[02:00] <nhaines> jono: I loved the Nintendo shirt yesterday.  :)
[02:01] <nhaines> Nintendo games tend to be light, accessible, quick, and deep for those who explore them.  So I suspect you may find yourself with a Wii U in two or three years after all, once the little one starts playing.
[03:05] <nhaines> akk: _o/
[03:05] <akk> hi nhaines
[03:05] <nhaines> How's your week so far?
[03:07] <akk> Pretty good! How's yours?
[03:08] <nhaines> Not bad!  I just got comissioned to do a 12,000 word Ubuntu magazine article.  So now I have something to do for the rest of the week.
[03:08] <akk> Excellent! What's the article on?
[03:08] <nhaines> Ubuntu 14.04 on ALL the things.
[03:08] <akk> My project of the week is writing a python wrapper around gphoto2 to integrate with my raspberry pi wildlife camera.
[03:09] <nhaines> Ooh, that sounds like fun.
[03:10] <akk> I'm in a big refactoring mess right now but starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
[03:11] <akk> I'm informed by the spousal unit that it's time to watch a movie. Seeya!
[03:11] <nhaines> yay movie!
[03:17] <rww> I am happy to announce that elky will actually belong in this channel in a couple of weeks :D
[03:17] <rww> (visa got approved yesterday)
[03:17] <nhaines> yay!  :D
[03:17] <rww> well, delivered
[03:18] <rww> so yes, will have her over here before the month's out
[03:18] <rww> nhaines: also, i'm switching to t-mobile :P
[03:20] <nhaines> Yay, fantastic savings on the nation's most economical carrier!  :P
[03:21] <nhaines> rww: did I ever send you a referral email?  I think if you switch and by a device in-store (and Nexus 5 is a winner) I get money.  :P
[03:22] <nhaines> On a TOTALLY UNRELATED note, ChunkHost is a fantastic VPS host with Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04 available and everybody should try it using this link: https://chunkhost.com/r/nhaines :P
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[03:22] <rww> nhaines: oh shoot, i forgot about that
[03:22] <nhaines> Boo  :P
[03:23] <nhaines> Oh well, what's far more important is that you're saving money.
[03:23] <nhaines> You can just paypal me the $25.  :P
[03:23] <rww> nhaines: already ordered the phones and stuff, but if i see a place to refer when i create my t-mobile website account thing and activate i'll do it
[03:23] <rww> nhaines: not bitcoin :P?
[03:23] <nhaines> Bitcoin also accepted.  :P
[03:27] <nhaines> rww: what phones did you get?
[03:29] <rww> nhaines: nexus 5, obviously
[03:30] <rww> (x2, since i didn't feel like calling up again when she gets here)
[03:30] <nhaines> Easy to root and then dual-boot Ubuntu.
[03:31] <nhaines> Once Ubuntu is worth running on the Nexus 5, this will be a plus.
[03:31] <rww> maybe i will do this before she gets here as a prank
[03:31] <nhaines> ha  :)
[03:31] <nhaines> Also I saw some photos of the Clock app running with the new header design.  I'm skeptical of the SDK stuff but looked slick.
[03:33] <nhaines> Huh, ironically, this 12,000 word article will be the last one I write with the help of Ubuntu One file storage.
[03:35] <nhaines> It is ironic because I'm writing about Ubuntu 14.04 on 14.04 but U1 is already EOL.
[03:43] <jyo> nhaines: haha. IPv6 via a he.net tunnel.
[03:44] <jyo> nhaines: wrt chunkhost
[03:46] <nhaines> jyo: it's handy, right?
[03:46] <rww> native IPv6 is handier :P
[03:47] <jyo> Fairly certain peer1 has native IPv6...
[03:47] <nhaines> I'm not using IPv6 anyway.  :P
[03:49] <jyo> Might be possible for them to anchor a single tunnel and distribute /64s out of the routed /48 but again, no idea about their setup and their lack of "high end routers to handle it".
[03:51] <elky> it's a shame i read this channel
[03:52] <rww> it's the fuzz, everyone scram
[03:52] <nhaines> cheese it!
[03:52] <rww> ^
[03:52] <elky> hehe
[03:52] <rww> little does elky know i'm actually putting FIREFOX OS on it
[03:52] <rww> wait does firefox os work on nexus 5's
[03:52] <elky> i would be up for trying that
[03:52] <jyo> to get the DRM, right? </troll>
[03:52] <nhaines> rww: only in so far as it "works" anyway.
[03:53] <rww> jyo: nah, I want directory tiles for real estate company on my phone
[03:53] <elky> this is important to internets everywhere
[03:54] <rww> anyways
[03:54]  * rww spins up FTL
[03:54] <nhaines> Hopefully Canonical will patch in their own ads on their Ubuntu packages.
[03:54] <rww> oh
[03:54] <rww> nhaines: have you played Universe Sandbox
[03:54] <nhaines> I'd play FTL too except I have a novel to write.  :P
[03:54] <rww> it is in humble thing and idk whether to buy it
[03:55] <nhaines> I have.  It's probably really awesome for someone a tiny bit more interested in science.
[03:55] <nhaines> It's fun though.
[03:55] <rww> alrighty
[03:55]  * rww spins up bitcoin-qt too
[03:55] <nhaines> heh
[03:58] <jyo> hooray for FTL
[03:59] <elky> i have actually won ftl twice this week. it has been a good week
[03:59] <jyo> Really hope their LEGO set gets approved.
[03:59] <nhaines> lies!  nobody wins FTL.
[04:00]  * rww frowns at bitcoin-qt
[04:00] <jyo> Blow up enemy ship while mantis team is transported over. That *is* the key to vitory.
[04:00] <nhaines> jyo: it's the key to something.
[04:01] <rww> i've done that so many times :(
[04:01] <nhaines> Last game I transported my mantis team over to that anaerobic race's ship.  Didn't last long.  :(
[04:01] <elky> i love the hacking thing
[04:01] <elky> it's really fun hacking their hacking
[04:02] <rww> yo dawg
[04:02] <elky> and watching their hacking drone 'splode
[04:06]  * ianorlin finds the noblenote interface a little clunky
[04:10] <pleia2> nhaines: I have 2 more 14.04 presentations coming up (saturday and tuesday), I could use more meat for my slides, happen to have yours together yet? :)
[04:11] <jyo> pleia2: You're alive! ;)
[04:11] <pleia2> jyo: mostly :)
[04:12] <nhaines> pleia2: I'm either going to write my presentation slides tonight/tomorrow or next week, depending on how this article outline shapes up.
[04:13] <pleia2> nhaines: ok, I'll work on beefing up my slides here then
[04:13] <pleia2> good luck with the article :)
[04:13] <nhaines> pleia2: yeah.  Got ambushed with a request for a 12K word article due on the 20th.  So... everything's scrambled.  :)
[04:14] <nhaines> And thanks!
[04:14] <pleia2> hehe
[04:14] <nhaines> Also I'll be talking about the Orange Box cloud.  :)
[04:15] <pleia2> I think canonical should give me one to show off
[04:15] <nhaines> +1
[04:15] <nhaines> Canonical managed to spin up 380 hosts with 75,000 VMs in 6.5 hours.
[04:16] <nhaines> Then they kept going and spun up another 25,000 VM.  As sabdfl mentioned, the silicon was slightly over committed by that point.  So AMD gave them another couple units and on 576 hosts they managed to spin up 168,000 VMs over a weekend.
[04:16] <nhaines> The time to deploy 75,000 VMs beat the previous world record speed by an hour.
[04:16] <nhaines> So yay OpenStack and Juju!
[04:17] <pleia2> :)
[04:17] <ianorlin> why do you need that many?'
[04:17] <nhaines> Why *don't* you need that many?
[04:19] <ianorlin> it would be excessive for download mirrors for lxqt
[04:19] <nhaines> MAAS now supports CentOS and Microsoft Windows too.
[04:19] <ianorlin> sorry LXQt
[04:20] <pleia2> well, these are marketed toward businesses, not basements ;)
[04:20] <nhaines> So you can just tell your MaaS server "I want Sharepoint" and it'll install Windows and Sharepoint automatically.
[04:21]  * ianorlin has Stop menu in his LXQt VM
[04:50] <pleia2> hm, I used to be able to close applications by doing a bottom swipe and pulling up a menu from a little transparent box that came up, is that gone?
[04:50] <pleia2> where "used to" is like 2 weeks ago
[04:50] <pleia2> on my tablet
[04:54] <nhaines> pleia2: yeah, they yanked out HUD.
[04:54] <pleia2> :(
[04:54] <pleia2> how am I supposed to close applications?
[04:55] <nhaines> They might get around to putting it back in eventually, some day, maybe.  No one's really working on it and no one involved in removing it is very concerned.
[04:55] <nhaines> You're not supposed to close applications, as far as I can tell.
[04:55] <pleia2> that would be fine, except the tablet goes wonky sometimes and closing stuff is the only option aside from rebooting
[04:55] <pleia2> maybe when it's more mature, like android...
[04:56] <pleia2> but even android has a kill apps option stuffed in settings somewhere
[04:56] <nhaines> In the meantime, long-pressing on an application (any application) on the Apps scope will bring up little Xes.  And you can tap those.
[04:58] <pleia2> hooray! thanks
[04:58] <nhaines> You're welcome.  :)
[04:59] <pleia2> ooh, the volume keys work now
[04:59]  * pleia2 looks at 64 unread threads in ubuntu-phone folder
[05:00] <rww> hehe
[05:00] <rww> lot of traffic on that list, indeed
[05:01] <pleia2> it ran out of battery while I was on vacation and the time reset to 1969, it was fun
[05:02]  * ianorlin found a time when it said 1969 bug in pcmanfm that is fixed now
[05:02] <pleia2> I still can't log onto my wifi network since the dialog times out before I finish
[05:07] <nhaines> pleia2: that's what you get for having an unnecessarily complex wifi password!
[05:07] <nhaines> Connect your tablet via USB to your computer and run phablet-network.
[05:28] <pleia2> nhaines: aha, I'll give that a try :)
[05:35] <nhaines> pleia2: they both use Network Manager, so phablet-network simply copies your connection file over.  :)
[05:35] <pleia2> I noticed, I don't use NM
[05:35]  * pleia2 has moved over to her laptop where she does
[05:40] <pleia2> nhaines: you're totally my hero tonight
[05:41] <nhaines> Reading the ubuntu-phone mailing list paid off!  :D
[05:41] <pleia2> hehe
[06:16] <nhaines> pleia2: there's still time to learn to write Ubuntu SDK apps and become an Ubuntu Pioneer!
[06:16] <nhaines> Just think of the free t-shirt!
[20:08] <jyo> rww: How many licks does it take to get to the tootsie pop center of Firefox's EME sandbox center?
[20:09] <jyo> s/sandbox center/sandbox/