viric | It seems the term 'geek' is already used by the people that mainly buy smartphones and install applets | 17:31 |
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viric | or apps, whatever they are called | 17:31 |
erikkugel | yes, today geeks are simply early adapters. | 17:35 |
viric | soon my mother watching a tv, will be called 'a hacker' | 17:49 |
larsc | she's a hacker if she changes your facebook status if you didn't logout after using facebook from her pc | 17:50 |
viric | amazing | 17:50 |
viric | Someone told me a site "for geeks" | 17:52 |
larsc | twitter.com? | 17:52 |
viric | and it was like a news page for people spending money on new popular devices | 17:52 |
larsc | thinkgeek.com? | 17:53 |
viric | :) | 17:55 |
viric | It was not english | 17:55 |
viric | geeks.cat | 17:55 |
viric | I guess you'll understand all topics through 'key words' | 17:56 |
larsc | yet hipsters.cat is still free | 17:57 |
viric | yes, strange. | 18:17 |
viric | :) | 18:17 |
wpwrak | now we know the catalan word for "consumerism" :) | 18:40 |
viric | consumisme. :) | 18:54 |
wpwrak | i thought you said it was "geeks" ;) | 18:58 |
wpwrak | btw, there is a bit of a renaissance: once upon a time, you weren't considered a geek if you didn't know how to make the blinking 00:00 on your VCR go away | 18:59 |
wpwrak | nowadays, you are a geek (the retro kind) if you still have a VCR. and the 00:00 is now a cultural statement. | 18:59 |
kyak | don't hold this word for yourself if it's already spoiled, come up with a new one :) | 19:48 |
wpwrak | strings /dev/urandom | sed 5q | tr -cd 'a-z'; echo | 19:51 |
wpwrak | suggests "jhsaqu" | 19:51 |
kyak | mine is "wnfnh" - so much better! | 19:52 |
kyak | why yours returns 6 symbols? | 19:53 |
wpwrak | 5q limits the number of lines, not characters. e.g., you can also get "lnzbzoymny" | 19:54 |
wpwrak | (is that russian ?) | 19:54 |
kristianpaul | how long until a sane word? | 19:54 |
kyak | "lnzbzoymny" looks like ";N1>7=0B5;L=K9" in Russian. Means curious | 19:55 |
kyak | wow, this thing really returns soemthing sensible sometimes | 19:56 |
wpwrak | kristianpaul: 90: dike | 19:57 |
wpwrak | kristianpaul: 284: el | 19:57 |
wpwrak | kristianpaul: 151: me | 19:57 |
kristianpaul | je | 19:57 |
wpwrak | 70: beg | 19:57 |
kristianpaul | i just let a watch do its job | 19:58 |
wpwrak | n=1; while true; do w=`strings /dev/urandom | sed 5q | tr -cd 'a-z'`; [ "`echo $w | ispell -l`" ] || break; n=`expr $n + 1`; done; echo $n: $w | 19:58 |
wpwrak | of course, it also finds things like "t", "z", ... | 19:58 |
wpwrak | 20: gigs | 19:59 |
kyak | i was wondering how long will "geeks" comes up | 20:00 |
kyak | strings /dev/urandom | sed 30q | tr -cd 'geeks'; echo | 20:01 |
kyak | seesk | 20:01 |
wpwrak | :) | 20:01 |
wpwrak | 698726 characters until substring "geek" | 20:07 |
wpwrak | next at 741729, 784274, 956813, 1212800, 1541914, ... | 20:08 |
wpwrak | geeks are at 10210868 | 20:08 |
wpwrak | kyak at 223358 | 20:09 |
wpwrak | viric at 2474681 | 20:09 |
larsc | can you reproduce your results? | 20:10 |
wpwrak | let's see ... | 20:12 |
wpwrak | "geeks" is now at 1171409, "larsc" moved from 8766999 to 3476386. | 20:14 |
wpwrak | so the randomization seems to be working. things get randomly moved around, but they're still all there :) | 20:14 |
kyak | oh, my nick is so not random -\ | 20:20 |
viric | 00:00 is a cultural statement? | 20:40 |
viric | Does a VCR with 00:00 connected to a video capture usb device count? :) | 20:41 |
viric | in fact its lcd reads "SET CLOCK" | 20:41 |
wpwrak | i was more thinking of this sort of device: http://radio-piffret.pagesperso-orange.fr/TV_et_video_Magnetoscope_SANYO_VTC9300.JPG | 20:43 |
wpwrak | (the funai variant of that was the first VCR in my family. had more metal than a small tank. about 20 kg.) | 20:45 |
viric | what is funai? | 20:49 |
viric | umh I think I've something similar to that picture, though :) | 20:49 |
wpwrak | Funai is or was a company that made/sold, among other things, this sort of VCR | 20:51 |
wpwrak | (similar) complete with wired remote control ? :) | 20:51 |
viric | no, no wired remote control :) | 20:52 |
wpwrak | too modern then | 20:53 |
whitequark | what, again, was that sort of USB Ethernet which wasn't CDC? | 21:59 |
whitequark | ECM | 22:00 |
whitequark | oooh crap. so we have RNDIS, CDC Eth, ECM, EEM and NCM | 22:00 |
whitequark | someone went committee-happy | 22:01 |
wpwrak | use usb-uart with SLIP :) | 22:05 |
wpwrak | or "term", if you prefer a more traditional approach | 22:05 |
wpwrak | if you hate multitasking, kermit is your solution | 22:05 |
wpwrak | no need for all that modern stuff | 22:05 |
whitequark | wpwrak: CDC ECM is indeed simpler than SLIP | 22:08 |
whitequark | and more efficient | 22:08 |
whitequark | gah, not CDC | 22:09 |
whitequark | can't they give reasonable names to these standards?! | 22:09 |
wpwrak | why ? CDC = Center for Disease Control | 22:10 |
whitequark | meh. it would rather spread the disease :s | 22:32 |
lindi- | whitequark: those different ethernet modes were afaik mostly due to the fact that cheap hardware lacked sufficient number of endpoints | 22:43 |
lindi- | whitequark: so if you wanted to implement both serial and ethernet and mass storage on the same device you had to come up with a custom scheme | 22:44 |
whitequark | lindi-: what's the "proper" one to use, given enough endpoints? | 22:58 |
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