#garfield Logs

Apr 27 2012

00:00 Jax184 it came through Free Geek while I was still with them
00:00 Jax184 I seem to recall I found it hidden away in the room behind the store
00:00 Jax184 I asked what on earth it was doing back there, and if I could buy it
00:00 Jax184 got it for $50
00:00 katsmeow-afk wow
00:00 Jax184 ebay suggests $400 would be a better price for one, if it was recently calibrated
00:01 iamturnip Jax184: i see you got to talk to rue_house about the tester a bit
00:01 iamturnip is the diagram readable enough for you
00:01 katsmeow-afk yeas, and worth even more in at test place where you can automate it with HPIB/IEEE488 ,, which can prolly use one of those Apple2's as a master on
00:01 Jax184 iamturnip: If he left an assembled one with you, I can just copy that
00:01 katsmeow-afk i keep wanting to say that poweramp is a Dyanco or McIntosh
00:02 Jax184 which one?
00:02 katsmeow-afk right of retrodesk
00:02 Jax184 iamturnip: BTW, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJiUQfplJQY - this is the nerdy video I made at the convention
00:02 Jax184 at the old house?
00:02 katsmeow-afk i have an older Marantz
00:02 katsmeow-afk http://www.jax184.com/pictures/room/05-2007%20-%20Present/Shop/T1i_7166t.JPG
00:02 Jax184 it was a Kenwood KA-7100 (Whose volume knob goes to infinity! ...in the wrong direction.) and a Nad
00:03 Jax184 I traded them both in at a store near here for $150 and bought a newer Yamaha
00:03 katsmeow-afk i don't see the older scope you mention
00:04 tsmeow-afk has a dead Tek 2235, several 7603's, and two 7104's, and a HP, a couple other porta
00:04 Jax184 http://www.jax184.com/pictures/room/05-2007%20-%2002-2011/Shop/T1i_7175s.JPG - directly to the right of the signal generator
00:05 Jax184 I've since replaced it with a 100 Mhz Hitachi 1050
00:05 katsmeow-afk ah, it's just a baby!
00:06 katsmeow-afk i have an Hitachi 60Mhz i'd be happy to sell
00:07 katsmeow-afk luv those chairs with armrests, all mine are also
00:08 tsmeow-afk is also aspie, but it doesn't show, usually, because i dunno anyone and i keep to myself, cept on
00:08 tsmeow-afk is so not happy with the state of humans, but can't do anything abou
00:09 Jax184 those chairs came from the national film board of canada
00:09 Jax184 got them for $1 each
00:09 katsmeow-afk so replace your Apple's with my Vic20 & C64 collection, and we about equal on most stuff .... i did get rid of all my crt monitors tho, too much room heat
00:10 katsmeow-afk i got two for picking them up, one for $15, i think the otehr 2 cost money, but not much
00:10 mturnip is surrounded by aspies and is OK with
00:12 katsmeow-afk i don't know anyone irl, so i am sure i am not surrounded by aspies, so i don't know if i am happy about that or not, i don't have enough data
00:12 katsmeow-afk i have a bad feeling http://www.mainelectronics.com/ is in Cdn$, and not US$
00:13 Jax184 it is
00:13 Jax184 though the dollar is close to par these days
00:14 katsmeow-afk there's nothing here to buy from, all my stuff is from the internet
00:14 katsmeow-afk the way things are going, my food may be too
00:15 katsmeow-afk <cough>
00:16 Jax184 I'd suggest digikey or mouser then
00:17 katsmeow-afk rue, did i just manage to alienate anotehr two humans on irc?
00:17 katsmeow-afk or ebay
00:18 katsmeow-afk i sold a couple $1k on ebay, i need to find a recurring profit value-added line of things i can make and sell
00:18 katsmeow-afk the things i am interested in, people will pay only the least of what's on ebay, ***no matter the quality***
00:19 katsmeow-afk good paint, test results printed out, guarantee, nope, they'll pay $10 less for soemthing run over by a forklift and guaranteed to be broken and have missing parts
00:20 katsmeow-afk i made a test jig to test mots, got voltage/current plots, no one was interested
00:20 katsmeow-afk i dunno
00:20 katsmeow-afk rue?
00:25 iamturnip is he busy searching skype?
00:26 katsmeow-afk no clue
00:27 katsmeow-afk it would be sad if he gets caught up in one of those porn raids the usa is doing lately
00:28 Jax184 porn raids?
00:29 Jax184 I prefer porn RAIDs, I keep all my porn on a 2TB array
00:30 katsmeow-afk they busted the potus secret service for having sex in Columbia and Panama and everywhere else they could,, it was like the Tiger Woods fiasco
00:30 katsmeow-afk and every 6 mo there's a usa congressman in some sex sting
00:31 katsmeow-afk i've got a good 25 or 30 drives that need to be in a raid of some sort
00:31 katsmeow-afk 300gig, 320 gig, 250gig, that ballpark
00:31 katsmeow-afk all pata
00:31 Jax184 tricky
00:32 Jax184 I've got 3x1TB Seagate SATA drives in a RAID 5
00:32 katsmeow-afk yeas, i am contemplating building my own controller
00:32 Jax184 even that's crashed on me twice
00:32 Jax184 though the second time I was really asking for trouble
00:32 katsmeow-afk yeas, and tb drives just take all that longer to rebuild from remote hdrives
00:35 katsmeow-afk the simple math of paralleling the smalelr drives appeals to me: if a single drive can do 40Mbyte transfer sustained, then 10 in a parallel raid can do 400Mbyte sustained
00:35 Jax184 though in the real world it's very very difficult to approach that ideal
00:35 Jax184 especially with lots of small files
00:36 katsmeow-afk true
00:37 Jax184 the stripe size could be 32k-128k, meaning small files would be stored on only a single drive
00:37 katsmeow-afk not if half the point was full backups
00:39 Jax184 well, you'd have a hash of it on another drive
00:39 katsmeow-afk in a way, it's not just getting the platetr read, it's also about freeing up the drive and cable to it, for the next read or write
00:40 katsmeow-afk i have a sneaky feeling that if i have all the html and txt files read and parsed by Tiggr, i'll be burning thru , as in killing , 5 or 10 drives, just from keeping them real busy for a year
00:45 katsmeow-afk <cough>
01:01 tsmeow-afk waves gnites
18:36 zhanx i wonder if its legal to kick the crap out of my boss
18:36 zhanx one can only take being belittled so much
18:44 Tom_itx you could be a test case
18:44 Tom_itx talk to his superior
18:48 katsmeow-afk men often use gender and sex terms to belittle, praps you could charge him with some sex crime
18:51 katsmeow-afk does he often ask you about your anatomy? or if you are female, or does he ask to verify this, or some other activity?
18:52 katsmeow-afk make sure he knows, and the rest of the base does too, that no matetr what he does, you are not going to have sex with him
18:58 zhanx he never asked about my anatomy
18:58 katsmeow-afk sorry, i didn't make out that last transmission
18:58 zhanx he is gonna be stepping light soon, i am now the company EO rep
18:58 zhanx had my photo taken today
18:59 zhanx oh and i have delay saying this, but its one of the reasons i am not on a lot lately
18:59 zhanx i am getting married
18:59 zhanx may 18th
18:59 katsmeow-afk i figured that way he can dump on you about everyone under you, and everyone under you can bitch up at you about the officers
18:59 katsmeow-afk wow,, congrats
19:00 katsmeow-afk we are going to miss having you around
19:00 zhanx i will be around still
19:00 zhanx trading my car for a truck maybe tomorrow
19:00 tsmeow-afk
19:01 katsmeow-afk i'd sell you mine, but it really needs a 400hp engine swap
19:02 zhanx my lifestyle needs a truck
19:02 katsmeow-afk almost 7pm here, i need to get to store to get parts for another 300ft extension cord
19:02 zhanx k
19:03 katsmeow-afk as in "buy 12 ft extension cord, patch in 250ft of 10awg"
19:03 katsmeow-afk for power at creek to run water pump
19:03 katsmeow-afk i got pipe downt to the water yesterday, got wire prepped, ran out of energy today
19:04 katsmeow-afk bbl
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22:58 rue_house hahah its almost impossable to find a 14guage extension cord!
22:59 Tom_itx yeah most are 16 now
22:59 rue_house so my video is up to 16000 hits now
22:59 Tom_itx cheap ones aren't even that good
22:59 Tom_itx what video?
22:59 rue_house the solder pot
22:59 Tom_itx guess i missed that one
23:04 rue_house 2012/04/27/a-papercraft-resistor-calculator-from-adafruit/#comment-639410
23:05 rue_house no
23:05 rue_house http://hackaday.com/2012/04/25/homebrew-solder-pot-is-too-dangerous-even-for-us/
23:05 rue_house browser dosn't copy sometimes
23:05 katsmeow-afk it's now hard to find short extension cords too, like 14awg 6ft long
23:05 katsmeow-afk that much more stuff to buy from ebay <shrug>
23:06 katsmeow-afk it is awefully quiet lately in here and RoboTics
23:08 Tom_itx unsafe rue
23:08 Tom_itx bad bad rue
23:08 katsmeow-afk which one is unsafe now?
23:08 Tom_itx the hackaday one
23:08 katsmeow-afk rue has several on hackaday
23:09 Tom_itx halogen bulb solder melting pot
23:09 katsmeow-afk oh, well, we knew that before it got on hackaday
23:10 rue_house its turns out its not tho
23:10 rue_house one guy there doused his lamp with water and it wouldn't break, I suspect its all quartz, so thermal isn't really a problem for ti
23:10 katsmeow-afk exploding glass, cracking reflectors?
23:11 katsmeow-afk solidifying and shrinking solder?
23:11 katsmeow-afk heating up and expanding solder?
23:11 tsmeow-afk is just wag
23:13 rue_house I put a catch pan under it
23:13 tsmeow-afk
23:14 katsmeow-afk i'd try it, if i had the lamp already
23:31 katsmeow-afk rue, etc, i think the lack of energy really is carb-protien related: i picked up a pizza and ate some for dinner, then a lil for breakfast, instead of the protien shake i usually have for breakfast,,,
23:31 katsmeow-afk and promptly lost energy, all energy, for hours
23:39 katsmeow-afk http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1112523326/links-between-smoking-during-pregnancy-and-autism/