| hugh_ | morning... | 08:15 |
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| zmoylan-pi | hi | 08:16 |
| hugh_ | no news with you back to work or holiday time... | 08:16 |
| hugh_ | busy out? | 08:17 |
| === hugh_ is now known as ronin472 | ||
| * zmoylan-pi hasn't poked nose out door yet | 08:18 | |
| ronin472 | can't seem to get my netbook working... won't boot up for me... | 08:19 |
| zmoylan-pi | lights, booting noises? | 08:19 |
| ronin472 | Nice morning here in the west anyway.. | 08:19 |
| ronin472 | ya i can get to the grub alright but then nothing... | 08:19 |
| ronin472 | I'd say I have to overwrite the MBR... | 08:20 |
| zmoylan-pi | try a live distro seems to be the next step | 08:20 |
| ronin472 | knoppix? | 08:20 |
| ronin472 | puppy.. | 08:20 |
| zmoylan-pi | quite a selection these days, i prefer xubuntu myself | 08:20 |
| ronin472 | ya i'll get that so... | 08:20 |
| zmoylan-pi | will at least show the hardware is working. | 08:21 |
| ronin472 | whats Xubuntu? never heard of it? | 08:21 |
| ronin472 | ya... | 08:21 |
| zmoylan-pi | ubuntu without unity. xfce window manager so less resource hungry | 08:21 |
| ronin472 | i'll get on that thanks zmylan-pi | 08:21 |
| ronin472 | very good.. you running a rasberry pi? | 08:21 |
| zmoylan-pi | fingers crossed it gives you an answer | 08:21 |
| zmoylan-pi | i *love* my pi | 08:22 |
| ronin472 | Thats the other problem I have one too and i cant dd it... | 08:22 |
| zmoylan-pi | i have it running beside wifi ap. i connect to it via ssh and run irssi for irc and newsbeuter for rss | 08:22 |
| zmoylan-pi | in tmux | 08:22 |
| ronin472 | Niiice... thats cool man... | 08:23 |
| ronin472 | I want to run mine as a server for wimax If I could get the yoke working.. | 08:23 |
| zmoylan-pi | problems with it? | 08:23 |
| ronin472 | Get a solar panal for power... | 08:24 |
| ronin472 | ya id wont boot.. | 08:24 |
| ronin472 | *it.. | 08:24 |
| zmoylan-pi | yeah, i do want to run it from solar. for maximum smugness :-) | 08:24 |
| ronin472 | red light... | 08:24 |
| zmoylan-pi | red light is power, led next to it is sd card access | 08:24 |
| ronin472 | ya well i kind of need somthing... ha ha. | 08:25 |
| zmoylan-pi | then 2 for network | 08:25 |
| zmoylan-pi | could be the sd card is not happy, try a different sd card would be my advice | 08:25 |
| ronin472 | ya i looked up the docs alright. but.. | 08:25 |
| ronin472 | o right what would you recommend? | 08:25 |
| ronin472 | manufactuarer... | 08:26 |
| zmoylan-pi | i cheated and got a maplins pi starter kit and all the bits and bobs were guaranteed to be cushty | 08:26 |
| ronin472 | flip you I shoud have done that. I got mine on farnell... | 08:26 |
| zmoylan-pi | there are 1-2 cheap brands that some people complain about. just beg borrow another card and give it a whack | 08:26 |
| ronin472 | I'm in the sticks now here though... | 08:27 |
| zmoylan-pi | mind i paid €99 and 2 weeks later it was €80 as they dumped old stock as b+ came out :-) | 08:27 |
| ronin472 | good on you... | 08:27 |
| ronin472 | would it be good to goto maplins this week? | 08:28 |
| ronin472 | any sales on in limerick or galway? | 08:28 |
| zmoylan-pi | then i spent 3 days trying to get a monitor that would attach to it. i have no hdmi monitors. in end i got ancient multi mode screen connected via scart :-) | 08:28 |
| ronin472 | good man thats the stuff... | 08:28 |
| ronin472 | hack it together... | 08:28 |
| zmoylan-pi | then once it was booted, connect to network and install vnc | 08:29 |
| zmoylan-pi | now it just sits there happily doing irc and rss using about 100mb of ram barely ticking over | 08:30 |
| ronin472 | I'm thinking of making my own board. Half arduino and half proto-type board based on the 8051 architecture... | 08:30 |
| zmoylan-pi | oooooh | 08:31 |
| ronin472 | I'm an electronics wiz.. so.. | 08:31 |
| ronin472 | would you be interested? | 08:31 |
| zmoylan-pi | i'm hoping for a beefier pi or maybe a hummingbird and use it as primary computer | 08:31 |
| ronin472 | ya i hear you can get NEC computers now for 150€... | 08:32 |
| ronin472 | there soposed to be pretty good... | 08:32 |
| zmoylan-pi | getting cheap computers is easier but i love the idea of using a computer that can be run from solar, in ireland | 08:32 |
| zmoylan-pi | i'm cheap that way :-) | 08:32 |
| ronin472 | ya same as... | 08:32 |
| ronin472 | technicly you would'nt need any screen either... | 08:33 |
| zmoylan-pi | in 90s i used psion pda as my main computer. one of the happiest moments was been online via battery powered modem and their been a powercut and merely switching on backlight and continuing :-) | 08:33 |
| ronin472 | Cool man love it... I'll see you later.. | 08:53 |
| zmoylan-pi | cya | 08:53 |
| === zmoylan-pi is now known as zmoylan-pi|away | ||
| === zmoylan-pi|away is now known as zmoylan-pi | ||
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