[03:55] Good evening, all! [04:13] not good evening for me.... :( [04:13] where you from vexxecon [04:15] Montpelier [04:15] Right up 15 minutes from both Michigan and Indiana [04:16] brb... [04:17] vexxecon: Ah... Not *that* far from me. I'm in Toledo. [04:18] Yep. I'm in Toledo all the time. [04:18] It's a *cough*45 minute drive*cough*. An hour if I'm driving safely. [04:18] Heh. [04:20] I'm going to be coming into a spare laptop this week, and was trying to decide what to put on it when I get it fixed up. I think I'm going to go with Kubuntu... [04:21] Ew. [04:21] whatever you do, don't put vmware player on it... [04:21] this thing is garbage [04:21] now now canthus13, we are flavor agnostic here :) [04:21] I swear KDE is like frankenstein's monster. [04:21] I love me some KDE. [04:22] thafreak: vmware player is not so bad...depends on what you're doing I suppose [04:22] it never runs for me... [04:22] thafreak: Eh? vmware player works well for me. better than vbox when it comes to XP. (I dunno why, but I couldn't install silverlight in vbox...) [04:22] keeps crapping out [04:22] yeah, I much prefer vmware player to vbox [04:22] anytime I actually NEED to use it, it doesn't run [04:23] I like vbox for a lot of stuff. but XP... Meh. [04:23] I'm running Ubuntu proper on my other spare laptop, but the interface bugs me, and I'm lazy enough that I'll leave it and wait till I get another laptop to install Kubuntu instead of just installing a new interface. [04:23] * thafreak is NOT in a good mood tonight... [04:23] * thafreak drove in to work because the single point of failure (central san)...failed [04:23] vexxecon: Yeah. Unity is too kindergarten-y for me too. I've been using Awesome w/ gnome stuff. [04:24] thafreak: Ew. that sucks. [04:24] been waiting to reboot it cause it's UI died months ago, but didn't want to take EVERYTHING off line [04:24] When they switched to Unity, that's when I stopped enjoying Ubuntu's design tastes. [04:25] now, I reboot it ....the 3ware card says there are no drives....FML [04:25] * vexxecon eyes his linux laptop that sits in the corner gathering dust [04:25] Never liked gnome, but Xfce is great. ;) [04:26] I use Xfce on my Raspberry Pi [04:26] i have been having small gripes with xfce on 12.04 lately so I switched to lxde [04:27] Unfortunately, that's the only time I get to use Linux on a regular basis- when I'm fiddling with my RPi. [04:27] I spend way too damn much of my life fidling with linux... [04:28] * thafreak needs a new career [04:28] vexxecon: Heh. the only time I get to use windows on a regular basis is at work. At home, all the machines are Linux. (With the exception of a VM on my laptop) [04:28] thafreak: Come do tech support. we're hiring. :) [04:28] then you'll long for your old job. [04:28] no, my job is too much tech support as it is...hence the need to leave [04:28] Before I was laid off, I used windows exclusively at work, and had to use it at home for work purposes(Visual Studio ftl). [04:29] poor guy [04:29] And also, my laptop is a Mac, and my second laptop has heating issues, etc. [04:30] My newest server in the basement has started having heating issues...and now maybe drive issues :( [04:30] I never got to reinstall Kubuntu on my desktop here at home when I rebuilt it, so that's a thing I have to do. [04:31] I just tested kubuntu...ran it live on a spare laptop...the menu thing anoyed me...other than that, it seems better [04:31] but I couldn't handle that menu all the time...there's probably a way to change it though [04:32] last time I tried kubuntu, the package manager would not download files. like...at all. no updates, no new packages, nothing would work -_- so I gave up. even reinstalled it a few times and still nothing [04:32] I enjoy it. I prefer KDE over all other interfaces. [04:32] vexxecon: do you use the default menu, or do you modify it? [04:33] Default. [04:36] hmm.. packages.. I should run updates. it's been a few hours. [04:37] bah. nothing. [04:37] * canthus13 keeps hoping a better vid driver will appear so minecraft will be playable again. [04:37] ..although it's prolly minecraft that's the problem. [04:38] I ran updates on a fresh install of Ubuntu on a laptop I was fixing early last week, and it came back with nothing, then 5 minutes later I did it again just to be sure and it's like "Oh, I forgot to tell you you had 2 hours of updates, sorry." [04:38] heh. [04:40] And then I found a copy of Windows 7 and installed it over that because my mom said that the user(her friend) didn't know how to linux, and needed windows for online, in browser testing. [07:55] holy crap...turned out the battery backup unit was/is bad on the raid controller [07:55] caused the raid controller to pretend there were no disks attached... [07:56] oh, and I had to take the entire 2U heavy a** storage array out of the rack to diagnose... [07:56] only took 3 hours....ugh [08:06] Could have been worse. [08:47] true...the array could have been toast...that would be horrible [08:47] since I don't have everything backed up :( === jrgifford is now known as Guest90251 === Guest90251 is now known as jrgifford === jrgifford is now known as Guest19642 === Guest19642 is now known as jrgifford_ [21:11] There we go. :-) [21:12] Ye got it! [21:12] Howdy. [21:16] What's up? [23:14] jrgifford_: New car here, what about you?