/srv/irclogs.ubuntu.com/2012/03/28/#ubuntu-us-mi.txt

=== _Marcus|NotHere is now known as _Marcus
snap-lGood morning11:13
snap-lAnyone else having trouble with doing an update on a natty machine11:13
snap-lseems it just sits there and hangs trying to find stuff11:14
snap-lAh, it appears it's Google that's having trouble.11:20
snap-lWonder why that is11:20
snap-lhttp://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920022251.do <- Thoughts?11:55
brouschhave you read all of your other books?12:00
rick_hthe book is on my wishlist as something to check out. 90 pages, who knows though12:02
rick_hno reviews yet I've seen12:03
snap-lbrousch: No12:04
snap-lbrousch: Now go away. :)12:04
brouschthen i say don't buy it12:04
brouschthese are my thoughts12:04
snap-lbrousch: Thank you for being my Jiminy Cricket12:04
brouschuntil you've read all of your previous purchased books, you are banned from buying any new ones12:05
snap-lbrousch: Now you're just being mean.12:06
brouschdiscipline!12:06
rick_hmeh, that's crazy talk12:07
rick_hinterests wane and flow, you need to keep reading and allow yourself to not get locked down/stop reading because you don't feel like the one thing you've got left12:07
brouschthis doesn't look good http://paste.mitechie.com/show/588/12:08
rick_hI guess if you're a xubuntu user that might look sucky12:15
rick_hbut if it's a real thing there's got to be more than one person behind it12:15
rick_hanother leader moves on, it happens12:15
snap-lYeah, I saw that12:15
brouschunless that new leader is an a-hole12:19
jrwrengood morning12:56
jrwrenwhen did vmware player add support for creating new VM? that is totally sweet.12:57
brouschyears ago12:57
brouschhow are you using vmware player? that only runs on windows and linux12:58
jrwrenon windows.12:58
jrwreni used it on windows last night.12:58
jrwreni have a windows PC at home for playing Starcraft212:58
brouschrick_h: you see this? http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyramid_appengine/13:01
jrwrenI've got to try pyramid13:02
jrwrendjango is so tiny and simple, seems like a framework should do more for me ;)13:02
brouschthat's what all the django add-ons are for13:02
jrwrenyeah, I need to find which ones are good and worth using13:03
brouschhttp://djangopackages.com/13:03
brouschlist and ratings13:03
jrwrenty13:04
jrwrenbrousch++13:04
rick_hbrousch: yea, saw that13:05
rick_hmeh, frameworks should be small/not do too much for you13:06
jrwrenfuk that.13:07
jrwreni want a framework to do everything for me.13:07
jrwrenit should read my mind and know exactly how and what i want.13:07
jrwrenand when it can't, it should let me do it all and stay the fuck out of my way13:07
rick_hyea, that's what gets you into trouble with in inflexibility13:07
rick_hheh, but of course :)13:07
jrwrenno way, not me. i don't.13:07
jrwrenits all just fancy toString()... it should help me lots13:08
brouschsnap-l: http://blog.makezine.com/2012/03/27/oreillymake-microcontroller-ebooks-and-videos-50-off-through-march-30/13:34
snap-lYeah, I saw that13:40
jrwrenhttp://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2012/03/bugfixing-the-in-kernel-megaraid_sas-driver-from-crash-to-patch/  sweet13:53
rick_hcrap that like makes me realize I'm an idiot. I could never have gotten that crap figured out14:00
snap-lrick_h: It's just knowing where to look14:03
snap-lI think you could diagnose something like this if you had someone telling you what tools to use14:03
jrwrenyou could.14:05
jrwrenit took them weeks working on it full time.14:05
jrwreni knwo I could14:05
jrwreni might have doubted myself in teh past, but after the past few months, no more.14:05
snap-lYeah, I think that's the biggest part: getting over the self-doubt14:06
snap-lI mean, if it's between you getting a full night's sleep, or getting paged because the machine fell over, i think you'd move mountains.14:06
jrwrenhaha, that too.14:08
snap-lhttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/8980735/how-can-i-verify-column-data-types-in-the-sqlalchemy-orm <- SQL Alchemy is awesome. That is all14:26
snap-lNot sure I'm going to implement it, but it's nice to know it's there.14:27
jrwrensnap-l: interceptors are always nice :)14:34
* snap-l is about to build a time machine to eradicate Excel from the timeline15:35
rick_hthat would be a great use of said time machine15:35
snap-lI'll need some funding15:36
snap-land a pass on the laws of physics15:36
snap-lbut otherwise, it's completely do-able.15:36
Milyardoif not Excel, then Lotus? Seems just as bad IMO15:37
snap-lMilyardo: I don't receive Lotus 123 sheets on a weekly basis15:37
brouschsnap-l: i do15:37
snap-lbrousch: Oh that sucks15:37
snap-lHas Lotus 123 adopted ODF?15:37
brouschmaybe if you kill the first spreadsheet no others will be created15:38
brouschhell no. this is lotus 1-2-3 for win3.115:38
snap-lHm, I need to be careful, though15:38
snap-lIf I kill off Excel, then ODF may never be born15:38
snap-ltricky15:38
brouschmaybe win9515:38
snap-lbrousch: What the hell? Are you dealing with lawyers?15:39
* snap-l has never seen a Lotus 123 sheet in the wild after 2003.15:39
brouschno, i have one user with 2 decades invested in specialised lotus spreadsheets15:39
snap-lbrousch: You have my permission to use the time machine to alter his timeline15:39
jjessewhat????  20 years of lotus spreadsheets?15:40
jjesseamazing15:40
snap-lI mean, I can see using some newer Lotus bastardization of Open Office15:40
snap-lbut 1-2-3 is just... blech15:40
brouschyeah, the only thing that can extract info from it is excel15:42
snap-land that can't be good either15:42
brouschit even runs on win715:43
snap-l123, or Excel's import of 123?15:44
brouschLotus 1-2-3 Release 5 for Windows15:46
brouschi pulled the floppy disks out to get the version right. the rubberband around them disintigrated15:47
jrwrenODF can DIAF15:51
jrwrenXLSX for life yo.15:51
MilyardoXLSX can DAIF15:52
MilyardoLaTeX for life yo.15:53
snap-ljrwren: trollbait.15:53
jrwreni do love LaTeX15:55
jrwrensnap-l: i'm keeping up with you :)15:55
snap-lduly noted.15:55
jrwreni do wish freeform spreadsheet wasn't as popular15:56
jrwrenand that more programmed sheets like Improv would have caught on.15:56
Milyardopopular? Shouldn't be allowed.15:57
jrwreni remember getting Improv within minutes of first using it. then traditional spreadsheets rottd my brain15:58
jrwrennow I can't figure out numbers ;(15:58
snap-lOnce visicalc hit the scene, I think we were all doomed.16:00
snap-land once people equated Excel with databases, that was the end of it.16:00
snap-l"Look, it has rws and columns like you programming geeks want. Now leave me alone while I crunch my data"16:01
MilyardoIf not for spreadsheets, maybe we'd RDBMS's wouldn't have as prevelent as they are now16:05
brouschsnap-l: it is scary16:05
Milyardomaybe we'd actually use object oriented ones instead16:05
snap-lMilyardo: you're kidding yourself. :)16:06
brouschzope is still alive16:07
MilyardoMe:"You know LDAP is a database too". Colleague: "False. You can't use SQL on it."16:07
Milyardo /facepalm16:07
snap-lMilyardo: Had they not created spreadsheets, we'd be buried in little one-off BASIC programs with DATA statements trying hard to perform SUM functions16:08
snap-lMilyardo: Exactly.16:08
jrwrenCSV is a database too16:18
jrwrenspreadsheets might be databases too, depending on what is in them.16:18
greg-gdefine "database"16:19
snap-lthe base of which data is launched16:19
jrwrentext book definition.16:19
jrwrenlaunched?16:19
greg-gsnap-l: thanks. So based on that, I think you'll all full of it16:19
jrwrendefine launched in that context :)16:19
greg-g:)16:20
jrwrenI'll go with Elmasri and Navathe's definition16:20
jrwreni looked it up and here is the def.16:24
jrwrenCollection of related data16:24
jrwrenso we are not full of it.16:24
jrwrenwe are pedants16:24
jrwrenif you mean relational database system, then say so16:25
snap-lDefine data, please16:25
snap-lI have an hour to kill16:25
jrwrenits a great question.16:27
jrwreni studied it very breifly16:27
jrwrenhttp://jmcsweeney.co.uk/computing/m150/differences.php16:28
jrwrendictionary def for data is fine too16:28
krondorman I feel like it's been ages since I've been on irc16:40
snap-lIt has been16:41
snap-lCHC tonight, early edition.16:41
rick_hwoot!16:43
snap-lAlso, of note: October 31st is CHC early edition. :)16:43
snap-lI think it'll be starting a little later16:44
krondorwish I could, it's Emily's birthday today though.16:45
rick_hhappy birthday!16:45
snap-lWhat could be better than hanging out with a bunch of guys at a coffeeshop for your birthday?16:45
krondorhah, something tells me that selling point might not work as well on her as on me.16:46
krondorI do need to go next week because I need to brainwash a few people to help me test a few juju things.16:46
MilyardoHow can XCode even be considered functional, what is this17:21
MilyardoHow more difficult can it be to include a static library from another project on the same workspace17:22
Milyardothat's like the simplest possible thing an IDE can do17:22
jrwreniOS dev or MacOSX dev ?17:23
jrwreni know how to include a static lib, but I couldn't describe it to you.17:24
MilyardoiOS as a target for this particular project17:24
greg-gseriously, how do I get rid of this ugly black bar at the top of my gcalendar?17:36
rick_hhttp://code.google.com/p/minimalist-google-calendar/17:37
greg-gok, for Fx not Chrome ;)17:37
rick_h:)17:37
greg-galso seriously, Fx nightly is awesome lately. Especially with the new pdf.js integration17:39
rick_hmeh, pdf reader built in has been nice in chrome for a while.17:39
brouschgreg-g: embrace the black bar. it is your friend17:39
rick_hbut yea, I do like the new firefox and looking forward to helping Blazeix get the extension going/tested so I can use it more17:39
greg-grick_h: doesn't that just use gdocs as the backend?17:39
rick_hgreg-g: no, it's got a native pdf reader in chrome17:39
greg-goh, I tohught it just overlayed the gdocs stuff. I like in-browser/native/not using other's servers to read simple pdfs better, so that's cool.17:40
greg-gbrousch: :P17:40
rick_hyea, so I actually use chrome as my pdf reader on my system usually17:40
greg-ghuh17:40
rick_hgoogle-chrome xx.pdf17:40
rick_hvs evince/xpdf17:41
snap-lBlergh17:41
snap-levince is good for 99% of the PDFs om my machine17:41
snap-lthere's only a handful that it really can't handle17:41
greg-gyeah, I don't mind evince. But for docs I want to be both digital-only and highlighted, I use Mendeley (I know I know, proprietary)17:42
rick_hmy issues with evince is the gnome requirements/hooks in teh backend17:42
rick_hchrome print works better for me and it's already opened so faster17:42
snap-lgreg-g: You have vastly different needs for PDFs tham most of us17:42
snap-lIt was apparent when I read your eBook article that you're looking to replace journals / textbooks and not just tech books17:43
snap-lWhich, yeah, you're going to want something other than evince. ;)17:43
snap-lrick_h: Bah. :)17:44
greg-gsnap-l: yeah, I want to mark the shit up of my text-based information conveyers :)17:45
greg-gI do "close readings" or whatever the hip english students say nowadays17:45
snap-lWhat the hell is that?17:45
greg-ginteracting with the text. marking it up, underlining, making notes, circling, etc etc17:46
snap-lgreg-g: So, doodling.17:46
rick_hheh, and this is why he calls it 'close reading'17:46
rick_hsounds much better than 'doodling'17:46
brouschi thought i saw some apps like that for android17:50
brouschyou can read and mark-up a pdf, search and such17:50
jrwreni <3 dead trees17:53
jrwrenwhat greg-g is really saying is that he is into scrapbooking17:53
brouschthe only good tree is a dead tree!17:53
jrwrenpasting doilies onto pages.17:53
greg-gre: "so doodling" (sorry, Rowan/Carrie came in the room) no. instead of writing up notes in a separate document like "this quote on page whatever is good" or "I disagree with this point he makes here because..." I put it in the actual book so it is contextualized.18:01
greg-ghaha, re scrapbooking18:01
rick_hugh, I really want to get on the bike, but 30+mph wind gusts...trying to convince me not to go18:09
jrwrenrick_h: and its COLD ain't it?18:10
nullspacewhoose going to penguicon? and why?18:10
rick_hjrwren: close to 60, not bad18:10
jrwrenoh, not bad at all18:10
rick_hI'm going because I'm talking and because my wife is heading out of town with the boy nullspace18:10
rick_hjrwren: but I never enjoy riding in the wind...but haven't been out due to my post-pycon flu and want to try out the clip in shoes18:11
nullspacerick_h: I don't understand why your paying to talk about something... don't you usually get in free if your adding value to the concvention18:12
rick_hnullspace: well it all depends. I've seen it both ways.18:12
rick_hI'm paying to speak because I like to complain on the tech track so I can yell more about how it sucks if I'm in it :)18:13
nullspaceI tried the staff route to complain, that didn't work at all18:13
rick_hwell I figure if I don't try to help I can't whine, so now I reserve my whining privelages18:13
greg-gAll Whines Reserved18:14
rick_hexactly!18:14
greg-g:)18:14
rick_hand snap-l can't fuss at me18:14
greg-gI love that18:14
nullspaceI prefer a reserve wine18:14
greg-gI might have to use that somewhere18:14
greg-ghrmm, now to try to figure out why my living room outlets aren't working :/ (yes, already tried the breakers)18:15
rick_hoops18:15
rick_hone of them have a gfi outlet?18:15
nullspaceI can understand why the rest of the tracks would require the speaker to pay because it's a venue for them to hock their wares and books they wrote18:15
greg-gyeah, after that I'm kind of stuck, they aren't those fancy outlet-with-breaker-in-them things18:15
rick_hdoh18:15
rick_hyea, I've been caught by a stray outlet on the loop that had the break in there18:16
rick_hspare bathroom on living room and the bathroom went taking the living room with it18:16
nullspaceI had somethign similar when the outlet behind the fridge was a gfi in a line of gfis, the gfi behind the fridge tripped, major pain in the ass18:17
greg-ghrmmm18:17
greg-glemme go check other rooms18:17
nullspaceone gfi per line adn it shoudl be the first outlet in the line from the breaker18:17
nullspaceany more and it's not up to code18:18
jrwrenrick_h: i'm with you. wind SUCKS18:18
jrwrenwell, tailwind is nice.18:18
jrwrenbut you never get tailwind the whole ride.18:19
rick_hyea, but I'll be doing a nice square with it18:19
nullspacerick_h: I think what might change their mind is if they can't fill out the tech track because no one wants to pay to do what equates to work18:19
rick_hnullspace: yea, I'll be plugging bookie and I've got ribbons to hand out to ask for invites and such18:20
rick_hso I'll be doing some pub I guess, and it's not that $$18:20
rick_hand if I suck, then I don't feel bad :P18:20
nullspaceha18:21
snap-lnullspace: I've paid to go because I like Penguicon, and I want it to continue.18:21
snap-lAnd yes, I'm speaking18:21
snap-lDoing at least three events at Penguicon, and not worrying about asking for the reduced rate.18:22
nullspaceI like the promise of penguicon, btu the inner circle party of the staff and their draconian methods have got to go18:22
jrwrenits a volonteer conference, yow ill get out of it what you pu tinto it.18:22
rick_hbingo18:22
jrwrenits not like people are making $$$ running the conference. if they were, then i would have a different attitude.18:22
greg-gwell crap, can't find anything18:22
snap-lnullspace: I don't know the particulars of the conference insies, nor do I care to18:22
rick_hgreg-g: hmm, then might be in for some fun18:23
snap-lWhatever beef you have with them is between you and them.18:23
nullspacesnap-l: you got a taste of it one year, completely unorganized18:23
snap-lYes, and I still return18:23
snap-lbecause frankly it's not worth holding a grudge18:23
snap-land the conference itself is more important to me for what I get out of it18:24
krondorit's had good years and bad years for sure.18:25
nullspaceI don't seem to learn much except one-on-one with my peers18:25
nullspaceyou guys are what make it awesome18:25
rick_hwell come to my talk and I'll try to learn you some JS :)18:25
nullspacehey now18:25
jrwrenhallway talks rule :)18:25
krondorI still haven't registered a talk this year, but I did buy my pass.18:26
nullspacethat's uncalled for18:26
rick_hI've got to start building my audience early18:26
krondorLast year I got the reduced rate w/ 3 talks but that was too much I think.18:26
snap-lAnd we have the release party in a separate room, which should be awesome18:26
snap-lpro-rated beer18:27
rick_hwhat? I'm just saying that you can learn outside of one-one by attending my talk. I didn't get into anything else.18:27
rick_hsnap-l: oh that's cool. the whole release party in the bar thing hasn't been the best the last two years18:27
nullspacerick_h: count me in18:27
nullspacewe can talk carpentry if we run of things to talk about18:27
nullspaceI think I want to give a tal or two, need to hash it out a bit more, when does the CFP end18:29
jrwreni think it is the weekend of my daughters bday.18:29
jrwrenor my dads.18:29
jrwrenor something :(18:29
krondorhrmm are there any other tech centric cons in the MI area other than grcon (or notacon I guess)?18:29
rick_hjrwren: pcon is?18:29
snap-lnullspace: They're working on the schedule now, so the sooner the better.18:29
jrwrenkrondor: TONS18:29
rick_hwell there was detroit dev days last year, and the detroit mobile dev days coming up18:29
jrwrenwhat rick_h said18:29
rick_hmost of the big things are in OH18:29
jrwrenin the .NET world there are lots of days of .net18:30
rick_hbut yea, there's a bunch of things around, you just have to watch for them18:30
brouschkrondor: grrcon is supposedly a super-awesome security conference18:30
nullspacekrondor: bsides detroit18:30
krondorooh I'm adding all these :)  brousch: Yeah I heard it was great I plan to  go this year.18:31
brouschi'm on the fence18:31
brouschalways am when it costs me money ;)18:31
krondorI heard a bunch of vendors walked out because they were mad it was all college kids and not sales leads.  That makes it even better IMO18:31
nullspacestill working on a venue for bsides18:31
rick_hpyohio is my next big thing, well I guess penguicon, but hardly counting as my 'big' event18:32
krondorcollege kids == future sales leads (short sighted)18:32
nullspacederbycon is my big thing, don't think I could get a talk accepted to taht18:32
nullspacethat18:32
krondorderbycon sounded nice too, but if I'm making a trek might as well try 20th anniversary of defcon.18:33
brouschnullspace: is that centered around hats or crashing junk cars?18:33
brouschkrondor: grrcon videos are online, so you can make up your own mind http://www.youtube.com/user/GrrCON18:34
krondorI think this year I might  try to do a room party at pcon for rooting.  Last year's panel on it was awkward.18:35
nullspacebrousch: it's an infosec con organized by well know infosec leaders18:40
nullspacemitnick was there last year and gave an awesome talk with dave kenndy ( CTO of Diebold)18:41
brouschnullspace: mitnick is speaking at grrcon this year18:42
rick_hlove this article, bring your thoughts to CHC while I scream "AMEN!" http://www.toolness.com/wp/2012/03/coffee-machines-and-community/18:43
snap-lJust get a Keurig. :)18:47
rick_hbah!18:49
nullspacesnap-l: I'm curious about those, what model and what's your experience?18:49
snap-lnullspace: At work they have this industrial-grade machine18:49
snap-lHas a LCD display and everything. Hooks to the water line18:50
snap-lCertain coffee brands are much better than others18:50
snap-lI like the Green Mountain Dark Magic18:50
nullspaceour issue at work is that it connects to the water line, wixom's water sucks18:50
snap-lnullspace: You might want to get a water filter18:50
snap-lor a softener or use a brita pitcher18:51
snap-lI mean, if your water is crap, you're going to get crap coffee18:51
snap-lBut, in any event, I'm pretty pleased with it18:51
snap-lBut I think it's a combo of decent coffee and a decent machine18:51
rick_hugh, never was happy with the flavor, and seems wasteful, and completely misses the point of the article :P18:51
snap-lI wouldn't replace my home mill & brew with it18:52
snap-lrick_h: I'm kiding. :)18:52
nullspacesnap-l: thus some colleges and myself bring in water, our own coffee and use a electric kettle and french press. the results are excellent18:52
snap-land yes, it is wasteful18:52
snap-lBut, compared with the coffee of indeterminate origin in the kitchen, or the rocket fuel that gets brewed behind me, I'll settle for it.18:53
snap-lI like coffee with a little bite, not coffee that latches onto your tongue and won't let go18:53
krondorsnap-l:  yeah, I made fun of Emily when she got ours, but honestly the Keurig is pretty nice.18:53
snap-lThey literally use espresso machines to make a cup of coffee18:54
snap-lIt'll never be the best cup of joe, but it's a good, consistent cuppa joe.18:54
nullspacemmmm black-eye, my fav18:54
brouschcareful with that stuff. i used to drink it, then i started getting angina from caffeine. now i'm decaf18:55
snap-lbrousch: Yeah, I know. I drink way too much of that stuff at work18:55
brouschwas drinking a super biggby redeye every morning. 24oz of coffee + 3 shots of espresso18:55
snap-lbrousch: OK, that's asking for trouble18:56
nullspaceI suppose if my esspresso machien broken down my instinct would be to take the thing apart and fix it, while I'm there I'll likely make design changes18:56
snap-lnullspace: because there's nothing like creating an espresso-grenade.18:56
nullspacebrousch: I drink at most three cups of coffee, unless it's crappy watery coffee, then there is no telling18:57
brouschnow i drink a whole pot every day, but it's decaf18:57
brouschgreg-g: i think this was the pdf reading/markup app i looked at before http://goo.gl/rR1rT19:13
brouschhere's another https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qiqqa.android.qiqqa19:14
greg-gbrousch: cool. thanks19:36
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brouschsnap-l: have you heard of ccmixter?19:55
snap-lI have20:00
snap-lhaven't quite found a place for it yet, though20:00
snap-lThough they've gotten bigger since I last looked. :)20:01
brouschif you'd like your brain broken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrnkK2YEcE20:07
brouschsnap-l: i always end up with months worth of music from your instrumentalcasts20:28
snap-lThat's awesome.20:30
brouschexcept then i become many episodes behind20:32

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