| Robdgreat | ok. | 19:49 |
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| Robdgreat | hey kellnola | 19:57 |
| kellnola | um, yeah? | 19:57 |
| kellnola | is this a Louisiana channel, specifically?\ | 19:58 |
| Robdgreat | yeah | 19:59 |
| kellnola | there must be at least 5 or 6 debian/ubuntu nerds in LA! | 19:59 |
| kellnola | where are you from Rob? | 19:59 |
| Robdgreat | I'm in Metairie | 19:59 |
| kellnola | New Orleans here | 19:59 |
| Robdgreat | I figured :) | 19:59 |
| kellnola | :) | 20:00 |
| Robdgreat | r2d2rogers is in Monroe, I think DaCeige is in the nola area | 20:00 |
| kellnola | tho I've met some Houma linux nerds here and there | 20:00 |
| kellnola | MONROE! | 20:00 |
| kellnola | you poor thing! | 20:00 |
| Robdgreat | this channel's been pretty dormant for a good while, though I'd love to see that change | 20:00 |
| kellnola | there are precious few unix, let alone linux jobs here. It's painful, cause I know NONE of us want to leave | 20:01 |
| Robdgreat | yeah I'm looking at a primarily windows server-related job | 20:01 |
| kellnola | bummer | 20:02 |
| kellnola | windows server isn't so bad these days | 20:02 |
| Robdgreat | I just got out of a dev job in a mac shop | 20:02 |
| kellnola | windows desktop --- yikes | 20:02 |
| Robdgreat | eh. I run 7 at home | 20:02 |
| Robdgreat | I just fired my ubuntu box back up yesterday | 20:02 |
| kellnola | hell I've been strictly linux since 1995 or so (personally, on my desktop) | 20:03 |
| Robdgreat | I came to the conclusion a while back that life's too short to hardcore OS bash | 20:03 |
| Robdgreat | I actually enjoyed using mac | 20:03 |
| Robdgreat | but it's much more unix-like than windows is | 20:04 |
| kellnola | yeah but windows raises my blood pressure. I'm not young anymore | 20:04 |
| Robdgreat | I'm actually running a virtualized Plan 9 environment within ubuntu x-forwarded to windows 7 on my desktop to which I'm remoted in from my vista laptop in the other room | 20:05 |
| kellnola | after ten years at a strictly unix gig (MMS), I'm at a company that does a lot of small client windows type service. I'm fucking lost with windows these days | 20:05 |
| Robdgreat | due to the logging bot, we try to watch the language in here | 20:06 |
| * Robdgreat nods to locobot_4 | 20:06 | |
| kellnola | erm, excuse me | 20:06 |
| Robdgreat | :) | 20:06 |
| kellnola | so, how do we push desktop / general linux usage these days? I really think it is a no-brainer for most small companies | 20:07 |
| kellnola | yet they are resistant to the end | 20:08 |
| Robdgreat | That's something I regrettably haven't had the spare cycles to devote to in a little while | 20:08 |
| kellnola | Seriously, open office is pretty much on par with MS office now, there are plenty of alternatives to MS Exchange, etc. | 20:09 |
| Robdgreat | agreed | 20:09 |
| Robdgreat | I've been interested in more arcane systems recently | 20:10 |
| kellnola | I mean really, Ubuntu is a wonderful desktop by anyone's standards. | 20:10 |
| kellnola | like? Xerox PARC? LOL | 20:10 |
| Robdgreat | c64 | 20:11 |
| kellnola | OMFG | 20:11 |
| Robdgreat | ya rly | 20:11 |
| kellnola | you are hardcore | 20:11 |
| Robdgreat | I missed out the first time around, and my recent interest was piqued from a music composition standpoint | 20:11 |
| kellnola | I vaguely remember writing programs that drew geometric shapes for C64 in high school | 20:11 |
| kellnola | music? | 20:11 |
| Robdgreat | yeah, that's what keeps the C64 somewhat relevant to this day | 20:12 |
| kellnola | Ubuntu / Debian has awesome music programs ... ever looked at Solfege? | 20:12 |
| Robdgreat | it did have the most sophisticated consumer sound chip ever developed | 20:12 |
| Robdgreat | it's the standard for 8-bit music | 20:12 |
| kellnola | I wish there had been something like Solfege when I was a music major | 20:13 |
| kellnola | you must have missed the Amiga | 20:14 |
| Robdgreat | I did | 20:14 |
| kellnola | Amiga was way ahead of it's time | 20:14 |
| kellnola | popular around 1991-94 | 20:15 |
| Robdgreat | that was my understanding | 20:15 |
| Robdgreat | yeah I know about it, I just missed out the first time | 20:15 |
| Robdgreat | I do have an emulator, though | 20:15 |
| Robdgreat | and I want to get my hands on a1200 or so | 20:15 |
| kellnola | you can get any of that on ebay I'm sure | 20:15 |
| Robdgreat | oh sure | 20:15 |
| Robdgreat | but not necessarily for a cost I can justify at this time | 20:16 |
| kellnola | but at this point it's just nostalgic | 20:16 |
| Robdgreat | there's still a thriving c64 demoscene | 20:16 |
| kellnola | really? | 20:16 |
| Robdgreat | granted, it's very predominantly european | 20:16 |
| Robdgreat | my understanding is the amiga scene is smaller | 20:17 |
| kellnola | as a desktop user I'm mostly into video, but the linux offerings, while feature-wise are OK, they tend to crash all the time | 20:17 |
| kellnola | OpenShot and Pittivi in particular | 20:18 |
| kellnola | where do you work Rob? | 20:19 |
| Robdgreat | doh | 20:27 |
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