<maden>
how long does a ben nanonote lasts with a full charge doing normal tasks?
<kristianpaul>
maden:  what is  normal task for you?
<maden>
talking on irc
<kristianpaul>
from my experience around 5 hours with gmu
<kristianpaul>
wait amin
<maden>
what about with no GUI
<kristianpaul>
irc?
<maden>
CLI only
<maden>
yes chat on irc from the cli
<kristianpaul>
but using wich internet conection?
<maden>
micro SD card
<kristianpaul>
ahh
<kristianpaul>
good point
<maden>
lets say
<maden>
text editing in vi
<maden>
from cli
<kristianpaul>
wifi pulls energy for sure even nomal tasks you do
<maden>
how long dyou think it could last
<kristianpaul>
i cant estimate i dont have idea about wifi power consuption
<maden>
forget about wifi
<maden>
:p
<kristianpaul>
i cant
<kristianpaul>
you already said it
<maden>
put shades on I'm a men in black and I will flashs you
<maden>
how long do you think it can last doing vi editing
<kristianpaul>
hmm 3hrs?
<kristianpaul>
the screen on have costs
<kristianpaul>
s/screen/display
<kristianpaul>
Ben dont use ink display afaik wolfspraul ;)
<maden>
o
<kristianpaul>
maden: what is your measure by experience?
<maden>
m measure?
<maden>
my measure?
<kristianpaul>
about battery charge life
<kristianpaul>
how long you did vi editing with tyour ben?
<maden>
I don't own one
<kristianpaul>
ahh
<maden>
I'm thinking about maybe purchasing one in a near future
<kristianpaul>
i tought
<kristianpaul>
sure go ahead !
<maden>
i'm jobless and broke !
<maden>
and college books are expensive :(
<kristianpaul>
you now what is PDF for? ;)
<kristianpaul>
also a Ben is an intersting development platform
<maden>
my college uses the latest editions of books
<maden>
which is amazingly annoying
<maden>
instead of using version 8, they use version 9, so we can't buy it off people who used it the previous year
<maden>
it's amazingly sutpid
<maden>
but yeha I got a job interview at costco soon if I get the job I'm buying a nano note :P!
<kristianpaul>
indeed
<kristianpaul>
:)
<kristianpaul>
what you like most from the nanonote?
<maden>
fists in my pocket - hah
<maden>
fits*
<kristianpaul>
:)
<maden>
I already own a netbook but I'm growing tired of it
<maden>
it's old and weak
<kristianpaul>
:)
<maden>
you?
<maden>
why did you get one in the first place ?
<kristianpaul>
because is copyleft hardware movement
<kristianpaul>
i also ALWAYS wanted a free runnner
<kristianpaul>
but was toooo expensive
<kristianpaul>
and actually not so "open" as markenting said
<kristianpaul>
so..
<kristianpaul>
i saw it in the 2009 in a blog
<kristianpaul>
dont remeneber wich one
<kristianpaul>
the pictures was really asware
<maden>
cool
<maden>
so you've had one for a while?
<kristianpaul>
qi something i remenberd tbut as time pass i forgot, until a friend tell me about qi-hardware and then WOW is real :)
<kristianpaul>
a while some moths
<kristianpaul>
3-4 mpoths ago
<wolfspraul>
maden: kristianpaul is a core Qi member now, for sure. He's doing a lot of case hacking with his 3D printer, and GPS (more coming in the future), and he's interested in Milkymist too. In everything actually, it seems :-)
<maden>
oh
<kristianpaul>
well not so everithing but Milkymist is awesome !
<kristianpaul>
and ben is cheap and hackable so..
<kristianpaul>
the case well is easy
<kristianpaul>
is not so advanced figure
<kristianpaul>
and well the floss 3D printing is there so why not use it ;)
<kristianpaul>
maden: so.. , join us, all this is getting fun :)
<maden>
i might i might :p
<maden>
it seems very interesting i must admit
<maden>
what'S milkymist?
<kristianpaul>
a Sytem on Chip copyleft platform
<wolfspraul>
maden: a free (gpl licensed) CPU
<kristianpaul>
also a VJ sation
<wolfspraul>
basically a replacement for Intel/AMD/ARM/MIPS
<maden>
ohh
<maden>
my knowledge of hardware is so very limited
<maden>
it's far from being a field of interest of mine, unfortunately
<kristianpaul>
what about software?
<wolfspraul>
maden: what are you interested in?
<maden>
software!
<maden>
i dont know MUCH about it but I'm very interested in programming
<wolfspraul>
well, pick a small problem that relates to your real life, and solve it with cool free software :-)
<wolfspraul>
that's going to be hard enough...
<wolfspraul>
if you like the portability of the Ben, go get one and try to solve the problem there. There are several starting points for software development on the Ben, I think the best are OpenWrt and Jlime, some people might say Debian but I think the device is a bit too constrained for Debian.
<maden>
what languages are supported by openwrt ?
<maden>
obviously C but what else?
<kristianpaul>
lua
<maden>
i heard about that
<kristianpaul>
QT
<maden>
obviously ! :)
<kristianpaul>
SDL
<kristianpaul>
python
<maden>
python ?
<maden>
oh yeahhh
<kristianpaul>
thats for what i read things made
<kristianpaul>
gforth too
<maden>
I might just get a nanonote and mess around with python
<maden>
that would be a cool agenda
<kristianpaul>
:)
<maden>
much more useful than this huge hard-cover agenda I've got right now
<maden>
I wish I had C lessons in college, instead of java :(
<kristianpaul>
ben is a starting point
<kristianpaul>
for example in jlime you can install gcc easilly
<kristianpaul>
and vi(m) of course
<kristianpaul>
so you're done :)
<kristianpaul>
ah thats not all
<maden>
it would be an amazing linux experience too
<kristianpaul>
you have multi tasking
<maden>
thats cool
<kristianpaul>
so you can have a console in one side and vim in the other
<maden>
hah better keep your lines short, or font very small !
<maden>
it must be hardcore coding on a such small keyboard,  no?