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Episode: 382
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Title: HPR0382: TiT Radio 002 - Potluck Roundtable
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0382/hpr0382.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-07 19:31:16
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Hello and welcome to tip radio episode two I'm monster B and at the round table with me today is spear without the 64
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He's not here. I'll get I
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An asthma's not here. He's getting coffee. Jay Lindsay. I am too here.
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inspired by the
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Well, the sheep says, Peter.
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Hey!
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Yeah, there's I?
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No, too much longer, I think.
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Yeah, I think.
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Already?
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Yeah.
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Five minutes.
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What am I...
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I don't care.
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Why can't I?
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I don't know the reason.
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He's in the bin.
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Yeah, take him.
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Yeah, take him.
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We don't mess around on this show.
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Yeah.
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Mrs. I, you can talk.
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Are you sure?
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I don't want to be kicked into the bin.
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No, you're fine.
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You're safe.
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All right.
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Who wants to start off first?
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I want to tell you about my trials and tribulations with my new laptop.
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All right.
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I think by now most people know that I was been shopping around and I ordered a deli other day.
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Now, I know I told this declared too, again, the Linux ranks.
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But I'll just let people know the sort of thing they're up against when you ring tech support.
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Because trying to do a bit of research, I was sort of seeing that their Wi-Fi or MIDI Wi-Fi card,
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they sell, could either be a Broadcom or there were some people saying it was an Intel chipset.
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So I thought, I'll ring up the LED way.
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Had nothing better to do.
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So I rang up and I got the same lady.
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I'm sure I got to tell me who hadn't heard of the gun two before.
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She certainly sounded the same.
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Anyway, I said, look, I just want to know about the old mini Wi-Fi card.
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I said, what chipset is that?
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And I told her, you know, the laptop I bought you, cheaper.
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And she said, it's a Dell.
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And I said, yeah, no, no, it's a name of it.
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But I said, no, what chipsets on it?
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And she said, yeah, it's a Dell chip.
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And I said, so Dell have a manufacturing plant and they actually make their own chips now.
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And she goes, yeah.
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And I said, you sure you don't want to ask someone?
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And she goes, no, I'm sure.
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And I said, I wish I had recorded it.
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And I said, well, this is a matter of interest.
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Where's Dell's plant?
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And she burst their Wi-Fi.
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And she thought that was the funniest thing she'd ever heard.
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And then I thought of this conversation gun.
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And I thought that laughing too.
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Like, I wasn't cranking enough and I hung up that plant as happy as Larry,
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because it was just so funny to listen to her thought.
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And I decided that's probably what they do.
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That's why they hide these people.
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But anyway, see, that's the thing you're going to be up against if you're trying to do research.
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I actually mentioned that story to Asin.
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He confirmed for me that it was a broad common chipset.
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So at least that way I could start doing a bit of research and find out what it had to do to get it working.
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Which, as it turned out, was very simple.
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But the problem once again, would you believe, when I got it, finally took up the other day,
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I stuck the Zeus disc in it, put it up, installed it, and now you see it.
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I'm somewhat of a sound expert, but not really.
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But having gone through all this just a week before with my wife's view one,
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I had a bit of an idea of what to do.
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Now, with hers, because it was an Acer, it was as simple as passing the option,
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model equals Acer to the module, which is what is it?
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So at least what is it?
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Intel SEAN module.
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SEAN HDA Intel module, that's what it is.
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And anyway, so it's as simple as putting model equals Acer.
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But with the Dell, and this is another thing for this, so much information out there that new people have to be wary,
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that when I actually put it in Google to start looking for it,
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one of the posts I found, this way, was trying to help some other people with the similar or the exact same chipset,
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but he went so far as to tell them that they had to install the D-bug kernel and rebuild
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also from SVN and all this sort of stuff.
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And I thought to myself, no, you don't have to do that, you get this out, you can't work it.
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Unfortunately, in these people who he was helping, obviously didn't know enough to think
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we're hold on this out to help, like, you know, too complex to what you'd have to do.
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So that's another thing people have got to be wary of.
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Don't just get the first post and go through and do what that particular person says.
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Because once again, it was simple, it was simple of just putting the model number in,
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but unlike my wife's where you just had to write data, with the Dell, I found quite a few options
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where you had Dell equals M, and I don't know what this means, M4-1,
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and I found that one, that's 2-3, so I had to edit my,
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it's the texturesmodprobe.d4.xam file to pass these options.
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And none of them worked, and I thought, oh shit, don't tell me I really have to do that.
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I should send myself to the booby bin for that, sorry about that.
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Anyway, you, um, yeah, so I had to keep looking, but what I did was,
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I eventually found out that it was Dell-NC.
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So once again, the sound was a problem.
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The camera, which surprised me, going back what 12 months ago, maybe 18 months ago,
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yeah, hadn't got a hope in hell of getting a webcam working with Linux.
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Now, I have played a rail with Zeus on this laptop,
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Ubuntu on this laptop, I now have Arch Linux, I've put Arch on it last night.
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Every single time the sound didn't work, but the webcam, the Wi-Fi was so easy,
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it's just simple as installing the Broadcom SWL page,
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and restart the network, and you have to mod probe WL.
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That's the module name, too easy.
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Now, something else I've noticed with the laptop is there is not one light on my Dell.
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It's Studio 15, which you think, well, when I say light, there's no hard drive light,
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there's no Wi-Fi light, there's nothing.
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And you might say big deal, but that also the other problem with this is the Function 2,
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is the F1 to F12, you need to hit the modifier FN key to use them,
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otherwise they are the hot keys to turn your sound on and off and mute it, etc.
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But the F2 key, if you don't hit the Function key, the F2 key turns your Wi-Fi on and off.
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Now, as people who run Flashlights are going to appreciate,
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you use your F2 key to help a lot.
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So, if you're used to just hitting Ctrl F2 to flip to Workspace 2,
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or mod 4 key to send a window over there,
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and you don't hit your Function key, hold down your Function key,
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you turn your Wi-Fi on and off.
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And there's no light there to tell you that you've done it.
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The next time you boot up, if you happen to done it,
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you just sit there, restart the network,
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mark around with Wicked, trying to find out why the hell your Wi-Fi is not running for half an hour.
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I need to realise you turn the lighty thing off.
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So, that's something I'm a little bit disappointed with the bell.
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What exact model do you have?
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Well, I got the Studio 15.
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The only option I've got, that's got the Core 2 Duo to 2 Gig,
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800 MHz front-wide bus.
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But it really is for value for money around here.
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It costs me just short of $200.
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But value for money, best machine in that price range,
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nothing could come close to it.
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I upgraded to the True Life,
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they sell it as a high definition screen, the 1600 by 9.
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It's a 15.16 screen,
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and I got the True Life 1600 by 900 LED screen.
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And honest to God, it would be the most beautiful screen I've ever looked at.
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But the caveat to that is,
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today I sat out on the branda,
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and it's that shiny, you could shave yourself in it.
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So, outside on the branda,
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it wasn't really showing this morning,
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it was now impossible to see.
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Inside, just a glorious screen.
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So, that's something that you really need to check out on any of it,
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because I'm pretty sure what's only have an X-Bride,
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they all have a very similar thing,
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probably all made in the same factory.
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That's something to be careful with.
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Now, the other thing to 3D,
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it's got a,
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it might sound card,
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just a matter of interest,
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with the Intel,
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40, I can't remember what it is,
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4482801i,
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I think it was.
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But anyway,
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the fact is I knew the old soldering in America
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with a bunch of one of them.
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So obviously, I thought,
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I had to get the sound card work,
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and it wasn't.
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The other problem I had with 3D was,
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it's got the new GMAX,
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I think it's a 4500 mobile H.D. card in it,
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which supposedly can do true high definition of 1,080i.
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You can also get a bloody blu-ray player,
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at least,
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but that was an additional $600,
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so trust me,
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I didn't get one of them.
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But anyway, back to the 3D,
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in ZUSA,
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as soon as I tried to run Google Earth,
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or Celestial,
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or Celestia,
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it would freeze.
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Now,
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yeah,
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as soon as I tried to run something up in jail,
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and full screen,
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the bloody thing froze.
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And I've got no idea why that was,
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but with ARCH,
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it just runs superb.
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So,
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like Jalins,
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you said it,
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probably because it might have a later Intel driver,
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or even,
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it could be, you know,
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X-Augle,
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Messer,
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Sir.
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Yeah, really happy with it.
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But there are things people
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that got to look out for,
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and really do research well,
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and don't believe the first thing you read.
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No, what was the sound card again?
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It was an Intel?
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Yeah, Intel,
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I think it's the 828101i.
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There's quite a few incarnations of it,
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like a G and a H,
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and that,
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I want to get back to you on the inject model.
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I couldn't know,
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I looked at bloody specifications that much.
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The 828101i.
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Now, how would you find out,
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what, you know,
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what codec a sound card is using?
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Yeah, that's a good question.
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With my wife's,
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what I did,
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as soon as it rebooted,
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I just ran the message,
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pipe grip,
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HDA,
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and that's where I was able to tell
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that it seemed to be probing the BIOS
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to try to find out what codec it was supposed to use
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for this particular sound card,
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and the error message it was getting
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and then it would try something else.
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That's where I started to look.
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I put that into Google,
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and that got me on the right track.
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Okay, so when I got the Dell,
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I just did a similar search
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for, you know,
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for this particular sound card,
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which will be,
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first of that original post,
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where the blank, you know,
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recompiled or reinstalled,
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and you do that kernel,
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all that sort of stuff,
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but a bit more searching,
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and I found people with the exact same problems.
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But always,
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as soon as you boot your machine,
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if you've got a problem with hardware,
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it's actually a good place to start,
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and just do a do message,
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and grab something specific to the chip set in it,
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will probably get you off
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a really good start to start finding a avenue to fix it.
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Yeah, I'm doing a D message correct right now.
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What would I put in there?
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Well, try HDA.
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If that's what it is.
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No.
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What kind of you got?
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It has the HDA until the codec is real tech.
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Yeah, it might be true.
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I, on both mine and my wife,
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HDA brings up
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in-do message what it's trying to do.
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And it is an 82801i,
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which is a ICH9 family,
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HDA audio chip set from Intel,
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whatever that all means.
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What kind of battery life are you getting out of it?
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Well, I really haven't tested that so far.
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Like, I've got about two hours,
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and like, two hours is probably for mainly planning long.
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But if I guess it on the brand,
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there's something that's about it.
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I don't know that I'll be out there much longer.
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And if I was, there's a PowerPoint,
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a PowerPoint out there.
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But yeah, I haven't tried any of that stuff yet.
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So you can come out of the bin now,
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as long as you promise to behave a lot better.
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Thank you.
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I will.
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But now, I'm really pleased with it.
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I mean, I've got it, I've had three Linux,
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Australia's on it in what, four days, I think.
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Now I've got Arch set up,
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and Arch is pretty fast.
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Honestly, if no one has tried Arch yet,
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give it a shot.
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The more I use it, the more I get into it,
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the more impressed I've become with it.
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The people who developed that
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just really knew what they were doing.
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So really the only problem you had was with the sound.
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Yep.
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Yeah, I will end also the 3D in just some reason.
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But I suppose how to,
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that was just 211.1.
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I put in rapid on it,
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which is obviously a fair bit later,
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using a later kernel.
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And Arch 2 is using a later kernel.
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So it may have been something that they fixed between, you know,
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I think 270's is a chosen.
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And what's 290,
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I think Arch is not choosing it.
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So yeah.
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But I just found it's funny.
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I've never had trouble with sound before on any Linux system.
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And because Manclerc 2 is talked about,
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I think I put the Mocker on my shelf.
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Now if you would have bought that laptop three months from now,
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you wouldn't have that problem.
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Probably would have worked out the box.
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Probably would have.
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I mean, and really,
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it wasn't that hard to fix.
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It's in,
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all you have to do is go into,
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you extract your modprobe.d4 slash sound,
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or it could be also dash-based configuration.
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And you just put,
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like options,
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and then your card,
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sound-hda-intel,
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and then spaced model equals del blah blah blah,
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for whatever it is.
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It's in,
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I think on the other show,
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I said it was a user-shared documentation,
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but it's actually in the,
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it tells you all the different model.
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If you put in your,
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the model number of your chip,
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if you go into,
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it's actually in the documentation section,
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in actual kernel.
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So you know,
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user source,
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kernel documentation,
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also sound,
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I think,
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you'll find,
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the read me in there,
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it actually tells you,
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if you've got this model chip,
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then this is,
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the option you have to pass
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to the module,
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as it's burdened up.
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So,
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as long as you know what you're looking for,
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you know,
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it's easy to fix all these things,
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because if you can read,
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actually, I guess,
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it's hard to say.
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So I just want everyone to know that,
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until my life has come,
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and the challenge is
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it wasn't anywhere near.
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He was Excel.
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Haha,
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haha,
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he's that party,
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I was sitting in a high-end struggle,
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it's,
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so how was,
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self,
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do you know,
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Lynnzy?
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It was great.
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I had a fantastic time.
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They seemed a little fast paced
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for being one day,
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so it was like just one talk
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after another.
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Yeah, they did three talks and then an hour for lunch and then it was hour after hour all the way to five.
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Did they have 10 minutes to get from where you were going to there?
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Did they have like two talks going on at the same time?
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Yeah, so they had three going on at the same time.
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Okay, so you had to pick which one you wanted to go to?
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Yeah, what I understand about that, if you weren't able to attend the other two,
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it's all been recorded quite professionals from what Dave was sharing with me.
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So if you did miss those, you can go and, oh, even if you couldn't attend self, you can go and you'll be able to download all the keynotes, etc.
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Right, they had some really nice equipment set up for getting all that video.
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Yeah, so I'd imagine a month to be, you'll be putting links in the show notes to all those with a bit luck.
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I'm sorry, could you repeat that?
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I was just saying that Dave, Dave is saying that all those keynotes that self will go on a brilliant video,
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and that you might be able to put them in the show notes where people can go and watch them when you find out.
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Oh, yeah.
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Well, it's going to take them a good amount of time to convert all that and get it on to hard drives and everything.
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I'll be using Cade in live hot cake.
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Well, that would go for it, Science.
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So, do you reckon it should have been over two days, challenging?
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Spread it out a little bit.
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I don't know.
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It gets a little tricky and runs up your costs when you start going for two or three days.
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But yeah, it did seem rushed to do it in one day.
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If you had several talks that you wanted to see live, there's no way you could do it, but this way.
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Well, that's exactly how the Ohio Linux Fest is, the same way, one day.
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But it really does stress the resources if you add extra days.
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Well, I hope the one day I get to go to a little left in the shelf.
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It's so cranky at my percentage to the bin.
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No.
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Having not been to OLF or self, there isn't really much I could say about this.
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Yeah, I really want to go to one as well.
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Now I can do it this year. Maybe next year.
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I don't know.
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I hope in the next year I can do OLF itself.
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But, you know, I've never run a conference so I have no idea how much extra work for doing it over two days.
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So, there's not much I can say really.
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We'll get to the bin then.
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Well, good idea. It's really a minute.
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So, that's no fair if you're going to cut me off again in a minute.
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Well, that'll take you.
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I noticed that the rooms were pretty much in just the right size for the crowd that they had.
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If it had been a fair amount of larger of a crowd, they wouldn't have fit in the room.
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I mean, they pretty much had it every seat filled in some of these talks.
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And how many attended roughly? Do you think were they?
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I think they had close to 500 sign up.
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But they did a numbers check, I think.
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And it was some like 440, 450.
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That's pretty good.
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Yeah, kind of combined.
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Now, one thing I was really interested to hear was with a cloud tube, but you buff off the ground.
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As far as I know, they only got a little bit of a talk and then it never happened.
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This was everyone's little bit too happy, I think.
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A ball.
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That's just rolls.
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Well, there were buffs there.
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I mean, they were spread out throughout the day, but if you went to the talks, you were completely missing it.
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How does this one thing on?
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I never have to attend a buff.
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Would you rather them call it birds of a feather?
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Yeah, I actually would.
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Well, I would like to recommend a motherboard.
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That's somebody's building a system.
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I bought the Gigabyte GA-G31N.
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Intel socket LGA-775.
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It's a micro ATX board.
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Everything on it's Intel.
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The chip set, the sound, the graphics.
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The graphics is a 3,100 express.
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And the audio codec is a real tech.
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But everything worked out of the box.
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And everything is integrated on the board.
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So if you're looking for a cheap system to build, all you need is this motherboard, a case, some RAM and CPU.
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And that's about it.
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You got yourself a little Linux box for about 150 bucks.
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Yeah, I'm back.
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That's a cool cheap setup.
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Yeah, I think after getting this micro ATX, I don't think I would ever go to the full size motherboards anymore.
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I mean, this one has everything I need.
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If I wanted to add an extra higher end video card, I mean, it's got the slot for it.
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There are many weird issues like having to have a sound card to close anything else, which causes interference.
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So now when I first, when I first played with upgrading computers, you had to be, you know, trying to put the sound card as far away from everything else.
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Because otherwise you can give a slight crackle.
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Well, this one has, you know, the sound integrated onto the board.
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Yeah, which I suppose is good enough unless you're doing anything really fancy.
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Right. Well, I'm talking about it right now, so this is not too fancy.
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Yeah, I don't mean for what most people do, you don't really care.
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Does this board supports the quad call, quad to quad, quad to do it?
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Yeah, I went with the lowest grade CPU I could find. It was a Celeron 430.
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And the main reason I went for it, not only because of the price, the CPU was only 30 bucks.
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But the main reason I went for it because it had, it's 35 watts as full throttle.
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But I wanted to build a, you know, a quiet, low powered machine.
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Yeah, this is sort of like a server for you, wouldn't it?
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Yeah, that's what it started out to be a server.
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And now it's turning into like a second desktop.
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That's all right.
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Yeah, I got it sitting right here with synergy going.
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So I'm using both computers with two monitors, but with one keyboard and mouse.
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And you obviously didn't have any trouble getting to sound the word.
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No, everything worked out of the box.
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Actually, the only distro I used on this is Debbie and Lenny.
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I haven't tried any other ones, but everything worked out of the box.
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I didn't have to install nothing or try to configure anything. It just worked.
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But yeah, this motherboard will support a core 2 quad if I ever wind up grade.
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But I really like the socket, you know, the LGA 775.
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I don't know if you guys ever put one together like that.
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There's no, there's no pins on the, on the CPU.
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Yeah, it's got the little bowls of something, hasn't it?
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Yeah, so you can't damage it.
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Yeah, I remember reading that year.
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I tried to imagine that logo over there.
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I remember reading about that some time ago.
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I think the EMD has it on their higher end.
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What's that high end chip they have?
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Not the Asalan, but it starts when I know up.
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Up to Tron?
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Yeah, that's it.
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Some of their higher end ones are like that.
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Oh, right.
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Yeah, I'd imagine that logo over too.
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That little pins, how many of them would have been over the years?
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Oh, yeah.
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I've never touched wood, I've never bent one.
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I can't close.
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I had an EMD that I had to take the heat sink off.
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And when I was taking it, I had to twist it a little bit and then pull up.
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With the whole entire CPU came off with it.
|
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Out of the socket, I just pulled it right out.
|
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And I was lucky, nothing got back.
|
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Yeah, I've actually had to get the pliers and just straighten one a tiny bit that I'd been over.
|
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And last, it didn't snap off.
|
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But yeah, it's a really easy CPU to put in.
|
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I mean, of course, you know, it's got the little notches.
|
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There's only one way you drop it in.
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I mean, you just drop it in and pull the little lever and it locks right in.
|
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And I think it'd be good for somebody that's, you know, maybe like a jury.
|
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Or you wouldn't have to worry about bending the pins up.
|
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Yeah, that's a good point.
|
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Well, inside of that, it's someone who's getting old.
|
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It's a way of glasses, but he's just having a young boy.
|
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It would be another black.
|
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But, you know, I have no complaints about this Ford.
|
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It's only a drawback, I think it would have for some people.
|
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It only has two memory slots.
|
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So the max memory's four gigs.
|
|
I only have two gigs in there now, but that's plenty enough for me right now.
|
|
Yeah, I like, I still argue that unless you're running virtual machines,
|
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I only got one gig in that laptop.
|
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And one because Dell wanted I think $134 or $74 for the extra gig.
|
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And I knew if I decided to do it, I would get it off eBay anyway.
|
|
And the other thing is too, just having watched my RAM usage on the laptops.
|
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You know, it's very rare for me to go over 500.
|
|
And I mean, I have through using my desktop.
|
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But that's purely because I do a bit of video editing on the desktop.
|
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RAM probably helps a fair bit.
|
|
I've never actually watched the usage when I run CAD in life.
|
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But I'd imagine RAM comes in pretty handy for doing stuff like that.
|
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But one gig, plenty.
|
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Yeah, that's what I have on my triple.
|
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One gig, I mean, the most ever seen used was probably 400 megabytes.
|
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I bet you had five bucks over when you did it.
|
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Yep.
|
|
Yeah, five bucks, lately just seems to be true and so much, right?
|
|
Lots of Bronx in the chatroom asked what the dimensions were for this micro ATX.
|
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It's 9.6 inch by 7.6 inch.
|
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And a normal size ATX is 12 by 9.6 inch.
|
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So it's a little bit smaller.
|
|
So this should be a tiny little board.
|
|
You can get an eye to match a really nice case.
|
|
If you're looking at building on a mid-front end or something,
|
|
it would be a really good board for that.
|
|
You certainly would be able to put plenty of pressure in it.
|
|
There's a lot of nice cases for that.
|
|
And I think the micro ATX is pretty popular for stuff like that.
|
|
If you take a look at new egg and look at all the cases,
|
|
it seems that that's the most popular case.
|
|
That form factor.
|
|
Yeah, but does anything a bit better?
|
|
No, micro ATX will fit in a regular ATX case anyway.
|
|
Yeah, they will.
|
|
They already have the holes and everything in most cases for it.
|
|
But that would almost negate the reason you bought it, couldn't it?
|
|
Because I think the back of it's where all your plugins are,
|
|
is 9.6 inch on both of them,
|
|
for the micro ATX and the normal size ATX.
|
|
So the back of it's standard.
|
|
Yeah, the gasket will fit a standard box.
|
|
That's no problem.
|
|
I think the next one below that is the,
|
|
it was at the mini ATX.
|
|
I don't have the dimensions for that.
|
|
But then you get into specialized cases though.
|
|
Yeah, I had one and I sent it back.
|
|
It was too much trouble.
|
|
Yeah, I was kind of sorry.
|
|
That's the one that sort of baked, didn't it?
|
|
Yeah, it was, the branding was zo-tech.
|
|
I think zo-tech or zo-tech.
|
|
But as soon as they put the heat sink and fan on the,
|
|
because it has like four holes on the outside of the CPU,
|
|
and the heat sink goes on and you have like these push-ins.
|
|
They're like plastic push-ins that lock in.
|
|
And as soon as they locked them in, the whole entire board worked.
|
|
And then it went, you know, I got an oversized case for it,
|
|
and it still wouldn't fit in the case.
|
|
I could have bought a smaller heat sink and fan,
|
|
but it would have cost as much as the motherboard.
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
That's rather than what's the point.
|
|
Well, I ran both enough about this,
|
|
who got anything for us as much?
|
|
Oh, I don't know.
|
|
I've been playing with GPS navigation in Linux.
|
|
And like, let's see, I got a link here.
|
|
I'll put it in there.
|
|
In the form or in the IRC chat.
|
|
See, maybe I will.
|
|
Yeah, that's close enough.
|
|
No, what I've been using is a program called Roadnav.
|
|
Get it source forage.
|
|
And just use it with a cheap little USB GPS,
|
|
and you're all set.
|
|
You got to walk and talk and road navigation system.
|
|
It will download all the free maps you can stand for every place in the U.S.
|
|
And they are working on it for using the maps from open street maps for Europe.
|
|
So it works.
|
|
It's one thing that kind of kept me involved with Windows,
|
|
was to run the navigation software.
|
|
And I was really pleased to find that I could do this in Linux.
|
|
That link up there also has a link within it for a screenshot of what it looks like on my meso netbook.
|
|
You can get the aerial views as well as the maps.
|
|
It uses the Terra server for the aerial views.
|
|
And it's just overlay on the maps.
|
|
And it makes it quite nice for figuring out where the heck you are sometimes.
|
|
What kind of device?
|
|
I'm sorry, go ahead Peter.
|
|
So is that using like overlaying the map over Google maps?
|
|
Is that what's happening there?
|
|
No, that's not Google maps.
|
|
That's the Terra server.
|
|
That's one of the U.S. government sites.
|
|
These are all free maps.
|
|
It's all run and open source.
|
|
And free government supplied maps and data uses the tiger data from the U.S.
|
|
It's a U.S. Census Bureau that has a tiger data, I believe.
|
|
It gets all the vector maps from the government sites.
|
|
And there's no subscriptions to get maps to it or anything like.
|
|
You get with a lot of commercial GPS units.
|
|
And one thing's nice with it.
|
|
You can use just a super cheap USB GPS.
|
|
I guess you sell them on Amazon for less than 40 bucks.
|
|
If you already have a notebook or a notebook, you put a $40 GPS with it, run the maps.
|
|
And you've got a navigation system that will even talk and give you directions as you go.
|
|
Now with the GPS Dongle that you plugged into Mesa,
|
|
did you have to research that the nature is kind of working in Linux?
|
|
Or just about every single one of them does?
|
|
Well, actually, the type of data that they put out.
|
|
Yeah, what do they call it?
|
|
I'd have to look it up.
|
|
It's terrible having an old memory.
|
|
NMEA data output.
|
|
Any GPS that will do that.
|
|
Or that goes you can use this software with your garment or your Magellan if they're set to put the right data out.
|
|
Yeah, that's pretty standard, I think.
|
|
Because I think that's what the one in the boat uses.
|
|
I'm sure I've read that.
|
|
I'm just very with GPS, I've ever owned.
|
|
Yeah, it's green, isn't it?
|
|
And I bet you've never seen a blue screen of death on a life I get at my bloody car.
|
|
One that runs Windows series.
|
|
Did you take a screenshot yet?
|
|
We definitely do it in your mind, including the show nights next to the edges of the picture.
|
|
Live in the moon.
|
|
Well, I've used Delormy Street maps on Windows for, you know, guys, I've been 12, 15 years.
|
|
I don't remember exactly how far it was.
|
|
That back to, what was a version three or whatever that came out.
|
|
It was in the early 90s, there was something to place.
|
|
And I finally wore out my old Delormy tripmate.
|
|
And I replaced it with Delormy's LT40 Earthmate.
|
|
But it was only 40 bucks with Windows software that come with it, which I'm not using.
|
|
But the GPS works fine.
|
|
And it just works super on Linux with a road nav software.
|
|
Now, the Delormy software, it would work in wine back, what, 2005 version.
|
|
But the 2009 version will not run under wine.
|
|
Wine's missing things that they want.
|
|
And kind of ticks me off at Delormy that they don't support Linux.
|
|
But that's fine.
|
|
There's other things in Linux that work nearly as well.
|
|
And it caused me nothing.
|
|
Yeah, I much started on this guy to see what that's like in Australia.
|
|
I was just looking at OpenStreetMaps.
|
|
It doesn't appear to me much mapped over here with that.
|
|
It could be like in the street maps.
|
|
Well, if you have GPS, you can drive down the road and map on OpenStreetMaps.
|
|
Yeah, you can add maps to the OpenStreetMaps.
|
|
That is an Open project.
|
|
And they welcome input on that.
|
|
You can go out and make your own maps and add to their database.
|
|
And from what I understand, there's a lot more detail because people gather the trouble of putting in lanes and parks and street posts and light and lamp posts and all that sort of stuff.
|
|
Yeah, the OpenStreetMap project is really kind of neat.
|
|
It's a do-it-yourself project and there's a whole bunch of people doing it themselves.
|
|
Roy and golfer have been playing around with that.
|
|
I don't know how he's come out, but he had a lot of tracks mapped on it around where he lives there in Scotland.
|
|
Yeah, didn't they have the bloke who started it on a Linux link picture or something like that?
|
|
Yeah, I think so.
|
|
Someone's doing it the way they're finding ways of putting the OpenStreetMap data.
|
|
OpenStreetMap data on the road nav software.
|
|
So, you know, where you can use the OpenStreetMaps in it, they're getting places that the US Geological Survey does not cover.
|
|
And there's also maps becoming available for it in Canada too, I believe, through the Canadian government.
|
|
I want to post the link in the chat room.
|
|
Will this device work with it?
|
|
It says it's a USB GPS receiver with Linux drivers available.
|
|
Yeah, that one on the left.
|
|
Oh, the one on the left is, that's the one that Google or Amazon sells.
|
|
You buy that for, it's under 40 bucks.
|
|
Really?
|
|
And everybody, yeah, all the reviews on that one is great.
|
|
It's a little unit built in China.
|
|
Got a magnetic base on it and you can use it in even marine situations.
|
|
It's waterproof.
|
|
Yeah, that's the one I found.
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
Oh, sorry, I was just going to say I found that when I just first mentioned to me that it was playing around with this sort of stuff,
|
|
I found that one on a eBay over here.
|
|
I think it was about $80.
|
|
But it looked like the pick of the bunch.
|
|
And it's the same brand as this.
|
|
G-Mouse?
|
|
Yeah, that's it.
|
|
Yeah, that's the one on the left.
|
|
Yeah, it's a BU353, I believe.
|
|
I can't remember the company that puts it out as US Geological or something like that.
|
|
Look at that, if you want the software, you want to buy it with the software.
|
|
It's $170.
|
|
Okay, the cable that comes with it, 60 inches long.
|
|
Yeah, it's a five foot cable, which is all you need.
|
|
And it's waterproof.
|
|
You get more net and that's in the way.
|
|
And it's waterproof.
|
|
Waterproof magnetic base.
|
|
So you can stick that on your roof over your car.
|
|
Yeah, you can stick it on your roof or stick it on the door post or, you know,
|
|
any place that you got metal or if you don't have metal, don't worry about it.
|
|
Throw the darn thing on the dash.
|
|
I'm going to have to look into one of these since I get about seven hours' battery life
|
|
and the trip we need to be nice for a small road trip.
|
|
If you had one of these, you'd take a ride and just play with it.
|
|
Well, I use mine on a trip up to Washington, see my son.
|
|
And it just worked fine all the way.
|
|
You know, I preloaded all the maps.
|
|
I will warn you, you want to preload the maps because when you get out of range of Wi-Fi,
|
|
if you haven't got the maps in there, it don't know where the heck it is.
|
|
Well, it knows where it is, but it won't show you any roads.
|
|
And I did find one thing with the road nav.
|
|
If you're running it with the aerial view overlay on it
|
|
and you get away from your Wi-Fi and you don't have the aerial views in there,
|
|
well, it will effectively lock up because it's setting there trying to pull the maps down.
|
|
Once it has moved into that area and it won't do anything until it gets the maps.
|
|
So if I had one of these with no internet, what could it do?
|
|
Nothing?
|
|
Well, you've got to have internet someplace along the way to preload your maps.
|
|
And it's easy to load the maps.
|
|
Once you get the software loaded up, you just click on a state and it'll get the data for the state.
|
|
And then as you just click on wherever you want and it'll pull the individual counties
|
|
and get all the maps and everything in them.
|
|
And so you only need to download what you're going to use if you don't ever plan to be on the other side of the Mississippi River.
|
|
Well, there's no sense of getting any maps over there, which makes it nice.
|
|
You don't have a lot of extra data used in your computer.
|
|
Let's see, the brand on that one is US Global Sat.
|
|
Is people make that waterproof USB GPS receiver?
|
|
Do you have a link to that so I can put the show notes? US Global?
|
|
Well, I've got to, yeah, I can do that.
|
|
It's just the Amazon sight port.
|
|
That's one option.
|
|
Like I say, you can use the Delormi Earthmates on them too, and they're relatively cheap.
|
|
You could use a lot of Bluetooth devices too, but yeah, there's a lot of Bluetooth GPS devices.
|
|
Yeah, but what you're going to end up with the Bluetooth is they can be fairly battery hungry, and you're not going to get all that many hours for a long road trip out of a Bluetooth GPS.
|
|
Yeah, a good point.
|
|
The BU 3503 you can get in Australia for 65 bucks.
|
|
That's a pretty good price.
|
|
Well, I had three parties to go to today, an anniversary and two birthday parties, and they were 40 miles apart on some of them.
|
|
I had a small window to get in there.
|
|
Stupid things all wanted to start at the same time, and I had about 80 miles to get between the three of them.
|
|
I went ahead and used the GPS and the road nav and found my best way and didn't get lost, and I made all of them on time.
|
|
But you can't complain about that.
|
|
I should send you to the bin for bragging about their missed popularity.
|
|
You can get invited to throw your party.
|
|
You can get in the bin.
|
|
Again.
|
|
Five minutes.
|
|
He won't be doing that again.
|
|
Who did you send to the bin?
|
|
I was in the chat room.
|
|
Bloody safe.
|
|
That's the poor guy.
|
|
As bragging about going to three parties, it's stuff he can gather up in.
|
|
So you just took it out on him.
|
|
Yeah, he's there.
|
|
What I'm talking about, sorry.
|
|
Is that the way we got that, Peter?
|
|
Well, here I am.
|
|
I get to be the shareer.
|
|
Three-thirty is not on.
|
|
Everyone's just been saying nice to each other.
|
|
I wouldn't have got to send anyone to the bin if they wasn't.
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
And what's the good of being the shareer if you can't send someone to the bin?
|
|
I mentioned Celestia in when I was testing out.
|
|
These bikes are not about that.
|
|
Have you ever heard of Celestia?
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
That's a video editing software, isn't it?
|
|
No, no.
|
|
It's a lot of people refer to it as a planetarium.
|
|
But it's not really.
|
|
They actually say it's space simulation.
|
|
And if you said that, you think I was a game.
|
|
But what it is is you can take tools of the whole universe.
|
|
In glorious 3D, and I think they used the textures from NASA.
|
|
You know, all the pictures of the planets, et cetera.
|
|
And if you've never looked at it, do yourself a favour and go and get it.
|
|
And just once you install it, you can sit there for hours.
|
|
And my daughter, once we get on the computer and load it up.
|
|
And you can get scripts so you can take virtual tours of the universe.
|
|
And as you're flying around, you know, it'll tell you on the screen about how far you were sitting
|
|
from Mars at the moment and what you can see on Mars.
|
|
And all this sort of stuff.
|
|
And it's really brilliant.
|
|
It must have been just a part posed at the thing said.
|
|
Dub Dub Dub's shatters.net Celestia.
|
|
But then get over to a place called the Celestia muddle load.
|
|
And that's where you can download your high resolution images and stuff.
|
|
Like for textures of the planets, et cetera.
|
|
That's a lot of scripts in that are on that side as well, I think.
|
|
But I honestly, it's one of the most beautiful applications I've ever seen.
|
|
And if Zeke was here, he could tell you that you can get...
|
|
A lot of people have done...
|
|
There must be scripts and images and three-day models of something like the Doctor Who Universe.
|
|
And the Star Trek Universe and all this.
|
|
Which is a bit far out for me.
|
|
I just enjoy looking at real stuff.
|
|
But definitely have a look.
|
|
Have you put this on your projector yet?
|
|
Yeah, we do.
|
|
A little bit 64.
|
|
We sit there.
|
|
And we laughed up a few scripts and it is beautiful.
|
|
It really is.
|
|
And it was the first thing I put on my new laptop to try out the screen.
|
|
To see how good that screen really was.
|
|
And it just impresses me every time I fire it up.
|
|
And I think Dan asked me once in a chat, you know, why I bother with the Nvidia drivers and 3D.
|
|
And it's really because of this.
|
|
Google Earth tool, I use it for a bit.
|
|
But you can just waste hours when you get into this.
|
|
I'm looking at the screen shots now.
|
|
It's pretty.
|
|
Ah, it is.
|
|
And they just don't do it justice.
|
|
But just to fly around.
|
|
And like I said, but get the scripts.
|
|
Because after you fly around, you run out of things.
|
|
Because you don't know what after.
|
|
You can go and visit.
|
|
Asteroids and.
|
|
And even go and I think you can go and.
|
|
Go see where Voyager is at the moment.
|
|
You know that bloody space probe that launched I think in the 70s,
|
|
which is way up past Pluto.
|
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I think these days.
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You can go and see where it that is.
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And the other thing too, I think you can download scripts.
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For although I think there's only what's eight space shuttle left and go.
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But you can get a script.
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So when one blasts off, you can get the script and you can actually see and follow it.
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As it whizzes around the earth in real time and stuff like that.
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It's just brilliant.
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And it's all real time.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure if you yeah, you can do that with it.
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I'm just trying to think I had another program that.
|
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You download a actual script from NASA.
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But I'm pretty sure it's less you did it too.
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And you can go and you can go to the national space station.
|
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That's another thing is a model for that.
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You can go and look at the Hubble Hubble Space Telescope where it happens to be above the earth at the moment.
|
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So if you look to this, what's left here?
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Yeah, a while back.
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Yes, I did look at it.
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And did you like find the target?
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Yes, I think you can go out and someone's put the targets floating around out in space.
|
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And you can actually go and look at it somewhere.
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I didn't look at that one.
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I did look at some of the Star Wars Star Trek ones and things.
|
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That's kind of funny.
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Yeah, it is.
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Some people get a lot of trouble.
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But we found the bloody targets once upon a time.
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If you find out where it is, let me know.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure there's just a script somewhere on there.
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And it's available in the Debian repo.
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Yeah, it's in the arch.
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It's in the Zeus.
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Yeah, it's showing the KDE front end and the Gnome front end.
|
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Yeah, well, I think it just runs in the browser, really.
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But yeah, I'm not sure what that might be wrong.
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Don't listen to that.
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Or maybe originally, I'll just assume the thing you used to run in Conqueror.
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It might be just look similar to Conqueror in the KDE front end.
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Well, what's the Galator glute front end G-L-U-T?
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Don't know.
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It's a minimal front end.
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The lightweight front end.
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All right.
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All right, so what do you have for us?
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I've got a couple of stories here.
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Don't know whether anyone saw or is subscribed to the DailyCoupleText.com.
|
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They had a big list of 100 things that a geek must do before they die.
|
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They have this big check list and links on what to do.
|
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And they're things like build Linux firewall, build a PC, build a robots,
|
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build a HTML-based website using notepad, bypass compute password on all major operating systems.
|
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And I thought it was pretty funny list.
|
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Sorry, sorry, one was so shy.
|
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I'm going to post it into the IRC now.
|
|
You can see it there.
|
|
There's a bunch of stuff here.
|
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You know, create music with keyboard.
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Well, ship, when I was at university, I wrote a...
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Well, we had to write an assembly program to convert the bottom of the keyboard.
|
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You know, ZX, CVB, and M and so on into a piano player, basically.
|
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Download Wikipedia, KnowWhoMolder and Scully are.
|
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Jailbreak and iPhone.
|
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Okay, I disagree with that one a bit.
|
|
Hide a file behind the JPEG.
|
|
Done that.
|
|
They sure did just in break a knife phone.
|
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Over a window uses head.
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I think it's...
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I think it's...
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I think it's...
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I think it's...
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I think it's...
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I think it's...
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I think it's...
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I think it's...
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I think it's...
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I think it's...
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I think it's...
|
|
I think...
|
|
We should condense this list down to maybe 90.
|
|
Well, yes, possibly.
|
|
I mean, some of these are a bit...
|
|
Now, we're in here to make our best on a PC.
|
|
Yeah, I think they go to the sort of 70 or something and figure they're trying to make it up to 100.
|
|
But there's that one.
|
|
So I thought that was pretty funny.
|
|
I've got an interesting link here.
|
|
In theory, it helps stop spam.
|
|
Not because it blocks spam or anything.
|
|
I'll post it into the IRC now.
|
|
What it does is you copy that link and put it on your website.
|
|
And then when the spammer reads through your page or the robot reads through the page, it follows this link.
|
|
And then when it gets to that page, it creates an infinite number of other pages with random garbage email addresses on there.
|
|
So, as the blurb says, e-mail harvesting bots, otherwise known as data miners, follow links, grabbing e-mail addresses out of each page it visits.
|
|
When one of these bots comes to your site, all sites you've linked get cooled for e-mail addresses.
|
|
This site renders these harvested lists useless by filling them with e-mail addresses.
|
|
Once the spammer hits this site to enter an infinite loop of randomly created e-mail addresses, starting with the ones that generate when it first comes to the site.
|
|
Once the mailing list has been poisoned with a number of invalid e-mail addresses, the results is required to send a message on this list, increases, even though the number of valid recipients has not.
|
|
This forces the spammer to exhaust more results to send e-mail in theory costing the spam money in time.
|
|
A best case scenario will cause the spammer throughout the mailing list completely.
|
|
So, it sounds like a cool idea.
|
|
So, I think everyone ought to stick a link to that website's Office of Strategic Influence.com for a spammer, or it should be in the show notes.
|
|
Because I think everyone hates spam, so that would be a cool idea.
|
|
And it's got the carriage.
|
|
The carriage, or they, or you're going to just have to paste it in your website.
|
|
Yeah, and it will create you the link and that's it. So, that one's pretty cool.
|
|
I've got a funny little thing here, which I shall just post, paste into ILC here.
|
|
It's a handy cheat sheet for time travellers.
|
|
Ah, this one might sound like Shinbi material.
|
|
Come on.
|
|
I think this is funny, because it explains how to build some basic things, so you can claim that everything was your idea.
|
|
So, here we go, technology.
|
|
Heat melts just below its boiling pot and it won't curdle.
|
|
And 99.99 cents of the box in it will be killed.
|
|
Congratulations, you just invented pasteurization.
|
|
There you go.
|
|
Moving electric field produces magnetism and vice versa.
|
|
Wrap a couple around an iron core and run electricity through it, and you've got an electromagnetic magnet.
|
|
Don't have any electricity to magnet on a wall spill, and put your copper wrapped around it.
|
|
I am beside the wheel, and hey, Presto, you're converting mechanical energy into electricity.
|
|
Don't have any magnets in it.
|
|
It explains a bunch of these little silly things, but how to do a ton of stuff here.
|
|
I found it actually anyway.
|
|
Yeah, you can waste a bit of time looking through that.
|
|
You're laughing.
|
|
It's not too bad. Otherwise, you are gone.
|
|
I thought it was funny.
|
|
Hang this up in your time machine.
|
|
Do you have one?
|
|
No, I don't have one.
|
|
Not yet, right?
|
|
Well, technically, my body itself is a time machine because it travels through space and time at a rate of one second to per second.
|
|
But...
|
|
DAG!
|
|
Getting the beam.
|
|
I was going to say Peter, you're getting it now.
|
|
You're getting me out of there.
|
|
That's my last two minutes.
|
|
Hold it down.
|
|
You're gone.
|
|
My body is a time machine.
|
|
Hello to shit.
|
|
Oh, man.
|
|
So everyone got the girl, right?
|
|
Yeah, I think challenge is sleep.
|
|
Why? I would say so after driving eight hours today.
|
|
Yeah, big day.
|
|
Pick one, three, thirty. They dropped off.
|
|
Unlocked Eliza points is full potential.
|
|
Two hours?
|
|
That's on that list.
|
|
Yeah, I'll be stuffed.
|
|
Surviving the limits argument.
|
|
I'll be out.
|
|
Well, I really don't have any...
|
|
Any feedback this week.
|
|
So I'll just use the...
|
|
The Lennox Cranks feedback.
|
|
I love that.
|
|
Well, let's see.
|
|
This guy named Kevin Rigen.
|
|
He sent an e-mail saying, let me pull it up real quick.
|
|
Okay.
|
|
He's sending this to the Lennox Cranks.
|
|
Great podcast, guys.
|
|
I really enjoyed it.
|
|
Unfortunately, my zoom does not support the org format.
|
|
So it's by from me.
|
|
Must admit, changing the format so people can't listen to it.
|
|
It's something I would expect from Apple or Microsoft.
|
|
But that's life.
|
|
Thanks again.
|
|
Did we go through all this months and months again?
|
|
Yeah, but we've been org for seven months.
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
So you mean it's seven months before you sent this in?
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
Can you hook one of those ones up to Lennox?
|
|
Did they act as a mess store?
|
|
I don't know.
|
|
I'm pretty sure they do.
|
|
Well, then what was his name, Kevin?
|
|
Okay, Kevin.
|
|
Kevin, buddy, jeep potter.
|
|
Try that.
|
|
It'll convert it for you.
|
|
It really ain't that hard.
|
|
But thanks for the e-mail anyway.
|
|
Yeah, we got another one.
|
|
I won't read it because it was like that two and a half pages long.
|
|
But Kevin in just sent the Lennox Cranks a really nice e-mail
|
|
as well, just thanking us for the time he's been doing it.
|
|
He obviously knows we do a lot of research to do the Lennox Cranks.
|
|
All right, and the next one is an audio clip I cut out of Lennox
|
|
from the Hamshack.
|
|
Give us a mention.
|
|
Let me pull that one up.
|
|
So let me run through the first one here.
|
|
I was on an IRC, though, the night, and ended up hooking up
|
|
with Monster Bee from over to Lennox Cranks' Lennox podcast.
|
|
We talked for a while, and he said he really enjoyed the show.
|
|
And he's not even an amateur radio operator.
|
|
And those guys, they're a little wild.
|
|
But they know their stuff.
|
|
If y'all listen to Chad Wallenberg, he hangs out with that bunch
|
|
and that kind of stuff.
|
|
And I was really happy that somebody of that knowledge
|
|
in the Lennox world would find our show interesting
|
|
and something that he would take the time to listen to.
|
|
So I'd like to say thank you to Monster Bee for his kind comments.
|
|
And I will suggest that y'all go over, and you know, we try
|
|
to give y'all information on other programs
|
|
that go listen to.
|
|
I would suggest y'all go listen to Lennox Cranks.
|
|
I have two things to tell you before you go hunting for it.
|
|
Number one, it is not family friendly.
|
|
So if you go over there and download their program,
|
|
don't play it around your wife and kids,
|
|
and darn sure don't play it in front of your boss.
|
|
Number two, they are hardcore Linux users over there.
|
|
So it only comes in Og format.
|
|
There is no MP3 format.
|
|
So if y'all want to go over and give it a listen,
|
|
and I had the URL up, I can't remember what had done with it.
|
|
But rest will find that, and we'll get it plugged in here somewhere.
|
|
Okay, now I've run my head a few minutes, it's your turn, Russ.
|
|
I don't have anything to run my head about,
|
|
except that I did find the URL for the Linux Cranks August.
|
|
And they called it an August because they are hardcore
|
|
and don't do MP3 formats.
|
|
And it's at linuxcranks.info.
|
|
So you can go ahead and download the program there,
|
|
if you're interested in that, and we will put a link to their site.
|
|
Or I will put a link to their site, one of these days,
|
|
when I get around to doing that kind of thing.
|
|
Alrighty.
|
|
That's pretty cool, huh?
|
|
Have you guys listened to them yet?
|
|
Now you mentioned them just the other night.
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
I'm sorry.
|
|
Well, now that I've got the new laptop,
|
|
so you're having a dream putter, blah blah blah.
|
|
I didn't bother setting up dream putter on the old laptop,
|
|
because I didn't think my new one was going to take so long to get it.
|
|
So, no, I might get you to send me the link later.
|
|
Oh, I'll put it in your show notes.
|
|
Yeah, she'd probably enjoy that, because wasn't,
|
|
isn't it, um, aim radius in Linux?
|
|
Yeah, I'm, I am a career operator.
|
|
I hadn't found that podcast yet, but, uh,
|
|
and now that I've found it, I will listen to it.
|
|
Speaking of J-Pod, I didn't 16A1, 16.1 come out.
|
|
This is 0.1.
|
|
What was that, Peter?
|
|
Didn't, uh, I just soon recall you mentioning a new version of J-Pod came out
|
|
in the last couple of weeks, 16.1 or something.
|
|
Yeah, I did.
|
|
I'm trying to think of it 16.1 or 16.2.
|
|
Oh, that's right.
|
|
But, I know it's a few changes.
|
|
It seems more stable.
|
|
Well, that's just one application that is just getting better and better.
|
|
When did we start using it probably 12 months ago, maybe?
|
|
Yeah, I think I started out with, like, 0.10.
|
|
But, yeah.
|
|
I remember you put me onto it.
|
|
I remember you started using it.
|
|
I probably started using it a week later.
|
|
And, um, yeah.
|
|
I quit using it about the time you guys started using it.
|
|
So, I don't know why you stopped using it,
|
|
but you should really revisit it.
|
|
It didn't have a few problems there, but, uh,
|
|
sometimes it would pull down the same, well,
|
|
same feed, six-tonk.
|
|
Well, I'll tell you why I quit using it,
|
|
because, uh, bash potter just worked out better for me.
|
|
I, uh, I have, uh,
|
|
bash potter installed on an NFS share.
|
|
And, uh, it's available from any computer on my land.
|
|
All the podcasts that, uh, download,
|
|
as well as I can also run it manually any time
|
|
from, uh, from any computer around here.
|
|
It, uh, you know, I don't,
|
|
don't have it all cluttered up on,
|
|
uh, on any particular computer.
|
|
Uh, it's just all setting out on my server,
|
|
and, uh, you know, I can,
|
|
I can clean up the files, you know,
|
|
the ones I've listened to,
|
|
uh, from anywhere, as well as listen to them.
|
|
And, bash potter, of course,
|
|
is the one that Link did from,
|
|
the Link's Link Tech Chat.
|
|
But there's a few incarnations of it,
|
|
uh, flattening around the net at the moment, isn't it?
|
|
Yeah, bunch of people.
|
|
Oh, there's stations.
|
|
There's probably 30 or 40.
|
|
So, uh, chested, uh, his investment, for example.
|
|
Right, uh, yeah.
|
|
Dan, I think Dan modified one that just pulled down the last ten.
|
|
And, anyway, yeah, it's certainly people are looking for,
|
|
it, it doesn't do as much as what, um,
|
|
I don't think, but, yeah, I used it for a good wall too.
|
|
No, um, just using bash potter.
|
|
Well, one thing I like about bash potter,
|
|
you go in and you look at it,
|
|
and it is, it is simply a bash script,
|
|
and you follow that bash script through,
|
|
and you can, you know,
|
|
nothing about, uh, scripting it at all.
|
|
And, uh, you, you can follow the darn thing,
|
|
and see what it's doing, and, uh,
|
|
by the time, uh, you know,
|
|
you spend, uh, an hour or so, uh,
|
|
just reading through it,
|
|
and, uh, and checking, uh,
|
|
the man pages on the different commands it uses,
|
|
and, uh, you, uh,
|
|
kind of learn a bit about scripting strictly by osmosis.
|
|
Yeah, that's a good point.
|
|
And, and it is such, uh, such as,
|
|
it is beautiful in its simplicity.
|
|
You know, I did use gpotter a while back,
|
|
I was trying it out, and so I,
|
|
I said, yeah, it makes a podcast retreat,
|
|
um, in, you know, home-zoke podcast,
|
|
which is where I have bash potter downloading stuff,
|
|
and, you know,
|
|
sell up my podcast,
|
|
and then mark them all to the red,
|
|
so, because I've already grabbed them with bash potter,
|
|
um, and then said, you know, go check,
|
|
and it downloaded about three gigs worth of stuff,
|
|
and I never figured out what that stuff was,
|
|
because there wasn't a single podcast in that list.
|
|
It was just another poll.
|
|
I, um, had no clue what it was doing that,
|
|
so they're nice, I think.
|
|
Well, you end up with hash file names,
|
|
and it, uh, if you use it direct,
|
|
what you have to do is, uh, just export them to, uh,
|
|
to a folder, and...
|
|
No, that's been, like, like,
|
|
it just...
|
|
Has it changed that?
|
|
Yeah, but, before you write it,
|
|
they have real names on the podcast,
|
|
and there aren't directories in that now.
|
|
That's been featured in last couple of, um,
|
|
uh, last couple of versions,
|
|
but, uh, never certainly be compliant.
|
|
Oh, so it's marked everything as red,
|
|
so it shouldn't have been downloading anything,
|
|
anyway, which is what I couldn't figure out
|
|
where it was downloading stuff,
|
|
because, of course, I used bash potter in the morning,
|
|
and it ran automatically in the morning,
|
|
and then I installed g-potter and said,
|
|
well, you know, here in my podcast,
|
|
Mark Mall has read,
|
|
don't download, you know,
|
|
download from now on.
|
|
I forget what the option was called,
|
|
so it shouldn't have been downloading anything.
|
|
Yeah, I've had that problem.
|
|
But then what really pissed me off about it,
|
|
was I went in and wanted to move
|
|
the podcast directory somewhere else,
|
|
so I could try to figure out what the files were,
|
|
um, and it moved all the podcasts
|
|
down low, and then deleted the directory,
|
|
and wiped out every single other file
|
|
in that directory,
|
|
so all my bash potter setup
|
|
and everything was wiped,
|
|
and that just pissed me off.
|
|
And so there was no one just delete all the files,
|
|
so then I haven't had that problem.
|
|
I deleted the product and went back to bash potter,
|
|
and said,
|
|
I was giving another try.
|
|
It's really used.
|
|
I've had a little problem,
|
|
I need it.
|
|
Ah, well, that's what it was.
|
|
It was everything I needed to do.
|
|
I listened to pretty much every single podcast
|
|
on my laptop,
|
|
so I don't need it to
|
|
faff around and do iPods things
|
|
or anything like that.
|
|
MP3 players.
|
|
So all I get it to do,
|
|
download them,
|
|
stick in the directory,
|
|
and then run,
|
|
whatever I feel like,
|
|
Excel,
|
|
or Amarok,
|
|
or whatever you feel like,
|
|
or just even EmPlayer,
|
|
from the command line,
|
|
just to run the,
|
|
to listen to the podcast.
|
|
Yeah, another nice feature with G-Potter.
|
|
The way the old one would do it,
|
|
if you get like a bad feed,
|
|
it would sit there forever,
|
|
trying to read it.
|
|
Now it has like a timeout feature.
|
|
So after so many seconds,
|
|
it'll automatically time out
|
|
and go to the next one.
|
|
I was having problems with the,
|
|
Ubuntu UK podcast.
|
|
It was like once a week,
|
|
it would just hang.
|
|
Okay, I found it.
|
|
Web address for Linux and the ham check.
|
|
Blacksparrowmedia.com,
|
|
forward slash LHS.
|
|
I can never remember that.
|
|
Do you guys have anything else for a wrap it up?
|
|
Nah, that's all for me.
|
|
So what's fun?
|
|
Do you want to hear it here?
|
|
Yeah, let me think.
|
|
How bad.
|
|
Cheating down my John Deere,
|
|
read my G-Down letter.
|
|
Have you heard of that one?
|
|
Let me see if I can find it.
|
|
Lou Watson, I believe.
|
|
Yep, Lou Watson.
|
|
Yep, Lou Watson,
|
|
sitting on my John Deere.
|
|
Okay, good night everyone.
|
|
Good night.
|
|
Good night.
|
|
Good night.
|
|
Good night.
|
|
Peace.
|
|
Well, and remember the website is
|
|
titradio.info.
|
|
And you can send feedback
|
|
to a really simple email address.
|
|
Feedback at titradio.info.
|
|
All right, see you next week.
|
|
Or in two weeks.
|
|
.
|
|
Sitting on my John Deere,
|
|
reading the Deere John letter.
|
|
The more I think about it,
|
|
I'm feeling a whole lot better.
|
|
The way he stayed on my case,
|
|
it won't be hard to forget her.
|
|
Sitting on my John Deere,
|
|
reading the Deere John letter.
|
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She didn't like the simple life.
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Living on the farm.
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All I wanted was a wife.
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To hold in my arms.
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She never liked my tractor.
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I didn't like her mouth.
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I'm headed to the back 40.
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She's heading south.
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Sitting on my John Deere,
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reading the Deere John letter.
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The more I think about it,
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I'm feeling a whole lot better.
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The way she stayed on my case,
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it won't be hard to forget her.
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Sitting on my John Deere,
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reading the Deere John letter.
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She always liked the country club.
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I have a little cry.
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I had better things to do,
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like pulling a flower.
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Now she's history,
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since I read my mail.
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I guess the chemistry
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has gone straight to hell.
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Sitting on my John Deere,
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reading the Deere John letter.
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The more I think about it,
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I'm feeling a whole lot better.
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The way she stayed on my case,
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it won't be hard to forget her.
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Sitting on my John Deere,
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reading the Deere John letter.
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Although she's gone,
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I still got 20.
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Still got the form in the 2020.
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Sitting on my John Deere,
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reading the Deere John letter.
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The more I think about it,
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I'm feeling a whole lot better.
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The way she stayed on my case,
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it won't be hard to forget her.
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Sitting on my John Deere,
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reading the Deere John letter.
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Sitting on my John Deere,
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reading the Deere John letter.
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Wow, that was professional.
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Why didn't you do it?
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It's better than the normal attempts.
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Oh wait, am I out of the simbini out?
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I forget.
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The city bin.
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What food be bin?
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That was it.
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It's a hockey.
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Once in a while,
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did you see that speaker test thing?
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You might wait that in the show.
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That's just a good thing to know
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when you want to apply it.
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See if you got this hand card working.
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Speak a dash test space.
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Speak your dash test.
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I'll try it out right now.
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Once you get me the command.
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You got it?
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No, I'm waiting for you.
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I have it.
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Let's see if it works.
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It could be a lady saying
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front, left, front, front.
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Front.
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Front, left.
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Front, yeah.
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Front, left, front, right.
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Front, left, front, right.
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Front, left, front, right.
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Oh, repeat it.
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Front, left, front.
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It could look right.
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Yep, that was it.
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Yeah.
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Now do see, change it to C6.
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Do I for L1?
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C6.
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Front, left.
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Front, right.
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Yeah, that's working.
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Because she's saying front, left, center, front, right,
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re-right.
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Oh, repeat it.
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Yeah, re-right.
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But you don't have to see a channel.
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Right.
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If it's two speakers hooked up.
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Yeah.
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But if you read it, is that what she's saying?
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You should be getting an output on your terminal.
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Yeah.
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You're getting the output, but she's not saying it.
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Yeah.
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But if you had, like, when I run it in the lantern,
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I get it more.
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Can I make her say anything else?
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No, I don't think so.
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Show me, eat, boy.
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Show me, now.
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You mean like that?
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Yeah.
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No, I can't help doing that one.
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Thank you for listening to Hack with Public Radio.
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Yeah.
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