[08:15] <hugh_> morning...
[08:16] <zmoylan-pi> hi
[08:16] <hugh_> no news with you back to work or holiday time...
[08:17] <hugh_> busy out?
[08:18]  * zmoylan-pi hasn't poked nose out door yet
[08:19] <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...
[08:20] <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...
[08:21] <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
[08:22] <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
[08:23] <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?
[08:24] <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
[08:25] <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?
[08:26] <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
[08:27] <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...
[08:28] <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...
[08:29] <zmoylan-pi> then once it was booted, connect to network and install vnc
[08:30] <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...
[08:31] <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
[08:32] <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...
[08:33] <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 :-)
[08:53] <ronin472> Cool man love it... I'll see you later..
[08:53] <zmoylan-pi>  cya