/srv/irclogs.ubuntu.com/2012/05/07/#ubuntu-us-pa.txt

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=== EvilResistance is now known as Resistance
=== Resistance is now known as EvilResistance
rmg51Morning09:50
JonathanDMonring.10:35
waltmanMorning.11:39
InHisName1the sky is UP, JonathanD11:46
InHisName1so's the sun.11:46
InHisName1somewhere up there11:47
InHisName1Morning, all!11:47
MutantTurkeymornin15:24
JonathanDhowdy.15:24
MutantTurkeyweewub17:14
EvilResistanceITS A MUTANT TURKEY17:15
EvilResistancemmm, turkey... now i'm hungry  for a turkey sandwich17:15
* EvilResistance is not pleased17:15
jedijfmutant taco bell17:17
* EvilResistance is now hungry for tacos17:18
* EvilResistance is definitely not pleased17:18
EvilResistanceoh, and PennBot died17:18
* EvilResistance assumes the network at his apartment died17:18
waltmanMutantTurkey: You might not want to go into UC 153. There are leftover turkey sandwiches in there!17:19
MobileTurkeyGnumeric is pretty good18:59
waltmanit's no excel :)19:27
passstabwhy isn't it called gnomeric?19:29
waltmanPresumably it's a pun on "numeric"19:30
passstabthats confusing19:34
MobileTurkers for i in $(ls | grep '[0-9]'); do echo `echo $i` `diff <(ls $i) <(ls ../Masks/$i/Masks) | wc -l `; done19:36
MobileTurkerswohoo that's my bash foo for today19:36
* passstab wishes all the projects whos name was on some level derived from GNU would rename themselves19:38
passstabGNU included19:38
MobileTurkerslike everything part of the gnu core utils? passstab19:39
passstabsure19:39
MobileTurkersit'd be worse than kde19:39
MobileTurkerskonqueror konversation konsole19:39
MobileTurkerstab completion sucks with kde.19:39
passstabGNU is a terrible name19:39
MobileTurkersrecursive acroynms are retarded19:39
passstabi think Liberty would be a better name19:40
MobileTurkeywhy not just FSC?19:41
MobileTurkeyfree software collection19:42
MobileTurkeythat's basically what it is19:42
passstablol19:42
MobileTurkeyUCSC19:42
MobileTurkeyunix clone software collection19:42
MobileTurkeyUUU19:42
MobileTurkeyuniversal unix utils19:42
MobileTurkeyjust something other than GNU's Not UNIX19:42
passstabLiberty19:43
MobileTurkeywhat does that have to do with it?19:43
MobileTurkeyi think naming projects after words is a bad thing.19:43
waltmanpassstab: I don't understand why you find 'gnumeric' confusing. It seems a perfectly reasonable name to me, and in the unix tradition of bad puns.19:43
passstabit just suggests that it is a gnu project19:44
passstabnot a gnome one19:44
MobileTurkeyok19:44
MobileTurkeywell sorry for misleading you?19:44
waltmansee "gnucash" :)19:45
passstabit's nice to have a tradition19:45
waltmanand gnuplot19:45
passstabbut if we want to reach a larger audience19:45
waltmanWhy is it important to know if it's a GNU program?19:46
waltmanAt least gnumeric is a proper pun. gnucash and gnuplot just plopped the 'gnu' there for no reason at all.19:46
passstabwe should stop using names that make the program sound like a tool for programers19:47
MobileTurkeyor make the programmers sound like tools.19:47
MobileTurkeyerr :-)19:47
passstablol19:47
MobileTurkeyI think names should be destinct but also representitive of what they are19:47
waltmanpassstab: Perhaps it's only because you're a programmer that you associate 'gnu' with 'programming'. Muggles won't necessarily think that.19:48
MobileTurkeyThunderbird for example sucks at this, ktorrent is a good one.19:48
passstabno they’d see gibberish19:48
waltmanIt sounds to me like it has something to do with numbers.19:50
passstabyea gnucash is a good one19:50
MobileTurkeyKonversation is at least vaguely good19:50
waltmanI don't know. Probably the muggles are going to install Open/Libre Office and be done with it.19:50
MobileTurkeyat least some Mnemonic device is important19:51
passstabbut "the gimp" for instance...19:51
MobileTurkeygimp is just offensive.19:51
waltmangnucash is a fine program with a bad name and a kind of kludgey interface.19:51
waltmanEven in the world of commercial software it's not uncommon for programs to have names tha have nothing to do with their function. What does 'excel' have to do with spreadsheets?19:53
MobileTurkeyword19:53
MobileTurkeyis good19:53
waltmanOr 'quicken' with checkbooks?19:53
MobileTurkeyadobe photoshop19:53
waltmanadobe acrobat19:53
passstabphotoshop is a great name19:54
MobileTurkeybut agian, they have advantage of advertising and such19:54
MobileTurkeyto make you remember19:55
MobileTurkeythe budget of foss is smaller...19:55
waltmanBut I think muggles are smart enough to look through the menus of their fresh ubuntu install looking for programs.19:55
passstabi guess my beef is really just with gnu and gimp19:56
waltmanI agree gimp is bad. GNU's been around for so long I don't notice it anymore.19:56
passstabbut a newcomer might19:57
waltmanI don't have a problem with gnu19:58
passstabbut then i suppose my dislike of gnu stems from the fsf's attitude problems19:58
waltmanI mean, at some point you just need to accept that it's the name of the project and move on with your life. :)19:58
MobileTurkeyyeah19:59
MobileTurkeyhere I am using scrotwm.19:59
waltmanYou might recall that the name 'iPad' was universally panned with it was first announced. Didn't seem to hurt Apple one bit. :)19:59
passstabbut srotwm is named that because it isn't targeting new users20:01
passstab"It was written by hackers for hackers and it strives to be small, compact and fast.”20:05
MobileTurkeyyes20:05
MobileTurkeythey also renamed it20:05
MobileTurkeyrecently i think20:05
passstabspectrwm20:05
MobileTurkeyyeahh20:05
passstabi'll need to ask some outsiders what they think of the names20:07
jedijfrumpelstiltzken20:35
EvilResistancejedijf:  meh20:36
MobileTurkeyjedijf: i really thought you were talking about a country in the middle east20:37
MobileTurkeyrumpelstiltzikhan20:37
MobileTurkeyrumpelstiltzistan20:37
jedijfUversation20:37
MobileTurkeykrumpelehastiltzistan20:37
jedijfUnity naming scheme20:38
MobileTurkeykrump-el-e-ha-stiliz-stan20:38
jedijfunversation20:38
MobileTurkeyUndo20:38
jedijfstolen from 7up20:38
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