| mhall119 | jono: ping | 04:45 |
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| jono | hey mhall119 | 05:27 |
| mhall119 | jono: did you see the register's take on my blog post? | 05:33 |
| mhall119 | :( | 05:33 |
| mhall119 | I've already asked them to correct it | 05:34 |
| jono | mhall119, no? link? | 05:35 |
| jono | got it | 05:36 |
| jono | reading | 05:36 |
| jono | mhall119, looks like a reasonable write up to me | 05:37 |
| mhall119 | only they made it sound like the official Canonical reaponse | 05:39 |
| mhall119 | the headline bothered me more than anything | 05:42 |
| czajkowski | morning | 06:31 |
| czajkowski | mhall119: which article? | 06:38 |
| jono | mhall119, I wouldn't worry about it, classic El Reg | 06:51 |
| jono | ok, bed for me | 07:04 |
| jono | night all! | 07:04 |
| dholbach | good morning | 08:01 |
| bkerensa | mhall119: I would love to see the link | 08:06 |
| popey | czajkowski / bkerensa http://forums.theregister.co.uk/post/reply/1249584? | 08:09 |
| popey | bah | 08:09 |
| popey | czajkowski / bkerensa http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/30/canonical_distrowatch_figures/ | 08:09 |
| bkerensa | thanks popey | 08:10 |
| popey | mhall119: http://mhall119.com/2011/11/reports-of-ubuntus-death-are-greatly-exaggerated/#comment-1510 you misunderstood jefs reply | 08:11 |
| popey | his 'last paragraph' comment was about the last paragraph in the reply you made, not the last paragraph in the article | 08:12 |
| czajkowski | popey: cheers | 08:37 |
| MooDoo | morning all | 08:50 |
| AlanBell | I hadn't even heard of distro watch up to a couple of weeks ago | 09:14 |
| MooDoo | seriously? | 09:15 |
| MooDoo | wow | 09:15 |
| AlanBell | yes, seriously | 09:15 |
| MooDoo | fair enough :) | 09:15 |
| AlanBell | I still have no idea why I would ever go there | 09:15 |
| mainerror | Well I knew about distro watch but I didn't visit the site for at least two years. | 09:15 |
| czajkowski | popey: did you find a suitable laptop to replace the mac? | 09:28 |
| bkerensa | ;) We should just get all locos to homepage the Ubuntu distrowatch page for a week or two and that will settle this whole flurry of blog posts | 09:33 |
| MooDoo | i had a look at the one he was thinking about czajkowski thinkpad x220 looks pretty good :) | 09:34 |
| * mainerror approves all ThinkPads | 09:34 | |
| nigelb | AlanBell: I had hard of it, but I'd never visited it. I actually still haven't visited it. | 09:34 |
| nigelb | *heard | 09:35 |
| popey | czajkowski: almost certainly thinkpad x220 | 10:38 |
| dholbach | popey, do it! :) | 10:39 |
| * dholbach is very happy | 10:39 | |
| nigelb | Almost everyone I know has an x220 now :) | 10:39 |
| dholbach | and I even got happier when I found out there was a BIOS setting to enable the virtualisation bits ;-) | 10:39 |
| popey | probably with 9 cell battery | 10:40 |
| popey | dholbach: is that what you have? | 10:40 |
| dholbach | hum, I need to check what kind of battery it is | 10:41 |
| dholbach | I'm usually pretty ignorant to these facts, right after I bought something | 10:41 |
| nigelb | unless it stopped working :P | 10:42 |
| * jussi is hanging out for those new ultra slim thinkpads | 10:42 | |
| nigelb | dholbach: is this the one you dropped and got an SSD harddisk for? | 10:42 |
| dholbach | nigelb, this one I didn't drop yet - but previous laptops I dropped a lot | 10:43 |
| nigelb | heh | 10:43 |
| dholbach | I even spilled a full glass of water into the keyboard of my x40 and it survived :) | 10:43 |
| nigelb | You need one of those Panasonic Toughbooks ;) | 10:44 |
| dholbach | popey, yes, seems to be 9-cell | 10:44 |
| jussi | sigh... centrino 1000 is borked on oneiric :( | 10:46 |
| czajkowski | popey: good to know I see some laptop shopping in my future :) | 10:49 |
| popey | hehe | 10:52 |
| popey | i asked on a mailing list what laptop to get, pretty much everyone said thinkpad | 10:52 |
| popey | and many said x220 | 10:52 |
| popey | seems there's a bit of a club of people with them | 10:52 |
| * popey notes one next to himself on the desk | 10:52 | |
| jussi | popey: theres a whole wiki just for thinkpads on linux - it rocks | 10:54 |
| nigelb | popey: are you in Millbank? | 10:54 |
| czajkowski | popey: you at home ? | 10:54 |
| jussi | popey: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki - and it seems to have some info for other operating systems users | 10:54 |
| popey | https://twitter.com/#!/popey/status/141832291675684864 | 10:55 |
| popey | does that answer your question czajkowski / nigelb | 10:55 |
| * czajkowski waves from E&C :) | 10:55 | |
| czajkowski | hmm X220 is almost 1K | 10:55 |
| czajkowski | wowoza | 10:55 |
| czajkowski | I drop stuff | 10:55 |
| popey | jorge dropped his thinkpad onto concrete | 10:57 |
| popey | it chipped the concrete | 10:57 |
| nigelb | popey: That's why I had that question :) | 10:57 |
| czajkowski | popey: this is good to know | 10:57 |
| czajkowski | wondering where to buy, UK or IE depending on price | 10:58 |
| jussi | czajkowski: uk | 11:00 |
| jussi | After working for dell in both UK and IE sides, uk is definately cheaper | 11:00 |
| czajkowski | jussi: factor in I have cash in yoyos | 11:00 |
| czajkowski | so need to allow for exchange rate and moving it over here | 11:00 |
| jussi | czajkowski: put it to your credit ard and buy like that - easiest, cheapest way of "moving" the money. | 11:01 |
| czajkowski | nods | 11:01 |
| jussi | (yes, Ive lived in foreign countries for too long)... | 11:01 |
| alourie | hello | 11:20 |
| alourie | popey: too bad you didn't make the servey couple of weeks ago. Lenovo had amazing deals for Black Friday | 11:45 |
| * alourie is sorry he didn't get anything | 11:46 | |
| popey | heh | 11:51 |
| popey | not sure we have the same black friday deals here in the uk | 11:51 |
| popey | although some vendors are trying | 11:51 |
| alourie | popey: well, where I live, the prices could get up to x2 compared to US | 12:03 |
| alourie | so, buying with BF deals and shipping it here, +paying all the taxes would bring me at least 30-40% difference to what I can have here | 12:04 |
| alourie | it was well worth it | 12:04 |
| alourie | that's why I'm sorry I didn't buy one | 12:04 |
| alourie | now I'll have to wait for another year | 12:04 |
| alourie | :-/ | 12:04 |
| scott-work | good morning :) | 12:52 |
| MooDoo | morning | 12:53 |
| dpm | hi all | 13:11 |
| dpm | I've just realised I wasn't on IRC | 13:11 |
| nigelb | dpm: I suppose you good too productive and then wondered why? ;) | 13:12 |
| dpm | exactly | 13:12 |
| nigelb | *got | 13:13 |
| dpm | I was wondering why I wasn't seeing any updates or pings... :) | 13:13 |
| nigelb | heh | 13:13 |
| dpm | I was on my desktop computer, and thought I had started IRC on my laptop | 13:13 |
| alourie | cprofitt: hey | 13:16 |
| alourie | I've seen the updates | 13:16 |
| alourie | I got some new stuff to add there, as soon as I got some time I will | 13:16 |
| cprofitt | hello | 13:16 |
| alourie | thanks for the help | 13:16 |
| dholbach | huats, ping | 13:35 |
| dholbach | huats, still finishing an email | 13:35 |
| huats | dholbach: sure | 13:35 |
| huats | I have noted it at 15:00 | 13:35 |
| dholbach | oh ok | 13:37 |
| dholbach | :) | 13:37 |
| czajkowski | popey: looked at http://www.dabs.com/products/asus-zenbook-ux21e-kx004v-11-6--ultrabook-i5-2467m-4gb-128-ssd-w7hp-7RJ3.html | 15:13 |
| popey | http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Asus-Zenbook-UX21E-Ultrabook.65506.0.html | 15:24 |
| popey | comprehenisve review czajkowski | 15:24 |
| czajkowski | popey: thanks just looking at the 13' version now | 15:25 |
| czajkowski | http://zenbook.asus.com/product/?c=spec | 15:25 |
| czajkowski | compares them both | 15:26 |
| JanC | ugh, no separate PgUp/PgDn keys? | 15:28 |
| AlanBell | popey: that is a really good quality review | 15:30 |
| popey | just like the mac JanC ☹ | 15:34 |
| czajkowski | popey: great review | 15:34 |
| JanC | well, I don't want that mac then... ;) | 15:34 |
| czajkowski | bit disapointed on the battery life | 15:35 |
| czajkowski | but i am liking the 13 | 15:35 |
| czajkowski | tempted to go find a pc world or currys tonight to go see one up close | 15:35 |
| popey | I will almost certainly go thinkpad | 15:35 |
| JanC | popey: it's one of the things that annoys me most on my Asus EEE 900: always needing two hands (Fn is on the left, the arrow keys on the right) to scroll through a text (or whatever else it is used for) | 15:36 |
| nigelb | JanC: yeah, I hate that with my work laptop as well | 15:37 |
| JanC | same for Home/End actually | 15:37 |
| nigelb | The Home/End is wwhat I miss sorely :) | 15:37 |
| JanC | I saw one 12' laptop that has a second Fn key on the right, just to the right of te Up key; that might help actually, but I didn't test it | 15:39 |
| JanC | 12" | 15:39 |
| JanC | (12' would be somewhat large for a laptop screen :P ) | 15:41 |
| popey | need a big bag for that | 15:55 |
| nigelb | huh | 15:56 |
| * nigelb has a 15" laptop screen. | 15:56 | |
| MooDoo | 17 here, dell studio | 15:59 |
| jcastro | <--- lunching a bit early today | 16:19 |
| * popey tickles jcastro | 16:28 | |
| * dholbach calls it a day - see you all tomorrow! | 17:02 | |
| MooDoo | laters dholbach :) | 17:03 |
| dholbach | bye :) | 17:03 |
| jcastro | snap-l: this new megadeth album is pretty uninspired | 18:25 |
| jcastro | I keep it on heavy rotation to try to get into it | 18:25 |
| jcastro | but it's just not happening | 18:25 |
| mhall119 | jcastro: have you tried turning it up to 11? | 18:27 |
| mhall119 | I hear that helps | 18:27 |
| snap-l | jcastro: You said that about Endgame | 20:50 |
| jcastro | yeah but it only really has like 3 good songs on it | 20:51 |
| snap-l | I'm not sure what form of inspiration you're looking for | 20:51 |
| jcastro | you could take the last 3 albums, weed out the junk, and have one good one | 20:51 |
| snap-l | It's no Death Magnetic levels of inspired instrument flagellation | 20:51 |
| snap-l | "The end that never comes". ;) | 20:53 |
| jcastro | hah | 20:55 |
| snap-l | Granted I haven't heard the whole album through | 20:55 |
| jcastro | that's awesome | 20:55 |
| snap-l | (13) | 20:55 |
| jcastro | of course not | 20:55 |
| jcastro | you are king of jumping to conclusions | 20:55 |
| snap-l | jcastro: Bullshit | 20:55 |
| snap-l | jcastro: I listened to Death Magnetic all the way though | 20:55 |
| snap-l | and I wanted to slit my wrists about halfway through | 20:55 |
| snap-l | Only song that was halfway decent was Judas Kiss | 20:56 |
| snap-l | http://decafbad.net/2009/09/01/death-magnetic-one-year-later/ | 20:56 |
| snap-l | “The Unforgiven III” is every single rock-n-roll cliché, done poorly, times three. The song starts with a piano riff that reminds me of Motley Crue’s “Home Sweet Home”, and devolves from there into a song that’s three times longer than it needs to be. About the only thing it needed was a 40 something with a Chinese dragon shirt yelling “Freebird” while his Zippo lighter | 20:58 |
| snap-l | illuminated the night. | 20:58 |
| jcastro | ok you;'re right about that one | 21:02 |
| snap-l | the problem is Metallica has had three albums to shape up | 21:03 |
| snap-l | and Death Magnetic was the equivalent of Megadeth's Risk. ;) | 21:03 |
| snap-l | But even a bad Megadeth album is better than a supposed great Metallica Album. :) | 21:04 |
| * snap-l puts on The World Needs a Hero | 21:05 | |
| * snap-l switches to Cryptic Writings | 21:05 | |
| * JanC is listening to the new album of Die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung: “The Shepherd's Dream” | 21:14 | |
| JanC | that's no metal though :P | 21:14 |
| JanC | well, "new" -> "newest" | 21:21 |
| jcastro | < --- EOD | 22:05 |
| jcastro | hey was bacon around today at all? | 22:05 |
| jcastro | I think he's at some Qt thing | 22:05 |
| bkerensa | jcastro: I think maybe way earlier I saw him | 22:24 |
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