#robotics Logs
Jul 31 2012
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00:20 rue_mohr for holding brain for night yes?
00:22 katsmeow-afk ah
00:25 katsmeow-afk wierd, i hear thunder
00:26 katsmeow-afk ah, a storm a few miles away
00:26 katsmeow-afk betwen me and the internet, so i may get disconnected
00:27 rue_mohr maybe you should phone in for a new modem now?
00:28 katsmeow-afk good point
00:29 katsmeow-afk i asked ~2001 about keeping a spare here, they won't
00:29 rue_mohr you said it got tigger last time?
00:29 katsmeow-afk before that i had dialup, all i needed do was protect the phoneline and keep a spare card
00:29 katsmeow-afk yeas, that'w where the blue flash occured
00:30 katsmeow-afk i have not tried powering her up, no one is asking for her anyhow
00:30 rue_mohr you said someting since that had me to believe you had her back up
00:31 katsmeow-afk i have a local copy of her irc db
00:32 katsmeow-afk i do not have that puter up, it wasn't up when it was hit, i did have her up for OS bugfixes
00:32 katsmeow-afk [00:21] -NickServ- Last seen : Jun 16 09:22:57 2012 (6 weeks, 2 days, 19:58:19 ago)
00:34 rue_mohr http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:8542
00:34 katsmeow-afk ?
00:37 rue_mohr printer!
00:37 rue_mohr it looks like an XY printer, which means it could deposit on pcb
00:38 katsmeow-afk does it print copper? how does it stick tot he FR4?
00:38 rue_mohr etch resist
00:39 katsmeow-afk damn, power blinked
00:40 katsmeow-afk i may get rain
00:40 katsmeow-afk i knew watering the shrubbery today would make it rain ;-)
00:45 rue_mohr http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:20383
00:45 rue_mohr hahaha what a GREAT idea!
00:45 katsmeow-afk i hear rain
00:45 rue_mohr Triffid_Hunter, ^^^ you seen that!
00:45 rue_mohr ?
02:07 tsmeow-afk waves gn
11:59 katsmeow-afk "Governor Romney, are you concerned about some of the mishaps of your trip?" asked a CNN reporter. "What about your gaffes?" a Washington Post journalist chimed in.
11:59 katsmeow-afk The campaign's traveling press secretary, Rick Gorka, shot back, "Kiss my a**. This is a holy site for the Polish people. Show some respect."
12:27 katsmeow-afk MinuteSort is a test of how much data can be sorted in a minute, and Jeremy Elson's team from Microsoft sorted three times the data of the previous record holder (a team from Yahoo in 2009).
12:27 katsmeow-afk The figures are impressive - 1401 gigabytes in the 60 seconds, using 1033 disks across 250 machines.
12:28 katsmeow-afk inadvertently also giving a a prime example of cheating
12:28 LoRez cheating?
12:29 katsmeow-afk 1033 disks and 250 machines
12:30 katsmeow-afk it's like saying ata6 is 133megabytes transfer, when there is no hd platter that can sustain that, or saying the cpu is 2.6Ghz when it's really 24 separate 130Mhz cores
12:30 katsmeow-afk the article also doesn't say what the sort was
12:30 LoRez that's not cheating.
12:31 katsmeow-afk how is it not cheating?
12:33 LoRez what hardware did Yahoo use?
12:33 katsmeow-afk didn't say
12:33 LoRez spreading that sort of problem around to multiple machines makes it difficult in its own way too
12:33 katsmeow-afk using 1033 disks across 250 machines.
12:34 LoRez if you need to sort 1.4TB, you probably are going to have that sort of infrastructure anyway.
12:34 tsmeow-afk
12:41 archels katsmeow-afk: what does "sorted" mean here?
12:42 katsmeow-afk [12:19] <katsmeow-afk> the article also doesn't say what the sort was
12:44 tsmeow-afk suggests people interested google the relavant terms to gather more
12:53 katsmeow-afk if those who did gather more data would add it here, this may be helpful
17:17 katsmeow-afk A California man is in custody after authorities said they found $250,000-worth of meth hidden inside 45 individually-wrapped candy bars in his checked bags.
17:20 Keknom He soundslike a winner, doubt his parents ever told him not to put all his eggs in one basket
18:18 snollux Hello hello. What is the term for that steel building material that's like a square tube, but has uniform holes down the length of it for bolts?
18:18 snollux the name slips my mind
18:18 snollux d'oh! perforated
18:18 snollux as soon as I typed that I remembered
18:19 snollux http://www.allmetalsinc.com/images/productimages205/steelperforatedtube.png like this
18:19 snollux but what
18:19 snollux s it called when it has 3 sides? like for railings
18:21 LoRez c-channel
18:22 snollux thanks
18:26 snollux LoRez: ok, maybe I don't have it. I'm looking for http://i48.tinypic.com/op3b4l.png this
18:27 snollux I would assume you could get it at hardware stores?
18:28 snollux yeah, looks like perforated square steel tubing.. but I wonder why HomeDepot doesn't seem to have it on their site
18:28 katsmeow-afk electrical supply house : http://www.homedepot.com/Electrical-Electrical-Boxes-Conduit-Fittings-Struts/h_d1/N-5yc1vZbm55/R-100156509/h_d2/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10053&langId=-1&storeId=10051&superSkuId=202891065
18:28 katsmeow-afk http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/QuickViewService?storeId=10051&langId=-1&catalogId=10053&R=100183826&catEntryId=100183826&superSkuId=202891091
18:29 snollux perfect. Thanks katsmeow-afk
18:29 katsmeow-afk <curtsey>
18:29 katsmeow-afk there's many diffeent clips and fasteners for the diffeent sizes of that stuff
18:30 katsmeow-afk http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=electrical+strut&_sacat=0
18:31 katsmeow-afk in Canadia, they have something called cut-n-nut, or something like that, which is common metal shapes full of holes for bolting together
18:34 katsmeow-afk http://www.ebay.com/itm/Perforated-Metal-Strip-305-x-8-75mm-0-5mm-Thickness-/120949432622?pt=UK_BOI_Electrical_Components_Supplies_ET&hash=item1c2925e12e
18:37 katsmeow-afk heh, googling for "cut-n-nut" gives only 7 returns, and 6 of them point to rue
18:37 snollux awesome
18:37 snollux yeah
18:37 snollux I saw that
18:39 katsmeow-afk 150,000 results for superstrut
18:40 snollux that's what I need!
18:40 snollux woot
18:40 snollux but maybe aluminum is better
18:40 snollux depending on the application
18:41 snollux less easy to cut oneself
18:41 katsmeow-afk technically, "superstrut" is a brand name
18:41 katsmeow-afk if you need something to not cut yourself with, try a baseball bat, they have few sharp edges
18:43 snollux haha
18:45 snollux thanks again, have a good evening!
18:45 snollux :D
18:45 katsmeow-afk :-)
22:05 katsmeow-afk .
22:05 Tom_L working on an install
22:05 katsmeow-afk o
22:06 Tom_L may not work
22:09 katsmeow-afk keep the old install ?
22:10 Tom_L different hdd
22:11 katsmeow-afk o
22:55 katsmeow-afk To do something well you have to love it. So to the extent you can preserve hacking as something you love, you're likely to do it well. Try to keep the sense of wonder you had about programming at age 14. If you're worried that your current job is rotting your brain, it probably is.
22:57 katsmeow-afk If it is possible to make yourself into a great hacker, the way to do it may be to make the following deal with yourself: you never have to work on boring projects (unless your family will starve otherwise), and in return, you'll never allow yourself to do a half-assed job.