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James Gifford

15:00

@OctavianDamiean Where is this mystical chatroom? I can't find it.

Rinzwind

lol

17:00 operation 'sandstorm' is about to start.
bb when I get home :)

Octavian Damiean

@JamesGifford chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/15/android-help

James Gifford

@OctavianDamiean Thank you.

I've been led to believe that Mr. AppSlap has requested access to that room.

Octavian Damiean

@JamesGifford he should be able to talk now

James Gifford

@OctavianDamiean Sweet.

If he gives you trouble, tell me. :P

Octavian Damiean

15:10

don't worry ;)

James Gifford

I won't then.

Cas

@haltman live.gnome.org/Gedit/Windows

I installed npp with wine and found the autoindent is pathetic for python coding

ive never tried gedit for windows but you will need to enable the Python Indentation plugin

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James Gifford

@OctavianDamiean He's not able to talk for some reason, even though he has 20+ rep on SO.

Octavian Damiean

@JamesGifford damn ... the access rights thingy seems to be bugged then

James Gifford

15:24

@OctavianDamiean I'm going to have him drop in here for a sec.

@OctavianDamiean Appears that chat.SE thinks his rep is 1, and SO thinks it's 21.

So they're out of sync

Octavian Damiean

@JamesGifford hmm, when did he get the rep?

recently?

James Gifford

@OctavianDamiean Very recently.

like, less than an hour ago.

Octavian Damiean

@JamesGifford not sure but that might be the problem then

James Gifford

@OctavianDamiean That's what I was thinking

haltman

@Cas I'm installing Aptana ;-)

Cas

15:31

not heard of that before

ive tried too many IDEs and ended up back with gedit and command line

Roland Taylor

omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/05/…

the hell?

remove libreoffice????

for the love of God!

get a damned DVD version...

soon from now Ubuntu will just be a big button..... INSTALL

-_-

Cas

lol

James Gifford

@RolandTaylor agrees

TheX

@RolandTaylor....

wow

James Gifford

@cas get used to it. @RolandTaylor is our resident complainer that actually complains about stuff that makes sense.

:P

Roland Taylor

15:34

They're removing Pitivi - okay fine, it sucks. But at least they could replace it.

James Gifford

Eh. I never used it.

TheX

@RolandTaylor I think they should replace LibreOffice with Microsoft Office myself...

Roland Taylor

Removing computer janitor (finally) nice, that's fine.

Removing LibreOffice?!

What will they do next?

James Gifford

Removing LibreOffice is like, trying to remove the browser

ITS NOT COOL

Roland Taylor

Remove firefox?

oh wow you beat me to it

I'll be honest...

Cas

15:35

i need to find more about dejadup since i use backupintime atm

James Gifford

I'm fine with removing Firefox. Just not the browser. :P

Roland Taylor

Canonical/who ever is responsible is getting me pretty angry

TheX

speekign of libreoffice, how do I insert page numbers?

James Gifford

@RolandTaylor It's a "community decision"

or something. :P

Roland Taylor

@TheX it's somewhere in the insert menu, after you add a footer

or header or something

James Gifford

15:36

off topic where is that big list of music players? I've got a friend who's looking for some, but I can't find the big list

Roland Taylor

I haven't done it in a while

@JamesGifford community decision?

Just like GNOME Shell

James Gifford

@RolandTaylor It's always the community decision. :P

Roland Taylor

:)

James Gifford

;)

TheX

@RolandTaylor found it...

insert > fields > page number

Roland Taylor

15:37

I wonder if the community will suggest switching to the BSD kernel

because "it brings us closer to a genuine Mac core"

@TheX sweet

James Gifford

@RolandTaylor Oh no.

I refuse to use a BSD kernel.

just because I can refuse to use it

Roland Taylor

@JamesGifford well sorry son, it's already in Debian (optional), it's only a matter of time before the Benevolent Dictator for (other people's, not mine) Life decides to push it in :)

James Gifford

@RolandTaylor Well, I'm switching to suse then. And then I'll be back, just like I was before

My google-foo is failing me.

wow. my entire search foo is failing

Roland Taylor

XD

actually, it's time to switch to gentoo

James Gifford

@RolandTaylor Eh. Arch is where it's at man.

Or better yet, Chrome OS

;D

Roland Taylor

15:43

that way WE decide how to break the system XD

haltman

Now I have to go ciao everybody!

Roland Taylor

@haltman cya

James Gifford

@haltman Cya!

Roland Taylor

@JamesGifford I should be careful complaining though, I won't have many friends if I continue to stand up for common sense against a wave of (throwing common sense through the door) "wisdom".

James Gifford

@RolandTaylor Eh, I've done that and I've just got very good friends. Not many of them, but the ones I have are just plain awesome

Roland Taylor

15:45

Of course, I'm also putting myself at risk of being blacklisted for disagreeing with the "all-knowing" "community".

James Gifford

pffft.

remember what @MarcoCeppi said - anyone who jokes about the Ban Hammer gets Banned.

OK. Since I can't find a question that asks it, I'm going to go write it.

Roland Taylor

I'm not joking, or talking about being banned...

Just being blacklisted in people's minds

James Gifford

@RolandTaylor Oh. Misunderstood you there.

TheX

ban hammer doesn't scare me....

James Gifford

There's always a need for the rabble rouser. He's not liked, but he's needed. :P

TheX

15:49

runs for his life and cowers in the corner

2buntu.com is going to become known as (X)-buntu

Roland Taylor

@JamesGifford I've never been much liked in my 23yrs... so I guess I fit the job description :)

@TheX haha

that's funny, I was once working on a distro called X-buntu

O.o

TheX

so you started this?

xubuntu.org

James Gifford

@RolandTaylor I've never been liked either. I'm always the "nerd" and the "socially inept". hehe. ;)

Roland Taylor

(it meant extreme, and it came on a DVD, and yes, I started X-buntu, not xubuntu)

TheX

lol

Roland Taylor

15:54

brb

washing car

James Gifford

I love people who do things like this.

@scouser73 is awesome

Stefano Palazzo

@JamesGifford what'd he do?

James Gifford

@StefanoPalazzo I asked a question. One of those software-recommendation type things. He's just answering like crazy.

Stefano Palazzo

heh I just saw that

James Gifford

I couldn't find one that was just a list of music players.

they all had restrictions like "I need iTunes import" or something like that

@StefanoPalazzo You probably saw it because it got flagged as a dup. :P

It'll look like Unity.

I think. :P

Stefano Palazzo

16:06

oh my

I'm mentioned on Ars Technica

2

James Gifford

@StefanoPalazzo EPIC.

Congrats. :)

Stefano Palazzo

not by name, but still, pretty cool! :D

I better check the usage statistics

James Gifford

@Amith haha. :)

@Amith Not right now.

I'm not a KDE fan. . . it's too slow on my system

@Amith haha yeah

@Amith alright. cya around. good luck with KDE (if you decide to try again)

really? Three close votes? :(

Alaukik

16:51

@RolandTaylor they are not removing libreoffice they will just have a DISCUSSION just for the sake of it .

Roland Taylor

@Alaukik I know that...

James Gifford

might not have known that ;)

Roland Taylor

knew that... but still thinks it's a silly discussion to even bring up in the first place

James Gifford

@Amith Libreoffice can run?!

It doesn't run on my system. Well, it does, but it's sloowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Alaukik

@Amith for me it runs fine

TheX

16:56

@RolandTaylor hi

Roland Taylor

I can run it fine on a netbook

with a huge document too

TheX

@RolandTaylor I just have one question for you

Roland Taylor

hai @TheX

@TheX sure

TheX

WHATS UP?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

James Gifford

@RolandTaylor not when you're running three webservers, four browsers and a few vims.

;)

Roland Taylor

16:57

@TheX LOL!!!!

TheX

@JamesGifford if that is the case... then how does anything run on your netbook?

Roland Taylor

busy-ness is up XD

@JamesGifford O.o

James Gifford

@TheX Very slowly.

Roland Taylor

how much ram does your netbook have?

TheX

@RolandTaylor it has 1gb

James Gifford

16:58

1GB.

Roland Taylor

hmm

I think the one I test on has 512MB

TheX

I don't know why i am answering for him

James Gifford

I just don't run firefox as one of the browsers.. ;)

Roland Taylor

XD

reminds me of an episode of 227 I saw on gospel music channel last night

James Gifford

@TheX Precisely. For all you know, that 2GB upgrade that I haven't ordered yet could have shown up today.

Roland Taylor

16:59

Rose was answering every time Mary was asked a question :D

TheX

aww I miss the gospel music channel

James Gifford

@Amith no idea. I'd be interested in finding out though

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