Big shout out to @valentina who has just finished the new artwork for MangoLassi's Facebook page! Get over there and check out the new "Fruit of Knowledge in the IT Garden of Eden" theme that she created for us. The new look is amazing and please like and follow the Facebook page and share with your friends!
I can think of a few people I'd want to remember this way, but none of them are exes...
Looking to get yourself a present this Valentine's Day? The El Paso Zoo has you covered. It will name a cockroach after your ex and then feed it to a meerkat live on camera.
You can message the zoo on Facebook with your ex's name, then wait patiently for February 14 to watch the roach get devoured during the "Quit Bugging Me" meerkat event, which will live-stream on Facebook and the zoo's website. The names of those exes will also be displayed around the meerkat exhibit and on social media starting February 11. The zoo calls it "the perfect Valentine's Day gift."
There are Bird scooters in the area, too, if anyone is like @pchiodo and is addicted to them.
Hey everybody, I heard through the grapevine that you're looking for some hotel info. Here's what I've got:
Address of Alamo Drafthouse Las Colinas
320 West Las Colinas Boulevard, Irving, TX 75039
Here are the nearest hotels, and their relative price ranges.
$ - under $120/night
$$ - $120 - $200/night
$$$ - over $200/night
$
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Irving Conv Ctr - Las Colinas
333 W John Carpenter Fwy, Irving, TX 75039
$
Holiday Inn Las Colinas
110 W John Carpenter Fwy, Irving, TX 75039
$
Homewood Suites by Hilton Dallas-Irving-Las Colinas
4300 Wingren Dr, Irving, TX 75039
$$
Texican Court
501 West Las Colinas Boulevard, Irving, TX 75039
$$
Aloft Las Colinas
122 E John Carpenter Fwy, Irving, TX 75062
$$$
Omni Mandalay Hotel at Las Colinas
221 E Las Colinas Blvd E, Irving, TX 75039
$$$
Dallas Marriott Las Colinas
223 West Las Colinas Boulevard, Irving, TX 75039
Then there are a whole bunch of hotels in the $ price range near this one:
$
Candlewood Suites Dallas-Las Colinas
5300 Green Park Dr, Irving, TX 75038
@jaredbusch said in Error While Updating Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10:
Always reboot before doing system updates, IMO.
It was freshly powered up just to do the update. So it was.
It's all installed now. So far, it's looking pretty good.
1261 packages to update.
964MB to download.
Might take a little while.
Ran it again, and it worked the second time.
Going to reboot and try again, brb.
Trying to do the normal, command line upgrade process (this is for a workstation but the GUI hasn't shown the update as being available yet) and I get this error...
$ sudo do-release-upgrade -d
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [819 B]
Get:2 Upgrade tool [1,263 kB]
Fetched 1,264 kB in 0s (0 B/s)
authenticate 'cosmic.tar.gz' against 'cosmic.tar.gz.gpg'
extracting 'cosmic.tar.gz'
Reading cache
Segmentation fault
@eddiejennings said in MangoCon 2019 Venue Announcement:
Any plans of having a block of rooms at
$hotelfor MangoCon folks to reserve?
We've found that you don't really save money on the room rate when reserving a block, vs reserving via booking.com, expedia, etc., so no, we hadn't planned on it. Also, there are hotels from several different chains nearby, so this way people can just book their preferred brand on their own.
We're excited to announce that MangoCon 2019 will be held at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Las Colinas! This brand new venue is located in the Toyota Music Factory complex and is surrounded by restaurants and bars with plenty of hotels nearby. It's close to both DFW and Love Field airports, so no matter from where you're flying, it will be easy to get to.
@JaredBusch brought to our attention that it's so new that the GoogleMaps satellite view still shows it as a pile of dirt! So we will be heading down there to confirm the existence of sidewalks between the Alamo Drafthouse and the closest hotels. Please stay tuned for a list of hotels and other attractions in the area, and MangoCon welcomes you to Dallas!
I think your best strategy is to get on the job hunt now, and be ready to move when you find a position you want. I don’t know of a specific head hunting company in the area, but maybe that’s the best way to go, since you’re holding out for the right fit?
@rojoloco said in MangoCon 2019:
@donahue said in MangoCon 2019:
Is there any cost for bringing a guest? I would love to bring the wife. I doubt she would be interested in the tech, just a vacation.
I was wondering about that as well. I'll probably be bringing the girlfriend unit if I'm able to attend.
We hadn't really thought about this yet, because let's face it, nobody's main squeeze was interested in going to Rochester, NY 
For anyone who wants to commit to being a speaker: Please send me your topic (if you have one), a hi-res picture with good lighting (might I suggest taking a peek at the pics of the current set of speakers for an idea of what would make you look super cool), and a bio. We might need to fine tune topics, but I'd love to get an idea of who our speakers are and add you to the website as soon as we are able.
Thanks, fixed now. That's what you get for letting your husband get involved, no proof reading. But most of you are used to that by now from him.
A little house cleaning, actually. When better than at one in the morning 