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Robdgreatok.19:49
Robdgreathey kellnola19:57
kellnolaum, yeah?19:57
kellnolais this a Louisiana channel, specifically?\19:58
Robdgreatyeah19:59
kellnolathere must be at least 5 or 6 debian/ubuntu nerds in LA!19:59
kellnolawhere are you from Rob?19:59
RobdgreatI'm in Metairie19:59
kellnolaNew Orleans here19:59
RobdgreatI figured :)19:59
kellnola:)20:00
Robdgreatr2d2rogers is in Monroe, I think DaCeige is in the nola area20:00
kellnolatho I've met some Houma linux nerds here and there20:00
kellnolaMONROE!20:00
kellnolayou poor thing!20:00
Robdgreatthis channel's been pretty dormant for a good while, though I'd love to see that change20:00
kellnolathere are precious few unix, let alone linux jobs here. It's painful, cause I know NONE of us want to leave20:01
Robdgreatyeah I'm looking at a primarily windows server-related job20:01
kellnolabummer20:02
kellnolawindows server isn't so bad these days20:02
RobdgreatI just got out of a dev job in a mac shop20:02
kellnolawindows desktop --- yikes20:02
Robdgreateh. I run 7 at home20:02
RobdgreatI just fired my ubuntu box back up yesterday20:02
kellnolahell I've been strictly linux since 1995 or so (personally, on my desktop)20:03
RobdgreatI came to the conclusion a while back that life's too short to hardcore OS bash20:03
RobdgreatI actually enjoyed using mac20:03
Robdgreatbut it's much more unix-like than windows is20:04
kellnolayeah but windows raises my blood pressure. I'm  not young anymore20:04
RobdgreatI'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 room20:05
kellnolaafter 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 days20:05
Robdgreatdue to the logging bot, we try to watch the language in here20:06
* Robdgreat nods to locobot_4 20:06
kellnolaerm, excuse me20:06
Robdgreat:)20:06
kellnolaso, how do we push desktop / general linux usage these days? I really think it is a no-brainer for most small companies20:07
kellnolayet they are resistant to the end20:08
RobdgreatThat's something I regrettably haven't had the spare cycles to devote to in a little while20:08
kellnolaSeriously, open office is pretty much on par with MS office now, there are plenty of alternatives to MS Exchange, etc.20:09
Robdgreatagreed20:09
RobdgreatI've been interested in more arcane systems recently20:10
kellnolaI mean really, Ubuntu is a wonderful desktop by anyone's standards.20:10
kellnolalike? Xerox PARC? LOL20:10
Robdgreatc6420:11
kellnolaOMFG20:11
Robdgreatya rly20:11
kellnolayou are hardcore20:11
RobdgreatI missed out the first time around, and my recent interest was piqued from a music composition standpoint20:11
kellnolaI vaguely remember writing programs that drew geometric shapes for C64 in high school20:11
kellnolamusic?20:11
Robdgreatyeah, that's what keeps the C64 somewhat relevant to this day20:12
kellnolaUbuntu / Debian has awesome music programs ... ever looked at Solfege?20:12
Robdgreatit did have the most sophisticated consumer sound chip ever developed20:12
Robdgreatit's the standard for 8-bit music20:12
kellnolaI wish there had been something like Solfege when I was a music major20:13
kellnolayou must have missed the Amiga20:14
RobdgreatI did20:14
kellnolaAmiga was way ahead of it's time20:14
kellnolapopular around 1991-9420:15
Robdgreatthat was my understanding20:15
Robdgreatyeah I know about it, I just missed out the first time20:15
RobdgreatI do have an emulator, though20:15
Robdgreatand I want to get my hands on a1200 or so20:15
kellnolayou can get any of that on ebay I'm sure20:15
Robdgreatoh sure20:15
Robdgreatbut not necessarily for a cost I can justify at this time20:16
kellnolabut at this point it's just nostalgic20:16
Robdgreatthere's still a thriving c64 demoscene20:16
kellnolareally?20:16
Robdgreatgranted, it's very predominantly european20:16
Robdgreatmy understanding is the amiga scene is smaller20:17
kellnolaas a desktop user I'm mostly into video, but the linux offerings, while feature-wise are OK, they tend to crash all the time20:17
kellnolaOpenShot and Pittivi in particular20:18
kellnolawhere do you work Rob?20:19
Robdgreatdoh20:27

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