| hads | Forgot to include some electrical stuff and had to replace a rotten window were the main ones, other than that just general overspend. | 00:16 |
|---|---|---|
| * ibeardslee makes a note to include replacing the bathroom heater | 00:26 | |
| ajmitch | nice, orcon ufb plans announced & not looking too expensive | 00:30 |
| hads | Not so nice, they include calling. | 00:44 |
| ajmitch | hoepfully other ISPs will have plans in the near future | 00:47 |
| G | ajmitch: my biggest disappointment is that there isn't really an incentive for low users to get off Copper/Dialup and onto the fibre, part of the problem admittedly is that there is no money to be made from such customers | 00:53 |
| ajmitch | G: right, there especially won't be an incentive if people have to pay to get fibre connected to their home, and get new hardware | 00:54 |
| G | I'd love to (for instance) get my Uncle off dial-up, he's shot down ADSL etc in the past (fair enough), but it's at the point where it'd be good to upgrade the full thing and then let it be, but even w/ the 5GB plan that Orcon on Twitter mentioned, I'd say it'd still be priced too high on a /mo basis | 00:56 |
| ajmitch | people might move when they get TV over fibre | 00:56 |
| G | (Although part of the price comparison issue, is that he's on a special Telecom landline plan, where as a low user he pays 1/2-3/4 the normal monthly rental and instead pays for some local calls | 00:57 |
| G | (for people reading and thinking: oooh, near-naked BB, I'd 99.9% sure Telecom don't offer the plan for new customers anymore) | 00:59 |
| ajmitch | those sort of plans stick around for awhile for existing customers | 01:01 |
| ajmitch | looks like where I live is about 2 blocks away from the year 1 rollout in dunedin, so I may not have to care too much about UFB plans for awhile yet :) | 01:02 |
| G | ajmitch: yeah, and I think that is one of Telecom's (and most other teleco's) strong points, that they are willing to grandfather plans, but for instance, a 15Mbps/1Mbps, 3-5GB/mo + low calling, would be perfect for a lot of older folks that don't care/don't use the net much, as for UFB, my address = never, and 3-4 years for RBI :( | 01:05 |
| ajmitch | I wonder what my grandmother uses | 01:06 |
| jogster | Got a lovely sample of gold from NZ today | 01:09 |
| jogster | to add to my collection | 01:10 |
| jogster | http://i.imgur.com/6adgR.jpg | 01:10 |
| jogster | Isnt she lovely? | 01:10 |
| snail | jogster: which part of nz is it from? | 01:12 |
| jogster | hauraki goldfieldd | 01:15 |
| jogster | Coromandel | 01:15 |
| snail | nod | 01:15 |
| jogster | I have a large collection of minerals, rocks, gems and meteorites from all around the globe | 01:16 |
| jogster | over 6,000 items its one of the largest privately held collections in the planet. | 01:16 |
| jogster | it was started by my great grandfather over 50 years ago | 01:16 |
| jogster | imgur.com/a/XPGHV#0 | 01:17 |
| jogster | Heres some samples from the collection | 01:17 |
| snail | what's the metadata like? | 01:19 |
| jogster | i have great documentation for all of it but i only have photos of about 20% | 01:20 |
| jogster | I have a great digitized archive library of all the information on each and every item | 01:21 |
| jogster | We developed our own metadata index and web services middle layers that provide us with a unified view from multiple collection repositories | 01:27 |
| jogster | I used apache lucen/solr | 01:28 |
| jogster | and a set of complementary request and delivery services using java | 01:28 |
| jogster | the metadata model itself uses established standards like dublic core MARC and METS | 01:29 |
| jogster | and its got a user friendly search interfance through java and css online | 01:30 |
| snail | jogster: does it have a url? | 01:31 |
| jogster | not publicly accessible | 01:31 |
| snail | jogster: using formats like that, #code4lib might be of interest to you | 01:31 |
| jogster | I didnt really develop the system but thanks :D | 01:32 |
| jogster | you know about METS MARC and dublic core ideas? | 01:33 |
| jogster | dublin* | 01:33 |
| snail | i know of these, and more besides | 01:34 |
| snail | i use them in http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ and other websites | 01:34 |
| jogster | my digital archivists love this system | 01:35 |
| jogster | it makes their life much easier | 01:35 |
| jogster | you know how hard adding metadata to digital photos can be? | 01:35 |
| jogster | files from years ago can become forgotten or obsolete as formats | 01:35 |
| jogster | as forms change* | 01:36 |
| jogster | formats | 01:36 |
| jogster | add to that that our filed are everywhere | 01:36 |
| jogster | online on computers and servers cds, dvds and and thumbdrives tucked in drawers and closets | 01:36 |
| jogster | so we did a lot of data mapping | 01:40 |
| jogster | do you admin those websites? | 01:42 |
| snail | i do the techie side of that website | 01:44 |
| mwhudson | say what? https://www.facebook.com/ubuntunz | 07:52 |
| ajmitch | looks like they're even using the ubuntu font in their logo | 07:54 |
| ajmitch | https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=181228415318644 has sort of an explanation | 07:56 |
| hads | Seems reasonable. Except the font thing. | 08:27 |
| ajmitch | yeah, using the name & the font together have a bit more potential for confusion | 08:33 |
| ajmitch | though it looks like the old ubuntu title font anyway | 08:34 |
| mwhudson | ah, cool | 09:16 |
| ojwb | the ubuntu font isn't a good example really, as that's rather closely connected to the OS | 09:40 |
| ibeardslee | morning | 18:28 |
| ibeardslee | hmmm .. but what about the Ubuntu One Music store? | 18:30 |
| snail | mÅrena | 18:55 |
| codepal | morning | 19:02 |
| Atamira | mornin | 19:26 |
| ajmitch | morning | 19:32 |
| ajmitch | such a bright & sunny day | 19:33 |
| ajmitch | one that shows up every speck of dust on my monitor | 19:33 |
| ibeardslee | overcast and windy here | 19:37 |
| ibeardslee | this morning I didn't hear my alarm over the wind | 19:37 |
| ajmitch | no wind here, and I don't think I saw any clouds in the sky | 19:38 |
| ibeardslee | alright alright stop rubbing it in | 19:39 |
| ajmitch | I didn't say it was warm outside :) | 19:40 |
| ibeardslee | sun and no wind > warm | 19:42 |
| mwhudson | morning | 20:24 |
| ojwb | morning | 22:21 |
| hads | morning | 22:22 |
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