| wpwrak | larsc: (talk) should be recorded, yes. it went well, but since it was on friday in the latest slot (19 o'clock), the number of people was pretty low. estimates range from 15-30. the room would have had space for maybe 500. | 00:25 |
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| wpwrak | well, in the end, it's the quality that counts, not the quantity :) | 00:26 |
| wpwrak | kristianpaul: (cap notation) for RF caps ? or do you mean other "special" caps ? so far, /RF is the only "odd" thing i have. and "/RF" really was the only reasonably general qualifier i could come up with. | 00:27 |
| wolfspraul | nice | 00:32 |
| wolfspraul | yes sure I am 'tracking', all a matter of definition :-) | 00:32 |
| wolfspraul | maybe 'interested' would be a better word | 00:32 |
| wpwrak | heh :) well, with kicad's development speed, there usually isn't a great hurry | 00:32 |
| wpwrak | i just occasionally peek into the list. mainly when i'm about to make some sort of statement about kicad and need to be sure it's still true :) | 00:33 |
| kristianpaul | yes only RF wpwrak | 00:41 |
| kristianpaul | wpwrak: about talk, now that you sid low people, they were involve in hw some how? | 00:46 |
| kristianpaul | wpwrak: but then this RF worth the label because it will influence in the bom generation when generating shopping list? | 00:47 |
| wpwrak | probably most are, yes. e.g., i also had maddog who is planning to make custom hardware for his "computerized housing" project | 00:47 |
| wpwrak | (rf) boom would have an "RF" tag that corresponds to it, yes | 00:48 |
| wpwrak | (rf) i hate how vague all this is, but that's the sort of information i could gather | 00:48 |
| kristianpaul | yeah sure at least is a tag | 00:49 |
| kristianpaul | computerized housing? | 00:49 |
| wpwrak | if you need more specific characteristics, you'd have to specify the part number | 00:49 |
| wpwrak | (housing) put central servers into buildings and connect all apartments to them. put "thin clients" into the apartments. make maintenance of the servers a service. | 00:50 |
| kristianpaul | ah again?! | 00:50 |
| kristianpaul | i tought he was parner with intel.. | 00:50 |
| wpwrak | he's been at this for a while, yes :) (no idea about intel) | 00:50 |
| kristianpaul | yeah, i remenber project cauca and super speed wifi powered thin clients | 00:51 |
| kristianpaul | but interesting he concern about custom | 00:51 |
| kristianpaul | cauca/caua | 00:51 |
| wpwrak | he plan seems to be getting closer to viability. e.g., he's moving the financial burden from (bank/state) credits to building construction projects. where it would be a comparably trivial item. | 00:51 |
| wpwrak | yes, that one | 00:52 |
| wpwrak | s/he plan/his plan | 00:52 |
| wpwrak | and he's moving the servers out of the buildings, into centers. also makes the thing more scalable and cheaper | 00:52 |
| wpwrak | so it all sounds a lot less crazy now than it did just a couple of years ago | 00:53 |
| kristianpaul | yeah i remenber.. | 00:53 |
| wpwrak | hellekin: was good talking to you, too :) regarding sdr, this is the commercially available low-cost SDR chip i mentioned: http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr | 14:09 |
| wpwrak | hellekin: when you talk to CEITEC, making a TX/RX chip with similar characteristics may be something worth mentioning. i'm sure it would be hotly welcomed not only in the Free sw/hw/whatever world, but also by academia. | 14:11 |
| wpwrak | hellekin: of course, whether they can even do something with such an idea would also be a question of how much R&D they can do themselves. maybe they just have manufacturing capabilities, in which case setting up such a project would be much harder. | 14:12 |
| kristianpaul | morning | 14:45 |
| qi-bot | [commit] Werner Almesberger: Makefile: also run make for components/, since we now have gencon.lib (master) http://qi-hw.com/p/kicad-libs/a39861b | 15:00 |
| wpwrak | whee ! survived a major ubuntu upgrade | 19:36 |
| viric | That's the attitude. | 19:48 |
| larsc | my demo system did not. well at least not completely | 19:59 |
| larsc | the desktop background is gone | 20:00 |
| larsc | and my session startup scripts don't run anymore | 20:00 |
| viric | that's the fate of the dice roll | 20:06 |
| larsc | hm, it smells of smoke, I hope the house it not on fire | 20:08 |
| larsc | now there are firetruck sirens, but they seem to be passing by | 20:19 |
| viric | you start reminding me of IT Crowd | 20:19 |
| wpwrak | larsc: hmm, seems that xpdf took a hit ... | 20:20 |
| wpwrak | larsc: (fire trucks passing) maybe they got your address wrong ? | 20:20 |
| viric | when, with fire in the room, emails the firemen service "FIRE!!! FIRE!!! FIRE!!!" | 20:20 |
| larsc | wpwrak: the house next door already burned down a few months ago | 20:21 |
| wpwrak | larsc: have much gangfighting at night, too ? :) | 20:24 |
| larsc | not that I'm aware of | 20:25 |
| larsc | would be great if the fire department had a rss feed on their homepage where post incidents when they are reported | 20:31 |
| viric | check their twitter account | 20:31 |
| Ayla | to check if it's your home that's burning without moving your ass from your chair? :) | 20:32 |
| larsc | I actually tried, they don't have one | 20:32 |
| viric | larsc: ask some elder neighbour. They know everything. | 20:32 |
| larsc | Ayla: would make me more comfortable knowing that is a neighboring house and not the one I live in | 20:33 |
| Ayla | indeed | 20:34 |
| Action: wpwrak hates quantum entanglement. two different circuits, let's call them A and B, using the same mcu. both fail in a very similar way. in one (A), an improperly soldered resistor is (eventually) found to be the cause. after fixing it, A works. and through spooky action at a distance, also B suddenly starts to work. | 22:41 | |
| mth | wpwrak: that's super convenient: instead of doing a recall of faulty devices, you just keep one unit at the factory and repair that one if needed :) | 22:48 |
| wpwrak | hmm. that does indeed sound useful. lemme call my patent lawyer :) | 22:50 |
| Action: wpwrak wonders how many people one could screw with such a nonsense patent if expressed in sufficiently vague terms. after all, quantum effects are at the root of everything ... | 22:51 | |
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