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