[04:21] <nhaines> pleia2: ooh, the Ubuntu USB keys are cute!  :)
[04:22] <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!"
[04:23] <DonkeyHotei> do they have 16.04.1?
[04:23] <lynorian> DonkeyHotei, no the release canidate is not out yet and still being tested
[04:24] <lynorian> but release team said they will probably respin everything tommorow
[04:24] <DonkeyHotei> a bit early for the keys to ship, then
[04:25] <lynorian> DonkeyHotei, yes the iso is not quite realeased yet
[04:27] <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
[04:28] <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?
[04:29] <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> ^
[04:30] <pleia2> I can't make the time to flash and test every drive, I have a life and a job /o\
[04:31] <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
[04:32] <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.
[04:33] <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.  :)
[04:34] <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.
[04:41] <pleia2> I still do for my Lubuntu PPC mac
[04:42] <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
[04:44] <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]
[04:45] <lynorian> think it is x86 assembler so it doesn't work on powerpc
[04:46] <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
[04:55] <DonkeyHotei> pleia2: it can boot from ieee1394
[18:07] <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.
[18:22] <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
[18:23] <nhaines> pleia2: Oh, I was just going to pass along anything you had to mention.  :)
[18:27] <pleia2> oh, heh :)
[18:27] <pleia2> not prepared to articulate specific problems right now
[18:29] <nhaines> pleia2: no worries!  I should've given more notice.  :)
[19:17] <nhaines> pleia2: work items for everyone!  \o/
[19:18] <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
[19:56] <nhaines> pleia2: yes, Michael is working on that.  ;)
[19:56] <pleia2> great