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TheX

18:30

@JorgeCastro I didn't realize you are a VIP at Canonical till I saw your name mentioned in a article...

Jorge Castro

I'm no more a vip than the next person

Marco Ceppi

But he's a totally rad guy!

TheX

by VIP I meant a employee

Marco Ceppi

Him and @Evan both work for Canonical/Ubuntu - there are a few others lurking around the site who are also employed there - I don't recall their names though

marenostrum

:11382 Done. You are welcome!

Jorge Castro

18:43

hey I need to go

wiki.ubuntu.com/UDSProceedings/N

can someone perhaps ask how to follow along with UDS?

the proceedings on that page are the answer. :)

it might help people get the information they want.

TheX

19:01

Hey @JorgeCastro when does unity with compiz become available?

hmm I forgot proper grammer over night I guess...

Marco Ceppi

:11398 ASAP

TheX

@MarcoCeppi ASAP is not a very detailed answer :P

Marco Ceppi

It's the official one

A: When will compiz-based version Unity be available for testing?

This is available via the release of Natty Alpha 1. There is currently a PPA available that was made available for earlier releases of Natty, but this is now no longer necessary; The Unity Installation Guide has intructions on how to install and test this. Unfortunately due to complications wit...

TheX

That could be tomorrow that could be 3 months from now :P

Marco Ceppi

Likely will be on or around Alpha 1 of Natty

TheX

19:04

Not that I care, I was just curious, I am perfectly happy with using Gnome-Shell for now

Jorge Castro

ugh

this is really frustrating

TheX

me?

Jorge Castro

why are people voting up answers that have ZERO citation and references

Marco Ceppi

This is my favorite "WTF" answer by far

askubuntu.com/questions/10020/deleting-files-by-force/…

Why are there three upvotes for this!?

TheX

It doesn't any more

Marco Ceppi

19:08

Well - it would make a funny comment. But it's not a solution

TheX

Down to 0

DoR

@TheX It has 4 upvotes and 4 downvotes, so the guy still got 36 rep from that xD

Marco Ceppi

Q_Q

TheX

oh...

DoR

Burning electronics is not cool

Marco Ceppi

19:10

I think that answer will go to the trash can

TheX

lol @ picture

DoR

Marco Ceppi

TheX

Is that Bill Gates?

DoR

TheX

19:14

can you answer my questions without the use of graphics?

DoR

Problem?

Marco Ceppi

@TheX
Picard
(???)
Rick Moranis from Spaceballs
Reagan(???)
Problem?

DoR

@MarcoCeppi REAGAN?? That's Yao Ming

Marco Ceppi

Looks like Reagan

But I'm not much of a sports fan

DoR

That's a pretty good trollface by Reagan xD

Marco Ceppi

19:33

Wow with the exception of the notification icon Steam looks really good in wine

lovinglinux

19:47

@MarcoCeppi Last time I tried it, I couldn't buy or install free games from the interface, so only those already in my account were available.

TheX

steam....

lovinglinux

yes

TheX

when my computer steams.. that is not usually a good thing

just saying....

lovinglinux

@TheX Mine did that once. Actually, the motherboard :(

Marco Ceppi

:11440 Seems to work when I installed Steam through POL

TheX

19:49

yeah... it is bad when you let the magic smoke out of the mobo...

Marco Ceppi

We did that with a monitor once...

►

lovinglinux

:11446 Oh, that's good. Thanks for the info. I will try it with POL again.

TheX

I did that once... with an old computer.... complete with sparks and all

Marco Ceppi

Yeah, I don't recommend doing it though. We were dumb teenagers then. The environment, it bleeds

TheX

I forced the plug for the power supply in the mobo wrong on purpose just to see what would happen

lovinglinux

19:50

A saw a friend doing smokes after plugin a 110v computer on 220v socket.

TheX

the magic smoke escaped...

lovinglinux

from LOST computer :)

lovinglinux

and the men in black took over

lovinglinux

and everyone was dead in the end

TheX

whaaaa?

lovinglinux

19:53

Didn't you watch LOST?

TheX

lovinglinux

whaaaa?

TheX

I get to go donate 90 dollars to the state of IL after I get off work today...

pareticuarly the department of motor vehicles

DoR

You planning on speeding?

TheX

No, vehicle registration expires on Sunday...

Marco Ceppi

19:56

Two seconds too late

TheX

Sucks... like they don't get enough of my money... and I work for the state...

awesome headline in the local paper 'Troll' promises jobs in Illinois Quad-Cities

DoR

@TheX "Troll"?

TheX

I guess it is a new movie they are working on...

But at first I thought they where refering to a message board troll

DoR

Found it: qctimes.com/news/local/…

Marco Ceppi

Man, I'm just two seconds behind again

DoR

20:00

I bet that movie will suck bad

TheX

@DoR, what are you trying to say us Illionioans can't make movies?

DoR

I don't care if Spielberg was directing it, it's called 'Troll'

TheX

got to go, talk to you later

DoR

and it is subtitled " A Tail's Tale" @_@

If I see one more "Will Unity be customizable etc." question...

txwikinger

20:22

@JorgeCastro: I just got a funny question from someone... they asked: What is AsKubuntu.com for

nebukadnezzar

hey

Marco Ceppi

Hey @nebukadnezzar

nebukadnezzar

hi @MarcoCeppi

stighy

Marco Ceppi

stighy

20:26

are u italian ?

Marco Ceppi

@stighy My family is, but I live in the US

stighy

;) ok i'm italian !

stighy

;)

Marco Ceppi

:11512 What part of Italy?

stighy

Milan

Marco Ceppi

20:27

Ah, it's so beautiful there

stighy

... mmmm i don't think so ! :-| !

stighy

smog

stighy

traffic

stighy

and girls are cold... veeeeery cold ;) !

Marco Ceppi

Well, when I visited it was nice - it still has a very rustic/historic look to it - like Rome just less Romish

I'm sure it's different if you live there though. I live by Washington DC in the US and everyone always says how nice it must be to live by the capitol. I have a different stance on that though ;)

stighy

20:29

Yes this is true...

stighy

What's your job ? Or maybe, are u a student ?

Marco Ceppi

I work as a Linux System Administrator - I haven't been a student for quite some time now :)

stighy

ah ok ! ;)

stighy

Ok i go, a greetings from italy ... bye

lovinglinux

20:48

:11481 They keep coming.

DoR

lovinglinux

:11535 Another one askubuntu.com/questions/10121/ubuntu-11-04-and-gnome-3

lovinglinux

Edited wrong link

Marco Ceppi

22:07

Pretty close results on OMG Ubuntu's poll

DoR

22:18

I actually use Banshee more because it has the amazon mp3 plugin, but I voted Rhythmbox. Banshee goes unresponsive too often for it to be default IMO.

Marco Ceppi

I have always liked rhythmbox.

I vaguely recall a conversation like this in this chat earlier