irclog2html for #tacobeam on 20051031

00:00.18kergothwell, i cant do anything without the ability to connect to ubernet.  sophie is on right now, maybe she can get the email address from them
00:02.42kergothi dunno why they wouldnt have that on the site, unless they've closed membership, or want new members to get sponsored or something
00:02.55numistwell sponsor meeee :P
00:03.28Veight{away}kergoth with the ranting about stuff people ignore again... :P
00:04.10kergothVeight{away}: uh, a number of people in here are interested in ubernet, and at least 2 of us are on it.
00:04.15numist432 MB..  dear god
00:04.30numistguess I should go home and get that instead
00:04.33Veight{away}kergoth: i stand corrected
00:04.43pagefaultburp
00:04.44pagefaultgood pizza
00:06.01pagefaultkergoth, do you know if there is any game music on ubernet?
00:06.12file[laptop]Veight{away}: get to bed!
00:06.40kergothpagefault: if its been officially released, not amateur or cdr, then it could be.  they're quite strict about what's allowed to be ripped.
00:07.28pagefaultah
00:07.28pagefaultwell
00:07.30pagefaultit's a big album
00:07.34pagefaultbut I can't find it anywhere
00:07.38pagefaultfinal fantasy symphonic suite
00:07.41kergothah
00:07.47kergothdunno, would have to check
00:13.09pagefaultto play WoW or not
00:19.52file[laptop]pagefault: it'll consume your productivity
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00:24.56numistugh this fellow needs a clue
00:24.59numistsomeone hand me my bat
00:30.09Sophie197I'm back
00:30.21Sophie197I was chopping up a food & wine magazine.
00:31.27Sophie197kergoth: I don't use the site
00:31.48Sophie197so it makes no nevermind to me if it sucks.
00:35.33Sophie197however, I will feel your pain, for all the good it does ya.
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00:37.38kergothSophie197: well, neither did i, but numist here wants to get access, and there's absolutely no info on the site on how to do that anymore.
00:38.00Sophie197oh
00:38.01kergothno email address to send the puns/logs to get access to the training hub, like there used to be
00:38.03Sophie197yeah
00:39.20Sophie197I had it in my mail before thunderbird freaked out and erased all my mail
00:42.11Sophie197just send 'em to uber@ubernet.org
00:42.21Sophie197in a zip or rar or whateva.
00:42.39kergoththanks sophie
00:42.55Sophie197np doll
00:44.06Sophie197yay numist, joining ubernet!
00:48.38kergothyay indeed
00:48.41kergoth~emulate chris
00:48.45jbotI didn't know there was a 5 A.M. mass. I didn't even know there was a 5 A.M. What else haven't you told me!?
00:51.03numistfuck, bluefish is dead
00:51.06ChipX86kergoth: does ubermovies have tv series?
00:51.09numistSophie197: I need an email or something
00:51.16kergothChipX86: yep. i started ripping my zim and quantum leap
00:51.26ChipX86kergoth: can you look for KakuRenBo?
00:51.37kergothi dont have ubermovie or ubernet set up in linux yet.
00:51.40ChipX86oh ok
00:51.45numistSophie197: who do I credit?
00:51.47kergothi'm all lacking access to spiffy media
00:51.50ChipX86:/
00:51.53ChipX86ok. bbs
00:56.16Sophie197numist: you can credit both of us, or just kergoth, it's up to you
00:56.43numistdo I need to know usernames?
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01:00.57Sophie197numist: mine's Sophie197, kergoth's is kergoth
01:01.02kergothshocking.
01:01.43numistright
01:01.51kergoth:)
01:04.54numistfuck my dualie died
01:04.58numistwhat the hell is going on
01:08.09numistthanks
01:08.18numisttwo video cards and an entire workstation gave up the ghost this weekend
01:08.22numistas well as my mom's cat
01:22.40numisthrm
01:22.43numistChipX86: poke
01:24.27numistnever min...
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01:34.43file[lap1op]pagefault: Aliant is broken again
01:36.18pagefaulthaha
01:36.41file[lap1op]ping times to the internal nameserver, 120ms
01:36.47file[lap1op]dropped packets too
01:37.02pagefaultyeah
01:37.03pagefaultlet me check me
01:37.18pagefaultmine is still good
01:37.26file[lap1op]I'm gonna call just for kicks
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01:56.18kergoth~emulate peter
01:56.20jbotextra, extra, read all about it, emulate peter is ...
01:56.25kergoth..
01:56.27kergothwtf?
01:56.30kergoth~emulate stewie
01:56.32jbotI come bearing a gift.  I'll give you a hint.  It's in my diaper, and it's not a toaster.
01:56.34file[laptop]~emulate lois
01:56.41file[laptop]:\
01:58.16kergothmm
02:00.22file[laptop]I'd open that, except I can't
02:00.36kergothright then
02:03.25file[laptop]well that was mighty coincidental
02:32.09purple_cowwoo!
02:32.12purple_cowall the seeds are washed
02:32.33purple_cownow all i have to do is give the ones left in the colander a quick drying run in the toaster and pack them in containers
02:48.06kergothfuck you comcast.
02:48.08kergothfuck you.
02:48.21purple_cowooh
02:48.24purple_cowhttp://www.danlepard.com/
02:52.55darth_mallthat is some seriously tasty looking bread
02:54.01purple_cowdarth_mall: i dunno if you saw the IM - your camera is here
02:55.56darth_mallI did
02:55.57darth_mallthanks
02:58.57darth_mallow
02:59.38purple_cowhmm
03:00.43kergothpurple_cow: http://kergoth.com/files/Career/resume.pdf .. there's a .odt there as well, if you like that style.
03:03.43purple_cowkergoth: taking an awful long time loading...
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03:07.23purple_cowkergoth: there are some weird spacing issues with that...
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03:16.02scanlimesigh
03:16.54kergoth_sigh indeed
03:20.28file[laptop]hi scanlime
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03:21.02purple_cowwow, it's cwisty
03:21.58cwistyhello hello
03:22.12cwistylove the jack-o-lanterns
03:22.16cwistyvery cool
03:22.37purple_cow:)
03:25.03hardwiretaco
03:32.38nullpuppy"I voted. i guessed right four out of five times"
03:34.01*** topic/#tacobeam by purple_cow -> http://david.navi.cx/images/jack-o-lanterns.jpeg || http://david.navi.cx/images/more-jack-o-lanterns.jpeg
03:35.00cwistynice!
03:35.49purple_cowwe had lots of fun on friday :)
03:35.53cwistyI can see that
03:35.58cwistyawesome stuff!
03:38.40darth_mallgoddammit this guy is doing some weird stuff in his code
03:39.10cwistyhi darth_mall
03:40.47purple_cowthere we go, all the photos
03:40.48purple_cowhttp://zero.navi.cx/gallery/pumpkins-2005
03:41.00darth_mallhi cwisty
03:41.37cwistythanks purple_cow
03:41.40cwistyhey darth_mall
03:41.42cwistywhat's new?
03:44.08darth_mallnothing
03:57.17darth_mallJennifer Connolly is so hot
03:58.02cwistyso nothing new
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04:10.22kergoth_..
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04:37.21kergothgrr.
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04:55.11purple_cowpoor kergoth
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04:58.13purple_cowhi lurgy!
04:58.45lurgyhi purple_cow!
04:58.51purple_cowhow's life?
04:59.01lurgyfull of
04:59.02lurgyuh
04:59.03lurgyrecitals
04:59.04lurgyyou?
04:59.12purple_cowmeh
04:59.23lurgyyeah
04:59.24lurgyi agree
05:00.17lurgy:)
05:01.16lurgyblah
05:01.18lurgyhomework
05:13.10lurgy"i remember you from high school.. i believe you barfed in my tuba!"
05:13.22purple_cow"this dish enjoyed by margaret thatcher, the iron lady, prepared for this competition against the iron chef..."
05:13.35lurgy"i believe it was the SCHOOL's tuba"
05:18.05purple_cowooh, google logo
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05:25.27Veighthello
05:25.39kergothhey
05:25.43kergothits monday tomorrow :((
05:26.07Veightyeah and i have 5 hours asleeep and i have 6 hours till school....
05:26.13kergothheh
05:46.19laodamasUnpleasant flavor experience #130: eating feta cheese without realizing that it has transmuted into bleu cheese
05:46.27darth_mallheh
05:46.54darth_mallI wanna be the guy who makes the google logos
05:51.05purple_cowthat's gotta be an awesome job
05:51.21purple_cowiirc that's really all that their original artist does anymore
05:52.12CIA-5navi-misc: 03jupiter * r9144 10xchat-gnome/buildsystem.diff: bump again
05:55.21darth_mallgood idea
05:56.35purple_cowoh yikes
05:56.40purple_cowour requirements doc is due on the 2nd
05:56.51darth_malluhoh
05:58.33laodamasrequirements are for chumps and jack-o-lantern munching squirrels
06:00.53CIA-5smrt: 03jupiter * r477 10docs/requirements/ (. Makefile requirements.tex): add basic framework
06:00.55purple_cowhehe
06:00.58purple_cowi do love that photo
06:01.33darth_mallyay Futurama
06:02.08darth_mallfilmed on location!
06:09.48kergothhehe
06:10.33darth_mallhrm... so the problem I'm having with quodlibet is definitely just my computer
06:14.39kergothweird
06:14.42kergoth~emulate chris
06:14.43jbotIt'll be a good chance to get away from the evil monkey that lives in my closet.
06:16.19kergoth~emulate chris
06:16.21jbot(holding a rubber condom) Dad, they even have games you can play in the bathroom!  Look, I won a balloon!
06:18.59CIA-5smrt: 03jupiter * r478 10docs/requirements/ (. requirements.tex): some boilerplate text
06:29.06Veight~emulate veight
06:29.09Veightmeh i tried
06:29.33Veighthmm im gonna try to sleep for the other 5 hours i can have
06:29.37Veightlater
06:32.05darth_mallsweet
06:32.25darth_mallmy favorite episode of Family Guy
06:33.36CIA-5navi-misc: 03jupiter * r9145 10xchat-gnome/fe-gnome/ (Makefile.am fe-gnome.c preferences-dialog.c): make things work if someone is crazy enough to do --disable-plugin
06:35.29purple_cowbang a gong, we are on!
06:35.32purple_cowi loves this show
06:36.53kergothmm, m&ms
06:39.34CIA-5navi-misc: 03jupiter * r9146 10xchat-gnome/fe-gnome/textgui.c: maybe fix a segfault. dunno since i've never seen it before
06:50.28lurgyhehe
06:50.37lurgyi think i just saw the one redeeming episode of the 16th season of the simpsons
07:00.38purple_cowdarth_mall: any ideas? http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318701 -- i can reproduce
07:01.25darth_mallpurple_cow: I do have a couple of vague theories, but I haven't actually looked at the code to nail it down
07:01.52darth_mallhow important is it to you to have it fixed?
07:03.55purple_cownothing urgent. probably before 0.7, but who knows when that'll be
07:07.12CIA-5smrt: 03jupiter * r479 10docs/requirements/requirements.tex: bunch of empty sections
07:17.14CIA-5navi-misc: 03jupiter * r9147 10xchat-gnome/fe-gnome/navigation-tree.c: fix a potential crasher when context menuing on a unconnected server. also fix some crazy-ass ws
07:50.12purple_cowhahahaha, awesome
07:50.20purple_cowpysexy bindings are in bmg
07:50.41purple_cowgalago and libnotify too
07:57.29purple_cowthis is bad for me
07:57.51purple_cowbmg has gnome 2.13, which i'm almost positive is going to break my only working general-purpose computer
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08:13.20lurgyhmmmmmmk
08:13.22lurgybedtime
08:14.52scanlimeblah
08:16.00hardwireI don't wanna go to bed
08:16.14hardwirebut installing on this qube2 is making me sooo sleeepy
08:26.27purple_cowscanlime: back home?
08:38.48scanlimeyup
08:39.07scanlimethe text editor on my phone exports things in UTF-16 for some reason :P
08:39.15scanlimeand with CRLF line endings
08:39.36scanlimeso I had to open it with gedit after adding extra encodings, then when I pasted it into gmail it still managed to add extra linebreaks
08:39.40scanlimeoh well
08:40.59scanlime=D
08:41.01scanlimeI need to make pie
08:41.06scanlimeI should do that this week
08:41.20scanlimejust need more butter, some fruit, and some tools
08:41.28scanlimewell, a lot of tools
08:41.54purple_cowwell, a few tools
08:42.01purple_cowmostly you just need the pastry blender and the pie plate
08:42.14scanlimethe brush looked important ;)
08:42.26scanlimewell
08:42.30scanlimethe rolling pin actually...
08:42.36purple_cowerr, yeah, rolling pin too
08:42.38scanlimeI could probably improvise a way to roll out the dough
08:42.41purple_cowbrush you can live without
08:42.46scanlimebut a rolling pin would be muchly nicedr
08:42.56scanlimenooooo.. the brush is essential
08:43.08purple_cowif you're doing an open pie, weights are pretty important, but you can use dry beans instead
08:43.15purple_cowhaha
08:43.25purple_cowthe egg wash is totally cosmetic
08:43.30scanlimenod
08:43.57scanlimeso.. in the pie we did, would it have helped to cook the fruit separately beforehand, to soften it a bit and let the juices reduce?
08:44.47purple_cownot really
08:44.58scanlimehmm
08:45.01scanlimecornstarch?
08:45.02purple_cowi'd have done this:
08:45.52purple_cowmacerate the apples alone, for an hour or so, then add the strawberries right before filling the pie, and if there was too much juice, strain it, add a little cornstarch, and cook it down into a syrup
08:46.24purple_cowthe problem is that the strawberries macerated down into a juicy mush, while the apples were still quite firm
08:46.52scanlimenod
08:47.22scanlimeI should prolly start with an apple pie.. then a banana pie...
08:47.23purple_cowthe basic problem was that our two fruits had vastly different water content
08:47.26scanlimethen I can combine my skills ;)
08:47.29purple_cowhaha
08:47.37purple_cowyou should prolly start by buying that book :)
08:47.43scanlimeyeah
08:47.56scanlimebut before that, I should go to bed
08:47.57scanlimetooooo tired
08:48.07scanlimeit was a quick drive from the airport though
08:48.09scanlimenot much traffic
08:48.29scanlimethe way planes have to approach SFO really gives you a great view
08:48.35purple_cowit's missing some stuff (like pecan), but in general it's got enough info to put together any fruit or chiffon pie
08:48.51scanlimethey kind of fly into the bay, far south of SF.. then head north along the bay for a while
08:48.58scanlimeso you get a great view of the entire peninsula
08:49.11scanlimeI'm sure I could see my house from there
08:49.23scanlimemmm, pecan
08:51.30scanlimethose pumpkin pictures are great
08:51.37scanlimeand I don't think I'm in any of them. No evidence :)
08:52.07purple_cowhttp://zero.navi.cx/gallery/pumpkins-2005/img_0912
08:52.33purple_cowthat's you
08:52.39scanlimeoh
08:52.41scanlimeso it is
08:55.17scanlimemwahaha.. kendra with a screwdriver and a ghost pumpkin
08:55.20scanlimewhat madness next?
08:55.48scanlimehave you toasted any of the other pumpkin seeds yet?
08:59.30purple_cowi did a batch right after taking that photo (the ones in the bowl)
09:02.29hardwireok
09:03.03hardwirethis 150mhz MIPSEL is decoding an mp3 and playing an mp3.. as well as encoding the mp3 to ogg and sending it to its own ICECAST2 server
09:03.13hardwire45% cpu for the process
09:03.16hardwirebut still
09:03.18hardwireits 150mhz.
09:03.21hardwireyou have to dig mips
09:03.27hardwireits got 32 megs of ram
09:04.46purple_cowMIPS is a very decent architecture
09:05.14purple_cownot great for super-fast processors, but high performance for low power
09:05.59purple_cowhmm
09:06.24purple_cowbig difference between a 2-stick crust and a 1.625-stick crust
09:07.11hardwiremips is pretty impressive
09:07.27hardwireyeh the PII 350 I have set up to do this same thing is failing
09:09.27hardwirebut the load on the PII 350 is like 1.2 most of the time
09:09.33hardwirethe Qube2 is at 0.70
12:50.39file[laptop]destroy mornings
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14:11.27kergothfile[laptop]: yes
14:12.20pagefaultboo
14:12.27pagefaulthappy halloween
14:13.35pagefaultprobably from asterisk channel
14:13.38pagefaultnot from here
14:15.03file[laptop]maybe
14:15.33kergothman, i need to try to get my resume down to 2 opages
14:15.35kergoths/op/p/
14:16.31pagefaulthehe
14:16.38file[laptop]kergoth: randomly remove letters
14:16.39pagefaultwill work for food
14:17.38file[laptop]and bandwidth.
14:17.38pagefaultis your DSL working again
14:17.52file[laptop]yes
14:18.37file[laptop]it's your fault it broke
14:21.08pagefaultyes
14:23.15file[laptop]10/31/2005 4:59:00 AM OUT FOR DELIVERY DIEPPE, NB CA  :D
14:23.15pagefaultmine better come
14:23.34file[laptop]or you will go insane and go on a killing spree?
14:23.38pagefaultyes
14:23.43pagefaultstarting with you
14:23.47pagefaultmwahaha
14:23.54file[laptop]you'll have to come here
14:23.58file[laptop]take in the sights first
14:23.59file[laptop]THEN kill me
14:24.04pagefaultI know where you live
14:24.23file[laptop]I don't remember where you live, so you're safe
14:24.31file[laptop]lots and lots of turns
14:24.55pagefaulthehe
14:26.01file[laptop]oh cool, just saw one of my friends rollerblade down the street
14:26.11file[laptop]going to work... at the call center!
14:26.46pagefaulthehe
14:26.47pagefaultfor what
14:26.55file[laptop]meh who knows
14:29.06pagefaultfun
14:29.08pagefaultwhere
14:29.30file[laptop]hmm... Istanbul!
14:29.45pagefaultok
14:29.49pagefaultthat sounds good
14:29.51pagefaultI like turkey
14:29.53pagefaulttastes good
14:30.13file[laptop]I bet
14:30.49file[laptop]waiting bites
14:32.01kergothhahaha
14:32.05kergothi went to submit a resume to this company right
14:32.11kergothguess their apache isnt configured right..
14:32.13kergothcause i hit submit
14:32.21kergothand now i see their resume submission .py file in my browser
14:32.32file[laptop]ooh
14:32.35kergothincluding the email address of the guy who the resumes go to when debugging is enabled
14:32.38file[laptop]going to hax0r them?
14:32.38kergoth;)
14:32.40pagefaultyou can see what they look for now
14:32.43kergothgonna email the guy
14:33.42file[laptop]kergoth: what's the job?
14:35.06kergoththe one i mentioned in here the other day.  its a company that provides services and tools for creating custom linux distributions and stuff.  the code is in python.  they want me to work on the infrastructure.  its essentially what i was doing with OE, it seems.
14:36.13file[laptop]ah
14:38.25pagefaultah neat
14:38.29pagefaultautobuff minibutton
14:38.31pagefaultthats new
14:40.00pagefaultmmm
14:40.01pagefaulteggo
14:40.19pagefaultdo they even have eggs in them
14:40.21pagefaultthey must
14:41.03kergothpagefault: hehe, i hid the autobuff minibutton.  I always ditch minibuttons that only exist for configuration.  if i want to configure it, i can use the addons button (myaddons) in the main menu.  buttons should be for toggling and/or opening things.
14:41.29pagefaultyeah
14:41.30pagefaultit's goofy
14:46.12kergothalso, that minibutton isnt on the minimap, its free floating, which is just odd.
14:52.10pagefaultwell
14:52.16pagefaultI moved it
14:52.23pagefaultit's probably designed to do that
14:52.26pagefaultbut he didn't have the code in
14:53.43kergothnod
14:54.23file[laptop]kergoth: Odd Job Jack!
15:03.34pagefaulthehe
15:03.46pagefaultso
15:03.47pagefaultwhat is on tv
15:03.54file[laptop]Seven Days on Spike
15:05.03kergothi like that show
15:14.57pagefaultthrall for president
15:15.20pagefaulthttp://www.blizzcon.com/imageviewer.shtml?http://www.blizzcon.com/photos.shtml,/images/screenshots/,54,56,http://www.blizzcon.com/photos.shtml
15:15.23pagefaultnice mage costume
15:19.18pagefaulthaha
15:19.18pagefaultgo to image 21
15:19.23pagefaultit's a gnome on a mount
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16:00.55pagefaultmacguyver
16:35.10kergothmorning Cae, lurgy
16:41.28Caemorning
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17:04.53ChipX86holy crap, my laptop is still on and not dead
17:06.54kergothgrats!
17:07.00Caelol
17:07.20ChipX86it hasn't survived over-night since they replaced the motherboard
17:07.30ChipX86it's of course doing this because the new one's arriving tomorrow or the day after
17:07.49Cae|Awaynaturally
17:07.51Cae|Awayhave fun :)
17:08.02kergothfoo.
17:08.05kergoth~emulate chris
17:08.10jbotIt'll be a good chance to get away from the evil monkey that lives in my closet.
17:08.10ChipX86aww, leaving already?
17:08.38darth_mallnaughty dircproxy not logging to files the way I ask
17:19.22darth_malloh jesus
17:19.56darth_mallAmer's going to give an example of taking lines of code from a function and moving them into their own method...
17:25.29darth_mallooh... this is really useful... he's teaching us how to do it in eclipse
17:30.50darth_mallI hope he doesn't plan on spending the next 20 minutes teaching us how to cut and paste
17:31.56filedarth_mall: it's a valuable life skill
17:38.03scanlimeI love it when people send emails "with high importance" to a mailing list full of people who don't care
17:39.19ChipX86hah, which?
17:39.28scanlimethat sales update that got sent to mts
17:39.47ChipX86weird, I don't have it yet
17:40.34ChipX86ohh nm
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17:40.52darth_mallugh
17:41.02ChipX86yeah, us engineering people don't care a huge amount about sales
17:41.25ChipX86"Have a great week selling!" man what a boring job :)
17:42.05darth_malljesus christ
17:42.12darth_mallAmer's got a variable called theConstantToAdd
17:42.16scanlimeChipX86: yup
17:42.22scanlimedarth_mall: ooh
17:42.39scanlimedarth_mall: make sure he has a variable called theVariableWeLikeToAddConstantsToWhenWeFeelLikeIt
17:42.53darth_mallhaha
17:43.49ChipX86scanlime: see the post on fun-list about MS at VMworld
17:44.25scanlimeyeah
17:44.39ChipX86*they* were the hit?
17:44.54scanlimeobviously
17:44.55ChipX86one of the highlights is that Dianne wanted Virtual Server?
17:44.57ChipX86geeze
17:44.58ChipX86the arrogance
17:45.53ChipX86oh, they were the highlight of HP's Tech World, not VMworld
17:48.18scanlime"        print event
17:48.18scanlime<PROTECTED>
17:48.18scanlime<PROTECTED>
17:48.22scanlimedamn you X
17:48.29scanlime" If We See You Driving A Honda, We Assume You Are Doing Well Financially
17:48.30scanlimeAnd  Therefore You Do Not Need A Raise."
17:48.47ChipX86?
17:50.00scanlimethe "New HR policies" on fun-list
17:50.29filewhat kind of company does maintenance on their system, on a Monday morning?
17:52.17ChipX86haha
17:52.22ChipX86I love the thing about oragns
17:52.24ChipX86er, organs
17:52.48scanlimewow, we're actually having a meeting today
17:53.03ChipX86not all of Hosted I hope
17:53.14scanlimeno, just ID
17:53.17scanlimeoh, damnit
17:53.19ChipX86cool
17:53.20scanlimeit's not even 10:00
17:53.23ChipX86nope
17:53.30scanlimeI forgot to change my alarm for daylight savings
17:53.36scanlimeended up at work at 9:30 instead of 10:30
17:53.37scanlimedamnit!
17:53.41scanlimeno wonder the parking lot was so empty
17:53.44ChipX86:)
17:53.45scanlimeand I-280 was so full
17:53.57ChipX86I'm going to use it as a way of getting to work earlier, I hope
17:54.13ChipX86though I'm WFH today since I have guests
17:59.46ChipX86and I'm so going to get sick as a result
18:00.23scanlimeoh, sweet
18:00.37scanlimesome of the changes I made last week to fix USB Audio are getting into titanium
18:00.42ChipX86woot!
18:00.45ChipX86congrats :)
18:00.50scanlimethanks
18:01.01scanlimeah, and they're alredy in
18:01.05scanlimechris crossported them after I left on Friday
18:03.03filetitanium? sounds fancy
18:06.28ChipX86damn laptop
18:07.09scanlimetitanium is our codename for fancy!
18:07.21ChipX86I'm working on nitrogen stuff lately
18:07.49scanlimenitrogen is our even better codename for fancy
18:08.25ChipX86and megatron
18:08.47filemegatron vmware bomb?
18:17.16ChipX86"If you're going to fake your own kidnapping to swindle your family out of money, it's not a good idea to pick up the ransom yourself"
18:29.47pagefaulthmm
18:29.52pagefaultI have eaten all the halloween candy
18:29.56pagefaultI need to buy more now
18:30.00kergothpagefault: me and my dad did the same thing.
18:30.06ChipX86I feel like halloween is over for some reason
18:30.25kergothi've never really been really into halloween.  or most holidays, really
18:30.30ChipX86I love halloween
18:30.36ChipX86but I never get to do much for it
18:40.23scanlimedoing anything tonight?
18:41.30scanlimekilling people is bad for their health
18:41.36numistgood
18:41.40numistgrr
18:43.28ChipX86scanlime: not doing much aside from my traditional Nightmare Before Christmas viewing with Amanda and Chelsea and Paul
19:01.18kergoth<Keffo> wtf.. "Women bring a dynamic that's interesting and highly intelligent to all things creative, all things technological."
19:01.18kergoth<Keffo> --Paula Fellbaum, director of human resources, THQ Studios
19:01.18kergoth<Keffo> She should meet my mom, when she's trying to work her VCR...
19:07.07ChipX86as much as I was looking forward to friends visiting, I'm looking forward to being alone again :P
19:07.19scanlimeheh
19:13.39darth_mallheh
19:30.03scanlime:P
19:40.07darth_mallsneezing on his couch and wiping your nose with his controllers? ^^
19:40.14scanlimeyup
19:42.51darth_mallI hate days when nothing feels manageable
19:43.09darth_mallbetter head over the to the ITLL for this meeting
19:43.13darth_malls/ITLL/DLC/
19:48.03Cae|AwayI hate days when I get woken up before my alarm
19:52.10ChipX86Cae: :(
19:53.29Caewell, I get to leave a nice "if you ever play your music that loud that early again, I'm calling the cops" notice to my upstairs neighbors
19:53.44numistsweet
19:53.55numistno wait...   you didnt get the notice, your giving one,..  thats not sweet
19:54.10Caethey should be happy that I'd feel guilty calling the cops without giving them a warning first.
19:54.32Caebecause otherwise they would've gotten a visit at 6:15am from the local police department
19:54.51Caeand they probably don't like mornings any more than I do.
19:56.28Caegod..I have the attention span of an ADD goldfish right now
19:56.52fileooh
20:00.45numist~mornings
20:00.47jbotMornings MUST be destroyed! (see also http://www.destroymornings.com/)
20:02.06ChipX86mornings bad
20:02.39ChipX86yay, can't reach vmware anymore
20:03.02darth_malldammit I hate daylight savings time
20:03.37scanlimeyay, I love gnome canvas
20:03.44ChipX86it rocks
20:03.47scanlimenow I'm doing all the event handling on my own!
20:03.57scanlimeusing my crazy python BSP trees to see what item is under the cursor!
20:04.09darth_mallhmm... why isn't dircproxy logging...
20:08.45darth_mallhm
20:10.34slimspacedarth_mall: where are you right now?
20:11.28*** join/#tacobeam darth_mall (n=evan@zero.navi.cx)
20:11.57darth_mallthat's better
20:12.22scanlimeI think my python BSP tree is both faster and better than gnome-canvas's collision detection :P
20:13.01scanlimegnome_canvas_get_item_at() is very buggy when you're dealing with small items.. mostly because it doesn't allow you to specify a range of coordinates to test
20:21.24CaeChipX86: I like the Cali weather better than here.
20:22.38ChipX86are you back home?
20:22.38scanlime*what* weather?
20:22.38kergothmeh
20:22.38Caeyeah
20:22.39ChipX86:(
20:22.39Caeheh
20:22.39CaeI even went goth the last day.
20:22.39Caeand there are no pictures.
20:22.39Cae:P
20:22.39kergothaw
20:22.39ChipX86awww
20:22.39Caescanlime: well, you have less humidity, so you actually have temperature variation during the day. or at least SoCal does.
20:22.39ChipX86wish it was close to here
20:22.46scanlimeCae: we barely have temperature variation during the year
20:25.36scanlimehah
20:25.42scanlimeI thought this wireless adaptor was flaking out
20:25.49Caescanlime: you have more than us
20:25.53scanlimelooks like I just had my arm too close to it, so it was losing signal
20:26.05scanlimeCae: that's sad
20:30.13purple_cowalien tonight!
20:30.25scanlimewhere?
20:30.51purple_cowIFS
20:30.54scanlimemmm
20:31.10Caescanlime: you have cool in the morning, warm during the day, cool in the evening, colder at night.
20:31.19Caewe have warm, hot, hot, warm.
20:31.32Caethere is no variation in humidity
20:31.34scanlimeCae: it's a very subtle variation here :P
20:31.42scanlimecompared to colorado at least
20:31.55kergothi really really missed the cool evenings from minnesota when i was in texas.  didnt expect to.
20:31.56Caeexcept at 3am or so, when it all lands on the grass. and then it goes back into the air when the sun starts to rise.
20:32.40Caehave fun guys
20:39.17scanlimehehe
20:39.42purple_cowhttp://www.scarygoround.com/blog/tt-layout.gif
20:39.43scanlimeand an arbitrary amount of Jack Daniels...
20:42.20numist:D
20:42.21numistyes
20:46.05scanlimehehe
20:46.28numistthat works>
20:46.29numist?
20:47.00scanlimeit must, scary go round says so
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20:59.00scanlimehmm. 'make oldconfig' just asked me about drivers for a Via Unichrome video card
20:59.05scanlimeis that better than monochrome?
21:01.32filemaybe
21:02.07numistomnichrome: what people do to pimp their rides
21:02.50scanlimemmyep
21:03.43scanlimesomeone needs to manufacture a spray-on latex paint you can use to decorate your car, that will safely peel off when you want it to
21:03.58scanlimethen it needs to come in chrome
21:08.04numistyeah!  then you can use it to rob banks since you can just change the colour after the heist
21:08.23scanlimesure
21:08.30scanlimeand it'd be a great prank to pull on other people
21:08.48numistsomething tells me that aspects of this are a bad idea
21:08.59numistbesides, if you want to temp. paint your car, theres water based paints for such things
21:27.53scanlimeowww
21:28.09scanlimeflapjack must have filled up again
21:28.14scanlimemy mailbox is full of bounces
21:29.40fileVeight!
21:29.47Veightyo file
21:29.50numistow
21:32.04fileVeight: wazzup
21:32.22scanlimehttp://flapjack.navi.cx/webalizer/cia/usage.png
21:32.32scanlimeI need to spend some time improving the server's scalability, if this continues :P
21:32.41scanlimethat looks disturbingly exponential
21:32.42numistum, yeah
21:33.22scanlimemostly I need to rip out most of this SQL garbage and design a proper database for it
21:33.52scanlimeactually, maybe it just needs another big redesign hackfest
21:34.01numistmeh
21:34.03fileooh
21:34.09scanlimeI've learned a lot about its usage patterns in the year or so since I wrote this version
21:34.21numistwe should get unixmos on that thing so you get notifications from disk full before you get flooded from bounces
21:34.29Veightfile: nm rearanging my mp3 player for folders for diffrent people since other people then just me listen to it
21:34.30scanlimeeh
21:34.39scanlimethat would help, but it doesn't really solve the problem
21:34.44numisttrue
21:35.04scanlimethe reason the disk fills up when I don't pay attention is mostly because there's a lot of log data that never gets automatically rotated :P
21:35.06numistoh I wanted to ask you to set up a ruleset for me
21:35.11scanlimeemail me
21:35.27numistI'll email it..   but you can drop the #sdcolleges@shadowfire.org CIA..  the channel isnt in use anymore
21:35.41scanlimeI can't do it right now, email me
21:35.48numistI'll browse around the site and try to give you some real xml instead of making you do it all
21:36.11scanlimedon't bother
21:36.16scanlimeI have a tool that automates all that
21:36.20numist:o
21:36.26numistalrighty then
21:37.28scanlime-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1350236096 Oct 31 16:37 cia-access.log
21:37.29scanlime-rw-r--r--  1 root root   29602808 Oct 31 16:37 cia-error.log
21:37.30scanlimeick
21:37.36numist:o
21:37.41scanlimeI really need to set aside some time to fix this
21:37.54darth_mallpurple_cow: you here?
21:38.03purple_cowdarth_mall: no!
21:38.04purple_cowwhat?
21:38.04numistcomplete rewrite in C?
21:38.08scanlimeno
21:38.10scanlimepython isn't the problem
21:38.13scanlimeMySQL is most of it
21:38.18scanlimeDOM is the rest of it
21:38.25numistI dunno, wasnt python's xml libs giving you grief too?
21:38.28numistah DOM
21:38.35darth_mallpurple_cow: did you notice all the stuff we have to turn in for our prototype?
21:38.44purple_cowdarth_mall: yeah, i've started on that just now
21:38.53darth_mallok
21:39.04purple_cowoh, other stuff to write
21:39.34purple_cowcare to write the total summary while i make the archive?
21:40.03slimspacedo we have the individual contributions assembled in some way?
21:40.41purple_cowslimspace: read the page :P
21:40.55slimspaceI did.  Do /we/ have that assembled yet?
21:41.13purple_cowno
21:41.23scanlimewhy do I put up with this bullshit
21:41.42numist?
21:41.58scanlime16:39 < scanlime> disk filled up again
21:41.58scanlime16:40 < common> man logrotate
21:42.26numist...
21:42.30filescare them!
21:42.30numistlinode?
21:42.34scanlime?
21:42.38scanlimedamnit
21:42.41scanlimelinode is not the problem
21:42.43scanlimeneither is python
21:42.50scanlimethe problem is that there are bugs in my code that I haven't taken the time to fix
21:42.53scanlimeok?
21:42.56slimspacepurple_cow: ok.  We probably need to get ahold of Daniel and make sure he sends us his info
21:42.56scanlimeI need to take the time to fix them
21:43.09scanlimemoving away from linode, rewriting in C, installing logrotate/mos/whatever isn't the solution
21:43.10numistnot what I meant, but ok
21:43.21numistI was asking who < common> was
21:43.22numistsheesh
21:43.33scanlimethat was in #commits
21:43.38numistah
21:43.53scanlimeI don't hang around the linode people any more unless I'm bitching at them for slow disk I/O
21:44.16hardwire2.6.14 makes me happy
21:44.40purple_cowscanlime: it's ok, we still love you
21:44.42darth_mallscanlime: ^^
21:44.48scanlimethanks :)
21:44.59filemy friend is hiding under his desk from the kids that are trick or treating
21:45.00darth_mallscanlime: obviously CIA would be better were it written in a combination of Perl and Java
21:45.03filehe refuses to give them candy
21:45.07scanlimedarth_mall: and C, don't forget C
21:45.14darth_mallI never forget C!
21:45.16scanlimeobviously nothing is fast and maintainable unless it's in C
21:45.30scanlimeespecially when the bottleneck is disk I/O because of MySQL's crappiness
21:45.41scanlimewell, MySQL isn't bad.. SQL itself is just badly suited to this problem space
21:45.47numistyou should keep it all in ram!
21:45.51numist>_>
21:45.55scanlimein my wonderful 128MB of RAM?
21:46.10scanlimethat's also not the bottleneck
21:46.13scanlimethough if I ditch SQL, that will help
21:46.32scanlimeI think my ideal solution would be sqlite for the bits that SQL actually helps for, and flat files for everything else
21:47.39scanlimemaybe I'll set aside some evenings this week for just CIA work
21:47.47darth_mallnope. the answer is obviously Perl, C, Java, and XML
21:47.57scanlimeyes...
21:48.02numistand ruby
21:48.07CIA-5smrt: 03darkstar62 * r480 10docs/prototype-contributions/ (. cory.txt): Add a preliminary place for our prototype contributions
21:48.10darth_mallimplement a db in Java that stores its data in XML
21:48.15darth_mallwrite CIA in C
21:48.18scanlimeCIA already stores its data in XML
21:48.18numistdarth_mall: hahaha
21:48.33darth_malland make the the IRC bits of CIA xchat perl plugins!
21:48.37darth_mallbecause xchat == irc
21:48.37scanlimeeep
21:48.51numistnice work, darth_mall, you just solved it!
21:48.58scanlimeI'm not touching the bot server :)
21:49.15scanlimethat part of CIA has actually been really stable
21:49.25numistproblem is, the db would be slow, the service would be hard to maintain, and the bots would exit whenever someone logged off
21:49.29numisthehe
21:49.34darth_mallnumist: those are features
21:49.37numistah
21:49.39numistnoted
21:51.21darth_mallpurple_cow: so you want me to tackle the summary, then?
21:51.33scanlimeok, time to try a 2.6.14 kernel
21:52.17slimspacepurple_cow: when you're pulling all the stuff together, remember to include my building schematics document
21:55.01purple_cowslimspace: already done
21:55.14purple_cowdarth_mall: if you could :)
21:55.15purple_cowor slimspace
21:55.18slimspacepurple_cow: :)
21:55.19purple_cowsomeone not me
21:55.24darth_mallpurple_cow: ok
21:55.50slimspaceI emailed Daniel to see if he has a contributions thing he can send us
22:03.57Veightkergoth: quit sighing and go trick or treating or buy me 4,000 paintballs to shoot up my neighborhood
22:04.07kergotheh, no
22:04.26Veightdam
22:04.34pagefaultheh
22:05.08filego trick or treating with him
22:05.10filereclaim your youth!
22:05.14fileand stuff
22:06.17Veightumm
22:06.23Veighthow about he goes trick or treating for me?
22:06.36Veightso then i can go and terrorizew the neighborhood
22:06.41Veighter, terrorize or however you spell it
22:07.16slimspaceVeight: Then I could kick you for being among the kids that egged my car over the weekend
22:08.24Veighti wouldnt egg random people
22:08.29Veightif i do..its for a reason
22:08.32filehe'd have specific targets
22:08.44Veightlol
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22:13.42hardwireVojtech Pavlik is quite the nerd.
22:15.40CIA-5smrt: 03evan * r481 10docs/prototype_summary.txt: Here's a summary. Take a look.
22:17.38darth_mallpurple_cow: are we turning in screenshots?
22:19.17purple_cowdarth_mall: yes. someone needs to take some
22:20.30darth_mallhow are we turning in the contributions?
22:20.34darth_mallseparate files?
22:20.43slimspacedarth_mall: I created a directory in subversion to collect them
22:20.50slimspaceI figured we'd combine them into one file when we had them all
22:22.37CIA-5smrt: 03jupiter * r482 10docs/prototype-contributions/david.txt: my contributions
22:22.38purple_cowi'm including them in the tarball
22:22.38purple_cowso in the html file with links to all the files, it just has links to the individual contributions docs
22:23.00darth_mallok
22:23.05slimspacenod
22:27.54CIA-5smrt: 03jupiter * r483 10docs/prototype_summary.txt: Some rewording. Also put 2 spaces in front of new sentences
22:28.34CIA-5smrt: 03evan * r484 10docs/prototype-contributions/evan.txt: My contributions too
22:30.30purple_cowslimspace: no reason to put the screenshots in svn, since they'll just use up disk on zero
22:30.33purple_cowcan you just email them?
22:30.40slimspaceto you?  yes
22:31.21darth_mallit's against my religion
22:32.26slimspacepurple_cow: sent
22:34.33pagefault++
22:35.11CIA-5smrt: 03jupiter * r485 10docs/prototype-contributions/daniel.txt: add daniel's contributions write-up, after some editing
22:37.00slimspaceis that all we need then?
22:37.36kergothbleh
22:40.31Veightyay! Powerman 5000
22:42.02purple_cowslimspace: i think so
22:42.30scanlimeoh, wow
22:42.38scanlimeperry just closed a bug I didn't know I fixed )
22:42.40scanlime:)
22:42.47ChipX86nice
22:43.02scanlimeapparently that crappy SMC bluetooth dongle works now
22:43.08ChipX86woot
22:43.20scanlimeI still wouldn't advise buying one ;)
22:43.44slimspacepurple_cow: cool.  If there's nothing else, I'll be heading home then
22:44.30scanlimehrmph
22:44.38scanlimestill can't reproduce this dell 1450 bug
22:56.49kergothyay, kergoth.com mails show up on my desktop directly now.
22:58.45kergothand also, yet for fetchmail grabbing the 5,800 mails in my gmail inbox and autoshuffling them into mailing list folders automatically
22:58.48kergoths/yet/yay/
22:59.30file[laptop]fetchmail is goooood
23:00.08kergothindeed.
23:03.15hardwirethis is nuts
23:03.30file[laptop]what kind?
23:03.35hardwirepeanuts
23:03.39file[laptop]yum
23:03.45hardwireyup
23:04.08kergothgmail only lets you grab 500 mails at a time via pop3
23:04.12kergoththis is gonna take a while
23:04.55darth_mallpurple_cow: thanks for sending that e-mail off
23:05.05purple_cowno problem
23:06.12purple_cowdarth_mall: are you coming to alien tonight?
23:06.21hardwireI need to do an ordered dither somehow
23:06.36hardwire1 bit
23:07.15scanlimeordered dither is just a table lookup
23:07.43hardwireis it based on surrounding or last pixel on a left to right draw?
23:07.56scanlime?
23:08.02hardwirebleh
23:08.07hardwireI am writing a 1 pixel high image
23:08.11hardwireand I hope to dither it before I write it
23:08.18hardwirevalues are 0-255
23:08.31scanlimeare you sure you want ordered dither?
23:08.40hardwireI don't want a random dither
23:08.48scanlimeheh
23:08.48hardwirebut that may be fine if its just as easy
23:09.04hardwiremoo
23:09.10scanlimegoogle for floyd-steinberg
23:09.38scanlimeordered dithers are effectively going to reduce your spatial resolution
23:09.57scanlimewhat you really want is some type of error-feedback dithering algorithm, probably
23:09.59hardwireoh I remember how those are
23:10.03scanlimeand floyd-steinberg is popular and easy
23:10.34hardwirewhats this one called
23:10.35scanlimeespecially easy if you're doing a 1 dimensional image
23:10.44hardwireif x is odd.. if less than 128 its 0.. otherwise 1
23:10.48hardwireand if x is even reverse that
23:11.25scanlimesounds like the algorithmic ramblings of a madman
23:11.57hardwireI hardly am known as anything else
23:12.09scanlimeooh... 700MB logfile
23:17.11CIA-5spacegrant: 03dkuester * r1771 10mck/ (ground ground.sh): woo
23:17.14hardwireyes
23:17.16hardwireI am quite mad
23:17.19hardwirethat sucks
23:18.30Sophie197who wants pictures of frankenMiles sent to their inbox?
23:18.51Sophie197I need email addresses, if so.
23:19.01hardwirewtf does floyd-steinberg do on edge pixels?
23:20.06scanlimehardwire: uh.. so the only edge pixel you have is the first one, assuming you're propagating errors rightward
23:20.26scanlimehardwire: on that pixel you have no error to propagate, so it will act just like you're quantizing with no error diffusion
23:20.35hardwireit has these functions.
23:20.56scanlimehmm, I didn't know it could dither
23:20.59scanlimethat's kinda handy
23:24.28pagefaultmmm food
23:27.21file[laptop]pagefault: hand it over!
23:30.02pagefaultpaul martin is dressed up as himself
23:30.08pagefaulthe's giving out halloween
23:37.25hardwireyup
23:37.27hardwireordered is what I wanted
23:38.04scanlimewhat are you doing?
23:38.12hardwirecrazy crazy things
23:38.25hardwiresuper fine sine waves on led's
23:38.28hardwirein a module
23:38.31scanlimeI want to know. Ordered dithering is rarely really what you want unless speed is the biggest concern
23:38.35scanlimeok, damnit
23:38.38scanlimeyou don't want ordered dithering
23:38.46hardwireright now I do
23:38.53hardwirecause I want to see what it looks like overall
23:39.12scanlimeread about 1-bit A/D and D/A, because that's what you're doing
23:39.12hardwireI have a 15bit wide pattern
23:39.19hardwireah.
23:39.31hardwireI will just have to make this and show whats up
23:39.34scanlimeread about delta-sigma modulators
23:39.51scanlimethis is how they do what you're doing in real hardware
23:40.02scanlimeand it looks an awful lot like floyd-steinberg dithering
23:40.17scanlimebut it's in the right mathematical context to be useful for signal conversion applications
23:41.08numisthee hee, scanlime's using big words again
23:41.18scanlime:P
23:42.06hardwirescanlime: ok
23:42.08hardwirewell
23:42.12hardwireI will try this pattern first
23:42.17hardwirethen I will use a delta-sigma modulated pattern
23:42.18scanlimeyeah, it's a good first test
23:42.33scanlimebut delta-sigma modulation should give you madly cool resolution with little CPU usage
23:42.40purple_cowhah, take that, gentoo!
23:42.49hardwirescanlime: the first pattern is 15bit wide
23:43.02hardwireI just want to see how smooth this may be
23:43.08scanlimehardwire: that only really gives you a few useful bits of brightness resolution
23:43.16hardwirescanlime: yup
23:43.38scanlimeI mean
23:43.45hardwirescanlime: I already did a sine wave where I sent a 12 bit pattern to the LED's
23:43.51scanlimethe problem with using a fixed width pattern, is that there's no difference at all between that and PWM
23:43.53hardwire0-12 sine wav
23:44.04scanlimeall you're doing is mixing up the on and off times a bit to make the flickering less apparent
23:44.07hardwireand I am hoping to more or less mix the bit patterns together
23:44.12hardwirescanlime: exactly
23:44.20hardwirebut.. thats called a learning curve for hardwire :)
23:44.23scanlimenod
23:44.29hardwirenow its more fluid
23:44.33hardwireI want to see if its fluid enough
23:44.36scanlimewhen you switch to delta-sigma modulation, you get a pretty much infinite pattern width
23:44.48scanlimeit will only be limited by the width of the registers you use
23:44.55hardwirewell I want to find out how quickly I can burst 32768 to an LED
23:45.00hardwirevia the gpio char device first
23:45.10hardwireand how much cpu it will pop
23:45.10scanlimethe resolution you get is only limited by the integration time on the receiving end- in this case, the integration that the human eye performs
23:45.19scanlime:)
23:45.30hardwireyeh
23:45.36scanlimedamnit, you're making me want to play with LEDs
23:45.49scanlimeI bet an FPGA could do delta-sigma modulation on lots o' LEDs at once
23:45.50hardwireat the same time scanlime .. I have this set up in such a way that I can change the value of the LEDs pulse
23:46.04hardwirefor instance .. the longest pattern is 15 bit.. then 14bit 13 bit and so forth
23:46.22scanlimethe value of the LEDs pulse? you mean the PWM period?
23:46.26hardwirethat way when I change from one value to another.. I can align the pulses
23:46.34hardwireand it looks fluid
23:46.54scanlimeoh, you mean you never change the brightness value in the middle of a pattern period?
23:47.03scanlimethat's not a problem with delta-sigma modulation
23:47.06hardwireI also have it progressively adding brightness as the patterns get shorter.. so that it maintains a brighter pattern
23:47.24hardwirewell
23:47.28scanlimeok, too much talk of pattern buffers
23:47.32hardwirelemme give this a go real quick
23:47.33hardwireyeh
23:47.35hardwireI am gonna like go do it
23:47.53hardwirehey.. not a photon torpedo
23:48.25hardwirescanlime: how about I just shut up and do a video recording on my palm pilots camera to show you how very granular it wil be
23:48.35scanlimejust implement delta-sigma modulation
23:48.42scanlimeit's so much simpler than what you're proposing
23:48.59scanlimehonestly.. it's harder to understand, but easier to implement
23:49.01scanlimeif that makes any sense
23:49.02hardwirescanlime: maybe.. I am going to store the patterns and just walk them
23:49.37hardwireI should install the wikipediafs
23:49.45scanlimebut what if you want the brightness set to 1 out of 32768? You're going to need a big 32768-entry bitfield for your pattern
23:49.59hardwireah.. see delta-sigma requires I know math
23:50.07hardwireso thats out the window right there
23:50.08scanlimepff
23:50.16hardwireI didn't pass any of my math courses
23:50.23scanlimehell, I have a delta-sigma modulator written in python around here somewhere
23:50.24scanlimeit's easy
23:50.42hardwirescanlime: it has 15 pulse patterns
23:50.46scanlimeyou really can think of it a lot like error-diffusion dithering
23:50.52hardwireeach patternnum**2 in length
23:50.59hardwirethats all it is
23:51.17hardwirethe patterns are from start to end a sine wave.. scaled to that size.. then dithered to mono
23:51.23scanlimeerm..
23:51.39scanlimewhy?
23:51.43hardwireits all precomputed.. and therefore requires little thought.
23:52.00hardwireyou will have to see I guess.
23:52.05hardwireor not.. :)
23:53.56hardwirei am going to schedule the module to update the LED's on a per pattern basis at 250hz
23:54.01hardwireand see where that gets me
23:54.08scanlimeyou're really making this complicated
23:54.19hardwireyou bet your sweet ass
23:54.44scanlimehttp://rex.colorado.edu/svn/misc/trunk/devices/speck/deltasigma.py
23:54.52scanlimesee that DSModulator class? The one that's like 8 lines of code?
23:54.56scanlimethat's a delta-sigma modulator
23:55.05hardwireok
23:55.21scanlimeyou put in a floating point number
23:55.26scanlimeit gives you a stream of 1-bit samples
23:55.30hardwireso how would I render this grayscale sine wave pattern with this I wonder
23:55.52scanlimeyou put in a brightness value, it gives you the bit you send to the LED port
23:55.57scanlimeso, you'd put in a sine wave
23:56.05scanlimeif that's what you want
23:56.12hardwireiot looks similar to floyd steinberg
23:56.16scanlimeI told you
23:56.39scanlimenow, you could easily read 100 pages of math backing those 8 lines of code, but you really don't need to
23:57.07hardwireyou know
23:57.10hardwireI love you man
23:57.12scanlime:)
23:57.16hardwirec'mere.. your getting a hug
23:57.25hardwireawww
23:57.30hardwireok well.. enough of that
23:57.35scanlimenow you get to help me beat gnome-canvas over the head ;)
23:57.48hardwireI love gnome-canvas
23:57.54hardwirebut.. last time I used it.. ti was gnome1-canvas
23:58.12purple_cowyou love gnome-canvas?
23:58.16purple_cowhave you *used* gnome-canvas?
23:59.08hardwirescanlime: btw.. whats the input value for the modulator
23:59.11hardwire0.0 -1.0 ?
23:59.20scanlime[0,1]
23:59.24hardwirefloat()
23:59.28scanlimeright

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