| === jackson_ is now known as jackson | ||
| JonathanD | Morning. | 09:37 |
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| rmg51 | Morning JonathanD | 10:06 |
| JonathanD | hi | 10:07 |
| rmg51 | hey | 10:07 |
| waltman | Morning | 11:39 |
| JonathanD | hi waltman | 11:40 |
| JonathanD | waltman: no mac programmers group today? | 11:40 |
| waltman | I've got a lame excuse. I'm in Austin. | 11:44 |
| waltman | I'm out of the country in Texas. | 11:44 |
| waltman | But good luck today! | 11:45 |
| JonathanD | lame ecxcuse. | 11:47 |
| JonathanD | come anyway. | 11:47 |
| JonathanD | I hate lag. | 11:48 |
| waltman | If I can get online at 10:30, I'll try to heckle you :) | 12:12 |
| * waltman checks the schedule... | 12:12 | |
| waltman | There's a keynote from 9-10 cdt. | 12:12 |
| JonathanD | waltman: you're assuming I can get on irc. | 12:14 |
| waltman | I was going to try to hit one of the pages John linked to yesterday. | 12:14 |
| JonathanD | waltman: I suppose you could modify the pres on etherpad | 12:14 |
| JonathanD | waltman: well, the "notes" page is readonly :) | 12:15 |
| waltman | boo | 12:15 |
| JonathanD | one of the features of etherpad you would have learned about, if you came to one of my talks | 12:15 |
| waltman | Well, I'll be surrounded by the Republic of Texas's finest Linux minds. We'll have to hack our way in! | 12:15 |
| waltman | High of 96 in Austin today | 12:16 |
| waltman | I'm off to find some breakfast. Later. | 12:17 |
| rmg51 | stupid kernel updates | 13:52 |
| * waltman waves from Texas Linux Fest | 13:52 | |
| rmg51 | that's two days in a row | 13:53 |
| * rmg51 waves from his desk | 13:53 | |
| * rmg51 waves again as he leaves to go to the bank | 13:56 | |
| teddy-dbear | Morning peoples | 14:44 |
| * teddy-dbear grumbles about two kernel updates in two days | 14:45 | |
| teddy-dbear | only two more laptops to go | 14:45 |
| teddy-dbear | see ya | 14:45 |
| waltman | Bootup time is perfect chocolate munching time. | 14:45 |
| rmg51 | waltman: any time is chocolate munching time | 14:48 |
| JonathanD | waltman: you were apparently the MPSIGs first ever remote participant. | 16:51 |
| waltman | woot! | 16:51 |
| JonathanD | I think John wants to use etherpad for future talk notes. | 16:51 |
| JonathanD | so everyone can contrib. | 16:52 |
| waltman | nice | 16:52 |
| waltman | The talk I'm sitting in now is by a guy who put a wifi router on a weather balloon and put it up to the edge of space while keeping a connection. | 16:53 |
| waltman | They usually go their launches in August because that's when the jet stream over South Texas is the best. But this time it didn't cooperate. "It took off like a howlin' cat!" | 16:54 |
| waltman | s/go their launches/do their launches/ | 16:54 |
| JonathanD | cool | 16:54 |
| JonathanD | directed wifi? | 16:54 |
| waltman | they pointed the antenna down, so they had some issues with it taking off | 16:55 |
| waltman | tighter beam for best gain | 16:55 |
| JonathanD | nice. | 16:56 |
| JonathanD | I did 3 miles once, but thats it. | 16:56 |
| waltman | but they were also broadcasting a video signal over fm, and that was wide enough that he could use that to direct his wifi antenna. | 16:56 |
| waltman | http://2013.texaslinuxfest.org/content/howto-first-wifi-edge-space | 16:56 |
| JonathanD | meh, just run a really long ethernet cable. | 16:58 |
| waltman | that might cause weight issues. | 16:58 |
| JonathanD | string of smaller balloons to hold the cable. | 16:58 |
| JonathanD | you launch new ones as you spin it out. | 16:59 |
| waltman | I should point out that this gentleman pronounces wifi as "wah fah" :) | 16:59 |
| waltman | "There are 3 seasons in South Texas: Summer, July and August" | 17:02 |
| JonathanD | I should have given you flyers :P | 17:02 |
| waltman | you should have! | 17:03 |
| waltman | there are a LOT of tables here | 17:03 |
| waltman | maybe 20-30 strewn all over the floor | 17:04 |
| JonathanD | Invite them all :P | 17:04 |
| waltman | maybe 15-20 | 17:04 |
| JonathanD | bring me back some biz cards. | 17:04 |
| waltman | for what? | 17:04 |
| JonathanD | so I can hound people for sponsorships of course :) | 17:05 |
| waltman | ah | 17:05 |
| waltman | the only ground I haven't found here is Ubuntu! | 17:05 |
| waltman | group | 17:05 |
| JonathanD | right now I'm trying to figure out how to get tastycakes to england. | 17:05 |
| waltman | pleia2: Do you know Philip Ballew? | 18:52 |
| waltman | He's talking about ubuntu at txlf right now. | 18:52 |
| pleia2 | yeah (just had lunch with him s few days ago actually) | 19:02 |
| pleia2 | he is very enthusiastic :) | 19:02 |
| waltman | I'm sitting 10 feet in front of him right now :) | 19:02 |
| waltman | He's a big fan of orange and purple. | 19:03 |
| pleia2 | :) | 19:03 |
| pleia2 | hehe | 19:03 |
| waltman | I only say that because he just described them as the world's two greatest colors. | 19:04 |
| waltman | "The last thing Ubuntu wants to do is alienate its user." <the entire room laughs< | 19:08 |
| waltman | JonathanD: http://2013.texaslinuxfest.org/sponsors | 19:59 |
| JonathanD | Thanksies. | 20:56 |
| waltman | JonathanD: I gathered some swag for you, too | 21:14 |
| JonathanD | Cool :) | 21:15 |
| JonathanD | Good event? | 21:15 |
| JonathanD | waltman: mpsig needs a speaker for august. | 21:16 |
| JonathanD | would you like to volunteer. | 21:16 |
| waltman | It was great until this afternoon. | 21:16 |
| JonathanD | Something happen? | 21:17 |
| waltman | Second session after lunch and I was getting drowsy. I went out to the hallway to get some more coffee, and discovered that all the urns had been replaced by bartenders. | 21:17 |
| waltman | In theory there's a Starbucks 2 blocks away, but in practice it's 4 blocks away and is closed for summer break. | 21:18 |
| JonathanD | oops | 21:19 |
| waltman | But I think the walk revived me better than the coffee anyway. :) | 21:19 |
| JonathanD | we'll have to get you a coffee flask, for when you're trapped in a bar and no coffee is ot be found. | 21:19 |
| waltman | I didn't get enough sleep last night, and I had a big lunch, and the speaker had a really soothing voice | 21:22 |
| JonathanD | mmm | 21:25 |
| JonathanD | John said he would do his invisibility talk at fosscon. | 21:25 |
| JonathanD | It'd kinda be offtopic, but it also sounds very interesting. | 21:25 |
| waltman | I'd go! | 21:25 |
| JonathanD | Someone from nasa asked him to do it. | 21:25 |
| JonathanD | for them. | 21:25 |
| waltman | open source invisibility cloak! | 21:25 |
| JonathanD | (or something along those lines) | 21:25 |
| waltman | there was someone from nasa at the meeting today? | 21:26 |
| JonathanD | the talk would really be on the math/science of it, with pointers on where to go do it | 21:26 |
| JonathanD | no... wherever it was he gave his talk | 21:26 |
| waltman | Oh, Balticon | 21:26 |
| waltman | NASA people go to that. | 21:26 |
| JonathanD | balitcon | 21:26 |
| JonathanD | yeah | 21:27 |
| JonathanD | I think I'd go to it too. | 21:27 |
| JonathanD | one of the guys (I don't know everyones name) was talking about using etherpad in a classroom or such. | 21:28 |
| JonathanD | I honestly think this is a great idea. | 21:28 |
| JonathanD | collaborative notetaking? | 21:28 |
| waltman | Deivy? | 21:28 |
| JonathanD | Russianish accent? | 21:28 |
| JonathanD | or east europeish, anyway. | 21:28 |
| waltman | The crazy Brazilian guy who wants to do scientific programming in Applescript? | 21:29 |
| JonathanD | I don't recall if it's the same guy. | 21:29 |
| JonathanD | But really scientific programming should be done in qbasic. | 21:29 |
| JonathanD | I'm not sure why anyone would do anything else. | 21:29 |
| waltman | There's another guy with an accent. Older guy. | 21:29 |
| JonathanD | This was the older guy, then. I think :) | 21:29 |
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