| mrgoodcat | ColonelPanic001: yea he can't really. the VMs have to run full operating systems. he's using this laptop for a pen-testing cert | 13:19 |
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| mrgoodcat | the problem is that he lives in hawaii and has to fly to the mainland and live in a hotel during the cert process | 13:19 |
| mrgoodcat | so he doesn't want a desktop or even a laptop that is above 15" because of portability | 13:19 |
| mrgoodcat | he also wants a dgpu because he wants to game while he's living in the hotel | 13:20 |
| cmaloney | mrgoodcat: You're going to want two drives | 13:45 |
| cmaloney | and 15" computer with two drives? That sounds like a unicorn. :) | 13:46 |
| mrgoodcat | yea i know | 13:47 |
| mrgoodcat | i had a 17 with 2 drives and dgpu | 13:47 |
| mrgoodcat | that thing was a monster | 13:47 |
| jrwren | i'm sad the lightest system76 system is 3.6lb, but I want something 3 or less | 13:50 |
| rick_h_ | you don't want system76. I love those guys but the laptops aren't all that great | 13:51 |
| cmaloney | I want to belive | 13:51 |
| cmaloney | but we bought a Dell | 13:51 |
| rick_h_ | yea, I would love to and I keep looking at their stuff | 13:52 |
| rick_h_ | but everyone I know iwth them (and we've got a few folks in canonical with them) they don't hold up or are as solid ootb as the thinkpads/etc | 13:52 |
| cmaloney | Well, Thinkpads are tanks | 13:52 |
| cmaloney | even the cheapies | 13:52 |
| cmaloney | shame Lenovo can't seem to leave well-enough alone. | 13:53 |
| jcastro | s76 make good desktops at least | 13:56 |
| jcastro | my X230 was perfect, it held two drives | 13:56 |
| jcastro | but started to fall apart | 13:56 |
| jcastro | hey X240 is a POS | 13:56 |
| rick_h_ | yea, <3 the desktop I got from them | 13:58 |
| jrwren | i've had a system76 before. I know they are just rebadged clevos sagers and whatever else garbage laptops there are. | 13:59 |
| _stink_ | rick_h_: you still actively woodworking? | 13:59 |
| rick_h_ | _stink_: no, I still have my garage with tools but not had time to do it in some time | 13:59 |
| jrwren | The only other linux laptop I've seen that looks good is XPS and I just cannot bring myself to buy a dell again. | 13:59 |
| rick_h_ | _stink_: hoping to get back into it after the summer camping season is done | 13:59 |
| _stink_ | rick_h_: cool. i am thinking again about starting | 14:00 |
| rick_h_ | jrwren: yea, xps I got was ok, but still ran back to thinkpads after < 1yr | 14:00 |
| rick_h_ | _stink_: cool! what kind of stuff are you thinking? | 14:00 |
| rick_h_ | _stink_: happy to talk shop any time | 14:00 |
| cmaloney | jrwren: We got one. It's quite nice | 14:00 |
| cmaloney | Dell upped their game | 14:00 |
| jrwren | maybe i'll get an msft laptop and just suffer from things that don't work ;] | 14:00 |
| cmaloney | That Surface is a nice machine | 14:00 |
| cmaloney | MS makes great hardware when they want to | 14:01 |
| rick_h_ | jrwren: ugh, good luck if you go that route | 14:01 |
| _stink_ | rick_h_: awesome - i have a built in bench/'cubby' thing to go in the front closet as first real project... probably with some boxy storage type stuff for the garage to work out the kinks first | 14:01 |
| rick_h_ | jrwren: I need to reinstall on my surface and :/ at stuff still not working | 14:01 |
| _stink_ | rick_h_: i'd really like ot stay with unpowered tools | 14:01 |
| rick_h_ | _stink_: definitely, happy to let you test drive anything. I've got a bunch of hand stuff | 14:01 |
| _stink_ | sweet! | 14:01 |
| cmaloney | -http://openmetalcast.com/2016/06/07/open-metalcast-episode-131-late-night-metal/ | 14:10 |
| greg-g | nevermind the media, I'm going to exercise my democratic (sic) right and go vote today | 16:22 |
| Scary_Guy | http://us.dlink.com/business-solutions/free-10-gigabit-nic-card/ I don't know some people here might benefit from it | 16:23 |
| Scary_Guy | I wish I had money | 16:23 |
| cmaloney | greg-g: Stick it to the man | 16:33 |
| greg-g | cmaloney: I wish | 16:36 |
| jrwren | I wnat 10gigabit!!! | 16:37 |
| jrwren | thanks Scary_Guy | 16:37 |
| cmaloney | http://www.amys.com/products/product-detail/indian-meals/000059 | 16:37 |
| jrwren | hrm, nope, out of my price range | 16:38 |
| jrwren | why is 10GE so $$$ | 16:39 |
| cmaloney | I never thought I'd see the day when an ethernet card needed a heat sink / fan | 16:39 |
| jrwren | something consumer grade needs to pic it up to help drive cost down. Something like drobo. | 16:39 |
| cmaloney | now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time | 16:39 |
| Scary_Guy | I've seen it, but it didn't need it. It was some "extreme gaming" marketing BS NIC | 16:40 |
| jrwren | err... who is that drobo that isn't slow? | 16:40 |
| Scary_Guy | drobo is slow? | 16:40 |
| rick_h_ | drobo is fail, don't go near them | 16:40 |
| Scary_Guy | I always thought they looked neat | 16:41 |
| Scary_Guy | good to know | 16:41 |
| cmaloney | Drobo had a lot of issues | 16:41 |
| rick_h_ | I don't know anyone that's had one and loved it over a long period of time | 16:41 |
| cmaloney | they went from advertising darlings to OMGWTF | 16:41 |
| rick_h_ | they've got a great honeymoon period followed by pain | 16:41 |
| jrwren | i've never heard of them being fast. | 16:41 |
| jrwren | Synology is drobo fast and done right. | 16:42 |
| cmaloney | si si | 16:42 |
| Scary_Guy | bookmarked, thanks | 16:44 |
| jrwren | synology inspired me to get better at using LVM and ever sense, I've loved my home server disk config. | 16:44 |
| jrwren | I don't use synology, becuase I'd rather do it myself. | 16:44 |
| Scary_Guy | oh, this looked neat too http://ofmodemsandmen.com/index.html | 16:54 |
| jrwren | very cool | 16:56 |
| jcastro | synology or qnap are the best ones if you're prebuying | 17:29 |
| _stink_ | cmaloney: did you make a blank disk for saving source you wrote in merlin? | 20:26 |
| cmaloney | I just used that demo disk | 20:27 |
| cmaloney | thatI shared | 20:27 |
| cmaloney | I have yet to figure out how to make a blank disk under Linapple | 20:29 |
| _stink_ | ahh got it | 20:31 |
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