| 01:21:16 | MonMotha | BZFlag: so what was the prize that went to the person lucky enough to get the last one? :) |
| 01:21:49 | sorphin | heh |
| 01:21:56 | sorphin | why should they get a prize? |
| 01:22:03 | MonMotha | sorphin: why not? :) |
| 01:23:04 | BZFlag | nothin. the last order is sitting here waiting to be sent. |
| 01:23:34 | sorphin | MonMotha: um.. you want them to get a prize, you give em one :P |
| 01:25:47 | MonMotha | heh, since when was I offering to pay for any such prize? :) |
| 01:26:21 | MonMotha | of course now I feel all aprehensive about modding it since I know I can't get another one |
| 01:27:27 | sorphin | wussy |
| 01:30:14 | MonMotha | heh |
| 01:30:19 | MonMotha | doesn't mean I'm not gunna do it |
| 01:30:39 | MonMotha | just gotta get a nice fine tip iron and thinner solder |
| 01:31:07 | sorphin | RS :P |
| 01:31:25 | MonMotha | yep |
| 01:31:40 | MonMotha | everything there is overpriced except their soldering irons for some reason |
| 01:33:15 | sorphin | the solder and flux isn't bad |
| 01:33:24 | MonMotha | true |
| 01:33:37 | sorphin | and that kinda stuff is all i get there now.. |
| 01:33:45 | sorphin | tho the switches i used for the 5v hack |
| 01:33:49 | sorphin | were cheap enough |
| 01:34:05 | MonMotha | everything else is wildly overpriced, and the selection is TERRIBLE' |
| 01:34:15 | MonMotha | especially their selection of silicon |
| 01:34:24 | sorphin | they're a consumer store now |
| 01:34:27 | MonMotha | yes they are |
| 01:34:39 | MonMotha | I walk in and people wanting to buy cell phones, DSS dishes, etc |
| 01:34:49 | MonMotha | I'm like "ok, just the resistors please..." |
| 01:35:05 | sorphin | i don't even talk to them |
| 01:35:09 | sorphin | they ask if i need help, i say no |
| 01:35:18 | MonMotha | I only do if there's something I know they have but can't find |
| 01:35:34 | sorphin | i rarely have that prob |
| 01:35:45 | sorphin | last time i had to |
| 01:35:47 | sorphin | was for the buffer |
| 01:35:52 | MonMotha | the store around here is so poorly organized though |
| 01:35:54 | MonMotha | they don't have the buffer |
| 01:35:56 | sorphin | which my catalog said they still could get |
| 01:35:58 | MonMotha | I'm gunna have to order it |
| 01:36:10 | MonMotha | from someone..dunno who |
| 01:36:13 | sorphin | i told you i'd pick you one up :P |
| 01:36:25 | MonMotha | they have some similar parts, but not direct replacements |
| 01:41:06 | MonMotha | http://www.mplug.org/phpwiki/index.php/FixPS2Ports <--- heh, I wonder how many motherboards that guide I wrote has saved from the scrap heap |
| 01:44:46 | sorphin | heh |
| 01:45:02 | MonMotha | feel free to edit my work, it is a wiki :) |
| 01:45:38 | sorphin | i've never had that problem.. |
| 01:46:08 | MonMotha | oh, I've probably fixed like 5 boards |
| 01:46:39 | MonMotha | which is a good deal for me seeing as how I charge like $20 for the work (and it takes me like 10min max, including warming up the iron) |
| 01:46:44 | sorphin | nod |
| 01:46:55 | sorphin | how the fsck could anyone blow a damn ps2 port? :P |
| 01:47:01 | MonMotha | and it's a good deal for the people I do it for because it saves them from buying a new mobo just because the PS/2 fuse is dead |
| 01:47:08 | MonMotha | sorphin: just the fuse |
| 01:47:17 | sorphin | same difference ;p |
| 01:47:17 | MonMotha | sorphin: and hot swapping PS/2 mice seems to do it fairly frequently |
| 01:47:22 | sorphin | heh |
| 01:47:25 | sorphin | i never do that |
| 01:47:27 | MonMotha | sorphin: naw, no magic smoke is released |
| 02:48:02 | scanline | is away: SIGSEGV |
| 12:33:59 | scanline | is back (gone 09:45:57) |
| 12:59:55 | bhima | hey prp. |
| 13:00:18 | bhima | waves at scan too. |
| 13:00:19 | prpplague | morning |
| 13:02:46 | bhima | I was looking at my trunk, and the big space taken up by the partial use spare tire. |
| 13:02:52 | bhima | and thinking. run flat tires. |
| 13:03:02 | bhima | then I can replace my spare tire with a computer. |
| 13:04:25 | scanline | hi bhima |
| 13:04:36 | prpplague | bhima: ha, sounds like a plan |
| 13:05:23 | bhima | partial use spares are only good for <50mph and usually less than 50 miles of driving. |
| 13:05:23 | prpplague | bhima: in 20 years of driving i've only had a problem once where i couldn't use a can of fix-a-flat |
| 13:05:34 | bhima | ie: the same specs as a runflat :) |
| 13:05:51 | prpplague | bhima: and that time i ran over a piece of metal and it aced all four tires |
| 13:06:09 | bhima | ouch. |
| 13:06:44 | prpplague | bhima: ya i was following a tow truck and piece of a car it was carring fell off |
| 13:09:49 | bhima | I'm disappointed. seems that most wireless pressure sensors use batteries. |
| 13:10:31 | bhima | high speed rotating bouncing things, and they can't make them self-charging? |
| 13:11:27 | scanline | that'd be neat.. just stick a huge magnet in the wheel rim and a coil on the pressure sensor :) |
| 13:11:38 | scanline | have it measure wheel RPM and charge the batteries at the same time |
| 13:12:10 | bhima | cute. though my favorite idea is the one-electric-motor per wheel plan. |
| 13:12:23 | scanline | yay for zero turning radius |
| 13:12:34 | bhima | traction control off-road. |
| 13:13:27 | bhima | most electric motors used in cars can do up to 18k rpm. |
| 13:14:26 | scanline | if you used one electric motor per wheel, you could run wires from the motor armature to a socket inside the wheel rim |
| 13:15:07 | bhima | yeah. good idea. the hummer/HMMWV has a central tire inflation system option. |
| 13:15:30 | bhima | that makes pressure sensing easier :) |
| 13:15:35 | scanline | neato |
| 13:15:59 | scanline | how do they manage running air hoses to those rotating bouncy things? |
| 13:15:59 | bhima | high pressure for rock/asphalt, low pressure for sand/soft dirt. |
| 13:16:12 | bhima | I looked at it sorta, I don't know precisely. |
| 13:16:19 | bhima | but I saw air hoses leaving the tires. |
| 13:16:40 | scanline | spinning air hoses? |
| 13:17:02 | bhima | hummers also have their disk brakes not in the wheels themselves, but hooked up via the axles. |
| 13:17:25 | scanline | interesting |
| 13:17:35 | scanline | I should take a shower and get breakfast.. bbiab |
| 13:17:38 | bhima | 33:1 reduction gears in the wheels make that easier. |
| 13:18:06 | sorphin | just when i thought there wasn't gonna be anything funny today |
| 13:18:09 | sorphin | Online Auctions Patented, eBay Sued |
| 13:18:37 | cosmic_away | is back (gone 15:02:39) |
| 13:18:45 | CosmicPenguin | Good morning |
| 13:18:56 | sorphin | CosmicPenguin: did you sue ebay? |
| 13:19:01 | CosmicPenguin | sorphin: not since yesterday |
| 13:19:07 | sorphin | grins |
| 13:19:25 | Morn | hello everyone |
| 13:19:34 | sorphin | mornin julie |
| 13:19:36 | bhima | well, the justice department told steven hatfill (guy accused, but not formally of anthrax attacks) that they wouldn't allow his employer to pay him from any of their contracts. |
| 13:19:46 | bhima | and that's where there funding came from, so they fired him. |
| 13:22:32 | CosmicPenguin | sorphin: maybe we can get the patent system revamped - think E-Bay has enough money to bring this bad boy to the supreme court? |
| 13:22:48 | sorphin | CosmicPenguin: i think ebay will just laugh at him |
| 13:23:01 | sorphin | he doesn't have a prayer |
| 13:23:17 | CosmicPenguin | The people on /. (and thats no authority, I know) - but they say that this guy has E-Bay dead to rights |
| 13:23:23 | bhima | patent fights in court are always expensive. |
| 13:23:55 | sorphin | CosmicPenguin: um.. just hte other day the losers on /. were busy correcting price for using 2's and 4's in his grammar :P |
| 13:24:11 | sorphin | 99% of em are useless trolls |
| 13:25:31 | bhima | oh, that's brilliant. you get aids. you get treatment. probglems are going away. |
| 13:25:45 | bhima | then you go off to brazil and get some random number of anonymous sex partners. |
| 13:25:59 | sorphin | shrugs.. then you're stupid |
| 13:26:05 | sorphin | end of story |
| 13:26:16 | bhima | he got a different strain of HIV. |
| 13:26:42 | sorphin | well, it's his own bloody fault, so let him die :P |
| 13:26:58 | CosmicPenguin | is off to get some coffee - wake me up when we start talking computers again |
| 13:27:12 | bhima | he's getting various experimental drugs. |
| 13:27:14 | sorphin | CosmicPenguin: i never stopped, i dunno what bhima's on about.. |
| 13:27:44 | sorphin | bhima: just shoot the tosser and be done w/ it. |
| 13:28:14 | sorphin | mornin fruit |
| 13:28:16 | sorphin | ignore that |
| 13:28:23 | sorphin | stupid bx |
| 13:28:58 | bhima | heh. computers. need to finally get around to installing a tuxscreen again in my car. |
| 13:45:40 | CosmicPenguin | I was going to work on my tuxscreen last night, but i got distracted... maybe tonight |
| 13:50:59 | CosmicPenguin | How crazy do you need to be to accept the presidency of Afganistan? |
| 13:51:13 | CosmicPenguin | You're gonna get shot - its just a matter of when |
| 13:55:33 | bhima | yeah, but you get those cool lamb-foetus-wool hats. |
| 13:58:03 | sorphin | maybe i'll patent the method for making those hats, and sell it on ebay |
| 13:58:39 | bhima | patent various methods for forcing lambs to abort. |
| 13:59:20 | sorphin | umm |
| 13:59:21 | sorphin | no |
| 13:59:22 | bhima | just read about a scam pseudo science device somebody patented. they claimed that the patent meant the US government said the device worked. |
| 13:59:35 | sorphin | ha |
| 13:59:38 | sorphin | as if |
| 14:00:05 | bhima | various protests from people including james randi resulted in the patent office head initiating a re-examination. |
| 14:00:54 | sorphin | everyone in the patent office needs to be tossed |
| 14:01:26 | bhima | part of the problem is that they aren't allowed to do enough investigation. |
| 14:01:27 | scanline | waves to sorphin, bhima, and CosmicPenguin |
| 14:01:34 | sorphin | allo scan |
| 14:01:41 | bhima | 's not really their fault if they can't look at stuff properly. |
| 14:01:50 | bhima | (the people at the bottom I mean) |
| 14:02:43 | sorphin | bs |
| 14:02:52 | sorphin | they need to get people in there w/ a clue |
| 14:04:11 | sorphin | "I want to patent the process of getting a patent. I could be a millionaire. " |
| 14:04:25 | sorphin | haha |
| 14:04:32 | sorphin | Linux was absolutely right when he said that we should just ignore software patent issues |
| 14:04:43 | sorphin | did Linus rename and i missed it? ;) |
| 14:08:08 | CosmicPenguin | sorphin: oddly, Bill Gates believes the same way |
| 14:08:30 | sorphin | nods |
| 14:09:17 | sorphin | CosmicPenguin: heh, ironicaly, someone commented bout bill |
| 14:09:21 | sorphin | "Bill Gates was right in his 1991 memo. The application of software and process patents will bring the very concept of innovation to a stand-still" |
| 14:12:09 | CosmicPenguin | Yeah, he doesn't need patents - he can crush people just by staring at them |
| 14:13:38 | sorphin | more like having his lawyers do it |
| 17:43:14 | CosmicPenguin | is madly in love with Sylpheed |
| 17:44:44 | sorphin | heh |
| 17:45:01 | sorphin | oh btw cos.. which 2 places did you say Cirque is at? |
| 17:45:29 | CosmicPenguin | sorphin: Mystere is at Treasure Island, "O" is at the Bellagio |
| 17:45:49 | sorphin | k |
| 17:48:22 | sorphin | ois |
| 17:48:24 | sorphin | $80? |
| 17:50:21 | sorphin | heh |
| 17:50:27 | sorphin | and O is 90 or 110 |
| 17:50:37 | sorphin | that's.. more than i'd pay for a show.. |
| 18:03:28 | CosmicPenguin | sorphin: its worth it |
| 18:06:49 | sorphin | we'll see.. |
| 18:12:31 | bhima | hmm. the phrase "patently obvious" is an old one, but I'm wondering if it is more appropriate now in a literal sense. |
| 18:56:24 | scanline | is away: I'm busy |
| 18:56:30 | scanline | is back (gone 00:00:05) |
| 19:09:05 | bhima | jkljl |
| 19:09:49 | sorphin | really? interesting.. |
| 19:09:50 | sorphin | :P |
| 19:25:42 | CosmicPenguin | stupid dmalloc doesn't play nice with C++ |
| 19:26:23 | sorphin | well, C++ sucks ;) |
| 19:26:45 | file | awakens |
| 19:26:54 | sorphin | puts you back to sleep |
| 19:27:03 | file | awakens again |
| 19:27:19 | sorphin | permanently puts you to sleep ;p |
| 19:27:33 | file | comes back to life |
| 19:30:54 | sorphin | just ignores you now cuz you'll just keep being a pest |
| 19:31:12 | file | but I haven't been here how day, how was I a pest? |
| 19:32:08 | sorphin | you logged on and acted like warez (except you didn't talk in unix :P ) |
| 19:32:23 | file | huh? |
| 19:33:21 | sorphin | warez = warewolf, perl kiddie extraordinare, used to be an annoyance in the tivo circle, hangs out on unixnet in #unix.. |
| 19:34:17 | file | ic |
| 21:27:49 | | tangent was last seen on #handhelds.org 5 hours, 12 minutes and 48 seconds ago, saying: Leeds: Hi [Thu Sep 5 17:15:01 2002] |
| 21:27:49 | MonMotha | ibot seen tangent? |
| 22:33:18 | MonMotha | anyone added the second serial port? |
| 22:48:56 | scanline | is away: foodlikestuff |
| 23:28:59 | scanline | is back (gone 00:40:02) |
| 23:31:43 | LIM | hrm, nfs.o in v0.6 doesn't seem to work :( |