| TommyT | Greetings -- Anyone here for "Chat Night"? | 03:12 |
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| TommyT | I guess not. :-( | 03:32 |
| TommyT | Greetings Num83rGuy! | 04:04 |
| TommyT | Not much "chat" on Chat Night! | 04:04 |
| Num83rGuy | Hello TommyT | 04:04 |
| Num83rGuy | It seems there rarely is. | 04:05 |
| TommyT | Yes I was just looking through the logs. We even had a job announcement back in October, which has been met with silence | 04:05 |
| TommyT | module000 announced an opening at his place in NLR | 04:05 |
| TommyT | a few days ago he said it was still open | 04:06 |
| Num83rGuy | Hmm, too bad I live nowhere near there | 04:06 |
| TommyT | I'm in Conway. What part of the state are you in? | 04:07 |
| Num83rGuy | Work would be the hight of great right now. | 04:07 |
| Num83rGuy | Near Batesville. | 04:07 |
| TommyT | I think we have kindof a cluster of Ubuntu folks in that direction. | 04:08 |
| TommyT | Back when we could post our location on launchpad, it seemed there were several active members around there. | 04:08 |
| Num83rGuy | Realy!? I wish i could find more than one person who knows how to turn one on much less use it. | 04:08 |
| TommyT | Of course, I'm drawing kind of a sweeping arm across a swath of the state. My geography stinks, too. | 04:10 |
| Num83rGuy | Ha! | 04:10 |
| TommyT | I just pulled up batesville on maps.google.com... I think the folks I'm thinking of are closer to Mountain Home. Or Mountain VIew. | 04:10 |
| Num83rGuy | Yeah That sounds about right. | 04:10 |
| TommyT | Over the years we have had less and less activity here in Conway, too.... our biggest activist moved off to Seattle. | 04:12 |
| TommyT | years ago | 04:12 |
| TommyT | I would like to get a LITTLE more activity going. | 04:12 |
| TommyT | Do you ever travel for computer-related events? | 04:13 |
| Num83rGuy | I seem to remember there was a LUG in Batesville some time ago. If I recall there were nearly 50 in the state but, a few years ago it seems the tech and it followers flew the coop. | 04:13 |
| TommyT | I guess as we get more "connected" (virtually) we see less need to be connected in person | 04:14 |
| Num83rGuy | I have never been to a meeting, by the time I learned of them I was too busy with work and family. Now I am just too broke to get gas to go. :( | 04:16 |
| TommyT | Maybe linux / Ubuntu is too dull now ... I hardly have any trouble that I would head to a meeting to discuss | 04:16 |
| Num83rGuy | Ha, I agree. I am having more trouble out of hardware than non-Windows software these days too. | 04:17 |
| TommyT | Do you drive as far as Newport or Heber Springs? Or is that too far (gas or time wise)? | 04:18 |
| TommyT | I'm just trying to get a sense of what seems far in that part of the state. | 04:19 |
| Num83rGuy | Blew two power supplies in a month and now having HDD problems. I rarely go to Newport My car is literally falling apart. I have hat to pick up parts off the road. | 04:19 |
| TommyT | I grew up in a little town in Texas and the nearest movie theater was 70 miles away (this was before VCRs or even cable TV) | 04:20 |
| Num83rGuy | Bates ville is about my limit for now. ( ~30 miles ) | 04:20 |
| Num83rGuy | I know that feel. | 04:20 |
| TommyT | Are you on DSL? | 04:21 |
| Num83rGuy | Yeah, 1.5Mib down 256Kib up $60 a month. | 04:22 |
| Num83rGuy | The fastest I can get. | 04:23 |
| TommyT | oof. $60/mo is pricey. | 04:23 |
| TommyT | but you probably don't have much choice | 04:23 |
| Num83rGuy | Yep, and the phone Co. cays be glad I have it. They are the only provider other than Huges net. Same price but, with a cap. Blagh. | 04:24 |
| TommyT | My brother had Hughes for awhile. Terrible. They hit the cap as soon as any kid in the household loaded up their iPod | 04:25 |
| TommyT | Besides they were often losing signal due to weather or whatever. | 04:25 |
| TommyT | Fortunately a | 04:26 |
| Num83rGuy | Yeah, and the wife plays MMOs so that would be gon in a day or two. | 04:26 |
| TommyT | fortunately ATT decided DSL would reach his house from Conway | 04:26 |
| TommyT | and it did | 04:26 |
| Num83rGuy | The part that frustrates me is that there is a wireless provider just a half mile away. | 04:27 |
| TommyT | WiMax or WiFi? | 04:28 |
| Num83rGuy | Faster and cheaper. I'm just out of range. | 04:28 |
| Num83rGuy | I don't rember. | 04:28 |
| Num83rGuy | *Remember. | 04:28 |
| TommyT | Half a mile is theoretically doable with a directional antenna, if it's WiFi | 04:28 |
| Num83rGuy | Someday.... | 04:29 |
| TommyT | WiMaxx or whatever they call it is supposed to go farther, but I know nothing about it. | 04:29 |
| TommyT | You could try building a Pringles can antenna. | 04:29 |
| TommyT | OR even a "fry basket" antenna | 04:30 |
| TommyT | I think some folks have even repurposed their satellite dishes. | 04:31 |
| Num83rGuy | I plan on it. Just too busy. That and the wife gets nervious if I play with the net too much. | 04:31 |
| TommyT | Yeah, speaking of... I just got notice from my wife that it's almost bed time | 04:31 |
| Num83rGuy | LOL all right Nite. | 04:32 |
| TommyT | I should feel lucky, though. When I was young my bed time was 8 pm. | 04:32 |
| Num83rGuy | http://www.connect-arkansas.org/home | 04:32 |
| Num83rGuy | I have talked with a guy who works o this good info. | 04:33 |
| TommyT | cool -- I think I know some of the folks who started that years ago | 04:33 |
| TommyT | But Conway put in fiber all over town and the price is just low enough I got lazy. | 04:34 |
| Num83rGuy | Lucky. | 04:34 |
| TommyT | Yeah, it was a huge relief to give up the dialup... that was probably 1996 or 1997 | 04:35 |
| TommyT | They also rolled out wireless around town | 04:36 |
| Num83rGuy | Let me see..., 4 years ago. | 04:36 |
| Num83rGuy | Ha I just looked at the map. Wireless is at the end of my street. | 04:37 |
| Num83rGuy | I still can't get it , yet | 04:37 |
| TommyT | You could probably work with them to become a node on their network. | 04:37 |
| TommyT | Do you have any nearby neighbors who might share your bandwidth? | 04:38 |
| Num83rGuy | Well Later I gotta go as well Kids are getting too rowdy. I think i will give them a call tomorrow. | 04:38 |
| TommyT | Good luck and good night! | 04:38 |
| Num83rGuy | Have a good night. | 04:38 |
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