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thafreakYou all need to convince me to come to OLF this year15:16
thafreakI think last couple years i've been less and less inclined to go15:16
thafreaki may go this year only because some one new is chair of olf comittee and MAYBE it'll be better15:17
thafreakbut if this year sucks too, I think I'm done15:17
thafreakAlso, this year it doesn't conflict with derbycon, which I may go to instead in the future15:18
thafreakso part of the olf planning should be, how can we make it more awesome for thafreak15:18
Unit193Mmmm... Pity it doesn't seem so great, I need to go sometime as I need to get a Debian dev to sign my gpg key. :P15:19
thafreakif ALL of the booths are squished into one tiny room again, I will be very dissatisfied15:19
thafreakUnit193: paultag never signed your key?15:19
Unit193Never met him. :P15:19
thafreakawe15:20
thafreakI'll sign your key, even though I'm not currently a deb dev15:20
thafreakI'd like to be one day, but I can't seem to fdind the time to grok building .debs15:20
thafreakI've been signed by a few deb devs though, so...you'll be 1 removed from a few at least15:21
thafreakI'm in the bigset now15:21
Unit193I think that's actually permitted, one DD and one slightly removed.  I'm supposed to be going for DM, but I've not done a ton really.  It could make managing the package I do have easier though, which would be very handy as it tends to go into rapid releases.15:22
yanoooh, a key signing party!15:22
thafreakyar...15:23
thafreakyano, aren't you involved in pyohio too?15:23
Unit193Him?  Python?  Never.15:24
Unit193jenni: version15:24
Unit193Dowh.15:25
thafreakwonder what she's doing if not fullfiling irc requests...15:25
Unit193Vodka.15:25
thafreakno, the classic ones (from my youth watching tv), are things like "washing my hair" or "re-organizing my shoes"15:26
yanoi present at pyohio15:26
yano.version15:26
jenniyano: running version:15:26
jenni  commit ff5bcc6124e22a7414289181200b7a20c208450615:26
jenni  Author: Michael Yanovich <michael@yanovich.net>15:26
jenni  Date:   Fri Mar 14 06:11:51 2014 +000015:26
thafreakAre you the AI guy?15:27
thafreakerm i mean the fellow who gave the AI talk at pyohio years ago15:27
yanonope15:34
yanoi'm the Py 101 guy15:34
thafreakhow are the people who come to that?15:35
thafreakCause I've taught intro to python to undergrads, and it has been a horrible experience for me15:35
thafreakI'm pretty much fed up with college students in general.15:36
Unit193thafreak: I used an excuse once, went something like "I can't go to the thing we planned tonight, I'm in the hospital now with an organ that's trying to kill me, and going in to surgery in a couple hours." :D15:45
thafreakoh, no it's not the excuses15:46
thafreakthose are only minor anoyances15:46
thafreakmy biggest beef is that not one damned student ever READS what I write...15:46
thafreaki write explicit instructions, which i assumed will be followed...nope15:47
thafreakin my sysadmin class, i made them write documentation, and required it all to be plain ascii text (utf-8 was acceptable too)15:47
thafreakBig bold letters, NO WORD DOCUMENTS and RTF is not plain text15:48
thafreakevery semester one student sends in word documents, with markdown or restructured text markup in them15:48
thafreaki tell them NO, i do not accept word documents, PLAIN TEXT, they send me RTF instead...15:49
thafreakI say NO, RTF != PLAIN TEXT15:49
thafreakthey send me a pdf and say I don't know how to make plain text15:49
thafreakI weep for the future15:49
Unit193You want them to all send you doc.txt? :D15:50
Unit193And yeah, I've read your comments about your students, that's got to be annoying.  DO they ever pay attention or learn?15:51
thafreakI even told them, use notepad if you're stuck with windows...15:51
thafreaknope...and the intro to python class was the absolute worst15:51
thafreakhalf the students watched internet videos and/or looked up facebook or sports things all class long15:51
thafreakand would periodically turn and nod to make me think they're paying attentiopn15:52
thafreakbut only like 3 out of 20 ever really were...and they weren't even that great of students15:52
Unit193What is this you teach at/15:52
Unit193?15:52
thafreakone class, we were reveiwing before a test...i repeated something twice becasuse some one wasn't paying attention15:52
thafreakand then i asked any other questions, one kid asked me basically the exact same question i had just finished answering for the second time...15:53
thafreakthe rest of the class chuckled...cause he obviously wasn't paying attention at all15:53
thafreakRight now I'm at Kent...15:54
Unit193Hah, good for them at least15:54
Unit193Hrm.15:54
thafreakI did teach sysadmin at u akron too...but i gave up on that15:54
dzhothafreak: presumably, how to work in plain text is how you start your course?15:54
thafreakthat was in the business school and almost none of the students even wanted to learn linux15:54
thafreakeven thought it was required for them15:54
dzhoheh, nice requirement15:55
thafreakdzho: i told them at the beginning, never use m$ word, if you have to use one of the web based text editors or notepad15:55
thafreakdoesn't help15:55
dzhodid giving them a zero for the assignment help?15:55
thafreakyeah it was for their business tech degree thing...they made you do cisco, linux and a buynch of other stuff15:56
thafreakdzho: i'm too soft15:56
thafreaki'm all bark no bite15:56
thafreaki prefer public humiliation15:56
dzhoyours, or theirs? ;-)15:56
thafreaktheirs15:56
thafreakthe one that sent me a pdf after i told him rtf wasn't plain text..he's a student worker for one of my colleagues15:57
thafreakso i hear what he says about me...and I get to give his boss extra ammo to rip on him with15:57
thafreakI wish15:57
thafreaki wish I knew everyone of my student's bosses15:58
thafreakactually, going forward, once I'm no longer under a conflict of interest thing, I may only deal with internship students15:59
thafreakI'm going to give teaching aprenticship style a shot next i think15:59
thafreaks/aprenticship/apprenticeship/g16:00
jennithafreak meant to say: I'm going to give teaching apprenticeship style a shot next i think16:00
yanothafreak: it is pretty okay, though i do get complaints from those with too much or too little xperience16:20
Unit193thafreak: Were you the one interested in samba?18:33
thafreakdefine interested in :)18:58
thafreaki think i asked if anyone has used it with newer windows18:58
thafreakcause I need to replace the samba at a client's office18:59
thafreakand their desktops are mostly windoze 718:59
Unit193So here's the weird part, Debian testing works fine with newer samba, but ever since upgrading to trusty, problems.  Same-ish version, and done a lot to try and fix it.19:01
thafreakdebian testing as the client? or debian testing as the samba server?19:19
Unit193Two different examples, close in version, where one works and the other doesn't.19:20
Unit193Servers, both.19:20
thafreakwhat are the clients?19:20
thafreakand so you're saying, avoid trusty and use either precise or wheezy at this point? :)19:21
Unit193Nah, just saying it's not working for me right now, though that may change from person to person.  Clients are Win7 for testing, Linux and Win7 for Trusty.19:22
thafreakhuh...what security mode are you using? is samba a domain controller for your win7 machines?19:30
Unit193Nope, basics, hardly modified config.19:31
thafreakare you using passwords for shares? or just open permissions?19:34
Unit193Open.19:35
Unit193On the bright side, bash-completion is fixed, so hopefully it will be in Debian as well soon.19:39
thafreakcool, i think i'll be switching them to open anyway...19:39
Unit193Nothing important on there, and wireless password.19:41

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