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snap-lAnd, when I make a mistake, it's nice to be able to go back and just run a script to re-make the show.00:09
rick_h_hah https://twitter.com/#!/isaiah/status/20181516574484889710:38
rick_h_and morning10:38
shakes808Good Morning11:44
rick_h_morn11:45
shakes808How are things in the world of rick?11:56
shakes808You might like this :D http://shirt.woot.com/11:56
rick_h_ok here, just busy.11:57
shakes808That is a good thing11:58
shakes808Did you know: Joan of ArcA survey reported that 12% of Americans think that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.11:58
rick_h_I'll file that one under my general assumption that at least 75% of the work population is dump as bricks11:59
rick_h_dumb that is11:59
rick_h_see that I fit into that 75% please12:00
brouschor they said it because it's funny12:00
rick_h_see the original point12:00
shakes808lol12:01
brousch:P12:06
wolflarsonI have heard that when dealing with linux you need to pick gnome or KED. Is this true with ubuntu? (there seems to be no option)12:48
rick_h_wolflarson: so Ubuntu ships with "Unity" by default for you to use12:49
rick_h_which is based on top of many Gnome technologies12:49
rick_h_it's meant to be easy for new users and not give them unnecessary decisions to make, but if you're a fan of kde you can try it out as well, just more work12:49
wolflarsonoh i am new and so not a fan of ether, just something i read12:51
rick_h_wolflarson: yea, I'd not worry about it then and just start with the out of the box experience12:51
wolflarsonok thank you12:51
brouschtry all 3 and see which you like best12:52
brouschunity, gnome3, kde12:52
rick_h_bah, if you're new just get your feet wet before window manager hopping imo12:53
rick_h_there's enough adjustment/learning to start with12:53
wolflarsoni seem to have an issue when i partitioned my HD C:\ is no longer my primary partition, how bad is this?12:53
brouschlinux doesn't use drive letters12:57
brouschare you trying to preserve an old windows install, or blow it away and install linux?12:58
wolflarsonkeep my win 7 because i have only tried the demo and i am not sure how useful it will be13:00
wolflarsoni created a 10 GB partition and formatted it ntfs but now my C:\ is a "healthy" partition and not the  primary one13:01
brouschi haven't actually done a side by side install, but i think the ubun tu installer does the partition stuff for you13:01
wolflarsonoh ...13:01
wolflarsonso delete the partition?13:02
brouschi don't know13:02
brouschi don't have win713:02
wolflarsonok well i just finised downloading the iso so i will see how it goes13:02
brouschif your data ended up on the new partition, you shouldn't delete it13:02
wolflarsonit is not it seems to be empty of all data13:03
wolflarsonbut i don't know how to put it back in to the C partition13:04
wolflarsonif linux does not use drive letters what does it use?13:04
brouschmount points13:08
brouschyour "C" drive is kind of like "/"13:09
brouschyour CD-ROM will be at something like /media/cdrom13:09
wolflarsonwhat else will be in media? would / be like root?13:09
brouschyes, / is root13:10
brouschon windows you have c:\documents and settings\wolflarson\ for your personal stuff, on linux that will be /home/wolflarson13:11
wolflarsonso would cards be in / too?   /cards/wireless and the NIC ?13:12
brouschnope, hardware devices are in /dev13:12
brouschso there's actually a /dev/cdrom too13:13
wolflarsonah ok and USB is there too?13:14
brouschright13:14
wolflarsonthank you for explaining that13:14
wolflarsonwell this hours over next class :)13:15
brouschrick_h_: what's your pyohio talk?13:31
rick_h_brousch: http://paste.mitechie.com/show/663/ is my little abstract submissions13:32
brouschwow, nice!13:33
rick_h_just kind of a general "if you're going an app/library you have no excuse for not having docs/tests/package on pypi"13:33
brouschi like how the description is web framework agnostic13:33
rick_h_so try to show how an hour's work can make all that happen and using free services/automation13:33
rick_h_yea, think I'll just do something wsgiref or basic. The idea is not the app, but the stuff around the app13:33
brouschright13:33
rick_h_just need something to do hello world via gunicorn on heroku13:33
rick_h_that's the idea at least, not written yet, and two things on the list I've not used/done before13:34
rick_h_so it fits the bill on talking about something you can learn a bit about as well13:34
snap-lrick_h_: I'm totally there.13:35
rick_h_snap-l: yea, figure worst case I'll be able to say I told you guys this stuff when I package up your github repo next time :P13:35
rick_h_but hard to think of topic ideas this year13:35
shakes808rick_h_: When and where is this going to be? This is what I need to do, correct? With getting me set up on github and getting my projects started?13:36
rick_h_shakes808: this will be at PyOhio end of July13:36
rick_h_see pyohio.org13:36
rick_h_(as long as it's accepted)13:36
rick_h_shakes808: and yea, that's the idea, it'll be an intense beginner talk I think since it's not going to require deep code knowledge13:37
brouschi'm sure it will be13:37
rick_h_but hopefully it'll poke a few more advanced users/expose some new tools/things as well13:37
rick_h_so good for all ages! :)13:37
shakes808:( I have my son that weekend, I won't be able to go.13:38
rick_h_how old? bring him along :)13:38
shakes808613:38
shakes808lol13:38
rick_h_I'm trying to talk my little brother into coming down with me this year13:38
rick_h_ah, gotcha13:38
shakes808His eyes will glaze over13:38
rick_h_well they are recorded as well13:38
snap-lThey have been in the past13:39
rick_h_yea, I took my wife/1yr old a couple of years ago13:39
rick_h_it was ok, but nothing really great for the little ones13:39
shakes808my son: "What the fuck dad? Why am I here? Is there a Wii to play with?"13:39
rick_h_I wouldn't take my boy either13:39
shakes808lol13:39
snap-lrick_h_: You sure you're not thinking of codemash?13:39
rick_h_snap-l: yea, remember when erica came down and hung out with jodee, was michael not around yet?13:40
rick_h_maybe he wasn't13:40
rick_h_sorry, all blurs13:40
snap-lI think I would have remembered that. :)13:40
rick_h_codemash rocked for the little one, my wife asked me to submit another talk for this next year13:40
rick_h_so yea, shakes808 put codemash on your calendar and get the boy, good times13:40
brouschrick_h_: you roomed with me 2 years ago. i have no recollection of an infant13:42
snap-lI have 6 running VMs on my machine13:42
snap-lthis is awesome.13:42
rick_h_brousch: ok, so yea it was pre-boy I guess.13:43
rick_h_I know one year the wife came down, was ok but nothing grand13:43
rick_h_snap-l: lol13:43
snap-lbrousch: Wasn't it more than two years?13:43
rick_h_snap-l: is this the work desktop?13:43
brouschpyohio 201013:43
shakes808rick_h_: codemash is next year lol13:43
snap-lrick_h_: Yeah, home machine only has 8gb13:43
rick_h_shakes808: yea, in Jan13:43
rick_h_snap-l: heh, yea I got special ram/etc consideration when I got that machine13:44
rick_h_it had more ram and larger drives than everyone else :)13:44
snap-lrick_h_: Thank you.13:44
rick_h_make buddies with those guys, pays off :)13:44
shakes808How much is it?13:44
snap-l16GB13:44
rick_h_and laugh at their jokes about Diana and her screw driver13:44
snap-lrick_h_: I love our IT folks here.13:44
snap-lThey make things work. I like that.13:45
snap-lalso, the fact that our firewall isn't like Chrysler's firewall makes me very happy.13:47
rick_h_yea, they're pretty good about that part13:47
rick_h_but I think the built in bandwidth caps don't help :P13:48
snap-lYeah, I think there's some funky QoS13:48
snap-lbut I'd rather have funky QoS than half of the network blocked13:48
snap-lesp when you're looking for information on running Windows on Linux, and get flagged for a prohibited search (Alcohol)13:49
jrwrenrick_h_: how old is your brother now? I remember one time you brought him to lightning talks or python group he was just a kid14:18
rick_h_jrwren: 2114:18
jrwrenawe, they grow up so quick.14:19
jrwrenhow he is doing?14:19
rick_h_he started school at northern in Jan and tring to find out what to do so figured coming to PyOhio might be fun/exposure to some texch stuff14:19
jrwrenah, very cool.14:21
jrwreni really should go to pyOhio. I still feel python incompetent.14:21
rick_h_it's a great small conf14:22
snap-ljrwren: You should go to PyOhio14:42
snap-lWash some of that .net stink off you.14:42
brouschomg, that reminds me14:44
brouschat tedxgr some random people joined me at a table. they were from a local dev shop or something. all they could talk about was sharepoint14:45
brousch"if you ever need sharepoint help or development, come see us!"14:45
brouschsomehow i suppressed remarks about hot pokers in inappropriate places14:46
jrwrensnap-l: i haven't done .net since Nov.15:16
jrwrenhow long does it take to get the stink off?15:16
rick_h_jrwren: 2 versions?15:16
rick_h_:P15:16
jrwrenhahaha, shit at the turtle pace of .net, its gonna be a while.15:16
snap-lAnd you can't replace the stink of .net with Java.15:19
snap-lIt's like trying to improve the smell of a latrine by taking a dump in it15:19
jrwrenwell, depends on teh stink, if you do mono and not .net then its all lilacs and lillies15:24
snap-lno matter how I try to convince her, JoDee assures me I cannot shit lilacs and lillies.15:25
rick_h_hah, until you blog about it and the OSS zealots get a hold of you :P15:25
snap-lI eagerly await the FSF's reversal on Java.15:26
snap-lEspecially considering the vitriol over mono that frankly hasn't panned out.15:26
brouschsnap-l: you shit what you eat15:30
MilyardoThe virtiol over Mono was over patents, the current drama with Java currently is about something of which isn't even copyrightable15:30
Milyardoand if it is found to be copyrightable15:30
snap-lAnd patents15:30
Milyardodear god help us all15:30
snap-lRemember, the other shoe hasn't dropped on that yet.15:30
snap-lBut yet, Sun made Java GPL, so it's all good.15:31
snap-lexcept when it isn't.15:31
MilyardoIf API are found to be copyrightable the copyright status of every implementation will have to reasssed15:31
snap-lI mean, Mono is... wait... LGPL / GPL / X11 licensed.15:32
MilyardoAlso software patents will become useless15:32
snap-lAs long as there is a buck to be made, software patents won't go away anytime soon15:32
MilyardoWhy patent something when instead you can implement it any any similar implementation will become copyrightable by you without any involvement of a patent office15:33
snap-lMilyardo: Because it makes look and feel lawsuits so much easier.15:34
snap-lcopyright doesn't cover that angle15:34
MilyardoYes it does with the exansion of this copyright in this case15:35
MilyardoSSO does include how software in presented15:36
jrwreni'm afraid not15:37
jrwrenand api are not copyrightable in general.15:37
jrwrenBSD ATT case decided that long ago15:37
jrwrenthis case is about some specific api copyrights, not the general case.15:37
jrwrenso even if oracle wins, it will not effect other software15:37
jrwrenwine will be fine15:37
snap-ljrwren: we hope15:38
jrwrenyes, we hope.15:38
jrwrenand even if a judge goes nuts (which happens often in federal courts located in CA) there will still be mixed legal precidense15:38
jrwrenprecedence15:38
snap-lI can see this judge navigating a tight line, but if Oracle gets their way, expect other software manufacturers to follow15:38
snap-land carefully ape whatever made pay-dirt for Oracle15:39
jrwrenthey can try, but its also very expensive to try15:39
jrwrensay you go for wine or mono, who are you going to sue? no one has money of any significance there.15:40
jrwrennor marketshare.15:40
jrwrenyou would spend millions of dollars just to shut some people down with no financial gain.15:40
rick_h_so far the judge doesn't seem a complete moron15:47
rick_h_so I'm holding out hope, but I'm definitely not feeling that Google is 100% in the clear15:47
shakes808How many gamers do we have?17:39
waldo323_42?17:39
shakes808lol17:39
snap-lDefine gamer17:39
snap-lI'm more "old school" gaming. :)17:39
snap-lMancala FTW!17:39
shakes808A person who plays games.17:39
shakes808MANCALA!!!! Hell yeah. lol17:40
shakes808little stones moving from divit to divit17:40
shakes808lol17:40
shakes808I would be referring, of course, to video (PC) games17:40
snap-lMore modern games, then?17:41
shakes808Yes, sir17:42
snap-lWe run Linux. There will be no more modern games here. :)17:42
snap-lTuxRacer For LIFE17:42
snap-lhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux_Racer17:42
shakes808I will have to check if there is a linux ver of it, but my buddy just turned me on to this game League of Legends. It is an RTS type. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Legends17:43
shakes808Was wondering if anyone would want to try it out17:43
shakes808You are a hero and lvl up and what not17:43
shakes808it is FTP of course.17:44
shakes808Free-To-Play17:44
snap-lI think it's Windows only17:44
snap-lbut working under Wine17:45
shakes808there is a download. Would anyone be interested in trying it out? I have played a few matches the last couple of nights and seems pretty fun17:45
snap-land by working, I mean there's a forum posting out there on the net that purports to have working instructions17:45
shakes808and speaking of games snap-l, how is your game coming along?17:46
snap-lDNF17:46
snap-lUnfortunately I got mid-way through and realized it wasn't going to be much of a game without some more effort17:47
snap-lhttp://www.wildfiregames.com/0ad/17:47
rick_h_snap-l: so that just means you're doing pymonth right? :)17:47
snap-lHeh17:48
snap-lI might finish it, but right now I'm working on other stuff17:48
snap-llike last night I finished moving OMC to archive.org17:48
shakes808What game is that?17:48
rick_h_nice17:48
snap-l0AD is a RTS17:48
shakes808Do you play that one?17:49
snap-lI've loaded it. Haven't played much of it17:49
snap-lWe've played some freeciv in the past17:49
snap-lAlso: http://www.xonotic.org/17:49
shakes808The 0AD looks like Age of Empires17:50
snap-lYeah, it's very similar.17:50
shakes808or Total War series17:50
shakes808One of the games that I want/in the making is http://www.tribalwars.net17:51
shakes808it is a text based rts17:51
JonEdneyI've been looking for a good RTS game, since I switched from Windows and cant play Company of Heroes.17:52
shakes808My plans for my RTS is to start off text based and then when it gets to a certain point start making it to a graphics game.17:53
JonEdneyVery nice.,17:53
shakes808Gotta start somewhere17:53
JonEdneyI was a big FPS person, then a friend got me into the RTS.17:53
JonEdneyAbsolutely.17:53
shakes808FPS's are fun but get too repeatitive17:54
JonEdneyYeah, I played FPS for over 10 years in leagues...i'm just burnt out from them now.17:54
shakes808RTS's can be too, but the strategy can change and what not17:54
shakes808nice17:54
JonEdneyAnd now that I'm on Ubuntu 100%, not much to game on here.17:54
shakes808That is one reason why I kept my Win7 alive, but just barely lol17:55
shakes808I like to play games and not much for linux17:55
JonEdneyYeah my Wife's laptop took a crap so I had to throw my Win 7 on her laptop, so just went straight Ubuntu.17:55
shakes808Gotchya. What a good husband lol17:56
JonEdneyI shoulda put Ubuntu on it and said "Sorry, all I had"17:57
shakes808lol17:58
shakes808That is what I would do17:58
shakes808lol17:58
snap-lhttp://www.wesnoth.org/17:58
JonEdneyI was considering givving that a try snap-l17:58
snap-lI've played the single-player tutorials of this for a while17:58
snap-lIt's pretty fun17:58
rick_h_gotta love it, start a django project and syntastic lights up on every file ootb17:59
brouschfreeciv18:01
shakes808rick_h_: Are  you going to be at CHC Wednesday?18:01
rick_h_shakes808: yea, afaik18:01
brouschis it a good thing that syntastic lights up?18:02
rick_h_brousch: no, it means that pyflakes/pep8 are tossing out errors on the default files18:02
rick_h_which basically means the devs aren't using these tools I suppose...18:02
shakes808alright cool :D I am going to try to get the github stuff going and mess around with that. Could you help me out if I am having troubles?18:02
rick_h_which makes me die a little inside18:02
brouschpep8 is beneath django18:02
JonEdneyAnyone from southeastern area?18:02
rick_h_shakes808: which github stuff?18:02
rick_h_JonEdney: most of us are18:03
JonEdneyI was thinking about starting to come to the get togethers and stuff, but I'm still an ubuntu noob.18:03
shakes808I think I have it set up. I am going through the site and looking at what I need to do. I haven't uploaded anyting or messed with actual GitHub.18:04
rick_h_shakes808: ah ok so just making sure your remote is setup right and you can git push ?18:04
shakes808I am below noob of Ubuntu.18:04
shakes808yes18:04
shakes808:D18:04
JonEdneylol shakes80818:04
rick_h_shakes808: gotcha, k18:04
snap-lJonEdney: Didn't you come to CHC?18:05
rick_h_yea, np, github has instrucitons for that stuff that's pretty good but can be there to hold the life vest in case you jump off the ship18:05
JonEdneyNo I didnt snap-l18:05
snap-lAh, I thought you had.18:05
shakes808I have a buddy that does this stuff as well and I am going to see if he can start some test files and I am going to do the same and see how going back and forth onthe different projects work and versioning works18:05
shakes808rick_h_: lol thanks18:06
JonEdneyI'm going to have to check it out, they are every wednesday?18:06
rick_h_JonEdney: yes: http://coffeehousecode.appspot.com/locations/detroit.html18:11
shakes808rick_h_: Yeah, why is it Detroit when it really is Royal Oak?18:12
rick_h_shakes808: because originally there was only an AA one18:12
rick_h_and I was starting "Detroit" one because everyone can place Detroit18:12
shakes808Alcoholics Anon?18:13
rick_h_Ann Arbor18:13
snap-lAnn Arbor18:13
rick_h_they were the original18:13
shakes808Gotchya18:13
rick_h_how was I to know people would start others years later? :P18:13
rick_h_and actually be down-river18:13
shakes808HA HA18:13
rick_h_but now I've got 3+ years of posting/twitter/etc with CHC Detroit in it :/18:13
shakes808I mentioned CHC to a buddy and he was confused too lol18:14
rick_h_bah, I guess I should rename, but it's our second location so hate getting too specific18:14
shakes808Always have an announcement for changing it from Detroit to Royal Oak due to stoopid people like me that get confused lol18:14
rick_h_but the url would have to change, etc ugh18:14
shakes808lol All this work lol18:15
JonEdneyYeah, I'm in Westland, so close to all of them except Lansing, neat.18:15
shakes808JonEdney: you are almost in the middle of them all lol18:15
rick_h_wtf...call from a firm in TX, an out of the blue email from some recruiter I've never heard of...people quit trying to make me change jobs18:16
snap-lrick_h_: Yeah, I've gotten calls like that.18:16
snap-lEspecially if you're on linkedin or one of these other pro sites18:17
rick_h_seems like a flood today. Evidently I posted something somewhere bad18:17
snap-lAlso think I get some from Google Searches.18:17
snap-lrick_h_: You're just awesome, and everyone wants a slice.18:17
rick_h_oh and the repeat google email18:17
brouschrick_h_: must be your pyohio talk18:17
snap-lbrousch: ++18:17
rick_h_heh, "I might speak!" "ooooh, that's quality stuff!"18:18
brouschonly the elite speak at pyohio18:19
rick_h_brousch would know, Mr Elite!18:19
brouschthe animated gifs you use, the more elite you are18:20
brouschso i kick your ass18:20
brouschi don't have any good talk ideas18:21
rick_h_doh!18:21
brouschi had that build your own web framework idea, but haven't done anything with it18:22
rick_h_ok, I'm all for having coding standards, but making it up as you go isn't going to cut it18:26
brouschgotta start somewhere!18:26
rick_h_*sigh*18:26
jrwreni hate codeing standards.18:28
jrwrenteh standard should be "does the code work?" if yes, its good18:28
rick_h_heh, not going to go there18:28
jrwrenif not, its bad :)18:29
jrwreni'm j/k of course.18:29
jrwrenbut I find most impl of coding stanards are too ridgid18:29
rick_h_well when you've got a `make lint` command that rnus for that stuff...it should either follow/not18:30
jrwrenyup18:30
rick_h_oh good grief, he's pilling our 2yr old diffs of the style guide doc on me18:37
rick_h_greg-g: so..as a baised yet still hater on unity...the first answer is: "Gnome 3 developers have dropped this from gnome-control-center with a recommendation that it be repackaged and available as a separate application."18:55
rick_h_greg-g: so how is that unity's fault?18:55
snap-lI honestly think a good number of things that Unity gets kicked about are a direct result of Gnome 3-isms18:56
rick_h_well sounds like the app got split, messed up, not packaged, etc...but I don't get how any of it is Unity's fault18:57
rick_h_unless I'm mis-understanding I guess18:57
greg-grick_h_: I thought it was "it would show up in the systray, but only if you run this incantation specific to Unity"18:57
greg-grick_h_: I mean, it works fine for my buddy on gnome-shell18:58
rick_h_greg-g: ok, so the issue isn't that the app went away/need backports/etc18:58
greg-gbrb, conf call18:58
rick_h_it's the systray bit then18:58
* greg-g nods18:58
rick_h_ouch, someone just got done reading some books and went off http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla20:00
greg-ghe had an amazeballs brain20:06
shakes808You all have a good day20:25
greg-ggreat, the week after I pay my money to NewsBlur, the site goes unresponsive :(20:41
JonEdneyThat's how it works.20:42
JonEdneyCHC is like 45 minutes from me here in Westland, but I'm gonna try to check it out this week.20:42
snap-lrick_h_: Trust me, there's a lot of Tesla fans out there.21:03
_stink_i love this Tesla comic.21:13
greg-gsnap-l: "Your music compatibility is: VERY LOW" :(21:14
snap-lgreg-g: I haven't scrobbled anything with this new account21:15
greg-goh, weird21:15
snap-lfinally broke down and re-regiatered.21:15
greg-gthe text version of the email from last.fm said that, but the website says "unknown"21:15
snap-lhad an account a while back that I deleted.21:15
greg-gI sense a bug in their html->plain text conversion21:15
snap-lBefore I was pissed off with CBS, but quite frankly, I want them to hear what I'm listening to now. :)21:17
snap-lie: not them. :)21:18
greg-gheh21:19
* krondor is still bitter about last.fm21:54

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