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James Gifford

2:20 PM

@FlackBot Lookup AskUbuntu

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James Gifford

@FlackBot ... you're working.

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@JamesGifford Someday I will be able to intelligently reply to that command. This isn't that day.

James Gifford

shuts up now.

Roland Taylor

talks

James Gifford

2:22 PM

@RolandTaylor raises eyebrows

Roland Taylor

@JamesGifford does something random

James Gifford

@RolandTaylor blinks at the dude who just walked past wearing an ubuntu shirt

(that actually just happened)

Roland Taylor

nice

you're not home?

James Gifford

I'm at this programming conference thingy.

Roland Taylor

oh cool :D

James Gifford

2:24 PM

There are three linux users (including myself) here.

and about 1000000000 macbooks.

Roland Taylor

ugh

and all stuck up right?

James Gifford

Nothing wrong with macbooks - the hardware is amazing. It's the software that is "meh".

@RolandTaylor no they aren't.

Roland Taylor

gasp

James Gifford

they're actually pretty decent.

Roland Taylor

looks toward the sky

yep... the world is ending.

James Gifford

2:26 PM

They're using Chromium.

And they're all using vim and emacs.

Oops. Got that wrong. there's a textmater. >:O

Roland Taylor

flail

James Gifford

fail indeed.

Roland Taylor

no, flail :D

it's a word I coined :D

it goes beyond fail

James Gifford

flail. i like it.

Roland Taylor

so it needs two ls

I had a friend who used to program in text edit at first :P

and saved in rtf XD

James Gifford

2:29 PM

I used to program in gedit.

Roland Taylor

I still do sometimes

more like I edit in gedit (no pun intended)

James Gifford

Depends on what I'm doing. If i'm using this new fancy oneiric image then i use gedit.

otherwise, vim all the way.

Roland Taylor

oh do tell :D

(about oneiric)

(and it's nano or gtho)

James Gifford

nano is "eh"

Roland Taylor

lol I know :D

that's why I use it when I'm editing on the command line :P

James Gifford

2:34 PM

that's not cool. :P

Roland Taylor

Well to me it's kind fun, cause it's like an adventure :).

James Gifford

@FlackBot flack 6005

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@JamesGifford Want to turn the screensaver off, because for the release, they need to.

James Gifford

Now that's cool.

Roland Taylor

LOL!

@FlackBot flack 1992

FlackBot

2:37 PM

@RolandTaylor In the software centre and the default browser on Kubuntu ;). Install brasero.

James Gifford

I seriously didn't expect it to return flack.

@FlackBot flack me

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@JamesGifford You should totally drop that and try jQuery. (In other words, I don't know what you're trying to say.)

Roland Taylor

But but... I have brasero D:

James Gifford

@GeorgeEdison: It should be that "me" pulls your user ID

Roland Taylor

brb

James Gifford

2:39 PM

k

Roland Taylor

back

James Gifford

welcome back

Roland Taylor

it's amazing how fast firefox 7 loads :P

James Gifford

still uses chrome/chromium

Roland Taylor

rofl

James Gifford

2:43 PM

brb -chrome is screaming at me

Roland Taylor

xool

*cool

James Gifford

is back

@FlackBot Tell me joke.

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@JamesGifford You should totally drop that and try jQuery. (In other words, I don't know what you're trying to say.)

James Gifford

@FlackBot Tell GeorgeEdison that he needs to have you tell people jokes.

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@GeorgeEdison: You need to have me tell people jokes.

Roland Taylor

2:55 PM

@JamesGifford welcome back :D

James Gifford

@RolandTaylor thanks.

@FlackBot help

FlackBot

@JamesGifford Well, I can't tell you all of the commands. But here are a few to try: 'find user [username]', 'lookup [item]', 'define [word]'.

Roland Taylor

3:14 PM

One, but it is coming in 11.10 (from what I read).

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3:27 PM

How to mark "allow executing file as program" on an external drive http://bit.ly/m7mZIG #permissions

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