| nhaines | pleia2: ooh, the Ubuntu USB keys are cute! :) | 04:21 |
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| nhaines | Also, the OCLUG leader was surprised to hear that they were available finally and said "Well what are we waiting for? Let's buy a bunch so we can have them to give to new attendees!" | 04:22 |
| DonkeyHotei | do they have 16.04.1? | 04:23 |
| lynorian | DonkeyHotei, no the release canidate is not out yet and still being tested | 04:23 |
| lynorian | but release team said they will probably respin everything tommorow | 04:24 |
| DonkeyHotei | a bit early for the keys to ship, then | 04:24 |
| lynorian | DonkeyHotei, yes the iso is not quite realeased yet | 04:25 |
| pleia2 | traditionally the CDs/DVDs have been the original release, not the .1 release | 04:27 |
| pleia2 | this is in keeping with that, but they had a lot of vendor problems with the USB sticks, hence their lateness, I'd prefer if they weren't delayed further | 04:27 |
| DonkeyHotei | right, but they already waited this long… | 04:28 |
| pleia2 | resetting the clock at this point would likely mean we wouldn't get them until September | 04:28 |
| DonkeyHotei | but they're still writeable, right? | 04:28 |
| pleia2 | sure, but Canonical isn't going to spend days reflashing hundreds of drives that were tested and shipped to them | 04:29 |
| pleia2 | that might take until September too :) | 04:29 |
| DonkeyHotei | perhaps not, but locos and lugs could | 04:29 |
| pleia2 | I'm not | 04:29 |
| lynorian | ^ | 04:29 |
| pleia2 | I can't make the time to flash and test every drive, I have a life and a job /o\ | 04:30 |
| DonkeyHotei | i'd imagine most lugs would pass out few enough of them that it wouldn't take undue time, and certainly less time than discs | 04:31 |
| nhaines | It takes about the same amount of time to burn a DVD and flash a USB drive. Except that flashing USB drives is far more manual unless you have a $15,000 duplicator. | 04:32 |
| nhaines | pleia2: try to talk your job into letting you reflash USB keys as a 20% project! | 04:33 |
| pleia2 | yeah, I didn't burn DVDs either ;) | 04:33 |
| nhaines | I would usually burn a max of 5 DVDs. ;) | 04:33 |
| pleia2 | nhaines: if we had 20% projects (we don't), I can think of about a million things I'd rather do :) | 04:33 |
| nhaines | pleia2: it can be a pilot test. :) | 04:33 |
| nhaines | The only reason I burn DVDs at all now is because I know a very nice old man who always says hi at SCALE and asks to be mailed DVDs because his bandwidth is too slow to download 32-bit ISOs. And even then he mostly mails blanks and SASEs to me, which is awfully nice. | 04:34 |
| pleia2 | I still do for my Lubuntu PPC mac | 04:41 |
| pleia2 | or if I'm doing ISO testing and for some reason the USB tools, partitioner and dd are misbehaving, but given all the options that's less common these days | 04:42 |
| lynorian | https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/download.html if you have problems booting usb for some reason this may be of use | 04:44 |
| darthrobot | Title: [Plop Boot Manager 5.0 - Download] | 04:44 |
| lynorian | think it is x86 assembler so it doesn't work on powerpc | 04:45 |
| pleia2 | it's usually a problem with creating them, not booting them (and my ppc mac doesn't have the *ability* to boot from usb) | 04:46 |
| lynorian | this lets you basically chainboot of the usbv | 04:46 |
| pleia2 | aha | 04:46 |
| DonkeyHotei | pleia2: it can boot from ieee1394 | 04:55 |
| nhaines | pleia2: I'm chatting with the Community Team about LoCo and community help, if you have comments or concerns. We're doing a hangout. | 18:07 |
| pleia2 | nhaines: thanks, I'd like to but my office is currently being occupied by someone fixing our printer, and then I have a work meeting | 18:22 |
| nhaines | pleia2: Oh, I was just going to pass along anything you had to mention. :) | 18:23 |
| pleia2 | oh, heh :) | 18:27 |
| pleia2 | not prepared to articulate specific problems right now | 18:27 |
| nhaines | pleia2: no worries! I should've given more notice. :) | 18:29 |
| nhaines | pleia2: work items for everyone! \o/ | 19:17 |
| nhaines | We've had positive results from the pilot test program, so we're going to be expanding Meetup.com sponsorship to any LoCo team who wants it. | 19:18 |
| pleia2 | lol | 19:18 |
| pleia2 | cool, will they fix billing? ;) still getting an error today | 19:18 |
| nhaines | pleia2: yes, Michael is working on that. ;) | 19:56 |
| pleia2 | great | 19:56 |
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