[08:38] <UnderControl> Hiya sagaci, just wondering does the name Michael Findly from GNOME en_AU ring any bells with you?
[10:49] <jea> UnderControl: Are you having issues with translations?
[10:58] <UnderControl> jea, no. Michael just asked me if I know Joel.
[10:59] <jea> UnderControl: right
[11:14] <sagaci> not until now, new name to me
[11:14] <sagaci> username?
[11:16] <sagaci> that community team marathon is broadcasting
[11:17] <jea> what is that?
[11:18] <UnderControl> sagaci k3lt01 is his username I believe.
[11:18] <UnderControl> Sagaci it looks pretty good.
[11:19] <sagaci> jea: 24hr google hangout
[11:19] <jea> wow. lucky google has a lot of bandwith
[11:24] <jea> hi head_victim 
[11:25] <UnderControl> Sagaci, Michael said last time he knew you two were in the same town.
[11:26] <head_victim> Evening, weirdest thing ever on my pc. I went to use it and everytime I clicked a program it disappeared. I was left without the dash as well. Rebooting meant it couldn't find the system hdd either.
[11:26] <head_victim> So here I was thinking the HDD failed.
[11:27] <jea> that sounds quite odd
[11:27] <head_victim> Tried memtest to make sure and that checked out fine, so went to boot off a thumb drive and that failed hard as well. Kernel panics throwing it back to command line
[11:28] <head_victim> So I start unplugging things to putt the innards out of the box and try one last time and it works. For whatever reason, the external hdd has caused some sort of conflict and won't allow the MB to recognise the existence of the internal hhd when it's connected.
[11:29] <UnderControl> Wow, that's really odd.
[11:29] <head_victim> I always go for memory problems whenever it seems odd, in this occasion, that wasn't the fault.
[11:29] <jea> is it using esata, or usb?
[11:29] <head_victim> So I'm not sure if I plug in the hdd to see if it works or not (it's a USB 1tb)
[11:30] <head_victim> The data is replaceable (it's my local Ubuntu repository)
[11:30] <jea> i wonder if resetting the bios would help
[11:30] <sagaci> UnderControl: yeah, not sure
[11:31] <UnderControl> Okies.
[11:40] <head_victim> Ok, plugging in the hdd, wish me luck.
[11:42] <head_victim> Well, must be ok, it's reading and writing data ok for now
[11:43] <jea> i have had issues with the bios and external hdds, but not for a while
[11:44] <head_victim> jea: I'll keep that in mind, I have never really played with anything on the MB since I bought it so perhaps there's something awry.
[11:45] <head_victim> Disappointing that aarnet is only giving me 1.5MB these days :/
[11:45] <jea> it could be. i am going to reinstall windows on a 2 month old computer. i think the hdd may be dying (hdd was only old part)
[11:46] <head_victim> I had kinda psyched myself up for a ssd replacement
[11:46] <jea> aarnet has been alright for me, but i haven't downloaded too much recently
[11:46] <jea> yeah, i am going to buy a ssd now
[11:46] <head_victim> When the 128's got down to 100 that's when I was interested
[11:46] <head_victim> 128 is just right for a /
[11:46] <jea> have a look at samsung or ocz
[11:46] <head_victim> Fortunately, I'd only recently backed up to U1 all the important things.
[11:47] <head_victim> I'd been meaning to do it for a LONG time but never got there.
[11:47] <jea> there is a new samsung coming out in the next couple of weeks that has good reviews
[11:47] <jea> could be a bit more expensive, but it is the fastest available
[11:47] <head_victim> The PCIe ones are meant to be insane
[11:49] <jea> if they are pcie 3 they would be very fast
[14:12] <head_victim> I keep trying to get to gnome-contacts to translate but it keeps timing out :/ Perhaps tomorrow
[14:12] <sagaci> yep
[14:12] <sagaci> quantal's looking good
[14:13] <head_victim> Still a bunch to translate in there but the main ones are complete (except gnome--contacts)
[14:15] <sagaci> ah, I meant in general, not translation-specific
[14:15] <head_victim> Ah, I've actually not had a play with it yet
[14:16] <head_victim> Much different from .04?
[14:47] <sagaci> not particularly, obviously just more refined
[14:50] <head_victim> Debating if I should stick to LTS's like last time or just keep rolling
[14:53] <sagaci> I haven't seen anything incredible but I'd rather be on the latest release anyhow
[14:53] <sagaci> mouse trackpad on my hp works properly by default now