| <mrben> morning all | |
| <GazzaK> morning, is it, damnit | |
| <GazzaK> hey Seeker` | |
| <GazzaK> morning | |
| <Seeker`> mornin | |
| <snail> morning all. anyone else going to the google gig later in the week? | |
| <Seeker`> google gig? | |
| <snail> http://www.red-bean.com/ospowiki/LondonOpenSourceJam01 | |
| <snail> Seeker`: i don't really know much about it, other than that a friend invited me | |
| <popey> morning | |
| <Seeker`> lo loudmouthman | |
| <loudmouthman> morning | |
| <loudmouthman> Congrats on the news and digg posting there popey | |
| <popey> :) | |
| <popey> ta | |
| <loudmouthman> its interesting how many screencast howtos have popped out of the woodwork all of a sudden. | |
| <popey> there's quite a few about | |
| <popey> many focus on the easiest possible way to make them | |
| <loudmouthman> yes, I was thinking this. they are focussing on technical rather than content and presentation which is where youve set the bar differently | |
| <popey> although I am starting to wonder about the method I use :| | |
| <popey> some people want to use tools to create .flv videos, which we *could* then convert. | |
| <loudmouthman> how so ? | |
| <loudmouthman> ahhh . | |
| * GazzaK tickles loudmouthman | |
| * loudmouthman Grabs gazzaks hands and sits on them ... no wait a minute ! | |
| <snail> is there a url loudmouthma | |
| <snail> n? | |
| <loudmouthman> a url ? for popeys stuff.. hmmm | |
| <loudmouthman> hmm id post popeys wiki link in the topic if he doesmind or wants to do it himself ? | |
| <Seeker`> in qemu, if you start with the cdrom pointing at an image file (e.g. a.iso), is it possible to change it to b.iso while it is running | |
| <stdin> Seeker`: I think you can, Ctrl-Alt-2, eject [device], change [devie] [filename]. as i recall | |
| <popey> yes Seeker` you can switch to the monitor | |
| <Seeker`> k, thanks | |
| <Seeker`> is anyone else using beryl-svn? | |
| <Seeker`> ping GazzaK | |
| <GazzaK> Seeker`, me | |
| <GazzaK> Seeker`, ding | |
| <Seeker`> are you having problems moving windowS? | |
| <GazzaK> I did, not it works, dunno what I did to fix it | |
| <GazzaK> I clicked randomly in beryl manager | |
| <GazzaK> something to do with wobbly windows, clicked it a few times, then it worked | |
| <Seeker`> i disabled wobbly windows | |
| <Seeker`> and it still causes problems | |
| <Seeker`> hmm | |
| <Seeker`> i had to disable and reenable "move" | |
| <GazzaK> working now? | |
| <Seeker`> yeah | |
| <GazzaK> thats -svn for ya | |
| <GazzaK> it works okay mostly | |
| <GazzaK> I like the preview on hover (on the bottom toolbar) | |
| <Seeker`> yeah | |
| <Seeker`> i noticed that | |
| <GazzaK> thats so cool | |
| <Seeker`> although the option to change the preview size does'nt work | |
| <GazzaK> yep, found that too | |
| <GazzaK> all I do all day is click clicky click click | |
| <GazzaK> on the bottons, yay | |
| <GazzaK> yay, had a reply from B&H, re ready broken ciggies :p | |
| <GazzaK> If I send them the damaged products, they send me replacement packets :p | |
| <Seeker`> smoking is bad :P | |
| <Seeker`> due to the whole not being able to breathe thing | |
| <GazzaK> yeah | |
| <GazzaK> I know mum | |
| <Seeker`> no, i mean other people smoking makes me not being able to breathe | |
| <Seeker`> asthma = bad | |
| <GazzaK> Seeker`, I'm so stupid I smoke & have asthma | |
| * GazzaK pitys me | |
| <GazzaK> mind you, I have cut right down, with a view to giving up when I move house | |
| <Seeker`> lunchtime | |
| <twager> Anyone using Pan with Feisty ? | |
| <gord> stoopid monday... | |
| <Seeker`> back | |
| <Seeker`> lo jono | |
| <jono> hey | |
| <Seeker`> jono: mind if i PM you? | |
| <jono> Seeker`: in a bit, bit busy now | |
| <Seeker`> k | |
| <GazzaK> Seeker`, I told you, he doesn't do those sorts of things | |
| <GazzaK> not any more anyways | |
| <Seeker`> ... | |
| * GazzaK giggles | |
| * Seeker` prods GazzaK | |
| <GazzaK> ouch | |
| <GazzaK> all this prodding, i'll bruise | |
| <Seeker`> he | |
| <Seeker`> h | |
| <Seeker`> well, you are obviously feeling better :P | |
| <GazzaK> I feel kinda wasted | |
| <GazzaK> I doubt I should have come into work today | |
| <GazzaK> but I'd have been bored at home, might as well be bored at work instead | |
| <gord> at least if your at work you can complain about being at work, complaining is always fun | |
| <GazzaK> yeah, I like complaining | |
| <gord> we all do, a friend of mine came over here from new zealand once, when she went back I asked her what about us ukers she noticed most, it was how much we loved to complain about everything | |
| <X3N> it /is/ good fun | |
| <X3N> anyone got any public speaking tips ? | |
| <gord> don't do that 'imagine everyone else is naked' thing, it doesn't work, your either horrified or start to drool | |
| <X3N> yeah, and no one wants to see a tent | |
| <Seeker`> X3N: Dont mumble | |
| <X3N> ok | |
| <Seeker`> you need to try to speak clearly / loudly without shouting | |
| <X3N> off i go ! | |
| <Seeker`> X3N: And dont start swearing at everyone | |
| <gord> unless they are asking for it | |
| <snail> morning all. anyone else going to the google gig later in the week? http://www.red-bean.com/ospowiki/LondonOpenSourceJam01 | |
| <snail> jono: sounds like something you might go to | |
| <DaveMorris> X3N, if your using slides make them small and concise, to prompt your memory, rather than reading all from it | |
| <GazzaK> involve the audience, if you can, but do not pick on anyone | |
| <GazzaK> eye contact, if possible, without making you look like a maniac | |
| <GazzaK> oh, and smile, try to look happy and comfortable, even if you are panicking inside | |
| <gord> X3N left about 40 mins ago | |
| <GazzaK> try not to do anything weird people will remember, like "ummm" a lot, as they will just count the "umms" and not listen | |
| <GazzaK> oops | |
| <GazzaK> try to say things in a timely manner :p | |
| <DaveMorris> I only scanned the list for the exit message when I got back from the pub | |
| <GazzaK> me too, but no pub | |
| <gord> if I owned a pub I wouldn't let anyone in it as they would undoubtedly spoil it. id also win all the pool tournaments as a consequence of this which I feel is another plus | |
| <GazzaK> lol | |
| <GazzaK> you'd go bust though | |
| <gord> iruno, there's a pub round the corner that Iv only ever seen a maximum of like 3 people in there, I am running under the suspicion that pubs are secretly funded by the government to keep us all in a nice content mood so we don't rebel like we really want to | |
| <Seeker`> GAIM wont add someone with a yahoo address to my msn account :S | |
| <gord> booo Seeker`, bad msn user! | |
| <Seeker`> gord: Its what most of the people i want to stay in contact with use | |
| <DaveMorris> same here | |
| <DaveMorris> I've managed to get a few to migrate to Jabber | |
| <gord> I don't bother with instant messaging... people just "DING!" you ever 2 seconds... irc is much more sensible as you can just wander off and let the conversation continue without you and no one notices | |
| <Seeker`> most people i know dont use irc | |
| <gord> people I know off the net I don't talk to on the net... they don't know about not "lol"ing me and such and become about 200x more annoying | |
| <GazzaK> gord, lol | |
| <snail> open source job: http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=218097&trk= | |
| <Seeker`> lo LoudMouthMan | |
| <LoudMouthMan> hello Seeker` | |
| <DaveMorris> Hey LoudMouthMan | |
| <popey> moo | |
| <Seeker`> lo | |
| <jamesbrose> damn lycos domains! | |
| <jamesbrose> Been on hold for 5 minutes.. | |
| <jamesbrose> Hanging up in 5 | |
| <jamesbrose> 4, 3 | |
| <jamesbrose> 2 | |
| <jamesbrose> and they pick up.. | |
| <Seeker`> jamesbrose: what is wrong with it? | |
| <jamesbrose> There customer support.. | |
| <mmedland> hi everyone | |
| <Seeker`> hi | |
| <jamesbrose> Hey | |
| <mmedland> did anyone (that wasn't on last night) listen to radio4 last night? they were talking about open source | |
| <jamesbrose> oo | |
| <jamesbrose> Nope I didn't | |
| <jamesbrose> Open source software | |
| <jamesbrose> ? | |
| <DaveMorris> anywhere where we can listen to it now? | |
| <mmedland> I think you can listen again on the bcc website, ill try to find a link | |
| <jamesbrose> The "listen again" feature | |
| <jamesbrose> who's show was it? | |
| <jamesbrose> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/listenagain.shtml | |
| <jamesbrose> Somewhere here :P | |
| <DaveMorris> you know what the show was called? | |
| <mmedland_> I think it was at 9 | |
| <mmedland_> 9@30 rather | |
| <mmedland_> 9:30* | |
| <DaveMorris> 9:30 | |
| <jamesbrose> Woman's Hour? | |
| <jamesbrose> :P | |
| <mmedland_> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/inbusiness/inbusiness.shtml | |
| <mmedland_> that might be what they think of OSS ;-) | |
| <jamesbrose> Download Link : http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/radio4/inbusiness/inbusiness_20070111-2030_40_st.mp3 | |
| <DaveMorris> I hate the way they highlight the benefits that OSS is that they can edit the code themselves | |
| <DaveMorris> most users don't care about that at all | |
| <mmedland_> yeah, it is one hell of a benefit, but most user don't care | |
| *** mmedland_ is now known as mmedland | |
| <DaveMorris> grrr, his just referred us programmers as nerds. We are professionals! | |
| <Seeker`> DaveMorris: Are they mutually exclusive? | |
| <DaveMorris> well, when they refer to the people that are using the software as the 'nerds' in a company, then other people think its not for them as they aren't a nerd | |
| <Seeker`> grr, having more problems with Vodafone | |
| <Seeker`> wow, they sorted that quickly | |
| <X3N> well.. my presentation went down the pooper | |
| <Seeker`> X3N: What went wrong? | |
| <Seeker`> X3N: Also, did you solve that string replacement problem? | |
| <X3N> well first problem was that the project secondary input wasn't working so i couldn't link up my lappy to it | |
| <X3N> so i converted my openoffice presentation to a powerpoint format | |
| <X3N> and eventually put it on usb, for some reason nautlius was having an off day and kept messing up | |
| <X3N> then when i tried running it on the windows computer which wasa linked to the projected powerpoint crashed spectacually | |
| <X3N> I just stumbled through the rest by reading out my notes | |
| <Seeker`> :( | |
| <Seeker`> not really your fault then | |
| <Seeker`> did you solve the string replacemnt problem? | |
| <X3N> not really | |
| <X3N> i did it using tokens | |
| <X3N> split up the string into words then put it back together with a space between each | |
| <Seeker`> fair enough | |
| <X3N> it seems to work, but it'a not very useful for the other tasks that we have to do, like counting the number of words | |
| <Seeker`> thats probably a better way of doing it than i suggested | |
| <X3N> and finding the longest word | |
| <X3N> I'm finding tokens very hard to work with | |
| <X3N> they don't really exist properly | |
| <Seeker`> number of words should be simple given the input string | |
| <Seeker`> take all of the double spaces out | |
| <X3N> I think i can get the length of all the words, but i'm not really sure how i would say which is the largest result | |
| <X3N> without doing an if statement for each word | |
| <Seeker`> then use a combination of find and substring to count the number of words | |
| <Seeker`> X3N: for loop? | |
| <X3N> what like ? | |
| <Seeker`> if you can create an array of the words | |
| <Seeker`> i'm heading back home now, but i can discuss it with you when i get bacj | |
| <X3N> cool | |
| <X3N> catch you later then | |
| <Seeker`> seeya | |
| <DaveMorris> l8rs | |
| <jamesbrose> Popey? | |
| <popey> moo | |
| <jamesbrose> How would I add my own deb to apt-mirror? | |
| <popey> how do you mean? | |
| <popey> you want to mirror a repository of your choosing? | |
| <popey> edit /etc/apt/mirror.list | |
| <jamesbrose> Well, ive got a deb that isnt in any repo | |
| <jamesbrose> and I want to add it to the mirror | |
| <X3N> you could talk to a packages maintainer | |
| <X3N> or repisitory maintainer if they exist | |
| <popey> jamesbrose: in debian or ubuntu? | |
| <popey> for ubuntu your best bet is getting it into Universe | |
| <popey> speak to the Masters Of The Universe - #ubuntu-motu I think | |
| <popey> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Packages/New/HowTo | |
| <jamesbrose> Ive already made the package | |
| <Seeker`> lo | |
| <Seeker`> ping X3N | |
| <tsmithe> hiho | |
| <popey> jamesbrose: yes, but MOTU can get it into the repo | |
| <jamesbrose> limewire? | |
| <popey> ahh | |
| <popey> why not use frostwire? | |
| <tsmithe> gtk-gnutella ftw! | |
| <GazzaK> tsmithe, FTW = so so so sad | |
| <tsmithe> :P | |
| * tsmithe knows | |
| <jamesbrose> haha | |
| <GazzaK> don't make me regret donating tsmithe | |
| <tsmithe> sorry | |
| <tsmithe> you won't | |
| <tsmithe> you sure you don't want an email - just so you don't regret it :P | |
| <GazzaK> you just make sure to get to go okay. | |
| * tsmithe is sure | |
| <mmedland> does anyone know how to change a photo's date? | |
| <mmedland> i've got loads with the wrong date for some reason | |
| <mdke> mmedland: fspot can do it, iirc | |
| <mmedland> mdke: I've been trying to find a tool to do it on there but I can't find one | |
| <mdke> mmedland: it's in Edit->Adjust Time | |
| <mdke> somewhat unsurprisingly :) | |
| <mmedland> oh | |
| <mmedland> oops :P | |
| * mmedland starts to go red | |
| <littletank> Hello, just dropped in for a listen | |
| <GazzaK> woohoo | |
| * GazzaK drives the littletank weeeeeeeee | |
| <GazzaK> is that like a 2cv tank? | |
| <GazzaK> hello littletank, don't mind me, i'm mad | |
| <littletank> Yes, it belonged to Gruber | |
| <littletank> Gruber called it his little tenk | |
| <littletank> I am able to be a little mad as well | |
| <GazzaK> cool | |
| * Seeker` suggests that it may be best to ignore GazzaK, especially if you value your sanity | |
| <littletank> Thanks | |
| <Seeker`> :P | |
| * Seeker` pats GazzaK on the head | |
| <GazzaK> heeheheee | |
| <littletank> nothing exciting happening I'll go and watch tele | |
| <tsmithe> anyone here interested in the software in schools situation? | |
| <mdke> yes | |
| <mmedland> yup | |
| <popey> tsmithe: yes | |
| <tsmithe> well | |
| <tsmithe> hmm | |
| <X3N> moo | |
| <tsmithe> after some discussion on #schoolforge-uk, i've decided to remove the emails with my schools, as they may be seen to be slanderous | |
| <popey> heh | |
| <popey> yeah, they 404 now :) | |
| <tsmithe> which i think is bollocks | |
| <tsmithe> but meh | |
| <popey> careful | |
| <tsmithe> yeah | |
| <tsmithe> that's why i removed them | |
| <tsmithe> (before they were synced by planet ubuntu-uk) | |
| <popey> did you say bad things about your school then? | |
| <tsmithe> not really | |
| <tsmithe> not at all | |
| <X3N> we all want to know now | |
| <tsmithe> i just posted the communications i got | |
| <tsmithe> which were, as i said on the page, "terse" (and not only that) | |
| <X3N> hmm not exactly the scandal of the year | |
| <jamesbrose> How can can I change the "The programs included with the Ubuntu system are free software;" when I login via ssh? | |
| <jamesbrose> I forgot the file :P | |
| <popey> /etc/motd | |
| <X3N> you can set the banner file to anything you want in the sshd_config also | |
| <GazzaK> who wants a giggle? | |
| * popey points at GazzaK and giggles | |
| <GazzaK> popey, http://www.kearley.net/images/redhair.jpg | |
| <GazzaK> there, that'll make you laugh | |
| <mmedland> chortle chortle | |
| <X3N> probably couldn't look any more camp | |
| <mmedland> nice mazda by the way, I havn't seen your site before | |
| <mdke> bling! | |
| <GazzaK> mmedland, thanks | |
| <frederific> evening all | |
| <X3N> why did you get rid of the mini GazzaK :( | |
| <GazzaK> X3N, I was bored of it | |
| <GazzaK> for some reason the hairdresser car has kept my interest | |
| * popey has seen this picture before | |
| <mmedland> GazzaK: pink hair and the red convertible mazda, that must look quite something | |
| <mmedland> :) | |
| <GazzaK> mmedland, it was solid red, took AGES to grow out | |
| <mmedland> GazzaK: ouch, unlucky. Did you lose a bet? | |
| <GazzaK> it was red nose day | |
| <mmedland> that makes sense | |
| <mmedland> anyhow, I'm off now | |
| <GazzaK> and I was given permanent hair dye, arse | |
| <mmedland> see you nice people tomorrow | |
| <X3N> GazzaK: have you moved home then | |
| <GazzaK> not yet | |
| <X3N> oh | |
| * GazzaK bashes tsmithe with the cluebat for /notice'ing | |
| <X3N> sounds very complicated | |
| <GazzaK> it's very upsetting | |
| <GazzaK> I want to be in there now | |
| <tsmithe> @lart GazzaK for noticing :P | |
| * Ubugtu bites GazzaK for noticing :P | |
| <GazzaK> hehe | |
| <tsmithe> wow - i just got pinged in two channels simultaneously | |
| <mdke> tsmithe: a cruel joke | |
| <tsmithe> nah! actually they were serious... i think... | |
| <tsmithe> although one was: "<PriceChild> grubsgonewild, that was tsmithe and i've muted him" | |
| <tsmithe> the other was serious (-motu) | |
| *** alecjw is now known as a | |
| *** tsmithe is now known as b | |
| <popey> oh ffs | |
| <popey> not that again | |
| *** b is now known as TheGods | |
| <popey> lsmod | |
| <popey> gah | |
| <GazzaK> we need a #ubuntu-uk-nursery | |
| *** a is now known as alecjw | |
| <GazzaK> popey, forward them to that channel :p | |
| *** TheGods is now known as tsmithe | |
| <alefteris> hello everyone! I'm trying to make a logo for the greek loco team based on yours :) | |
| <alefteris> but i cant find out what font you used for the "local community team" text | |
| <alefteris> end the ubuntu font "m" looks so bad ;) | |
| <alefteris> anyone knows? | |
| <GazzaK> erm | |
| <GazzaK> alefteris, I cannot remember who did the graphic now | |
| <andy101> have you tried google? http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=logo+ubuntu-uk+site%3Alists.ubuntu.com | |
| <dsas> it was schwuk I think | |
| <dsas> hmm yeah it was. Dave Murphy | |
| <dsas> alefteris: ^^ | |
| <alefteris> dsas, hi | |
| <frederific> RE: BBC and open formats, does anyone think its worth me opening one of those no10 epetition thingummys? | |
| <frederific> or is t'BBC outside of tony's jurisdiction? | |
| <alefteris> dsas, thanks, i send him an email | |
| <popey> hahahaah | |
| <popey> frederific: I don't have any faith that those petitions do anything at all | |
| <frederific> thought as much | |
| * dsas thinks they go to /dev/null | |
| <frederific> damn Xchat, why is the kbd shortcut for quit the same as CUT is on every other piece of software on earth? | |
| <tsmithe> i know!!! | |
| <tsmithe> it's evil!!! | |
| <dsas> xchat-gnome is much nicer | |
| <GazzaK> haha | |
| <frederific> BTW, if anyone listens to/downloads the BBC world service "Digital Planet" podcast, then yes, the Freddie Ruddick who emailed in to complain, really is me | |
| <popey> heh | |
| <andy101> haven't listened to the latest one yet | |
| <popey> ditto | |
| <frederific> new lugradio too, that's slightly more important | |
| <mdke> frederific: what did you complain about? | |
| <frederific> last week their techy guy said MP3 was "about as open as you can get" | |
| <mdke> ewww | |
| <mdke> did they apologise? | |
| <frederific> fussy I know, but apparently he meant "Non-DRM" | |
| <frederific> kind of, more made me sound like a nit-picking bassard | |
| <frederific> still, every bit of exposure helps I guess | |
| <andy101> just downloaded a report from a government website, on one of its titled pages it has 'printed on 75% recycled paper', how exactly do they know what paper I am printing it on? lol | |
| <frederific> |0| | |
| <popey> they all say that | |
| <GazzaK> both joining at the same time, ummm, me thinks something is going on there :p | |
| <Seeker`> huh? | |
| <GazzaK> Seeker`, you and jono joined at the same time | |
| <jono> heya | |
| <GazzaK> hey jono | |
| <Seeker`> lo jono | |
| <jono> hows things folks? | |
| <GazzaK> got flu :'( | |
| <GazzaK> MAN FLU | |
| <GazzaK> close to death here | |
| <GazzaK> last legs | |
| <tsmithe> poor GazzaK | |
| <GazzaK> sooooo weak | |
| <tsmithe> when i get back from venezuela, i'll buy you some more | |
| <Seeker`> jono never talk to me :P | |
| <GazzaK> so very very weak | |
| <jono> Seeker`: eh? | |
| <Seeker`> jono: just joking | |
| <dsas> He never talks to me either :( | |
| <jono> Seeker`: :) | |
| <jono> dsas: screw you hippy :) | |
| <GazzaK> he talks to me all the time, maybe you need the magic touch | |
| * GazzaK touches jono | |
| * dsas watches jono catch the flu | |
| <tsmithe> gesundheit | |
| * GazzaK watches jono run like a looney down the road | |
| <jono> heh | |
| <jono> crazy bastards | |
| * jono has a talk in an hour or so | |
| <GazzaK> jono, on what? | |
| <GazzaK> anything interesting? or booring as hell | |
| <jono> Jokosher | |
| <tsmithe> ooh | |
| <jono> and my main talk is Thursday | |
| <dsas> gnome.conf.au is it not? | |
| <jono> dsas: yep | |
| <jono> its being videod too | |
| <jono> so may make it online sometime | |
| <dsas> Like the lugradio videos? ;) | |
| <GazzaK> jono, dye you're hair red? | |
| <jono> dsas: hah, may make it online as we have nothing to do with it ;) | |
| <jono> GazzaK: me? nope | |
| <GazzaK> dare ya | |
| <jono> heh | |
| <GazzaK> chicken? | |
| <jono> I might do | |
| <jono> yes | |
| <jono> :P | |
| <GazzaK> go on, it'll be so funny | |
| <GazzaK> red hair, blue beard | |
| <GazzaK> *beard* | |
| <GazzaK> you'll look like a smurf | |
| <GazzaK> it'll be grrrrrreat | |
| <GazzaK> jono, are you in Oz now? | |
| <jono> GazzaK: yep | |
| <GazzaK> is it nice and HOT there, as it is damn cold here | |
| <tsmithe> We're off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz | |
| <jono> sat in Chris Blizzard's keynote right now | |
| <GazzaK> /mute tsmithe | |
| <jono> it is hot here :) | |
| <GazzaK> tshirt weather? | |
| <jono> yes | |
| <tsmithe> awh | |
| <jono> t-shirt and shorts :) | |
| <GazzaK> :'( that would make my flu vanish | |
| <jono> and cool hat weather | |
| <GazzaK> any hot aussies? | |
| <jono> GazzaK: lots :) | |
| <GazzaK> wooooo | |
| <GazzaK> jealous | |
| <GazzaK> take pictures of some cute ones for me please | |
| <mdke> *female* cute ones | |
| <Seeker`> jono: is it ok if i PM you now | |
| <GazzaK> well, take pictures of both then, boys for me, girls for mdke | |
| <jono> Seeker`: shoot :) | |
| <tito_linux> hi | |
| <tito_linux> Good news! | |
| <frederific> hello | |
| <tito_linux> System76 are shipping to the UK later this year | |
| <dsas> Won't that be expensive? | |
| <tito_linux> No, they will have a UK depot | |
| <dsas> cool. | |
| * dsas goes to look at their range | |
| <frederific> lovely! | |
| <tito_linux> I know, I can barely wait | |
| <tito_linux> Does anyone know how to change the GNOME desktop icons to run on a single click? | |
| <frederific> tito_linux: do you have a link to the source of the sys76 story? | |
| <dsas> tito_linux: Sure | |
| <dsas> tito_linux: In nautilus go to edit->preferences then choose the "behaviour" tab | |
| <dsas> tito_linux: You still have to double click in some things - such as the gtk file selector | |
| <tito_linux> the person in charge of the system76 part of the forum posted it in a topic I started. | |
| <tito_linux> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=338539 | |
| <tito_linux> Thanks dsas | |
| <dsas> tito_linux: NP. I'm a single click lover myself | |
| <tito_linux> Thats much better, it's all I missed from my KDE days | |
| <tito_linux> That and the bouncing icon | |
| <dsas> bouncing icon? | |
| <frederific> tito_linux: Thanks for mentioning the sys76 thing, I'm gonna be in a position to buy a lapto for college later in the year | |
| <tito_linux> Yeah, when you activate an application in KDE, while it is loading a small version of the applications icon bounces around the cursor | |
| <frederific> dsas: icon of the programme ur loading buoncing on ur cursor instead of the hourglass/spinny thing | |
| <tito_linux> frederific: No problem, I'm in a position to buy one now. I keep emailing them saying I will pay double. | |
| <dsas> ah, ok. | |
| <frederific> But then I won't have the fun of dragging the retail price of vista out of Dell... | |
| <tito_linux> That was what I was thinking. | |
| <tito_linux> But | |
| <tito_linux> Its even better | |
| <tito_linux> Because when you do that it is Dell that pay the money, Microsoft don't lose a penny. This way it directly supports a Linux economy and Microsoft don't get anything. | |
| <frederific> ah, but if enough do it, Dell will get annoyed at MS and stop using them...Won't they? | |
| <frederific> hahaha | |
| <tito_linux> Or, Dell will see they are losing a crucial market if enough buy a sys76. | |
| <tito_linux> Whoa, that made no sense! | |
| <tito_linux> You get the gist! | |
| <frederific> yeah | |
| <frederific> :O built-in webcam?!? | |
| <frederific> WORKING! | |
| <tito_linux> Yup, 100% supported | |
| <tito_linux> Out of the box! | |
| <frederific> do you know if that's them installing extra drivers though? If I could just stick in any edgy CD and have it work, I'd be in love... | |
| <tito_linux> They have their own software source, which has all of the drivers for their laptops frequently updated. | |
| <frederific> oh, good | |
| <tito_linux> It might be supported straight off the CD, you get a driver CD anyway. | |
| <frederific> wow, I MUST have one | |
| <tito_linux> They encourage upgrading when new Ubuntu's come out too. I know, I spent years scouring hardware lists for something compatable but this will change all of that! | |
| <dsas> Does this mean the driver isn't open source? | |
| <tito_linux> I'm not sure, I think it is an OSS driver. They have Nvidia crds so it certainly ins't a 100% OSS system | |
| <dsas> Do they install the non-free driver by default? | |
| <tito_linux> The statement they give is "System 76 constantly improves the systems it delivers much in the same manner that open source software is constantly improved by its users.". It is qite vague. | |
| <tito_linux> I imaging they would supply the proprietary driver on CD | |
| <tito_linux> *Imagine | |
| <dsas> as long as they don't preinstall it I don't mind. | |
| <tito_linux> I wouldn't mind, I would only install it anyway | |
| <andy101> wow, even the 'value' laptop has core 2 duo in it | |
| <tito_linux> But.., Didn't ATI release an OSS driver for their newest card which has direct-3d support? | |
| <frederific> I know, it all seems a bit too good to be true tbh | |
| <frederific> (that was @andy101 btw) | |
| <dsas> noe, the drivers aren't proprietary | |
| <tito_linux> Aren't they? | |
| <dsas> well, the graphics ones aren't | |
| <dsas> drivers are for sound, microphone, card reader | |
| <tito_linux> webcam? | |
| <dsas> doesn't mention it. presumably it's one that has a driver shipped by ubuntu anyway | |
| <dsas> http://knowledge76.com/index.php/System76_Driver | |
| <tito_linux> Fingerprint reader :D | |
| * dsas wants a laptop which means he doesn't have to carry around a heavy cd drive | |
| <dsas> like my current one :) | |
| * frederific wants system76 to be in the UK NOW | |
| <tito_linux> They are all GPL drivers | |
| <dsas> oh, http://knowledge76.com/index.php/Cameras | |
| * andy101 needs sleep, night all | |
| <dsas> night andy101 |
