| 15:48:06 | prpplague | morning all |
| 15:48:18 | | mallum was last seen on #handhelds.org 22 hours, 50 minutes and 17 seconds ago, saying: pb_: I've gotta go now ... see you tommorow ... remember to tell dc and tangent :) [Sat Jun 8 17:58:01 2002] |
| 15:48:18 | prpplague | ibot: seen mallum |
| 17:55:45 | prpplague | mallum: howdy |
| 17:57:19 | mallum | prpplague: hey there, how are you ? |
| 18:13:47 | prpplague | mallum: fine |
| 18:13:50 | prpplague | mallum: you? |
| 18:13:57 | prpplague | mallum: hows the matchbox dev? |
| 18:15:15 | mallum | prpplague: ok, lots of new stuff in upcoming 0.3 release |
| 18:16:13 | prpplague | mallum: cool |
| 18:16:28 | prpplague | mallum: anyone got a package yet for the zaurus |
| 18:16:29 | prpplague | ? |
| 18:17:05 | mallum | prpplague: hmmm, Im not sure - I dont know if bzflag has built it for the zaraus ? |
| 18:17:17 | mallum | prpplague: cann it not use familiar ipkgs ? |
| 18:17:33 | prpplague | mallum: that was my impression, but i'm not sure |
| 18:21:06 | Aelhaz | it's not familiar, so, I wouldn't expect familiar ipkgs to work |
| 18:22:18 | prpplague | Aelhaz: most of the software i say was listed with .ipk extensions |
| 18:22:31 | mallum | prpplague: you could extract the binary etc from the ipkg and it should just work if the zaraus is already running X |
| 18:23:35 | Aelhaz | *shrug* |
| 18:23:38 | prpplague | mallum: ya that might work |
| 18:23:43 | Aelhaz | <-- never rated a Z when he was at lineo |
| 18:24:00 | prpplague | Aelhaz: your not with lineo anymore? you get the ax? |
| 18:24:12 | Aelhaz | yeah, in march |
| 18:24:38 | prpplague | Aelhaz: ohh, sorry, didn't know |
| 18:24:51 | prpplague | Aelhaz: what are you doing now? |
| 18:25:09 | Aelhaz | prpplague: looking for a job |
| 18:25:15 | prpplague | ahh |
| 18:25:25 | prpplague | Aelhaz: i'll keep my eye out |
| 18:25:34 | Aelhaz | thanks |
| 18:25:46 | prpplague | Aelhaz: drop me an email with a resume |
| 18:25:51 | | you are mailto:dave123@abcsinc.com |
| 18:25:51 | prpplague | ibot: prpplague |
| 18:27:11 | Aelhaz | done |
| 18:30:10 | prpplague | Aelhaz: cool, i've forwarded a copy to a buddy in humad resources |
| 18:30:18 | Aelhaz | thanks |
| 18:31:16 | Aelhaz | so far, I've only had two credible leads. and one of them was a company that let me know right off the bat that I'd rather live in a cardboard box with a family of feral cats than work for them |
| 18:32:54 | prpplague | Aelhaz: fun |
| 18:33:10 | Aelhaz | these guys were priceless . . . timesys, so you know. |
| 18:33:29 | Aelhaz | they've had a QA position open since january, I wonder if they wonder why nobody is biting |
| 18:33:48 | prpplague | lol |
| 18:34:09 | Aelhaz | they email me, out of the blue, with a job description and a questionaire they want me to answer before they even mention any sort of interview |
| 18:34:17 | file | poeks prpplague |
| 18:34:19 | file | er pokes |
| 18:34:23 | Aelhaz | they want photocopies of my last performance review and W2 form |
| 18:34:31 | Aelhaz | etc |
| 18:34:56 | Aelhaz | I told them they had to be out of their minds, and that if they really wanted to trick someone into working for them they should pretend to be a little more trusting |
| 18:35:23 | Aelhaz | what kind of a scumbag demands, right up front, to know exactly how much you made at your last job, before even suggesting the possibility of an interview? |
| 18:35:55 | Aelhaz | here, let me hold back the collar of my shirt while i bend over and let you take a whack at my neck with an axe . . |
| 18:36:35 | Aelhaz | it's projection, yaknow. people tend to believe that everyone else is just like they are. |
| 18:37:03 | Aelhaz | so the unscrupulous assume that everyone else is just as big a liar and a cheat as they are, and tend to be very untrusting |
| 18:41:27 | prpplague | Aelhaz: yep been there, done that |
| 18:41:32 | prpplague | file: howdy |
| 18:43:50 | prpplague | hmm, i can't decided if i want to get a zaurus or one of those mizi dev kits |
| 18:46:42 | Aelhaz | prpplague: it woulda been nice to work at another embedded linux company, and it even would have been out of their office in Vestal, NY, which is a real nice town. But, eesh. At least *pretend to have a positive work environment . . . |
| 18:48:55 | prpplague | Aelhaz: lol, i know all too well what you refer too |
| 18:50:22 | prpplague | Aelhaz: the company i work for has gone overboard on "preventing theft and abuse" |
| 18:51:30 | Aelhaz | what do they do? |
| 18:51:57 | prpplague | Aelhaz: for a biz, or on the prevention stuff? |
| 18:52:48 | Aelhaz | prevention stuff |
| 18:54:13 | prpplague | Aelhaz: full line of hidden cameras, mic's in every room, magnetic cards to access all areas, long forms to fill out when getting something to test |
| 18:54:36 | Aelhaz | fun |
| 18:55:11 | Aelhaz | i always thought the best way to prevent theft was making sure your employees felt they were being treated and compensated fairly |
| 18:55:33 | prpplague | exactly |
| 18:55:40 | Aelhaz | avoids that "I oughta make $3k/yr more than i do, so I'm gonna take it out in hardware" mentality |
| 18:57:33 | Aelhaz | i thought lineo did a great job of that. I *really miss working there . . |
| 18:57:38 | Aelhaz | best job i ever had |
| 18:58:25 | prpplague | ya thats what i've heard |
| 18:58:45 | file | returns |
| 18:59:52 | file | wishes Aelhaz was working at Lineo again |
| 19:03:12 | file | pokes prpplague |
| 19:04:24 | prpplague | peeks file |
| 19:04:35 | file | poke( prpplague ); |
| 19:04:46 | file | prpplague : what's up? |
| 19:06:35 | file | answer me! |
| 19:11:22 | prpplague | - gcc: warning: prplague previously defined in drinkbeer.h |
| 19:11:31 | file | oh no |
| 19:35:01 | Aelhaz | anyone recommend a good image browser app for linux? |
| 19:35:19 | Aelhaz | gqview has a good ui, but somehow it's actually slower reloading the cached version of an image than it is when reading it off the disk the first time |
| 19:37:02 | prpplague | Aelhaz: hmm, i;ve always found gqview pretty solid |
| 19:38:08 | prpplague | Aelhaz: the nautilus runs ok for browsing thumb nails, kinda bloated though |
| 19:38:48 | Aelhaz | *nod* |
| 20:49:57 | Russ | could play with gthumb |