/srv/irclogs.ubuntu.com/2012/11/29/#ubuntu-us-tn.txt

* xTEMPLARx peeks into the room14:38
wrstxTEMPLARx: about time you bum14:40
wrst:P14:40
xTEMPLARx:D14:40
xTEMPLARxsorry it's been hectic at work lately14:40
xTEMPLARxnot much time for goofin'14:40
wrstwell xTEMPLARx that is just unacceptable14:42
xTEMPLARxagreed, friend14:43
xTEMPLARxhow's the young'un doin?14:43
wrstrunning around like a chicken with her head cut off... so doing great! yours?14:44
xTEMPLARxgetting along smashingly14:44
xTEMPLARxi couldn't ask for a better son, imo14:45
xTEMPLARxentering a join.me session with a customer... bbiaf14:46
wrstsee you later xTEMPLARx14:48
xTEMPLARxjoin.me is crazy sluggish14:52
xTEMPLARxargh14:52
wrstwell i'm crazy and sluggish too i should like that14:53
wrstohh thats not what you meant14:54
xTEMPLARx;)14:57
wrstxTEMPLARx: my wife is gone this weekend starting friday night just me and the 20 month old red head15:03
wrstif there is a house left it will be a mess15:03
xTEMPLARxyou're doomed15:03
wrstnah we do pretty well together actually15:05
wrstwe are both stubborn and hard headed15:05
xTEMPLARxheya wrst15:37
xTEMPLARxdo you know any kb shortcuts to gnome shell?15:37
xTEMPLARxi.e., is there one to easily switch workspaces?15:37
wrstctl-alt-arrow key up or down15:38
wrstxTEMPLARx: i am now on kde got tired of every major gnome-shell update breaking all the extensions then having to wait weeks/months with a crippled desktop15:38
xTEMPLARxreally?15:39
xTEMPLARxhaha15:39
xTEMPLARxguess I've been lucky15:39
xTEMPLARxhow many extensions were you using?15:39
xTEMPLARxI MIGHT have one15:39
xTEMPLARxmaybe two15:39
xTEMPLARxbut I think just one15:39
wrsthad 3 or four, I like having icons in the panel as they should be that was the major one, and minor yes i know15:39
wrstbut the seem to be going somewhat backwards and just a pain as much as i loved gnome, i didn't leave them they left me15:40
wrstxTEMPLARx: here is my current setup: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2959906/snapshot1.png15:42
xTEMPLARxdual monitors?15:43
wrstthats on my desktop have the same theme on my laptop15:43
xTEMPLARxmine seems so much more antiquated by comparison15:45
xTEMPLARxI like my desktop icons15:45
xTEMPLARxor rather, desktop full-o-icons15:45
wrsti use the desktop just for a workspace, for things i'm currently working with then off they go to what i consider a proper storage area15:46
wrstneedless to say by that screenshot i was piddling :)15:46
xTEMPLARxyup15:46
xTEMPLARxi still haven't given up my desktop clutter yet15:46
xTEMPLARxbut I think its kinda funny15:46
xTEMPLARxfor as different as gnome shell is15:46
wrstbut i'm enjoying kde 4.9, but whenever they change to kde 5.0 whenever that is and break everythign i will go back to gnome15:46
xTEMPLARxmine has turned out not that different from what gnome 2 was giving me15:47
wrstxTEMPLARx: my thing is i shouldn't have to work to make my desktop usable15:47
wrsti shouldn't have to install a "tweak-tool"15:47
wrstetc etc version 3.0 i get it, 3.2 sure, 3.4 starting to bother me, 3.6 really?15:47
chris4585wrst, I agree15:47
wrsti think the gnome devs really don't care what the users want, and that's their perogative so thats fine but I don't have to use it either15:48
chris4585I'm happy in openbox land though where the parts are interchangeable15:48
xTEMPLARxtweak tool is default, I believe, in the gnome shell 3.6 install with 12.10 gnomebuntu15:48
wrstxTEMPLARx: but its not a default gnome tool15:48
xTEMPLARxand it should be, for sure15:48
wrstand its hackish looking and hackish at best15:48
xTEMPLARxits like not including a preferences menu15:48
wrstkde you have that lovely system settings that is very os x like but works very nicely15:48
xTEMPLARxyeah, but does it play nice with the rest of the network?15:49
xTEMPLARxi never had it work well with the network15:49
wrstkde?15:49
xTEMPLARxit was just the file manager15:49
xTEMPLARxyes15:49
wrstdolphin actually works now, very well15:49
xTEMPLARxbrowsing network shares in KDE (the last time I tried it) was clunky and difficult15:49
xTEMPLARxsamba shares that is15:49
chris4585isn't it clunky and difficult in gnome?15:50
wrstactually around kde 4.5 i wanted to change but dolphin was horrible but now you just go to the network shares and it works15:50
chris4585I've literally never had it work properly15:50
xTEMPLARxit rendered my workflow here next to impossible15:50
wrstchris4585: i always had good luck with samba in gnome, and now it works well in kde15:50
xTEMPLARxchris4585: actually no... i have NO problems with samba interactivity15:50
chris4585ah, well I guess I always had bad luck with it15:51
wrstxTEMPLARx, chris4585 many times is that the actual desktop or is it how the backend is set up?15:51
chris4585I prefer to have ssh and sftp15:51
wrstchris4585: that's my preference but at my house with windows and mac, samba is just the easy route and it works very nicely15:51
wrstbut when i transfer large files, i use ssh seems to work better/quicker for me15:52
chris4585backend I guess? and wrst yeah whatever is easiest15:52
xTEMPLARxno complaints with samba's speed on our network15:52
xTEMPLARxand this being a 90% windows-based company, samba it is15:52
chris4585I rarely transfer files and when I do I just use filezilla or scp or sshfs or something like that15:52
wrstxTEMPLARx: probably something in my setup truth be told and I'm not exactly operating on great hardware either atom processor 1GB of RAM is my file server and not a super fast hard drive either, and 10/100 network card15:53
xTEMPLARxAh so15:53
xTEMPLARxthis is a quad-core amd box with a good nvidia card in it15:54
xTEMPLARxstill just a 100baseT network tho15:54
wrstthat makes a difference i would think :)15:54
wrstbut still not a 3 dollar newegg card ;)15:54
xTEMPLARxour network is being difficult15:55
wrstbut i don't have enterprise class routing equipment so i have lots o' bottlenecks and now that we have 10-15 devices on our network i'm starting to notice it even at home15:55
chris4585xTEMPLARx, what cpu? I have a Phenom II 960T Zosma 3ghz overclocked to 3.2ghz15:55
xTEMPLARxwe definitely don't have enterprise-class anything here15:55
chris4585enterprise stuff is expensive....15:55
xTEMPLARxwe have a pfsense router that I built, and an old dell box for a linux-based filestorage machine15:55
wrstwe have 3 phones, 2 tablets, 2 laptops, 1 wii, 2 directv receivers, 1 desktop, 1 server, on our network when we are all at home15:56
xTEMPLARxchris4585: I've got an AMD Phenom II X4 840 at 3.2GHz15:56
wrstthat seems to slow our wifi down15:56
wrstxTEMPLARx:  you use pfsense at home?15:56
xTEMPLARxi couldn't trick them into springing for the black edition though :(15:56
chris4585xTEMPLARx, nice :) I like phenoms especially with how cheap they are today15:56
xTEMPLARxwrst:  nope just the netgear vpn router15:56
wrstahh ok15:57
xTEMPLARxchris4585: amen to t hat... this machine and my machine at home both run them and they're splendid15:57
chris4585I got the black edition and its kind of nice to know I can tinker with it15:57
xTEMPLARxhttp://i.imgur.com/aD9FA.jpg15:57
wrsti have thought about upgrading our router because with all our devices wifi gets a little wiggly sometime especially now that my daughter has my old phone and watches youtube videos when its time to settle down at night15:57
xTEMPLARxthat's my work desktop atm, wrst15:57
chris4585eventually I'd like to get an 8350... when I get another job15:57
chris4585xTEMPLARx, I like the theme15:58
xTEMPLARxI think its more or less default15:58
wrstxTEMPLARx: clean your room young man15:58
xTEMPLARxbut i'm using AWN on the side there15:58
xTEMPLARxcan't get AWN to install via debs on 12.10 at home though15:58
xTEMPLARxso I installed docky15:58
xTEMPLARxI don't like docky15:58
wrstxTEMPLARx: there is a dock extension that wasn't too bad15:59
xTEMPLARxI'm considering compiling awn15:59
wrstif it isn't broken :)15:59
xTEMPLARxone thing that I can't get to work on here is conky15:59
chris4585xTEMPLARx, try cairo-dock15:59
xTEMPLARxit does strange things15:59
chris4585I thought awn was the golden child until I tried cairo...15:59
xTEMPLARxI used cairo-dock back in the day, and awn beat it out15:59
xTEMPLARxbut then again, AWN isn't being maintained now15:59
chris4585http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdeebtOzIS1r1lde1o1_1280.jpg15:59
xTEMPLARxso cairo may be king15:59
chris4585cairo is basically compiz of the docks...16:00
xTEMPLARxwhat sort of mouse-over animations does it provide?16:00
xTEMPLARxnice looking desktop16:00
wrstcairo-dock is cool!16:00
chris4585fire, 3d cube, stairs, uh a few others I don't remember16:00
chris4585zoom16:00
wrsti used it back in my expirmentation days16:01
wrstthat's with desktops not drugs16:01
xTEMPLARxI use a little bounce/squish animation on mine that works really nicely and smoothly16:01
chris4585xTEMPLARx, thanks, when I take a screenshot I try to make an art form lol16:01
xTEMPLARxchris4585: lol16:01
chris4585wrst, you funny16:01
wrstchris4585: at least you clean up before you take a screen shot16:01
* wrst eyes xTEMPLARx16:01
xTEMPLARxso what are you using there?  that's not gnome shell is it?16:01
xTEMPLARxwrst:  my desktop is covered with UTILITY.  there's nothing to clean up16:02
chris4585nope, just my openbox with cairo-dock, nautilus and conky16:02
xTEMPLARxah openbox16:02
xTEMPLARxopenbox is pretty useful16:02
chris4585honestly its too simple and it just works16:02
xTEMPLARxfast and basic without being so basic that it hurts16:02
chris4585yeah16:03
xTEMPLARxI cannot argue against it16:03
xTEMPLARx:)16:03
wrstthat looks really nice chris458516:03
chris4585wrst, thanks :)16:03
wrstxTEMPLARx: i can always argue... now I'm not always effective16:03
chris4585lol16:03
wrstchris4585:  very osx 'ish looking also no offense intended :)16:04
wrsti mean that in a good way16:04
chris4585none taken, I even tried to do that sort of, http://chris4585.tumblr.com/post/33882118393/normally-i-have-icons-and-stuff-but-i-killed16:04
chris4585os x does look nice...16:05
chris4585I think that ^ was with awn though16:05
wrstyeah chris4585 i just find using it is a little bit limiting, no right click irritates me16:05
xTEMPLARxYou've inspired me... i'm shrinking the size of my awn bar so it's not so geriatric16:05
wrstunless you use a non apple mouse16:05
chris4585lol16:06
chris4585wrst, I think you can right click if you hold down a button on the keyboard or something16:06
wrstchris4585: you can but thats lame16:06
xTEMPLARxmy awn bar was kinda like this:  http://bit.ly/QsFLZ316:06
chris4585when I found out... I was like, but why not just use a mouse with two buttons?16:06
wrstespecially on a 1500 buck laptop16:06
chris4585xTEMPLARx, that looks like a phone16:07
xTEMPLARxmy little pony, eh?16:07
chris4585lol?16:07
wrstmy wife however loves her macbook, her iphone her ipad her ipod etc etc16:07
xTEMPLARxi'm confused16:07
xTEMPLARxthat is a phone16:07
xTEMPLARxbut look how huge the buttons are16:07
chris4585xTEMPLARx, yes16:07
xTEMPLARxits for old people who can't see too good16:07
wrstyour awn bar looks like a phone?16:07
chris4585xTEMPLARx, oh lol gotcha16:07
xTEMPLARx<------ old people who can't see too good16:07
wrstxTEMPLARx: you are over 40 i suppose that qualifies you ;)16:08
xTEMPLARxnext I'm gonna get me one of those metal horns to hear with16:08
wrstha ha16:08
xTEMPLARxbut I'll have to get two so I can still get good stereo separation16:08
chris4585xTEMPLARx, I honestly thought my bar was huge, I think I normally make it about 40 - 56px16:08
chris4585or something like that16:08
wrstxTEMPLARx: too much loud music?16:08
xTEMPLARxwrst:  pretty much16:08
wrstat least it was worth it16:09
xTEMPLARxnow see you guys aren't doing much for my productivity16:09
xTEMPLARxnow I'm all scheming on how I can change my layout16:09
wrsti'm not helping mine either16:09
chris4585I should be asleep16:09
chris4585lol16:10
xTEMPLARxwrst:  it kinda was.  my hearing loss is mainly in my right ear, so I can still hear my boy loud and clear in the left ear16:10
wrstha ha16:10
wrstxTEMPLARx: i have been spending all my wasted time messing with my phone just got into cyanogenmod16:11
xTEMPLARxoh nooooes16:11
xTEMPLARxhaving fun with it?16:11
wrstyes I love it, hav ea samsung galaxy s3 and its a much better phoen without the samsung touchwhiz stuff16:12
wrstbut i'm still an awful speller !16:13
chris4585wrst, I wish I had one...16:13
xTEMPLARxwrst:  does your cell provider not care if you monkey around?16:13
wrstxTEMPLARx: oh i'm sure they do since i voided the warranty and unlocked the bootloader16:13
xTEMPLARxknow what would be good fun?  if someone would port android to the iphone16:13
wrstits verizon, aka the great satan of the phone industry16:13
xTEMPLARxto replace iOS, that is16:14
xTEMPLARxI consider AT&T to fill that role, wrst16:14
xTEMPLARxverizon has great coverage16:14
wrstha ha16:14
chris4585so do I16:14
xTEMPLARxand decent service16:14
chris4585AT&T is evil16:14
wrstxTEMPLARx: they do but they are lacking in customer service16:14
wrstxTEMPLARx: my wife got an iphone516:14
xTEMPLARxthey must have gone downhill since I was with'em16:14
chris4585okay guys, bed time16:14
xTEMPLARxhow's she likin' it?16:14
xTEMPLARxsleep well, sir16:14
wrstshe likes it but she really likes iStuff16:15
wrsta little too limiting for my taste16:15
xTEMPLARxwell, as it pertains to my ipad and phone, limiting is a welcome environment16:15
xTEMPLARxless worry about villains from without trying to get into'em16:16
wrstwell i'm sure that i don't have anything "calling home" now16:18
wrstand with CM you can do all sorts of things to lock your phone if you want16:19
xTEMPLARxoh I'm sure16:23
xTEMPLARxI guess that's just a device I want to just work and be what it is, rather than tinker with16:23
xTEMPLARxmaybe I'm getting old16:23
xTEMPLARx:D16:23
xTEMPLARxhonestly, though, its been a refreshing experience as a tool16:23
xTEMPLARxthe ipad anyway16:24
xTEMPLARxthat doesn't mean I'd want my desktop to be anything remotely like that16:24
xTEMPLARxit still needs to be my little sandbox16:24
xTEMPLARxbrb16:27
wrstxTEMPLARx: no i certainly get that and I think the devices are very good, just one of those, not for me things16:31
xTEMPLARxinstalling openbox for tinkering16:33
wrstthat's more serious tinkering than cyanogenmod on my phone xTEMPLARx :)16:34
xTEMPLARxnot really16:34
xTEMPLARxopenbox is pretty good, and still functional16:34
xTEMPLARxplus, all my core software I need to access should still work there16:34
wrstcould spend a lot more time with it16:34
xTEMPLARxso if an emergency arises here, I won't be dead in the water16:34
xTEMPLARxis there a CLI client for quassel?16:35
wrstxTEMPLARx: ohh i only pull in well proven stuff on my phone i trust them more than i trust OTA updates from verizon16:35
wrstxTEMPLARx: not that I know of, i have seen it discussed but have a nice client on my phone16:35
xTEMPLARxwell the one thing you can trust verizon to do is lock features out and keep you from fully utilizing your phone16:35
xTEMPLARxeven on my limited old LG ENV2 I had, they locked stuff out... really, verizon?  the phone only does like 4 things16:36
xTEMPLARxwonder how big a footprint (diskspace-wise) kde takes up these days16:36
xTEMPLARxof course, if I have to ask, I probably can't afford it, right?16:37
xTEMPLARx:P16:37
xTEMPLARxbrb again16:37
xTEMPLARxin openbox now16:39
xTEMPLARxmethinks they are making it too difficult to change the background16:41
xTEMPLARxlol16:41
wrstxTEMPLARx: footprint of kde and gnome i don't think are much different16:43
wrstRagnarokAngel: long time no see!16:43
RagnarokAngellol thanks wrst16:43
RagnarokAngelI'm actually in here because of a class about linguisttics :-p16:43
RagnarokAngel*linguistics16:43
RagnarokAngelhurray analyzing the way that we talk on the internet16:43
wrstRagnarokAngel: are you bored? :)16:44
RagnarokAngelwrst: lol no, I'm opening up the logs adn we're talking about the differences in Internet communications16:44
RagnarokAngelthe conventions of informal email vs chat vs formal email16:44
wrstahh well we are an interesting bunch here16:44
wrsti always view formal emial like a letter16:44
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xTEMPLARx|-|0w16:45
xTEMPLARx*16:45
xTEMPLARxhah16:45
wrstxTEMPLARx: ?16:46
xTEMPLARxstill can't figure out how to put up an image as my desktop background16:46
wrsttake it there isn't a right click change background option :)16:46
xTEMPLARxnot at all16:46
RagnarokAngelwrst: yeah, we're talking about a linguists assumptions about email in 2006 vs reality of 201216:48
wrstRagnarokAngel: i'm thinking that it is much less formal now?16:48
xTEMPLARxargh!16:49
xTEMPLARxlol16:49
RagnarokAngelwrst: actually, moreso.16:50
RagnarokAngelall our informal convo is moving to other platforms16:50
RagnarokAngellike here16:50
RagnarokAngelor facebook/twitter/insert your favorite trendy social media16:50
RagnarokAngeldifficulty in classifying chat vs email as well16:50
wrstahh that makes sense RagnarokAngel, perfect sense, email is the new sending a letter16:51
wrst?16:51
RagnarokAngelit's the new professional communication :-p16:54
RagnarokAngelsending a letter is usu going to be on facebook now tbh16:54
RagnarokAngelat least for most people collegiate aged or younger16:55
xTEMPLARxwhich is scary, imo, as it gives an awful lot of power to FB17:01
xTEMPLARxno patience to figure out openbox atm17:05
xTEMPLARxback in gnome17:05
xTEMPLARxI did do some much-needed scaling, though, so it feels as though I have more room now17:06
wrstlooks like one of those things you spend a weekend on xTEMPLARx17:08
xTEMPLARxprobably so17:08
xTEMPLARxit'd be nice, then, if, once you're done with your setup, you can save a block of files/settings so that you could quickly duplicate that setup on another machine17:08
wrstthen i wouldn't backup my home directory and lose all the settings when i do something foolish17:08
xTEMPLARxi'm sure you can17:08
wrstsurely there is a .openbox folder or soemthing?17:09
wrstxTEMPLARx: what should i go get for lunch?17:09
xTEMPLARxwhat's close to you?17:09
wrstnot much17:10
wrstdairy queen, burger king you know those two should get married, anyway hardees and subway nothing that is local that is good really17:11
xTEMPLARxbetter enjoy dairy queen while you still can17:13
xTEMPLARxyou'll miss it once it's gone17:13
xTEMPLARxall of the dairy queens from our area are gone17:14
xTEMPLARxnone in loudon, blount or knox counties, and even gone outa roane county I believe17:14
xTEMPLARxno blizzards17:14
xTEMPLARxno GOOD dip cones17:15
* xTEMPLARx cries17:15
wrstreally xTEMPLARx, seems to be going strong here17:15
xTEMPLARxglad to hear they didn't just disappear17:16
wrstno had a blizzard last week17:17
xTEMPLARxtake it back, I just discovered two locations in knoxville, both of which are too far from me17:17
wrstsubway salad for me today, but the cookies probably ruined the salad effect xTEMPLARx18:07
xTEMPLARxdon't think of it that way18:08
xTEMPLARxthink of it as the salad paved the way for the possibility of the cookies18:09
wrstxTEMPLARx: that sounds like my type of thinking18:11
wrstmy fatty fat fat thinking :)18:11

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