IRC log for #gllug on 20110602

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12:02.21dick_turpin♫ ♪ "Daddy was a bankrobber but he never hurt nobody he just loved to live that way and he loved to steal your money" ♬ ♩
12:09.47ChoHagsudo apt-get --purge remove openjdk-6-jre default-jre default-jre-headless
12:09.49ChoHagThe following NEW packages will be installed
12:09.51ChoHag<PROTECTED>
12:37.45wethrindick_turpin: You in Watford, then?
12:38.50ChoHaghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEHNrqPkefI#t=33m18s
12:38.52ChoHagSubstitue 'Apple' for 'Linux'.
12:38.53ChoHagUntil 34m10s
12:39.04dick_turpinwethrin: Aye?
12:39.39wethrinhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-13629679
12:39.52ChoHag"We have to let go of this notion that for Linux to win, Microsoft has to lose."
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12:44.00dick_turpinChoHag: I let go of that notion 10 years ago, in fact I've never held that opinion.
12:44.22ChoHagEnough people do, that they're killing Linux.
12:44.35ChoHagPisses me off. They need to grow up.
12:46.33dick_turpinwethrin: Where the hell would I get a bomb? All I have is a bag of sherbert dabs and an elastic band
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13:01.03antiphaseMark Shittleworth and his crazy plans are probably more of a threat to Linux-based systems than Microsoft are
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13:02.01ChoHagHe has plans?
13:02.12antiphaseWell, that's one of the problems
13:02.15dick_turpinhugs antiphase and gives the left one a quick squeeze
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13:04.25ChoHagFrankly I'm finding fewer and fewer reasons to use Linux at all.
13:06.12dick_turpinChoHag: You'll have to start *paying* for sado masochist seasons instead
13:06.24ChoHagQuite.
13:06.39ChoHagThat is depressingly to the point.
13:30.34antiphaseappears to be using OS X at present
13:31.55dick_turpinYeah but you're cruel and mean anyway so that dosen't count
13:32.35ChoHagThis baby still hasn't shown up.
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13:42.45ChoHagOh for fuck's sake this is stupid.
13:43.04halihttp://www.next.co.uk/model-competition-2011/vote-for-me-idgek9j984/
13:43.07ChoHagLloyds won't even let me type in the xth, yth and zth letters of the (second) password.
13:43.15ChoHagI have to select from a bloody drop-down list.
13:44.37antiphasestart keylogger
13:49.03murbstop keylogger
13:49.07murb(you bad person!)
13:53.14dick_turpinHe's terrible, I used to be so nice before I started associating with him
14:29.00ChoHagYou can't make this shit up.
14:29.11ChoHag15:28 < Heximacs> "most intelligent people have dumped Linux".... pray tell to  switch to what?
14:29.14ChoHag15:28 < ChoHag> OS X, Windows or FreeBSD.
14:29.17ChoHag15:28 < Heximacs> FreeBSD perhaps... OSX, Windows would mean they weren't  actually intelligent to begin with
14:29.57ChoHagYou heard it here first, folks. Intelligent people don't use OSX or Windows.
14:30.24ChoHagMind you considering the mactards queueing outside their temple when The Steve shits out another box, I could probably agree with OSX...
14:32.52wethrinExcept, of course, Macs are rather popular with the crowd of people that want the computer to just work, and then be able to get on with their jobs
14:33.22wethrinSo there's a new guy at work, and he has an Ubuntu laptop
14:33.28wethrinit doesn't talk well to the external monitor
14:33.44wethrinso he can either not see most of the picture, or run it at the same resolution as the laptop display
14:33.50wethrinboth of which are rather useless
14:34.02ChoHagYou had me at Ubuntu.
14:34.20wethrinheh
14:35.26ChoHagIs anybody else not bothering with the latest Ubuntu?
14:50.21dick_turpinHoardes are flocking to Linux Mint
14:51.01dick_turpinMint's next release will be Gnome3 by default which is awesome
14:51.30dick_turpinUnity is a pile of 5 year old shit
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15:20.27antiphaseGnome 3 is total wank
15:20.39antiphaseI started using Xfce to get away from it
15:27.51Azundrisantiphase: Is that good or bad?
15:28.09AzundrisWank, I mean. I know that Xfce is ... um ... "not for me."
15:30.21antiphaseGnome 3 is rubbish
15:30.32AzundrisHm, OK, thanks.
15:30.40AzundrisI thought it might well be. Haven't test it yet.
15:30.47antiphaseIt doesn't do anything that earlier version didn't, but just takes more CPU power to do it with more bugs
15:30.52Azundris:-/
15:31.03antiphaseSome people seem to love it though
15:31.04AzundrisAnd I trust they continued on their "no options for anybody" course?
15:31.07antiphaselooks pointedly at dick_turpin
15:31.27antiphaseI certainly couldn't customise it in any way, and the fonts were all fucked up
15:31.35AzundrisBlah. #$%#$%#@$%@# idiots.
15:31.37antiphaseYou have to write XML plugins or some total nonsense to get it to work
15:31.51AzundrisIt all went downhill after G1.
15:32.10AzundrisHeck, Gtk2 has some good stuff, but GNOME2 was already a mess. :(
15:32.16antiphaseI do struggle to see the difference between Gnome or KDE of 10 years ago and now
15:32.50antiphaseHas windows, does clicky stuff. Is still jsut a shim on top of the same X, albeit X.org rather than XFree86
15:32.50AzundrisThey changed something in KDE. I'm not sure what, but I don't find it insufferable anymore. Maybe, I'm just dead inside these days.
15:33.29antiphaseI know what the difference is. NetworkManager!
15:33.44AzundrisAnd once more, I'm not quite sure whether that's good or bad. :-D
15:34.19Azundrisnever quite grew to trust that, had a set of byzantine scripts on her laptop instead. :-D Nothing for a production machine, of course.
15:36.09antiphaseI admit that NM makes it less of a pain in the arse to deal with wireless, but otherwise it's fairly hateful
15:38.04AzundrisI hear the infrastructure is abominable, yeah, but I woulda been ready to live with that. I was a too-early-adopter though, and it was just flaky in the beginning.
15:40.19dick_turpinantiphase: I love you as well by the way
15:56.57ChoHagNetwork Mangler is a turd.
15:57.10ChoHagIt only looks good compared with the competition, which is nothing.
15:57.30ChoHagAt least if you only count Freetard software then it's nothing. Otherwise OSX and Windows have some pretty nice offerings.
15:58.21ChoHagWindows wireless is Yet Another example of where Microsoft royally fucked up (anyone remember configuring wireless on XP? Fun.) and yet Linux spectacularly failed to take advantage of it.
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16:16.50AzundrisYeah, wireless is one of the few things that actually "just works" on OS X.
16:17.16AzundrisVanilla wireless anyway.
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16:28.53ChoHagHow ironic that upowerd is taking up > 50% of the CPU.
17:16.34ChoHagOur garden is full of feathers.
17:16.35ChoHagNo dead bird though.
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