| weudel | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoGettingApproved | 00:47 |
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| weudel | okay,,, it 8:00... I guess we'll get going | 00:59 |
| Techman | Hello | 01:00 |
| Techman | I'm new to this group | 01:00 |
| weudel | Good evening, let us commence our monthly meeting. | 01:00 |
| weudel | First, introductions, I am Weudel LoCo Team contact and a Comm Maintainer in Greenville. | 01:01 |
| Techman | Nice | 01:02 |
| Techman | I live in York County | 01:02 |
| weudel | Good to know... not sure if anyone else is on or not... some of these guys just stay logged in all of the time. we'll give it a couple minutes | 01:03 |
| Techman | I noticed that there's two bots | 01:04 |
| Techman | And chanserv | 01:04 |
| weudel | yes... the rest are members though they might not be around. | 01:04 |
| Techman | Are you the channel owner or something? | 01:05 |
| weudel | I am the LoCo Team Contact which means I bring information to the group from Ubuntu and vice versa, and I'm also the one trying to get this thing going again. | 01:06 |
| weudel | WEll, if no one else is showing up, I guess we'll knock this thing out pretty quick | 01:08 |
| Techman | Yeah this channel is logged too | 01:08 |
| Techman | I wonder why... | 01:08 |
| Techman | But anyways I guess we could talk about our Ubuntu setups or something | 01:09 |
| weudel | Okay... I am running 12.10 on an old Pentium4 that I use as a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) and my daily driver for important stuff like games. | 01:10 |
| Techman | I run an even older like machine | 01:10 |
| Techman | Toshiba M55-S139 | 01:10 |
| Techman | With maxed ram and ubuntu 12.04 LTS x86 | 01:11 |
| Techman | And I installed LXDE and I use that now | 01:11 |
| weudel | so, you're going with a lighter configuration for the hardware? | 01:11 |
| Techman | yep | 01:12 |
| Techman | I still have video editors and stuff but I don't use them that much | 01:12 |
| weudel | cool... what are you using the machine for? | 01:12 |
| Techman | I wish I had a newer Gazelle from System76 but I can't afford one large payment right now | 01:12 |
| weudel | understand that completely | 01:12 |
| Techman | I contacted them to see if they accept monthly payments but they haven't gotten back to me | 01:12 |
| weudel | anything unusual you do with your machine? | 01:13 |
| Techman | Nothing really | 01:13 |
| Techman | Besides not booting into Winblows | 01:13 |
| Techman | I boot up my XP partition to update it and I was actually sick of Windows after using LXDE for about a week | 01:13 |
| Techman | Before I just used Unity 2D | 01:14 |
| weudel | cool... so, what brought you to Ubuntu? | 01:14 |
| Techman | Hmm... | 01:14 |
| Techman | I gotta recall that | 01:14 |
| weudel | :D | 01:15 |
| jbicha | I'm sort of here | 01:15 |
| Techman | Saw enough people on some websites pimping Ubuntu and I was like "what is that?" | 01:15 |
| jbicha | we just had a Linux KVM presentation in Columbia | 01:15 |
| weudel | oh, hi jeremy | 01:15 |
| Techman | They talked me into trying and I've never looked back | 01:15 |
| weudel | cool, Tech... | 01:15 |
| Techman | The machine is my computer. It's the only one I got. | 01:16 |
| weudel | we've had a bunch of adds on G+ this past week... wonder if we need todo our meetings over there instead of here, just to get people to show | 01:16 |
| Techman | I mostly use it for normal stuff such as browsing the web | 01:16 |
| Techman | And word processing | 01:16 |
| weudel | that's mostly what I use mine for, but also use it to record music from time to time | 01:17 |
| Techman | My computer is too old | 01:17 |
| Techman | Is it ok that I show you my system config? | 01:17 |
| weudel | Audacity will run on some old hardware | 01:18 |
| Techman | HexChat: 2.9.4 ** OS: Linux 3.2.0-33-generic-pae i686 ** Distro: Ubuntu "precise" 12.04 ** CPU: 1 x Intl(R) Celeronn(R) M processor .660GHz (GenuieIIntel) @ 1.60GHz ** RAM: Physical: 1.8GB, 70.5% free ** Disk: Total: 15.1GB, 35.4% free ** VGA: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M] ** Sound: ATIIXP - ATI IXP1: ATIIXP-MODEM - ATI IXP Modem ** Ethernet: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2 | 01:18 |
| Techman | 413/AR2414 Wireless Network Adapter [AR5005G(S) 802.11bg] ** Uptime: 2h 53m 8s ** | 01:18 |
| Techman | well the disk is 80 GB but I have a small partition for Ubuntu | 01:18 |
| weudel | you might be surprised what you can do with that :) | 01:19 |
| Techman | a single core CPU? | 01:19 |
| Techman | It is so easy to rev the CPU up | 01:19 |
| Techman | Like running sudo apt-get update can make CPU usage go up a lot | 01:19 |
| weudel | well, glad you've found a lightweight config that works for you | 01:21 |
| Techman | Though my computer is dieing | 01:21 |
| Techman | Plugging in devices via USB can sometimes make the computer completely lock up | 01:21 |
| Techman | Well it's a 7 year old laptop is nice for how long this has lasted | 01:22 |
| Techman | Where I have to remove the battery | 01:22 |
| weudel | might not be a bad idea to single boot it... | 01:22 |
| weudel | though the hardware might just be coming to the end | 01:23 |
| Techman | I happens on ubuntu and Windows now | 01:23 |
| weudel | hope it continues to work for you | 01:24 |
| Techman | I'm trying to think of what to do if this computer fails | 01:25 |
| weudel | I've been telling people for years not to waste too much money on a computer... for most users the bargain one at Walmart is just fine | 01:26 |
| Techman | You see I do need a powerful machine | 01:26 |
| weudel | what for? | 01:27 |
| Techman | Most of the stuff I want to do for my website Techman's World requires a more powerful machine | 01:27 |
| Techman | such as better video in depth looks | 01:27 |
| Techman | Via the desktop. And running virtual machines | 01:27 |
| Techman | You wanna see my config for the Gazelle? | 01:27 |
| weudel | sure | 01:27 |
| Techman | Ok open the gazelle page from Sys76 | 01:28 |
| Techman | Then I can tell you what to check | 01:28 |
| weudel | okay | 01:29 |
| Techman | By the way have you met my website? | 01:29 |
| weudel | no | 01:29 |
| Techman | It's a growing tech site that focuses on news, reviews, some video game stuff and beyond | 01:29 |
| Techman | I'm not sure if Ubuntu bots permit links though | 01:29 |
| weudel | I'm there already | 01:30 |
| Techman | where? | 01:30 |
| Techman | Oh yeah ok. Feel free to check stuff out | 01:30 |
| weudel | nothing there needs that much horsepower.... | 01:31 |
| chaselivingston | hi folks! | 01:31 |
| Techman | There's a lot I wish I should do with my computer | 01:31 |
| Techman | But I'd probably ruin it if I tried it | 01:32 |
| weudel | any modern system can do basic video editing | 01:32 |
| Techman | on this machine | 01:32 |
| Techman | Oh and moderate gaming | 01:32 |
| weudel | okay... just saying a $300 laptop would probably suit your needs just as well as he gazelle | 01:33 |
| chaselivingston | weudel: did I see you say that you're in greenville? | 01:33 |
| weudel | THe Gazelle would look better and help support the community, but I'm not sure you need it | 01:34 |
| Techman | Trust me I need it | 01:35 |
| Techman | So I'll continue to save money | 01:35 |
| weudel | chaselivingston: Easley, but I work in Greenville | 01:35 |
| chaselivingston | weudel: very cool, wanted to check the group out, I'm in greenville and work for canonical | 01:35 |
| weudel | okay, cool | 01:35 |
| weudel | chaselivingston: would love to meet up with you some time and try to kick start this group... | 01:36 |
| Techman | I'm not sure if many people use Ubuntu in SC | 01:36 |
| chaselivingston | weudel: yeah, that would be cool, i've also been in touch w/ the guys that do southeast linux fest | 01:36 |
| Techman | At least in my area we are not full of computer geeks at all | 01:36 |
| weudel | WE have interest on G+, but have had trouble getting people to come to the meetings to actually get anything organized. | 01:38 |
| weudel | I go to SELF every year, but I'm a lowly /usr, so most of them don't know what to do with me. :) | 01:38 |
| chaselivingston | weudel: haha, hoping to maybe represent canonical there next year | 01:39 |
| weudel | that would be awesome.... the Ubuntu presence there has dwindled to next to nothing the past few years | 01:40 |
| chaselivingston | weudel: yeah, that's what i hear. i work specifically with ubuntu one | 01:40 |
| weudel | was hoping to go over the new Code of Conduct and what we need to do to become official tonight, but turnout is sorely lacking. | 01:41 |
| Techman | I see | 01:41 |
| weudel | so, you probably want me to stop using Dropbox, huh? :) | 01:41 |
| chaselivingston | weudel: haha, not necessarily, i use it for some things as well | 01:42 |
| Techman | I use SkyDrive | 01:42 |
| Techman | I know its Microsoft and all of that | 01:42 |
| Techman | But I have my legacy 25 GB and I have no problem with them | 01:43 |
| weudel | well, chase, hit me up on lauchpad or something and we can get together.... | 01:44 |
| chaselivingston | sure thing, i'll do that | 01:44 |
| weudel | or jon@ubuntusc.org | 01:45 |
| chaselivingston | weudel: what's your launchpad url? | 01:46 |
| weudel | https://launchpad.net/~jon-rasmussen | 01:46 |
| weudel | and I guess we'll go ahead and wrap this thing up | 01:47 |
| Techman | Oh... | 01:47 |
| Techman | Ok then | 01:48 |
| weudel | I'll try to figure out a good date to do our next meeting next month, with the holidays and all. | 01:48 |
| Techman | ah | 01:48 |
| Techman | I'll have it marked on my to do and stuff like that | 01:48 |
| weudel | And let's see if we can get some others to show. :) | 01:48 |
| weudel | I'll send it out to the mailing list and G+, Facebook, and Twitter | 01:49 |
| weudel | good night, y'all | 01:49 |
| chaselivingston | later all | 01:50 |
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