#robotics Logs

Mar 01 2012

00:09 rue_house after my hardware upgrade to 4G, firefox dosn't even pull 1
00:09 katsmeow-afk they changed the scale, or the server is throttling, or AT&T still sucks
00:16 rue_bed hmm
02:15 katsmeow-afk hmm
03:01 katsmeow-afk this line, even by itself, in an html doc opened by IE8 , will cause IE to eat memory at 30megabytes per sec : <iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php"> </iframe>
03:02 katsmeow-afk that url loads in css, js, and xml from various places
03:03 katsmeow-afk and another interesting note: urls in the hosts file are ignored when scripts in that url are loaded
03:03 Triffid_Hunter katsmeow-afk: awesome, yet another way to encourage people to stop using IE
03:04 katsmeow-afk so redirecting static.ak.fbcdn.net to 127.0.0.1 won't work
03:05 katsmeow-afk loading the same ifram code in FF ran it up to 100megabytes, but it stopped
03:05 katsmeow-afk iframe
03:17 katsmeow-afk i used wget to run the facebook iframe : Downloaded: 370,068 bytes in 18 files
03:20 katsmeow-afk near as i can tell, many of the files cause the same sets of files to be downloaded again
03:28 katsmeow-afk Triffid_Hunter , you can see the effect at http://www.wpix.com/news/wpix-man-dies-eating-ounce-cocaine,0,1167343.story
03:30 katsmeow-afk memory use goes up 2x as fast at http://orlandosentinel.com/wpix-man-dies-eating-ounce-cocaine,0,1089116.story
18:20 katsmeow-afk .
19:38 rue_house .
19:39 rue_house ugh
19:39 rue_house my heads all fuddled up
19:39 rue_house I want to do things, but I think the only thing I can do is go to sleep
19:47 GuShH rue_house: what happened to your hands?
19:49 rue_house hands are attached to brain which is the root of the current problem
19:49 GuShH elaborate :/
19:50 ShH has some back
19:51 GuShH heck I spent most of the day in bed, got up to do some welding and now I'm just sitting here :(
20:02 rue_house no welding for me today
20:02 rue_house :(
20:02 rue_house what were you welding?
20:33 iR0b0t1 FIRST Robotics competition.
20:34 iR0b0t1 I made a bed on a few boxes of tools and slept in the pit area.
20:34 iR0b0t1 KC Regional. Anyone else there? We could meet up and act like weird internet buddies!
21:45 rue_house damnit, my cat went missing again!
21:46 rue_house here I think I'm being nice letting them out during the week
21:46 rue_house ARG
21:47 katsmeow-afk cats dunno from "weeks" and don't like to be inside
21:47 rue_house this is the one that values command back after being called cause he got stuck in a tree for the night
21:48 rue_house RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrr
21:48 katsmeow-afk short memories
21:48 rue_house ever since then he's replied right away
21:48 rue_house and I cant get a reply at all
21:48 katsmeow-afk this is a tiney part of the reson i do not want pets any more
21:49 katsmeow-afk and if you do not get his lil testosterone makers removed, he's gonna fight and spray
21:49 rue_house their both treated
21:50 katsmeow-afk k, then they'll only chase
21:50 katsmeow-afk my i-o for the internet is maxing out at 1mbits on one machine, it has a 100mbit lan
21:54 duckinator hi
21:54 tobbor hi duckinator.
21:54 katsmeow-afk hi
21:57 duckinator what's up?
21:58 katsmeow-afk nothing
22:02 Tom_itx givem an inch...
22:07 rue_house he's back
22:08 rue_house I wonder if I can make a library that can take a set of drill points and scale/rotate them between any 4 reference points
22:14 Tom_itx i bet you can
22:14 Tom_itx because if i said you couldn't, you would
22:41 rue_house heh
22:42 katsmeow-afk i wonder if you can make a robot climb a tree
22:42 rue_house doe sthe tree have to be verticl when it climbs it?
22:42 rue_house :)
22:42 katsmeow-afk yeas, with limbs of various sizes and angles and placements
22:42 Tom_itx climb implies an upward direction
22:43 rue_house ou can climb across something
22:43 Tom_itx or should i say vertical
22:43 rue_house I cant really enguage my brain
22:43 Tom_itx that would be more of a crawl
22:43 tsmeow-afk thinks she isn't going to discuss semantics, considering the emails she's been get
22:43 Tom_itx :)
22:44 Tom_itx i'm gonna retire for the night
22:44 katsmeow-afk bad weather for tomorrow, Tom
22:44 Tom_itx for who?
22:44 rue_house anyone trying to avoid tornadoes
22:44 dunz0r katsmeow-afk: I think it depends on a tree. A robot that could climb a telephonepole probably isn't very difficult to design
22:44 katsmeow-afk you and me, i tink
22:45 Tom_itx oh
22:45 rue_house and anyone working for an insurance company
22:45 katsmeow-afk tornado warnings out early now for weather tomorrow evening here
22:45 Tom_itx must be widespread then?
22:45 e_house eyes
22:45 dunz0r But one that can take the decisions on how to climb a "real" tree is a different beast.
22:46 rue_house I cant clear my head enough to think
22:46 Tom_itx rue_house, use one of those fellerbunchers that strips the trees for the climbing mechanism
22:46 katsmeow-afk 15mph winds here all afternoon, 100% chance of thunderstorms at 3am Saturday
22:46 Tom_itx that would get you up there in a hurry
22:47 Tom_itx err
22:47 katsmeow-afk dunz0r, i said tree and described one that should not resemble a telephone pole
22:47 Tom_itx i guess that was kat's question sry
22:47 katsmeow-afk what was my question?
22:48 Tom_itx <katsmeow-afk> i wonder if you can make a robot climb a tree
22:48 katsmeow-afk you = rue
22:48 rue_house but I think you also meant it cant come out of the climbing process looking like a telco pole
22:48 Tom_itx heh
22:48 katsmeow-afk right, must remain a tree
22:48 Tom_itx at what point does it stop being a tree?
22:48 rue_house well you wouldn't let me cut it down, so its technically not a log yet
22:49 tsmeow-afk cannot handle this atm, and walks out of the
22:49 rue_house so my brain has a topics/time limit
22:49 dunz0r Anything is doable. Maybe with some fancy image analysis and pathfinding algorithms?
22:49 Tom_itx katsmeow-afk, goodnight. have a peaceful evening
22:49 rue_house gnight kat
22:52 rue_house this isn't good
22:52 rue_house I cant build a mecha like this
22:52 rue_house I cant build a mecha just on weekends
22:52 rue_house hmmmmm
23:20 rue_house oops, nodded offf afaninm
23:32 theBear its not weekends
23:35 duckinator so, tomorrow i'm going to be upgrading from http://storage.gallery.duckinator.net/originals/2011/October/14/100_2247.JPG to http://www.walmart.com/ip/Better-Homes-and-Gardens-Desk-Oak/17480000 :D
23:35 duckinator biggest improvement: I can spend more time being productive than sliding the desk's "legs" back into the proper position