| airurando | afternoon | 14:56 |
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| airurando | wishing you all an enjoyable festive season! | 14:56 |
| zmoylan-len | hi | 14:59 |
| zmoylan-len | all crimbo shopping sorted? | 14:59 |
| airurando | just about | 15:01 |
| airurando | what about yourself zmoylan-len | 15:02 |
| zmoylan-len | being athiest means i save a fortune on crimbo pressies :-) | 15:02 |
| airurando | forgot about that | 15:03 |
| airurando | lucky you | 15:03 |
| zmoylan-len | though i am checking to see if my nephew would be interested in a rasp pi | 15:03 |
| airurando | Santa is bringing one to oisin. Orla gets a laptop | 15:04 |
| airurando | oisin is getting a nexus 7 also | 15:04 |
| zmoylan-len | odd, my nephew is also called oisin | 15:05 |
| airurando | ha ha | 15:05 |
| airurando | popular name | 15:05 |
| zmoylan-len | oisin and owen. pretty sure it's oisin that's the geeky one | 15:05 |
| airurando | you better get that right | 15:06 |
| airurando | ;-) | 15:06 |
| zmoylan-len | ah, i'll just tell my brother to hand it to the geeky one. :-) | 15:06 |
| airurando | :-) | 15:07 |
| airurando | tell me how easy/hard will it be to dual boot a new dell laptop with win8 on it? | 15:08 |
| airurando | I never understood that secure boot stuff. | 15:08 |
| * zmoylan-len is currently rebuilding my main media drive after accidently erasing it making dual boot work 'properly' | 15:09 | |
| airurando | oh dear | 15:09 |
| airurando | :-( | 15:10 |
| zmoylan-len | i finally got linux installed on lenovo win 8 afflicted computer. but it was awkward | 15:10 |
| zmoylan-len | when i used bios it booted linux and when i used uefi it booted windows. i followed instructions to make uefi, win8 and linux to all get along and it never booted again and erased media drive | 15:11 |
| airurando | hmmmm | 15:11 |
| zmoylan-len | i saw it as natures way of saying stop using windows. which i only used for itunes anyway. so have ditched windows and am now 100% linux | 15:12 |
| zmoylan-len | even my mac has been cleared off to keep me away from itunes | 15:12 |
| airurando | :-) | 15:12 |
| airurando | itunes has a hold on me also | 15:12 |
| zmoylan-len | linux has no substitute, nor android. writing a partial replacement for own use in perl at mo. | 15:13 |
| zmoylan-len | the file shuffling part that allows you to watch a tv show on an idevice | 15:13 |
| airurando | I probably won't be messing with my daughters laptop for a while so as all you have said demonstrates that dual booting is way above my skill level on newer hardware | 15:14 |
| airurando | http://www.dell.com/ie/p/inspiron-15-3521/pd | 15:14 |
| airurando | that one with the core i3 processor | 15:15 |
| zmoylan-len | i intend to get an oxfam laptop with win7 to dual boot. http://www.oxfamireland.org/computers/laptop-plus | 15:15 |
| zmoylan-len | win8 is deliberatly knobbled to make dual boot with linux horrible. | 15:16 |
| tdr112 | hey airurando | 15:16 |
| airurando | nice zmoylan-len | 15:16 |
| tdr112 | zmoylan-len: that happen to me | 15:17 |
| airurando | hi tdr112 | 15:17 |
| zmoylan-len | cheap, high end business laptops in decent nick. i've seen 2 so far. very nice | 15:17 |
| tdr112 | wasted a day on it trying to get it to work , just got rid of win 8 and runing stuff in a vm | 15:17 |
| zmoylan-len | can't create a vm without an install disk though | 15:18 |
| tdr112 | hey airurando, kids going mad yet | 15:18 |
| zmoylan-len | on a laptop | 15:18 |
| tdr112 | zmoylan-len: i have a vm of vista | 15:18 |
| airurando | tdr112: yip | 15:18 |
| * zmoylan-len is not sure if that's better or worse than win8 :-D | 15:18 | |
| tdr112 | zmoylan-len: have not used it for 20 days, just using wine more and more | 15:20 |
| zmoylan-len | itunes doesn't work in wine | 15:20 |
| tdr112 | airurando: how goes the dojo | 15:20 |
| zmoylan-len | or rather it loads, but it doesn't actually work | 15:20 |
| airurando | tdr112: great. on Christmas break at the moment. Orla has taken to scratch really well. Oisin still a bit young. | 15:21 |
| tdr112 | airurando: Do you help out, when your off ? | 15:22 |
| airurando | tdr112: as much as i can. They are getting to a point beyond my current abilities | 15:27 |
| airurando | Orla is on her own. | 15:28 |
| airurando | I can help the newer folks a bit | 15:28 |
| tdr112 | airurando: but its not chlid care, parents do hang around ? | 15:33 |
| airurando | yes they do | 15:34 |
| airurando | it is real good here in athy but it is early days yet | 15:34 |
| airurando | from the parents I get the impression that they are very greatful to the mentors for providing their kids with the opportunity | 15:35 |
| airurando | it clashes with alot of things on a sat morning but kids and parents are picking the coder dojo over those other activities | 15:36 |
| airurando | again though it is early days | 15:36 |
| airurando | as long as my kids want to go I'll support and encourage them but I won't force them | 15:37 |
| airurando | crikey it is pouring rain here. | 15:44 |
| zmoylan-len | train station down south closed https://twitter.com/cybernoelie/statuses/413325728038805504 | 15:45 |
| airurando | aye the mother in law is trapped on the train from cobh | 16:04 |
| zmoylan-len | pics of the train from cobh with debris on roof. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bbx9oSnIMAE3WEL.jpg | 16:55 |
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