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06:21.29leviYay, my new myth frontend is alive!  Ubuntu is going on as we speak.
06:22.29leviNow I need to buy another HDMI cable.
06:23.01Sargungood job.
06:51.00Tenelevi: have you seen this Google Wave stuff?
07:52.22leviTene: Nope... what is it?
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15:11.15whiteleyhow should I start to teach my 8-year old how to code?
15:20.55unumXO laptop?
15:21.07unumI learned at that age on basic
15:21.21unumcommodore 128 basic and gwbasic
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15:33.57whiteleyhe wants to learn to code, but thinks he can learn something quickly that will allow him to write a cool game.
15:34.14whiteleyI'm afraid if I start him out with console python apps or something, he will quickly lose interest.
15:36.10whiteleyI wonder if something like a game level editor would be an interesting place to start instead.
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15:38.01goozbachwhiteley: sign him up for the atmosphir beta
15:38.10goozbachor get a copy of "snake wrangling for kids"
15:38.23goozbachhttp://www.briggs.net.nz/log/writing/snake-wrangling-for-kids/
15:38.42goozbachhttp://atmosphir.com/
15:39.20jshipleywhiteley: you could try starting him out with pygame instead of starting with console python
15:40.18goozbachhere's an interesting idea: http://jackcoughonsoftware.blogspot.com/2009/05/teaching-functional-programming-to-kids.html
15:40.52goozbachteach fundamentals
15:41.08goozbachSWFK is more for the 10-12 or older range methinks
15:43.44jshipleyHere's a blog I read a while about teaching kids to code... quite a bit of fun: http://www.bluej.org/mrt/?p=39
15:44.24jshipleyThis is using java/greenfoot, not python/pygame, but it should still be somewhat applicable
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16:40.43SargunI love the things I've created.
16:40.45SargunI'm amazing.
16:40.47Sargun:-P
16:45.47^Migs^grats!
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16:48.36^Migs^greenfoot is sweet.  I'm adding that to our district's Links of the Day
16:50.01Sargungreenfoot?
16:50.03Sargunpurplefood.
16:50.20Sargunhttp://www.greenfoot.org/getting-started/
16:50.36Sargunoh neat
16:50.45SargunI'll give this to a non-programmer
16:51.38beelzebobquestion for you rh people...
16:51.56beelzebobhow would you fix an issue with a corrupted rpm db...
16:52.19beelzeboblet's say you restored a server's / partition, but kept /var
16:52.26beelzebobthen did a yum update
16:53.17beelzebobwhich applied updates based on an rpm db somewhere in /var, but does not know that / was actually much older
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17:08.37synicrsimpkins: bleh.  SyncIQ isn't my favorite.
17:23.01sinuheThe new --allow-unsupported-modules of SUSE is annoying.
17:23.12sinuhe(s/SUSE/SUSE's modprobe/)
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17:29.37beelzebobhm.  I guess I'll just sync over the old /var/lib/rpm and update again..
17:35.22goozbachthere's always scratch http://scratch.mit.edu/
17:35.55goozbachbeelzebob: it it just curruption?
17:36.01goozbachor is it out of date
17:36.12goozbach?
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17:45.53beelzebobgoozbach: it's just out of date
17:46.28beelzebobI recovered / using an old image, but var held current data
17:47.29goozbachi see, then you did the right thing
17:47.41goozbachmake /var/lib/rpm match what / has
17:48.09beelzebobwell, what it _did_ have :)
17:48.17beelzebobsince I updated using the current /var
17:48.30beelzebobI assume though, that those same updates will be re-applied, and I won't have to worry
17:49.57whiteleybeelzebob: bad assumption, unless you get lucky.
17:50.04whiteleybeelzebob: can you run the update with --justdb?
17:50.31beelzebobI probably could have :)
17:58.14beelzebobit looks like all the packages that were updated the first time were updated the second time
17:58.25whiteleyright.  
17:58.33whiteleyand if you're lucky, nothing broke.
17:58.52whiteleythe problem is, %pre, %post, %postun, %preun scripts are kept in the db.
17:59.23whiteleyso, during the upgrade, you were running %preun scripts that didn't match the actual files installed under /
17:59.42leviGood afternoon, folks.  Well, almost afternoon, anyway.
17:59.54beelzebobI see
17:59.58whiteleylevi: glad to see you decided to wake up.
18:00.06beelzebobI can check what scripts were run though, right?
18:00.22whiteleynot sure how you would do that.
18:00.27whiteleyif you still have a backup of the old db,
18:00.33beelzebobI do
18:00.44whiteleyyou could do rpm -q --scripts <package> for all the packages that were upgraded.
18:00.47whiteleyand examine them.
18:01.00leviwhiteley: I've been awake for far too long, just had my head stuck in debugging.
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18:09.51emcnabbhow do I turn of the on join message?
18:10.04emcnabbcan never remember
18:11.07beelzebobwhiteley: thanks for the tip
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18:13.53ibotSargun: ok
18:13.56Sargunemcnabb, try it now
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18:15.54emcnabbcool, much better :-)
18:15.57emcnabbSargun++
18:16.54SargunJust shows I've been around ibot too long
18:20.18unumlessig has a good blog post up, on why it's wrong to call free software, etc socialism
18:25.56JoshHi think only complete morons don't think it's wrong to call it socialism
18:26.25JoshHeven the people in this channel who call obama a socialist don't call free software socialist
18:38.03leviunum: Except he does exactly what he says not to do by redefining Socialism to be, at its heart, coercive.  I think getting a politically diverse set of people to actually agree on a definition of socialism would be problematic. :)
18:38.40unumlevi: lessig believes that 95% of people think of socialism as a negative thing
18:39.14unumwhy I agree that everyone would give different definitions I do agree that most would call a it a bad thing
18:39.29unumin the past I've been guilty of using that term, but I think he's right
18:39.34leviunum: I know plenty of people who think socialism is, generally, a good thing.
18:39.38unumand his next post is awesome!
18:42.08JoshHa post about why people shouldn't think free software is socialism makes as much sense as a post about why people shouldn't think that murder is ok
18:42.20JoshHboth are essentially saying that people shouldn't be utterly stupid
18:42.48JoshHi've never even heard anyone say that free software is socialism, except for maybe the occasional ballmer quote
18:45.37RyanELessig's post reminds me of Benson's talk about how the United Order was not socialism.
18:46.06RyanEor maybe it was Communism...
18:47.45unumJoshH: I've seen plenty.
18:48.32JoshHfrom people who aren't raving lunatics?
18:48.46unumwhen manithree comes back remind me to show him this:http://clubtroppo.com.au/
18:49.00unumJoshH: the guy lessig quotes is not a raving lunatic
18:49.09JoshHwell, i haven't read the post
18:49.26JoshHbut he'd probably qualify as a moron by my standards
18:49.37unumI tend to do it as well sometimes, because I don't see socialism as a bad thing
18:50.00unumI've always thought as communism as socialism my coercion
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18:50.52JoshHi think socialism is a type of government enforced economic system, and free software is people making software that is free
18:51.05JoshHbut maybe my definitions are just narrow
18:51.56unumlessig's argument is 95% of people think like you.  and us other 5% are making things confusing and hurting these new social systems by calling them socialism
18:54.26findlayI thought socialism was just a narcissistic academic vagary until recently when the web enabled well meaning programmers to consign whole generations of people to SocialMedia sites by constructing SociallyAwareAsynchronous asinine facebook apps
18:55.14leviThe ultimate goal of Marxist socialism is elimination of the state entirely.
18:55.36findlayand the adding of 1001 facebook apps to levi's fb page
18:56.10findlayactually, why don't we just put your entire page in a <blink></blink>, levi?
18:56.22unumlevi: I was reading that yesterday on wikipedia, and I realized anarchy and communism really are the exact same thing
18:56.47leviunum: For some variants of communism and anarchism, yes.
18:56.53unumlevi: true
18:56.59JoshHi always thought that the "free software is socialist" argument was just something spouted by republican businessmen to help convince governments not to use open source software, not something that anyone with a brain actually took seriously
18:57.39leviJoshH: Largely that is true, but serious socialists could also argue that it is socialist as a point in socialism's favor.
18:57.47levi"See, it works in Free Software!"
18:58.04leviThese would be the anarcho-socialists.
18:58.11unumas we are saying it all depends on you definition of socialism
18:58.24unumI should take the political compass test again
18:58.27unumit's been a while
18:58.34leviThere are also anarcho-capitalists, though.
18:58.43leviThese are the extreme libertarians.
18:58.53leviMurray Rothbard, etc.
18:59.47JoshHya, i've known a few of those
19:00.39JoshHi don't really consider them anarchists though, since it seems they want to have a government, just one made up entirely of private corporations that owns and runs everything
19:01.26JoshHthey say things like "if it would be profitable have a road running to your driveway, then they would build it"
19:01.38leviWell, I believe Rothbard considered himself an anarchist, at least later on.
19:01.48JoshHi'm not familiar with him
19:01.50leviI mean, he founded anarcho-capitalism.
19:02.03JoshHjust talkign about the ones i've known personally
19:02.20leviHe's a well-known Austrian-school economist, so you'll hear him often quoted by libertarians in economic discussions.
19:02.49leviHe was also an Objectivist for a while, part of Ayn Rand's inner circle, before they had a falling out of some sort.
19:02.54JoshHmaybe i have, but i mostly hear about rand
19:03.22JoshHi don't think the people i'm talking about do a whole lot of reading and thinking though
19:03.39leviI got a chuckle while I was watching season 1 on Andromeda with my wife and I saw Tyr lounging while reading 'The Fountainhead'.
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19:37.28sjansenhttp://punditkitchen.com/2009/05/28/political-pictures-right-crazy/
19:37.51leviHuh, Albert Einstein was a socialist.
19:38.38unumoddly enough the nazi is an abbreviation of a very long party name that includes the word socialist
19:38.46unums/the//
19:38.55leviIndeed.
19:40.32leviEinstein wrote an article for the very first issue of the Monthly Review, a socialist magazine that started in 1949.  His article was called 'Why Socialism?' and was reprinted in the May 2009 issue on its 60th anniversary.
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19:42.18unumonce had a copy of the daily worker
19:42.42sjansenhttp://failblog.org/2009/05/28/gordon-brown-fail/
19:46.51leviAnyway, I still think that lessig article sucks.
19:47.48tensaithat just proves you're a free software socialist hippie
19:48.15leviHa ha.  I'm hardly a Free Software booster.
19:49.42tensaiah yes, I recall how much you liked the fsf's ddos of apple stores
19:50.08leviYou must have missed a lot of my rants if that's the only one you remember. :)
19:51.02tensaithat was the one I seem to recall had the most passion
19:51.41stderrI think Einstein's "Why Socialism?" article raised more questions then it answered (regarding socialism)
19:52.23tensailvm++
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19:53.05leviI skimmed through it, and it looked like that was the intent.  And given its position in the opening issue of a new magazine, that makes perfect sense.
19:53.49sjansen~lvm++
19:56.25Sargun_screensjansen: yep.
19:56.30sjansen~revoke levi's Free Software license
19:56.31ibotACTION confiscates and destroys levi's Free Software license's DNRC membership certificate
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20:12.44maquis~revoke sjansen
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20:12.50maquis~DNRC
20:13.02maquis~wiki DNRC
20:13.14maquisah
20:15.36sjansenYears ago my brother emailed Dogbert to discuss his plans for world domination. As a reward, he was granted a small pacific island.
20:18.04JoshHfsf ddos of apple stores?
20:19.28tensaiJoshH: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10000290-16.html
20:23.17JoshHwell, that's pretty dumb
20:28.29unumso how does policing work with the various anarchist systems?
20:29.15unumI understand the anarch-capatilist who say the government should do nothing but policing and national defense
20:29.40unum(I disagree, but I can see why they think it would work)
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20:30.02unumbut I don't understand the ones who argue for private policing.  that just seems like it could never work.
20:31.39maquisprivate policing will always cater to whoever has the most money
20:32.01maquisif that's the government, then you have a police force that works for the government
20:32.03JoshHkinda like our current justice system, but worse
20:32.23maquisif the mafia has more money, then why would the private police work for the government?
20:37.17unumlessig talks about these issues in his first book.  the anarcho-captialist went to eastern europe to teach them the values of their way.  and they didn't work.  because the mafia filled the voided created by a weak government
20:39.28levimaquis: There is no state at all in the anarcho-capitalist system.
20:40.01unumif you want police protection you hire a police department
20:40.18unumso a ya, you pay "protection money"
20:40.54JoshHi wonder who decides what kind of money to use and how much should be made
20:41.14unumgood question
20:41.23{-}Money isn't made, it's mined.
20:41.39maquisJoshH: i suppose that you could always make do with trading items
20:41.40leviYou use whatever means of trade that is accepted by your trading partner.
20:42.01JoshHi'd offer to have my wife bake pies to pay my personal police force
20:42.18JoshHbut then how would i get squad cars for them
20:43.10maquismy guess is that a society like this would end up pretty similar to how it is in places like Somalia
20:44.10JoshHfor pretty much any ideology out there, you can see a real world example of a society based on it
20:44.32JoshHif the religious extremists had their way, we'd have a middle east type system
20:44.39maquiswhen doing debate, we actually debated a resolution which was "oppressive government is preferable to no government"
20:44.55JoshHsomalia is about as close to anarchy as it gets
20:45.09maquisit was one of the better debate topics, in my opinion.
20:45.27maquisa lot of topics were very one-sided, and i found that there were some pretty good arguments in each direction for that one
20:45.28unumwas that a lincoln douglas topic?
20:45.33maquisunum: yup
20:45.43unumlicoln douglas is the best
20:45.49JoshHif liberals got their way on a lot of things, we might have something like holland
20:45.50maquisi can't imagine seeing CX debaters trying to breath through a debate on that issue
20:45.54jshipleyI feel that it is immoral to deny police protection, medical care, etc to somebody just because they don't have the money.
20:45.56JoshHwhich i could personally live with
20:45.59maquisunum: yes it is...
20:46.05unummy high school had one of the best teams at that
20:46.14maquiswell, i've heard parliamentary is more fun, but that wasn't an option for us
20:46.20jshipleySo, I'd hate to live in Somalia.
20:46.27maquismy coach informed us when he started that if anybody tried to do CX debate, he'd quit
20:46.32{-}JoshH: You're ignoring the implications of size. The US has no chance of being Holland, no matter who is in charge.
20:46.48unumI'm not sure what you mean by CX
20:46.51JoshHtrue, size matters
20:46.59maquisunum: policy debate
20:47.10unumI thought that's probably what you meant
20:47.14maquisthe guys who talk so fast that you can't follow them :P
20:47.31unumthe year I was in debate we switched coaches from a lincoln douglas guy to a policy guy
20:47.33maquisi did debate for 2 years... LD debate, impromptu and extemporaneous speech
20:47.39unumso we had strong teams for both
20:47.59unumI did it one year and tried a few things.  I was never any good.
20:48.12maquismy coach tried to make the 2 of us who were extemp/impromptu do oratory... then he found out in our third tourney that neither of us had actually bothered to write a speech
20:48.20maquiswe would just re-use an extemp topic we'd done earlier in the day
20:48.21unumthe foreign extemp people are incrediable liars.....
20:48.25maquisunum: oh yeah
20:48.29maquisi made some good ones
20:48.56maquismy worst one was where i couldn't remember what issue of newsweek i'd found some data in... but i knew it was toward the end of february...
20:49.09unum"if I don't know what's going on neither will the judge"
20:49.25maquis"according to the february 30 issue of newsweek..." (at this point, i realize what i just said, but continue on... judge didn't notice)
20:49.57maquisunum: it's all about categorizing the judge
20:50.59maquisand not going too far off... i actually got data, and tried to keep the facts straight... but if you can't remember the exact stat, or you can't remember which issue of what magazine it came out of, you gotta just keep going
20:51.01{-}I did extemp and persuade. Extemp pissed me off because of the people who just made up their facts. Persuade pissed me off because there this girl/robot who did a super polished anti-flag burning speech.
20:51.20maquis{-}: heh
20:51.48{-}Thank goodness the anti-flag burning wackos found something else to obsess about.
20:51.49maquisi got really annoyed at this one girl in our district who somehow incorporated cheese into every impromptu speech she did
20:52.00maquisthe first 2-3 times, it was interesting
20:52.20maquisby the time i'd heard her give 15 different impromptus, i wanted to die
20:52.37maquis(primary advantage of extemp... you didn't have to watch your opponents' speeches)
20:53.01unumya
20:53.28unumwikipedia talks about different ideas that different anarcho-captailist have put forward
20:55.56goozbachprimary advantage of not being on the debate team... not having to listen to debates!
20:56.38unumif you're extemp you don't have to listen to them either
20:56.43unumexcept perhaps your own
20:57.57eggyknapsynic: ping
20:59.38penosynic is dead
20:59.43eggyknapApparently ;)
20:59.59penohe's around here somewhere though
21:00.48syniceggyknap: pong
21:01.51maquisunum: yeah
21:02.35maquissaturday evenings were always the hardest part of tournaments
21:03.00maquisby about 5pm on saturdays, our coach had to come prod us to go to our rounds...
21:03.24maquisotherwise we'd just sit in the cafeteria wishing that they had something actually edible for purchase
21:03.38unummaquis: you're from washington aren't you
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21:12.41{-}maquis is from mars
21:16.19Heartsbaneok... why Mars?
21:21.59{-}alliteration
21:27.03Heartsbaneweak sauce, I was hoping for a good reason
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21:31.56{-}~steal Heartsbane's sauce
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