[01:27] <waltman> My labmate has an old 2008 or 2009 macbook pro that can no longer run modern OSXs, so over the weekend he tried to install ubuntu on it. He said it worked fine aside from big problems with the nvidia drivers.
[01:28] <waltman> I seem to recall someone (maybe pleia2?) who installed ubuntu on an old mac.
[01:32] <rmg51> that sounds more like jedijf
[02:04] <waltman> could be both
[02:49] <pleia2> waltman: I put it on a G4 Powerbook, not MBP
[02:49] <pleia2> my 2007 MBP still works ok with Mavericks
[02:50] <pleia2> (have to max out the ram though)
[02:51] <pleia2> also, 2008 or 2009 isn't old! ;) the G4 is from 2004
[02:51] <pleia2> pretty nice machine too, 1.3ghz and 1G of ram
[09:19] <rmg51> Morning
[10:02] <JonathanD> I tired to get ubuntu going on a mac server.
[10:02] <JonathanD> and gave up pretty quick, it's probably viable but not worth the effort for my purposes.
[11:14] <waltman> He said his problem was that the trackpad response gets really sluggish, which people are blaming on the video driver.
[12:02] <jedijf> yeah, no mbp's here - iBook and g3's - the little server thing funs mac - when she runs
[12:02] <jedijf> s/funs/run damn, freudian error while chanelling waltman - that's a psychological 2fer
[12:03] <jedijf> waltman: also, my kinda fix: use a mouse
[12:04] <jedijf> or lick fingers better
[12:12] <teddy-dbear> Morning peoples, dogs, turkeys, hamsters and everything else
[12:30] <waltman> jedijf: Did I ever tell you that Freud is my great-great-great-*-grandadvisor?
[12:34] <waltman> *sigh* of course I had to get one more git-ate-my-homework email before this class is over
[14:21] <lazyPower> o/ morning everyone
[14:21] <lazyPower> waltman: did git eat *your* homework? or did someone give you the excuse?
[14:21] <lazyPower> waltman: because they can always recover it by looking at the reflog
[14:33] <waltman> The number of ways people have managed to screw up their git repos is truly impressive.
[14:34] <waltman> I took a look at the kid's computer this morning. He somehow managed to put his folders for all 3 classes into a single directory.