| <mylesbraithwaite> drupal is pissing me off i think i am going to switch to a django blog like lophyte | |
| <lophyte> well I figured most of my Ubuntu ramblings will be related to Toronto activities | |
| <lophyte> and that's planet worthy imo | |
| <tonyyarusso> Be prepared for massive traffic. I made a "new blog up and running" post and got 225 unique visits first day :0 | |
| <lophyte> haha | |
| <tonyyarusso> mylesbraithwaite: I'm on WordPress myself | |
| <lophyte> http://dave-sullivan.com/ | |
| <lophyte> my new blog | |
| * rexbron wants to use up all that wasted bandwidth | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> i use to like wordpress but i like to make one myself | |
| <rexbron> I do not payfor it to see it go by | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> lophyte: does you blog have comments and tags capabilites? | |
| <lophyte> comments yes, no tags | |
| <lophyte> Django has a built in comment system | |
| <tonyyarusso> no tags? | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> really maybe i will switch | |
| <lophyte> I can implement tags if I want.. I just haven't bothered | |
| <tonyyarusso> ah | |
| <lophyte> I've never used tags before actually | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> i only would use it the technoratic (wrong spelling) | |
| <lophyte> ugh, my net is sluggish | |
| <lophyte> SWEET | |
| <lophyte> djp is going to buy a battery for Tux | |
| <lophyte> and he has connections at CTV to get us a news crew | |
| <tonyyarusso> YAAAAY | |
| <Skapi_> :D | |
| <tonyyarusso> lophyte: Make sure we all know the final details whenever things are really solid. | |
| <tonyyarusso> And pictures pictures pictures | |
| <lophyte> yup | |
| <lophyte> nice! | |
| <lophyte> and djp has a video shooter of our own for documenting purposes | |
| <lophyte> this is going to be so awesome | |
| <tonyyarusso> indeedy | |
| <tonyyarusso> You might want to tell everyone to start their burners now. | |
| <lophyte> good call | |
| <Burgwork> lophyte: news crew means you have to shave and look presentable | |
| <Burgwork> you should also plan what you are going to say and test it out on somebody | |
| <lophyte> I was going to let djp do the talking, lol | |
| <rexbron> lophyte: is djp shooting, or someone else? | |
| <lophyte> someone else | |
| * rexbron is a film production major and would hope he could help as well | |
| <rexbron> darn | |
| <rexbron> I lack equipment | |
| <lophyte> there isn't much helping involved.. just a camera :P | |
| <rexbron> I disagree sir | |
| <rexbron> there is much to do, like puting out a finnished product | |
| <lophyte> oh, meh | |
| <rexbron> (in ogg theora | |
| <lophyte> I'm focused on what's going on friday afternoon, not what's happening afterward ;) | |
| <johanbr> CTV news crew doing a tech interview... Amber MacArthur? | |
| <lophyte> I dunno the details | |
| <lophyte> I just know djp has connections in the media | |
| <lophyte> and mentioned a "pet ctv news crew" | |
| <Burgwork> hmm, 700 to fly out | |
| <Burgwork> don't think I come | |
| <lophyte> aww :( | |
| <lophyte> would be great to have you here, hehe | |
| <lophyte> I re | |
| <lophyte> 18:15:59 | |
| <lophyte> David J Patrick | |
| <lophyte> stand by | |
| <lophyte> | |
| <lophyte> UGH | |
| <lophyte> sorry | |
| <lophyte> did I mention I hate ctrl+insert | |
| <lophyte> I don't even know why that was on the clipboard | |
| <lophyte> I really wish we had CDs though | |
| <tonyyarusso> lophyte: Be prepared for the news crews to walk up to any one of you, just in case | |
| <tonyyarusso> lophyte: what was the stand by thing? | |
| <tonyyarusso> errrr | |
| <tonyyarusso> lophyte: Your Planet config entry or your RSS feed is borked | |
| <lophyte> how is it borked? | |
| <lophyte> oh, hm. | |
| <lophyte> bug in my code | |
| <lophyte> fixed. | |
| * lophyte needs a hackergotchi | |
| <lophyte> tonyyarusso: the stand by thing -- I had my entire Gtalk conversation with djp copied to the clipboard for some reason | |
| <lophyte> and I hit ctrl+insert by accident | |
| <Torlos> bonjour | |
| <lophyte> hello | |
| <Torlos> hello | |
| <Torlos> I have a problem with changing resolution can you help me ? | |
| <lophyte> I can try | |
| <Torlos> ok thank | |
| <Torlos> my problem : a the first minutes of the gnome session i can change the resolution | |
| <Torlos> but after a few minutes i don't can | |
| <Torlos> i have this probleme on 2 PC | |
| <lophyte> can you change it by holding Ctrl and Alt, and pressing + or -? | |
| <Torlos> no and xrandr have no effect | |
| <Torlos> nvidia-setting don't work and there is not error message | |
| <lophyte> do you have the nvidia-glx package installed? | |
| <Torlos> yes | |
| <lophyte> did it work before you installed that package? | |
| <Torlos> i don't no there is 4 month i have install this package but i have not test changing display very | |
| <Torlos> but now i have got a screen which can rotate for write repport and the rotation is blocked with the resolution | |
| <Torlos> excuse me for my english! | |
| <Torlos> have you this problem because 2 pc here have this | |
| <Torlos> ? | |
| <lophyte> I'm not sure if I can help you.. I haven't had any problems with this | |
| <lophyte> what video card do you have? are they the same? | |
| <Torlos> no the same | |
| <Torlos> a is Geforce M/Mx400 | |
| <Torlos> [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] | |
| <Torlos> and the second pc have got a radeon 9700 pro | |
| <lophyte> I haven't had any problems like that before | |
| <Torlos> oki may be it is an application whihc block it | |
| <lophyte> have you tried #ubuntu-fr or #ubuntu-qc? they might be able to help you, and in French too | |
| <Torlos> lol yes i have tried ubuntu-fr but no reponse and there is very a lot of personn so it is difficult to ask question | |
| <Torlos> but wath is ubuntu-qc ? | |
| <Torlos> quebec? | |
| <lophyte> yes | |
| <Torlos> oki very thank for your help | |
| <lophyte> I'm sorry I couldn't help you | |
| <Torlos> and good continuation | |
| <Torlos> you have read my question and write what you know, it is good :-) | |
| <lophyte> :) | |
| <lophyte> oi... I'm totally screwing up planet. | |
| <aanderse> so does anyone know where i can find extremely rare dvds in canada? | |
| <aanderse> ive looked all over and cant find what im looking for | |
| <MagicFab> gotta love it | |
| <MagicFab> when someone shows up, asks a bunch of questions, and quits *a minute later*. | |
| <aanderse> hm? | |
| <lophyte> such as? | |
| <MagicFab> Torlos | |
| <MagicFab> nevermind | |
| <MagicFab> but thanks for the referral :) | |
| <lophyte> lol | |
| <wylie348> Hello All | |
| <wylie348> anyone here? | |
| <ryanakca> MagicFab: or like that ^ :P | |
| <MagicFab> yes | |
| <MagicFab> what can I do 4 u | |
| <ryanakca> for me? | |
| * ryanakca hands MagicFab his 40 page long TODO list | |
| * ryanakca hands MagicFab the bill for the laptop he wants | |
| * ryanakca hands MagicFab the bill for the books he wants... and throws in his homework as an added bonus :) | |
| <ryanakca> Thanks :) | |
| <ryanakca> Are you guys heading down to Young & Dundas square tommorow? | |
| <MagicFab> not me... I'm in Montreal :) | |
| <ryanakca> oh yeah, you work for canonical, right? | |
| <ryanakca> are those System76 laptops any good? | |
| <ryanakca> rofl... 404 when creating an account on blogger: https://www.google.com/accounts/CheckCookie?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fbeta.blogger.com%2Floginz%3Fd%3D%252Fnew-account.do&service=blogger&chtml=LoginDoneHtml&skipvpage=true&naui=8 | |
| <MagicFab> yes and yes | |
| <tonyyarusso> lophyte: I can help you make a hackergotchi | |
| <tonyyarusso> Yay Obama...http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/01/31/obama-freezes-fox-out-of-_n_40081.html | |
| <ryanakca> hmm... fourth time someone asks me if they should get vista... | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> lophyte: do we have any cds for fridays event? | |
| <ryanakca> mylesbraithwaite: if you feel like driving to kingston... I have some... | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> ryanakca: sorry i don't have a car | |
| <ryanakca> mylesbraithwaite: nor do I... :) | |
| <tonyyarusso> I have a car, but I don't think I'm going to drive to Kingston - Toronto - back just for some CDs ;) | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> tonyyarusso are you going? | |
| <tonyyarusso> mylesbraithwaite: No :( | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> i have the cds but no burner | |
| <tonyyarusso> I have a burner and no way to get CDs to you | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> ya i was hoping that dave might help | |
| <lophyte> I have no CDs | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> lophyte do you have a burner? | |
| <lophyte> I have a few blanks | |
| <lophyte> and yes I have an external burner | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> i have about 100 cds | |
| <lophyte> blanks? | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> ya | |
| <lophyte> how many are your willing to donate? | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> i think i have some 6.06 at my office only 20 or so | |
| <lophyte> are you* | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> all of them | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> i was hoping that dave at the linuxcaffe would let me use his burning computer | |
| <lophyte> I can bring my external drive to the caffe on friday and spend all morning/afternoon burning | |
| <tonyyarusso> If I burned now, could Canada Post get them there in a day? | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> okay i am going tommorow around 3:00pm to the linuxcaffe | |
| <lophyte> ah, won't be there tomorrow | |
| <lophyte> tomorrow morning until 12'ish | |
| <lophyte> and then I'll probably be there all day friday and head over to yonge/dundas with david | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> i have a class at 1pm of friday | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> wait my teacher canceld the class | |
| <tonyyarusso> I have a wicked fast burner, so I'd be limited only by how fast we thought was safe for install disks. 16x seems about right for that. | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> i could also get a burner form work | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> external | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> do you think dave would let us use his burning computer? | |
| <tonyyarusso> Probably? Anyone have his number? | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> http://linuxcaffe.ca/contact | |
| <ryanakca> umm... yeah... it's in the signature of all the email he sends | |
| <lophyte> lol | |
| <lophyte> mylesbraithwaite: I'll ask | |
| <ryanakca> tonyyarusso: /msg 'd it to you :) | |
| <tonyyarusso> mylesbraithwaite: lophyte: 'k, we've established we have contact means for him - one of you want to call about using the burner? | |
| <lophyte> I've got him on Gtalk | |
| <lophyte> prodding him at the moment | |
| <lophyte> I doubt anyoen will answer at the caffe | |
| <lophyte> give him a call in the morning | |
| <lophyte> or even better | |
| <lophyte> I'll ask him when I'm there | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> lophyte are you going to be there tommorow | |
| <lophyte> I'm at the caffe from 10-12 tomorrow | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> oh to bad I will be there at 3 do you think i could drop off some cd's tommorow | |
| <lophyte> if you wanna drop off blanks, go for it.. I'll be tehre all day friday, so I can do some mass burning | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> i sould be there around 10 on friday to | |
| <lophyte> cool | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> do you think we could burn 100 cds | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> should we also post on upcoming ect? | |
| <lophyte> well | |
| <lophyte> a CD takes what.. | |
| <lophyte> like 5 minutes at 16x? | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> is your drive firewire or usb | |
| <lophyte> usb | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> maybe 10 | |
| <ryanakca> heh... takes 20 here :) | |
| <ryanakca> but then, it probably burns at 4x | |
| <lophyte> we could knock 'em off twice as fast if we had two burners going | |
| * ryanakca looks for some Ubuntu posters he can print off and pin up at his school | |
| <ryanakca> Do they have any at linux caffe? | |
| <lophyte> burners or posters? | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> dave has an owsom burning computer | |
| <ryanakca> posters | |
| <lophyte> the only poster he has is the one I sold to him | |
| <lophyte> which I got from jenda from ubuntu-marketing | |
| <ryanakca> lol | |
| * ryanakca asks | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> lophyte: should we get some tlug people to come to | |
| <lophyte> get whoever wants to come | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> okay i am going to post something on trug TorRor and tlug | |
| <lophyte> though maybe we should go earlier than 4 | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> it opens at 10m | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> 10am | |
| <lophyte> I was thinking like 2 or 3 | |
| <lophyte> 10am is too early, we still need to prep | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> i think three would be best | |
| <lophyte> we need to come up with a document to hand out, and print it out | |
| <lophyte> any suggestions? | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> what about on saturday | |
| <lophyte> I think more people will be there on friday | |
| <ryanakca> at what time do they close? | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> http://www.microsoft.com/canada/wow/icehouse.mspx | |
| <ryanakca> I'd try to get there about 3 hours before closing... | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> The Microsoft Digital Ice House is open Tuesday, January 30 - Saturday, February 3, 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. | |
| <ryanakca> 7:00PM.. 3 gives you what... 4 hours? | |
| <ryanakca> ample time :) | |
| <lophyte> mylesbraithwaite: djp says you're welcome to drop off CD-Rs and/or use the burning machine at the caffe | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> great we will be burning for howrs | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> do you think our laptops will work in the cold? | |
| <lophyte> read Jane's post | |
| <lophyte> Here's the deal, all of their computers and laptops are running just | |
| <lophyte> fine inside the ice house, it might be a degree or two warmer inside but | |
| <lophyte> not really. Most of their machines including the plasma TVs seems fine. | |
| <lophyte> (temp outside today is around -6 degrees) I have a feeling our laptops | |
| <lophyte> will be fine. | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> apple tells me: Operating temperature: 10? to 35? C (50? to 95? F) | |
| <tonyyarusso> mylesbraithwaite: you need 10 and 35 converted or what? | |
| <tonyyarusso> Oh, no. | |
| <tonyyarusso> degree symbol changed to ? | |
| <lophyte> apple shmapple | |
| <lophyte> I'm going for it | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> ya my computer runs a tempreature of 50 c | |
| <ryanakca> lol | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> lophyte: if it is okay i referenced you blog http://mylesbraithwaite.com/drupal/blog/myles/because_microsoft_only_releases_a_new_os_every_five_years | |
| <tonyyarusso> wonder what mine's doing these days | |
| <tonyyarusso> Battery 1: charged, 100% | |
| <tonyyarusso> Thermal 1: ok, 49.0 degrees C | |
| <tonyyarusso> AC Adapter 1: on-line | |
| <ryanakca> if they get cold... waste battery and run an infinite loop in python :P | |
| <tonyyarusso> wow - not bad | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> lophyte: i could bring my old apple laptop but we would need a monitor | |
| <lophyte> battery life decreases in the cold anyway | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> we will also need a camera | |
| <ryanakca> yes... I want pictures :) | |
| <lophyte> djp has a video camera | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> awsome | |
| * rexbron breaths a sigh of releif as his 3000 word research essay is done | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> good then rexbron could come | |
| <rexbron> also, having in total over 100 tabs open owns my computer | |
| <rexbron> mylesbraithwaite: I should be able to me there | |
| <lophyte> my friend from waterloo is joining our battle | |
| <tonyyarusso> cool | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> what about some dvd images | |
| <lophyte> I don't exactly wanna burn off a bunch of dvds | |
| <tonyyarusso> Those are expensive | |
| <lophyte> indeed. | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> we are going to do 6.06 right | |
| <tonyyarusso> probably wise | |
| <lophyte> yup | |
| <holycow> hello fellow canucks | |
| <tonyyarusso> hey holycow | |
| <holycow> i realise most of yo uare in #ubuntu but who knows i might get lucky with a q :) | |
| <tonyyarusso> I'm certainly not watching #ubuntu closely | |
| <holycow> anyone here familiar with sudo under dapper? i'm having a hell of a time giving users sudo access to time-admin and network-admin | |
| <tonyyarusso> what are you trying? | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> /etc/sudoers | |
| <tonyyarusso> edit it only with visudo though | |
| <holycow> i just need to give restricted users sudo access to time-admin and network-admin | |
| <holycow> on workstations they really need access to that but not full sudo priviledges | |
| <holycow> yeah i have | |
| <holycow> nothing works | |
| <tonyyarusso> make a group of it, and then, um...I looked this up once | |
| <holycow> yeah i can give them full sudo access | |
| <holycow> but i cannot figure out how to give a group only sudo access to a specific binary | |
| <tonyyarusso> show me your current line | |
| <holycow> sec gotta copy it from lappie | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> just use sudo to be configure to excute only thouse programs | |
| <holycow> myles i'm trying its not working :) | |
| <holycow> okay here is the line just for the user: | |
| <holycow> start ALL = (ALL) : /usr/bin/time-admin | |
| <holycow> errr | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> get rid of (ALL) : | |
| <holycow> start ALL = (ALL) /usr/bin/time-admin | |
| <holycow> allright lets try it | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> start is your user right | |
| <holycow> keeps on saying passwd invalid | |
| <holycow> yes right | |
| <holycow> ill log out and log back in | |
| <tonyyarusso> holycow: | |
| <holycow> i'm all ears :) logging out doesn't do anything either | |
| <holycow> sudo seems to cache the bad passwd too | |
| <tonyyarusso> %specialguysgroup ALL = /usr/bin/time-admin, /usr/bin/network-admin | |
| <holycow> oh | |
| <tonyyarusso> I don't know what on earth 'start' is supposed to be | |
| <holycow> lets try that | |
| <holycow> :) | |
| <holycow> name of user | |
| <holycow> they can't remember their own name | |
| <holycow> i'm not kidding | |
| <holycow> :) | |
| <tonyyarusso> If a user instead of a group, omit the % | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> i hate oracle!!! | |
| <tonyyarusso> why? | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> under windows i had to install the developer tools, vs tools, and eclipse tools all about 2GB | |
| <holycow> okay at least i've confirmed the syntax | |
| <holycow> now i have a feeling something else must be wrong, it keeps on saying passwd is wrong | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> force a password change passwd | |
| <holycow> no can do with new pass either | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> him | |
| <holycow> username ALL = (ALL) ALL is perfect works great | |
| <holycow> but username ALL = /usr/bin/time-admin doesn't take the password | |
| <tonyyarusso> what about (ALL) /usr/bin/time-admin? | |
| <holycow> nope | |
| <holycow> its pretty clear you guys have the syntax of the line down | |
| <holycow> that much you have helped clear up here i do appreciate that :) | |
| <holycow> i thought i was going crazy | |
| <tonyyarusso> Explanation B: | |
| <tonyyarusso> THE WORLD HATES YOU | |
| <tonyyarusso> the end | |
| <holycow> lol | |
| <tonyyarusso> blame MS | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> check out http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/man/sudoers.html | |
| <tonyyarusso> ws? | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> ya i know that is wire | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> wired | |
| * tonyyarusso swaps some letters around | |
| <holycow> its as if the sudo line is right, but its not able to authenticate | |
| <holycow> or its using the wrong auth method or something | |
| <holycow> auth log says command not allowed | |
| <tonyyarusso> Support the BBC's leaning towards using non-DRM media on their site, and tell them you want completely free formats: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/consult/open-consultations/ondemand_services.html | |
| <tonyyarusso> lophyte: Looks like you have at least a handful ready to go for Friday. | |
| <lophyte> hehe | |
| <lophyte> rallying up the troops | |
| <rexbron> hey lophyte | |
| <rexbron> www.aehunter.net/Files/Ubuntu/ubuntustudio_kde.png | |
| <rexbron> its a slightly old vversion but I am trying to create a KDE theme that resembals Ubuntu Studio | |
| <rexbron> lophyte: its a slightly old vversion but I am trying to create a KDE theme that resembals Ubuntu Studio | |
| <rexbron> www.aehunter.net/Files/Ubuntu/ubuntustudio_kde.png | |
| <lophyte> looks cool so far | |
| <lophyte> rexbron: http://dave-sullivan.com/entries/4 | |
| <lophyte> woot :) | |
| <lophyte> oh no its borked | |
| <lophyte> there, fixed | |
| <ryanakca> rexbron: looks good | |
| * ryanakca wonders on getting himself a domain | |
| * ryanakca wonders where he can find a cheap one... I don't want 100 emails or hosting or ID protection or SSL certificates or any of that stuff... just a plain old domain | |
| <rexbron> ryanakca: dreamhost or godaddy (both about 10$ a year) | |
| * ryanakca found one... netfirms... 4.95/year | |
| <ryanakca> they throw in "Netfirms Basic Hosting 25MB, 1GB, 1 E-mail" for free too :) ... not that I'll ever use it... | |
| * ryanakca wonders if he should get a .com or .ca... | |
| <rexbron> ca's tend to be more expencive | |
| <ryanakca> I'll go with .com then :) | |
| <ryanakca> rkavanagh vs ryanakca... rkavanagh... it's my name... ryanakca is a nickname that I might not keep.. hmm.. | |
| <ryanakca> meh :) | |
| <lophyte> I use godaddy | |
| * ryanakca looks | |
| <ryanakca> hmm... doesn't look bad | |
| <ryanakca> hey tonyyarusso | |
| <tonyyarusso> ryanakca: hey | |
| <lophyte> tonyyarusso: things are looking good for tomorrow | |
| <tonyyarusso> lophyte: Sweetness. Numbers, details? | |
| <rexbron> lophyte: I will get to show of KDE niceness | |
| <rexbron> :) | |
| <lophyte> I'd say we've got roughly 7 or 8 people so far | |
| <rexbron> god | |
| <rexbron> good | |
| <ryanakca> nice :) | |
| <lophyte> apparently Dundas Square isn't public property, so that might pose a problem if we're asked to leave | |
| <tonyyarusso> lophyte: You have tux all set? What's the status of CDs/propaganda? | |
| <lophyte> however, the sidewalk NEXT to Dundas Square is public property | |
| <tonyyarusso> Perfect | |
| <ryanakca> lophyte: it isn't? | |
| <lophyte> I'm going to spend all morning tomorrow burning off CDs like crazy | |
| <ryanakca> lol | |
| <lophyte> nope.. its owned by a company | |
| <ryanakca> sounds... fun? | |
| <lophyte> I'm still looking for literature.. if anyone has any suggestions | |
| <ryanakca> lophyte: can you ask the company for permission? | |
| <ryanakca> umm... | |
| <lophyte> not in a day | |
| * ryanakca looks | |
| <rexbron> lophyte: I can burn 10, what do you want, Ubuntu or Kubuntu? | |
| <lophyte> both | |
| <rexbron> ok 5 of each | |
| <ryanakca> You can get some roughcut posters on diy.devubuntu.com | |
| <lophyte> well, by literature, I mean a document that explains Ubuntu and free software that we can hand out | |
| <rexbron> ryanakca: but we would need to print them | |
| <tonyyarusso> lophyte: I can get you an one-page "what the heck is Ubuntu?" PDF to print off a ton of. | |
| <tonyyarusso> Written by yours truly. | |
| <lophyte> tonyyarusso: excellent. | |
| <tonyyarusso> a moment | |
| <lophyte> tonyyarusso: djp is willing to go half on printing costs if we mention linuxcaffe in the document | |
| <rexbron> lophyte: would we be able to get one of the freedom highway posters? | |
| * ryanakca 's computer is really slow thanks to K3B... but I'll find you some once it's done burning | |
| <lophyte> rexbron: I've still got 3 or 4 | |
| <rexbron> sweet | |
| <ryanakca> nice | |
| <tonyyarusso> lophyte: Noted. | |
| * rexbron wants a poster and a case badge | |
| <rexbron> lophyte: do you have any case badges? | |
| <lophyte> you can have a poster for $1.50 :) | |
| <lophyte> no, djp has them all | |
| <rexbron> ok, when and where are we meeting? | |
| <lophyte> 3:30pm at dundas square | |
| <lophyte> well | |
| <lophyte> I'll be there at 3:30 | |
| <rexbron> (also how are going to get power for lappy | |
| <tonyyarusso> lophyte: You're handing out Dapper, right? | |
| <rexbron> mine has like 3h mak | |
| <rexbron> max | |
| <lophyte> yup, dapper | |
| <ryanakca> lophyte: hmm... If my dad feels like heading to linuxcaffe next time he's in toronto... could you drop one off at linuxcaffe for me and he'll buy it off them? | |
| <lophyte> ryanakca: the poster? sure | |
| <ryanakca> rexbron: yeah... umm... well... if you get there at three... they close at 7... what time do you think your leaving? | |
| <ryanakca> lophyte: thanks | |
| <lophyte> or if you let me know when he's coming, I can try to be here | |
| <lophyte> I'm here often (at the caffe) | |
| <rexbron> are you there right now? | |
| * rexbron is in the York Library | |
| <lophyte> yup | |
| <lophyte> leaving in 15 mins though | |
| <rexbron> lophyte: grab a case badge for me would you? | |
| <lophyte> will do | |
| <rexbron> please? | |
| <rexbron> sweet | |
| <rexbron> ok need to go | |
| <lophyte> do you still have the shirt i gave you? | |
| <lophyte> if so, wear it | |
| <ryanakca> lophyte: kk | |
| <rexbron> I do, but it got a bit crispy | |
| <lophyte> ah | |
| <ryanakca> case badge? | |
| <rexbron> went in the dryer | |
| <ryanakca> lol | |
| <rexbron> ryanakca: go to system 76 and /etc/ | |
| <rexbron> basically a "Powered by ubuntu" badge | |
| <ryanakca> lophyte: I think he has some meetings down there in a couple of weeks... | |
| <ryanakca> rexbron: ah | |
| <tonyyarusso> lophyte: I actually have two things, which can be printed front-and-back on the same page, for higher cost. One's straight text, but very informative. The other is less information, but flashy (color). You could probably just do the text one, since you have real people and systems for the flash? | |
| <rexbron> ok c ya | |
| <lophyte> I was planning on just doing 1 copy and then taking them to a copy place | |
| <lophyte> and running off 100-150 copies | |
| <tonyyarusso> But do you want it double sided or not? The second thing looks okay in b&w too, but probably isn't necessary | |
| <lophyte> er, oh, right | |
| <lophyte> misunderstood what you meant | |
| <lophyte> the one side with text is fine | |
| <lophyte> maybe we should print off Kim King's install guide document too | |
| * ryanakca wonders about the stickers | |
| <ryanakca> lophyte: one side with the doc from tonyyarusso and the other side with the install guide? | |
| <ryanakca> or is the install guide longer than a page? | |
| <lophyte> the install guide is 2 pages | |
| <ryanakca> ah | |
| <lophyte> I figured we'd hand out the literature to everyone | |
| <lophyte> and anyone who seemed to have more than a passing interest.. we could give them a CD and the install document | |
| <lophyte> its unfortunate we can't get pressed CDs, but meh | |
| <lophyte> hehe.. | |
| <lophyte> 64 hits on my ice house raid entry, and its only been up for an hour | |
| <tonyyarusso> lophyte: Ubuntu, Kubuntu, both? | |
| <lophyte> tonyyarusso: you were right about planet | |
| <tonyyarusso> (handing out) | |
| <lophyte> both | |
| <tonyyarusso> lophyte: Yeah, saw you fixed it eventually | |
| <lophyte> minor error in the way the rss feed module was grabbing the URL | |
| <ryanakca> ah | |
| * ryanakca wonders why his Server CD doesn't want to boot | |
| <lophyte> http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?MemberID=1010 | |
| <lophyte> I really hate my name | |
| <tonyyarusso> wtf? Illinois elected an R? Must be outstate. | |
| <lophyte> there's also an 80 year old man named Dave Sullivan that lives around the corner from me | |
| <lophyte> I feel so un-unique | |
| <ryanakca> ouch | |
| <tonyyarusso> lophyte: You'll have all architectures? | |
| <johanbr> I think i386 would work for the vast majority of people standing in line for a Vista demo. | |
| <lophyte> yeah | |
| <lophyte> i386 will run on 64-bit machines anyway | |
| <tonyyarusso> okay | |
| <tonyyarusso> I just need to know whether to say you have them or they should download if they want something else ;) | |
| <lophyte> I'd say download | |
| <lophyte> or order from shipit | |
| <lophyte> speaking of shipit, I'm gonna order some | |
| <johanbr> But shipit doesn't do Edgy cd's, right? | |
| <tonyyarusso> right | |
| <tonyyarusso> lophyte: "Printing courtesy of the LinuxCaffe <URL>"? | |
| <tonyyarusso> Oh wait, he doesn't capitalize | |
| <tonyyarusso> or just the first | |
| <lophyte> tonyyarusso: perhaps list it as a place to go for assistance as well | |
| <lophyte> I was hoping to have a section like "places to go for help" | |
| <tonyyarusso> lophyte: Ah, good. | |
| <lophyte> Ubuntu Toronto, forums, community docs, and linuxcaffe among them | |
| <tonyyarusso> Well, hmm. | |
| <lophyte> can you fit that in? | |
| <tonyyarusso> I'm tight on space, so I had been planning to just link to http://www.ubuntu-ca.org/links.html | |
| <tonyyarusso> Would that be adequate? | |
| <tonyyarusso> Oh, I need the Toronto URL too on here. | |
| <tonyyarusso> That can be first level | |
| <lophyte> yup | |
| <lophyte> djp says thats fine | |
| <lophyte> the "printing courtesy of linuxcaffe" | |
| <lophyte> he'd prefer address over URL though | |
| <lophyte> linking to the links page, putting the toronto URL, and the linuxcaffe sponsor notice with address is all good :) | |
| <tonyyarusso> I might be able to do address and URL | |
| <lophyte> Current Request Details | |
| <lophyte> * 150 Ubuntu CDs for PC | |
| <lophyte> *fingers crossed* | |
| <lophyte> that works | |
| <ryanakca> lophyte: where you getting them? or are you going to burn them? | |
| <tonyyarusso> Yup. I can get "326 Harbord Street" and the URL on here. | |
| <ryanakca> Harbord... that in downtown region? (ie: near the OPG building?) | |
| <tonyyarusso> yeah | |
| * tonyyarusso was mildly terrified driving DT for the first time to get there.... | |
| <ryanakca> good... shouldn't be a problem for him to get to it :) | |
| * ryanakca reburns his server CD | |
| <ryanakca> lophyte: might be interesting to burn 3-4 of those for the technical people who are interested in them... | |
| <lophyte> server discs? | |
| * ryanakca nods | |
| <lophyte> maybe | |
| <lophyte> the 150 discs I pasted is a shipit request | |
| <lophyte> for future use | |
| <lophyte> but I'm going to be burning a ton myself tomorrow | |
| <ryanakca> ah | |
| <lophyte> it'd be nice to have a box of CDs on hand for on-demand things like this | |
| <ryanakca> yeah | |
| <lophyte> I'm going to put together a "Ubuntu Toronto Instant Campaign Kit" | |
| <ryanakca> nice | |
| <lophyte> shirts, literature, CDs, etc. | |
| <ryanakca> KLUG is dead :( | |
| <ryanakca> which means... I'm basicly on my own here :) | |
| <lophyte> aww | |
| <ryanakca> I could probably find a coule Uni people though :) | |
| <lophyte> most likely | |
| <lophyte> anyway, I gotta run | |
| <lophyte> I'll be back later tonight | |
| <tonyyarusso> 'k | |
| <lophyte> thanks a lot for the document, btw, tonyyarusso :) | |
| <tonyyarusso> np | |
| <lophyte> later | |
| <tonyyarusso> almost done :) | |
| <lophyte> nice :) | |
| <lophyte> see ya | |
| <matjan> hi, does anyone know how to change the font color in the panels on the gnome desktop? | |
| <tonyyarusso> no idea | |
| * tonyyarusso couldn't find it in gconf | |
| <johanbr> matjan: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2024839 | |
| <tonyyarusso> ryanakca, johanbr: Could you proofread http://www.tonyyarusso.com/files/ubuntu-letter-toronto.pdf please? | |
| <ryanakca> matjan: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/change-font-color-in-gnome-panels.html | |
| <ryanakca> tonyyarusso: sure | |
| <johanbr> tonyyarusso: Sure. How soon do you need an opinion? | |
| <tonyyarusso> johanbr: Before lophyte gets back this evening. | |
| <johanbr> tonyyarusso: Alright, no problem. | |
| <ryanakca> tonyyarusso: might take a bit... acroread is a pain... takes about.. oh.. 70% CPU? ;) | |
| <tonyyarusso> ryanakca: Ewww. | |
| <tonyyarusso> Evince ftw! | |
| <ryanakca> lol | |
| * ryanakca killalls acroread and opens xpdf | |
| <ryanakca> looks good | |
| * ryanakca hasn't spotted spelling mistakes yet... | |
| <ryanakca> reword (see the Canadian Team's website "Links" page) | |
| <ryanakca> maybe (see the "Links" page on the Canadian Teams's website) | |
| <tonyyarusso> Notice how it's a _really_ tight fit size-wise. | |
| <ryanakca> lol | |
| <tonyyarusso> I can get about three more characters on the line. | |
| <ryanakca> nevermind then :) | |
| <tonyyarusso> ;) | |
| <tonyyarusso> You have no idea how many weird edits there are on that page to save one or two characters. | |
| <ryanakca> btw... Why do you have the City hall in the UbuntuToronto Logo? | |
| <ryanakca> Very few people can associate it with Toronto... I would've taken the CN tower or some other significant, known, landmark | |
| <ryanakca> but then... all people who are interested in it... would know the City hall... so I guess it doesn't much matter :) | |
| <tonyyarusso> I am not the one responsible for UbuntuToronto - although I know that's been asked before, always by non-Torontonians :P | |
| <tonyyarusso> I'm not even from Canada, so what do I know? | |
| <ryanakca> you aren't? | |
| <ryanakca> heh... shows how much I know :) | |
| <tonyyarusso> I'm from Minnesota. | |
| <ryanakca> ah... yeah... what made you "move" to canada? | |
| <ryanakca> (well... for the next several years at least) | |
| <tonyyarusso> I'm here for university, at Trent in Peterborough. | |
| <tonyyarusso> couple o' reasons | |
| <tonyyarusso> Similar climate and such are nice, political reasons to have options open for getting out of the states if necessary, medical reasons why health coverage is important, friendly town, etc. | |
| <ryanakca> ah... and then you're comming to queens? | |
| <ryanakca> or just getting a job? | |
| <ryanakca> or threw a bunch of city names in a hat and randomly picked Kingston? | |
| <tonyyarusso> Meanwhile, quoting a forums post, "I am currently a first year student at collage" <-- should he be able to spell college? | |
| <ryanakca> yeah... | |
| <tonyyarusso> Yeah, Queen's in '09-10, if I stick to the program | |
| <johanbr> tonyyarusso: Looks really good, very well written. I just have two suggestions: 1. Maybe mention something about the Edgy release. 2. Listing all the different architectures might be confusing, I doubt many people know what UltraSPARC is. | |
| <ryanakca> and it's not exactly like the a is next to the e | |
| <tonyyarusso> See http://www.trentu.ca/education/concurrent | |
| <ryanakca> becoming a teacher? | |
| * ryanakca notices the time and decides he should have lunch | |
| <tonyyarusso> johanbr: 1. Yeah, I was teetering on that. One concern, based on feedback from someone on previous versions, is that if they're standing in line for the brand new Windows release, and then we're giving them something that isn't even our newest release, that might look fishy, so I thought it would be better not to mention it for the time being, at least while they're in line at a Vista event. | |
| <tonyyarusso> johanbr: 2. True, but surely they'll recognize the other three, and maybe throwing that one in will add a mysterious sort of "duuuude...this must run on _everything_" element? Dunno. | |
| <ryanakca> lol | |
| <johanbr> Okay, you obviously thought about those two things already. I guess people standing in line for Vista are not your average joe, so they shouldn't be too scared of something unfamiliar. | |
| <tonyyarusso> That's my hope anyway. | |
| * tonyyarusso crosses fingers | |
| * ryanakca just found a computer in his basement he never knew he had | |
| <ryanakca> is the media going to be there?' | |
| * ryanakca would poke global... even though it's kindof late to be organising that part of the event :) | |
| <ryanakca> but it's worth a try :) | |
| <tonyyarusso> The media will definitely be there, whether "our" media is there paying attention to us is another question. | |
| <ryanakca> ah | |
| <tonyyarusso> ryanakca: give them a call! | |
| <ryanakca> after you | |
| <ryanakca> brb, toast is ready | |
| * tonyyarusso looks whether it's toll free | |
| <tonyyarusso> They have a news tips e-mail address :) :) :) | |
| <ryanakca> saweet! | |
| <ryanakca> they have kubuntu on G4TechTV... | |
| <ryanakca> or a close look alike... looks like Dapper | |
| * ryanakca goes back to watching | |
| <ryanakca> channel 140 here :) | |
| <ryanakca> yeah, it was Marcel Gagne :) | |
| <johanbr> Didn't someone mention that they had contacts at CTV? Or was that for something else? | |
| <tonyyarusso> I don't remember which network, but yes. | |
| <tonyyarusso> And CTV sounds right | |
| <tonyyarusso> ryanakca: I should probably be productive rather than writing this e-mail; do you want to hit up newstips@globaltv.com ? | |
| *** tonyyarusso changes topic to "Ubuntu Canada LocoTeam | We're now official and CC approved! Congrats, Canada! | http://www.ubuntu-ca.org/ | WikiPage: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CanadianTeam | Please see #ubuntu-fr for support in French | lophyte, see http://www.tonyyarusso.com/files/ubuntu-letter-toronto.pdf" | |
| <matjan> johanbr, ryanakca, thanks for the link | |
| <matjan> is panel-fontrc a file i should have? | |
| <johanbr> matjan: I don't think so. I don't have it, anyway. | |
| <lophyte> i'm back | |
| <tonyyarusso> lophyte: /topic | |
| <tonyyarusso> lophyte: Also, newstips@globaltv.com if you're interested | |
| <lophyte> sweet. | |
| <lophyte> might call citytv too | |
| <lophyte> djp's contact is CTV only | |
| <lophyte> so.. would be nice to get them all | |
| <ryanakca> tonyyarusso: sure... when I get back from the hair cutters :) | |
| <tonyyarusso> Phone numbers would be long distance for me, and sadly I should really do something more productive than e-mail news folks right now, but if you could hit a bunch of them that would be awesome. | |
| <ryanakca> lophyte: yeah... better chance of having at least 1 showing up | |
| <tonyyarusso> I'll let you two handle it then. Let me know if you need anything else I can help with. | |
| <ryanakca> tonyyarusso: kk, gpg sign it? send it with "ryanakca@kubuntu.org" as the from: ? | |
| * ryanakca will pass it by you before sending it | |
| <tonyyarusso> Ooh, yeah. an @kubuntu.org would be good | |
| <ryanakca> kk | |
| <ryanakca> bbl, hair cut :) | |
| <matjan> johanbr, ok... have you tried this script? | |
| <lophyte> that's excellent! | |
| <lophyte> nice work, tony | |
| <tonyyarusso> Thanks. | |
| <johanbr> matjan: Nope. That's just what I got from google. | |
| <tonyyarusso> Well, I'm off to class now. Back in like three hours. | |
| <matjan> ok | |
| <lophyte> tonyyarusso: any chance I could get an odt version of that? | |
| <lophyte> re: ML.. Scott raises a good point, we should discuss the EULA | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> lophyte: ther were some vista guys at the linuxcaffe today | |
| <rexbron> rofl | |
| <lophyte> hahahaha | |
| <rexbron> what were they doing? | |
| <lophyte> damn I missed them | |
| <lophyte> vista as in M$ employees? | |
| <lophyte> I was there all morning | |
| * rexbron gets out his linux evangelical robe out | |
| <lophyte> hehe | |
| <rexbron> err | |
| <rexbron> remove the last out | |
| <lophyte> rexbron, mylesbraithwaite: see the PDF in the topic | |
| <rexbron> lophyte: thats a good dic | |
| <rexbron> doc | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> lophyte: i dont think so | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> just the builders of the ice house | |
| <lophyte> ah. | |
| <lophyte> rexbron: indeed | |
| <lophyte> mylesbraithwaite: what were they doing at the linuxcaffe? | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> not sure | |
| <lophyte> did djp tell them our plan? hehe | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> no he missed them too | |
| <lophyte> awww. | |
| <lophyte> well that kinda sucks | |
| <lophyte> did you drop off CD-Rs? | |
| <rexbron> lophyte: so djp will be there> | |
| <rexbron> ? | |
| <lophyte> tomorrow? yup | |
| <lophyte> we will likely be there around 3:30 | |
| <lophyte> mylesbraithwaite: are you at linuxcaffe? | |
| <mylesbraithwaite> yes | |
| <lophyte> is djp around? tell him to check his e-mail ;) | |
| <ryanakca> tonyyarusso: ping? |