| 08:57.10 | hipboi | hi |
| 08:57.40 | hipboi | is ikiwiki uses the standard markdown format? |
| 10:04.06 | hipboi | hi |
| 10:04.08 | hipboi | good news |
| 10:06.17 | hipboi | i can get some mele boxes at 319 rmb |
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| 12:47.43 | lkcl | ah whoops he's gone |
| 12:48.02 | lkcl | i set ikiwiki up to use mdwn, yes. |
| 13:03.37 | ManoftheSea | lkcl: what are your hours? |
| 13:03.44 | ManoftheSea | aren't you British? |
| 13:04.26 | ManoftheSea | You're on here when I wake up and when I go to sleep. It's like you are focused on making this project happen, or something. |
| 13:05.06 | penguin42 | doesn't think lkcl sleeps |
| 13:25.45 | mnemoc | or he has multiple but shorter sleep cycles during the day ;-) |
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| 22:57.43 | lkcl | ManoftheSea: odd. very very odd. |
| 22:57.51 | lkcl | mnemoc: yyep. |
| 22:58.02 | lkcl | funny that, there was a slashdot article about that... |
| 22:58.29 | lkcl | http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/23/161225/interrupted-sleep-might-be-the-best-kind?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed |
| 22:58.41 | ManoftheSea | hmm? |
| 22:58.53 | ManoftheSea | oh, about making it happen? |
| 22:59.05 | ManoftheSea | Is anyone working on the laptop case? |
| 22:59.23 | ManoftheSea | I assumed that's why mnemoc mentioned it. |
| 22:59.28 | ManoftheSea | away |
| 23:02.42 | lkcl | ManoftheSea: yes. well, ok - i keep contacting companies that send me these "WM8505 laptops", asking them if they'd like to adapt them |
| 23:03.05 | lkcl | but yes there's a company that we're working with (it's a bit... political) and just have to be patient. |
| 23:03.36 | lkcl | they have a drawn-aluminium case design that they commissioned, for a 10in, 12in _and_ 14in laptop |
| 23:04.12 | lkcl | but they simply have absolutely zero project experience. they got the casework commissioned... *without* having anyone to do the internal PCB design! |
| 23:04.17 | lkcl | doh! |
| 23:04.43 | lkcl | anyway the project has stalled (been blocked ironically by *two* successive R&D Managers) |
| 23:04.56 | ManoftheSea | cool. |
| 23:05.04 | ManoftheSea | Any idea of screen or internals? |
| 23:05.16 | ManoftheSea | Wifi, resolution, etc? |
| 23:05.17 | lkcl | and finally the person we're in contact with who actually loves and has been promoting the EOMA initiative for almost 2 years now has finally been promoted |
| 23:05.45 | lkcl | the company actually *makes* LCD panels. funnily enough, by a complete coincidence, they make a 10in, a 12in and a 14in LCD screen |
| 23:05.50 | lkcl | i don't know the model numbers |
| 23:05.55 | lkcl | so i can't say |
| 23:05.57 | ManoftheSea | well, that's cool. |
| 23:06.05 | ManoftheSea | but do we know resolution? |
| 23:06.12 | lkcl | but it's the "popular" ones - it's one of the reasons why the company is still in good shape |
| 23:06.30 | lkcl | no. they won't tell us. it's kinda confidential |
| 23:06.34 | ManoftheSea | Dell's most recent products have crap resolution compared to two years ago. |
| 23:06.41 | ManoftheSea | So... "popular" doesn't help so much |
| 23:06.51 | ManoftheSea | I don't need 1920 x 1280 in 10" |
| 23:07.00 | lkcl | yeah that's for sure. too expensive anyway. |
| 23:07.03 | ManoftheSea | but... I'd like better than 1366 x768 in 17" |
| 23:07.19 | lkcl | i suspect the 10in will be 1024x700 or 1200x720 |
| 23:07.22 | ManoftheSea | but cool, I'll hold my breath for it. |
| 23:07.35 | lkcl | the 12in will be something .... 1280x768 or 1388x768 |
| 23:07.47 | lkcl | and the 14in will probably be 1440x900 or thereabouts. |
| 23:08.01 | lkcl | we will be advising them on the I/O board design |
| 23:08.17 | lkcl | so it will be along these lines: |
| 23:08.18 | lkcl | http://elinux.org/Embedded_Open_Modular_Architecture/PCMCIA/Laptop |
| 23:08.38 | lkcl | space for Mini PCIe (USB-based) modules |
| 23:08.56 | lkcl | so it will be possible for the design to be FSF Hardware-Endorseable by picking the right modules |
| 23:09.54 | lkcl | but yeah i leave my computer on 24x7, it's why i appear to be online all the time |
| 23:10.16 | lkcl | that, and i wake up in the middle of the night, come down see what's going on for a couple of hours and go back to sleep |
| 23:40.57 | penguin42 | lkcl: I'm curious; doesn't the PCB manufactures have a list of parts suppliers that you can find the connectors in? |