| meonkeys | hi guys! | 04:07 |
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| meonkeys | this link in the topic doesn't work for me: http://on.fb.me/ctDyKO | 04:08 |
| meonkeys | it goes to facebook.com, then an error page shows up saying "the content could not be displayed" | 04:08 |
| meonkeys | also, I got an HTTP 500 error trying to get to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WashingtonTeam/ApprovalApplication | 04:08 |
| valorie | wiki opens right up for me | 04:09 |
| valorie | ubuntu has a problem with their wiki -- it is ancient and creaky | 04:09 |
| valorie | fb link doesn't work for me either | 04:10 |
| valorie | have we met, meonkeys? | 04:10 |
| meonkeys | here's what I see: http://inky.ws/g/aa | 04:10 |
| valorie | if not, hello | 04:10 |
| meonkeys | valorie: hi! I don't know. | 04:10 |
| meonkeys | I was at LFNW, I gave a talk on Vim: http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/sessions/beyond-wq-life-changing-vim-plugins | 04:11 |
| meonkeys | I've been an Ubuntu user for a few years now. | 04:11 |
| valorie | did you come by the loco table? | 04:11 |
| valorie | Key Details | 04:11 |
| valorie | Date Established - (Thursday 19 October, 2006) | 04:11 |
| valorie | Team Contact - Chuck West <chuck@olylug.org> | 04:11 |
| valorie | Membership - 28 as of August 2010 | 04:11 |
| valorie | Mailing List - https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-wa | 04:11 |
| valorie | Laundpad Team - https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-washington | 04:11 |
| valorie | Forums - http://washington.ubuntuforums.org | 04:11 |
| valorie | IRC - #ubuntu-us-wa on irc.freenode.net:6667 | 04:11 |
| Lancelot | hey valorie | 04:11 |
| valorie | from the wiki page | 04:11 |
| meonkeys | No, I didn't come by the loco table | 04:12 |
| valorie | hi Lancelot | 04:12 |
| meonkeys | valorie: yep, saw that on the page too, thanks. | 04:12 |
| Lancelot | how'd sunday go? | 04:12 |
| valorie | how did your exams go? | 04:12 |
| Lancelot | it was alright | 04:12 |
| valorie | it was much slower | 04:12 |
| Lancelot | I'll get my mark on wednesday | 04:12 |
| valorie | but I got to spend quite a bit of time with two beginners | 04:12 |
| valorie | showing them IRC, and such | 04:12 |
| Lancelot | yeah | 04:12 |
| valorie | which was cool | 04:12 |
| Lancelot | that's nice | 04:12 |
| valorie | burned quite a few more CDs | 04:12 |
| Lancelot | did you go to any of the talks? | 04:13 |
| valorie | gave out maybe 30 or 40 | 04:13 |
| valorie | one on Sat. | 04:13 |
| valorie | excellent | 04:13 |
| valorie | the EFF/ACLU talk | 04:13 |
| Lancelot | I showed up for the last half of it | 04:13 |
| Lancelot | lost track of time | 04:13 |
| valorie | I was late as well | 04:13 |
| valorie | that table was BUSY! | 04:13 |
| Lancelot | no kidding | 04:14 |
| valorie | too bad you didn't stop by, meonkeys | 04:14 |
| Lancelot | it was a pretty popular talk | 04:14 |
| Lancelot | score | 04:14 |
| Lancelot | I discovered I have a linux mint image | 04:15 |
| valorie | I'm so glad I discovered multisystem USB | 04:17 |
| valorie | used that so often this weekend! | 04:17 |
| Lancelot | yeah | 04:17 |
| Lancelot | it looks pretty good | 04:17 |
| valorie | and burned at least 5 USBs for people | 04:17 |
| valorie | super easy to use | 04:17 |
| valorie | and fast, fast, fast | 04:17 |
| meonkeys | valorie: yep. I didn't spend much time in the expo hall, just to register, then later to hang at the FSF booth during the raffle. | 04:17 |
| Lancelot | nice | 04:17 |
| Lancelot | oh, check this out: http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,226435/printable.html | 04:18 |
| valorie | you were right close! | 04:18 |
| valorie | 10 feet away | 04:18 |
| valorie | lol | 04:18 |
| valorie | heh | 04:19 |
| Lancelot | :p | 04:19 |
| valorie | sounds interesting, Lancelot | 04:19 |
| valorie | except it ain't KDE | 04:19 |
| valorie | so, not so interesting to ME | 04:20 |
| Lancelot | ... | 04:20 |
| valorie | :-) | 04:20 |
| Lancelot | that's just an example | 04:20 |
| valorie | right | 04:20 |
| Lancelot | you really like KDE don't you? | 04:20 |
| meonkeys | valorie: aha, linda just approved me; now I can see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WashingtonTeam/ApprovalApplication | 04:29 |
| valorie | I love KDE | 04:30 |
| valorie | I don't dislike Gnome, or Unity | 04:30 |
| valorie | I just much prefer KDE | 04:31 |
| valorie | and I love the kde community | 04:31 |
| valorie | as well as the ubuntu community | 04:31 |
| Lancelot | it's alright | 04:31 |
| meonkeys | anyone know if it's possible to use the GNOME Shell instead of Unity in Natty? | 04:41 |
| valorie | yes | 04:42 |
| meonkeys | cool. | 04:42 |
| valorie | son was trying it out | 04:42 |
| meonkeys | CJ Collier, are you in here? | 04:45 |
| Lancelot | from what I've seen so far Unity is failing | 04:45 |
| Lancelot | really really hard | 04:45 |
| meonkeys | failing how? people don't want it? | 04:46 |
| valorie | I dunno -- people resist change | 04:46 |
| valorie | gnome 3 is basically the same thing as unity | 04:46 |
| meonkeys | Jack Wallen very much prefers the gnome shell: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/gnome-shell-vs-ubuntu-unity-which-desktop-wins/2291 | 04:47 |
| Lancelot | the changes in gnome 3 are so stupid | 04:47 |
| meonkeys | the one thing that really made me want the GNOME shell instead of unity was the lack of a run dialog in Unity | 04:47 |
| meonkeys | I use the run dialog all the time. | 04:47 |
| Lancelot | they're the perfect example of why liberal arts majors should work in coffee shops IMO | 04:47 |
| Lancelot | I mean, basic functionality is not something you mess with | 04:47 |
| Lancelot | changing something for the sake of changing it is useless | 04:48 |
| meonkeys | I think they're changing it to try and improve it | 04:48 |
| meonkeys | (the user interface, that is) | 04:48 |
| Lancelot | how is removing the minimize and maximize buttons an improvement? | 04:49 |
| Lancelot | I use those all the time | 04:49 |
| Lancelot | I don't even think about it | 04:49 |
| meonkeys | I don't, so, I guess that would be an improvement for me. :) | 04:49 |
| meonkeys | I usually just hit F11 to maximize or un-maximize, and drag window corners to resize. | 04:50 |
| meonkeys | The close button seems like a waste of space too, Alt-F4 works great. :) | 04:50 |
| meonkeys | I guess I just prefer less mouse, more keyboard. | 04:50 |
| Lancelot | the work I do requires a mouse | 04:51 |
| Lancelot | design stuff | 04:51 |
| Lancelot | so I use it a fair bit | 04:51 |
| Lancelot | even with only a keyboard I use those buttons | 04:51 |
| meonkeys | ah, gotcha. | 04:51 |
| meonkeys | Say, do you use Inkscape much? | 04:51 |
| Lancelot | never heard of it | 04:52 |
| Lancelot | by design I mean like cad | 04:52 |
| Lancelot | things like CAD* | 04:52 |
| meonkeys | ah, ok | 04:52 |
| meonkeys | yeah, Inkscape is mainly for vector graphics. | 04:52 |
| meonkeys | I did a little bit of CAD with qcad. That was kinda fun. | 04:53 |
| Lancelot | I see | 04:53 |
| Lancelot | I've been looking for a good linux program | 04:53 |
| Lancelot | freecad looks alright | 04:53 |
| meonkeys | But then my wife showed me up by designing our entire bathroom remodel in SketchUp | 04:53 |
| Lancelot | now that I have more free time I'll be able to try more | 04:54 |
| Lancelot | eww | 04:54 |
| Lancelot | google... | 04:54 |
| meonkeys | eww what? | 04:54 |
| Lancelot | eh, just a personal thing | 04:55 |
| Lancelot | moving on | 04:55 |
| meonkeys | *yawn* | 04:56 |
| meonkeys | bye all, nice "meeting" you! Time to watch Obama's standup at the WHCA dinner. | 04:56 |
| Lancelot | have fun | 04:57 |
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| Lancelot | valorie: are there any other conferences that happen around washington? | 05:28 |
| Lancelot | I just looked up linuxcon, but admission is 100 dollars at student pricing | 05:29 |
| valorie | not that I know of | 05:30 |
| valorie | I go down to OSCON, but not to anything but the free stuff | 05:30 |
| valorie | and staff the booth there | 05:31 |
| valorie | and attend CLS the weekend before | 05:31 |
| Lancelot | how long of a drive is that? | 05:31 |
| valorie | which is an unconference, and free | 05:31 |
| valorie | but not just linux | 05:31 |
| valorie | that's in Portland | 05:31 |
| Lancelot | hmm | 05:31 |
| valorie | there is some other stuff in Portland, but I don't know about free | 05:31 |
| valorie | portland OR is 3 hours drive for me | 05:31 |
| Lancelot | ouch | 06:37 |
| Lancelot | well then this seems alright | 06:40 |
| Lancelot | so you only get to go to the expo hall for free? | 06:42 |
| valorie | the expo hall, lightning talks, and Bofs | 07:04 |
| valorie | I had a lot of fun -- some of my KDE peeps were there too | 07:04 |
| valorie | speaking | 07:04 |
| valorie | so I had people to hang out with | 07:04 |
| Lancelot | sounds okay | 07:15 |
| Lancelot | I don't think I can drive that far though | 07:15 |
| meonkeys | what about Open Source Bridge? I've heard that's awesome. | 15:42 |
| valorie | I haven't gone, so I don't know | 22:19 |
| valorie | i have heard good things, yes | 22:19 |
| althara | the link for the release party pictures has probably expired | 23:44 |
| althara | our facebook group is scheudled to be archived | 23:46 |
| althara | I just contacted Paul to see if he can handle it or add me as an admin ont he group page. | 23:52 |
| althara | *on the | 23:52 |
| valorie | i miss paul | 23:57 |
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