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00:03.50*** join/#gllug MacLeeds (~richardc@host-212-158-207-148.bulldogdsl.com)
00:10.05wethrinFancy networking
00:10.21MacLeedsindeed
00:10.49MacLeedsoh, and vlc++
00:11.01wethrinYEs
00:11.09evangineerhmm - if I had wifi, I might actually watch TV.  What an horrendous idea!
00:13.13wethring'night all
00:13.21MacLeedsbight
00:13.27MacLeedsnight
00:32.09*** join/#gllug pie (~pie@82-68-20-246.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk)
00:32.12pie'lo
00:32.26MacLeedsmornin'
00:32.42pieindeed.
00:33.04pieI just installed fedora on my laptop
00:33.27pieAh, that's better.
00:33.32piefedora is cool.
00:33.48MacLeedshow so?
00:34.15piewell, lots of nice new shiny applocations and cute graphics and eye candy and stuff.
00:34.28MacLeedsbah
00:34.29pieand some fairly useful tools.
00:34.36MacLeedscool
00:34.42pieand I don't need to be root to get the photos off my digital camera
00:34.58pieand my pcmcia compact flash reader 'just-works'
00:35.09rhowePlug camera in, mount /mnt/usb and access
00:35.21rhoweIf I could be bothered installing supermount or something like that, it'd be even more automatic :)
00:35.25piethe file manager stuff (gnome2 really) is really sweet.
00:35.53rhowepie: Yeah, I quite like Nautilus. It's a bit sluggish though
00:36.04pieyeah, doesn't seem t orecognise the camera as a mass storage device, but gphoto2 takes care of it with ease.
00:36.33pieit is a bit, but I am surprised how fast it is on my laptop (only a 4Mb gfx card).  500Mb ram though.
00:37.11MacLeedsshould I be impressed?
00:37.29highburyleeds: what file system do you share all your files on? Samba/NFS or what?
00:37.35MacLeedsnfs
00:37.41pie:)
00:37.59MacLeeds:-)
00:38.10highburybut you don't use windows clients?
00:38.16MacLeedsnope
00:38.19highburys/but/so
00:38.25MacLeedsno windows here
00:38.57highburyahh, I was wondering about building a file server, to share stuff between Linux/Windows/(maybe Apple)
00:39.04piemy wife and minion at work are both very impressed with fedora.  Could never get my wife to use linux before now.
00:40.03*** join/#gllug Marios_ (~mkoumide@24.247.222.225.kzo.mi.chartermi.net)
00:40.19rhowepie: I installed Gnome2 on Sarah's P266MMX (I think that's what it is) and then installed irssi and uim, for Chinese input. She was most pleased :)
00:40.30rhowepie: It just needs a RAM upgrade now, from 32Mb to something sane
00:41.35pieyeah, I first tried linux (gnome) several years ago on a 32 Mb machine, was pretty awful.
00:41.56MacLeedsbah - I started on 8Mb
00:41.59murblerhowe: did you install nautilus?
00:42.24pieand no, emacs is *not* a gui ;)
00:43.01rhowemurble: Yeah, though I only run it at work
00:43.07*** join/#gllug SpudULike (~colin@82-35-32-164.cable.ubr01.camd.blueyonder.co.uk)
00:43.19rhowemurble: Even then, I don't use it much. I'm too used to firing up a terminal to do stuff. I forget nautilus is there
00:43.55pieI mostly do file management in the shell, but it is helpful to use the gui once in a while.
00:44.13piethe CD writer in nautilus is pretty cool.
00:44.37pieSooooo much nicer htan xcdroast
00:44.53rhowepie: Does fedora come with some fedora-specific GTK2 theme? I'm using Nuvola here and it's nice
00:44.56murblerhowe: do you know of any thing tha twill search for files etc?
00:45.13pieit has fedora specific bits
00:45.13murblethat is gui.
00:45.14rhowemurble: Yeah, there's a Gnome thingy for that.. basically a GUI for find
00:45.24piebut it looks pretty much like bluecurve...
00:46.25rhowepie: see if you can install nuvola. It's a nice, vector-based GTK2 theme
00:46.49pieHmmm, OK.
00:46.54piebut maybe tomorrow.
00:46.58pieI have to go, bed time.
00:47.00pielater.
00:47.00rhowe$ apt-cache search gnome|grep find
00:47.00rhowegnome-find - Graphical Version of the GNU find utility
00:47.04rhowemurble: I guess that's it
00:47.37rhoweGet:1 http://debian.mcc.ac.uk unstable/main gnome-find 1.0.2 [159kB]
00:48.01rhoweUck, it's GTK1
00:48.15rhoweThat's not the tool I saw before
00:49.44rhoweah, gnome-utils, contains gnome-search-tool
00:50.09rhoweYes, that's the one
00:50.52rhowegnome-search-tool is pretty slow though
00:51.04rhowethen again, I am doing it over NFS
00:51.13murbleta.