#garfield Logs

Apr 11 2013

00:03 rue_house whats that a piece of kat?
00:04 rue_house after the terrorist act they dont need permission for anything anymore
00:08 useless-afk for the back end of the Tektronix oscope plugins
00:08 rue_house oo!
00:10 useless-afk http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/8/4/2/9/3/6/webimg/359943256_tp.jpg
00:10 useless-afk a) they break 2) people wanna make custom projects and they quit making those 30 yrs ago
00:12 eless-afk is setting up to make the entire box for 7000 series oscopes and TM500/TM5000 mainfr
00:12 useless-afk and 5000 series oscopes
00:16 rue_house I wonder if I could cast some for you
00:17 useless-afk you prolly could, Tektronix cast those in plastic, and they cast the front plate in aluminum
00:19 rue_house can you sell them on ebay for much?
00:19 useless-afk dunno, no one is, but several have been begging for them in email listserves
00:20 useless-afk the problem is if there is a market for them, people will trash good plugins for theparts
00:20 rue_house I could prolyl cast, by volume, about 12 to 15 at once
00:20 rue_house thats about $3 in diesel
00:20 rue_house recycled alum
00:20 useless-afk so to be fair and have good karma, you'd haveto sell below what the scrappers sell for
00:20 rue_house + cost shipping it to you and time for your cleanup
00:21 rue_house and time for me to pour
00:21 rue_house say 15, at $15 ea thats..
00:21 rue_house $225
00:21 rue_house 112.50ea
00:22 useless-afk just for the plates??
00:22 rue_house for that cast bit?
00:22 useless-afk yeas! i just made a set for $1.60 in materials!!
00:22 rue_house right, but you made it
00:22 rue_house you put $40 of time into it?
00:23 useless-afk the faceplate i'll really cheap on and sel recycled sheet steel, new sheet steel, or 1/8 plate aluminum
00:23 rue_house why didn't I see a plate
00:23 useless-afk yes, making them entirely by hand, the first time, figuring out how to do it right
00:23 rue_house oh the cover
00:23 useless-afk cover?
00:23 rue_house I saw a pic of a handle before that
00:24 useless-afk rear : http://i.ebayimg.com/t/TEKTRONIX-7A13-DIFFERENTIAL-COMPARATOR-PLUG-IN-/00/s/MzAwWDQwMA==/$(KGrHqYOKnME52g6phDJBOr+9PDUfw~~60_1.JPG
00:24 rue_house <useless-afk> course, that's a copy of the oem piece, and i now need to center and bolt up to what i am making, and remove the excess material
00:24 useless-afk front : http://i.ebayimg.com/t/TEKTRONIX-7A13-DIFFERENTIAL-COMPARATOR-PLUG-IN-/00/s/MzAwWDQwMA==/$(KGrHqJ,!lgE5uhBZRtpBOr+9LiGLQ~~60_1.JPG
00:24 rue_house <useless-afk> you prolly could, Tektronix cast those in plastic, and they cast the front plate in aluminum
00:25 useless-afk http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tek-Tektronix-016-0362-02-Toolbox-plug-in-Opt-13-for-TM500-series-/190801180433 <<== TM500 plain box
00:25 rue_house http://i.ebayimg.com/t/TEKTRONIX-7A13-DIFFERENTIAL-COMPARATOR-PLUG-IN-/00/s/MzAwWDQwMA==/$(KGrHqJ,!lgE5uhBZRtpBOr+9LiGLQ~~60_1.JPG
00:25 rue_house it stops at $
00:25 rue_house huh
00:25 useless-afk i think i canmake a non-tektronix version of that for $15
00:43 useless-afk hmmm http://dynamic.xkcd.com/random/comic/
00:43 useless-afk 503 Service Unavailable
00:43 useless-afk No server is available to handle this request.
00:43 rue_house haha
00:43 rue_house apr 1st joke?
00:44 useless-afk this is the 11th
00:47 useless-afk ouch, if you eat 150 calories per hour for 20 hours, that's 3000 calories
00:47 useless-afk that;s like 1/2 a candybar
00:48 useless-afk 90 caloeries an hour for 16 hours is 1500 calories
00:53 rue_house how many watts is that
00:54 rue_house You have: 90 cal/hr
00:54 rue_house You want: watts
00:54 rue_house * 0.10467
09:21 rue_house dosn't the body consume like 40W just idle?
12:24 useless-afk "severed some nerves and a tendon, requiring surgery and nerve graphs." <<== i wonder how the graphs helped anyone
12:30 useless-afk "Our concern is that there will be new accidents with steel coils following off of trailers." <<== i imagine it would be annoying to have steel coils following the trucks around town
12:32 useless-afk "When we passed the law we didn't have any accidents after that legislation was passed" <<== "when we passed the law (we looked into the crystal ball to discover) we didn't have any accidents after that legislation was passed"
12:33 useless-afk On April 11, 2013, 11:00 AM
12:33 useless-afk A security consultant by the name of Hugo Teso claims he has created an Android app called PlaneSploit that would allow him to remotely attack and hijack commercial aircraft.
13:09 useless-afk tornado warnings on the storm front coming in, i'll be knocked offline eventually today
13:43 useless-afk i dunno how i gain weight: i actually made lunch today, sat down here, took a few bites, did web things, left to do some hacksawing, came back to take pics, discovered i didn't finish lunch i started eating 90 minutes ago
13:55 useless-afk damnit, i put the sammich down and it's still not half gone
14:14 useless-afk finshed the sammich!
14:14 useless-afk took 110 minutes because i kept doing other things
14:33 useless-afk i started a file move before i went to bed last nite, it just popped up a window to tell me a dir by that name already exists, and do i want to overwrite the new files into it?
14:43 useless-afk ------------
14:43 useless-afk Jeremiah Nugent�s mower drowned out the frantic screams of his wife Nicole as he backed over his Ireland, severely injuring her.
14:44 useless-afk <thought process> lets drive a dangerous machine over here without looking where we are going, despite the possibility something or someone may be very very painfully chopped to pieces if we do so </thought process>
14:44 useless-afk ------------
14:46 useless-afk According to one report, each year more than 600 children undergo lawn mower-related amputations, said the Amputee Coalition of America.
14:46 useless-afk Another puts the figure at about 800 children run over by riding mowers and 75 people killed � one in five of whom are children, according to the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission.
14:47 eless-afk suggests eyes be installed in all humans at birth, so the humans can detect the situation (someone is where i am about to m
14:47 useless-afk ------------
15:09 m_itx waits for num
15:13 useless-afk you said it would take 30 minutes, i cannot afford to pay you for your time or the spindle time
15:15 useless-afk yano, at 600 per year, there's 12,000 humans under the age of 20 who are missing feet because of idiot mower drivers, that's more than died at Pearl and the WTC and Iraq put together
15:16 useless-afk it's about the same number of people who suicide each year, but while suicides are illegal, the kids keep on getting feets amputated by mowers
15:16 useless-afk i seriously do not understand humans
15:19 useless-afk i ran a bush hog on a farm while in high school, i was extremely aware of every direction the tractor and mower could go, as bounded by physics, including the whole rig going sideways, i was EXTREMELY aware.......... Another puts the figure at about 800 children run over by riding mowers and 75 people killed � one in five of whom are children, according to the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission.
15:21 useless-afk so a 47 yr old man mowed his daughter's feet off, while as a teen 40 years ago i knew better
15:21 useless-afk i seriously do not understand humans
15:25 useless-afk did i mention i am unemployed? and i will remain unemployed the rest of my life, even tho i know better than to mow the feet off of kids and pets?
15:27 useless-afk it is freaking mind boggling that i am refused employment
15:35 useless-afk crap, there are popups ahead of the main line, i hear thunder, i have file moves in progress
15:35 useless-afk http://classic.wunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?ID=BMX&region=c4&lat=33.59627914&lon=-86.32241821
15:50 Tom_itx http://www.electronicproducts.com/Power_Products/Power_and_Control/Need_to_melt_some_metal_Do_it_yourself_using_some_wire_and_magnets.aspx
15:50 Tom_itx rue_house
15:52 Tom_itx http://www.electronicproducts.com/Electromechanical_Components/Motors_and_Controllers/Electric_power_steering_is_taking_control.aspx
15:59 useless-afk yeas, why i grabbed all thos Lexus electric power steering units
16:07 useless-afk i cannot play the movie on either http://www.electronicproducts.com/Power_Products/Power_and_Control/Need_to_melt_some_metal_Do_it_yourself_using_some_wire_and_magnets.aspx or http://www.geek.com/science/this-is-how-you-melt-metal-with-magnets-1544652/
17:10 useless-afk http://classic.wunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?ID=BMX&region=c4
18:02 useless-afk i need a translator : "ahh kep kalinum"
18:52 useless-afk kallinum is the leftovers from Kolinar?
21:00 eless remembers a word "surface" , but hasn't heard it in along time,, altho humans do say surfis, surfuss, and sur
21:01 Tom_itx suffice
21:01 useless that's a different word
21:01 Tom_itx uh huh
21:01 useless surfice != surfis
21:02 Tom_itx surfis isn't a word
21:02 Tom_itx is it?
21:05 useless they say it here
21:05 useless my internet connection just did a bad burp
21:06 useless 2 minutes, everything hung
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21:06 useless did it again
21:07 iamturnip rue_house: so over 17" on those ATX cases is not godo for you?
21:07 iamturnip I have some beauty aluminium cases that are a bit taller than your avg desktop
21:08 useless lay it on it's side, attach wheels, install small SLA, let it take the trash out to the curb
21:09 useless let it carry firewood to the boiler
21:10 useless cut the tops, ends, and bottom out, glue to the side of the workshop, so it looks like it's a wall of stacked up puters,,,, word will get out that you work on and in computers
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22:24 useless there's a couple of inexpensive Tek 7904 500Mhz oscopes on ebay
22:25 useless the one with the tiny screen is a higher speed and brighter crt, prolly can be pushed to a Ghz
22:27 useless this one is already in Calgary Canadia : http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tektronix-7904-Oscilloscope-with-7A18-Dual-Trace-Amplifier-7B92-Dual-Time-Base-/261198155010
22:28 useless seems to have aproblem , may need fixing, may be one of the plugins has shorted the psu, could be a prolem
22:29 useless he's lying about the crack in the glass, if the crt has a crack it would not show any image
22:52 useless i need a 6.5 x 10 monitor ,, i might settle for a 8x10 , what do you suggest?
23:43 useless due to power blinks this week, and running chkdsk on the other puter 3x, i will have db corruption, and it will take weeks to move 64 gigabytes between two computers