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01:58.41SupaplexI have before me, 1lb4oz of hot ready to eat hardwood smoked baby back ribs. mmmmm yumm
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02:28.39ibotbrac: ok
02:36.08Supaplex?!
02:36.15Supaplexhaha
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03:20.42sontek:O
03:20.50Supaplexsup
03:21.13sontekhows life?
03:21.13Supaplexwith my cold, not so great
03:21.19sontek:(
03:21.19Supaplexotherwise, I guess it's ok.
03:21.29sontekI'm trying to find a hotel room in Portland for OSCOn
03:21.32sontekits hard =)
03:21.43Supaplexthey don't have hotels there?
03:21.51Supaplexoh, a vacant one.
03:21.56Supaplex;)
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04:02.35sontekgot one!
04:02.38sontek1.1 miles away though
04:02.45sontekthat'll be a nice walk everyday
04:04.21Supaplexheh
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16:40.21harleypigAnybody good with javascript and familiar withprototype listening?
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18:34.43QBFreak-chat about your feet
18:34.45bracyour feet wet, so that you could just chop it all from a guy who has the right direction, though I guess i'll have to drive without it and write it that long :P
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19:05.03mtheathIt's kind of interesting that Linux is exempted from the kind of lawsuits Microsoft faced a while back where they were told they had to make it easy for users to intall alternative browsers, etc.
19:05.27mtheathlots of linux distros don't make that easy either
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19:06.17mtheathYou can argue that, with Linux, you can always go play with the stuff under the hood and customize everything and install what you want anyway
19:07.15mtheathBut when it comes down to a strict, legal sense, you can do that with Windows just as much - it would be quite legal and simple for a developer to make a better explorer.exe, or replace core libraries that do things the way you want it done. WINE alrady writes clones of core windows components, and gets away with it
19:10.22herlomtheath: except that the big difference is that with Linux, the browsers are NOT part of the operating system, which is why M$ was told to remove the advantages it gives to IE and/or make them avaialable to *all* browsers.  In linux you get this out of the box...
19:12.01mtheathherlo, My comments are mainly sparked by http://slashdot.org/articles/07/07/22/1247210.shtml
19:12.11mtheath(Sorry for linking there, their site is down)
19:12.34mtheathThats a Linux desktop environment with insane Firefox integration
19:12.45herlomtheath: np.  Not everything on /. is valid.  They do have good stories sometimes...
19:13.09mtheathWhat makes a system like Windows prone to legal attacks like that, and not a distro based on something like this?
19:15.20herlothe openness of Linux vs the closedness of M$
19:16.29mtheathTechnically, Microsoft sofwtare is not closed at all
19:16.29mtheathAll their APIs are well documented
19:16.34herlomtheath: but their code is closed
19:16.42mtheathIt would probably be much easier for people to make things that caused sweeping changes to the MS OS than it would be for Linux.
19:16.43herlomtheath: and that's why they are liable to be sued, where linux will not
19:16.48mtheath(in some situatios
19:17.01herlomtheath: not legally
19:17.15mtheathherlo, Sure, legally. How do you think things like WINE exist?
19:17.28mtheathWINE is a legal reimplementation of the complete Windows API.
19:17.54mtheathThere is a WINE shell, an explorer.exe-like thing. As a basic example of a change you could make to Windows, you could copy over that new shell and run it as your main shell on Windows.
19:18.04herlomtheath: true, but they didn't *read* any windows code to do it.  They probably used other techniques like reverse engineering and such
19:18.13mtheathNo
19:18.33herloif they had read the code, m$ could sue them because they could read the code and say its the same
19:18.41herlothe wine code
19:18.44mtheathThey read documentation by Microsoft, that is publicly available and on the internet, that invites changes and use of Microsoft software.
19:18.57mtheathherlo, I know. My point is, you don't have to read the code to make changes to an operating system
19:19.18mtheathThefore, your ability to make changes to an OS are the same, whether it is commercial or open source.
19:19.29herlomtheath: if you are using only their api, that's not really changing hte os
19:19.49herlomtheath: if you are modifying their source code (windows) without license, that's illegal.
19:20.13herlomtheath: if you are modifying linux's source code, you are granted the license
19:20.17herloand that's legal
19:20.24mtheathI'm not talking about modifying their source code.
19:20.36mtheathI never said anything about modifying Windows source code.
19:40.11mtheathAnyone here use GNU Parted much?
19:49.56Supaplexnot a whole lot, but yea
19:50.50mtheathDoes it support moving a partitions starting place?
19:51.01mtheathI'm thinking about installing Linux on this system, to dual-boot with Windows.
19:51.18mtheathSo the partition scheme would roughly be |Windows | Linux | Swap |
19:51.38mtheathWhat if I want to eventually ditch windows and just have | Linux | Swap | ? Would Parted do that?
19:51.57SupaplexI'm not sure what happens to the data, but I think it might
19:56.38mtheathI'm excited. First time running a true 64 bit operating system on this system :)
20:05.45Supaplexwhat, dos not good enough for you? ;)
20:07.41mtheathmeh, they make 64bit windows
20:07.45mtheathNever had the money to get one
20:07.49mtheathand vendors never preinstall it
20:10.32Supaplexafaik, 64bit windows it's fully 64bit.
20:10.41Supaplexi don't recall what
20:10.55mtheathhuh?
20:11.06mtheaths/it's/isn't/g   ?
20:19.23Supaplexoh yeah.
20:19.36Supaplexit's not
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20:28.59mtheathyah, Itunes is smart enough to not try to import the subdirectory that you're imprting things to :P
20:33.47Supaplexhaha cool.
21:46.44findlay~cool mtheath
21:46.45ibotACTION takes out a fan to wave over mtheath but decides to beat mtheath with it instead
21:47.18mtheathUh
21:47.22mtheathThanks, findlay.
21:49.45mtheathI don't understand what Windows is doing. O.o
22:04.24Supaplexcrumbling
22:04.44mtheathI decided to try the file backup thing builtin to it
22:04.53mtheathIts spent about an hour now "Formatting the disk..."
22:05.12mtheathWhy does it need to Format an already formatted DVD for filesystem backup? And why does it take so long?
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22:37.04findlay~lart windows
22:37.04ibotjudo chops windows
22:37.25mtheathThank you, findlay.\
22:37.39findlayno problem
22:38.00findlayany time you need someone to lart windows I'll be here
22:38.09Supaplexme to ;)
22:38.11mtheathOK, I'll be in contact.
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22:49.40bracstuff was related to...
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