2013-01-11 01:11 urandom__ has quit [Quit: Konversation terminated!] 2013-01-11 01:13 DocScrutinizer51 is now known as DocAvalanche 2013-01-11 01:58 emeb has quit [Quit: Leaving.] 2013-01-11 02:18 rozzin has left #qi-hardware [#qi-hardware] 2013-01-11 04:03 DocScrutinizer05 has quit [Disconnected by services] 2013-01-11 04:03 DocScrutinizer05 has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 04:09 qi-bot has quit [Ping timeout: 260 seconds] 2013-01-11 04:16 pcercuei has quit [Quit: Bye] 2013-01-11 04:24 panda|x201 has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 05:18 jekhor has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 05:39 rz2k has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 06:35 wolfspraul has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 06:39 jekhor has quit [Read error: Operation timed out] 2013-01-11 06:45 wolfspraul has quit [Ping timeout: 276 seconds] 2013-01-11 06:46 wolfspraul has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 07:11 qi-bot has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 07:16 woakas has quit [Ping timeout: 276 seconds] 2013-01-11 07:28 woakas has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 07:36 panda|x201 has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 2013-01-11 08:02 jekhor has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 08:03 Hoolxi has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 08:10 jluis|work has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 08:30 LunaVorax has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 08:52 wolfspraul has quit [Ping timeout: 265 seconds] 2013-01-11 08:58 wolfspraul has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 09:01 xiangfu has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 09:12 megha has quit [Ping timeout: 264 seconds] 2013-01-11 09:26 megha has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 09:26 jekhor has quit [Ping timeout: 248 seconds] 2013-01-11 09:41 LunaVorax has quit [Quit: Quitte] 2013-01-11 09:52 LunaVorax has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 10:21 porchao has quit [Quit: Leaving...] 2013-01-11 10:37 porchao has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 11:30 unclouded has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 2013-01-11 11:56 kyak has quit [Ping timeout: 240 seconds] 2013-01-11 13:00 urandom__ has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 13:03 jluis|work has quit [Ping timeout: 240 seconds] 2013-01-11 13:17 wolfspraul has quit [Ping timeout: 255 seconds] 2013-01-11 13:18 LunaVorax has quit [Ping timeout: 260 seconds] 2013-01-11 13:34 wolfspraul has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 13:39 wolfspraul has quit [Ping timeout: 246 seconds] 2013-01-11 13:39 wolfspraul has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 14:15 erikkugel has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 14:15 urandom__ has quit [Quit: Konversation terminated!] 2013-01-11 14:25 LunaVorax has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 14:27 erikkugel has left #qi-hardware [#qi-hardware] 2013-01-11 14:31 Openfree has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 14:37 Openfree has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 2013-01-11 14:41 kyak has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 14:41 kyak has quit [Changing host] 2013-01-11 14:41 kyak has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 14:43 LunaVorax has quit [Ping timeout: 260 seconds] 2013-01-11 15:09 kuribas has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 15:15 LunaVorax has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 15:40 kuribas has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 2013-01-11 15:42 kilae has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 15:48 megha is now known as firewall 2013-01-11 16:04 Hoolxi has quit [Ping timeout: 248 seconds] 2013-01-11 16:18 Hoolxi has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 16:21 erikkugel has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 16:23 LunaVorax has quit [Quit: Quitte] 2013-01-11 16:44 kuribas has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 17:02 emeb has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 17:31 It seems the term 'geek' is already used by the people that mainly buy smartphones and install applets 2013-01-11 17:31 or apps, whatever they are called 2013-01-11 17:35 yes, today geeks are simply early adapters. 2013-01-11 17:49 soon my mother watching a tv, will be called 'a hacker' 2013-01-11 17:50 she's a hacker if she changes your facebook status if you didn't logout after using facebook from her pc 2013-01-11 17:50 amazing 2013-01-11 17:52 Someone told me a site "for geeks" 2013-01-11 17:52 kuribas has quit [Quit: ERC Version 5.3 (IRC client for Emacs)] 2013-01-11 17:52 twitter.com? 2013-01-11 17:52 and it was like a news page for people spending money on new popular devices 2013-01-11 17:53 thinkgeek.com? 2013-01-11 17:55 :) 2013-01-11 17:55 It was not english 2013-01-11 17:55 geeks.cat 2013-01-11 17:56 I guess you'll understand all topics through 'key words' 2013-01-11 17:57 yet hipsters.cat is still free 2013-01-11 18:17 yes, strange. 2013-01-11 18:17 :) 2013-01-11 18:40 rz2k has quit [] 2013-01-11 18:40 now we know the catalan word for "consumerism" :) 2013-01-11 18:43 kilae has quit [Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.89 [Firefox 17.0.1/20121128204232]] 2013-01-11 18:54 consumisme. :) 2013-01-11 18:58 i thought you said it was "geeks" ;) 2013-01-11 18:59 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 2013-01-11 18:59 nowadays, you are a geek (the retro kind) if you still have a VCR. and the 00:00 is now a cultural statement. 2013-01-11 19:06 unclouded has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 19:48 don't hold this word for yourself if it's already spoiled, come up with a new one :) 2013-01-11 19:51 strings /dev/urandom | sed 5q | tr -cd 'a-z'; echo 2013-01-11 19:51 suggests "jhsaqu" 2013-01-11 19:52 mine is "wnfnh" - so much better! 2013-01-11 19:53 why yours returns 6 symbols? 2013-01-11 19:54 5q limits the number of lines, not characters. e.g., you can also get "lnzbzoymny" 2013-01-11 19:54 (is that russian ?) 2013-01-11 19:54 how long until a sane word? 2013-01-11 19:55 "lnzbzoymny" looks like "любознательный" in Russian. Means curious 2013-01-11 19:56 wow, this thing really returns soemthing sensible sometimes 2013-01-11 19:57 kristianpaul: 90: dike 2013-01-11 19:57 kristianpaul: 284: el 2013-01-11 19:57 kristianpaul: 151: me 2013-01-11 19:57 je 2013-01-11 19:57 70: beg 2013-01-11 19:58 i just let a watch do its job 2013-01-11 19:58 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 2013-01-11 19:58 of course, it also finds things like "t", "z", ... 2013-01-11 19:59 20: gigs 2013-01-11 20:00 i was wondering how long will "geeks" comes up 2013-01-11 20:01 strings /dev/urandom | sed 30q | tr -cd 'geeks'; echo 2013-01-11 20:01 seesk 2013-01-11 20:01 :) 2013-01-11 20:07 698726 characters until substring "geek" 2013-01-11 20:08 next at 741729, 784274, 956813, 1212800, 1541914, ... 2013-01-11 20:08 geeks are at 10210868 2013-01-11 20:09 kyak at 223358 2013-01-11 20:09 viric at 2474681 2013-01-11 20:10 can you reproduce your results? 2013-01-11 20:12 let's see ... 2013-01-11 20:14 "geeks" is now at 1171409, "larsc" moved from 8766999 to 3476386. 2013-01-11 20:14 so the randomization seems to be working. things get randomly moved around, but they're still all there :) 2013-01-11 20:14 jekhor has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 20:20 oh, my nick is so not random -\ 2013-01-11 20:40 00:00 is a cultural statement? 2013-01-11 20:41 Does a VCR with 00:00 connected to a video capture usb device count? :) 2013-01-11 20:41 in fact its lcd reads "SET CLOCK" 2013-01-11 20:43 i was more thinking of this sort of device: http://radio-piffret.pagesperso-orange.fr/TV_et_video_Magnetoscope_SANYO_VTC9300.JPG 2013-01-11 20:45 (the funai variant of that was the first VCR in my family. had more metal than a small tank. about 20 kg.) 2013-01-11 20:49 what is funai? 2013-01-11 20:49 umh I think I've something similar to that picture, though :) 2013-01-11 20:51 Funai is or was a company that made/sold, among other things, this sort of VCR 2013-01-11 20:51 (similar) complete with wired remote control ? :) 2013-01-11 20:52 no, no wired remote control :) 2013-01-11 20:53 too modern then 2013-01-11 21:11 firewall has quit [Ping timeout: 248 seconds] 2013-01-11 21:19 LunaVorax has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 21:25 Guest29624 has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 21:40 FrankBlues has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 21:59 what, again, was that sort of USB Ethernet which wasn't CDC? 2013-01-11 22:00 ECM 2013-01-11 22:00 oooh crap. so we have RNDIS, CDC Eth, ECM, EEM and NCM 2013-01-11 22:01 someone went committee-happy 2013-01-11 22:05 use usb-uart with SLIP :) 2013-01-11 22:05 or "term", if you prefer a more traditional approach 2013-01-11 22:05 if you hate multitasking, kermit is your solution 2013-01-11 22:05 no need for all that modern stuff 2013-01-11 22:06 erikkugel has left #qi-hardware [#qi-hardware] 2013-01-11 22:08 wpwrak: CDC ECM is indeed simpler than SLIP 2013-01-11 22:08 and more efficient 2013-01-11 22:09 gah, not CDC 2013-01-11 22:09 can't they give reasonable names to these standards?! 2013-01-11 22:10 why ? CDC = Center for Disease Control 2013-01-11 22:17 jekhor has quit [Ping timeout: 255 seconds] 2013-01-11 22:32 meh. it would rather spread the disease :s 2013-01-11 22:34 xiangfu has quit [Ping timeout: 244 seconds] 2013-01-11 22:36 xiangfu has joined #qi-hardware 2013-01-11 22:43 whitequark: those different ethernet modes were afaik mostly due to the fact that cheap hardware lacked sufficient number of endpoints 2013-01-11 22:44 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 2013-01-11 22:58 lindi-: what's the "proper" one to use, given enough endpoints?