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| 13:01.31 | prpplague | ho ho hum |
| 13:01.39 | prpplague | merry freakin monday |
| 13:03.22 | jbevren | hush you :) |
| 13:03.34 | jbevren | http://www.surpluscomputers.com/store/Main.aspx?p=ItemDetail&item=DRV10933 |
| 13:03.39 | jbevren | $11 usb floppy |
| 13:04.29 | prpplague | interesting |
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| 13:04.40 | prpplague | oh my god, you kill kenny |
| 13:04.54 | GPSFan | Argh.. |
| 13:04.55 | prpplague | +ed |
| 13:04.58 | prpplague | hehe |
| 13:05.11 | GPSFan | hohoho... |
| 13:05.20 | prpplague | merry freakin monday |
| 13:05.25 | GPSFan | g'day prpplague |
| 13:05.49 | prpplague | are we having fun yet? |
| 13:06.09 | GPSFan | yawn, still asleep.. |
| 13:06.16 | prpplague | ahh |
| 13:07.10 | GPSFan | office,,, ah, yes, the place where "work" gets done.. |
| 13:32.03 | prpplague | ho ho hum |
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| 14:23.33 | prpplague | wheeeee - http://jobsearch.usajobs.opm.gov/getjob.asp?JobId=47025403&AVSDM=9%2F4%2F2006+7%3A25%3A57+AM |
| 14:23.50 | prpplague | bush has fired all 4 directors of uscis offices |
| 14:43.38 | jbevren | The President has challenged cabinet Secretaries and senior Federal agency heads to create a government that is more citizen centered, results oriented, and market based. |
| 14:43.40 | jbevren | haha |
| 14:43.42 | jbevren | yeah right |
| 14:45.28 | prpplague | well anything is better than what we have right now |
| 14:45.52 | jbevren | indeeed, but if Bush is supporting it, I'm extremely suspicious |
| 14:45.56 | jbevren | (sp?) |
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| 14:51.06 | prpplague | jbevren: well, in the past, bush has been a supporter of making it easy to legally immigrate, so i have no reason to doubt this change |
| 14:51.28 | prpplague | jbevren: the directors that are there now were appointed by the former philander of the oval office |
| 15:01.16 | jbevren | hm good point |
| 15:02.39 | prpplague | ~nslookup www.matrixsemi.com |
| 15:03.38 | prpplague | interesting |
| 15:03.58 | prpplague | ~nslookup www.matrixsemi.com.tw |
| 15:04.17 | prpplague | hmm, looks like they dropped their US web site |
| 15:04.48 | prpplague | hmm |
| 15:04.51 | prpplague | this is very odd |
| 15:05.14 | prpplague | matrix is a pretty large company, yet i don;t see any web pages from them anymore as of last month |
| 15:06.42 | prpplague | jbevren: can you pull up www.matrixsemi.com.tw ? |
| 15:07.53 | prpplague | HA |
| 15:08.01 | prpplague | matrix semi was purchased by sandish |
| 15:08.03 | prpplague | sandisk |
| 15:13.15 | jbevren | no go (it'll probably timeout) |
| 15:17.18 | prpplague | yea, looks like SanDisk purchased them and closed the web pages down |
| 15:17.27 | prpplague | http://www.sandisk.com/Corporate/PressRoom/PressReleases/PressRelease.aspx?ID=3238 |
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| 15:31.31 | prpplague | HA - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XD-Picture_Card |
| 15:31.36 | prpplague | i've made it into wikipedia |
| 15:41.28 | jbevren | prpplague: youre infamous |
| 15:41.28 | jbevren | er |
| 15:41.32 | jbevren | hehe |
| 15:42.25 | prpplague | hehe |
| 15:42.45 | prpplague | jbevren: well atleast this time they didn't credit TimRiker or someone else |
| 15:43.10 | jbevren | heh |
| 15:43.21 | prpplague | there are still a half dozen pages on a google search that credit Tim for the JuiceBox hacking |
| 15:43.35 | jbevren | have Tim email them ;) |
| 15:43.50 | prpplague | naw, not worth it |
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| 15:46.17 | prpplague | jbevren: its just the forums posts i run into are infurating - http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/messageview.php?start=100&catid=18&threadid=645573 |
| 15:46.17 | prpplague | jbevren: like the one at the bottom of the page |
| 15:46.43 | prpplague | jbevren: the guy obvouisly has no clue |
| 15:47.02 | jbevren | heh |
| 15:47.04 | jbevren | 'tard |
| 15:47.09 | prpplague | jbevren: 512mb with each photo being 57kb, thats 9000 pictures |
| 15:47.29 | jbevren | yeah, but the 'limit' of 512 files per card |
| 15:48.15 | prpplague | hmmm |
| 15:48.22 | prpplague | i've never heard of that |
| 15:49.12 | jbevren | it was in that post |
| 15:49.15 | jbevren | thus I said 'limit' heh |
| 15:50.00 | jbevren | hm |
| 15:50.03 | jbevren | ebay 290025647963 |
| 15:50.07 | jbevren | I need one of those for my camera |
| 15:50.14 | prpplague | jbevren: let me rephrase that, that post is the only place i've ever seen that |
| 15:50.17 | jbevren | its possibly the only device I have that cant use mmc/sd |
| 15:50.21 | jbevren | prpplague: nod |
| 15:50.25 | jbevren | prpplague: I find it doubtful |
| 15:50.26 | prpplague | jbevren: i placed almost 3000 pictures on one sd |
| 15:50.28 | jbevren | but I havent tested it |
| 15:53.05 | prpplague | jbevren: yea thats a nice adapter, doesn't stick out or anything |
| 15:54.43 | prpplague | jbevren: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000095SMR?v=glance |
| 15:55.32 | jbevren | that one's xd :P |
| 15:55.46 | jbevren | which remidns me, I still need to find the smartmedia card I have for my synth :( |
| 15:55.47 | prpplague | "* prpplague wonders if there are any like that for xD" |
| 15:55.53 | jbevren | oh |
| 15:55.54 | jbevren | hehe |
| 15:55.55 | jbevren | yep. |
| 15:56.25 | jbevren | xd compact flash adapter -usb (ebay search) |
| 15:56.26 | prpplague | wonder how hard that would be to solder to |
| 15:56.53 | jbevren | unsure. You don't get low-level access to the xd through those though |
| 15:57.22 | prpplague | wow those suckers are expensive |
| 15:57.53 | prpplague | jbevren: yea, i'm just shopping for sockets, since you can;t buy them without a xDA membership |
| 15:58.07 | jbevren | 280024770114 <- I could use something like that, but with right-angle ide plug |
| 15:58.15 | jbevren | prpplague: ah |
| 15:58.27 | jbevren | prpplague: I suggest a dremel tool, some copper wires, and a block of wood |
| 15:58.53 | jbevren | http://elm-chan.org/works/mp3/report_e.html |
| 15:59.00 | jbevren | elm-chan built a mmc reader from perfboard |
| 15:59.01 | jbevren | :) |
| 15:59.08 | jbevren | er |
| 15:59.09 | jbevren | smartmedia |
| 15:59.10 | jbevren | not mmc |
| 16:02.15 | prpplague | oh yea? |
| 16:02.31 | jbevren | its about halfway down |
| 16:02.49 | prpplague | ahh yea, already had that link |
| 16:03.13 | jbevren | I try :D |
| 16:03.24 | jbevren | I'd be surprised if you didnt have it actually |
| 16:03.36 | jbevren | theyve done all sorts of cool gadgetry |
| 16:04.08 | jbevren | prpplague: do you work with pci video much? |
| 16:04.22 | prpplague | sorry no |
| 16:04.25 | jbevren | I'd like to find a card that'll do custom resolutions (512x342) at 1bpp heh |
| 16:04.46 | prpplague | jbevren: hmm |
| 16:04.51 | prpplague | jbevren: i'm sure there is one |
| 16:05.25 | jbevren | I havent tried it on a matrox yet |
| 16:05.32 | jbevren | theyre incredibly versatile |
| 16:05.52 | jbevren | at any rate, I want to use a compact mac as an external display for fun :) |
| 16:06.35 | prpplague | <PROTECTED> |
| 16:06.38 | jbevren | I'd just need to amplify the .7v p-p signal to 0v/5v with a transistor and I'm good to go |
| 16:06.39 | prpplague | that one looks usable |
| 16:09.00 | jbevren | 280023959432 That's a curious device |
| 16:10.45 | prpplague | interesting |
| 16:10.50 | prpplague | that has to have an arm in there |
| 16:11.09 | jbevren | hehe |
| 16:11.22 | jbevren | sure its not an avr? |
| 16:12.52 | jbevren | hm. $20 after shipping |
| 16:13.11 | prpplague | with ide? |
| 16:13.18 | prpplague | maybe, but darn thats cheap |
| 16:13.28 | jbevren | oh |
| 16:13.35 | jbevren | it probably doesnt have a harddrive in it |
| 16:13.40 | jbevren | they indicate adding one |
| 16:14.08 | jbevren | thats the big pita about ebay |
| 16:14.19 | jbevren | that gadget would be nice, but only if I could get a CF/mmc adapter from the same store |
| 16:14.21 | jbevren | hehe |
| 16:16.34 | prpplague | http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1557 |
| 16:16.49 | prpplague | that smc to xD adapter is just about the best price on a good xD socket |
| 16:18.20 | jbevren | oh nice |
| 16:18.34 | prpplague | yea, i have some of those |
| 16:18.35 | jbevren | useful for my synth too, since I cant find smartmedia cards easily |
| 16:18.46 | jbevren | have you ordered from these guys? |
| 16:19.09 | prpplague | http://www.shoptronics.com/xdpicaimmeto.html |
| 16:19.21 | prpplague | jbevren: no i got mine from another dealer, they are out now |
| 16:19.27 | jbevren | heh |
| 16:19.57 | prpplague | jbevren: what are you working on? |
| 16:20.29 | jbevren | prpplague: I have a yamaha synth |
| 16:20.36 | jbevren | it can use scsi or smartmedia cards for sample storage |
| 16:20.41 | jbevren | I lost the smartmedia card :( |
| 16:20.58 | jbevren | I'd rather not tote my MO drive around everywhere I take the synth hehe |
| 16:21.57 | prpplague | ahh |
| 16:22.10 | prpplague | yea, just grab one of those adapters |
| 16:22.41 | jbevren | and a 128M xd card ;) |
| 16:22.45 | jbevren | (128's the limit on the yamaha) |
| 16:23.08 | jbevren | I really should have just waited 2 months. the next generation synth has a usb host port :X |
| 16:23.20 | prpplague | hehe |
| 16:23.37 | prpplague | jbevren: yea, softwareandstuff.com has some cheap 128's |
| 16:23.42 | jbevren | nodnod |
| 16:24.11 | prpplague | just wish they had some cheap xD usb readers |
| 16:24.52 | prpplague | http://www.pricegrabber.com/p__Olympus_MAUSB_200_XD_USB_2_0_READER_WRITER,__18700857 |
| 16:28.44 | jbevren | hm |
| 16:28.50 | jbevren | my case has removable cleanable filters on the front |
| 16:28.53 | jbevren | I wonder how I get to them |
| 16:28.54 | jbevren | hehe |
| 16:30.17 | jbevren | hah. Gooseneck fan for usb |
| 16:32.45 | prpplague | http://www.adorama.com/MMHXDSD.html?searchinfo=xD&item_no=17 |
| 16:32.53 | prpplague | does that look to have two seperate slots? |
| 16:33.06 | prpplague | looks like xD is on the top and sd/mmc on the bottom |
| 16:33.39 | jbevren | cant really tell |
| 16:33.50 | jbevren | theyre probably both molded in the black plastic surround |
| 16:34.22 | jbevren | http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=48&products_id=4026 |
| 16:34.25 | jbevren | hm, wonder if that works in linux |
| 16:35.40 | prpplague | interesting |
| 16:35.57 | jbevren | its usb I believe |
| 16:36.02 | jbevren | oh |
| 16:36.04 | jbevren | drrr yeah it is |
| 16:36.54 | jbevren | real shame, I'd love to put something like that to use for controlling external fans (say, with one of the DHT boards) |
| 16:38.16 | jbevren | it'd be better also if it had an itnernal usb header |
| 16:38.18 | jbevren | ah well, cant have it all |
| 16:57.37 | jbevren | hm two-slot ide/cf adatper |
| 17:01.31 | prpplague | jbevren: http://www.prolific.com.tw/eng/Products.asp?ID=15 |
| 17:01.36 | prpplague | look at the block diagram |
| 17:01.55 | prpplague | looks like the xD/SMC is on a seperate controller than the standard flash |
| 17:02.18 | jbevren | hm |
| 17:02.30 | jbevren | this doesnt tell you the physical makeup of the device though :X |
| 17:04.10 | prpplague | yea |
| 17:04.29 | prpplague | most of these controllers the manufacturers are pretty tight lipped |
| 17:06.28 | jbevren | I was speaking more of whether or not you could separate the mmc slot from the xd slot on the usb reader you linked before |
| 17:06.35 | jbevren | I assume the two links are related |
| 17:07.26 | prpplague | jbevren: oh |
| 17:07.58 | prpplague | jbevren: yea i figured that out, they have an sd/mmc version, memory stick version, and xD version, but the picture for all three is the xD version |
| 17:08.07 | jbevren | ahh |
| 17:18.54 | prpplague | jbevren: most |
| 17:19.01 | prpplague | oh wait |
| 17:19.06 | prpplague | you said pcmcia |
| 17:19.17 | prpplague | i know most of the pci ones are |
| 17:19.35 | jbevren | nod |
| 17:19.42 | jbevren | this is cardbus, so I suspect it might work |
| 17:19.50 | jbevren | another ebay seller claims he got it working, but his link is 404 |
| 17:47.01 | prpplague | ho ho hum |
| 17:47.04 | prpplague | fun fun fun |
| 17:50.59 | prpplague | jbevren: i just don't get why so many people are nuts over the juicebox, but not the pixter |
| 17:51.22 | jbevren | prpplague: Shrug :( |
| 17:51.33 | jbevren | pixters arent $5 in closeout stores :X |
| 17:51.41 | prpplague | yea |
| 17:52.03 | prpplague | jbevren: but everyone was "gaga" over them when they were $25 |
| 17:57.37 | prpplague | jbevren: you could make a far better ebook reader with the pixter-mm than the juicebox |
| 19:04.47 | MonMotha | gah, where did people get the idea that connecting two CMOS outputs together was a great way to "combine" them? |
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| 19:21.09 | prpplague | philv: greetings |
| 19:21.19 | philv | hiya prpplague |
| 19:21.43 | prpplague | philv: my little corner of freenode for small device hacking |
| 19:21.48 | prpplague | philv: mostly arm boxes |
| 19:22.03 | philv | Hehe, cool! |
| 19:22.08 | philv | No MIPS? :( |
| 19:22.19 | prpplague | philv: a few people have some DCT's |
| 19:22.36 | prpplague | philv: but i've yet to find any kids' toys based a mips |
| 19:23.10 | philv | Hehe, I don't think we've penetrated tha tmarket yet ;))) |
| 19:23.26 | philv | Oh well, time for some food, bbl |
| 19:24.17 | MonMotha | prpplague: did you end up with a DCT5k? |
| 19:24.43 | prpplague | MonMotha: yea, i got one, but it's been collecting dust for some time |
| 19:25.08 | MonMotha | I ripped the memory map for it some time ago |
| 19:25.27 | MonMotha | that should be enough to get linux booted on it. It's basically a collection of app notes, otherwise (like many things seem to be) |
| 19:25.50 | MonMotha | in fact, the dev board for the proc is supported already, and it should require minor modification to get it booting. They even used the same southbridge and I think ethernet controller |
| 19:25.54 | MonMotha | flash may be differnet, though |
| 19:26.03 | prpplague | ahh |
| 19:26.40 | prpplague | MonMotha: i really need a good mips dev board, but i find the mips field confusing and pricy |
| 19:26.53 | MonMotha | yeah |
| 19:26.57 | MonMotha | there's LOTS of procs, almost as many as ARM |
| 19:27.05 | MonMotha | and the dev boards seem pricier |
| 19:27.16 | prpplague | MonMotha: the only two chips that seem interesting to me are the nec VR series and the alchemy, and as i understand it, they are both dead products |
| 19:27.17 | MonMotha | for ARM, you can almost always find some consumer device that's basically nothing more than a dev board put into a box |
| 19:27.26 | MonMotha | yeah, I believe they are |
| 19:27.32 | MonMotha | though the DCT is VR series |
| 19:27.45 | prpplague | yea |
| 19:28.05 | MonMotha | I also have one of these: http://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=618 |
| 19:28.08 | MonMotha | should be fun to ahck |
| 19:28.22 | prpplague | MonMotha: http://www.halted.com/ccp20981-fujitsu-pencentra-130-pen-tablet-computer-pencentra-130-80797.htm |
| 19:28.56 | MonMotha | yup, same series |
| 19:29.02 | MonMotha | though IIRC the DCT is a bigger brother |
| 19:29.03 | prpplague | MonMotha: ahh that midway looks interesting |
| 19:29.23 | MonMotha | prpplague: I need to dump the boot ROM |
| 19:29.41 | MonMotha | it actually goes so far as to enumerate PCI devices during the boot sequence, so taking that apart (and it isn't too big) shoudl give plenty of info |
| 19:29.52 | prpplague | MonMotha: thats what i've been concentrating on learning about, bootroms |
| 19:30.01 | MonMotha | MIPS isn't too complicated to boot |
| 19:30.03 | prpplague | MonMotha: dumping about of them and then doing disassembly |
| 19:30.15 | prpplague | s/about/abunch |
| 19:30.16 | MonMotha | yeah, it's slow going, but you tend to get results |
| 19:30.18 | MonMotha | do you have IDA? |
| 19:30.34 | prpplague | naw, just using gnu tools |
| 19:30.43 | MonMotha | oh, IDA helps a BUNCH if you can get access to it |
| 19:30.51 | MonMotha | it'll put the macro instructions back together |
| 19:30.56 | MonMotha | so you can see full 32-bit constant loads |
| 19:31.03 | prpplague | i didn't think IDA was available for linux |
| 19:31.11 | MonMotha | it is, but not the GUI frontend |
| 19:31.23 | prpplague | ahh |
| 19:31.29 | MonMotha | I'm tempted to get a few people together who will commit to buying the full/pro version if they port the GUI to linux |
| 19:31.34 | MonMotha | I have it through school right now, but windows only |
| 19:31.41 | prpplague | ahh |
| 19:32.06 | MonMotha | it's always funny when I'm hacking linux PC systems since I'm disassembling a linux binary on windows |
| 19:32.15 | prpplague | hehe |
| 19:32.37 | prpplague | MonMotha: almost as funny as the fact that i do all my windows dev on my linux desktop |
| 19:33.08 | MonMotha | I've written windows stuff on Linux before |
| 19:33.15 | MonMotha | my IDE stuff is all on Linux |
| 19:33.26 | prpplague | MonMotha: i test almost all of win32 code using wine |
| 19:33.27 | MonMotha | and I'm not a fan of Visual Studio (despite having a free copy) |
| 19:33.39 | MonMotha | wine probably gives better error reporting than windows does :) |
| 19:33.45 | prpplague | oh yea |
| 19:34.06 | prpplague | MonMotha: and i can pretty well assume that if it works well on wine, it will under windows |
| 19:34.23 | prpplague | MonMotha: mostly just install programms and sync apps |
| 19:44.17 | prpplague | lordy, its hotter than a $2 whore on pay day |
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| 19:45.01 | prpplague | T0mW: hey hey |
| 19:45.05 | prpplague | T0mW: how goes the project? |
| 19:45.10 | T0mW | prpplague: what you up to? |
| 19:45.18 | T0mW | prpplague: going |
| 19:45.19 | prpplague | T0mW: sweating |
| 19:45.32 | T0mW | I have a meeting tomorrow with the customer |
| 19:45.46 | prpplague | oh? |
| 19:45.52 | prpplague | good meeting or bad meeting? |
| 19:45.57 | T0mW | prpplague: you have tuesday to find out about the visa? |
| 19:46.14 | T0mW | prpplague: good meeting, just a progress checkpoint. |
| 19:46.15 | prpplague | T0mW: yea |
| 19:46.41 | T0mW | prpplague: well, I hope things work out and the world stays quiet until then. |
| 19:46.41 | prpplague | T0mW: i was told everything is good, just need to pick the stuff up |
| 19:47.16 | prpplague | me too |
| 19:47.17 | T0mW | prpplague: e.g. "by Excutive order, all visas are cancelled" :( |
| 19:47.25 | prpplague | hehe yea |
| 19:47.47 | philv | Hrmn, the DCT5000 is a set-top box, eh... cute |
| 19:48.06 | prpplague | T0mW: we atleast there is some good news, bush has basically fired the directors at all four of the processing centers |
| 19:48.21 | T0mW | prpplague: anyway, I'm just goofing off today. Took the car out for a spin, zipped on down into the Lehigh Valley (about 50 mile drive) just to purchase a cigar. |
| 19:48.53 | prpplague | philv: yea we started a wiki page, but its been a little stale for while - http://www.elinux.org/wiki/DCT5000 |
| 19:49.02 | philv | Hrmn |
| 19:49.10 | philv | Wonder if I can get one of these dirt cheap |
| 19:49.25 | philv | Funny, I have docs for a lot of the chips in there :D |
| 19:49.38 | T0mW | philv: heh, I might sell you mine. |
| 19:49.53 | jbevren | hm |
| 19:49.57 | jbevren | what can be done with them? |
| 19:49.59 | T0mW | philv: you into MIPS stuff? |
| 19:50.27 | philv | T0mW: yup |
| 19:50.31 | philv | Quite heavily :D |
| 19:50.42 | T0mW | ok, well, make me an offer I just cannot refuse |
| 19:50.49 | prpplague | wow looks like some good parts - ebay Item number: 5878397894 |
| 19:51.09 | philv | Haha, well, how about I get back to you when I have my credit card paid off next week ;) |
| 19:51.35 | philv | I'm in the middle of writing support to the Cisco 3600 series routers, so I'm pretty busy too |
| 19:51.42 | philv | (that's why the credit card is filled up ;) |
| 19:51.56 | T0mW | yup, it is still there, at the bottom of the stack of WebPals |
| 19:52.12 | prpplague | hehe |
| 19:52.17 | prpplague | ahh the good old web pals |
| 19:52.27 | prpplague | jbevren: DVR |
| 19:52.40 | jbevren | prpplague: there's enough hardware support to do it? |
| 19:52.48 | jbevren | last time I checked the wiki, info was pretty sparse |
| 19:52.48 | prpplague | yea |
| 19:52.48 | T0mW | philv: at least the one I have is alive |
| 19:52.58 | philv | jbevren: looks like a typical MIPS SBC with a lot of broadcom components and a few CPLDs, meaning that they price gouge heavily |
| 19:53.06 | philv | T0mW: :D |
| 19:53.10 | jbevren | philv: of course they do ;) |
| 19:53.12 | T0mW | philv: it is |
| 19:53.43 | jbevren | wait, I thought I read this page |
| 19:53.46 | jbevren | apparently not :) |
| 19:53.53 | T0mW | philv: don't forget the dual RF tuner / transmitters |
| 19:54.20 | prpplague | here is the mips based one that TimRiker has been working on - http://www.elinux.org/wiki/HiSense |
| 19:54.44 | T0mW | philv: oh, you're in Canada, probably the frieght would be more than the unit. |
| 19:54.47 | philv | T0mW: yeah... has some nice ATI Chipset |
| 19:54.52 | philv | Yeah |
| 19:54.59 | philv | Shipping here is painful |
| 19:55.04 | T0mW | heh |
| 19:55.05 | philv | Better than across the pond I suppose |
| 19:55.20 | T0mW | I refuse to do that. |
| 19:55.34 | T0mW | I did that years ago and the paperwork then was a PITA. |
| 19:55.47 | philv | Yeah :( |
| 19:55.50 | prpplague | philv: or to barbados :( |
| 19:55.58 | jbevren | hm |
| 19:56.03 | philv | Oooh, yeah, that would hurt |
| 19:56.03 | jbevren | are there any other sites with info on em? |
| 19:56.09 | philv | Bermuda is one that REALLY sucks to ship to |
| 19:56.09 | T0mW | prpplague: shipping is cheap, it is the bribes that cost |
| 19:56.21 | philv | haha |
| 19:56.32 | prpplague | T0mW: amen |
| 19:56.37 | T0mW | "expedited custom" |
| 19:57.22 | T0mW | prpplague: see, you should have waited to meet up and marry a babe who's Dad was a Customs inspector. |
| 19:57.24 | prpplague | T0mW: one of the local used car dealers was bringing in some cars, when the customs officer asked him about a "fee" he refused, so he's had 300 cars stuck in customs for over a year |
| 19:57.33 | prpplague | T0mW: hehe |
| 19:57.50 | prpplague | T0mW: no, one that already has a visa |
| 19:57.55 | prpplague | s/has/had |
| 19:58.02 | T0mW | prpplague: apparently the guy learned his lesson? |
| 19:58.25 | prpplague | hehe, no he;s tied up an court, but everyone else got the message |
| 19:58.31 | T0mW | nod |
| 20:00.04 | T0mW | prpplague: ordered an AMD X2 4800+ system board w/2Gig RAM |
| 20:00.24 | prpplague | T0mW: that should do well as a pr0n server |
| 20:00.59 | T0mW | prpplague: hopefully that will be here Wednesday and then I can play with that. Maybe make these compile times go way down, at least I'm hoping so. |
| 20:01.10 | prpplague | hehe |
| 20:01.19 | prpplague | T0mW: feeling better about the littlechips board? |
| 20:02.02 | T0mW | prpplague: somewhat, the kernel drivers are a PITA to figure out why they won't work. Sometimes it is an interrupt number, other times GPIO settings. |
| 20:02.20 | T0mW | prpplague: I'm about ready to spend the time to slap the JTAG onto the kernel. |
| 20:03.11 | T0mW | compile, burn, test, compile, burn, test, compile, burn, test, ... |
| 20:03.17 | T0mW | gets old *real fast* |
| 20:03.59 | prpplague | hehe, yep |
| 20:04.02 | T0mW | I feel so lazy today, I didn't sleep well last night |
| 20:04.09 | prpplague | T0mW: need to add kgdb |
| 20:04.24 | T0mW | yeah, something like that |
| 20:04.41 | prpplague | T0mW: and try to test your stuff as modules when you can |
| 20:05.06 | T0mW | prpplague: that's another problem, the modules refuse to load |
| 20:05.20 | prpplague | T0mW: hehe, what do you get? |
| 20:05.23 | T0mW | It keeps complaining that the kernel version cannot be found |
| 20:05.40 | T0mW | can't even force them in: insmod -f |
| 20:06.03 | prpplague | T0mW: you have kernel versioning enabled? |
| 20:06.08 | T0mW | prpplague: just a lot of little wierd sh~t |
| 20:06.10 | T0mW | yeah |
| 20:06.30 | prpplague | T0mW: and 2.6 kernel mod utils enabled in busybox? |
| 20:06.38 | T0mW | prpplague: I've been mostly tinkering with OE |
| 20:06.48 | T0mW | for the past week. |
| 20:07.28 | T0mW | prpplague: for the most part, getting to know my way around the kernel source again and getting to know the s3C2410 |
| 20:07.31 | prpplague | T0mW: seems like when you don't have 2.6 mod utils enable in busybox you get a similiar error |
| 20:08.04 | T0mW | with my luck, buildroot is compiling version 2.4 of modutils on me. |
| 20:08.35 | prpplague | T0mW: yea the default, atleast for buildroot, is just 2.4 enabled |
| 20:09.32 | T0mW | lets see, have the meeting tomorrow, send the boards out to be made, then play with the AMD X2 board when that comes in. Yup, that finishes the week out for me! |
| 20:09.47 | T0mW | heh |
| 20:10.12 | prpplague | brb need to reset router |
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| 20:16.53 | T0mW | I would say that Dave bricked his router, hee heee |
| 20:21.13 | MonMotha | philv: some time ago I went and ripped the configuration for the MMU out of the stock boot ROM. The rest of it appears to be nothing more than the dev board for that NEC processor and northbridge along with the extra Broadcom components |
| 20:21.33 | T0mW | heh |
| 20:22.13 | MonMotha | unfortunately, I could not find a way to make the stock ROM call something in flash (it obviously has to be possible, but my MIPS ASM isn't THAT good), and flash equivs for the mask boot rom are hard to find |
| 20:22.35 | philv | What OS do they run as it is? |
| 20:22.40 | philv | VxWorks? |
| 20:22.49 | MonMotha | I have no clue |
| 20:22.54 | MonMotha | the one I have has no OS |
| 20:23.14 | MonMotha | I don't remember what the DCT6000s run on (the TV Guide software is the most common) |
| 20:23.19 | MonMotha | it probably is VxWorks, though |
| 20:25.15 | philv | heheh |
| 20:27.43 | MonMotha | all the ones most of us ended up with have is a (rather complicated) bootloader on a mask ROM |
| 20:29.23 | philv | Can you bring up some sort of shell on it? |
| 20:29.34 | philv | Sounds like you can on the ROM monitor |
| 20:30.30 | MonMotha | minimal |
| 20:30.44 | MonMotha | basically all it knows how to do is give you some status on how it's trying to download an OS from the cable headend |
| 20:31.06 | MonMotha | that does mean that info is available (albeit in barely usable form) on how to work the cable side |
| 21:01.13 | philv | Hrmn, sounds like a challenge I'm up for |
| 21:01.29 | philv | It'll be a little more involved than the Cisco shit I'm doing now anyways |
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