[07:26] <IdleOne> yes brandinhess ?
[07:27] <brandinhess> Why do your channels indicate that my username isn't registered even though I don't use Ubuntu?
[07:28] <IdleOne> brandinhess: use of ubuntu has nothing to do with being registered with nickserv on freenode
[07:28] <IdleOne> !register > brandinhess
[07:28] <IdleOne> you can get more help with that in #freenode
[07:29] <brandinhess> Some days, it won't allow me to connect to your channel without registering, and that is an eye sore.
[07:29] <IdleOne> on occasion we are forced to set #ubuntu to registered users only
[07:29] <IdleOne> that may be what is happening
[07:30] <Ben64> Might want to check the nick of a guy in #ubuntu
[07:30] <brandinhess> Oh.
[07:30] <brandinhess> I really don't want to switch to Ubuntu just for the reason of having my username registered.
[07:30] <IdleOne> thanks Ben64
[07:30] <Ben64> no prob
[07:31] <IdleOne> brandinhess: You don't need to use ubuntu. read the link ubottu sent you
[07:32] <brandinhess> Ok....I will look at it when I have some more free time.
[07:32] <IdleOne> that is fine, please part the channel if that is all you wanted to ask about.
[16:05] <bazhang> augh
[16:05] <bazhang> dist-upgrade is still not understood
[16:07] <Pici> but I've been using it for years
[16:07] <bazhang> haha
[16:09] <IdleOne> you can see how the name of the command can be confusing
[16:09] <bazhang> sure
 you should take this to a channel
[18:27]  * Pici blinks
[18:27] <bazhang> perhaps he meant charnel
[22:53] <ikonia> @mark #ubuntu MonkeyDust just randomly hitting people with facoitds instead of reading the questions people ask and responding, I've asked him 5 - 6 times to stop doing this over time and to READ the question and respond IF you know something that will add value, if this happens again I will mute
[22:57] <ikonia> @mark #ubuntu MonkeyDust when asked again if he actually reads the questions before hitting factoids and to stop, responded bad and "threatened" to start calling me names ???
[23:39]  * Jordan_U wonders if we'll need to make a specific position on our support of Steam in #ubuntu.
[23:42] <AlanBell> Jordan_U: interesting question, I think we need to find out who does support it
[23:42] <AlanBell> presumably the games themselves are completely unsupported
[23:43] <ikonia> steam support it
[23:43] <AlanBell> well I guess the vendors might support them or give refunds or something
[23:43] <AlanBell> I have never played a downloaded game, do they get updates to fix things?
[23:44] <AlanBell> well I played wolfenstein and the original doom, but anything more recent than that is a bit of a mystery to me
[23:46] <ikonia> which vendors ? the game vendors ?
[23:46] <AlanBell> err, gosh wolfenstein was 20 years ago
[23:47] <ikonia> .wubdiw 37
[23:47] <ikonia> oops
[23:48] <elky> swapped keyboards?
[23:48] <ikonia> yes
[23:48] <ikonia> dutch laptop
[23:48] <elky> heh
[23:49] <elky> they throw in an off-by-one error on the consonants i see
[23:49] <elky> er, no vowels
[23:49] <AlanBell> so with steam, there are a heap of different vendors in their game shop right?
[23:49] <elky> er am i forgetting how to english
[23:49] <AlanBell> do users know which vendor to get support from or is it all "go talk to steam"
[23:50] <Jordan_U> I wonder how available steam's tech support is. If it's easy to get someone to talk with in real time, then we probably won't get much push back from directing all steam related questions to their support services. If not, we'll probably get (many) users asking about how to install it, and deal with crashes and with (it seems) Canonical trying to push for Ubuntu as a gaming platform it will be unpopular to not support Steam in ...
[23:50] <Jordan_U> ... #ubuntu. At the same time there are grey areas like "When I run game X from steam I get a kernel panic" (and in that specific case I would consider that a kernel / driver bug, and thus on topic for #ubuntu).
[23:50] <AlanBell> maybe we need to drag someone clueful in for a chat
[23:50] <ikonia> Jordan_U: when I first looked at it, it was "no support"
[23:50] <ikonia> Jordan_U: the actual beta for the client is being supported, but the games are not
[23:51] <ikonia> this was why steam where looking at their own distro
[23:51] <ikonia> but I don't know what happened with that idea
[23:51] <elky> steambuntu? :P
[23:51] <ikonia> and 2 UDS's ago, Mark was bragging about the great steam partnership or something....yet that seems to be dead/not mentioned