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snap-lWhere's tjagoda when you need him?00:30
snap-lhttp://thisismynext.com/2011/06/16/rims-latest-earnings-call-500k-playbooks-shipped-layoffs-coming/00:30
rick_h_yea, saw an article on how O2 in europe is going to stop carrying the playbook01:05
rick_h_"lack of customer value" or something01:05
rick_h_thought of him01:05
snap-lWEll, they've had the most athetic launch of any tablet I've ever seen01:06
rick_h_http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20071619-260/o2-snubs-playbook-over-customer-experience-issue/01:07
rick_h_" a cut of 20 to 29 percent."01:09
rick_h_ouch01:09
snap-lYeah, they're getting smoked01:09
rick_h_dammit, that db moron is taking down the db again, ugh01:11
snap-lWhy?01:11
rick_h_stupid mysql user defined function (udf)01:11
snap-lOh, beauty.01:11
snap-lThat DB guy. :01:12
rick_h_they keep trying to use it and it still brings down the whole freaking server causing my app (it hosts about 15 dbs on it) to go down01:12
rick_h_I got the postgresql custom aggregate functions going today, just awesome01:12
rick_h_SELECT my_own_func(col1) FROM table WHERE x = y GROUP BY z01:12
rick_h_:)01:12
rick_h_written in python01:13
snap-lYeah, PostgreSQL is awesome.01:13
rick_h_simply badass01:13
rick_h_http://blog.bitbucket.org/2011/06/17/pull-request-revamp/ welcome to this decade bitbucket01:14
snap-lnice01:17
brouschah, it's so nice to have a working ffmpeg command line again. i<3ubuntu03:12
snap-lYeah, you don't realize how different using Linux vs Darwin is03:22
snap-land macports, while it's a nice stopgap, is like using cygwin under windows03:22
snap-lthough not as bad03:22
snap-lI can still type ls in a mac terminal and get something useful out of it03:23
greg-gugh, slow wiki.ubuntu.com, these team reports will be the death of me03:29
snap-lLinode just gave me an extra 4GB of disk space.04:47
TeamXlinkI'm creating a slide show program for a specific set of files, however the files are named weird. There named as numbers, but each name has six numbers, and the numbers before the first one are 0, for example the first image is 000001.jpg, the second is 000002.jpg, how would I do this, I've tried this: imagestr = 0000000 + 1 & ".jpg" but it removes the 0s and ends up trying to find 1.jpg08:58
TeamXlinkinstead of 000001.jpg08:58
TeamXlinkDoes anyone know how I would go about doing this?08:59
TeamXlinkAh, I think I just that of a really redundent reptitive way to do it.09:00
TeamXlinkSweet, it works, thank you!09:05
greg-gg'morn, all13:06
Wolfgermorning greg-g13:09
Wolfgerand everybody else, too13:09
brouschyessir13:09
snap-lG'morning13:18
rick_h_morning13:21
snap-lHow are things in happy valley?13:28
greg-glovely13:30
snap-lThat good, eh?13:33
greg-geh, you know, its a friday13:36
rick_h_party!13:38
snap-lDoes gib even watch these things?13:45
snap-lThe first video is of a completely different event.13:45
snap-lhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwjNRI83CME13:47
snap-lhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VM_H6jHVDk13:47
brouschis he wearing the camera on a hat or something?13:50
snap-lNo, it's a little hand-held camera13:51
greg-gand, not to be vain, but I don't think I'm in them :/13:51
greg-gand not that I think my presentation was very good, either13:51
brouschi saw you in the 6 minute video13:51
brouschbut just a second or so13:51
greg-gyeah13:51
snap-lYeah, that's all MUG business.13:56
snap-lWhich is not particularly interesting if you're not at MUG. :)13:56
greg-gnope :)13:56
rick_h_snap-l: so are you saying you want to borrow the recording gear for mug next month?13:57
brousch240p13:57
brouschlapelcam?13:58
rick_h_$20 ebay cam13:58
brouschoooh, rick_h_ is up next14:23
rick_h_ruh roh :/14:25
snap-lrick_h_: Not sure if I'll be there next month14:28
snap-lJODee talked about going to Weird Al next month14:28
snap-lsame day14:28
greg-gwhoa, nice14:28
rick_h_greg-g: is a weird al fan?14:28
rick_h_I didn't see that one coming14:28
snap-lgreg-g is a music fan14:29
snap-lhe's a drummer. We're weird like that14:29
rick_h_what's that got with liking weird al?14:29
brouschweird al is one of the 3 concerts i've ever been to14:29
WolfgerI would love to go to a Weird Al concert14:29
snap-lIt's a hell of a show14:30
rick_h_:P14:30
snap-lrick_h_: We can get you a ticket if you want. :)14:30
rick_h_that's ok14:30
rick_h_I have a policy against things like that14:30
snap-lrick_h_: I have a policy against filk14:30
snap-lbut Weird Al transcends filk14:31
* rick_h_ goes and looks up filk14:31
snap-lHe's an honest-to-God parody14:31
snap-lThat, and I want to shoot folk singers on sight14:32
Wolfgersnap-l: even Tom Smith?14:32
snap-lWolfger: I haven't heard a lick of his work, and I intend to keep it that way.14:33
WolfgerThe man is pure genius14:33
WolfgerHe is the reason I say I like filk, even though most filk singers I've heard suck.14:33
snap-lI don't care if he can play slide guitar with his dick, the whole genre doesn't do much for me.14:33
WolfgerI suspect I really hate filk and like Tom Smith14:34
Wolfger...and that is one mental image I really, really didn't need thankyouverymuch14:35
snap-lOn wolfger's recommendation, I may check this out14:35
snap-leven though Wolfger likes Nickelback. :)14:36
WolfgerLOL14:36
WolfgerNext Penguicon, if he's not conflicting with something utterly cool, I urge you to check him out14:36
WolfgerOr you could safely peruse online, but in a concert is better.14:37
Wolfgeryou get the humor, not just the music14:37
snap-lJust a note of warning too, I'm not a fan of Bob Dylan performing his work14:37
snap-lhe's a hell of a song writer, and I fully approve of all of the covers that I've heard14:38
snap-lbut his performance makes me want to throw up in my mouth14:38
_stink_snap-l++14:38
snap-lIt's like Yes. I had to get over Jon Anderson's voice to really get into it14:40
jcastrorick_h_: heh, someone just proposed pep8 fixes for apt-zeroconf15:01
_stink_yeah, just got that email too15:02
rick_h_awesome, is that still around?15:02
_stink_i had no idea15:02
rick_h_heh15:02
rick_h_pep8 ftwt!15:02
rick_h_err ftw!15:02
jcastroyeah I guess it's just sitting there15:02
jcastroI'm going to edit the description to say it's up for adoption15:08
snap-lSo, everyone having a good morning so far?15:27
Wolfgercan't complain too much15:31
_stink_putting off some phone calls15:35
snap-l_stink_: hurray for procrastination. :)15:35
_stink_yeah.  a few days here at work with little code and lots of demos, legalese and phone calls.15:36
_stink_boo.15:36
snap-lAnd the enthusiasm for outloud.fm lasted three days. :)15:38
rick_h_man there's a ton of those out right now15:39
rick_h_I heard of turntable.fm and another one in the last 48hrs15:39
snap-lheh15:39
snap-lThing is, putting music in a queue is hard work15:40
brouschyeah, i was opening itunes to find the songs i wanted to add, then had it show them in finder to drag the file out15:42
brouschug15:42
jcastrosnap-l: greg-g: I'm back playing tunes15:47
jcastroin teh channel15:47
snap-lListening to Gustav Mahler now. :)15:48
rick_h_Buy 1 Ebook, Get 1 Free gahhh!16:15
rick_h_stop haunting me oreilly!16:15
rick_h_I thought I was good when their deal of the day was a "already got it"16:16
brouschgotta buy them all!16:16
snap-lrick_h_: Yeah, the deal of the day is CouchDB16:17
rick_h_been there done that, but now it's buy any book get one free16:18
rick_h_well...there's got to be two books I want that I don't have :/16:18
rick_h_then again, checking out the list of new releases...maybe not16:18
snap-leah, don't go there.16:19
snap-lThey're definitely pumping out the good titles now16:19
rick_h_well maybe the dns/bind ipv616:19
rick_h_I keep meaning to poke at that stuff16:20
Wolfgerdo they have a LOLscript book yet? ;-)16:43
snap-lI'm sure they'd publish it if you wrote it16:44
snap-lAnd if not them, then Packt will16:44
Wolfger...16:45
* Wolfger considers writing a book, just to see how easy the market is...16:45
brouschself publish16:46
brouschsell it amazon for $0.9916:46
rick_h_all the cool kids are doing it16:46
rick_h_and make it CC, post it on your website16:46
brouschanyone heard of a book written on github?16:47
brouschnot about16:47
rick_h_yea, a git book on there16:48
brouschusing github to collaboratively write the book16:48
rick_h_I follow it16:48
brouschso there's a git book on github?16:48
brouschi guess that makes sense16:48
_stink_is that like bootstrapping a compiler?16:48
rick_h_https://github.com/cbx33/gitt16:48
brouschouch latex16:49
Wolfgerlike writing a language in itself16:49
rick_h_yea, you can fork/make pull requests to help fix parts of the book16:50
_stink_i love that idea.16:50
jrwrenseroiusly... no PPA with packages for this stuff???  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=78609516:51
rick_h_https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas?name_filter=FFmpeg16:52
rick_h_take your pick16:52
brouschi was thinking more along the lines of fiction. contributors would build the fictional world together and branches would have parallel stories16:52
brouschjrwren medibuntu16:53
rick_h_well I've not looked for fiction books16:53
rick_h_but can check it out16:53
brouschjust an idea that occurred to me16:54
jrwreni'm hesitant to change my ffmpeg package because Its working exactly how I want for some things right now.16:54
jrwrenbrousch: nope, no webm in medibuntu17:06
jrwrenhttp://packages.medibuntu.org/natty/index.html17:06
jrwrennot any ffmpeg either.17:06
snap-lbrousch: There have been experiments where authors continue the story17:16
WolfgerWell, I just massively decreased my "unread" count in G-reader....17:20
Wolfgerunsubscribe, unsubscribe, unsubscribe....17:20
jcastrosnap-l: laptop is here!17:26
Wolfger\o/17:32
snap-ljcastro: Awesome!17:34
WolfgerWoot. UN declares (narrowly) that gay people are human too... http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/06/17/un.lgbt.rights/index.html?hpt=hp_t117:42
jrwrenshould someone remove garrett from teh group or group email?17:43
snap-ljrwren: Do you have the ability?17:47
snap-lI don't think I do17:47
Wolfgerspam link?17:48
snap-lYeah17:48
WolfgerI figured. Just hit archive and continued on17:49
WolfgerI think greg-g is the only admin17:51
snap-lGreg! I knew it!17:51
jcastroman17:54
jcastrosnap-l:17:54
jcastrothe ssd doesn't FIT in the new laptop17:54
jcastroI need to jiggle stuff17:54
snap-lOh FFS17:54
snap-lSome new form-factor?17:55
snap-lAlso, I'm naming whatever band we come up with "Focus Follows Mouse"17:55
jcastroI think the drive is thinner17:56
jcastrobut, the intel ssd has a removable cover17:56
jcastrowhich I am removing17:56
snap-lWonder if it's removable just for that purpose17:56
rick_h_yea, there are two 'sizes' there17:57
rick_h_it's stupid but true17:57
rick_h_so the intel comes with an outer to fill the size of a larger opening17:57
snap-lSeriously? That's stupid17:59
rick_h_I think it's 2 vs 3 platter thing17:59
rick_h_3 platter 2.5" drives are just a hair thicker17:59
rick_h_while 2 platter are a hair thinner17:59
rick_h_and you don't want the drive shaking around in there18:00
snap-lOn the surface that makes sense, but I still don't buy it. :)18:02
Wolfgerstupid? I was thinking "awesome"18:02
Wolfgerstupid that two different sizes exist18:02
Wolfgerawesome that Intel makes one SSD to fit either size18:02
snap-lWolfger: You work for chrysler, home of the 10 different air filter sizes.18:02
snap-lWolfger: Yes, the Intel work-around is nice.18:03
WolfgerI mean, as soon as you start talking laptops, throw any concept of "standard" out the window18:03
Wolfgerlaptops are more or less by design incompatible with one another18:03
Wolfgerright down to the power brick18:04
snap-ltruth18:05
greg-gspammer was removed from the list18:08
snap-ltx, greg-g18:10
jrwrenare you talking 9.5mm v. 12mm 2.5" drives?18:18
jcastrowhatever size the newest intel ssd is18:18
jrwren310?18:19
krondoranyone know much about HP Proliant Support Pack on Ubuntu/Debian?18:22
jcastrojrwren: 51018:25
jrwrenhrm, it says its 9.4mm18:26
jrwrenstrange that it doesn' fit.18:26
jrwrenwhat drive were you removing?18:26
snap-lDamn conference calls18:30
snap-lhttp://merlyn.posterous.com/oracle-v-google-should-make-people-think-twic18:48
rick_h_nice of him to catch up to the news from last aug18:49
snap-lYeah, no kidding18:49
snap-lthought there was something new18:49
MilyardoHe's also comppletely wrong with his assertion18:50
snap-lMilyardo: How so?18:50
MilyardoOracle can't just sue anyone using Java, Oracle useing Google over a Java implmentation has nothing to do with users of the JVM18:51
snap-lAnd this is a problem18:54
snap-lIf someone wanted to re-implement Perl or Python, they're free to do so18:54
MilyardoAnd then patent that reimplementation and sue if anyone implments in a similar manner18:55
snap-lWhich is bullshit18:55
MilyardoIt is, but its no more or less than any other Patent dispute18:56
snap-lThat's really where this falls apart18:56
snap-lI just find it amusing that all of the anti-mono haters are seeing their doomsday scenario play out, but with Oracle / Java as the instigators.18:57
snap-lafaik, Microsoft hasn't sued anyone over .Net implementation18:57
MilyardoWhere's the doomsday scenario, Google just reimplents dalvik to something not covered by the patents18:58
brouschyet18:58
Milyardoprobably to something similar to hwo IcedTea works18:58
MilyardoI guess thats pretty bad18:58
MilyardoOpenJDK is pretty suck18:59
snap-lI mean the Mono doomsday scenario19:00
MilyardoIMO Sun probably would have done the same thing, they weren't too fond of Java forks either, at least ones that change how to language is written19:00
snap-lthat Microsoft would somehow kill mono / Linux because of patents19:00
Milyardowhich Dalvik does19:00
snap-lWifi dongle arrived19:03
snap-lHah, works right out of the box with Natty.19:04
snap-l<#19:04
snap-l<319:04
MilyardoEpic Wifi Win19:05
snap-lHah19:06
snap-lGot it on my desktop machine19:06
snap-land it connected.19:06
Wolfgerno more Narwhal hate?19:07
snap-lhttp://paste.mitechie.com/show/351/19:07
snap-lNot with a $15 adapter19:07
snap-lThough I haven't had a problem with wifi and natty19:08
brouschnatty fixed my eeepc wifi that had been broken starting with 9.1019:08
snap-lIt does get insanely hot, though19:10
snap-l⚀⚀⚀19:28
* snap-l wonders if we should put in a dice bot19:28
jrwrenOracle can sue anyone using java. they simply revoke the patent license and sue for patent infringement. they are fere to do this without warning at any time.19:41
snap-lfere?19:42
jrwrenfree.19:43
jrwrenlol.19:43
jrwreni make tuypes.19:43
jrwrentypoes19:43
binbrainwonder about the specifics of the patents20:29
rick_h_thought a judge threw out all but 3 or something20:31
rick_h_http://androidandme.com/2011/05/news/judge-orders-oracle-to-toss-out-most-of-the-patent-claims-against-google/20:32
MilyardoWonder how the judge so many so quickly, were most of them really that irrelevent?20:33
binbrainso the copyrights aren't a big problem I'm guessing, since those cover specific implementations, no?20:33
rick_h_well that original thing was aug of last that, that one if from may20:33
rick_h_it's not like this is all in the last 3wk20:33
Milyardo"Android is very popular now, and Oracle — just like Microsoft — wants a piece of that action. But instead of making a better product and innovating, companies like Oracle just do what they do best, release their army of lawyers and sue until they get what they want." When was Oracle in competition with Google?20:35
jrwren(C) is not a problem at all.20:36
jrwrenjust stop calling anything "Java" (TM)20:36
jrwrenunless they change their ilcense on (C) stuff20:37
jrwrenah ehll, I don't know.20:37
snap-lMilyardo: Oracle gets licenses for all of the phones, iirc20:37
snap-lSo Google making Java phones without paying for Java is anathema to Oracle20:37
snap-lSo, it's not about protecting property, it's all about the Benjamins.20:38
jrwrenalways20:39
MilyardoThe quote was implying Orcale was using the lawsuit to stifle competition, which didn't make any sense20:39
jrwrenwe are in the dark ages.20:39
jrwrenwe need te get to rennasaince20:39
MilyardoMircosoft is a competitor20:39
MilyardoOracle is not20:39
snap-lMilyardo: Bullshit20:39
snap-lOracle is a competitor20:39
jrwrenoh snap!20:40
snap-lthey bought Sun, and have a dog in making Linux irrelevant20:40
_stink_oh snap, snap-l!20:40
snap-lOracle is as much of a competitor as Microsoft20:40
snap-lSun was making inroads into helping FLOSS, but unfortunately at the cost of their own oxygen supply20:41
snap-land now we have Oracle, who wants desperately to snuff out a phone market that doesn't have their tech on it20:41
snap-land a database market that doesn't have their shit-grinning representatives selling you it20:42
snap-land a server market that doesn't have SPARC running it20:42
snap-lSo saying that Oracle isn't a competitor is frankly crap20:43
snap-lI'm no Microsoft apologist, but they're getting unfairly beaten up for something they haven't done20:44
snap-lAnd Oracle is getting a free-pass20:44
MilyardoI don't see how thats an arguement for establishing Oracle as a Competitor to Google, google sells a mobile phone platform, Oracle sells a JVM, to make thier platform Google made thier own JVM, which for Oracle beilives Googles still owes them money. Google isn't going an relicening Dalvik to Apple, that was would make them a distributor of JVMs on mobile phones and a competitor to Oracle.20:46
Milyardo*to Apple or any other phone maker20:47
snap-lMilyardo: How many Android phones are sold nowadays compared with Nokia phones?20:48
snap-lor Blackberry phones?20:48
rick_h_2!20:48
MilyardoHow is that relevent?20:48
snap-lEach one of those sales is a lost JVM license.20:48
snap-lThat is why they are a competitor20:48
snap-lOracle is seeig the Java phone market eroding20:49
snap-land the only way they can compete effectively is by trying to kill off the Android platform or make Google pay for the privilege.20:50
MilyardoAttempting to kill off Android is unlikely Orcales goal, they more are more likely just interested in being paid for liceses to which they believe they are owed20:53
snap-lI don't see Oracle as being that nuanced, but you're probably right.20:54
MilyardoOnce Google however makes an attempt to sell Dalvik to RIM, then they are a direct competitor to Oracle20:55
Milyardowhich I don't ever see Google doing20:55
snap-lI think you have an interesting view of competition. :)20:56
jrwrenyeah.20:59
jrwren" just interested in being paid for liceses to which they believe they are owed"  just like MSFT and TomTom, RIGHT?21:00
snap-lYeah, because the FAT filesystem is worthy of patent protection21:02
snap-lHonestly, I still await the court case that makes software patents completely useless.21:02
greg-ganyone else had weird panel issues on external monitors with natty, eg: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/73690784/Unity-TopBar-missing.png21:11
greg-g(my bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/798933 )21:11
brouschgreg-g: only when not mirroring21:13
greg-gbrousch: so, your answer is yes :)21:22
jcastroI opnly get them when mirroring21:37
jcastrogreg-g: that one's fixed, it's in the next set of updates21:37
jcastrooh no wait, that one's different21:38
jcastrosnap-l: ok done with the new laptop and the swap, as expected windows flips out so I'm going to have to reinstall, I can do that, were you thinking of linking up today?21:39
brouschi get my second monitor totally black and won't render any windows, but the panel is visible. sometimes on my main monitor there is a black bar about as big as the launcher21:39
greg-gugh, self important people22:09
snap-lI can't hear you over my brilliance.22:11

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