03:58 <qi-bot> Allie Zapien

05:58 <wolfspraul> why did the qi-bo say Allie Zapien?

05:58 <wolfspraul> qi-bot

13:03 <DocScrutinizer> even in bold :-D

13:14 <wolfspraul> yeah I'm always borderline worried someone rooted the server :-)

13:20 <wpwrak> maybe a new species reached sentience ? it sounds a bit like an allusion to "homo sapiens". maybe our new overlords prefer to call themselves "allie zapien", and chose freenode as their means to introducing themselves to humanity.

13:24 <lars_> and it is even on twitter Allie Zapien

13:24 <lars_> http://twitter.com/Allieggansi

13:29 <wpwrak> maybe a glitch from the twitter gateway ? twitter pushing the wrong data or such

13:29 <wpwrak> it's cryptic when behaving as designed. who could tell a few bugs thrown into the mix ? :)

13:33 <wolfspraul> well I had my fair share of server rootings in life

13:33 <wolfspraul> and it was always some tiny little evidence that finally lead to the realization "damnit, the entire server is rooted"

13:33 <wolfspraul> rootkits are nasty

13:33 <wolfspraul> and I am quite liberal in handing out root access too :-)

13:34 <wolfspraul> at least 10-15 people have root access to the Qi server, plus many other accounts for other critical software. oh well.

13:34 <wolfspraul> Allie Zapien - let us know who you are if you don't mind :-)

13:37 <wpwrak> i don't think it's anyone on this channel

13:38 <krispaul> bet twitter bug with qi-bot considering other Allie Zapien accounts were suspended

13:38 <krispaul> and i hope qi-bot dont run as root either ;)

13:38 <krispaul> s/either/atleast

13:38 <qi-bot> krispaul meant: "and i hope qi-bot dont run as root atleast ;)"

13:39 <lars_> qi-bot: !reboot

13:41 <wolfspraul> :-)

16:39 <viric> hm I've a board with a smd ic that reads the logo of ST, and 1st row: 393, and 2nd row, I'd bet it says: EZ546, but could be E2S46 or so. I feel most sure on E and 46

16:40 <viric> but I can't find any mention anywhere of the combinations I can think of

17:00 <wpwrak> do you know what it does ?

17:08 <viric> it's part of a circuit that has a termistor and a potentiometer, and decides whether to switch something on or not

17:09 <viric> that's my guess

17:10 <wpwrak> ah, detection of incoming ICBMs and initiation of response. i should have thought of that.

17:10 <viric> that's another context, right?

17:10 <wpwrak> USSR 1980es ? :)

17:10 <viric> ahh no no :)

17:11 <viric> it's a circuit that switches on a home heater

17:11 <viric> and it looks like it stopped checking the temperature properly

17:11 <wpwrak> ah ")

17:11 <wpwrak> to it may be a comparator

17:12 <wpwrak> or an opamp

17:12 <viric> why wouldn't I find a datashete?

17:12 <viric> sheet

17:12 <wpwrak> http://www.fairchildsemi.com/ds/LM/LM2903.pdf

17:13 <wpwrak> 8 pins ?

17:13 <viric> yes 8 pins

17:14 <wpwrak> that;'s your chip then

17:14 <viric> what makes you think so? :)

17:15 <wpwrak> th LM393 is one of the most common comparators, if not the most common :)

17:15 <viric> it has '393' over it

17:16 <viric> it does not have a corner indicator...

17:19 <viric> but well, I'll try to understand a circuit as if it was a LM393 :)

18:49 <viric> wpwrak: in any case, thank you a lot, btw :)

20:05 <GordonFreeman> hi

20:05 <GordonFreeman> i have just made a milling machine outof a scrap dvd drive, it turns an 1mm diameter diamond milling bit at variable RPM, i have cut a cd in half with it as test

20:46 <wpwrak> viric: np :) and good luck ! :)

20:47 <wpwrak> GordonFreeman: wow. just one DVD drive ? for how many axes ?

20:49 <GordonFreeman> only the miling machine, it does not have axes yet :)

20:49 <GordonFreeman> so, the main drive motor, and the driving electronics

20:50 <GordonFreeman> but i'm building CNC machine with 3 axis, and i use stepper motors from scrap printers

20:50 <GordonFreeman> and those nice silver-steel shafts mmm

21:11 <wpwrak> hmm. nice :) didn't think dvd motors were that strong