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