[03:36] * skellat waves [04:43] Howdy! [04:47] herro. [04:55] Yo [04:56] It's alive! [04:56] If y'all were wonderin' what the recording scenario looks like for podcast type thingies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1ygxs1IGbA [04:56] Unit193: How goes your Sunday? [04:57] skellat: Very well! I had a thing with family [04:57] Excellent. I've been fixing tech things today. [04:59] And got to get through an entire church service without having to rush off to work [05:03] o/ [05:07] Cheri703: Howdy! [05:07] how are you? [05:10] ^^^ Same as before ;) How be you? [05:10] I'm alright overall [05:13] Google+ makes less sense so far than FriendFeed ever did [05:13] so far I'm a fan [05:14] Too many librarian types are already involved in it. [05:14] eh, I like the features [05:17] The litmus test is to see if the librarian types are still using it after a week [05:17] Librarians at large in the US go through social networks like a person with severe allergies ravages facial tissue boxes [05:18] I call it the social (network) butterfly effect [05:19] Always searching for the next best thing, never settling on anything for the here & now [05:19] skellat: did my invite to you work properly? [05:20] Cheri703: Yep [05:20] cool :) [05:21] My cat just tried to climb my dresser and failed in an epic fashion [05:21] hehe [05:22] I am waiting for tonight's episode of true blood to be finished...acquiring... [05:22] >.> [05:22] <.< [05:27] and I have kept my living room "company ready" for more than 48 hours STRAIGHT! it's craziness... (normally it gets cluttery again pretty quickly) [05:28] Heh. mine didn't even survive the entire day yesterday... [05:29] Company ready? Naaa... We'll just go to them :P [05:29] * Cheri703 is consciously trying to keep it clean, parents coming wednesday, still more to do [05:30] * skellat ponders the e-mail he got from the Forum Council [05:30] true blood is such an insane show... [05:34] And now to wander off to bed... [05:46] I guess we don't get to see it? === Cheri703_ is now known as Cheri703 [19:53] Cheri703: Which webcam do you have? [19:53] it is an internal "bisoncam nb pro" [19:58] so annoyed by this [19:58] Huh.. I'm not even really sure what mine is. [19:58] it works, though.. it just doesn't seem to be showing up in lsusb or lspci. [19:58] I told them that if any of these issues recurred I wanted a refund...not sure if this counts since it's not *quite* the same thing, but...same result: non-functioning webcam [20:00] beh. Looks like the Loco will keep pimpin' System76. :) [20:00] * canthus13 is annoyed now. Can't figure out what cam he has... [20:01] It works, it just doesn't show up. :/ [20:03] rawr [20:03] try gnome-device-manager [20:10] <_bbb> lsusb [20:11] Heh. wow. nothing. [20:11] Well, it's there.. but it's still useless. [20:12] model: Integrated_Webcam_1.3M [20:12] how obnoxious. [20:12] subsystem: video4linux [20:12] Whatever.. it works. [20:12] never had any issues. [20:14] * canthus13 ponders disassembling his laptop to find out. [20:15] :/ [20:15] <_bbb> dell? [20:15] heh, don't know if it's worth that much effort [20:15] Mine? Yes. [20:15] Cheri703: I know... It works, so why mess with it. :) [20:17] <_bbb> whats the asset tag [20:17] <_bbb> or whatever its called [20:18] <_bbb> dmidecode -s system-serial-number [20:20] <_bbb> sudo make me a sandwich [20:22] 87SL1K1 [20:25] <_bbb> hmm can you get to support.dell.com ? I can't. =) [20:32] canthus13: do you agree with my hypothesis that if the problem persists across multiple OS installations AND a liveboot that it's likely a hardware/firmware thing vs a software/user-caused thing? [20:37] also: IF I could convince zareason to just refund me all money spent on this process so far (though I doubt they'd refund shipping, even though they should) I wonder if I could convince system76 to give me a discount... [20:53] Cheri703: Yep. it's hardware. [21:15] * Cheri703 is tired of having to deal with them [21:15] I don't blame you. [21:15] don't really want to deal with more crappiness from the lady [21:16] and considering the initial shipping costs, and the $25 or so I spent to ship it in for repairs last time, if I have to ship it back AGAIN, I will be demanding refunds of those costs as well... [21:16] an equivalent system76, with 6cell battery is like $444, this was $399 at purchase time, so if all of the shipping was refunded, I'd be close [21:17] I'm trying to decide if I'd be open to replacement with the newer model of teo...not sure [21:19] ...You could present it to her face-to-face in september... :) [21:19] (Or would we need a referee? [21:30] well, I'm not waiting that long to deal with it, though if they piss about it, I'd be more than happy to discuss it with her in a very public place...MORE than happy to share with others about how she talked to/about me [21:31] I am giving them one last chance to do right, and then I am done. I will loudly proclaim the issues I have had with my machine. I've been reasonably quiet about it up to this point (other than a few specific locations) [21:31] I don't care if it is the cheapest machine they sell, you know what? I am a paying customer, I paid for a working machine that would last me more than a few months, and the replacement should last more than a few months as well. it's insane [21:32] bah, going to go be productive for a bit [21:32] back in a while [21:46] Ok. have fun. :) [22:08] made a bit more progress [22:09] decided that the rest of cleaning the bathroom will wait til the day my parents are arriving, as we are going to be bathing 3 dogs between now and then, so it'd be futile to get it all sparkling clean first [22:09] still have the kitchen and garage to finish though. garage is closer to done/tolerable than the kitchen though, and husband keeps saying he'll help but then keeps playing his stupid games [22:16] Cheri703: Pile everything around him. [22:16] ..or on him. :) [22:17] I would if the primary items available for piling weren't either dishes or dog hair tumbleweeds from the garage [22:18] Heh. [22:18] Wall him in, cask of amontillado style... [22:19] hmm...I've pondered it...I could do something I've done in the past, when he's being particularly ridiculous...make the router deny his mac address internet access... [22:19] that gets his attention pretty quick, but he throws tantrums [22:23] if only you could just degrade the QoS to a slightly frustrating level [22:25] yeah, my router doesn't let me change QoS, and I can't install other firmware, I totally would go that route...passive/aggressive, yes, but sometimes the only thing that works to get him to come up for air :/ [22:26] Heh.