[00:00] <robho-neo> hey guys
[00:01] <robho-neo> anyone on that typically attends the Akron Ubuntu Hour? Have a co-worker that is interested in coming, but wants to make sure his drive is worth it
[00:01] <Cheri703> I go to the mansfield one :)
[00:02] <robho-neo> we're just trying to get a feel for what goes on at the meeting
[00:03] <robho-neo> We're discussing going to the one next week, we're both going to the NEOISF meeting in Independence tomorrow night
[00:03] <robho-neo> brb
[00:18] <robho-neo> back for a few
[00:19] <robho-neo> Cheri, what do you folks do at the Mansfield Hour?
[00:24] <Cheri703> we just hang out and chat, various stuff, sometimes ubuntu, sometimes computers in general, if someone has a question or issue we'll help out. we're a SMALL group right now
[00:54] <TheErk> Greetings programs!
[00:57] <Unit193> Hey TheErk!
[01:03] <TheErk> Hello Unit193 .  How are you functioning?
[01:03] <Cheri703> TheErk: how's things?
[01:04] <Unit193> TheErk: Not bad, playing a game...
[01:07] <robho-neo> hey TheErk Unit193 Cheri703
[01:07] <robho-neo> I did some digging on the ubuntu forums about the issue we were chatting about last night
[01:08] <Cheri703> yeah?
[01:08] <robho-neo> two common fixes I've seen have been to use Ionice and WICD
[01:09] <robho-neo> thoughts?
[01:10] <Cheri703> no clue
[01:10] <robho-neo> I was going to give it a go tonight when I get home from work, but have no idea what either of those do exactly (haven't had time to research it deeply)
[01:14] <Unit193> How did the LiveCD go?
[01:17] <robho-neo> Haven't had a chance to do that either
[01:17] <robho-neo> crummy work schedule is crummy
[01:17] <robho-neo> going to give that a go tonight as a matter of fact
[01:18] <robho-neo> something else I remembered after I logged off last night was: When performing a large file operation (like copying say, 10GB of data from an external HDD) the entire system slows to a crawl, is that normal?
[01:18] <robho-neo> that has happened on numerous fresh installs since 9.04
[01:29] <robho-neo> I'll touch base with you folks in an hour or so, leaving work now.
[01:46] <Cheri703> I'm going to be messing with partitions on my computer tonight...should be interesting...
[01:46] <TheErk> remove them
[01:46] <TheErk> you don't need em
[01:46] <TheErk> rm -vf *
[01:46] <TheErk> Fixes any issue
[01:47] <Cheri703> ha, no
[01:48] <Cheri703> going to dual boot with 10.10
[01:49] <TheErk> 10.10 and what?
[01:51] <Cheri703> 10.04
[01:52] <Cheri703> I use 10.04 generally, but need to familiarize myself with 10.10, as I'm going to be training some people, want to dual-boot because previously, when using 10.10, I had issues, so am being cautious
[01:53] <Unit193> Dang finch!
[03:01] <dmcglone> Hello
[03:04] <Cheri703> ah, 10.10
[03:07]  * canthus13 just got a 500GB hd for his lappy today... may install 10.10 to see how badly it breaks...
[03:09] <Cheri703> yeah, I made a separate partition for it, so we'll see how it goes
[03:14] <dmcglone> I'm trying to reserve the library room and it will not let me because I'm using firefox.. Dang it!!!
[03:17] <BiosElement> Fail
[03:17] <BiosElement> Reminds me, T-Mobile's site doesn't support "Safari"...it's chrome, not safari. :P
[03:17] <BiosElement> Yay for lame devs
[03:18] <canthus13> Doesn't support webkit.
[03:18] <canthus13> silly.
[03:19] <BiosElement> Yes, very.
[03:20] <BiosElement> I fired up konqueror, disabled the browserid and it worked fine :P
[03:20] <dmcglone> Well not only is the site giving me fits, I also forgot my library pin #
[03:21] <dmcglone> BiosElement: it all works until you go to register the room, then it fails
[03:21] <BiosElement> Fun fun
[03:22] <canthus13> Hmm.. mebbe I'll install Debian with my new drive instead...
[03:22] <dmcglone> have fun with that
[03:22] <canthus13> dmcglone: From what I've been reading, 10.04 and up have issues with the broadcom STA drivers.  I really don't want to deal with that.
[03:23] <dmcglone> I don't blame you
[03:44] <dmcglone> Ok I'm out. Catch you all tomorrow hopefully
[19:16] <robho-neo> afternoon folks
[19:17] <robho-neo> anyone have a sec to field a question?
[19:18] <BiosElement> Just ask it, it'll be quicker. ^_^
[19:18] <robho-neo> lol right on
[19:18] <robho-neo> picked up a Linksys E3000 router (my netgear bit it last night after I got home)
[19:18] <robho-neo> and here's my question: My board k9n2gm-fd supports Gig ethernet, the e3000 supports gig ethernet, but I can't figure out how to enable it in Ubuntu 10.10
[19:20] <BiosElement> I'm clueless however, did find this. Not sure how helpful it is. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=143982
[19:20] <robho-neo> my google-fu has been iffy today, lol
[19:22] <robho-neo> so it appears that all that is really needed is to change the MTU for the NIC to accept "jumbo frames"
[19:23] <BiosElement> Seems so. Again I claim ignorence heh
[19:23] <robho-neo> me too, that's why I came here to ask
[19:23] <robho-neo> perhaps I should hop into the Ubuntu support IRC to be safe, lol
[19:24] <BiosElement> They might be more helpful
[19:25] <BiosElement> Most of the intelligent folks around here are off at work :P
[19:25] <robho-neo> yeah, I have the day off, lol
[19:25] <robho-neo> aight, well, thanks Bios
[19:25] <robho-neo> wanna get this stuff up and running real soon so I can play some WoW before I head off to the NEOISF meeting
[19:25] <robho-neo> thanks for the hel
[19:25] <robho-neo> help*
[19:26] <BiosElement> Yep. ^_^
[21:49] <thafreak> Finally! I installed the block domains extension in chrome...now I can prevent experts-exchange from showing up in search results!
[21:51] <Cheri703> heh
[21:54] <BiosElement> LOL thafreak
[21:54] <BiosElement> That's the FIRST site I added
[21:55] <BiosElement> Next was scribd
[22:02] <thafreak> seriously, why bother showing it to me in results if I can only see the info if I pay $
[22:02] <thafreak> mega dumb
[22:02] <BiosElement> Because some people will pay
[22:02] <thafreak> canthus13: hey, I got my pogoplug...I think I know why it hasn't been reported to have heat issues...
[22:03] <thafreak> it's relatively large
[22:03] <thafreak> but, the built in software/service is actually pretty neat...
[22:07] <Unit193> You don't *have* to pay for experts-exchange... just set your UA to google bot and go to the end of the page...
[22:09] <canthus13> thafreak: Nice. :)
[22:09] <canthus13> Anyone know how to get wicd to show up in the notification area?
[22:16] <canthus13> bah. I got it up for the moment... dunno if it'll keep working after a reboot, though.
[22:22] <canthus13> Not liking the crap speeds I get from this new wireless card. :(
[22:27] <Cheri703> hooray for GIANT shipping boxes for just a keyboard!
[22:29] <canthus13> Heh.
[22:36] <Cheri703> seriously, like 2'x3'x1', a bunch of brown paper, and A KEYBOARD in a retail box...not even a keyboard/mouse combo -_-
[22:59] <Cheri703> Trying to decide between using the HP recovery partition (that puts a TON of crap/bloatware/whatever on) or just doing a clean generic install of xp home for a client's computer...
[23:50] <Unit193> I take it you can't use Pro? (use the CD)
[23:51] <Cheri703> well...could...I'm contemplating that as well...
[23:53] <Unit193> I guess if it has a home sticker...
[23:55] <Cheri703> eh, we'll see