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brouschThere's a chrome app irc client now03:19
brouschChromebook is a complete OS'03:21
rick_hbrousch: heh03:24
AzebanHello hello hello. and good evening03:36
brouschyo03:44
Azebanhow are you brousch ?03:44
brouschwell03:45
Azebanwhat are you in michigan?03:57
greg-gyes.04:03
Azebanwhere*04:04
cmaloneyhello04:31
rick_hparty over05:35
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cmaloneyGood morning15:52
brouschyessir15:52
rick_hsucky sucky15:53
brousch$515:53
brouschChromebooking again today15:54
rick_hwoot woot15:55
brouschI need another Acer C720 Haswell 4G to really run Crouton though15:59
rick_hgrrr this darn laptop keeps sleeping, killing network, and then taking forever to reconnect16:02
brouschUpgrade to chromebook16:09
rick_hhah yea, I do love the pixel but I can't use it for everything I need so too much $$ for too little gain16:11
brouschI wish I had a pixel16:20
brouschPrice is crazy16:20
rick_hyea, and they announced EOL times for those things and it's only in 201516:22
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AzebanHello hello hello.17:08
Azebangood afternoon17:08
wafyo17:08
Azebanhow are you waf17:10
wafpretty good, camping out in a coffee shop getting some work done. you?17:12
rick_hwaf: cross your fingers for me. Trying to get my ubuntu dual boot setup17:13
wafgood luck! hopefully it "just works" :)17:16
rick_hlol17:16
Azebangood luck :)17:23
AzebanI'm camping at the home office.17:24
brouschDual booting with what?17:26
wafhahaha, yes, rick_h. what might that other OS be?17:28
rick_hhmmm, well it gave me the option to install along side osx, but no wifi drivers ootb :(17:28
rick_hbrousch: osx on an 11" air17:28
Azebanwhere are you guys in michigan?17:28
rick_hbrousch: we're working on making safari a first class Juju gui browser and making juju quickstart work on osx so I needed some osx hardware17:29
rick_hAzeban: all over. brousch is west side, some of us up and down the I-75 cooridoor north of detroit17:29
wafok. now all of us are from southeastern michigan.17:30
rick_hlol17:30
rick_hmathomastech: isn't in MI :P17:30
rick_hor greg-g17:30
wafd'oh. neither is greg-g.17:30
AzebanI'm in Saugatuck17:30
Azebanon lake michigan17:31
rick_hAzeban: nice, brousch is out GR way somewhere. Couple of guys are that way17:31
rick_hhow's the frozen lake doing out there?17:31
rick_hwoot! in ubuntu on the air with wifi working17:33
* rick_h restarts to make sure osx still works17:33
wafawesome! how did it set it up? via grub?17:34
Azebanstill very much frozen :)17:34
rick_hrefitn17:34
rick_hthat and usb-creator'd the mac iso17:34
Azebanim right on the shore17:35
Azebanthe lake is still completely frozen17:35
rick_hnice Azeban17:35
rick_hoh I'm sure it will be for a bit17:35
rick_hthis week there's highs like '14' around here17:35
wafrefitn? is that a "refind" typo?17:35
Azebanas is the kalamazoo river17:35
rick_himagine the wind blowing over that lake is cold17:35
rick_hwaf: so there was refit boot loader manager17:35
rick_hsomone took it up and made it refitn17:35
rick_h(n = next ?)17:35
Azebanwe also have around 3000 lf of the frontage of the kalamazoo river17:35
wafand you're sure you don't mean refind?17:36
* waf googles17:36
Azebanits still completely frozen17:36
rick_h:)17:36
rick_hwaf: oh... umm yea that17:36
rick_hhttp://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/17:36
wafyeah, ok, cool. that's what i use17:37
wafi really should toss that guy some money. amazing documentation17:37
rick_hooh, you can make the launcher smaller than 32 in trusty now17:38
rick_hman it's so nice to be back in linux land17:40
gamerchick02rick_h_ you can? that's 14.04, right?17:44
rick_hgamerchick02: yea, let me take it down to 1617:44
gamerchick02sweetness17:45
gamerchick0232 is a good size tho17:45
gamerchick02the size it is after install is MEGA huge17:45
rick_halways too big still imo17:45
gamerchick02i'm like geez17:45
gamerchick02depends on the size of your monitor!17:45
gamerchick02like if i were to install ubuntu to my macbook(!) i'd want a smaller launcher.17:46
rick_hsweet, time to copy over my Makefile and start the "make install install-python" process :)17:47
rick_hman, sitting this thing side by side with my 230 it really is a lot smaller17:48
rick_hbut damn the x230 has such a nicer keyboard17:48
rick_hreal feedback, so much softer on the mac17:48
gamerchick02nice17:53
gamerchick02which mac do you have?17:54
gamerchick02air17:54
gamerchick02derp17:54
gamerchick02i should read more17:54
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rick_hthis makes me said http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/02/netflix-is-paying-comcast-for-direct-connection-to-network-wsj-reports/17:55
greg-grick_h: wait, why'd you get the air if you're install Ubuntu on it?17:55
rick_hI guess it's how network operations17:55
rick_hgreg-g: dual booting. Need osx to QA mac stuff works17:55
greg-ggotcha17:55
greg-gI was worried17:55
rick_hgreg-g: but want to try it out as an ubuntu platform as well. I'm losing faith in lenovo17:55
greg-g...17:56
Azebanim very pleased with my macbook17:56
rick_hsince I have to have an OSX machine I got a refurb air to try out.17:56
Azebanits a pleasure to use.17:56
rick_hif I don't like it, well it's just for QA17:56
rick_hif I do...then Nov is my 3yr laptop refresh with Canonical so...17:56
rick_hgreg-g: I'm a bit bummed with the x240 changes, the lack of a decent carbon. I will look at the xps13 DE but not a dell fan and makes me nervous17:57
AzebanI have a 2.3ghz qud i717:57
greg-gxps is junk17:58
Azebanand it has 16gb of 16000mhz memory17:58
rick_hgreg-g: yea, I know you had issues with it and there are a couple of co-workers that like it17:58
rick_hbut not sure they know better17:58
greg-g:)17:58
greg-gif you like the air you'll like the xps ;)17:58
greg-gxps: more plasticy version of the air17:58
rick_hwell, already bummed on the keyboard. Trackpad :( but the x240 got rid of the buttons17:58
Azebanand 2gb gddr5 memory17:58
Azebanand the geforce gt 750M17:59
rick_hgreg-g: the display seems nice, that's the biggest gripe with my 23017:59
gamerchick02i love my Air.17:59
gamerchick02and the display is really nice17:59
rick_hI'm so mad they only made the HD screen on the 240 for touch17:59
Azebanyes17:59
Azebanthe retina display is great17:59
greg-goh, didn't realize re hd and touch17:59
greg-gbah17:59
Azebani dont know if the air and the pro have the same display17:59
* greg-g is a curmuddgeon17:59
rick_hgreg-g: yea, that and that HD finally came out 5mo after the 240...17:59
gamerchick02question: has anyone modded an HP11 chromebook for a larger SSD, more RAM, and Ubuntu?18:00
rick_hso yea, I'll be that annoying guy trying to try out everyone's laptops this year18:00
gamerchick02lol rick_h_18:00
rick_hgamerchick02: check with brousch when he's around. He's the chromebook guy in the group18:00
gamerchick02danke18:01
gamerchick02i don't even know if i can get the darn thing open18:01
gamerchick02no screws18:01
rick_hheh18:02
gamerchick02because an ubuntu portable box would be nice18:02
gamerchick02and it was cheap so yeah.18:02
wafi think mrgoodcat also runs a chromebook18:05
rick_hoh yea, true18:05
gamerchick02sweet18:07
gamerchick02thanks18:07
Azebanwhat do you guys think of the AppleCare plan?18:12
gamerchick02i don't have it on either of my devices18:14
gamerchick02i have the 11" Air and an ipod touch18:14
gamerchick02no issues so far and no applecare18:14
gamerchick02i still need to take my air in for it's hard drive swap because of the recall18:15
cmaloneyafternoon18:53
gamerchick02afternoon cmaloney18:55
gamerchick02how's it going?18:55
cmaloneyGoing OK. I think I have a cold.18:55
cmaloneyTook some allergy medicine and it seems to be ineffective18:56
gamerchick02ugh18:57
gamerchick02i'm actually feeling human again18:57
gamerchick02i didn't WAKE UP til 9:45 this morning. (i'm a morning person so this is news)18:57
rick_hhah, google for things and find questions from jrwren21:13
gamerchick02hah21:36
cmaloneyCall for Talks for Penguicon is coming to a close soon.22:48

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