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| tony-smlr | SMLR is live http://www.youtube.com/user/tbemus?v=us-4M4392uE | 12:03 |
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| CrusaderAD | Anyone have any recommendations for a solid, stable pci e graphics card for Ubuntu 12.10 x64? | 14:23 |
| snap-l | Good morning | 18:04 |
| rick_h_ | party | 18:04 |
| snap-l | Er, more like Good Afternoon. ;) | 18:04 |
| derekv | so if rolling your own stuff, would you use pulseaudio? | 18:57 |
| snap-l | I think Pulse Audio is a good thing (tm_ | 18:59 |
| snap-l | Put another way: it isn't going away any time soon | 19:00 |
| snap-l | and the more compatible with pulse audio you are, the happier the users will be | 19:00 |
| snap-l | OSS / ALSA are emulated under pulse anyway. | 19:00 |
| snap-l | What are you planning on doing | 19:01 |
| snap-l | ? | 19:01 |
| Blazeix | if i'm using a heavily gnome-based system i'll use pulse, but for simpler environments i still use alsa | 19:10 |
| snap-l | http://www.macworld.co.uk/mac/news/?newsid=3418779 rick_h_ | 19:17 |
| derekv | no i have freebsd installed on this box and i realized i can't control volume of one app independantly of another easily | 19:21 |
| derekv | or maybe i just don't know how to d oit | 19:22 |
| widox | snap-l: that's hilarious | 19:32 |
| snap-l | derekv: any reason you're using freebsd over Linux? | 19:36 |
| snap-l | (not trying to be cheeky or anything; if the reason is "I just want to", that's perfectly valid. ;) ) | 19:37 |
| widox | rick_h_: have you tried this before? https://github.com/wertarbyte/autorandr | 19:49 |
| derekv | snap-l, I have a soft spot for the OS, wanted to try living with it again for a while | 19:58 |
| derekv | i'm nomadic | 19:58 |
| derekv | seeing if it can still work as a desktop os | 19:58 |
| derekv | fortunatly flash is becoming less of an issue | 19:59 |
| derekv | and video card support seems to be good still, at least for nvidia | 19:59 |
| derekv | so if anything its better than in the past | 19:59 |
| derekv | i think its lost some of its advantage as far as being really reponsive compaired to linux (one of the reasons i made the switch the first time, like 1999ish) | 20:00 |
| derekv | thats probably all about the scheduler | 20:00 |
| derekv | they got rid of the original scheduler a few versions back, after some fits and starts, because it was inefficient after about two cores | 20:00 |
| derekv | whereas the new one can handle numba , asymetric etc | 20:01 |
| derekv | but its more complex and somewhere it lost the magic ability to have a >10 load average and not be noticable to the UI | 20:01 |
| derekv | so yea, i don't really have any _strong_ technical arguments | 20:02 |
| derekv | i have a handful of very weak ones | 20:02 |
| derekv | its a fairly well organized OS ... the tower vs bazar thing i guess.. it feels very clean. the way the OS is layed out, kindof like a purer unix "vision" | 20:03 |
| derekv | apart from the difficulty with running flash, its very compairable with say gentoo | 20:04 |
| derekv | a little bit less finiky... a few more things come with the OS by default | 20:05 |
| derekv | but still some finikyness depending on what your running it for | 20:05 |
| derekv | I think running a desktop OS has the most complicated dependancy scenario possible | 20:06 |
| derekv | and yea, it doesn't come with pulseaudio configured for you, etc | 20:06 |
| derekv | i wish i could have time to properly configure everything the way I want it, stay up with updates, and then do most of my work on it | 20:07 |
| derekv | my current job makes the latter impossible and the former difficult unless i give up more important things | 20:08 |
| derekv | if I was building some servers (hardware), I wouldn't hesitate to use freebsd ... if it was aws or something i'd probably go with ubuntu, freebsd support isn't very mature there... | 20:12 |
| derekv | hmm, come to think of it I'm to ignorant to say what the practical differences between ubuntu and debian servers would be | 20:13 |
| derekv | ive done a couple quick ubuntu servers for random things and they work well | 20:14 |
| snap-l | Yeah, I like Ubuntu servers. They're quick to set up, and pretty extensible. | 20:53 |
| derekv | i have a serious problem with being interested in too many things | 21:22 |
| derekv | and then not picking one place to center myself | 21:23 |
| derekv | become an expert | 21:23 |
| snap-l | rick_h_: Were you the one who had the ball chair? | 21:25 |
| derekv | i think the ball chair is ok for the purposes of changing it up | 21:41 |
| derekv | you'll want to sit on it for like 15 minutes then you'll be done for a while | 21:41 |
| derekv | helpful but no silver bullet | 21:41 |
| derekv | i still wan the sit-stand desk | 21:51 |
| rick_h_ | snap-l: I've got a ball I've used as a chair some | 22:18 |
| rick_h_ | widox: no, not used that | 22:18 |
| snap-l | rick_h_: Would you be opposed to me borrowing it for a bit? | 22:49 |
| snap-l | Trying to feel out if using a ball chair is a good idea or not | 22:49 |
| * brousch snickers | 23:48 | |
| ColonelPanic001 | ... | 23:51 |
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