ajmitch | the 3d unity apparantly works in a modern virtualbox (4.x) | 00:03 |
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ibeardslee | was running virtualbox, but dropped it for kvm | 00:03 |
ajmitch | why was that? | 00:04 |
ibeardslee | easier to deal with getting machines to start up on boot, it's what we use on the servers | 00:05 |
ajmitch | right | 00:06 |
ajmitch | I only use it for casual desktop use | 00:07 |
ibeardslee | "Sorry Unity 2D Launcher closed unexpectedly" | 00:07 |
ibeardslee | I currently have 4 machines up most of the time and another 2 or 3 that do yo-yo impressions as I'm testing a linux desktop proof of concept | 00:08 |
ibeardslee | err two machines up most of the time | 00:08 |
ajmitch | I mostly just have windows running for awhile, virtualbox is simple enough to use, I don't really log out on the host | 00:10 |
ibeardslee | ok | 00:11 |
ibeardslee | I generally logout at the end of each day | 00:11 |
ajmitch | having an ipv6 tunnel is useful for being able to access my work desktop from home as well :) | 00:13 |
snail | is open.org.nz down for anyone else? | 00:15 |
ajmitch | http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/open.org.nz says it's dead | 00:15 |
* ajmitch can't reach it from work either | 00:16 | |
* thumper wonders when to upgrade locally to natty | 00:48 | |
ibeardslee | did my home PC a couple of weekends back | 00:51 |
* ajmitch might upgrade in a month or so | 00:52 | |
ibeardslee | I don't know what it is about my PCs and upgrades .. both my home PC and work PC have had to have the window manager started 'manually' | 00:53 |
ajmitch | thumper: when's the next scnz-dunedin meeting likely to be? | 00:53 |
thumper | when is the next dunlug? | 00:53 |
thumper | I'm wanting to move the day to a tuesday | 00:53 |
thumper | and I don't want to clash | 00:54 |
ajmitch | next dunlug meeting is this wednesday, the next tuesday meeting for it is on the 12th | 00:55 |
ajmitch | the distiller have something on thurs 7 about mobile development | 00:56 |
thumper | yeah, saw that | 00:56 |
thumper | I may even go | 00:56 |
jhanafrog | it was good talking to you guys. hope to talk again. may the source be with you | 04:35 |
ibeardslee | morning | 19:49 |
ajmitch | morning | 19:51 |
ibeardslee | does anyone use the full circle notifier? | 19:57 |
ajmitch | nope, what is it? | 19:58 |
ibeardslee | supposed to notify when the Full Circle Magazine has been released | 20:05 |
ibeardslee | and optionally download it | 20:05 |
ajmitch | ah, I don't read that, probably why I don't use the notifier :) | 20:06 |
Atamira | morena | 20:21 |
snail | morena atamira, kei te pehea koe? | 20:32 |
Atamira | kei te pai e hoa. kei te pai :) | 20:32 |
Atamira | sorry, was doing the email thing | 20:33 |
Atamira | question, why use the full circle notifier or are you actually talking about the subscription thing that notifies you when the next one comes out? | 20:35 |
ibeardslee | the application that notifies and can download the magzine and podcasts ec | 20:41 |
Atamira | mmm..i downloaded calibre...i think its kinda clunky..will get the magazine this week, i might learn something | 20:50 |
hads | Morning | 20:51 |
snail | Atamira: what are you doing with calibre, we do a lot of ebook stuff here | 20:52 |
Atamira | i was given a bunch of books. turned out to be 6000 epub books | 20:52 |
Atamira | needed something to read them on and someone told me about calibre | 20:53 |
Atamira | took nearly 10 hours to load them all into the program | 20:53 |
Atamira | actually...i know it took longer than 5 hours. after that i went to bed. it finished sometime in the morning | 20:53 |
snail | Atamira: calibre is a conversion program mainly, I don't know of anyone who uses it much for reading except to make sure things are working. | 20:56 |
snail | Atamira: do you have a physical device to read from or are you reading from your computer screen? | 20:56 |
Atamira | computer screen | 20:59 |
Atamira | ive been tossing up which reader device to use | 20:59 |
Atamira | i think i might just go with a netbook | 20:59 |
Atamira | i dont want to use a variety of things that will do just one thing | 20:59 |
Atamira | ie..ipod for music...kodo/kindle for bookreading | 21:00 |
Atamira | from what i could see, the iphone isnt a drag and drop kinda thing | 21:00 |
ibeardslee | I think a netbook has some of the same issues that a computer screen has as a reading device | 21:00 |
ibeardslee | that keyboard just gets in the way | 21:01 |
Atamira | netbook is small enough to take to bed if i want, and listen to music and read ebooks on | 21:01 |
ibeardslee | makes it awkward to hold .. unless you want to be sitting up in bed with the netbook on the lap | 21:01 |
Atamira | shrug no different to reading an actual book in bed | 21:02 |
Atamira | but at least i can take it to bed if i want | 21:02 |
ibeardslee | I like to lie on my side and read | 21:02 |
ibeardslee | that is true | 21:02 |
Atamira | on my pc i cant | 21:02 |
ibeardslee | I think the age of the tablet is going to come through | 21:03 |
snail | if you want to read 6000 ebooks, your eyes want you to buy a kindle / kobo / eReader | 21:03 |
ibeardslee | more power. With a bluetooth keyboard they are likely to start being able to replace the netbook | 21:03 |
Atamira | what else can you do on kindle/kobo/eReader tho? | 21:04 |
Atamira | just read a book? | 21:04 |
snail | Atamira: most of them have audio and text-to-speech functionality | 21:05 |
Atamira | id rather read a book | 21:05 |
Atamira | i most often nod off if i listen to someone read to me | 21:05 |
Atamira | they tend to drone on | 21:06 |
Atamira | some books neway | 21:06 |
hads | Morning | 21:06 |
snail | Atamira: how much does 6000 pulp-of-murdered-tree books weigh? | 21:06 |
Atamira | tonnes !! | 21:06 |
hads | heh | 21:06 |
Atamira | and carting them from country to country sucks ! | 21:07 |
Atamira | hence why im opting for digital books | 21:07 |
Atamira | i hate having to leave books behind cause they wont fit in the luggage | 21:07 |
Atamira | but i do need something thats more portable than my pc to read them on | 21:08 |
hads | The Kindle does look nice to read on. | 21:09 |
hads | I don't really mind reading off a screen though, like most of you I do it all day. | 21:09 |
snail | hads: my wife has a kindle and loves it. the reading light works really well | 21:10 |
snail | hads: the text-to-voice is the only functionality that causes noticable battery drain | 21:10 |
ibeardslee | I read off the screen all day, but the 'workstation' is optimised for keyboard rather than reading | 21:10 |
hads | Yeah, I was flicking through Dad's Kindle at Christmas, seems nice. | 21:11 |
snail | hads: often reading novel-length works you're much more static than you are programming, replying to emails, etc. and staticness can be a serious OOS issue | 21:11 |
hads | I can imagine. I'm not much of a reader to be honest. | 21:12 |
Atamira | agreed the kindle does look nice | 21:13 |
Atamira | does it allow for drag and drop or must you import the books via the proprietry software on it? | 21:14 |
hads | I think it's proprietry? | 21:15 |
Atamira | which rules that out for me then | 21:15 |
Atamira | i dont want to waste the books i do have already | 21:15 |
Atamira | bedtime | 21:34 |
Atamira | nite all | 21:34 |
thumper | morning | 21:47 |
chilts | morning | 21:51 |
LukasB | good morning | 21:53 |
snail | Atamira: i believe kindle uses .mobi, which calibre exports too very nicely | 23:02 |
ibeardslee | yay .. found a way to chance the background of the login screen | 23:04 |
ibeardslee | s/chance/change/ | 23:05 |
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