#garfield Logs

Feb 25 2015

09:36 rue_more I cant find evidence that tek ever made a power supply
09:38 rue_more can you throw me a model number?
16:19 katsmeow-afk http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xtektronix+ps.TRS0&_nkw=tektronix+ps&ghostText=&_sacat=0
16:22 katsmeow-afk http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=tektronix+ps&_from=R40&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR2.TRC1.A0.H0.Xtektronix+current+probe.TRS0&_nkw=tektronix+current+probe&ghostText=&_sacat=0
18:10 katsmeow-afk tehre is no snow here, none all day, unlikely to be any, but 3 - 6 inches up north, so the local tv has preempted the entire day to report onsnow we don't have, including the national news, because snow we do not have is more important than wtf is going on the nation and world
19:26 rue_more I cant find any online schematics for a ps5004
19:26 katsmeow-afk prolly not, after ~1990 Tek didn't like giving out schematics
19:27 katsmeow-afk all the PS5xx have schematics tho
19:27 rue_more ok, can you help me more?
19:27 katsmeow-afk do what?
19:27 rue_more ps501?
19:28 katsmeow-afk i have schematics for that
19:28 rue_more can you upload them to my computer?
19:28 tsmeow-afk opens the pdf to ve
19:29 katsmeow-afk ok
19:29 katsmeow-afk no : [19:09:25] [L] Unable to resolve host: rueshouse.dyndns.org
19:30 rue_more oh, yea, dyndns blew up
19:30 rue_more try
19:30 katsmeow-afk i didn't do that
19:30 rue_more if you had, many people would be upset with you
19:31 rue_more 205.250.205.216
19:31 rue_more what a stupid ip addesss
19:32 katsmeow-afk http://DesignerThinking.com/tek-ps501.pdf in 10 minutes
19:32 rue_more that works too
19:32 katsmeow-afk i hope so, because you didn't gimme a password
19:33 rue_more I'm sure you have enough of them already
19:33 rue_more boxes and boxes of old passwords
19:33 katsmeow-afk stacks of them, yeas
19:33 katsmeow-afk some really long ones too
19:34 rue_more thisisastupidpasswordsthatsdesignedtomeetthepasswordcharacterrequirementonthissite
19:39 katsmeow-afk if you have an account at a place that may ask you for your password, make it really insulting to the site, so when they screw up your account, you can insult them from the side just by them seeing your password
19:43 katsmeow-afk http://DesignerThinking.com/tek-ps501.pdf
19:51 katsmeow-afk hellow?
19:52 katsmeow-afk keep in mind Tek wanted to make stuff complicated, made it easier to patent
19:53 rue_more falling asleep
19:53 katsmeow-afk but their circuit explainations were good
19:53 rue_more just downloading now
19:56 katsmeow-afk they did stuff like use 1% resistors inline with variable pots, and opamps back then were pretty much the olde 741 and nothing
19:57 katsmeow-afk the LM301, etc
19:58 katsmeow-afk remember in 1980, a 20Mhz lab-grade flash adc was a rackmount and cost $30,000
20:00 katsmeow-afk i got my paws on a TI brand 20Mhz adc chip that was 1.25 wide, 3 long, and ran so hot it would take your fingerprints off
20:00 katsmeow-afk that was 1979/80
20:01 katsmeow-afk it was a custom chip, they didn't make them until that chip, all previous were SA types
20:02 katsmeow-afk but, good thing for us, when Tek was bought out, they orphaned all the old equipment, which makes it cheaper on ebay
20:02 katsmeow-afk stuff that was $2000 new in 1975 is $8 from china on ebay now
20:03 katsmeow-afk Tek still sells $120,000 scopes, but it's also made in China and sold on ebay
20:08 Tom_itx i figured out what happened to the hdd
20:08 Tom_itx but i'm not gonna say ...
20:08 rue_more ?
20:08 tsmeow-afk lis
20:08 Tom_itx it was a bug
20:08 katsmeow-afk <blink>
20:08 Tom_itx a bad bad bug
20:08 rue_more litteraly?
20:08 Tom_itx virus
20:08 rue_more oh, the hard drive encrypting one?
20:08 Tom_itx i dunno
20:09 katsmeow-afk drat, and i had said "trojan"
20:09 Tom_itx btw JT_Shop is building a reprap and needs a few questions answered but you gotta catch him early AM or early PM
20:10 Tom_itx i told him to join robotics instead of reprap
20:10 rue_more tom, do you know what the virus was called?
20:10 Tom_itx he's got a 24v systm and got those 5 pack of steppers from china with a ramps 1.4 etc
20:10 Tom_itx no i don't
20:11 Tom_itx it was virtually undetectable
20:11 rue_more the big one for windows latley is that encrypting one, they hold you for randsom to get your data back
20:11 Tom_itx no that wasn't it
20:11 rue_more ah
20:11 rue_more I'm glad I use linux
20:11 Tom_itx i use it too
20:11 Tom_itx but i also use windows
20:12 Tom_itx after i copied my drive i was installing stuff and i caught it in the act just before it went off again
20:12 katsmeow-afk what did it lok like whenit went off?
20:12 Tom_itx your copy of windows isn't registered
20:12 Tom_itx you need to re register and get a new key
20:13 katsmeow-afk and how did you stop it?
20:13 Tom_itx and i wouldn't reappear until you got a new key then it would immediately do it again
20:13 Tom_itx removed some questionable software i had
20:13 Tom_itx stopped it before it finished installing
20:13 katsmeow-afk o
20:14 tsmeow-afk makes a note to not install software she can ques
20:14 Tom_itx but it will take weeks to get things all back the way i like them
20:15 Tom_itx i won't know what all i was missing until i go to use it...
20:15 rue_more windows is lucky its worth so much or people wouldn't go to all this trouble
20:15 Tom_itx i must say there are programs for windows that have no comparison in linux
20:15 Tom_itx or i wouldn't care what OS i used
20:16 katsmeow-afk yeas, if i didn't use windoze i wouldn't have thet schematic for rue
20:16 Tom_itx beyond that, it's just a tool for me
20:16 rue_more you paid $200 for windows, you spent betwen 15 mins and half an hour with microsoft to make it work, and your putting weeks into getting it working again, I'm sure its worth it!
20:17 Tom_itx can you generate code to cut airplane parts with linux?
20:17 Tom_itx if i sent you an iges file
20:17 Tom_itx or catia file
20:17 rue_more I need to get my machine going :(
20:17 Tom_itx yessir you do
20:18 katsmeow-afk whatever you do with yor windows in theprivacy of your own mad scientists lair, is none of my business ;-)
20:18 Tom_itx i must say, all the purchased software i have has paid for itself many times over or i wouldn't have it
20:18 rue_more indeed
20:19 rue_more I kinda wonder if I'll ever make money with my shop, or just play
20:19 Tom_itx in fact, the 6-8k i spent on the cadcam was recooperated in the first year i owned it
20:19 rue_more the few times I'v had to do money projects its sucked, so i hope I play to death
20:19 katsmeow-afk err, what?
20:20 Tom_itx the first version i owned was a dos verson too
20:20 Tom_itx i still have it
20:20 Tom_itx for lathe and mill
20:20 Tom_itx it's old but it still generates a tool path quite well
20:21 Tom_L ok that still works
20:22 Tom_itx rue_more you could make money if you really tried
20:23 katsmeow-afk sounds like my cue to leave
20:23 Tom_itx way back when... i told the guy i could help him with some programming. i had no idea how to do it but i went out on a limb and purchased the software and learned it and produced
20:23 rue_more ?
20:23 rue_more I dont want to make money, I want to have fun
20:23 rue_more the two dont mix
20:24 Tom_itx when it isn't fun anymore i quit
20:24 rue_more katsmeow-afk, ouch, a 1R current sense
20:24 katsmeow-afk it's a 1/2 amp psu
20:24 rue_more OH! hehe
20:25 Tom_itx that stupid ddns01 site is working again on my webpage
20:25 Tom_itx it quit for the longest time...
20:25 rue_more do you know what happened?
20:26 Tom_itx no
20:26 rue_more katsmeow-afk, it dosn't have much mroe than a handfull of components
20:26 Tom_itx i kept registering the ip etc and it just wouldn't work
20:26 Tom_itx then it did
20:27 Tom_itx http://tom-itx.ddns01.com:81/~webpage/index.php
20:27 Tom_itx http://tom-itx.no-ip.biz:81/~webpage/index.php
20:27 Tom_itx i keep em both up
20:27 Tom_itx in case...
20:27 rue_more I'm waiting for the day that server my site it on blows up, I have no backups
20:28 Tom_itx make a backup
20:28 rue_more bit of a rue internal debate as to if thats a good or bad thing
20:28 Tom_itx back it up to min
20:28 Tom_itx e
20:28 Tom_itx even if you just stored it there
20:28 rue_more the sites a mess and isn't used for what it was designed for
20:28 rue_more it needs a lot of time put into it and even then its of limited worth
20:29 rue_more I have almost all the content, just not filed togethor
20:29 Tom_itx the hdd's been a bit noisy lately but it's still working
20:29 rue_more I use mirrored raid for all my data storage
20:29 rue_more and now I have a 32G SD card for offline backups
20:30 Tom_itx i got a 64G one but windows didn't like it so i put it in my phone
20:31 rue_more katsmeow-afk, +, but no - sense line
20:31 Tom_itx is it hard to get a permanent visa to canada?
20:31 rue_more I think windows is limited to 2G
20:31 rue_more na, we leave the door open
20:32 katsmeow-afk you need a job and be young and have a sponsor, tom
20:32 Tom_itx count me out then
20:32 rue_more I'm sure the flyer says that
20:32 rue_more its a lie, we really do let prettymuch anyone in
20:34 Tom_itx i think it's a bit too cold up there for me
20:34 rue_more its 5c here now
20:34 rue_more what you at, -10c?
20:35 Tom_itx the wind changed earlier and it's getting cold again
20:35 rue_more average here is 8
20:35 rue_more right now
20:35 rue_more says the 100gal water tank
20:35 Tom_itx 34�F
20:35 rue_more it was a nice warm day today, take your jacket off and bask in the sun during break
20:35 Tom_itx it was 60 something today
20:36 Tom_itx 24 for the high tomorrow and 6 overnight
20:41 rue_more I have to focus on what to work on
20:41 rue_more somewhere I got distracted
20:41 rue_more I want to work on a vacuum former
20:42 rue_more the cnc
20:42 rue_more and the toaster oven (which is comming along great so far)
20:42 Tom_itx oh i get my DAC board tomorrow
20:42 Tom_itx he swapped me
20:42 rue_more I got the electric tiller converstion working
20:42 rue_more on the dac baord for the power supply
20:42 Tom_itx for the spindle 0-10v
20:42 rue_more yea, my vref
20:43 Tom_itx i had one but this is alot nicer
20:45 rue_more oh and I wanted to look up two things on the human brain
20:45 rue_more short term memory location and....
20:45 rue_more and.....
20:45 rue_more oh areas stimulated by music
20:47 Tom_itx plants grow better with hard rock
20:47 Tom_itx than other like clasical
20:47 Tom_itx mythbusters proved it
20:47 rue_more hah
20:51 rue_more katsmeow-afk, do you have any interest finding a graphic locating short term memory location int eh humna brain?
20:52 katsmeow-afk no :-(
20:52 rue_more http://d4nations.com/webpubl/images/man%20with%203%20pieces%20head%20kopiera-2.jpg
20:52 rue_more this looks accurate :)
20:53 katsmeow-afk k
20:54 rue_more https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/92/85/94/92859497f30d27daf0f8d43ba895187e.jpg
20:54 rue_more http://dericbownds.net/uploaded_images/trained_music.gif
20:55 tsmeow-afk wanders
21:09 e_more wander
21:14 rue_more dac board
21:14 rue_more I haev enough energy to click a link tonight tho
21:14 e_more clicks on "dr
21:15 rue_more oh fire alarm controller too
23:13 katsmeow-afk .
23:23 rue_more W25x40 ... wow
23:24 katsmeow-afk lexa doig is from Van
23:27 katsmeow-afk Tom buys software andmakes money from it, says you can make money also, i can not literally give anything away, altho people will steal from me
23:40 katsmeow-afk http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0796264/locations