| nhaines | pleia2: what are you doing in Concord? And why is it so hot? :) | 00:22 |
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| rww | see previous tweet, and "because it's Concord" | 00:23 |
| rww | every time i go there it's at least 10*F warmer than wherever I came from | 00:23 |
| nhaines | Ah, I saw the notifications pop up and didn't get to see the previous tweet. | 00:28 |
| pleia2 | another intro to ubuntu at itt tech :) | 00:38 |
| pleia2 | it's about 20f cooler at home | 00:39 |
| * pleia2 class! | 00:40 | |
| bkerensa | =/ | 00:58 |
| bkerensa | ITT Tech paying you pleia2? | 00:58 |
| bkerensa | or LoCo stuff? | 00:58 |
| pleia2 | bkerensa: not paid, just for fun (he said he "found me on the ubuntu website") | 01:48 |
| bkerensa | cool | 01:49 |
| dan_mulvey | whats up everyone! | 06:26 |
| dan_mulvey | its been a while since ive been in here, i used to go to some of the bug jams in socal about 2 or 3 years ago but i live up in the bay area now, thought id pop in and see whats up nowadays ive been trying to get back into ubuntu etc | 06:27 |
| gua | dan_mulvey: welcome back, good to hear | 06:55 |
| dan_mulvey | thanks! | 06:55 |
| gua | there are some nicely active LUGs in the bay area | 06:55 |
| dan_mulvey | yeah i remember hearing a lot about berkeleyLUG when I was still living in socal | 06:56 |
| dan_mulvey | but i havent had a chance to check it out since ive been living up here (in berkeley actually) | 06:56 |
| gua | berkeley lug, dv lug, uhm i'm not sure about sf lug but i heard they didnt' get the best turnout their last official meeting. there are regular linux-oriented meetings at noisebridge though i hear | 06:56 |
| gua | ah yeah, if you can make it to berkeley lug i'd recommend that | 06:56 |
| dan_mulvey | im actually going to check out noisebridge tomorrow! | 06:56 |
| gua | ah very neat | 06:57 |
| gua | but that places changes by the day. you might never run into someone if you happen to go on different days. heh | 06:57 |
| dan_mulvey | i just heard about NB last night, it sounds really cool. gonna bring a project im working on over there and check out the place | 06:57 |
| gua | many events to go to that some people only go to | 06:57 |
| gua | yeah definitely. be sure to scour the wiki for events you'd be interested in | 06:57 |
| gua | i gotta make it out to some of the locksport stuff myself | 06:57 |
| dan_mulvey | can i just show up there and work on stuff whenever? is it normal to donate a certain amount or anything? (if you're familiar) | 06:57 |
| gua | dan_mulvey: small donation is good if you use stuff there (electricity, food, etc), but yeah you can go literally 24/7 | 06:58 |
| dan_mulvey | awesome | 06:58 |
| gua | just if you don't have a key someone needs to be there to let you in. so if you plan to be there later than like 11pm it helps to get there before 10-11pm | 06:58 |
| dan_mulvey | im waiting on an order from jameco to come in & im a few capacitors short of a project, was thinking about seeing what they have there but i wasnt sure how paying for things you use there works and stuff like that | 06:59 |
| gua | ask for a tour when you go or when's the next time for a tour | 06:59 |
| dan_mulvey | alright cool, ill def do that | 06:59 |
| gua | dan_mulvey: hmm they don't keep much stuff like that in stock. only basic things like solder, irons, etc. but you could ask around on the monday soldering class at least | 06:59 |
| dan_mulvey | ive been hanging out in their irc room to get a feel for the members a bit, the people in there seem really chill/helpful so far | 07:00 |
| gua | or they might and i don't know about it. i actually don't know, i'd ask | 07:00 |
| gua | dan_mulvey: erm.. well there are quite a few more trollish people in the irc than that are there | 07:00 |
| dan_mulvey | oh alright cool, well i have a shitload of components coming in so if i have to wait a few days for that its no big deal | 07:00 |
| dan_mulvey | haha for sure | 07:00 |
| gua | i hung out in the irc room for the longest time before i went and when i finally went and asked if anyone hung around in irc and hardly anyone did | 07:00 |
| gua | soo.. take irc with a big grain of salt | 07:00 |
| dan_mulvey | ahh thanks for the tip | 07:01 |
| gua | but yeah there are really passionate people there so it's fun to work on projects. people just take stuff there and work on it. for like the atmosphere | 07:01 |
| dan_mulvey | they have a laser cutter there too right? | 07:01 |
| gua | hm that sounds familiar. i don't know myself. | 07:02 |
| gua | you could ask on the mailing list, or irc. or the wiki would probably mention it. | 07:02 |
| gua | more people that go are on the mailing list than on the irc i think | 07:02 |
| gua | oh and be sure tell your (cool) friends about nb :P | 07:02 |
| gua | it's fun to take newbie friends to the soldering classes | 07:02 |
| dan_mulvey | the wiki has some info about the laser cutter i think | 07:02 |
| gua | good | 07:02 |
| dan_mulvey | not sure if there's a set cost to use it or anything though | 07:03 |
| gua | there's no set cost for *using* anything that i know of | 07:03 |
| dan_mulvey | i was thinking about etching the faceplates for some guitar effects with it though, seems like it would give the projects a more pro look | 07:03 |
| gua | some people sell like soldering kits, but those aren't out in the open | 07:03 |
| gua | yeah, that sounds fun | 07:03 |
| dan_mulvey | oh cool, that might be really useful for me | 07:03 |
| dan_mulvey | turns out i brought the wrong iron with me when i moved up here | 07:03 |
| gua | generally NB stuff is if it's laying out and doesn't appear to be part of another person's project, it's up for grabs for your project | 07:03 |
| dan_mulvey | gave my brother my good one, the one i have doesn't work anymore :( | 07:04 |
| dan_mulvey | thats awesome | 07:04 |
| gua | oh i mean like leds and little soldering boards. for like diy arduino things | 07:04 |
| gua | i dunno if people sell actual irons | 07:04 |
| gua | if they don't they'd know good places to get them though i bet | 07:04 |
| dan_mulvey | from what ive been reading on the wiki it seems like it operates similar to the co-op housing here in berkeley ( i live in one of the student co-ops up here) | 07:04 |
| dan_mulvey | alright cool | 07:04 |
| dan_mulvey | i havent done any arduino work yet | 07:05 |
| gua | ah that's neat. yeah the whole place is very woah-these-people-are-so-nice-is-it-real | 07:05 |
| dan_mulvey | im gonna take my gf to the monday soldering class though, hopefully they have some arduino kits there so i can get into that | 07:05 |
| gua | arduinos are wicked. i know they have an arduino meetup.. i forget if it's the same night as the soldering class | 07:05 |
| gua | oh they definitely will | 07:05 |
| gua | she can solder some led shields :D | 07:05 |
| dan_mulvey | i think she wants to make electronics jewelry | 07:06 |
| dan_mulvey | shes done some before hacking apart old computer motherboards and stuff so i thought it would be cool to teach her how to actually desolder stuff and solder things together etc | 07:07 |
| grantbow | circuit hacking is Mon nights at noisebridge.net in SF. They do arduino too. | 07:07 |
| dan_mulvey | speaking of arduino actually, do you know if theres any good library or something available if i wanted to make a universal remote for my tv/stereo? | 07:07 |
| grantbow | tv-b-gone is a project taught Mon nights at nosiebridge.net to turn off all TVs. lol. | 07:08 |
| gua | there's a lot of craft-hacking stuff that your gf might be into. stuff like sewing. dunno if that includes jewlery | 07:08 |
| grantbow | err, noisebridge.net | 07:08 |
| dan_mulvey | i want to make something that i can use as a physical controller but possibly also write an android app that could talk to it as well | 07:09 |
| gua | yeah first thing that comes to mind is tv-b-gone. it's a lot less featureful than a universal remote heh | 07:09 |
| dan_mulvey | haha yeah ive seen the tv b gone stuff over at adafruit.com | 07:09 |
| dan_mulvey | i suppose itd be a good starting point at least | 07:09 |
| gua | dan_mulvey: might checkout the mythtv forums/wiki. ir stuff comes up a lot | 07:09 |
| gua | that's pretty linux oriented, i don't know how well that would translate to a controller or android | 07:10 |
| dan_mulvey | oh sick i forgot about mythtv | 07:10 |
| dan_mulvey | ill take a look around on there too | 07:10 |
| gua | dan_mulvey: posting or looking around arudino forums would probably dig up what there is | 07:13 |
| gua | i haven't really done anything with arduinos so i don't know ;/ | 07:13 |
| dan_mulvey | alright cool | 07:13 |
| dan_mulvey | im sure someones done something similar out there somewhere on the internet | 07:14 |
| gua | yeah probably. just guessing it'll probably be easier to do the android part, being similar to linux and all. gl though | 07:16 |
| dan_mulvey | i think it shouldnt be too difficult to find the ir codes at least for my tv & stereo | 07:17 |
| dan_mulvey | at the very least i could just program them in manually | 07:18 |
| dan_mulvey | but it would be nice to find some sort of library for that so i could make something that would be useful for other people if they wanted to copy my project or something for their own tvs and stuff | 07:18 |
| gua | oh yeah finding the codes won't be hard at all. just having a thing to generate them is what i'm not sure about | 07:18 |
| gua | ah yeah, toss it up on github or bitbucket or something :) | 07:18 |
| dan_mulvey | i should be able to transmit them similar to the way the tv-b-gone works right? | 07:19 |
| dan_mulvey | i think it uses an attiny microcontroller and IR leds | 07:19 |
| pleia2 | I'm going to be out of down during the oneiric release, so if we want a release shindig on release day someone else will have to plan it :) | 18:49 |
| * pleia2 goes to other people's release parties in the fall (last year I was in dublin) | 18:49 | |
| nhaines | pleia2: great slides from ITT. | 19:08 |
| * nhaines steals. | 19:08 | |
| pleia2 | thanks :) | 19:13 |
| nhaines | pleia2: where'd you get the template? | 19:13 |
| pleia2 | they are more bullety than I like, but it was expected for the audience | 19:13 |
| pleia2 | spreadubuntu.com | 19:13 |
| nhaines | gt haha, yeah, I was going to harrass you about the bullets. :) | 19:13 |
| pleia2 | http://spreadubuntu.org/en/material/presentation/ubuntu-new-template | 19:14 |
| * nhaines should make slides using Ubuntu Mono just because no one else can. | 19:14 | |
| pleia2 | it was students taking notes, so I wanted to make it easy for them ;) | 19:14 |
| pleia2 | it was really more of a Q&A session than a formal presentation anyway | 19:14 |
| nhaines | That's nice of you. ;) | 19:14 |
| nhaines | Yeah, I figured. | 19:14 |
| nhaines | Those slides certainly don't follow the branding guidelines though.... | 19:17 |
| pleia2 | branding guidelines are hard to follow by mere mortals | 19:25 |
| nhaines | pleia2: indeed! But the advantage is less orange. | 20:32 |
| nhaines | pleia2: I'm sure my slides fail but I at least copied the palette right. Made for friendlier text. | 20:32 |
| * nhaines resists the urge to patch the spreadubuntu template. | 20:32 | |
| philipballew | whats a good way to black list a wifi driver | 22:28 |
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