// #eevblog — 2019-05-27
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00:08:46 <iw2jww> Hi
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01:59:00 <DHess_US> Yea, let's see what kind of trouble I can get into with cough syrup, tequila, and power tools.
01:59:47 <rust_collector> I thought the warnings only mentioned operating heavy machinery?
02:00:30 <DHess_US> Power tools might include heavy machinery.
02:01:18 <DHess_US> Biought a couple of duplex outlet boxes and a short extension cord to build a heavy steel outlet strip.
02:15:35 <DHess_US> It could be worse; it could be cough syrup with codiene. But then I wouldn't need the tequila.
02:16:02 <rust_collector> if you already have the tequila...
02:16:16 <DHess_US> For the record, alcohol is a cough supressant so the tequila is medicinal.
02:21:24 <rust_collector> I think it has been 15 years since I had tequila. maybe 20. I do think about it now and then, but always forget when I am in town
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03:07:24 <DHess_US> I haven't drank it for at least that long. I inherited a bottle. I really am just using it medicinally.
03:07:45 <DHess_US> Any drinking alcohol would work.
03:08:09 <DHess_US> I only drink socially and I have no social life so no drinking.
03:27:11 <rust_collector> same here, but I do spend some time being social with myself, so I can drink a bit
03:30:50 <rust_collector> at least every 3-4-5 months
03:33:11 <DHess_US> I just ran out of cough syrup.
04:36:08 <DHess_US> 26 drive letters is enough for anybody.
05:22:47 <Halcyon> What happens in Windows when you use up all the drive letters? Is that it then? No more?
05:23:11 <Ampera> Halcyon, then you start mounting drives in folders
05:23:18 <Ampera> like should be the case to begin with
05:23:24 <rust_collector> hah
05:23:33 <Halcyon> Yeh it's strange that they hadn't thought of this before
05:23:43 <Halcyon> Like anytime after the 1990s
05:23:47 <Ampera> They did
05:23:50 <Ampera> It's called Unix and friends
05:23:56 <Halcyon> I mean Windows
05:24:18 <Halcyon> Like the first hard disk is still C:
05:24:27 <Halcyon> Almost no one uses A: and B: anymore
05:24:58 <DHess_US> Woot! Got a new bottle of cough syrup. Now that I have a new bottle and an old bottle, I can pre-mix it with tequila.
05:25:06 <Halcyon> \o/
05:25:24 <Halcyon> It's 0530 here, anyone want to go to work for me? It's cold and windy out and I don't wanna
05:25:29 <DHess_US> Halcyon, I'm not sure. I'm up to 20 drive letters but I could map some more drives.
05:26:01 <DHess_US> Yea, what Ampera said. You can mount drives in folders but I don't think that applies to directly attached drives.
05:26:19 <Halcyon> *shrug*
05:26:42 <rust_collector> I wonder if you would have a job, if you sent me one day
05:26:46 <DHess_US> You can map existing drives to folders but that doesn't help if there is no drive letter for the existing drive to use.
05:27:05 <Ampera> DHess_US, I thought you could directly mount a drive in a folder Unix style?
05:27:12 <Ampera> the drive you map /also/ has to be mounted in a letter?
05:27:46 <Halcyon> A simple solution would have been to implement drive names if they insisted on keeping the x:\ format
05:27:53 <Halcyon> For example, call your drive POO:\
05:27:57 <DHess_US> No, a mapped network drive can go to a folder directly. But a directly attached drive cannot as far as I know.
05:28:23 <Ampera> DHess_US, no I'm fairly sure you can mount a directly attached drive into a folder without using a drive letter in Windows NT
05:28:27 <DHess_US> Some old systems used AA:, AB:, etc.
05:28:36 <Halcyon> That would work too I guess
05:28:39 <DHess_US> Ah, maybe so.
05:28:54 <Ampera> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/disk-management/assign-a-mount-point-folder-path-to-a-drive
05:28:58 <DHess_US> But I seem to recall on this system I went past 26 and it wouldn't mount any more USB drives.
05:29:00 <Halcyon> It seems like a bit of a silly hard limit to have
05:29:12 <Halcyon> Consider we all use more than 64K of RAM these days
05:29:39 <Ampera> You have to do it manually, and in Microsoft style, there's probably five thousand arbitrary restrictions on it
05:29:54 <DHess_US> Yea, current processors have more cache memory than the main memory of any system I used before a Pentium.
05:30:14 <Halcyon> Anyway, I need to go iron my shirt and get going
05:30:16 <Halcyon> Later gents
05:30:33 <DHess_US> Iron shirt? What is this iron thing?
05:31:14 <Ampera> lol
06:01:22 <DHess_US> WTF have I done? Just my oscilloscope directory is 250GB.
06:17:58 <DHess_US> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytUygPqjXEc
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09:40:50 <two-bags> Hello. Can someone here help me with what I think is a pretty basic question? I'm trudging through some really beginner stuff
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10:08:18 <EEVBlog1> New EEVBlog Tweet: Wow at the number of comments liking my selection of music for my @SydneyMetro video. BTW, it's "Unfoldment, Revealment, Evolution, Exposition, Integration, Arson" by @chriszabriskie https://t.co/USQGME8049
10:15:20 <EEVBlog1> New EEVBlog Tweet: NEW EEVblog Video! EEVblog #1215 - $18,000 4K Monitor Teardown From 2001! https://t.co/IZxY3LK1Pm
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11:27:50 <EEVBlog1> New EEVBlog Tweet: Whoever restored this WW1 footage are geniuses. Well done Peter Jackson https://t.co/hroWDsJHAp
11:27:53 <steve30> hi
11:33:36 * steve30 coffees
11:34:51 <T3sl4> \o/
11:53:20 <Ampera> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy0Q75xCwDU
11:53:24 <Ampera> AMD keynote about to start
12:11:05 <steve30> I /might/ go to the gym this morning. Its a bank holiday monday today and I don't know how busy it is on a bank holiday
12:11:17 <steve30> also, I want another coffee
12:50:43 * steve30 hugs T3sl4
13:37:15 * T3sl4 sneaks up quietly behind steve30 then applies a scritch
13:39:34 <steve30> *purrrrr*
15:45:57 <T3sl4> https://www.seventransistorlabs.com/Images/STF6N60M2_Gain.png https://www.seventransistorlabs.com/Images/STF6N60M2_Input_RL.png
15:47:55 <T3sl4> https://www.seventransistorlabs.com/Images/STF6N60M2_Amp.jpg
15:54:21 <steve30> hmm, its raining. Looks like I'm going to get moistened again
15:54:46 <T3sl4> that's what she said?
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19:13:49 <steve30> I'm pleased to say the gym wasn't very busy
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19:50:43 <Halcyon> Moop
19:50:51 * Halcyon licks Ampera
19:57:12 <K> hello
19:58:20 <K> T3sl4, what is that?
20:27:39 <steve30> hi Halcyon
20:29:32 <Halcyon> Hey Steve
20:30:44 <Halcyon> Did you notice the new Computing section on the EEVBlog forum? :)
20:31:11 <steve30> I've not looked at it yet but I read the topic in general chat
20:34:17 <steve30> Does it seriously need a Cloud section?
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20:39:56 <steve30> coffee time
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20:43:24 <K> hmm, now there are "Embedded Computing" and "Microcontrollers & FPGAs"
20:43:32 <K> might be confusing
20:43:44 <Halcyon> I'll chat to Dave
21:06:30 <EEVBlog1> New EEVBlog Tweet: So these hackers who are holding cities and companies hostage etc and demanding bitcoin payment, how do they launder the (traceable) bitcoins?
21:08:31 <EEVBlog1> New EEVBlog Tweet: RT @sciencesarah: Here's @MJIBrown on SpaceX's recent launch of 60 small sats: "professional astronomers like myself may need to prepare…
21:26:23 <Halcyon> K: The two forums have been merged
21:28:32 <Halcyon> Sorry disregard
21:28:36 <Halcyon> He has clarified the two
21:28:56 <Halcyon> He wants to keep SBC's seperate
21:30:07 <K> embedded will be sbc stuff then, yea?
21:30:45 <K> i wouldn't call arduino a SBC though
21:30:50 <K> same with ESP8266
21:31:34 <Halcyon> His response was "I consider Micros and FPGA more low level electronics related, you need technical skills to implement them. Embedded computers are like the single board computers like RPi etc that run on higher level OS's. Even Arduino I'd consider an SBC really due to the ecosystem. Might clarify in the topic headings."
21:31:53 <K> hm, ok
21:32:04 <Halcyon> Feel free to discuss it in the forum :P
21:32:31 <K> it'll be fine
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22:12:07 * steve30 hugs Halcyon
22:13:27 <steve30> Got an answering machine message from Grandma this morning. She seems to want the grass cutting. But she only had the gardener in to do it last week :/
22:18:06 <K> maybe it grew back
22:19:45 <steve30> not since last week it hasn't
22:21:49 <K> when did you see grandma last time?
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22:43:14 <steve30> last wednesday
23:08:31 <soulreap> hi
23:08:36 <soulreap> i draw a picture
23:08:40 <soulreap> raspbery pi :D
23:08:44 <soulreap> want to see?
23:09:10 <soulreap> i used a ruler
23:09:25 <soulreap> for make the lines not wobly
23:09:42 <soulreap> https://usercontent.irccloud-cdn.com/file/SVZY6FAi/2019-05-27%2023.10.40.jpg
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23:20:37 <rust_collector> soulreap: that is nice. have you tried to draw a bicycle?
23:20:57 <soulreap> hmm nop
23:22:12 <rust_collector> I can not get that looking right. it should be simple, but it always looks wrong
23:22:46 <soulreap> a bike?
23:23:02 <soulreap> i thiknk it will be hard to draw
23:24:32 <rust_collector> it is just a triangle, with a triangle, and the front fork, and 2 circles, but... yeah, it is hard, at least for me
23:25:09 <soulreap> circles ar hard tho
23:25:48 <rust_collector> well, just use a compass, or draw around a round thing. but the rest tends to look wrong anyway
23:26:46 <soulreap> https://usercontent.irccloud-cdn.com/file/UwTprYuL/2019-05-27%2022.25.34.jpg
23:26:49 <soulreap> old house i drew
23:26:53 <rust_collector> I can draw a pretty good lawnmower, and that is pretty much it
23:30:07 <soulreap> hmm i need to get a compas
23:39:07 <rust_collector> I guess you could use a thin strip of...material, with a hole for a pencil on one end, and a row of holes for a pin.
23:39:48 <soulreap> i go with my helper lady tomorow i get one then :D
23:49:11 <steve30> soulreap, nice
23:49:45 <soulreap> ty :D
23:52:36 <steve30> i have some compasses
23:52:55 <steve30> i pinched them out of my dead grandfather's stuff.
23:53:06 <soulreap> ooh
23:54:20 <DHess_US> https://i.imgur.com/YTfEpcH.png
23:56:44 <soulreap> im goign to draw a vintage computer :D
23:56:48 <soulreap> with crt screen
23:56:49 <soulreap> :D
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