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skellat¡BONG!02:57
skellatEverybody frozen yet?02:57
Unit193Temp: 24 F (-4 C) ~ light snow mist ~ Windchill: 18 F (-8 C) ~ Humidity: 96%03:29
Unit193Nah.03:29
jrgiffordskellat: not really, no. some snow, not much.13:33
jrgiffordyou>13:33
jrgifford*?13:33
belkinsaWe have snow but I don't know how much, but it's pretty out there.  ;)13:37
belkinsaskellat: What is required for a point of contact of a LoCo?16:09
skellatbelkinsa: From the LoCo Council's perspective, you must have a Launchpad account and must have signed the Ubuntu Code of Conduct.16:10
skellatFrom Ubuntu Ohio's perspective, we additionally require being part of Ubuntu Member group on Launchpad so that there is no doubt you can access the Community Budget administered by Canonical Community Team16:10
skellatbelkinsa: Moving?16:11
skellatThe point of contact is normally listed as "Owner" on the LoCo's team page in Launchpad16:13
belkinsaNo, I was thinking about removing some stress off you, but I guess I can't since I'm not Ubuntu Member, yet.16:14
skellatbelkinsa: Oh, I can delegate16:19
skellatThere are some things I can't delegate16:19
skellatBut there is quite a lot I can16:19
skellatAnd the only stress that is going on is trying to figure out what on earth HR is doing with the paperwork in the hiring process that has dragged on for 2 months now for a job I applied for back in October.  The "Firm Job Offer" letter I got yesterday was so mealy-mouthed and evasive that I'm kinda scratching my head wondering what is going on.16:22
belkinsaOh, okay, I see.  And yeah, I guess since we are not so active as a LoCo, there isn' that much stress on you.16:23
skellatNah16:24
skellatI'm doing fine16:24
belkinsaBut in the future, you want to change that, right?  At least based on that post on discourse.16:28
skellatPossibly16:30
skellatI gotta head out to pick up some wood from the county seat16:30
skellatBe back in a little while16:30
* skellat disappears16:30
belkinsaOkay.16:30
belkinsaYou pretty much answered my question.16:30
cid420has anybody messed with slackware?18:06
belkinsaI think I may know someone, but he is outside this channel.18:09
cid420ok I was thinking on messing with it.. in the pass you had to get your fingers dirty more then other OS's18:10
belkinsaThe person nick here is phillw.18:10
belkinsaYou can pop in this channel and ask him: #phillw18:11
cid420will do thanks18:12
belkinsaNot a problem.18:12
dzhoslackware19:05
dzhoman, I started with slackware19:05
dzhothat was a *long* time ago19:05
dzhocid420: I guess it would be ok to give a look on a virtual machine or something19:05
belkinsaDidn't someone talk about this at OLF?19:05
belkinsaOLF2013*19:05
cid420that is what i did. it is still difficult to run..  you have partition the harddrive by hand then mount it. it isnt user friendly as they stated on there website19:08
dzhoon slackware's website?19:09
cid420yea www.slackware.com19:09
belkinsaAny luck in their channel?19:09
cid420have not gotten that far yet still fiddling with it19:10
dzhowell, when I used it, it was floppy sets19:11
dzhowith boot and root floppies19:11
* dzho mutters something about a lawn19:11
cid420LOL i missed a word called Setup in root.. that fixed it lol19:12
dzhoheh19:12
belkinsaHeh, done that once but with the command "push"19:12
dzhothe cool thing back then was that there was this filesystem called umsdos, where you could put your filesystem in DOS and so share it with Windows 9x19:12
dzhohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAT_filesystem_and_Linux19:14
jenni[ FAT filesystem and Linux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ] - https://j.mp/IycOt119:14
dzhocome to think of it, maybe I should try to double up on my use of FAT filesystems on external USB hard drives19:14
cid420dzho: yea i remember that19:14
dzhoone challenge I have with them is that in some situations I want to be just another linux fs19:15
dzhoand so format it with ext3 or ext419:15
dzhobut sometimes I want to be able to move stuff among linux, MacOS and Windows19:15
dzhoand there are a lot of tradeoffs no matter what you use there.19:15
cid420I remember before you get into anything like the system doing the administration stuff you had to compile the kernel to fit your hardware needs19:16
dzhoalso, sometimes I want to be able to boot and run off the USB drive as a rescue system19:16
dzhocid420: yeah, needed to do a lot more compilation back in the day19:16
dzhoand X was a lot more of a pain19:16
dzhothere are still driver problems these days19:16
dzhobut nothing like there was19:17
cid420yea19:17
dzhoevery once in a while I need to run dkms to build a kernel module19:19
cid420would be worth setting up a newsgroup for yourself and select certain subjects to read upon or is that hard to do?19:25
belkinsaWith Thunderbird?19:26
cid420no i mean a server19:26
cid420for a person use19:26
belkinsaOh.19:26
belkinsaSounds like a feed reader to me19:27
dzhoI used to read a lot of news back in the day.19:28
dzhohad fond memories of using 'nn'19:28
cid420see i have a file server to stream movies that i have backup from my originals, and a email server, I have another server sitting right here doing nothing, so i was thinking on setting up a newsgroup server19:28
dzhothen, more recently, I installed nn and pointed it at a news server.19:28
dzhoand I no longer liked it as much as I remembered having done so :-)19:28
belkinsaI was a part of one a while back19:28
dzhosdf/freeshell is good for this sort of stuff, though.19:29
cid420what do you mean dzho19:29
dzholike, they run a gopherserver19:33
* dzho is logged onto his account there now, giving nn a try again19:33
dzhoit looks like it's going to time out trying to connect to the default news server though19:33
* canthus13 wonders why the hell anyone would install linux on FAT.20:03
skellatcanthus13: Masochism?20:15
canthus13Heh. Masochists aren't usually stupid.20:17
cid420i tried to make my own gopher server but just not enough documentation for it21:16
cid420wake up fools hehe21:58
andygraybealgopher :)22:19
* belkinsa starts to snicker22:20
andygraybealso the gui runs on console ctrl-alt-f7 right?  is there a way to run a libvirt/kvm box and have it show up on say ctrl-alt-f6 or something?22:21
jrgiffordcid420: there have been situations where I might want to have linux on a fat32 or ntfs system...22:38
jrgiffordprimarily the Pi, where I might need to transfer files from my windows boxes.22:38

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