| Cheri703 | http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2011/02/24/how-watson-could-have-been-defeated-on-jeopardy/ | 02:28 |
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| Unit193 | Win | 02:49 |
| Cheri703 | heh | 02:49 |
| Unit193 | The "An Update is Available For Your Computer" one is so true.... | 03:01 |
| Cheri703 | yeah :) | 03:04 |
| Unit193 | How often do you check for Linux updates? | 03:04 |
| Cheri703 | it pops up on occasion | 03:05 |
| * Unit193 Forgot that there is an update GUI that pops up.... | 03:06 | |
| * Cheri703 is starting a fresh install of xp pro on a new hdd for a client. wasn't able to recover data from the old one :( | 03:10 | |
| Cheri703 | but it's money :) I've got a few more jobs lined up as well :) | 03:10 |
| Cheri703 | It feels like the weekend because tomorrow is the first day this week that I don't have anything specific scheduled | 03:49 |
| * canthus13 apt-get updates and apt-get upgrades obsessively. | 03:51 | |
| * Unit193 tries not to do it more then once a day... | 03:51 | |
| Cheri703 | like I am when tracking shipments? refresh....refresh....refresh....refresh | 03:52 |
| Unit193 | I don't do it more then once a day anymore :) | 03:52 |
| canthus13 | Cheri703: Speaking of shipments... my skullcandy earbuds still haven't shown up. I *HATE* the hybrid UPS/USPS delivery crap. :( | 03:52 |
| Cheri703 | :( yeah, me too | 03:52 |
| Cheri703 | pick one! | 03:52 |
| canthus13 | they supposedly were handed off to the USPS on the 19th... | 03:52 |
| Cheri703 | dang! | 03:52 |
| canthus13 | they still haven't shown up. :( | 03:52 |
| canthus13 | Meanwhile, my wireless card I ordered 2 days ago showed up today from San Jose. | 03:53 |
| Cheri703 | this stupid computer has weird front usb issues | 03:53 |
| canthus13 | swap the back and front USB headers and see if the problems migrate to the back. | 03:54 |
| canthus13 | if they do, it's a motherboard issue. if they don't, it's a connector issue. that can be swapped out. :) | 03:55 |
| Cheri703 | might, but it only occurred after hp's chipset update -_- so going to roll back, or just reinstall (was the first update installed) | 03:58 |
| Cheri703 | freaking microsoft | 03:58 |
| Cheri703 | freaking hp | 03:58 |
| canthus13 | Heh. | 03:59 |
| * canthus13 is about to replace the wireless card in his wife's HP laptop. | 03:59 | |
| Cheri703 | canthus13: do you know at what point your headphones were handed over to usps? i.e. ohio or? | 04:00 |
| canthus13 | Yeah. right here in Toledo. :( | 04:03 |
| Cheri703 | I'd say at this point, it's time to call your local post office about it | 04:04 |
| canthus13 | I'm gonna. | 04:05 |
| Cheri703 | well, good! you should! | 04:05 |
| * canthus13 just hasn't had time with all the extra hours he's been working. :P | 04:06 | |
| Cheri703 | mmhm | 04:06 |
| Cheri703 | I hate having to call the post office | 04:06 |
| Cheri703 | in columbus it was HORRIBLE | 04:06 |
| Cheri703 | I've been getting all sorts of shipments lately, our ups guy comes at a fairly predictable time, but our mail can be anywhere from 10am to 4pm :/ | 04:13 |
| Cheri703 | (ups is between 5 and 6) :/ | 04:14 |
| canthus13 | USPS is the same here.. anywhere from 9am to 7pm. | 04:15 |
| Cheri703 | freaking usps | 04:17 |
| Cheri703 | and so starts the 35 rounds of windows updates on a new install -_- | 04:17 |
| canthus13 | Cheri703: Have fun with that. | 04:19 |
| Cheri703 | oh, always | 04:19 |
| Cheri703 | ooo, random thing: | 04:19 |
| Cheri703 | I had to call tech support for my client's dsl account today, and I was asking the guy if the tech who was going to come would freak out if it was not-windows on the computer, and he asked what it had, I mentioned ubuntu, and turns out, he was a big ubuntu user | 04:19 |
| Cheri703 | he's in orlando though, I told him to look up his loco | 04:20 |
| canthus13 | sweet. | 04:21 |
| Cheri703 | yeah, wasn't expecting that, most of the time they're like, "so go to the start menu" "uhm, I don't have one" "whaaa?!" | 04:22 |
| canthus13 | Heh. | 04:22 |
| canthus13 | I've had a few calls like that lately. And from the most non-technical people, too. | 04:22 |
| Cheri703 | people are ridiculous | 04:25 |
| Cheri703 | did you hear that 2 and a half men got officially canceled today after charlie sheen was an idiot again? | 04:27 |
| lostConnection | oh Charlie Sheen... | 04:27 |
| Cheri703 | it's about time, that show was horrible | 04:28 |
| Cheri703 | in my opinion | 04:28 |
| * Cheri703 has invented a new acronym: IDFLGI: I don't feel like googling it | 04:35 | |
| Cheri703 | for example: IDFLGI - is there an easy way to sync google calendars with evolution? updating automatically both directions? | 04:35 |
| Cheri703 | (I actually want to know ;) ) | 04:39 |
| canthus13 | Cheri703: did you try google? :) | 04:45 |
| Cheri703 | doing other things, idflgi :D | 04:45 |
| canthus13 | oh well. I'm sure google knows. | 04:45 |
| Cheri703 | probably | 04:45 |
| Cheri703 | I'll get to it | 04:45 |
| Cheri703 | it's SUPER easy, and the ubuntu wiki page is way out of date :/ | 05:47 |
| Unit193 | And there is nobody to tell... (you're supposed to fix it yourself :/ ) | 05:49 |
| Cheri703 | well, I found the answer on a forum post | 05:49 |
| Unit193 | So, is it easy? | 05:50 |
| Cheri703 | well, upon rereading, it's on the wiki page, just not the first option for some reason | 05:50 |
| Cheri703 | yeah, super easy | 05:50 |
| Cheri703 | so now I'm CONNECTED! mua ha ha ha ha! (evil laugh) | 05:51 |
| Cheri703 | though if I migrate to 10.10 I have to do this again -_- | 05:51 |
| Unit193 | I take it you like evolution best? | 05:52 |
| Cheri703 | but at least it's easier than trying to put it all in manually, and I've never had an evolution backup work properly when trying to restore | 05:52 |
| Cheri703 | I rarely use it | 05:56 |
| Cheri703 | I prefer not to have things ONLY in one place | 05:56 |
| Unit193 | IMAP | 05:57 |
| Cheri703 | I may use it more now since I hate hate hate google calendar's interface on my netbook screen | 05:57 |
| Cheri703 | I usually use gcal via my phone | 05:57 |
| Cheri703 | but this will be easier when I'm scheduling with clients and such | 05:57 |
| Unit193 | Firefox? | 05:57 |
| Cheri703 | yeah, but it's a lot of frames that scroll at different intervals and it doesn't fit on my screen, even with ff in full screen | 05:57 |
| Cheri703 | so it's irritating | 05:58 |
| Unit193 | Found it!: http://greasefire.userscripts.org/scripts/show/95858 | 05:59 |
| Cheri703 | very nice, if I only used one calendar, that'd be great, but I have to have access to at least 4 currently | 06:00 |
| Cheri703 | (might increase at some point) | 06:00 |
| Unit193 | As long as you keep them on (or randomly disable GM like I do to switch them) you're fine | 06:01 |
| Cheri703 | perhaps | 06:02 |
| Cheri703 | I like having the dropdown calendar on the top panel | 06:02 |
| * Cheri703 is picky | 06:02 | |
| Unit193 | Hey, what works, works | 06:03 |
| Unit193 | (evolution, T-bird, web interface, CLI, etc.) | 06:04 |
| Cheri703 | I think this will be good...I wish I could integrate tomboy notes into evolution, that'd be AWESOME | 06:05 |
| Unit193 | I should try evolution at some point... I'm a T-Bird user (kinda, I use alpine and web interface way more) | 06:06 |
| Cheri703 | I don't like that you HAVE to put in email info to even use it as a calendar, but I just put in random crap and it takes it | 06:07 |
| Cheri703 | oh how I loathe the layers upon layers of updates in windows >.< I'm on at least the 4th round, and some of them have been over 100 updates | 06:07 |
| Unit193 | Any SPs yet? | 06:08 |
| Cheri703 | sp3 was the first thing I ran | 06:09 |
| Unit193 | I like the disks that have it built-in... | 06:09 |
| Cheri703 | yeah, but my version of xp pro for hp/compaq is sp2, so I deal with it | 06:10 |
| Unit193 | Or that you can't minimize when you're doing updates.... that's another one that I just LOVE (doing Win+D works) | 06:12 |
| Cheri703 | eh, not so much a problem for me, as I generally start it going and ignore it til it's done | 06:12 |
| Unit193 | You can be really lazy and VNC/TeamViewer/RDP in and do it that way :) | 06:13 |
| Cheri703 | yeah, but that requires setting that all up first | 06:14 |
| Cheri703 | I bring my monitor, keyboard, and mouse to the living room, put them on the end table, and do it while I watch tv...or if I'm doing more than one, I take them in the office and hook them up to the kvm switch so I can hop back and forth | 06:14 |
| * Cheri703 is not lazy, is energy efficient | 06:15 | |
| * Unit193 is fat and lazy and knows it! :) | 06:16 | |
| * Unit193 or will find the hardest way to do something and do it... | 06:17 | |
| canthus13 | yay. another 8 inches or so of snow. :P | 15:08 |
| BiosElement | Wow | 18:05 |
| BiosElement | Gnome 3 thinks maximize/minimize buttons are useless... | 18:05 |
| BiosElement | And people say KDE is nuts... >.> | 18:05 |
| canthus13 | Cheri703: My earbuds showed up. | 18:06 |
| Cheri703 | canthus13: yay! | 18:06 |
| lostConnection | Would any one happen to know why after restarting Ubuntu my computer switches the window effects down to the lowest settings? | 19:52 |
| lostConnection | I'm guessing it is because I am running an old computer | 19:52 |
| canthus13 | lostConnection: Video driver issues most likely. | 20:32 |
| canthus13 | My kid runs with effects on a 64MB Geforce 4 go... and I ran 'em once on a 16MB Radeon 6M. | 20:32 |
| canthus13 | So it's not likely to be a hardware issue. | 20:32 |
| Cheri703 | I always turn off visual effects... | 20:36 |
| * canthus13 keeps 'em on to wow windows users. | 20:36 | |
| Cheri703 | eh | 20:36 |
| canthus13 | they really don't use much in the way of resources, and there are a few settings that I use as part of my workflow. | 20:37 |
| Cheri703 | I also run windows at the "better performance" vs "better appearance" option | 20:37 |
| lostConnection | Yeah it's probably the videocard if you can even call it that. I'm running a 2006 Dell with an integrated videocard so yeah..... >.> | 20:39 |
| lostConnection | Well the model is a Dimension E510 doesn't really make a difference it's old as dirt. Not work fixing up. | 20:40 |
| lostConnection | worth* | 20:40 |
| canthus13 | lostConnection: My kid is running a 2002 Dell, and the one with the radeon was a 2000-ish machine. | 20:52 |
| canthus13 | Compiz doesn't need much in the way of resources, but some of the drivers are pretty crappy and can cause weird issues. | 20:52 |
| Cheri703 | there's a house down the street from me that is $20,000... | 20:53 |
| canthus13 | Nice. | 20:53 |
| canthus13 | Is it worth it? | 20:53 |
| Cheri703 | not sure what the interior is like, but it's a tiny bit smaller than this one (so...fairly small) but has basement, 1 car garage, and fenced yard... | 20:54 |
| Cheri703 | I'd buy this one for that price (in the fantasy world where I could get a loan -_-), the lot is bigger, if unfenced | 20:54 |
| * canthus13 may make his landlady an offer sometime soon. She bought the place at auction for 12k and really didn't put much into it aside from fixing the bathroom. | 20:59 | |
| canthus13 | Then again, we may end up moving to texas instead. | 20:59 |
| Cheri703 | well, you could buy it and rent it when you leave | 21:00 |
| canthus13 | I'm not dealing with that mess. | 21:00 |
| Cheri703 | heh | 21:00 |
| Cheri703 | IDEA! | 21:00 |
| Cheri703 | you could buy the one down the street from me, and I'll buy it back from you, gradually ;) | 21:00 |
| canthus13 | Heh. | 21:00 |
| Cheri703 | or this one, I like this oen | 21:01 |
| Cheri703 | *one | 21:01 |
| canthus13 | I have no credit. I'm filing bankruptcy next week, so it would be at least 2 years before I could even think about buying again. | 21:01 |
| Cheri703 | we really like our house | 21:01 |
| Cheri703 | ha, yeah, I have horrible credit | 21:01 |
| Cheri703 | bankruptcy is no fun | 21:01 |
| canthus13 | Better than no driver's license and wage garnishment. | 21:01 |
| * Cheri703 hasn't done it, but has read about/talked to people who have | 21:01 | |
| Cheri703 | back in a while, client just arrived | 21:01 |
| canthus13 | k | 21:01 |
| Cheri703 | ok back | 21:16 |
| Cheri703 | was quicker than anticipated | 21:16 |
| Cheri703 | and she paid cash! woo! | 21:16 |
| canthus13 | Cool! | 21:16 |
| Cheri703 | indeed! now I have to get to the bank next week, but that's ok with me! | 21:18 |
| Cheri703 | I'm frustrated with my husband | 21:45 |
| canthus13 | Tie all his socks in knots. you'll feel better. | 22:06 |
| Cheri703 | might... | 22:06 |
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