[15:43] <thafreak> Morning Ohio
[15:43] <paultag> thafreak: morning
[15:43] <thafreak> I need an idea database...
[15:43] <jrgifford> thafreak, ideas are overrated.
[15:44] <thafreak> some place i can put ideas...and associated notes, urls, etc
[15:44] <thafreak> yes, but they distract me
[15:44] <thafreak> i'll be working on something and have an idea and feel the need to fully pursue it
[15:44] <paultag> thafreak: newt gingrich has something like that, I'm told
[15:44] <thafreak> so i want to archive my ideas for later
[15:44] <thafreak> oh brother
[15:45] <thafreak> i'm serious people
[15:45] <paultag> ah nevermind
[15:45] <paultag> The joke going around in the late 1980s was that the NRCC had a whole room full of file Cabinets, with every drawer in the room labeled “Newt’s ideas.” Well, every drawer but one. The drawer in the bottom corner of the dingiest file cabinet was labeled “Newt’s good ideas.” . . .
[15:45] <thafreak> don't start talking about assholes
[15:45] <paultag> it was a joke, i'm told new
[15:45] <paultag> now
[15:46] <thafreak> you been hanging around them sunlight people too much ;)
[15:46] <paultag> thafreak: true :)
[15:46] <thafreak> is it really a front for an ancient sect of vampire hunters?
[15:46] <paultag> ssshhhhhh
[15:46] <paultag> not so loud
[15:46] <thafreak> cause that would make good fodder for a trillogy
[15:48] <thafreak> anyone hear of this new "e-hammer" technology for optical drives?
[15:48] <paultag> no, but it sounds scary
[15:48] <thafreak> sounds like it ruins recordable media so you don't have to shred the disks or scratch them
[15:49] <thafreak> probably just fills in the entire disk with pits...
[15:49] <dzho> e-hammer, don't hurt 'em
[15:50] <thafreak> so, my in-laws hired a new designer...who seems more of a windoze person and uses some software called rhino or something
[15:50] <thafreak> which is winblows only
[15:50] <thafreak> but they bought her a mac
[15:50] <thafreak> and put parallels on it
[15:51] <dzho> huh
[15:51] <thafreak> and bought...32bit windows 7
[15:51] <thafreak> so this rendering software which sounds like it gobbles ram, they're running virtually
[15:51] <dzho> rhino is the name of a javascript environment, for one thing.  that doesn't sound like it fits here.
[15:51] <thafreak> needless to say, it doesn't work so hot
[15:51] <thafreak> nah, it's some 3d rendering stuff
[15:52] <dzho> ah, right, I see it now rhino3d.com
[15:52] <thafreak> i don't know why they spend all this money on stuff and don't bother asking my opinion
[15:52] <dzho> "NURBS modeling for Windows"
[15:52] <dzho> what sort of business are they in, thafreak
[15:53] <thafreak> if something needs tons of ram...i wouldn't run it on a mac...ram is REALLY expensive on those things
[15:53] <thafreak> they build trade show exhibits
[15:53] <dzho> well, expensive, or inconvenient, or both
[15:53] <thafreak> They just did an exhibit for SMS audio at CES
[15:53] <dzho> if the ram slots are exposed, getting it 3rd party is not so bad
[15:53] <dzho> thafreak: as in, they design the booth?
[15:54] <thafreak> probably not, they probably filled it with small sized dimms
[15:54] <thafreak> yeah, designed, built, transported, set up, etc
[15:54] <dzho> cool
[15:54] <thafreak> Some times I feel i should work there...to prevent them from making bad choices about technology
[15:55] <dzho> I get the feeling Blender has sucked a lot of the air out of a lot of the areas it touches on for FOSS
[15:55] <thafreak> but everyone else in the family works there...don't want to fall into that trap
[15:55] <thafreak> what do you mean?
[15:55] <thafreak> like taken some of the thunder from other foss projects?
[15:56] <dzho> that, and attention of developers and demand from customers and so on.
[15:56] <dzho> "it's ok, we've got GIMP and OpenOffice" that sort of thing.
[15:56] <dzho> and in the meantime, people stick with Photoshop and MS Office
[15:57] <thafreak> I wonder if I can get them to use blender at my inlaws...that'd be awesome
[15:57] <thafreak> well, the average person "knows" ms office's interface
[15:57] <thafreak> it's all about familiarity
[15:58] <thafreak> they don't want to learn something different
[15:58] <thafreak> i should say, the average business user
[15:58] <thafreak> but, if they use MS office at work, that's also what they want to use at home
[15:59] <thafreak> Also, an example from my life, my mom was working on her associates degree, i told her to try open office
[15:59] <dzho> nevermind that absent bulk license agreements the version you use at work is more expensive than anyone wants to pay
[15:59] <thafreak> she said she liked it, but felt she will be using M$ office at her potential future job, so she wanted to "learn" that
[15:59] <thafreak> oh yeah, my mom also found that out
[15:59] <dzho> this is where I like to emphasize the difference between "training" and "education"
[16:00] <dzho> training is what you do to an animal, to get it to do what you want it to do for you
[16:00] <thafreak> she was all, i really want to "leanr" M$ office, but I don't want to pay $120 for the student version
[16:00] <thafreak> she was trying to get me to tell her how to get it for "free"
[16:00] <dzho> education is an improvement of general understanding, relating to things that are basic truths, rather than ephemeral design features
[16:01] <thafreak> i laughed, and told her that's illegal
[16:01] <dzho> it's tough, I know
[16:01] <thafreak> dzho: this is very true
[16:01] <thafreak> will you please talk to all the universities and community colleges
[16:02] <thafreak> and convince them to stop offering "Microsoft Office" "classes"
[16:02] <thafreak> I want to apply to teaching jobs at smaller universities, until I see that their "Technology" instructors teach classes about M$ office
[16:03] <thafreak> and tell all the HR people to stop putting "proficinecy in Microsoft Office" as job requirements...
[16:04] <dzho> well, sounds like they've already got covered what you don't want to do, and have needs in an area that you do want to do :-)
[16:04] <thafreak> no they don't
[16:04] <thafreak> they don't offer classes on linux
[16:05] <thafreak> U Akron is the only one I've found so far that specifically has a series of linux classes!
[16:08] <dzho> they need *new* classes is my point
[16:08] <dzho> eg, a class you do
[16:09]  * canthus13 yawns.
[16:13] <thafreak> i know that, but they don't know that
[16:13] <yano> anyone use DuckDuckGo?
[16:13] <thafreak> unless some one gives them buckets of money, they won't change
[16:13] <thafreak> i don't care for duckduckgo, but I try to use it
[16:13] <thafreak> to help mint out
[16:14] <dzho> thafreak: have you had this conversation with anyone at any of those places?
[16:14] <dzho> I mean, maybe you're right.
[16:14] <yano> apparently they passed the 1 million searches a day: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/02/duck-duck-go-passed-1mm-searches-per-day.html
[16:15] <dzho> yano: I've set the default page on several of my browsers to https://duckduckgo.com/html
[16:15] <dzho> so I go back and forth quite a lot between it and google
[16:16] <yano> dzho: me too, i've been using ddg as my primary search engine for a few months
[16:19] <dzho> yano: you default to SSL and non-javascript?
[16:19] <yano> dzho: yep
[16:19]  * dzho daps yano
[16:19] <yano> dzho: occasionally i'll try their tor hidden service
[16:19] <yano> http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion/
[16:19] <dzho> I haven't gone that far, but I salute you
[16:20]  * dzho should dig more into tor
[16:20] <yano> i'm surprise the Tor Browser Bundle doesn't default to using DuckDuckGo's Tor hidden service as the main search engine
[17:48] <thafreak> it should say something that I basically only have a windows vm for watching netflix right?
[17:49] <yano> thafreak: i use to do that, but the fps were way too slow
[17:49] <yano> i only watch android on my phone or my ps3
[17:50] <yano> s/android/netflix/
[18:01] <thafreak> watching on my tablet is nice...but i usually leave that at home
[18:02] <thafreak> anyone know of a way to determine which of your firefox tabs is causing the browser to peg at 99% cpu usage?
[18:06] <dzho> I just start killing flash instances
[22:45] <thafreak> And now I've seen it all
[22:45] <thafreak> got a spam that used ASCII art
[22:46] <Unit193> I could PM spam you ascii. Email? What for? :P
[23:29] <jrgifford> thafreak, i <3 duckduckgo.
[23:29] <jrgifford> although for a lot of things i end up doing !bing $query
[23:29] <jrgifford> so it doesn't really help me haha
[23:30] <jrgifford> the oneboxing thing is nice though.
[23:33]  * Unit193 Google
[23:40]  * canthus13 yawns.
[23:47] <Unit193> You sure do yawn a lot. :P
[23:47] <canthus13> Haha. there's a guy on ebay selling XP OEM CDs with broken laptop drives to get around the hardware requirement for reselling OEM CDs.