| DocScrutinizer06 | dang, the first half of that square blog I could've done ~2 years ago as well | 06:18 |
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| DocScrutinizer06 | didn't think it was worth even mentioning such simple stuff | 06:18 |
| DocScrutinizer06 | I also tried to read the other 2 tracks by placing small distance blocks into the slot | 06:19 |
| DocScrutinizer06 | http://maemo.org/packages/view/magread/ | 06:21 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | I have to say I'm not really happy with the ID and how that design puts mechanic stress on the AV receptacle | 06:23 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | lekernel: in your blog you say "position of head is important", you better should use (and explain) correct term 'azimut' | 06:28 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azimuth#Other_uses_of_the_term | 06:31 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | you made me run into reports about my best phillips cassette deck I ever had: http://www.pipetrap.de/eumig/ | 06:45 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | thanks :-D | 06:45 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | http://www.zwettler.net/tech/img/fl1000.jpg <3 | 06:48 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | of course I had the schematics and I improved the circuit ;-) | 06:48 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | e.g. I added a 2N1613 and a resistor and Zener and so turned the "dimmer" that originally only worked for flourescent display into a dimmer for whole device (flour., LEDs, 7-segment) | 06:50 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | that FL-1000 came handy as storage device for my fist computer, the Nascom-II | 06:51 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | first* | 06:51 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | however THAT: http://www.pipetrap.de/eumig/pix/eumig_mechanik.jpg been a nightmare with this deck | 06:56 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | manual: http://elektrotanya.com/eumig_fl1000_qp.pdf/download.html -- quite interesting schematics | 07:01 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | those where the times when top notch devices came with *excellent* service manual by default | 07:03 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | intriguing circuit detail around PSU, p.50 31T16 | 07:23 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | on "NetzAusfall" (brownout) the 8V rail gets powered from the much more energy of the 30V rail | 07:24 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | while same time the 30V output gets blocked | 07:25 |
| wpwrak | was that a feature they designed or discovered? :) | 07:35 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | err, it been designed to allow moving heads and mechanics into neutral position on mains loss | 07:43 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | the buffer capacitor of the 30V rail has less uF than the 8V buffer, but due to As/V * V it still held way more usable energy until it dropped below the 8V regulator's minimum input voltage | 07:45 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | the increased voltage drop across the linear regulator is tolerable for that 0.5s duration | 07:47 |
| wpwrak | (move to neutral) ah, that's nice. not just "drop everything wherever you are" | 07:50 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | it's still one of the smartest devices I ever seen | 07:53 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | alas one of the clutches always tended to break | 08:03 |
| wpwrak | of course, few things have been obsoleted by technological progress quite as much as analog tape drives ... | 08:03 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | yep, a pity | 08:03 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | http://www.pipetrap.de/eumig/pix/cover_s.jpg :-D | 08:03 |
| wpwrak | i'd call it a victory :) | 08:03 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | well, MP3 been an epic fail for every HiFi enthusiast | 08:04 |
| wpwrak | use wav :) | 08:04 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | sure | 08:05 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | what was it i heard? a professor did a test with his students - almost all of them thought flac doesn't sound right compared to mp3 X-P | 08:07 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | yesterday in a cafe the guy didn't even notice his CD hung | 08:07 |
| wpwrak | makes sense. the human brain adapts. i'm sure the first color movies looked all wrong, no matter how technically perfect the colors were. | 08:08 |
| wpwrak | ;-)) | 08:08 |
| wpwrak | i still love it when they have those 16:9 tvs with an asymmetrically scaled 4:3 image. nothing says "progress" quite that much ;-) | 08:09 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | yeah! | 08:09 |
| Action: DocScrutinizer05 idly wonders whether to try aspirin or coffee for the headache | 08:10 | |
| wpwrak | hard evening at the pub ? | 08:10 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | not at all | 08:11 |
| wpwrak | ah, withdrawal | 08:11 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | at the pub yeah, but only two tea with rum | 08:11 |
| wpwrak | ah yes, it's winter over there :) | 08:11 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | my flu started in summer | 08:12 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | and never really vanished since | 08:12 |
| wpwrak | you may want to check with a specialist. maybe your immune defenses need a little boost. they have pills for that nowadays. | 08:13 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | they do? | 08:15 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | had amoxicilin two weeks ago, effect zarro | 08:15 |
| wpwrak | it's some mix of things that trigger an immune response. kinda wakes up a system that has gotten lazy. then it's watchful again. i also had endless flus a few years ago. that pretty much got rid of them. | 08:16 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | I heard living parasite worm eggs can do that when swallowing them | 08:18 |
| wpwrak | maybe a virus then. an i'd avoid taking antibiotics unless i'm about to die. each time you take one, there's a good chance it won't work again in the future, reducing the chances of anything to help if you catch something serious some day | 08:20 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | thermostat broken, friggin fridge froze the milk | 08:20 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | :-S | 08:20 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | :nod: | 08:20 |
| wpwrak | (worm eggs) naw, nothing so weird. i think it's some surface proteins | 08:21 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | (on avoiding antibiotica) was my first answer to my doc. A week later I came back asked for them, since I been so fed up with all that sneezing and coughing and muskle ache | 08:21 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | pineapple enzyms? | 08:22 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | saturday morning and I'm awake since 5 o' - go figure and you might know how I feel ;-) | 08:24 |
| wpwrak | what can i say ? i got up at 3 :) | 08:24 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | o.O | 08:24 |
| wpwrak | (antibiotics) ah, and there are bacteria that, while not being immune to antibiotics, know how to hide from them. then they come back a few weeks later. e.g., those critter that give you a throat inflammation. | 08:26 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | who's managing the openmoko servers right now? | 08:26 |
| wpwrak | maybe harald ? | 08:26 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | I'm asking since I got the extreme pleasure to somehow got shanghaied for *.maemo.org infra migration | 08:27 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | (nokia stops funding) | 08:28 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | and i'm really not a brilliant sysadmin | 08:28 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | yet it seems I'm the most brilliant one of those in duty now | 08:28 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | anyway basically the maemo infra looks pretty similar in config to what we had (have?) at openmoko | 08:31 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | a few dedicated servers with a number of VMs running on them | 08:31 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | you know of any legal issues with moving a forum like talk.maemo.org from a US based server to a EU based one? | 08:33 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | one of those in charge of the migration claims it can't be done since users might sue the owner of the forum | 08:34 |
| wpwrak | dunno. maybe ask the folks there - if nobody complains about the idea, then it ought to be safe ;) | 08:34 |
| wpwrak | (folks = users) | 08:34 |
| wpwrak | there's always the risk that you trip over some laws ... | 08:34 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | I for the life of mine couldn't figure what except private mail might be sensitive data in a form. and private mail we could drop prior to moving the hosting to EU | 08:35 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | in a forum* | 08:35 |
| wpwrak | it would depend on whether you can keep the same contractual terms | 08:36 |
| wpwrak | if you have to change them in a way that makes them (or a bit of them) worse for the user, they may have something to complain about | 08:37 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | I'm already that pissed by those hobby lawyers raising those concerns that I threated them I'll do a wget backup of the whole talk.maemo.org forum so users can browse the archive. then start a new forum as replacement for talk.maemo.org (aka tmo) | 08:37 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | (contractual terms) seems to me all the public posts are CC | 08:38 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | the user profiles hold pretty little data, and most if not all of that can get dropped without losing too much of the functionality | 08:39 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | http://talk.maemo.org/member.php?u=35572 | 08:40 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | ^^^ me | 08:40 |
| wpwrak | if you want to play it safe, just start from scratch. no user accounts, no posts, no mails, etc. | 08:41 |
| wpwrak | or just leave things where they are :) | 08:41 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | drop PM and everything but user-nick and password-hash, and I couldn't see anythign we could get sued for | 08:41 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | yeah, if nothing else helps, i'd rather drop user accounts all together instead of keeping that host in US while everything else moves to Hetzner | 08:42 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | there might be "privacy critical data" like IP etc in (sys)logs but those obviously should get dropped before migration | 08:44 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | aaah wait, email-addr | 08:48 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | for password recovery etc | 08:48 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | meh, and I wonder where my headache's from | 08:50 |
| wpwrak | maybe you could do some opt-in: let users flag their account for moving. give everyone a month or so, then copy everything over that's been flagged, delete the rest. | 08:50 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | the fun bit: we got til 1.1.2013 | 08:51 |
| wpwrak | flagging an account would also include forum posts. some threads may get confusing if a lot of stuff is missing, but if the user community is still active, it may not be so bad | 08:52 |
| wpwrak | tight schedule. maybe you can get a bit more time, say, a month ? | 08:52 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | that's what I suggested yesterday | 08:52 |
| wpwrak | if you have a specific migration plan, then it wouldn't sound like slacking :) | 08:53 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | answer: "stop those destructive comments please" | 08:53 |
| wpwrak | and why exactly do you wish to take care of that ? | 08:53 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | they shanghaied me | 08:54 |
| wpwrak | maybe you're hanging out with the wrong crowd | 08:54 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=87749 | 08:54 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | but to give a correct answer why I bother about keeping maemo.org infra operational: I like my N900 and I'm afraid its usefulness stands or falls with availability of proper info from tmo and wiki.m.o, and of apps via maemo repositories | 09:01 |
| wpwrak | hmm, sounds like an uphill battle. well, the rest of the n900 survivors will thank you :) | 09:02 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | sure it's an uphill battle, like is e.g. commodore amiga user group | 09:06 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | as long as most of the community still thinks there's no replacement for N900 anywhere, it will live on | 09:07 |
| Dr_Heckle | this isn't the place to ask my question, but I thought maybe someone could point me to a good channel/server. I'm in a bit of a rush to build a PC, I have the hardware selected, and would like opionions/a discussion on my selections | 12:06 |
| Dr_Heckle | ... and I should prob chang my nick for this :D | 12:07 |
| wpwrak | hmm, i wonder why anyone would want to build a switching dc-dc converter that runs at a very low frequency, like 150 kHz. yet the MC34063 series of critters seems to be everywhere. they crawl at 100 kHz and need monstrous external components. | 22:32 |
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