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brobostigonmorning boys and girls.07:00
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SebthreeBQM10HDhi11:09
dataPulverizerirc://irc.freenode.net/d11:15
benxyzzyDoes the "startup disk creator" make read-only Live USBs? I want to guarantee that no trace of the session booted from the USB stick remains on the stick after shutdown11:31
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brmbrmcaruh oh13:03
brmbrmcarnae ops13:03
MooDoohowdy all14:37
penguin42hey14:39
popeybrmbrmcar: hm?15:03
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SebthreeBQM10HDhi18:24
daftykinslo18:26
daftykinsnew toys \o/ http://imgur.com/a/PojKC18:26
SebthreeBQM10HDlo18:26
* penguin42 has a new TV due on Tuesday18:31
daftykinspenguin42: ooh anything special?18:31
daftykinsjust making the last two ghetto cat6 speaker cables XD18:32
penguin42daftykins: Curry's bank-holiday special 42" LCD dumb-TV18:32
daftykinsooh18:32
penguin42daftykins: JVC Freeview-HD - it's got 3 HDMI, a scary, component, 1 USB, and it does have ether (but I think for only playing local media)18:32
penguin42scary?! A scart!18:32
daftykinswell it's a French standard so i'd concur ;)18:33
penguin42daftykins: But more importantly, I paid them the extra £15 to take my 32" widescreen CRT out - given it weighs about 50kg and is upstairs I'm hoping they do it18:33
daftykinsoh excellent! yeah i'd pay to deal with that18:34
daftykinsa Manchester guy actually invented how to recycle CRT glass, i understand18:34
penguin42really? I wonder where he is....18:34
penguin42daftykins: I'm not close enough to the Irwell to dump it in there18:35
daftykinsmmm can't seem to find it18:43
penguin42daftykins: nulifeglass.com seems to be them18:44
daftykinsthat's the one :>18:44
penguin42daftykins: They're under 15 miles away18:48
penguin42daftykins: Although I bet my TV is on for a much longer journey18:48
daftykins\o/18:48
daftykinsa gov site almost seemed to hint at pick-up for residents though?18:49
daftykinscouncil even, i guess18:49
penguin42daftykins: As far as I could tell the council wanted £3018:50
penguin42daftykins: They've got quite a blog on the front of nulifeglass.com showing the build out of their New York furnace (and they're now building one in Virginia - I'm not sure they've even still got a UK one)18:52
daftykinsi'd hope so! the original article i read spoke of licensing the process to China18:54
penguin42daftykins: I wonder what the timescale is; I mean there's only going to be a ~10 year?? window where people are recycling the bunch of them?18:55
zmoylan-pithere's probably a backlog that would take more than a few decades to recycle18:55
daftykinsyeah18:56
daftykins'cause the article spoke of them being gathered but sat around until the process was developed18:56
zmoylan-pisomewhere there's a field with a big pile of nokia 3310s waiting for scientists of the future to work out how to break them up... :-D18:57
penguin42daftykins: They might find the mythical Apple Lisa land fill18:58
zmoylan-pinext to the apple newtown pile i think19:00
daftykins:>19:01
penguin42Oh the newtons were both smaller, and I think actually sold fairly well at the time19:01
zmoylan-pithey started badly but were profitable by the time jobs got back19:01
penguin42me and a few friends bought a large box of duff ones from a local firm about 20 years ago and made working ones from pairs of duff ones and sold the working one19:01
penguin42s19:01
zmoylan-pibut i think he didn't like them as he didn't invent them19:01
zmoylan-pii never saw one in wild mind.  this was psion country :-)19:02
* penguin42 has one here but it doesn't work any more19:02
penguin42zmoylan-pi: Yeh I had the Acorn branded equivalent of the Psion 3a19:02
zmoylan-pithe school variant. putting computers in school kids hands decades before any one else19:03
penguin42I was using that during my postgrad; very useful for walking around a library taking notes from papers you had to find and research; back in the day when you had to do most stuff that way19:04
zmoylan-pii could walk around with a psion 3a typing at 30wpm.  even standing on bus with arm wrapped around pole as it bounced across dublin19:05
penguin42nod, very good for thumb typing - was just the right size19:05
daftykinsah, one network cable left to make up19:05
zmoylan-pii typed with 1 thumb and 1 hand using rest of the thumb using hand to grip the battery compartment so it never fell19:05
penguin42zmoylan-pi: It's a pity no one does a modern Android device in the same format; IMHO it would still work19:05
zmoylan-pii've been saying that for a decade...19:06
penguin42zmoylan-pi: indeed someone now might be able to make more resiliant hinges19:06
zmoylan-pieven a decent case for the pi zero would do it for a low production variant19:06
penguin42zmoylan-pi: You'd need the battery/LCD/keyboard stuff19:07
zmoylan-pithat would be part of the case19:07
penguin42zmoylan-pi: and you'd have to get lucky for an uSD line up19:07
penguin42zmoylan-pi: I also have one of the things someone remade the Psion5 after they went under (can't remember the name)19:08
SebthreeBQM10HDpopey, ping20:48
popeySebthreeBQM10HD: pong20:48
SebthreeBQM10HDpopey, pm ?20:48
popeyok20:48
SebthreeBQM10HDpopey, can you pm me, on this tablet uhmm...20:49
SebthreeBQM10HDnot so easy20:49
popeyit is20:49
popey /msg <person> foo20:49
SebthreeBQM10HDpopey, maybe we could of had that chat here actully oh well, and thanks ;)21:00

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