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| [04:49] <Ultimoore> Hey all | |
| [07:16] <DarwinSurvivor> hey | |
| [16:04] <BobJonkman> Ubuntu Hour in Kitchener tonight, 7:00pm EST at Misty Mountain Cafe | |
| [16:04] <genii-around> Wish I could make it :( | |
| [16:06] <BobJonkman> genii-around! You haven't been around | |
| [16:07] <BobJonkman> I have to go to Toronto on Sunday -- care to have an impromptu Ubuntu Hour there? | |
| [16:07] <genii-around> BobJonkman: I have a huge construction project on the go in the building next door, will be busy until April or so, except for Fridays. | |
| [16:08] <genii-around> BobJonkman: Sunday is actually a really good day for that, because we have usually some people hanging out in the FreeNet office all day and tinkering | |
| [16:08] <BobJonkman> That | |
| [16:09] <BobJonkman> That sounds like it's good for you. Work is better than no work | |
| [16:10] <genii-around> BobJonkman: Yeah but these 70-100 hour work weeks are grinding me down. Hopefully I'll have enough cash stashed after for a decent new computer though | |
| [16:11] <BobJonkman> So, will you have an hour-long break sometime on Sunday? Maybe an Ubuntu Lunch Hour? | |
| [16:12] <genii-around> Sounds like a possible plan. Let me see who is going to be hanging around this Sunday in the office and get back to you | |
| [16:13] <BobJonkman> OK, let me know a place and a time and I'll put something in the LoCo calendar, post to the mailing list(s), and I'll show up with a small handful of 11.10 and 11.04 CDs | |
| [16:13] <BobJonkman> Got to find a place to hand those out by April | |
| [16:17] <genii-around> I've distributed most of the Oneiric CDs, I think I have some server ones and maybe 2-3 regular | |
| [16:40] <mimcpher> How does the shiny ubuntu branded CD distribution work, anyways? mysterious people (I've never seen who) tends to drop a box of them off at the Waterloo Computer Science Club where we hand 'em out | |
| [16:40] <mimcpher> canonical used to mail them to us but that doesn't happen anymore | |
| [16:40] <genii-around> mimcpher: They will ship them now out only toLoCos | |
| [16:41] <mimcpher> Ah, I see. We were ca.archive.ubuntu.com; they'd ship 'em to us. Now we're just a "regular" old mirror | |
| [16:42] <genii-around> mimcpher: In your case probably dscassel is slipping in and dropping them off :) | |
| [16:42] <mimcpher> genii-around: hmm, I have seen him around :P | |
| [16:42] <mimcpher> Never correllated it with CD dropoffs :P | |
| [16:43] <mimcpher> but then, I use Debian <ducks> | |
| [16:43] <genii-around> It's all good. | |
| [16:45] <BobJonkman> I think the UofW is still the Canadian mirror... | |
| [16:45] * BobJonkman checks his software repositories | |
| [16:47] <genii-around> There was one in sherbrooke | |
| [16:49] <mimcpher> sherbrooke's one is gone | |
| [16:49] <mimcpher> (our reign as the supreme canadian free software mirror continues!) | |
| [16:50] <genii-around> Heh | |
| [16:51] <genii-around> Being in Toronto I occasionally will use yorku.ca Ubuntu repository, when the regular ones are having issues | |
| [16:51] <BobJonkman> Hmm... ca.archive.ubuntu.com resolves to a range from 91.189.92.169 to 91.189.92.184, all of which reverse-resolve to somename.canonical.com | |
| [16:52] <mimcpher> Waterloo throttled our bandwidth to 100mbit over a year ago, so ca.archive got pointed to canonical machines instead | |
| [16:52] <mimcpher> (We kept saturating the university's links...) | |
| [16:52] <mimcpher> We are ca.releases.ubuntu.com still | |
| [16:53] <BobJonkman> Hmm. The current ca repositories are still the fastest from Waterloo. | |
| [16:54] <BobJonkman> Wonder where the canonical.com servers are located? | |
| [16:54] <mimcpher> USA somewhere | |
| [16:54] <BobJonkman> Canonical has offices in Canada; Montreal I think.. | |
| [16:55] <mimcpher> BobJonkman: we're fast if you transit to the university via ORION, the Ontario Research Innovation Optical Network. | |
| [16:55] <mimcpher> That'll be some canadian home ISPs, all universities/hospitals/gov't/stuff | |
| [16:57] <mimcpher> zaurac.canonical.com is connected via Sprint; afaik they don't have operations outside the US | |
| [16:58] <mimcpher> oh, missed a hop. They're in a european data center owned by datahop | |
| [17:00] <BobJonkman> Nope. On a regular consumer connection here. "Rogers Business", but I dispute the "Business" part (in services rendered, not in revenue extracted) | |
| [17:05] <mimcpher> Rogers peers with ORION, so yes it'll be fast | |
| [17:12] <BobJonkman> Well, that's good to know. Doesn't make me like Rogers any better, tho. | |
| [17:12] <mimcpher> Bell is basically the only ISP I've tried that doesn't | |
| [20:24] <johanbr> Hmm... Videotron appears to reach the University of Waterloo through Chicago, via Sprint and Shaw | |
| [20:33] <mimcpher> Through chicago? Seems a bit roundabout. | |
| [20:33] <mimcpher> I'd expect there to be Quebec -> Toronto fibre | |
| [20:38] <johanbr> Oh, no doubt, but I've heard Videotron is picky about their peering | |
| [20:39] <johanbr> somewhat like Bell, but maybe not quite as bad | |