow all the crap out of my server vents | 14:02 |
| dantalizing | its a dual core atom, so its semi-power efficient, and it has the nvidia ion, so itll do hd video decently | 14:02 |
| crashsystems | This is the one i set up for a media center pc: http://www.system76.com/product_info.php?cPath=27&products_id=95 | 14:02 |
| dantalizing | mainly i want something small and quiet | 14:02 |
| DammitJim | dantalizing, I was looking for you the other night and sorry for jumping subjects... do you still use mint? | 14:03 |
| crashsystems | bloody osx has messed up my ctrl-c / ctrl-v reflexes. | 14:03 |
| DammitJim | lol | 14:03 |
| dantalizing | DammitJim: yes | 14:03 |
| dantalizing | crashsystems: is taht machine quiet? | 14:03 |
| dantalizing | and how well does it do hd? | 14:04 |
| crashsystems | IIRC it is fairly quiet. I only ever heard it when the room was silent. If a movie is playing, I didn't hear it. | 14:04 |
| crashsystems | IIRC it did hd well. didn't have much hd to test on it though. | 14:05 |
| dantalizing | i always run big buck bunny and elephants dream as tests | 14:05 |
| crashsystems | as a side note, i recently heard that boxee can play DVD ISO files. | 14:06 |
| DammitJim | my asus machine is loud as heck... but that's the fan problem i need to clean | 14:07 |
| dantalizing | i wish the boxee people would give all the "apps" to xbmc | 14:07 |
| dantalizing | the only reason i use boxee is for the "apps" | 14:07 |
| DammitJim | +1 dantalizing | 14:07 |
| DammitJim | dantalizing, on mint, do you know if there is a way to "reconcile" each transaction? | 14:07 |
| DammitJim | I finally gave up and signed up for it | 14:07 |
| crashsystems | I'll be happy once google tv goes open source | 14:07 |
| dantalizing | for normal local media browsing i use xbmc | 14:07 |
| dantalizing | crashsystems: +1 | 14:08 |
| DammitJim | but we like to check that our receipts match the bank | 14:08 |
| crashsystems | google tv + an app for managing local media collections + an app for doing dvr would be epic | 14:08 |
| dantalizing | DammitJim: never did that | 14:08 |
| dantalizing | DammitJim: we never use checks :) | 14:08 |
| DammitJim | no, no checks | 14:08 |
| DammitJim | receipts | 14:08 |
| crashsystems | of course, also a user agent switcher app so you could actually watch online tv with it | 14:08 |
| DammitJim | I've had times when a restaurant charged me more for tips for example | 14:09 |
| dantalizing | crashsystems: yes, myth's dvr functionality +xbmc +gtv = win | 14:09 |
| dantalizing | DammitJim: nice | 14:09 |
| DammitJim | dantalizing, but you don't know of a way for doing this? | 14:09 |
| dantalizing | i've never tried to go back and verify | 14:09 |
| dantalizing | i mean ... i do | 14:09 |
| crashsystems | I get using myth in there, but what woud xbmc be doing in that mix? | 14:09 |
| dantalizing | but not the way you're looking for | 14:10 |
| dantalizing | crashsystems: i like the ui | 14:10 |
| * crashsystems has a hard time typing with =~ 24 hours without sleep. | 14:10 | |
| DammitJim | dantalizing, how do you verify, then? I'm not criticizing... just trying to understand other ways of doing this | 14:10 |
| crashsystems | at least miserably failing at typing feels quite nice on a thinkpad | 14:10 |
| DammitJim | lately it seems that doing this budget thing is way too complicated and it shouldn't | 14:10 |
| dantalizing | DammitJim: basically all i do is pull out my receipts and find them in mint to make sure they're the same | 14:11 |
| DammitJim | ok, but you don't explicitly mark them on mint | 14:11 |
| dantalizing | DammitJim: or more often, i see something in mint that I dont recognize or that doesnt look right, and i go dig for the receipt | 14:11 |
| DammitJim | that's all, right? | 14:11 |
| dantalizing | correct | 14:11 |
| DammitJim | I mean... if for some reason you don't have a receipt, then it just doesn't get compared | 14:12 |
| dantalizing | right | 14:12 |
| dantalizing | i cant believe there wouldnt be a reconcile function | 14:12 |
| DammitJim | dantalizing, that's what I was struggling Saturday night with | 14:13 |
| DammitJim | there probably is, but I don't know how to search LOL | 14:13 |
| DammitJim | I was even wondering if like Bank of America's reconcile field would reflect on mint, but it doesn't | 14:14 |
| dantalizing | i'm just looking at the mint help and all i see is people asking for that | 14:14 |
| DammitJim | but then that'd be double work | 14:14 |
| DammitJim | ok, then I didn't search wrong | 14:14 |
| DammitJim | dammit... maybe I should just buy quicken | 14:14 |
| crashsystems | BoA truncates passwords to 20 characters. | 14:14 |
| DammitJim | dammit! | 14:15 |
| dantalizing | intuit owns both ... maybe they'll "fix" mint someday | 14:15 |
| DammitJim | but that's why you have to verify your image with the image description LOL | 14:15 |
| DammitJim | man, for the 5 bucks I might be missing for not reconciling, it's probably not worth my time | 14:15 |
| dantalizing | bank of america is evil | 14:16 |
| dantalizing | they're the at&t of banking | 14:16 |
| dantalizing | only worse | 14:16 |
| DammitJim | LOL | 14:16 |
| DammitJim | so, last topic I had to ask you guys | 14:16 |
| dantalizing | its off topic monday! | 14:16 |
| DammitJim | I went to a T-mobile store on Friday and they totally screwed up my account | 14:17 |
| dantalizing | who can fix my auto insurance? | 14:17 |
| DammitJim | it took them 3.5 hours to fix it | 14:17 |
| DammitJim | should I file a complaint? I missed 4.5 hours of work because of that | 14:17 |
| DammitJim | and at the end of the day, I never got a new free phone and my account now says I can't upgrade my phones for another 2 years, even though everything is "back to normal" | 14:17 |
| DammitJim | ... ironically enough... as I waited for them to fix my account, I was standing right next to a J.D. Power & Associates sign that said: "The customer is always right. T-mobile ranked highest for customer service" | 14:19 |
| DammitJim | wth? | 14:19 |
| dantalizing | i've always had great service from tmo | 14:20 |
| DammitJim | me, too... oh, one note... this wasn't a true t-mobile store... it was one of those in the middle of the mall | 14:20 |
| dantalizing | not sure who you can complain to | 14:21 |
| dantalizing | try to escalate with custemer service? | 14:21 |
| DammitJim | when I went to the actual t-mobile store, they helped me | 14:21 |
| DammitJim | yeah, maybe that's all I can do | 14:21 |
| DammitJim | just inform them of the bad customer service at that store | 14:21 |
| DammitJim | I would hate for someone else to go through this | 14:22 |
| dantalizing | i never trust those middle of the mall phone stores | 14:22 |
| dantalizing | smita lost her phone once, and one of those places wanted to charge me $25 for a new sim (we had another phone) ... i went to the tmo store and they gave us the replacement sim for free | 14:22 |
| DammitJim | me neither, but the real t-mobile store was packed because of the "free phone deal" and the island seemed to be a tru t-mobiile store | 14:22 |
| DammitJim | they did? the true tmo store wanted $20, but a friend gave me his | 14:23 |
| DammitJim | it's weird... none of my upgrade phone boxes had a sim card... it's like they keep them | 14:23 |
| reya276 | Morning Everyone | 14:39 |
| munz_werk | morning | 14:42 |
| crashsystems | hello | 14:42 |
| dantalizing | morning reya276 | 16:01 |
| reya276 | hey | 16:01 |
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