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The Tech Ponies

The Tech Ponies

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Fellow Ponies that enjoy technology in general. Or more specifically: coding, designing, building, modding etc.

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  1. Here goes. I'm about to try to set up a server to run a MUD. Wish me luck. !techponies !vgp

    Monday, 18-Apr-11 21:59:24 UTC from web
    • Just wrote up a hack-ish tweak for the Status.Net User class to automatically put new registering users into a group based on its ID number. My PHP skills aren't the hottest, so if anypony would check it / improve it, that'ld be nice. It should be functional as is, though. http://retl.info/extra/pony/RDN/defaultgroupsnippet.zip (Zip contains snippet and example.) !notice !techponies http://is.gd/LUslGX

      Monday, 18-Apr-11 06:18:18 UTC from web
      • Hmm. Tried installing StatusNet Desktop in my linux VM. Boy, did it ever not work at all. Times like this, I wish I actually knew what I was doing. !techponies

        Sunday, 17-Apr-11 16:31:57 UTC from StatusNet Desktop
        • The herd has too much control over meh... I just spent the past hour making an Archlinux package of the pony font 'CelestiaMedium' and submitted it to the AUR when i could have just easily shove it into one of the font directories and forgotten about it.... What Have I Done?!?! http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=48293

          Sunday, 17-Apr-11 00:44:25 UTC from web
        • Any !techponies ever put Linux on an old Mac blue-and-white G3? I looked into NetBSD, something about flashing the firmware, shelved the project for the time. Anyway, thinking maybe Puppy or another lightweight distro - any input? Thanks in advance!

          Saturday, 16-Apr-11 05:58:13 UTC from StatusNet Android
          • Just testing to see if I can post from the links browser. !techponies

            Wednesday, 13-Apr-11 19:08:22 UTC from web
            • @scribus 1000 cheers for you! Arch is speedy and wonderful. !techponies

              Wednesday, 13-Apr-11 15:25:53 UTC from web
            • All right! Arch on my netbook. Absolute victory. Now, to force myself to learn the CLI more. # !techponies

              Wednesday, 13-Apr-11 14:44:47 UTC from web
              • Well, I'm going to try to put Arch # on my netbook. Wish me luck, !techponies.

                Wednesday, 13-Apr-11 13:20:46 UTC from web
              • !techponies I remember when I got my first 1.4 MB 3 1/2" disk. That cherries was DOUBLE DENSITY, man. You could fit ten whole hypercard stacks on it and still have room to spare. On that day, I truly was a god among nerds.

                Monday, 11-Apr-11 23:49:54 UTC from gwibber
              • Any other !techponies (or anyone) have issues with StatusNet on smartphones not picking up all the updates on the public stream? I've got a 9+ hour gap, and I'd posted from my computer during that time so I know the site was live.

                Sunday, 10-Apr-11 08:21:19 UTC from StatusNet Android
                • @scribus You're posting on here from an Android? What version and how happy are you with it, if you mind me asking? My boyfriend is really attached to his and I need a new phone, so I've been considering picking one up!

                  Saturday, 09-Apr-11 11:20:34 UTC from web
                  • @firefly It's al LG Ally, Verizon network. I'm pretty pleased with it, but it does have some quirks at times (mostly touchscreen lag) and it won't run all of the available apps (usually high-powered games), but that's mostly hardware. The OS is nice, I'd like to shoot for stronger hardware on my upgrade. Mostly, I chose this one for the physical keyboard. I have a tough time with virtual keyboards. You could probably ask other !techponies for more input.

                    Saturday, 09-Apr-11 11:28:24 UTC in context
                • @rotation ¯\(°_0)/¯ I honestly don't remember. I think I was just trying to get a grasp on how 3d transformations were done. And then looking at the source again, apparently I made the 3d thing in a different class. In physics class, I made a 2d ascii drawing engine thing, then rendered fractals for the rest of the school year. Didn't forget that. Good times. :3 http://youtu.be/-kyZW4bMQg0 !techponies

                  Thursday, 07-Apr-11 23:28:10 UTC from web
                • @pride !techponies HA! Love it. I'm actually more a sys admin. I'm just in charge of dredging the logs for errors to ASSIST our dev's with bug triage.

                  Thursday, 07-Apr-11 21:59:47 UTC from web
                  • !techponies Programmer? This will kill you. http://imgur.com/gallery/ZyeCO

                    Thursday, 07-Apr-11 21:37:10 UTC from web
                  • @mithent Not really.... One of the guys I work with has taken to checking ponychan for images he finds funny. Other than that... no. !techponies

                    Thursday, 07-Apr-11 19:15:46 UTC from web
                  • @spittiepie Ah, got it. The wingpanel made it look WAY similar to the shots in Ars Technica's Gnome 3.0 review from today !techponies

                    Thursday, 07-Apr-11 19:14:25 UTC from web
                    • @mithent Oh yeah. We're a team of 6 people, and for the sake of people not from our dept. we label our seating areas with our name for easy identification. So, time and again someone will print up new "names" for us and assign them based on attributes. Previously it had been Marvel Comics Characters, Gender Swaps of our names, etc. So I did ponies. No one had seen the show on my team, and it lead to them having to watch/research to determine the background of their assigned pony. She had Pinkie Pie. She was... mad. She ended up watching the show and then changed her pony "name" to Nightmare Moon.... after that, she just fell into the fandom of it. If tl;dr: I played a prank involving ponies, got her to watch the show !techponies

                      Thursday, 07-Apr-11 18:54:12 UTC from web
                    • @spittiepie Gnome 3.0 for desktop manager? !techponies

                      Thursday, 07-Apr-11 19:06:11 UTC from web
                    • Luckily at home i use only Ubuntu 10.10 (but i try other distros, like Chakra)... at school i use windows xp/vista ;_; http://is.gd/rYQQkj !techponies

                      Thursday, 07-Apr-11 19:03:42 UTC from gwibber
                    • !techponies The girl we shamed into running Linux over OS X also fell into a bit of MLP:FiM fandom. Here's here desktop (with Conky) http://goo.gl/xXslX

                      Thursday, 07-Apr-11 18:38:43 UTC from web
                    • @pride HA! !techponies

                      Thursday, 07-Apr-11 18:36:16 UTC from web
                      • !techponies Oh god I laughed so hard: http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/img/2009/10/windows7-stallman.jpg

                        Thursday, 07-Apr-11 18:34:54 UTC from web
                      • @scribus For me, Windows 2000 has always been "That OS running on the server that froze.... again" !techponies

                        Thursday, 07-Apr-11 18:31:31 UTC from web
                      • @mithent My team here takes great pride in mocking our OS X member (to the point where she switched to Linux outside of home use) !techponies

                        Thursday, 07-Apr-11 18:28:48 UTC from web
                        • !techponies @ponygeist Windows 7 runs faster on my 4 year old laptop than XP ever did. Lovin' it.

                          Thursday, 07-Apr-11 18:27:57 UTC from web
                          • !techponies @princessluna @puzzlemint I will admit, using Windows 7 has been SURPRISINGLY refreshing compared to the headaches of 2000/XP (never bothered with Vista at work)

                            Thursday, 07-Apr-11 18:24:48 UTC from web
                          • !techponies what OS do you use and why? For me, I'm a Linux user, primarily CrunchBang because I can boot it in 10 seconds flat! ....and it's stable and pretty.

                            Thursday, 07-Apr-11 18:18:03 UTC from web
                          • @scribus I was a long time Ubuntu user until I started seeing some slowdown on my primary with 10.10. Jumped over to CruchBang for most of my systems (still have a 10.04 system that serves as filestorage and backup) !techponies

                            Thursday, 07-Apr-11 18:27:13 UTC from web
                            • !techponies ello, i just whipped up a batch file that randomly chooses a episode fore you. if you dont know how to use batch files, simply copy everything from this link into notepad and save it as .bat NOT .txt also feedback would be great! http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=njmrmhQL

                              Thursday, 07-Apr-11 04:45:57 UTC from web