/srv/irclogs.ubuntu.com/2011/04/25/#ubuntu-us-mi.txt

jrmyfood coma?00:05
jrmyas in eating?00:05
jrmynever heard that before00:06
jjesseyou ate a bunch and are now so tired you don't want to do anything but sleep01:34
jrmyi'd love to be able to have one of those.. no wonder ive never heard of it xD01:35
snap-lFinally home01:44
snap-lugh, tired01:44
jjessesounds like a busy day01:47
snap-lwas up @ 7am01:50
snap-ljust now getting back from parents01:51
jjessewow01:51
rick_h__snap-l: welcome back to the world01:51
snap-lrick_h__: It's good to be back02:01
wolfgermorning12:57
rick_h__party part12:58
rick_h__http://blogs.gnome.org/xclaesse/2011/04/25/one-week-with-gnome3/12:58
rick_h__interesting read of the morning12:58
brouschi put a different interesting rad up on the twitter12:59
rick_h__yea, nice read13:00
rick_h__love how netflix does that13:00
brouschit is pretty awesome to be so confident in your architecture that you intentionally kill it at random13:01
rick_h__yea, but they had much fewer issues than the rest with the AWS outage13:01
brouschi cross my fingers and sacrafice a bottle of rum and chicken to jobu when i go on vacation13:01
brouschthey so few problems because they build failure correction into evetything. it is amazing13:02
brouschheh, ctrl-del to delete a file in nautilus? they took that from osx where you use cmd-del13:03
rick_h__yea, that one was one I stopped on for a minute13:06
rick_h__I was thinking he meant like shift-delete to skip the bin13:06
rick_h__but then realized no...to really just delete to trash del doesn't work :(13:06
brouschit doesn't annoy me any more than windows' "are you sure you want to delete this?"13:07
rick_h__well I think the point of discoverability is valid13:09
rick_h__and at least delete still deletes, just asks you some questions first :)13:10
brouschit's valid. i had to google how to delete in osx13:11
tjagodaPoor Playbook13:13
tjagodaIt is such an awesome tablet13:13
rick_h__lol13:13
tjagodabeing covered by such an Apple zealous body of journalists13:13
rick_h__it takes a good eye to really appreciate13:13
tjagodaSeriously, thing is awesome13:13
tjagodainterface and OS are rock solid13:13
tjagodaAnd any journalist asshat whom expects something to have 300,000 applications on launch day is a tard13:14
rick_h__come on, even BB admits it's not 'solid as a rock' as it's getting changes all the time post-release13:14
tjagodaI think we have different defintions of solid13:14
tjagodaWhen I say solid I'm referring to the actual function of the OS13:15
rick_h__which they're adding to/changing since it's not solid yet13:15
tjagodawhich I have not yet experienced a bug in, with the exception of one or two web pages which do a peer reset13:15
rick_h__a good base maybe? (hard to say that without a non BB email client..but ok)13:15
tjagodaMost of their changes seem to be based on feedback13:15
tjagodaWhich I see as a good thing13:15
tjagodaPeople complained about the hard powerbutton being hard to get at (which it isnt after it's been broken in by being pushed a few times)13:16
tjagodaSo an update pushed out a soft power button13:16
tjagodaStuff like that13:16
tjagodaFrom a threat-management standpoint, bridge-only email is kind of a feature - but only if your workforce is blackberry equipped13:17
tjagodaWhen bridged, the tablet never gets physical copies of the mail anywhere on the device13:17
rick_h__right, and only if they get all of their email on their BB...so it's a corp device then, not a personal one13:17
tjagodaso you're not adding another mobile device for your workers to loose and compromise13:17
rick_h__right, which means if I forget, dont' feel like tethering (battery anyone) etc it sucks13:18
tjagodaWell yes, but I did start off by framing this entire thing from a corporate perspective13:18
tjagodaAnd the bluetooth tethering hasn't very adversly affected my battery life13:18
rick_h__right, but you're knocking journalists who are not on BB companies that frame it as "I'd not give up my iPad2 for this crap"13:18
tjagodaI just shut it off when I don't want to look at mail, as the contorls to do so from the tablet are quick adn easy13:18
rick_h__any wireless radio adversly affects battery unless you've found magic radio wave generation13:18
tjagoda/adversely/ affects13:19
rick_h__bah, whatever. Not going there this morning. Enjoy your new business toy13:19
tjagodaI don't suddenly have to charge my phone halfway through the day now that I turn bluetooth on13:19
tjagodaThing is pretty cool13:19
tjagodaWill be even more cool as they continue to push out updates13:19
tjagodaI was surprised by how well it sold on launch day despite the shit storm of press it got, to be honest13:20
jrwrenBB gave away PB to anyone who wrote apps. Even stupid apps. I know 2 guys that have 'em.13:35
tjagodaA lot of stuff is supposed to start filling in in early May from what I've read on froums13:36
snap-ltjagoda: Really hope they don't get Palm disease, where the apps are easy to write, and impossible to distribute unless you're a company.13:37
tjagodaI have actually seen a lot of stuff from one-man devs13:37
tjagodawhich refer to themselves by name and not my LLC13:37
tjagodaso that is encouraging13:37
tjagodanot by*13:38
brouschi would think these security-obessed corporate fascists would not want apps from long-haired hippie devs13:40
jrwrenI'm just not sure the business market is big enough for them to thrive.13:41
snap-lWent to staples a few days after Playbook launch. Saw that they were selling it, but also saw an empty double-sided sticky post where a Playbook should have been13:41
tjagodaI pre-ordered mine from best buy online13:41
jrwrenbut it might be a huge success in the non business market that is BB obsessed.13:41
tjagodaThe in-store displays are lacking, indicating that RIM really might not entirely care about the consumer market13:42
snap-lI just hope that like the iPhone market filled the void of fart and flashlight apps, the Playbook can fill the void of eMail apps.13:42
tjagodaAmazon had low-stock of the playbook yesterday13:42
tjagodaWhich encourages me as to its pace of sales13:42
snap-ltjagoda: Artificial scarcity13:43
snap-lcommon tactic in retail13:43
tjagodaIf it works for nintendo, it works for RIM!13:43
snap-lship low numbers, then say that it's sold out13:43
snap-lgets journalists to write the obligatory "blah blah has sold out"13:43
snap-land folks then take notice.13:43
snap-lWhich is why I don't pay any attention to items that are based off of units shipped (Billboard) or blah blah sold out first week of release13:44
tjagodaI wish RIM would report sales sooner than their quarterly earnings13:44
tjagodaI'd like to see how the pace did after the first day pre-order impact13:44
snap-ltjagoda: Why? They like their stock to go up13:44
snap-lreporting those numbers before quarterly earnings will do bad things for a stock13:45
tjagodaI'd assume it would be going down, from the shitstorm of negative press though?13:45
snap-lYou leak it out gradually13:45
tjagodaThen again13:45
tjagodathere is always room for more down13:45
tjagodaThey really need a better playbook spokesman though13:45
tjagodathe Co-CEO thing just doesn't do it justice13:46
tjagodaLazaridis especially13:46
brouschsome sexy and business-oriented13:46
brouschlike donald trump13:46
tjagodaThey have J-Lo13:46
brouschi nomnate donald trump as the spokesman for the playbook13:47
tjagodaThat would be epic13:47
snap-lIf Trump == Sexy, then I'll decidedly be unsexy13:47
tjagodaI'd buy two more just because I could13:47
brouschsnap-l: you're sexier than trump!13:47
snap-ltjagoda: Then sales would jump 100%13:47
tjagodarofl =P13:47
tjagodaIt's very good at media consumption13:47
brouschyou can't have trump without the wig, just like you can't have a playbook without the bb13:48
tjagodapodcast library it comes with is pretty big13:48
tjagodaAnd it's music store is non-DRM and native MP313:48
tjagodano proprietary apple format that the iPod uses13:48
tjagodaCan you access the iPad as a network share?13:48
snap-lthe problem with the playbook is iy just feels... desperate13:49
tjagodaNot after you've sat down using it for a few days it doesn't13:49
tjagodaFeels powerful then13:49
tjagodaInterface is really well done honestly13:49
tjagodablackberry fan or not13:50
tjagodathere is no denying that13:50
tjagodaThey did not screw up the use-the-bezel-to-navigate thing13:50
snap-ltjagoda: I mean they screwed up the marketing message13:50
tjagodaI do not disagree with you there13:50
tjagodaCo-CEO's did a pretty bad job of trying to clear it up13:50
snap-lIf this had come out around the time of the iPad, and before the glut of Android tablets, this would be remarkable13:51
snap-lunfortunately, it's got Windows Phone 7 disease.13:51
snap-l"me too"13:51
snap-l"we're still relevant"13:51
tjagodaWinMo was relevant ever?13:51
tjagoda=(13:51
brouschindeed, back when bb was13:52
tjagodabrousch: pish13:53
tjagodaWinMo was never up in corporate grace like BB13:54
brouschi personally used more winmo devices than bb. 1-013:54
tjagodaI used one winMo phone and regreted it's purchase for the entierty I owned it13:55
brouschmine wasn't a phone. i guess it was a pda13:55
brouschbut it had bluetooth and a bluetooth modem and vnc so i could do stuff remotely, back in 200013:56
tjagodahttp://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2010/03/10/windows-mobile-market-share-drops-like-a-rock/13:56
brouschmaybe 200113:56
tjagodaThat chart is clearly pre-androidapalooza13:56
snap-lRegardless of the tablet's strengths, they've branded this (intentionally or not) as the tablet device for Blackberry users14:01
snap-lThat's an awful way to marginalize yor customers14:01
tjagodaThere are still 50 million of them14:03
tjagodaSo I guess its not a bad segment to target14:03
tjagodabut I still wish they wouldn't have'14:03
tjagodaIf not just to get the blackberry name out infront of people again14:03
snap-ltjagoda: You have underdog's disease.14:04
snap-lI get it a lot14:04
snap-lWhere you want whatever product to succeed despite reality. :)14:04
tjagodaIt worked with AMD14:04
tjagoda=(14:04
snap-lWhich is why I was rooting for the 3DO, Palm, Linux... :)14:05
tjagodaAnd its good day 1 launch sales only serve to enable me =(14:05
snap-lI wonder how many of those are non-journalist purchases.14:05
snap-lI suspect a healthy number of those were journalist / blogger sales, along with "will it blend". ;)14:06
tjagodaNow you're just trying to troll =P14:07
snap-land folks who have been waiting for Blackberry's answer to Android14:07
tjagodaMy parents played with my Playbook for a bit14:07
tjagodaAnd then promptly went out and bought one for themselves14:07
tjagodaSo I say the device has the potential to still not suck14:07
rick_h__because they have corporate BB phones?14:07
rick_h__or because they don't use email or calendaring?14:07
rick_h__:P14:07
snap-lrick_h__: ++14:08
rick_h__man, you tgalk out of both sides it's driving me nuts14:08
snap-l(couldn't type that out quickly enough)14:08
rick_h__"it's not for consumers, give it a break!" ... "Oh, it so cool anyone should want one and my parents got one"14:08
tjagodaThey have no interest in pairing it with their BB devices14:08
snap-ltjagoda: They actually own BBs?14:08
rick_h__how big a check do they send you?14:08
tjagodaMy dad does, my mom does not14:08
rick_h__tjagoda: issued, he needs to keep them secure you know, all those important grandkid texts14:08
tjagodaMy dad is the operations manager14:09
snap-lDo they give them out free after purchasing ten Tim Hortons coffees?14:09
tjagodaI WISH THEY DID14:09
tjagodaCould have saved a ton14:09
tjagoda=P14:09
snap-l[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][BB]14:09
snap-ltjagoda: Operations manager at the company that you're working at?14:10
tjagodaYeah, when I started here as an intern he was my boss14:10
tjagodaI now work for his boss14:10
snap-ltjagoda: So he's got incentive to stick with BB14:10
tjagodaI wouldn't say that had an impact on his tablet decision14:11
snap-land if I had a BB, I might consider the Playbook14:11
snap-ltjagoda: Bull14:11
tjagodaHe doesn't have an interest in pairing his phone to it14:11
tjagodaLiked the size of it more than anything14:11
snap-lDid he compare it with anything else?14:11
tjagodaHe looked at the tablet's best buy stocks14:12
tjagodaso that's iPad for sure14:12
tjagodado they stock the android stuff?14:12
snap-lOh, so the Xoom, Dell's patetique14:12
snap-land the Samsung Galaxy14:12
snap-lif he's cheap like I am, he'd have bought the playbook14:12
snap-lI don't think they make you buy a plan, do they?14:13
tjagodaNo, it's wifi14:13
tjagodaall carrier neutral at this point14:13
rick_h__you mean it just tethers with BB and ATT won't let you so hope you're on Verizon if you want network access that's not wifi?14:14
snap-lWell, not really14:14
snap-lI don't think any of the other tablets they sell at BB come without a contract14:15
tjagodaI mean some people don't have an interest in using it as a 3G device14:15
snap-lat least they don't make it obvious14:15
tjagodaAnd are perfectly content using it on Wifi14:15
snap-lI'm perfectly content in running stuff on wifi, but I think the BB is the nly tablet advertised as such14:16
snap-lso no wonder they bought it14:16
tjagodaJust like my parents don't care about calendars and native mail14:16
tjagodabecause they use webmail anyway14:16
snap-lApparently they don't care about Angry Birds either. ;)14:16
tjagodaNah, not into the games14:16
snap-lIf you'd shown them that, they would have bought Android.14:16
tjagodaIt does have a few neat games of its own though14:16
snap-lIt's not a game, it's crystal meth14:16
tjagodaNothing so big as Angry Birds14:17
snap-ltjagoda: Solitaire?14:17
brouschcorporate strategy and espionage games?14:17
tjagodaIt's got some neat sketch games14:17
tjagodaPuzzel like sketch game where you try to get the marble/ball to an endpoint14:18
tjagodaKind of addicting14:18
tjagodaActually does have solitare14:18
snap-l"Let's go Org-chart", the exciting game where you reorgainze the departments14:18
tjagodaNeed for Speed ships on the tablet14:18
brouschbut all the cars are replaced with corporate fleet vehicles?14:19
tjagodaIf they are, then we have the wrong corporate fleet14:19
brouschford escort vs natural gas honda civic!14:19
snap-lbrousch: You've selected Escort with the wobbly brakes14:19
tjagodarofl14:20
snap-lRacing a rental car fleet.14:20
tjagodaIt's fun14:20
tjagodayou steer by tilting the tablet14:20
snap-l"You've been upgraded to: Economy"14:20
tjagodaits obvious they polished it highly because they new it would be the default ship game14:20
jcastronixternal: hmm, persia responded again14:21
jcastroninkendo: weird, he's still in the company directory14:21
snap-l"Hit T to enable the toll-booth receiver"14:21
tjagodaI'm surprised by how little pairing my BB affects my battery though14:29
tjagodaI did expect that it would drain the device quic14:29
tjagodaquick14:29
jrmymorning14:30
tjagodaHallo14:30
jrmyactually had a full breakfast today14:30
jrmyshould be plenty when i want to walk to my friends house to pick up my $1014:32
jrmysheesh.. you guys really dont talk14:32
tjagodaHah14:33
tjagodayou missed it when I incited rick's rage earlier by loving BB14:33
tjagoda=P14:33
jrmyBB? as in a bb gun?14:33
wolfgerRant, rick_h__, rant!14:34
tjagodaBB as in Blackberry14:34
rick_h__wolfger: no, I don't have the arm strength to hold up the faboi mirror to fanboi's in denial this monday14:34
jrmybut nah.. i wouldnt be up right now if i didnt want to buy the subway deal they have right now14:35
tjagodaBS, it's just rage because I don't make out with Android =P14:35
snap-ltjagoda: Right, because your tongue is far down BB's throat. ;)14:35
tjagodaNever French your corporate overlords.14:35
jrmyphones..14:35
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jrmyany of you have the bacon egg whatever it is at subway before?14:37
tjagodaYou seem entirely to obsessed with this subway deal14:38
jrmyim probably the only one on this channel just uses the channel.. sigh* why do i have to have such a slow computer14:38
jrmythat would be a misunderstanding14:38
jrmyim just trying to get someoen to talk to me14:38
jrmythat*14:39
jrmyi hope i can get more ram soon.. i hate how slow it is with only 25614:40
tjagodaMost of us work/IRC at the same time14:40
tjagodaSo we're slow in the response14:40
jrmyyeah so im probably the only one without a job14:41
jrmyironically this is what i do when im bored and have nothing else to do14:41
* jrmy shakes his head14:42
jrmylol i should mess my computer up to give me something to do for a few hours14:44
tjagodaThis procedure is not recommended.14:44
jrmyeh..14:44
jrmyi get to ask questions, google things and learn something in the process.. cant be that bad14:46
_stink_even better - learn to write code14:46
jrmyyeah if i actually take time to learn a language14:47
jrmyi gave up on python14:47
tjagodaWould probably be time better spent than what you're doing now. ;)14:48
brouschstart with static web pages if python gives you problems14:48
brouschhtml, css, javascript14:48
jrmyprobably.. but i also prefer sleeping at night, lol14:48
tjagodaYou are unemployed14:48
tjagodaAdopt the coder/hacker sleep cycle14:49
tjagoda=P14:49
brouschalso things like pictures and vector images14:49
tjagodaI have no idea what that means brousch14:50
tjagodaHow do you learn pictures?14:50
tjagoda=(14:50
jrmylol14:50
brouschphotoshop/gimp14:50
brouschimage manipulation14:50
jrmyright14:50
tjagodaahh14:51
brouschinkscape and gimp for the freedom lovers14:51
brouschso make static web pages, sprinkle in javascript, learn more javascript, now you have some useful skills to build on14:52
jrmymy real production would be from making electronic devices not internet based things14:54
jrmyvideo games though i'd also maybe be interested in14:54
brouschgo play with flash then14:54
jrmywhich is why i chose python initially14:54
brouschalthough you can make games entirely using html514:55
brouschi have no advice for making electronic devices14:55
jrmyits just the programming that i'd want to learn first the rest can be learned elsewhere14:59
greg-gjrmy: so, what is your plan for learning how to program? Do you need any book suggestions? They tend to be pretty good for these things. Also, have you checked out MIT OCW? This course is intro to programming, and it looks like it focuses on Python http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-00-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-fall-2008/ (you may find that people in this channel recommend python, as well15:02
_stink_IME, you just have to pick something - anything! - and friggin write it.15:05
_stink_anything.15:05
brousch_stink_ ++15:06
_stink_slog through it and learn on the fly.  if the end product sucks, leave it for a while, and try a new anything.15:06
brouschyou have to have a project in mind and then do it15:06
_stink_eventually you'll do something useful for you.15:06
_stink_then you make it better.15:06
brouschreading books is more useful after you have some idea of how it works15:06
_stink_fosho15:07
greg-gword15:07
snap-lYeah, I'd say the only way that I learn is via immersion15:07
snap-lJust start working on something in an environment that you know you can't break (ie: not production or mission critical)15:08
snap-land read up on what you discover15:08
snap-lbecause you never know what you don't know until you don't know it. :)15:08
_stink_and don't worry about writing the 'app' you think will make you money or something.  write ANYTHING15:08
snap-lWe've all been there, so we can give you pointers and guidance15:09
_stink_you will probably throw it away or totally rewrite it in a year when you know much better.15:09
snap-lJust don't be afraid, that's all15:11
jrmyback.. sorry i didnt set away15:12
snap-lheh15:12
jrmyyeah, well the thing with python there was so much to learn.. even on the basic level.. and with the mentality of a child with school for instance i didnt find much reason in learning some of the things if i didnt know if it would help for making a game15:13
jrmyseeing as with a language you can write just about anything15:13
jrmyi wonder which version of python is recommended now15:14
brousch2.715:15
brouschso start writing the game, and when you can't figure out how to do something, look it up on google or in a book15:15
jrmyhmm.. i was going to learn 2.6 when i started15:15
brouschnot a big difference15:15
jrmyffuu...15:16
brouschjust stay away from 3 for now15:16
_stink_2.6, 2.7, either one.15:16
jrmyi think 2.6 is still on my system.. does 2.7 have enough libraries?15:17
jrmyor if its called something else..15:17
brouschjust use 2.6 then15:17
brouschit really doesn't matter at this point15:17
jrmybeen over half a year since i used this computer15:17
jrmyoh yeah.. i remembered i figured out how to make an looping number15:18
jrmyjust keeps going up and up.. or down if i wanted15:18
jrmyuntil you kill the program15:18
jrmyit was rather amusing.. totally forgot how to make the loop though15:19
greg-ggood start, I remember writing the "Joe Sucks, Greg Rocks" and repeating that on the screen forever in BASIC back in elementary school15:19
greg-g(Joe was the kid who sat next to me)15:19
jrmylol15:19
jrmyi think i remember it being if x>0 print or something15:20
greg-gluckily, finding out how to write "a loop" in python is just a google search away15:20
jrmyi actually had to think for a long time15:21
jrmyeven after googling.. there really was nothing on loops15:21
jrmyit was cool i figured it out though15:21
jrmyeven with very little do go on15:22
greg-ghttp://docs.python.org/tutorial/controlflow.html#for-statements15:22
_stink_greg-g: that is classic.15:22
greg-ghttp://diveintopython.org/file_handling/for_loops.html15:22
jrmyi think the only way how im really going to get into it.. is if i have info on how to make a specific thing.. not with instructions but to be taught all of the things i need to make that specific thing15:25
greg-g"not with instructions but to be taught" what do you mean by that?15:26
jrmywhich could be alot.. but yeah, im pretty sure i'll move on to something else quite quickly if theres no spark of interest.. and interest continuing15:26
jrmyas in im not told exactly how to make it step by step15:27
jrmyinstructions in other words15:27
jrmymaybe i should write a bot for a channel or something15:44
wolfgerSure. Something, anything. Pick a task, write a program to do it.15:45
wolfgerjust don't write an annoying channel bot and bring it in here :-)15:45
jrmylol, of course.. i wouldnt do that (snickers)15:46
wolfgerWrite one for #ubuntu that asks "Is Natty out yet?" every 5 minutes on launch day. Nobody will ever know it's a bot. :-)15:46
jrmynah im not that dumb. i liek talking on here.. getting banned would suck15:46
jrmylol, ok15:46
greg-gnow anyone can be a programmer! http://duiker101.tk/hackertyper/ (just start typing)15:59
rick_h__greg-g: crap, but I wanted python16:01
tjagodarofl16:01
wolfgerI want to start writing LOLcode16:02
wolfgerI think it would be an awesome language to write a usable program in, just to say I did it. :-p16:03
ColonelPanic001I keep meaning to get a physical copy of the LOLCAT Bible16:03
wolfger++16:04
wolfgerand go door-to-door with it16:04
jrmylol16:06
snap-lhttp://www.suntimes.com/technology/ihnatko/4959481-452/are-the-blackberry-playbook-and-lg-g-slate-ready-to-take-on-ipad2.html16:08
wolfger"Good morning, miss. Have you received the word of the Ceiling Cat into your heart?"16:09
jrmylol16:09
jrmyi'd have to laugh hard if someone actually walked up to my door and did that16:09
tjagodaI don't buy all those people saying you cant have a tablet without a 10 inch screen16:09
tjagodaI don't /want/ a 10-inch16:10
jrmyi prefer a "handheld"16:10
tjagodaThe 7 inch is just right for me to be able to type with thumbs in portrait mode16:10
jrmythe ipad is too big16:10
tjagodaYet big enough to make me not feel crimped for screen space16:10
jrmyi can agree that 7 inches is plenty16:11
jrmy..dirty jokes... sheesh16:11
jrmylol16:11
* jrmy shakes his head16:12
wolfgerI love the way that article basically says "these tablets suck because they aren't iPads" without actually mentioning any way in which the iPad is superior.16:12
jrmyok.. im not goign to go on with making dirty jokes..16:13
jrmyhard to hold back...16:13
tjagodawolfger: I have seen that theme in almost all of the tablet review I've read so far16:15
tjagodaApple coats the devices in cocaine16:15
brouschno, it's more relaxing than cocaine16:16
wolfgerLSD16:16
brouschit makes you feel good without exploding your heart16:16
wolfgerabsorbed through the skin, and they don't even realize they're tripping16:16
jrmylol16:17
jrmyyou guys...16:17
brouschpulverized marijuana?16:18
wolfgerbrousch: that's not mind-altering enough to explain people's opinions16:18
wolfgeror so I've heard16:19
greg-gwolfger++16:20
brouschshut up, man. i can quit whenever i want to16:26
jrmylol16:27
* wolfger wonders if brousch is referring to his addiction to the iPad, or ???16:29
brouschapple products16:30
brouschthough really i just use the laptops16:30
wolfgerand here I thought snap-l was the fanboy...16:30
brouschi like to deflect the apple-love to him so i suffer less16:30
tjagodaI remember when jcastro was willing to kill people for switching Mac16:33
tjagodaThose were the days16:33
jcastrowas?16:33
tjagodaWell16:33
tjagodaHe at least threatens less publicly16:33
tjagoda=P16:33
tjagodaI need to find a job at canonical16:34
tjagodaBefore I get promoted in charge of our sales office's IT16:34
tjagodaDO NOT WANT 40 more users16:34
tjagodaspecifically becasue they're salesmen16:35
brouschmy pants are tight http://www.androidcentral.com/asus-eeepad-transformer-review16:36
tjagodaThere is no way that isn't fragile16:38
brouschi have a soft spot for eeepc. i still like my 90116:40
tjagodaWant to buy a system76 netbook?16:40
tjagodaIt's still new16:41
tjagodaI don't need it now that I have the tablet16:41
jrmyshould i hope i dont get the same interests as you guys in certain electronics?16:42
jrmyas for now i find the phones boring16:42
brouschsmartphones are boring?16:42
tjagodaI am an IT guy16:42
jrmyand other related16:42
tjagodaI find no technology boring16:42
jrmysmartphones are meh to me16:42
brouschthey are the future16:42
jrmyi'd rather own a ds16:43
brouschif they bore you, you are in the wrong field16:43
tjagodaAmen16:43
tjagodaOr you're really young16:43
brouschlike 10 years old16:43
jrmyan iphone i suppose is neat16:43
jrmybut even then just to play games doesnt seem to be enough16:43
wolfgerbrousch: I did not know that you were Captain Tightpants...16:43
tjagodaIf you buy a phone just to play games16:43
jrmywhen its predocessors aka the handheld game systems are much better16:44
tjagodaor evaluate your phone purchase as such16:44
tjagodayou are doing it wrong16:44
brouschyou've got the whole damn internet, all the information in the world, in your pocket available at all times from anywhere.16:44
jrmywell what else is there besides its actual use, talking?16:44
brouschtalking is for old people16:44
brouschit is a computer in your pants16:44
jrmyoh wow i can surf the internet on my phone.. big deal16:45
tjagoda..why do you use Linux?16:45
jrmyits not a laptop.. so i dont care16:45
brouschmy phone has a keyboard, wifi, and applications. it's a tiny laptop16:45
tjagodaBecause I get the feeling that your only interest in electronics is gaming16:45
tjagodaand Linux is not conducive to gaming16:45
jrmyyet to figure it out.. but currently because i have no other choice in an os16:45
tjagodaAh16:46
tjagodaThat would explain a bit then16:46
jrmylinux is free16:46
jrmyi do liek the idea of a mobile computer but a phone is not enough for me16:47
brouschthe phone is just to keep the old people happy. i talk like 15 minutes/mo16:48
jrmybesides im annoyed when i have to use a keyboard that is too small for my fingers16:48
brouschtry one of the alternative soft keyboards16:49
tjagodaI have using my phone as a phone16:50
tjagodahate*16:50
tjagodaTalking is so last century.16:50
jrmyalso i cant use it to record music16:50
jrmyso once more not as useful to me16:51
jrmyand im not using spelled backwards scam16:51
jrmylol16:51
brouschi record videos and sound with my phone16:52
jrmyhows quality?16:52
brouschgood enough for me16:52
jrmycan you get at least 41khz?16:52
jrmysound wise16:52
brouschi have no idea16:52
tjagodaYour phone is not a laptop16:53
tjagodait isn't meant to replace a laptop16:53
tjagodaits meant to supplement a laptop16:53
tjagodayour technological viewpoint is incorrect16:53
tjagoda=P16:53
rick_h__then what's a tablet :P16:53
jrmysupplement eh?16:53
tjagodaA tablet gets closer to laptop replacement, but I personally still see it as a supplement16:54
jrmywhats the point when my laptop's battery can last just as long as my phone?16:54
jrmywell netbook in this case16:54
tjagodaI don't have to wait 5 minutes and require a table to use my phone16:54
jrmyseeing as a smaller netbook may be the choice16:55
wolfgera tablet is an oversized smartphone16:55
wolfgeror a netbook without a keyboard, depending on your point of view16:55
krondorphone/tablet w/ microhdmi dock support + bluetooth keyboard / mouse + vnc/rdp or vdi == no laptop needed. microhdmi not even needed in the larger screen real estate of a tablet I guess..16:55
jrmydo suppose some laptops take 5mins to start up.. rather a long time imo16:55
wolfgerI put netbooks, the current generation of tablets, and smart phones all into one category16:56
wolfgerlaptops and desktops (i.e. "real computers") into another16:56
jrmywell wehat do you guys use netbooks/phones/tablets for?16:57
tjagodaMy tablet replaces the place my netbook had in my technology lineup16:57
jrmywhat*16:57
tjagodaI use my tablet for when I want to be mobile but still able to browse easily16:57
tjagodaMy phone is always with me, and does 90% of my emailing and tweeting16:58
jrmyspecifically speaking16:58
tjagodaand occasional surfing when I need to look something up16:58
tjagodaLaptop is used when I need to seriously work somewhere mobile, and know I'll need the keyboard/mouse interface16:58
tjagodaDesktop is only used for gaming16:58
jrmyam i shunned for liking to use an old schhol book called a dictionary?16:58
wolfgeryes16:59
tjagodaI have a dictionary in my phone16:59
tjagodaalong with the entire internet16:59
jrmyah.. but you guys forget the fun in using a dictionary16:59
tjagodapaper is SO LAST CENTURY16:59
wolfgerpaper versions of dictionaries get outdated too quickly, and/or are not complete enough16:59
jrmyyou even learn more words when you look for your word16:59
jrmyguess im oldschool irnoically17:00
brouschi like to use a thesaurus instead of a dictionary. then i learn new words as i look for my word, and can quickly find a better word17:00
tjagodaYeah, if I need more words I use a thesaurus17:00
tjagodawhich is, you know, what it's meant for..17:00
wolfgerWhen I was growing up, my family had an unabridged dictionary. That sucker was HUGE.17:00
brouschhttp://thesaurus.com/17:00
wolfgerand the language has grown.17:00
tjagodaI challenge you to carry around the OED17:00
tjagoda=P17:01
wolfgerbut the dictionaries you buy at the local bookstore are smaller than some novels17:01
wolfgerI use a page-a-day calendar to teach me words I didn't already know :-)17:01
wolfgerspeaking of which, I need to find that when I get home. It's gone missing :-(17:02
jrmyoh and on the note of why i use linux i kinda liek the look and feel kinda a change of pace17:02
tjagodaDon't you lie17:04
tjagodaYou'd be on windows if you had a copy17:04
tjagoda=P17:04
wolfgerLOL17:04
wolfgertjagoda: windows fanboy17:05
tjagodaSo much irony there17:05
jrmyi also enjoy using a shell17:05
tjagodaSays this chair of an Open Source convention17:05
jrmywell seeing as games are the only reason i use windows and i cant afford new games theres not much reason to use windows17:06
wolfgerWhy I prefer Linux: Stability, cost, availability of kick-ass apps, and control over my own computer. Why I prefer Windows: games.17:06
jrmysteam will eventually have more games for linux.. well last i knew17:07
jrmyunless that was just mac..17:07
jrmyhell, i dont remember now17:07
tjagodaYeah17:07
tjagodaYou're not on Ubuntu for stability17:07
tjagoda=P17:07
tjagodaSteam is not available on linux17:08
jrmyok17:08
jrmythen yeah mac17:08
tjagodajcastro!17:09
tjagodaKill!17:09
wolfgertjagoda: au contraire. I am definitely on Ubuntu for stability (versus previous versions of Windows).17:09
jrmyand currently the only computer games i play are from valvesoft and maybe some bethseda games17:09
jrmyother then that there is minecraft and cube17:10
wolfgerI only play Eve, and one of these days I will take enough time away from playing it to actually get it running under WINE17:10
jrmywhich are both playable on linux17:10
jrmyi prefer console for other games17:10
jrmy, emulator or a good old handheld17:11
jrmyso why not use linux?17:11
jrmyi hate how microsoft runs things17:11
jrmynever liked IE after i found out about firefox17:12
jrmyagain*17:12
jrmyinfact theres some other linux programs i use17:13
jrmyfree fits me much better about now17:13
tjagodawoflger: are you on 11.04?17:15
tjagodaYou're not on 11.04 for stability17:15
tjagoda=P17:15
jrmy11.04 now? yeah been awhile17:15
tjagodaI get the random crash back to login every now and again17:15
jrmyi'd liek to use maverick but it doesnt load my vidoe controller correctly17:16
jrmyor at least it didnt after the first stable release17:16
jrmybut my machine is old enough.. why upgrade anymore17:17
tjagodaThat sentence makes my brain explode17:18
tjagodaI hope I am misunderstanding it17:18
jrmyand idkquote17:18
jrmy-and idk*17:18
jrmywhich sentence?17:19
tjagodaLunch nao17:19
wolfgertjagoda: I'm on 11.04 for some hope of a working wifi driver :-p17:38
tjagodalol17:50
snap-lI want to uderstand which web page out there is telling people to use nusoap for PHP18:07
snap-lso I can ask for someone to take it down18:07
rick_h__hah18:07
snap-lso now I'm going to attempt to put together a PHP example18:13
snap-lwish me luck18:13
snap-lAh, nice: PHP native class for handling SOAP calls can't do WS-Security18:17
snap-lhttp://stronger.epsi.pl/2009/06/24/php-soap-wsse/18:17
jrwrenI've got an ASRock P45X3 Deluxe mobo and an MiniATX case that I don't want, both never used. Mobo does not fit into this case. anyone want?18:20
tjagodahttp://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/04/psn-update-sony-isnt-sure-your-credit-card-data-is-safe.ars18:24
tjagodaSony fails18:24
wolfgeras usual18:28
brouschsnap-l: have your php example call out to a python command18:30
snap-lbrousch: Heh18:31
waldo323jrwren, is there cpu or ram with the mobo?18:40
snap-land I punted, and just posted the python code, and a link to the PHP wsse auth example.18:42
brouschgood plan. go down that road and you'd be posting examples in smalltalk and VB.NET soon18:43
rick_h__snap-l: boooo :P18:46
rick_h__come on, surely you can whip up a command line friendly version that's php 5.0, 5.1, and 5.3 compat18:47
snap-lrick_h__: I only target PHP618:48
rick_h__doh18:48
snap-lsince that's what the bookstore said was the new hotness18:49
snap-lI'm a little disappointed (note: not surprised) that PHP Soap doesn't support WSSE auth18:50
snap-lNow that JoDee has a smartphone with Google Calendar, she's adminishing me for not putting things on the calendar19:13
rick_h__lol19:13
snap-lwheras before she barely used it19:13
rick_h__we do that all the time19:13
rick_h__"I have a ladies night coming up" "Is it on the calendar? I don't recall seeing that!"19:13
rick_h__or the reverse "I'm off to ladies night, make sure michael gets his meds"19:13
* rick_h__ checking calendar now that it's too late19:14
snap-lrick_h__: Yeah, well before I was the anal one19:14
snap-lnow that she's using her phone, she's becoming just as anal.19:14
rick_h__<3 google calendar19:15
rick_h__especially on the phone19:15
rick_h__I'll schedule my next dentist appt because I just put it on there and it's done19:15
rick_h__krondor: good timing, as I sit here trying to get the latest Cyanogen on my phone19:20
krondorrick_h__:  lol, yeah it was kind of rapid.  I was actually not expecting anyone to want to meet till post penguicon.19:22
rick_h__strike while the iron's hot19:22
wolfgerthat's the motto of the steelworkers union...19:23
jrwrenwaldo323: no cpu or ram with mobo19:26
snap-lBest review of Fluxx ever: I hate this game. I've actually played a game with a drunk who was ABSENT FROM THE ROOM for most of the game - and he still won. It's that frakin' random.19:49
wolfgerHeh19:51
wolfgergotta love it19:51
snap-lWow: http://blogs.perl.org/users/fibo/2011/04/every-perl-module-needs-a-test-file.html#comment-2259720:07
snap-lGod, Verizon gives you a separate sheet to understanding your bill20:14
snap-l"In this section, a mommy phone carrier and a daddy data plan love each other very much"20:15
rick_h__lol, awesome20:15
rick_h__snap-l: I love that comment: Starting your post with "I eat paste..." doesn't really help.20:18
snap-lThis is the context: http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2011/04/civility-starts-with-me.html20:20
snap-lApparently there's cantankerous dicks in the Perl community20:20
snap-lwho knew?20:20
snap-lI'm a bad boy20:26
snap-lGib asked if the board meeting was still on, and Jim McQuillan said yeah, didn't you get the meeting notice? I replied "Yeah, I got it. Maybe Juno ate it. ;)"20:27
rick_h__oooh20:28
rick_h__burn20:28
snap-lWell, seriously though, it's 2011, and the world has moved away from dial-up e-mail20:29
rick_h__http://www.comicsanscriminal.com/20:30
snap-lrick_h__: Nice.20:31
snap-ljcastro: I think I see what your problem is with identi.ca20:42
snap-la) You have auto-subscribe turned on20:42
snap-lb) You're subscribed to fabsh20:42
snap-lc) You're in the ubuntu group.20:43
jcastrohah20:43
jcastroif you think that's the only thing wrong with identi.ca20:43
snap-lToo many spammers join the ubuntu group20:43
jcastroare people still even on there?20:43
jcastroI haven't been on there like in 2 years20:43
snap-l"I just got a tasty sandwich from the fridge !debian !ubuntu !perl"20:44
snap-ljcastro: There's still people on identi.ca20:44
snap-linteresting people at times.20:44
greg-gjcastro: lots of good people, actually :/21:14
jcastrowho is on there that I can't get on twitter?21:14
jcastrooh, brad kuhn.21:14
jcastroright.21:14
greg-gmike linksvayer only sometimes posts to twitter21:15
greg-gchris webber (great CC guy)21:15
greg-glmorchard has conversations with people on identi.ca but not twitter21:15
greg-gthat's just the last 7 minutes or so of my stream21:16
greg-gclarification, sometimes lmorchard has conversations on identi.ca instead of twitter21:16
greg-gdepending on where the reply comes from, of course21:16
greg-gmy buddy Pete from Minneapolis ;)21:17
jrwrenpythonista gurus, any pointers on parsing a JSON style date. this one is from facebook21:17
rick_h__dateutils21:18
rick_h__if you can't just do strptime21:19
rick_h__for a given known format21:19
jrwren2011-04-21T20:17:10+000021:22
jrwrendatetime.strptime(status['created_time'], '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z')  but the %z seems to not work.21:22
jrwrenlooking for dateutils.21:22
rick_h__http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-dateutil/1.521:23
rick_h__it's the great auto date parser of python land21:23
jrwrenty21:23
jrwrenhttp://wiki.python.org/moin/WorkingWithTime  even says "there is no known workaround"21:25
rick_h__right, but that mentions datetime in 2.321:26
rick_h__sounds out of date to me21:26
rick_h__if you know it's ISO 8601: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/isodate/0.4.0 ?21:27
rick_h__no release for a while on that one though21:28
rick_h__I guess the hard way would just be to regex off the timezone off the end and parse the datetime + timedelta(xxxhours)21:29
jrwreni think django might ship with dateutil, so it should be just a matter of importing21:31
rick_h__yea, if it does it then cool. It's really common21:32
rick_h__but is separate21:32
rick_h__jrwren:  https://github.com/toastdriven/django-tastypie/issues/11821:33
rick_h__http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytz/2011e not sure if that does it21:34
snap-lchromatic also uses identi.ca21:36
jrwrenty21:36
smoseri thought rick_h__ was anti django. suprosed to see links from him with those dirty letters in them.21:48
jrwrenI think rick_h__ is just strongly pro-other solutions, whcih I am too, but some people use django22:04
snap-lnot to put words in rick_h__'s mouth, but I think his big problem is people using things without being too critical of why they're using it22:07
snap-lif Django fits your needs to a T, then by all means use it22:08
snap-lbut Django is very tightly coupled, so if you want to remove pieces, it becomes problematic, and the whole reason to use quickly deteriorates.22:08
snap-lhttp://magnatune.com/artists/albums/braid-soundtrack/22:10
snap-lMan, I knew I'd heard the music from Braid elsewhere.22:10
rick_h__jrwren: snap-l my problem with django is that people go nuts like it's the best thing when it fails to be the best in any category of the stack23:58
rick_h__orm, tempaltes, route dispatch, testing, wsgi-friendliness, it's not the best at anything23:59
rick_h__but because it tells people "do it this way, don't think too much and you'll be happy" people go gaga over it23:59
rick_h__basically :)23:59

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