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jrwrenrequest for Lococast 18... retract your VB6 open sourced announcement. it was a scam. its not being open sourced.02:47
snap-ljrwren: Thank God.02:54
greg-gg'morn12:01
brouschayup12:30
rick_h_oh wtf, Columbus has its own vim group now?! http://www.meetup.com/Vim-Columbus/events/20827741/?a=socialmedia12:48
brouschjealous?12:49
rick_h_damn ohio12:49
rick_h_yea, they've got multiple python groups, a freaking vim group, pyohio, olf12:50
brouschall we have i penguicon12:51
rick_h_and sorry, but that's not even the same12:51
brouschi know12:51
rick_h_that's like "We've got the auto show"12:51
rick_h_except "We've got the crazy people show"12:51
rick_h_:P12:51
brouschI have been toying with organizing an open source conference here. i just don't think many people would come12:53
brouschbesides, we have barcampgr12:53
rick_h_yea12:53
rick_h_all things start small though12:53
rick_h_first pyohio was somehting like 30 people or whatever12:54
rick_h_I mean we all fit in one big room12:54
Lledargorick_h_: I thought the 'crazy people show' was just regaurded as normal life?12:54
brouschi'd like to see more of that stuff from the east side12:54
brouschyou supposedly have all of the people12:54
brouschhow big is mug?12:54
rick_h_yea, but people here are anti social12:55
rick_h_on a great day 30 people12:55
rick_h_these days, with new location, etc, a bit smaller12:55
rick_h_but mug isn't made of conf material12:55
brouschug, grlug can bring in that many12:55
snap-lGood morning12:56
rick_h_morning12:56
brouschyes12:56
rick_h_meh, I'll be quiet. Just floored me they were getting a freaking vim group12:56
brouschgroups are easy to start ;)12:56
rick_h_I'm not going to start organizing anything anytime soon so if you're not helping, stop complaining12:56
brouschi declare vimgr!12:57
rick_h_heh, we had a 3 person CHC last night. Smallest I remember since thanksgiving12:57
brouschi could have 4 people at the first meeting ;)12:57
brouschi declared a chc-like weekly meeting yesterday. first one is next wednesday12:58
brousch8-10pm12:58
rick_h_awesome, should get it up on the web site as a location12:58
brouschwell it's really a relocation and time change of grlug saturday social12:59
rick_h_gotcha12:59
brouschi can't even call it an ubuntu hour yet12:59
brouschwe need a midwinter linux fest in lansing or ann arbor13:01
brouschdoes ann arbor have a linux group?13:01
rick_h_too mac happy :P13:02
brouschthat is becoming a problem13:03
greg-gbrousch: we have WLUG, washtenaw county lug13:09
brouschah13:10
WolfgerAh... we can all bask in the warm spotlight of the Linux Journal.... http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/ubuntu-bug-reporting-again13:58
WolfgerI think we should rewrite a maxim: "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are ignored for 6 months until somebody asks if it can be reproduced in the current version and/or latest alpha/beta release".14:01
WolfgerOK, I could waste way too much time on today's Google homepage.14:07
snap-lWolfger: The problem is that OSS has DUBS mentality14:12
snap-lWe don't perfect the wheel, we just make it bigger with more chrome14:12
WolfgerDUBS?14:13
snap-lSorry, DUB14:13
snap-lOh c'mon, you've worked at Chrysler long enough to know what DUB is.14:14
WolfgerI'm acronym impaired, sorry14:14
snap-lRefers to 20 inch wheels14:14
snap-lChrysler partnered with them to trick out the Magnum, 300, etc.14:14
snap-lhttp://v2.dubmag.net14:14
Wolfgerah... see, now, you mistake me for a car guy just because I work at a car company.14:14
snap-lI'm nto a car company, but they handed out posters of those cars like they were candy.14:15
snap-lIt was like a badge of honor how many and how old your posters were.14:15
Wolfgerheheheh14:15
WolfgerI never got a poster14:16
snap-lhttp://www.benlevy.com/auto/show/cas07/chrysler300c.jpg14:16
snap-lThat is DUB in a nutshell14:16
snap-lTricked out, custom.14:17
snap-lTurns heads14:17
snap-land the moment you hit a curb, you're down $3K14:17
WolfgerLOL. Firewall blocked that site.14:18
snap-lYou're shitting me14:20
snap-lhang on14:20
snap-lhttp://ubuntuone.com/p/yLH/14:20
snap-lSorry the great firewall of Chrysler doesn't want you seeing their product DUBed out.14:21
snap-lThough, maybe that's a good thing. :)14:21
snap-lWhy the fuck is that site blocked? IT's a guy taking pictures of cars.14:22
WolfgerROFL14:22
WolfgerI gave up trying to make sense of it.14:22
Wolfgerso.... yeah. Really impractical tires.14:23
snap-lI mean, I could understand if it was a site dedicated to Race Queens or models14:23
snap-lbut this is _your bread and butter_14:23
Wolfgerheheheh14:24
WolfgerI'll just play guitar on Google a bit longer while we contemplate the logic behind that.14:24
Lledargolol i didn't realize that the logo was interactive today, going to play guitar right now14:25
Wolfgerand you can record it14:26
Wolfgerand they give you a link so you can share your recording14:27
LledargoYeah, thats awsome.14:27
WolfgerGoogle is <314:27
jrwrencolumbus is a very tech city.  its like ann arbor, but 5 times the populus... and about 2 times the techies :p14:56
jrwrenthey had to grow 5 times just to keep up 2x :)14:56
jrwrenwhat surprises me most bout the columbus vim meeetup is that I don't nkow any of those 8 on the lsit :)14:57
jrwren'cept Raju who says "maybe"14:57
=== DBOut is now known as DBO
binbrainjrwren: what the big tech industries in Columbus?15:04
binbrainwhat <are>15:04
Wolfgeruh.... hosting conferences?15:14
snap-lHeh15:15
snap-lThat's my thought. :)15:15
jrwrenlol.15:20
jrwrenlots of finance, insurance.15:20
jrwrenfor the "cool" factor, edgecase is there.15:20
Wolfger0_o15:20
WolfgerFinance and insurance are tech industries?15:20
binbrainI'd say so15:20
binbrainnot directly of course15:21
jrwrenevery industry in high tech.15:22
jrwreneven escavation.15:22
jrwrendo you know what kind of tech they use in escavation?  its crazy.15:23
binbrainfinance spurs a massive amount of tech innovation around here15:23
jrwrenoil drilling - high tech.15:23
WolfgerJust because an industry *uses* tech doesn't mean they *are* tech.15:23
_stink_so every city is a very tech city?15:23
jrwrentech for tech sake is useless.15:23
jrwrenno, but every city has tech.15:23
jrwrenits just a matter of how much.15:23
jrwrenand cbus has A LOT of stuff15:23
WolfgerA hospital is not a tech business. The companies that make the equipment they use are.15:24
binbrainId say some industries are less likely to be technically innovative though15:24
Wolfgera financial firm: not tech. The company that writes their software: tech.15:24
jrwreni disagree.15:24
binbrainfinancial firms around here mostly write their own stuff in house15:25
binbrainat least the stuff I hear about15:25
jrwrenbut if you mean "tech business" as in a business that makes money selling tech, then I agree.15:25
jrwrenbut there are very few of those in existence.15:25
jrwrengoogle is not a tech business for example15:25
jrwrenapple is not15:25
jrwrenMSFT is.15:25
jrwrenbut now we are talking business revenue models15:26
jrwrenso I don't see how "tech business" is relevant15:26
WolfgerGoogle is very tech. Their product is advertising, but they build a massive amount of non-advertising tech to achieve their goal.15:27
WolfgerApple is not? Are you insane?15:27
jrwrenSee, I have no idea waht you are talkinga bout.15:27
jrwrenyou are argueing my side now.15:27
jrwrenin that Finance & Insurance can be tech.15:28
jrwrenjust because you don't know about it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.15:28
Wolfgercan be != are, and I've seen no example of a finance or insurance firm accomplishing their goals via building tech15:28
jrwrenwow.15:29
jrwrenwell, here are some examples: NYSE, NASDAQ, VISA, CITI15:29
jrwrenall leverage tech to competetive advantage.15:29
WolfgerI'm astounded still that you think Apple doesn't count as a tech firm when that is all they do is build and sell bits of technology.15:29
WolfgerWhat bit of tech has NYSE built?15:30
jrwreni didn't say that.15:31
jrwrenI said they do not make $$$ selling tech.15:31
jrwrenmost of apple's revenue is from selling media and dsitribution15:31
jrwrenits from ITMS not from ipods15:31
jrwrenchoose what we are talking about, how they make money, or what they do.15:31
Wolfgerfiddlesticks15:31
Wolfgeritms is recent15:32
jrwrenif it is what they do, then NYSE has to build high speed trading systems15:32
jrwrenitms has been around for almost 10 yrs15:32
WolfgerApple has always been a hardware company, and still is15:32
WolfgerThey have found a new revenue stream, yes15:32
jrwrenyou are just wrong.15:32
Wolfgerbut it is based upon the hardware15:32
jrwrengo read an annual report.15:32
jrwrenyour statements reflect public perception, but not business reality.15:33
jrwrenyes, they could not get the distrub revenue without the devices in consumers hands. that is true.15:34
Wolfgercheck the press releases: http://www.apple.com/pr/15:34
Wolfgertech, tech, and more tech15:34
Wolfgernothing in there about music15:34
Wolfgerquarterly statement: "Apple sold 3.76 million Macs during the quarter, a 28 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 18.65 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 113 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 9.02 million iPods during the quarter, representing a 17 percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter. The Company also sold 4.69 million iPads15:35
Wolfger during the quarter. "15:35
WolfgeriTunes is not mentioned15:36
WolfgerITMS is not mentioned15:36
Wolfgerhttp://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/04/20results.html15:37
jrwrenjcastro: moving to florida??? WTF?!?!?15:55
jrwrenWolfger: then I'm misinformed.15:56
Wolfgerjcastro moving to FL?15:56
rick_h_yea, something about chasing a woman :)16:00
krondorI wonder if Florida has been cooler then MI lately16:00
jrwrenreading teh anual report, "iPhone and related rpoducts and services" is 4X any other product area and "Other... services" is 1/8 of iphone sales.16:02
jrwrenYou are right, my bad.16:02
jcastrojrwren: yeah for a year for jill's internship16:05
jcastrono worries, we'll be back16:05
jrwrenho good16:07
krondorjcastro:  what you think for the atv2 xbmc replacement?  http://bit.ly/kh3yBC16:08
jcastrokrondor: whoa, that's dirt cheap16:09
snap-lhttp://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=816:09
krondoryeah, I don't the brand but ... my only concern is it's ion 1 and atom 330 so not sure if it is a bit underpowered16:10
snap-lApple better get on the stick, or I'm going to have to send Jorge a case of beer.16:10
krondorwow I'm forgetting words... I don't know the brand.16:10
jcastrokrondor: jill has an atom 330 in hers16:32
jcastroit's fine16:32
jcastroI'd be more worried about the ion1 tbh, but iirc that can chop through 1080p quite well16:32
krondoryeah looks like from the xbmc forms performance should be just fine.  To the shopping cart it is.16:36
krondorugh something is seriously wrong with me today s/forms/forums/16:37
WolfgerUSA resumes airstrikes in Yemen? When did we stop them? When did we start them in the first place???17:53
snap-lWolfger: Welcome back18:02
Wolfgerwe's just droppin' bombs everywhere18:05
Wolfgerno wonder nobody likes us.18:05
snap-lWell, that and the news just can't get enough cock to satisfy it.18:08
brouschsnap-l: i believe you mean weiner18:09
snap-lSSDC18:09
snap-lSame Shit, Different Cock18:10
WolfgerLOL18:10
WolfgerYes. Let's ignore how well (or, more often, poorly) our elected officials run the country, and instead focus on the important matter of their sex lives.18:10
snap-lWolfger: It's easier to drag things down to a hea-said-she-said playground debate than it is to really have hinest and thoughtful discussion18:11
snap-lWhat's even better is it's probably some character assasination18:12
snap-lafter all, few politicians can withstand the mortal would of sex scandal18:13
snap-lyou'd have to be JFK or Clinton to withstand that kind of accusation18:13
WolfgerUh-oh. ThinkGeek is targeting snap-l directly... http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/frustrations/e961/?cpg=162H&image18:14
snap-lheh18:17
rick_h_ok, so should a dba know how to write stored procedures and know how to ssh/tunnel ?19:01
brouschstored proceedures, if his db supports it19:01
rick_h_feel like I'm doing this moron's work for him and want to know if I'm being a cranky old man or not19:02
rick_h_"Is there any way to connect to AWS in MySQL Workbench so I don’t have to do all this command line stuff?19:02
rick_h_"19:02
brouschit is certainly something he should learn19:02
rick_h_about to explode at that comment19:03
brouschcommand line sux19:03
brouschgui r0x19:03
rick_h_then ssh tunnel the damn thing19:03
brouschthat's networking stuff!19:04
brouschbut i would hope you could point him at a ssh tunnel howto and have him do it19:04
Wolfgercruel and unusual punishment that is. Making somebody touch a command line like that.19:06
brouschnext thing you know you'll take away his TP and make him wipe with a corncob19:07
snap-lUm, he's a DBA. He should be OK with the command line19:09
Wolfgerthat's crazy talk19:09
snap-lSorry, but if you can't admin a DB from the command line, you're not doing it right.19:09
WolfgerYou're using MS-SQL, right? ;-)19:09
brouschaccess does not give me a command line19:09
snap-lThat said, I've run into a bunch of DBAs at Ford that used TOAD19:09
Wolfgerthat sounds rather repugnant19:10
snap-land Sybase DBAs at Chrysler that used that funky poonched thing that escapes my reckoning.19:10
snap-lbrousch: If you're using Access, you deserve whatever hellish torment a GUI can give you.19:11
brouschreckoning should be properly escaped before you put it in your db19:11
brouschsnap-l: believe it or now, it's a really nice gui for db crud19:11
snap-lbrousch: I've used it in the past with Oracle19:12
snap-land have used Excel via ODBC to Oracle19:12
snap-lit wasn't pretty, but it worked.19:12
brouschthat's half of our business application! well, Access instead of oracle19:12
snap-lI have to hand it to MS; ODBC is a nasty protocol, but it does work.19:13
brouschpyodbc makes it useful19:14
snap-lEmbarcadero19:14
snap-lThat's the company that made the tool we used.19:14
snap-lRegardless, if your DBA objects to using the command line, they're suspect.19:14
snap-lThat's like a guy calling himself a UNIX admin because he uses Webmin.19:15
brouschwhat's wrong with webmin?!19:16
WolfgerThat's like a guy calling himself a web developer because he made a GeoCities page.19:16
brouschdamn you all? what am i?!19:16
snap-lWolfger: Shhhh19:16
snap-lBack in the 1990s that was all you needed.19:16
krondoranyone familiar with 'icewarp' mail server?19:17
Wolfger <marquee><blink>GeoCities</blink> was never enough!</marquee>19:17
snap-lhttp://paste.mitechie.com/show/335/19:19
snap-lI'm a web developer. :)19:19
snap-lkrondor: Heard of it in passing, but that's about it19:20
WolfgerOh, well, if you did it all in Perl, that's different! ;-)19:21
krondorhmm, trying to figure out stuff about it.  A smaller IT group has been running it for awhile I guess and now I need to sync their mail accounts to our spam solution.19:21
snap-l(Sadly, I've seen variations on that Perl script more times than I care to admit"19:21
Wolfgerthat's because a lot of people C&P'd the same bad example.19:21
Wolfger> half the web wouldn't exist without copyright infringement.19:22
Wolfger"we'll just take this website and change the content"19:22
snap-lWe used to joke that there was only three original web pages, and the rest was C&P from thosepages.19:22
Wolfgerthat was before CSS, though19:23
snap-lkrondor: I seem to remember (falsely, perhaps) that icewarp was some OSS project at some point19:23
WolfgerNow there's maybe 2 dozen19:23
snap-lmaybe I'm thinking of Firefox / Iceweasel19:23
krondorsnap-l:  no I think I recall that, but looking at their website I see nothing OSS now... not sure19:24
snap-lLike, it was Zimbra or something big before some fork19:25
brouschsomeone forked zimbra? wow, that is a mighty beast19:27
snap-lthat's what I'm remembering, though I could be horribly mistaken19:45
snap-lthe ol' brain don't remember so good.19:45
rick_h_bah ok, he's no DBA. He's a freaking guy that did reporting on MSSQL server and got a job doing mysql db reporting crap here19:55
rick_h_and doesn't get temp tables, stored procs, etc19:55
rick_h_"done any programming?"19:55
rick_h_"some vbscript?"19:55
rick_h_...19:55
rick_h_so you mean no then19:56
snap-lHeh19:59
snap-lSorry, but if you're a DBA, you get, nay, love stored procedures19:59
snap-lmeans you get to be touchy-feely about the code banging against your database.20:00
jrwrensome python? so you mean no then.20:00
snap-lAw, who woke 'im up?20:00
* brousch sniffs the air. I smell troll20:00
jrwren"you setup a 1000 node linux cluster, but never built your own kernel? We'll put your skill level at n00b"20:01
brouschsnap-l: he has a alert set on vbscript20:01
snap-ljrwren: If the only programming you've ever done, as part of your existence on this planet we call earth, is VBScript, you are worthy of derision.20:01
jrwrenits foolish generalizations like that which cause the need for ubuntu code of conduct.20:02
jrwrenITS JUST A PROGRAMMING LANGAUGE20:02
snap-lIt is the programming equivalent of saying that you've seen Rome because you bought that month's National Geographic.20:02
jrwrenyou can program shit in any language.20:02
jrwrenexcept that its not.20:02
jrwrenlmgtfy.com?q=define:strawman%20argument20:02
brouschoh man, did jrwren just CoC-slap snap-l?20:03
_stink_file charges!20:03
snap-lhttp://jwilliams.org/C2090488437/E1354392596/index.html20:04
snap-lhttp://lmgtfy.com/?q=vbscript+sucks+donkey+balls20:04
jrwrenlol.20:05
jrwrenso, just like php, perl, ruby? http://www.bitstorm.org/edwin/en/php/20:05
jrwrenhttp://www.simmoril.com/blog/?p=13520:06
jrwrenhttp://juixe.com/techknow/index.php/2007/09/21/java-ruby-and-even-python-sucks/20:06
snap-lI have seen sins committed in PHP20:06
snap-lAtrocities in Ruby20:06
jrwrenEVERY langauge has its warts.20:06
rick_h_look, if the guy has my co-worker writing a freaking C user defined functino no mysql that's taken down the damn server 10x in the last two weeks for this: http://daphne.palomar.edu/stat/vs%20medianfd.html20:06
rick_h_then he's not a db guy or a programmer20:06
rick_h_that's all I'm saying20:06
snap-land language genocie in Perl20:07
snap-lbut they still don't hold a candle to the language hari-kari that I've seen of VB and VBScript.20:07
jrwrenyeah, I don't know waht that maens.20:08
jrwrenI've seen great VB & VBscript.20:08
jrwrenI know VB and VBScript coders taht can code circles around a lot of python coders I know.20:08
jrwrenEVERY langauge has its warts.20:08
jrwrenEVERY langauge has its poor coders and its guru coders.20:08
jrwrenwait... he is writing median function in C???20:09
jrwrenWTF for?20:09
snap-lhttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=visual%20basic20:09
snap-ljrwren: When there's an urban dictionary entry for how shit the language is, I believe the argument stands that VB is shit.20:09
jrwrenyou are citing urban dictionary entry. I'll let that speak for itself.20:10
jrwrenmysql median function is the first user comment here : http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/group-by-functions.html20:10
rick_h_right, but it's not weighted20:11
rick_h_so the custom function has to handle a weight to the results, not hard, but for some reason it came to my co-worker that it needed to be written as this "udf" in mysql20:11
rick_h_which has been a mess/nightmare20:11
snap-ljrwren: that's the freaking point. This guy is not a DBA20:12
snap-land to add insult to injury, he only has coded in VBScript20:12
* snap-l puts himself in time-out.20:12
jrwrenmaybe point him to this : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1291152/simple-way-to-calculate-median-with-mysql20:13
jrwrenand teach him the power of searching google and stackoverflow for solutions :)20:14
rick_h_it's not any of those, it's a grouped median20:14
rick_h_I agree with him that there's not a built in function in mysql to do it20:14
rick_h_however, he should be able to whip up a SP to handle it20:14
rick_h_and the fact that he's doesn't know temp tables and hasn't written any SP frustrates me that my co-worker has been chasing what she was 'told' to do where it was clearly not the right way20:15
jrwrenits a bummer that there are inexperienced devs out there that make poor decisions.20:35
jrwrenits also the norm.20:35
snap-l++20:35
rick_h_oh no doubt, and it's partially my coworkers fault20:36
rick_h_she 'assumed' that he tried/knew how to do things db side without her C based udf20:36
rick_h_when that was a big false assumption20:36
jrwrensounds like the team isn't functioning as a "team" ;)20:41
jrwrenalso the norm.20:41
rick_h_yea, ugh20:41
snap-lgreg-g: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcV4LVhSRLg21:31
snap-lI'm not sure how Ubuntu One managed this, but this file is taking longer to download than it did to upload it.22:24
snap-lOh hell no23:15
snap-lHell no23:15
snap-lMy Blue Microphone isn't working with Natty23:15
snap-lWhat the fuck23:16
snap-lThis works on the laptop just fine23:17
snap-lAnd apparently booting with the mic installed worked.23:31
snap-lI am really starting to get very annoyed with this23:44
snap-lSomething is causing me to be unable to record.23:44
snap-lFucking overdub. Seems now Audacity / Natty can't handle that anymore23:45

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