[10:37] <JonathanD> Morning.
[10:40] <rmg51> morning JonathanD
[10:40] <JonathanD> hey rmg51
[10:41] <rmg51> o/
[13:36] <InHisName> Morning everyone
[14:09] <InHisName> Isn't it wonderful ??   It is FRIDAY!   It's Friday.
[14:09] <teddy-dbear> o/
[14:09] <InHisName> teddy-dbear has transformed into a BOT!
[14:10] <teddy-dbear> one day before the end of the world ;-)
[15:40] <ChinnoDog> hi peeps
[15:41] <teddy-dbear> o/
[15:44] <ssweeny> wassup ChinnoDog
[15:45] <ChinnoDog> nuffin much. Got me a mexican hot chocolate and an apple danish.
[15:51] <ssweeny> nice
[16:08] <ChinnoDog> ssweeny: What do you do for Canonical now?
[16:09] <ssweeny> ChinnoDog, i'm in the OEM solutions group
[16:09] <ssweeny> basically i customize ubuntu for new hardware
[16:10] <ChinnoDog> For whose hardware?
[16:11] <ssweeny> can't say
[16:12] <ssweeny> well, i can say that for instance my group created the netbook interface for the dell mini
[16:12] <ssweeny> so things like that
[16:13] <ChinnoDog> Ah. So, you are customizing it for vendors. That is what I wanted to know.
[16:13] <ChinnoDog> Do they pay you to do this or does Canonical do this to push Ubuntu?
[16:13] <ssweeny> both i guess
[16:14] <ssweeny> some of the stuff ends up in ubuntu
[16:14] <ssweeny> like unity-2d, which i believe came out of the oem group
[16:15] <ChinnoDog> But I mean when someone like Dell wants to sell a laptop with Ubuntu do they pay your group to cut them an Ubuntu image/install or does Canonical volunteer to make one so Dell can ship Ubuntu?
[16:16] <ChinnoDog> i.e. Who is actually paying your salary?
[16:22] <ssweeny> i believe that dell pays for the customization
[16:22] <ssweeny> but i've only been here a week so what do i know?
[16:36] <ChinnoDog> ssweeny: are you doing ARM builds?
[16:36] <ssweeny> ChinnoDog, not at the moment. why?
[16:36] <ChinnoDog> Just wondering
[16:36] <ChinnoDog> Any non x86 architectures?
[16:37] <ssweeny> ubuntu already has ports to arm and powerpc
[16:37] <ssweeny> and debian has a ton more
[16:38] <ssweeny> actually the ubuntu powerpc port may be unmaintained now
[16:40] <ChinnoDog> I meant your group. ARe you doing non x86 customizations?
[16:46] <ChinnoDog> AMD is releasing a 128-bit CPU this year? Sweet.
[16:47] <ChinnoDog> When can I get Ubuntu 128-bit edition?
[16:50] <ChinnoDog> MS is working on 128-bit Win 8.
[16:50]  * ChinnoDog expects Ubuntu 128-bit released tomorrow
[16:54]  * ssweeny gets right on that
[16:55] <ChinnoDog> \o/
[16:55] <JonathanD> I want 640-bit
[16:55] <JonathanD> that ought to be enough for anyone.
[17:25] <ChinnoDog> Oh. Its not just this year, its next month. http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20110307165713_AMD_Finalizes_Shipment_Dates_for_Next_Gen_Chips.html
[17:25] <PennBot> Title: AMD Finalizes Shipment Dates for Next-Gen Chips - X-bit labs (at www.xbitlabs.com)
[17:27] <ssweeny> man we just got 64-bit working right on the desktop
[17:30] <ChinnoDog> Good. This can be an excercise in portability. The same things that make the 64-bit version work should make 128-bit work, correct?
[17:31] <ChinnoDog> There isn't a whole lot of 64-bit only software but there is 32-bit, so just need to write the compatibility library for running 32-bit code on 128-bit CPU and it should be pretty much the same experience.
[17:34]  * ssweeny does not really see the utility of a 128-bit cpu at this point
[17:34] <ssweeny> all it will really do is bloat software
[17:42] <ChinnoDog> I can't tell if there are x86-128 instructions. Maybe the architecture is 128-bit but the instructions are still 64-bit.
[17:43] <ChinnoDog> Theoretically having a 128-bit wide data path should allow you to process 64-bit instructions twice as fast, right?
[17:44] <ssweeny> it's not just the instructions
[17:44] <ssweeny> you also have pointers and ints
[18:28] <pleia2> and monkeys and daffodils
[18:29] <ssweeny> those too
[18:31] <teddy-dbear> no unicorns?
[18:33] <pleia2> unicorns are unrelated
[18:35] <ssweeny> unicorns are orthogonal to instruction set size
[18:35] <ssweeny> everyone knows that
[19:05] <teddy-dbear> how about cookies?
[19:05] <teddy-dbear> cookies are good anytime :-[
[19:08] <ssweeny> cookies are apparently a sometimes food
[19:20] <teddy-dbear> cookies are an anytime food :-D
[19:25] <ssweeny> that's what i thought
[19:53] <ChinnoDog> cookies++
[19:58] <ChinnoDog> I could use a nap
[20:02] <ssweeny> naps++
[20:02] <pleia2> naps++
[20:11] <teddy-dbear> cookies++
[20:11] <teddy-dbear> naps++
[20:12] <teddy-dbear> cookies then a nap :-D
[20:26] <ChinnoDog> so sleepy
[20:26]  * ChinnoDog slaps ChinnoDog around a bit with a large trout
[22:21] <ChinnoDog> What are you all up to this weekend?
[22:26] <rmg51> PACS on Sat.
[22:26] <rmg51> if the world doesn't end first
[22:28] <waltman> The world isn't ending until 6 PM, so you've got plenty of time to his PACS first.
[22:30] <rmg51> just in time for dinner
[22:32] <ChinnoDog> So.. Why is the rapture tomorrow?
[22:33] <rmg51> some dumbass said so :-/
[22:33] <rmg51> dinner time
[22:35] <jedijf> ChinnoDog: noah's ark anniversary, i believe
[22:41] <ChinnoDog> lol. I'm reading the wikipedia page on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_end_times_prediction
[22:41] <PennBot> Title: 2011 end times prediction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (at en.wikipedia.org)
[22:43] <ChinnoDog> hehe. Rapture Relief Fund!
[22:55] <waltman> Wow, his argument for it being 7000 years after the flood is a bit dubious.
[23:24] <jedijf> @seen mutantturkey
[23:24] <PennBot> jedijf: mutantturkey was last seen in #ubuntu-us-pa 2 weeks, 1 day, 20 hours, 42 minutes, and 10 seconds ago: <MutantTurkey> what can you do with the new 11.04? even less than the 8.10!