#garfield Logs

Jul 02 2022

09:17 AM rue_bed: morning
09:42 AM Tom_L: morning
10:11 AM rue_mohr: ma has some garage sales for us to visit
10:12 AM Tom_L: what's the smallest desktop box that will fit a micro atx board you know of?
10:12 AM Tom_L: i need a box for this extra board
10:12 AM rue_mohr: to my knowledge its all custom fit
10:12 AM Tom_L: tired of booting it on the desk
10:13 AM Tom_L: i got a couple old huge towers but don't wanna use them
10:14 AM rue_mohr: I hear ya
10:14 AM Tom_L: not even sure why i keep them
10:15 AM rue_mohr: keep something for spares
10:15 AM Tom_L: robbed a cord from one the other day
10:15 AM rue_mohr: see?
10:15 AM Tom_L: a Y for the psu that had a fan wire coming off it
10:15 AM Tom_L: to power a mesa field voltage
10:15 AM rue_mohr: I'm pretty sure I have more than I currently need
10:16 AM rue_mohr: but when a machine fails I go thru a lot of stuff to get something working together
10:16 AM rue_mohr: I'm using a lot more laptops latley
10:16 AM rue_mohr: I think that I can due to usb
10:17 AM rue_mohr: I still have machines that need cards to do their thing
10:17 AM Tom_L: i don't really ever want to go past an i5 cpu
10:17 AM Tom_L: last one to support dos etc
10:17 AM rue_mohr: ?
10:17 AM rue_mohr: did they remove instructions from the processor or someting?
10:17 AM Tom_L: newer ones won't support windows 7
10:17 AM rue_mohr: x86 is supposed to be always backwards compat
10:17 AM Tom_L: i have an i7 in a box somewhere
10:18 AM Tom_L: well it ain't
10:18 AM Tom_L: :)
10:18 AM rue_mohr: what happens if you try to boot dos?
10:18 AM Tom_L: it won't install
10:18 AM rue_mohr: how about a drive alreay installed?
10:18 AM Tom_L: so either they become linux boxes or i downgrade to an i5
10:19 AM rue_mohr: I know you have to turn off the new secure harddrive crap
10:19 AM Tom_L: i think i did one but eventually it figured it out
10:19 AM Tom_L: i could find another board for the i7 and use it for linux
10:20 AM rue_mohr: ma is't answering, so shes either dead or gone to the garage sales without me
10:20 AM Tom_L: :/
10:20 AM rue_mohr: I'm pretty sure I know which...
10:20 AM Tom_L: you want the goods you go early
10:22 AM Tom_L: been hard here, niece has been staying with us a while with a 4 & 2yr old
10:22 AM Tom_L: that's why the office got moved
10:25 AM rue_mohr: oh no, 2
10:25 AM rue_mohr: yrs
05:46 PM rue_shop3: gcc supports the tms320
05:50 PM Tom_L: so what goods did you find today?
06:48 PM rue_mohr: yea, went garage saling with ma
06:48 PM rue_mohr: got a bike for $10, 18spd
06:48 PM rue_mohr: a table to bolt a jigsaw to the bottom of
06:49 PM rue_mohr: a typewriter to make a keyboard from if I cant find it a good home
06:49 PM rue_mohr: an HO 0-4-0 as a placeholder for the one I lost long long ago
06:50 PM rue_mohr: a gooseneck lamp for all that hollow square tubing their good for
06:50 PM rue_mohr: a pipe clamp (that you put on 1/2" pipe for woodwork clamps)
06:50 PM rue_mohr: I'm just fixing the mowerbot, it tried to destroy a wheel
06:56 PM Tom_L: i thought it blew a hole in the deck
07:25 PM rue_shop3: of the gas mower
07:26 PM rue_shop3: I'm trying to fix that now
07:26 PM rue_shop3: well, actually, I'm trying to add some metal so I can put the handles and the wheels back on
08:40 PM Tom_L: did that bend the crankshaft when it dug a hole in the deck?
08:41 PM rue_mohr: na, might have sheered the pin tho
08:42 PM Tom_L: on the blade or the flywheel?
08:42 PM Tom_L: or both
08:44 PM Tom_L: are you 'un' botting it?
08:45 PM Tom_L: err no that's a different one
09:03 PM rue_mohr: flywheel
09:04 PM rue_mohr: just rebuild the wheel bolt, cause it sheered off when I removed it
09:05 PM rue_mohr: I even found the collette I made when I fixed the other wheel bolt
09:06 PM rue_mohr: http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/tempimage/p1240682.jpg
09:06 PM rue_mohr: http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/tempimage/p1240683.jpg
09:06 PM rue_mohr: http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/tempimage/p1240684.jpg
09:06 PM rue_mohr: http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/tempimage/p1240685.jpg
09:06 PM rue_mohr: http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/tempimage/p1240686.jpg
09:06 PM rue_mohr: http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/tempimage/p1240687.jpg
09:07 PM Tom_L: that looks like it's been thru the civil war
09:39 PM rue_mohr: if it weren't for the fact that all the deck is going to rot out, I'd make sure it did