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00:37.42Sgt-Donanbn
00:37.56T0mWwb
00:37.59T0mWheh
00:38.26T0mWlooks like I won $100 in the local state lottery, I only play once every few years
00:38.53T0mWthat'll buy a box of decent cigars
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01:03.34MonMothaT0mW: congrats
01:03.56T0mWtnx
01:04.00MonMothaif you'd won a few times that, maybe you could bribe the guys at Cadence to make some decent software :)
01:04.22MonMothayou're a ham, btw, right?
01:04.23T0mWIt was like 63 million pot, so I just bought one on a whim, I never play it.
01:04.29T0mWWN3L
01:04.34MonMothagoing to dayton?
01:05.00T0mWnaw, don't need anything except a place to put the HF rig and get it on the air again.
01:05.11MonMothaheh, I need to acquire a decent HF rig
01:05.24MonMothafixing up boat anchors is nice and fun, but sometimes I think I might want to do sideband...
01:05.28T0mWI do need some kevlar line, some RG58, and insulators to rebuild my diploe
01:05.40T0mWKenwood TS-850 here
01:05.50MonMothaHeathkit DX-60B :=)
01:05.55T0mWbought it about 10 years ago at Dayton
01:06.00MonMothanot bad
01:06.21T0mWBig investment at the time, cost me $1600
01:06.27MonMothayeah, that was a really nice rig
01:06.27T0mWwith options
01:07.12MonMothathe club here has a TS-2000X (w/ 1.2GHz).  Nice rig.  Could have a lower noise floor, though
01:07.34MonMothabut then I'm comparing it with a KWM-2
01:07.37T0mWI like it, other than their freaking ThunderDiode, damn lightning protection circuit sux, I burned it tuning up on 20mtrs, then blewout the receiver from a near lightning strike (0.5 miles away)
01:07.44T0mWyah
01:07.58T0mWdigital is never as quite as vacuum tubes
01:08.03T0mWtubes are much quieter
01:08.21T0mWsemi-conductors have a tendancy to "fry"
01:08.25MonMothawell, this thing also has DSPs out the wazoo, so there's a nasty A->D->A conversion happening, though the filters are nice
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01:08.46T0mWI haven't found a DSP like I like, that is really worth the money, you know
01:08.59T0mWof course
01:09.07T0mWit has been about 6 years since I last looked
01:09.22T0mWI would like a tiny HF rig for the mobile
01:09.25MonMothaagreed, though I do get some use out of this one.  It has variable low and high cutoffs for the audio bandpass (and the DSP runs at IF)
01:09.36T0mWnod
01:09.36MonMothayeah, my friend AG4ZP has a nice Yaesu all bander
01:09.48MonMothaI've been tempted to get one, about $700 I believe
01:09.55T0mWyeah
01:10.04MonMothaif they have it on an unusually good special at dayton, I might get it, but that's doubtful
01:10.10T0mWheh
01:10.18T0mWthey might, wait til the last day
01:10.38MonMothaunfortunately, I won't be there on Sunday
01:10.41T0mWMonMotha: it's only a credit card away.  ;)
01:10.49MonMothayeah yeah
01:10.53T0mWheh
01:10.54MonMotha$700 is a lot of $$$
01:10.57T0mWit is
01:11.14MonMothathough a friend and I are thinking of blowing $3k each on an arcade
01:11.21MonMothaso, it's not too bad when compared to taht :)
01:11.31T0mWI'd like to mount a DK3 "screwdriver" antenna on the mobile again and run 40/17mtr mobile again
01:11.56MonMothathat's what my friend does
01:12.02MonMothahe does pretty damn well, actually
01:12.39T0mWIt can be a blast, you go on long trips the HF is more entertaining than VHF/UHF repeaters, try finding a PL tone while driving
01:13.00T0mWmuch less setting it into the radio
01:13.04MonMothaI've noticed
01:13.04T0mWat 70mph
01:13.10T0mWbrb phone
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01:13.25MonMothathough I can't imagine logging HF stuff @70MPH is much fun
01:13.25MonMothaok
01:19.08T0mWMonMotha: back, was asking a friend about a woman I met last Friday
01:19.11T0mWshe's married
01:19.13T0mWdarn
01:19.54T0mWMonMotha: I don't log while mobile, I tell 'em I'm mobile and if they want a card, they know what to do.
01:20.19MonMothayeah, I try to keep logs as much as possible, just so I have them
01:20.26MonMothabut that works to
01:20.28MonMothao
01:20.30T0mWI don't collect QSL cards, not since I WAS on 40 mtr phone.  Never bothered with the cert, just wanted to do it and get the cards
01:20.45T0mWI do log contacts from the home though
01:21.01T0mWnice to look the log over and see where you've been
01:21.18MonMothahum, I'm a bit concerned about creating a ground loop here.  I've got video ground and system ground.  I know normally one could probably get away with connecting them, but this particular machine has a very strange concept of "ground"
01:21.20T0mWI still have a paper log
01:21.29T0mWheh
01:21.31MonMothayeah, we do paper too, except for contests
01:22.08MonMothawell, the box of the system unit in a DDR machine is at about 3VAC relative to earth ground.  I found that out when I sort-of (well, did) trip the breaker on the thing when I hooked my frequency counter up
01:22.35T0mWMonMotha: use a voltmeter to check differential on voltage & current between the grounds, that'll give you an idea what would happen if you connnected them
01:22.40MonMothathen of course, I have no clue if -5V is actually hooked up on these damn things
01:22.47T0mWcurrent meter
01:22.50MonMothaT0mW: I would, except the machine is about 100 miles away right now
01:22.54T0mWlol
01:23.15T0mWguess you're not going to connect anything at that range
01:23.17MonMothathe previous version of this adapter had the two grounds connected, and to our knowledge no ill effects occured
01:23.35T0mWcurrent meter should tell you
01:23.49T0mWfew millamps should be ok
01:23.49MonMothait's just that blowing this up in one way or another would be very, very bad.  replacement parts are multi kilodollars
01:23.56T0mWnod
01:23.59MonMothayeah, I can hook it up and measure I guess
01:24.06MonMothaleave a jumper header
01:24.51MonMothaI just hate to end up with two grounds on this darn board
01:24.56MonMothaI'm not very familiar with the implications of that
01:25.02T0mWthe 3vac might only be stray magnetic field from the power supply inducing a low level current in the chassis?
01:25.31T0mWaluminum will respond to 60hz magnetic field
01:25.58MonMothaT0mW: it's possible.  To my knowledge, the box isn't even connected up to anything (hence why it's not actually at ground).  However, hooking up my probe's ground clip to it was enough to get the machine to shut itself down due to overcurrent a few seconds later
01:26.24MonMothato me, that doesn't say "low current induced by a magnetic field"
01:26.26T0mWplus, you may be seeing some stray leakage from the input circuit of the supply.  MOV / bypass cap leakage
01:27.05T0mWMonMotha: series or switching supply?
01:28.02T0mWSwitching supply could give a hot ground if your wall socket is mis-wired
01:28.10MonMothait's a switching
01:28.18MonMothathe unit in question is a DDR machine, btw
01:28.27MonMothaI assume it's switching at least
01:28.41T0mWI've seen that, where switcher would work on reversed Hot & Neutral from 110v line, but would have heavy ground current
01:28.42file[mac]did I hear DDR?
01:28.47MonMothait's possible the wall outlet is miswired.  It was added after the fact by who knows who.  I could certainly check that.  If that's a case, it certainly needs to be fixed
01:28.53MonMothafile[mac]: not the memory kind
01:29.00file[mac]Dance Dance Revolution!
01:29.06MonMothayes, that kind
01:29.10T0mW~cluebat file
01:29.11ibotACTION pulls out a ClueBat (tm) and thwaps file.
01:29.18file[mac]stop that old man!
01:29.19MonMothaI'm making a board to let you hook a playstation up to a DDR cabinet
01:29.23file[mac]if you tried it you would break your bones
01:29.59file[mac]HA
01:30.04T0mW:D
01:30.05file[mac]but you're still a nice guy regardless ;)
01:30.11T0mWmost times
01:30.42T0mW"Nice Guys Sleep Alone"
01:30.53file[mac]true, true
01:31.04MonMothahum, I really hope mouser isn't stupid
01:31.21T0mWmouser has such a lame website, digikey is much better
01:31.30MonMothaI made a very small order from them (so small you could throw it in a #10 envelope), and I told them to ship it 1st class mail.  My luck they'll put the darn thing in a huge box and charge me $20 to ship it
01:31.33MonMothas/ship/mail/
01:31.39T0mWyup
01:31.54MonMothaT0mW: yeah, but they don't charge me an extra $5 if I don't order $25 worth of stuff
01:32.00MonMothawhich is hard to do when the most expensive thing you're ordering is a $1 connector
01:32.22T0mWdigikey's search engine is funky, their parts descriptions are so chaotic that it is sometimes hard to find stuff
01:32.40MonMothayeah, I've noticed that having a hard copy catalog is useful with Digikey
01:32.44MonMothamouser too
01:32.57T0mWsometimes yeah, but their freakin' catalog is sooo huge!
01:33.08MonMothatrue
01:33.16T0mWthey've got some cool shit though
01:33.56MonMothathink it's really important to put a 75Ω termination on the ends of an RGB connection from a playstation?
01:34.06MonMothacable is only a couple meters long
01:34.12file[mac]wow, this IRC client rendered that ohms perfectly
01:34.21T0mWI have to put together an order soon to Digikey, must prototype a design so I can drop onto customer's desk to get him to purchase it
01:34.23MonMothayea for unicode
01:34.46T0mWI got garbage for ohm
01:35.02file[mac]yay for my Mac
01:35.07MonMothaT0mW: your client doesn't support unicode then.  Not that it's really in the IRC spec, which I believe calls for US-ASCII
01:35.09T0mWMonMotha: SWR still applies
01:35.20MonMothaT0mW: true, though the line is likely to be electrically short?
01:35.28T0mWmore so
01:35.34MonMothaI guess it's not a huge deal to put the darn resistor on the board
01:35.47T0mWeven traces on a circut board are affected
01:35.52MonMothaand since it's otherwise driving the input of an op-amp (aka, wow, that's high impedence), probably a good idea
01:36.12T0mWfaster your processor goes, the more likely termination is going to be important
01:36.21T0mWrise times
01:36.24MonMothaT0mW: processor? there's nothign digital about this board :)
01:36.30T0mW:)
01:36.43T0mWnaw, it that just an aside
01:36.48MonMothahttp://martinbv-3.student.rose-hulman.edu/~monmotha/jamma1.pdf is an older revision
01:36.49T0mWs/it//
01:37.05MonMothayes, fast edge times mean that there are very high frequency harmonics to worry about
01:37.19MonMothaif there's anything I learned from my EMC class I just went through hell for, that's one of them
01:37.59MonMothahum, that version doesn't appear to have the termination resistors on it, they're on the current revision
01:37.59T0mWYou might want to put 75ohm carbon comp resistors to ground across the coax inputs.  Won't hurt
01:38.28T0mWthen the length of cable is meaningless, as long as cable is also 75ohm
01:38.32MonMothaany particular reason metal film wouldn't work?
01:38.45T0mWlike wirewound, it is inductive
01:38.53T0mWalthough at lower resistances
01:39.01MonMothathey're notable inductive at a few megahz at most?
01:39.20T0mWthe effect is negligable, higher resistances (> 100K) it becomes pronounced
01:39.31T0mWbetter to develop good habits early
01:39.55MonMothayeah, I usually do consider the inductance of my resistor (especially with wirewound, or any type at HF and above)
01:40.14T0mW:) wierd science
01:40.21MonMothano kidding
01:40.38MonMothaI've been toying with the idea of building a 2.4GHz downconverter.  That's turning out to be, well, complicated
01:40.41T0mWAM == absolute magic, FM == Fscking Magic
01:40.59MonMothapartially since Cadence Layout isn't particularly versed in the idea of the impedance of traces
01:41.08MonMothaheh
01:41.10T0mWyeah
01:41.49T0mWas you know, the dielectric constant of the PCB is important at the higher freqs
01:41.56MonMothayes
01:42.12MonMothayou have to start treating traces as actual transmission lines above the groundplane
01:42.34T0mWI've stayed away from RF design as the digital micros have my attention, hard to mess things up at 20MHz
01:42.45MonMothayeah, that's my domain of choice as well
01:43.01T0mW+15v/-15v is about as high as I go
01:43.10MonMothahttp://martinbv-3.student.rose-hulman.edu/~monmotha/PSXMIDI-13.pdf is what I just milled earlier today
01:43.22MonMothaI guess a schematic would probably be more useful, but eh
01:43.34T0mWyah, cool
01:44.20MonMothathe giant DIP in the middle is an Atmel 8051 with the 6clock/inst feature
01:44.37T0mWI like 16..24 mil traces myself
01:44.46MonMothaI could have gone SMT, but then I'd need an adapter to program them
01:44.56MonMothaI don't even remember what those traces are
01:45.01T0mW12?
01:45.01MonMothaI designed that board in January
01:45.14T0mWthey look to be 10 or 12
01:45.17MonMothathey're much bigger than 12
01:45.27MonMothalooks like about 16 on the final product
01:45.56MonMothajust a little wider than the mills around them which were 15, so actually probably bigger since I can tell the difference and I usually can't see 1mil
01:46.02T0mWok, maybe the layout tool doesn't print a checkfile the same as the gerber
01:46.18T0mWI've seen that
01:46.37MonMothayeah, I don't know that that file is exactly to scale wrt the traces
01:46.58MonMothathe actual traces are almost as wide as the SOIC pins on the top
01:47.05T0mWanyway, I'm debating on declaring the $100 as income, or just pocket the cash...
01:47.17MonMotha$100?  Will they report it?
01:47.27T0mWheh, I keep the books fairly well.  I'll prolly report it
01:47.39MonMothaalways the safe choice
01:47.50T0mWcheaper than a audit
01:47.58MonMothayep
01:48.30T0mWwell, time to reformat the new MythTV box and get this IR keyboard stuff packaged
01:48.39MonMothaunfortunately, I screwed up making this board slightly.  Decided against running the 31mil mill on the back, so it may be a bit tough to solder, and then the top traces aren't perfectly aligned with the drills since we have to flip
01:49.37T0mWI usually take a flood with a copper fill for ground inside the unused area of the PCB.  After all, that is copper that is on the board anyway, why strip it off?
01:50.22MonMothawell, since I didn't strip it all off, that's essentially what I'm going to end up with
01:50.24T0mWnot many board houses anymore use the copper plating approach, not environmentally friendly. not that etchant is
01:50.50MonMothayeah, we start with copper clad here and mill the traces awawy
01:50.56T0mWMonMotha: you building the pcb yourself? etching it?
01:51.06MonMothanope, Rose has a little milling machine
01:51.10T0mWah
01:51.12T0mWnice
01:51.32MonMotha$15 for a double sided board, usually free if you provide your own drill bits and mills (which the ham radio club has a set for members to use)
01:51.52MonMothaa lot cheaper than places like 4pcb, even with student discounts
01:51.54T0mWI've looked at them, but the problem was always the feed thrus and feeding signals at the pin from top to bottom, you had to make sure you soldered both sides of pin
01:52.11MonMothayeah, though we do have a plating machine
01:52.17T0mWcool
01:52.33MonMothatakes like 2 hours to plate the board, plus 1-2 hours to warm the machine up ahead of time, but we do have it
01:52.34T0mWis that laser etching?
01:52.40T0mWor milling
01:52.45MonMothano, real milling
01:52.47T0mWk
01:53.01MonMothawe also have an IR reflow oven, at least I think that's what that was (didn't really look too tough)
01:53.28T0mWsomeday you may have to have your own asic die producing machine
01:53.39MonMothawe have a MEMS lab
01:53.47T0mWMonMotha: I was looking at toaster oven, want to give that a try
01:53.49MonMothanot quite, though Im' guessing one could do some stuff in there
01:54.04MonMothayeah, I've been told people have remarkable luck doing QFPs with toaster ovens
01:54.17MonMothahow do they solder BGAs in production?  I can't think of a good way
01:54.29T0mWget a plate lased out for the mask and do a board that way (squeegee)
01:54.39T0mWMonMotha: over
01:54.44T0mWMonMotha: oven
01:54.45T0mWdrate
01:54.56T0mWfingers are getting dyslexic
01:55.02MonMothaI'd think you'd melt the darn chip
01:55.52T0mWslow warmup, then hard fast heat, quick cooldown to moderate temp, followed by quick cool to < 100F
01:56.08MonMothamakes sense I guess
01:56.14MonMothajust enough to reflow the solder balls
01:56.21T0mWyou have to carefully control the heating ramp up/down, then the carrier doesn't absorb much heat
01:57.32T0mWconvection oven should handle smt ok, it is the bga that I wonder about.  I would think that a hot nitrogen gas would be needed for them to carry the heat under the chip carrier
01:58.11T0mWalthough, from what I've researched on the web, there seem to be people using convection (toaster ovens) to mount bga
01:58.15MonMothaI've not heard of people having much luck working with BGAs at home, at least not without destroying the chip in the progress
01:58.20MonMothareally?
01:58.21MonMothawow
01:58.55T0mWMonMotha: talk to Russ about that, he turned me onto some stuff
02:00.32T0mWMonMotha: http://pcbexpress.com/essentials/index.php
02:01.36T0mWMonMotha: they don't mention any bga on that site, but they will give you the stencil for pasting
02:03.01T0mWI'd like to try that sometime.  the setup I have now is a pnuematic powered syringe to apply a thread of paste onto the pads.  It is not very accurate and time consuming to paste up a board.  Stenciling might be easier
02:07.34T0mWMonMotha: http://pcbexpress.com/projects/index.php
02:27.46MonMothalet me take a look...
02:29.02MonMothaI know you can buy pre-pasted SMT resistors and caps, but I dunno about BGAs
02:29.09MonMothadepends on the maker too, obviously
02:29.13MonMothamuch harder to multisource ICs
02:29.43MonMothaI soldered some resistors/caps by hand using an iron, wasn't too bad.  Just tin the pad, place the pre-pasted part on, tap it with the iron
02:31.59T0mWI'm looking over articles on modifying a toaster oven to behave as reflow.  Microprocessor control of heating elements by relay + thermocouple to sense temp.
02:32.03MonMothawow, this is the most difficult to read mechanical detail I've seen in a while
02:32.07MonMothaah, neat idea
02:32.15T0mWcould be
02:32.30jacqueslatest is the electric skillet
02:32.41jacquesbetter than oven because it only heats the bottom
02:32.52T0mWI'm wondering if you couldn't take two ovens to make one, mount the elements from one into the other for faster rise time of heat?
02:33.27MonMothajacques: many toaster ovens I've seen have a bake/broil/toast setting
02:33.31jacqueshttp://www.sparkfun.com/tutorial/ReflowToaster/reflow-hotplate.htm
02:33.34MonMothabake only turns on the bottom element, broil top, toast both
02:33.37jacqueshttp://www.sparkfun.com/tutorial/SMD_Printing/SMD_Printing.htm
02:33.44jacquesthese guys have actually tried it all
02:33.59jacqueseverything from "pro" reflow ovens on down
02:34.03T0mWhttp://www.circuitcellar.com/library/print/0704/Lacoste_168/Lacoste-168.pdf
02:34.08jacquesyeah that's old
02:34.10jacques:-)
02:34.13T0mWk
02:34.19jacquesthe sparkfun stuff is a response to that
02:36.18jacquesthey also have a $2.50/in board deal, tho they raised it to $5/in for first timers because they had so many clueless ppl taking up their time
02:36.29jacquestheir forums are good too
02:42.39MonMothahum, I'll have to try with a hotplate
02:42.52MonMothaI wasn't aware you could actually contact heat a PCB like that without damaging it
02:46.13T0mWjacques: good site, thanks
02:47.01jacquesT0mW, you're welcome, someone in another channel turned me onto it a few months ago
02:47.44T0mWskillet!?
02:48.03T0mWlow tech solutions are the least thouhgt of
02:48.36MonMothaT0mW: yeah, that looks very interesting
02:48.46MonMothahotplates are dirt cheap too
02:49.39jacquesthey have a scan of their $32 Target receipt :-)
02:49.44MonMothayeah
02:50.05MonMothahum
02:50.27MonMothathese mechanical drawings are turning out to be difficult to interpret
02:50.41T0mWcons: Skillet sides can burn arms
02:50.44T0mWheh
02:51.31MonMothayeah, I noticed that
02:51.37MonMothaI also noticed they complained about 220V
02:51.44MonMothawhat's wrong wtih 220V? as long as it can tolerate 240...
02:52.21jacquesharder to find a place to plug it in no?
02:52.38jacqueslike a clothes dryer or some window unit air conditioners
02:55.26MonMothaI guess
02:55.40MonMothaI'd think most placesl ike this could probably get 240V run fairly easily, it's likely available
02:55.55jacqueslike what?
02:55.57MonMothaonly issue would be if your office has 3 phase, in which case you'd have 208, but not 220/240
02:56.07MonMothalike a basement or small industrial park
02:56.07T0mWI am interested in the mylar stencil and paste applicator.  I may still go with a toaster oven just the same
02:56.12jacquesthey are researching solutions for hobbyists
02:56.38MonMothajacques: ah, I got the impression it was more geared towards small firms
02:56.51T0mWyeah
02:57.23T0mWI've seen small companies using a solder pot for pcbs instead of flow soldering
02:57.24jacquesthey want to serve hobbyist market, were complaining in the forum about companies chewing them out about board delays on their $2.50/in deal
02:58.18T0mWheat the pot up, then "dip" the bottom of the board into the pot
02:58.19T0mWheh
02:58.43T0mWtalk about low-tech
03:00.05MonMothajacques: ah
03:01.04MonMothajacques: that's actually cheap enough I'd even consider it.  I can make basically any reasonably size board (up to like 10"x14") for effectively free, but it takes like 2-3 hours just to run the mill, then it's another 2 hours to do hole plating, and god forbid I want a soldermask and silkscreen
03:01.36jacquesyeah they include all the "extras" in their price
03:01.44MonMothaat that point we're talking a whole day to make a board here (which while fun, may not be what I'm in the mood for), so $2.50/in (since I'm pretty sure I can figure this stuff out, especially after making a couple myself) for all that is a darn nice deal
03:02.03jacquesin the forums they talk about how you can get curved shaped boards and different color solder mask - black white blue red
03:05.20MonMothayeah, that could be kinda cool
03:06.30jacquesbut you pay for the rectangle that your shape fits in naturally - no integrating curves to get area :-)
03:06.40MonMothaawwww :)
03:06.46jacqueslol
03:06.56MonMothaI really wish orcad layout didn't suck so badly...
03:08.57T0mWMonMotha: btdt, orcad sux
03:09.46MonMothabtdt?
03:10.51jacquesbeen there done that
03:11.00MonMothaah
03:11.03jacques~btdt
03:11.04ibotit has been said that btdt is Been There Done That
03:11.04MonMothayeah, it has "issues"
03:11.09MonMothaah, ibot knows that one
03:11.27MonMothaunfortunately, OrCAD is what Rose uses (and it's at least free for me, therefore)
03:20.44Russpcb all the way
03:21.19Russand then get the boards at run.to/pcb
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04:13.27T0mWRuss: you use any smd stencils
04:14.00RussI haven't had the opportunity to use any
04:14.05Russbut I've seen them used
04:15.30T0mWthe mylar stencils look to be very interesting, I'm tired of using the pnuematic paster
04:15.47Russmylar instead of steel?
04:17.04T0mWI haven't used either, just a syringe
04:17.22Russsame here, but all the stencils I've seen  are laser cut steel
04:19.25T0mWhttp://www.sparkfun.com/tutorial/SMD_Printing/Stencil-10.jpg
04:19.47T0mW$20 basic charge + $1/sq inch
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04:50.11Russcan anyone play this stream? mms://211.43.217.86/arirang/lsk/lsk_300k_2005-04-06_198.asf
04:51.09pigeonworks under mplayer
04:51.23Russaudio?
04:52.24pigeonvery slow... let me download it first...
04:52.31Russits streaming
04:53.20pigeonnope, seems no audio even i play the downloaded file
04:53.31pigeonoh hand on
04:53.33Russyup, that's what I'm getting too
04:53.35pigeoni hear something
04:53.39pigeonand then nothing
04:53.52Russis there anyway to force mplayer to use dll's?
04:53.57pigeongot like half a second of audio, then no audio
04:54.11pigeonyou can use -ac/-vc to specify which decoder to use
04:54.21pigeon-ac help/-vc help to list
04:54.59pigeonahha!
04:55.05pigeon-ac wmadmo works
04:55.29pigeonwmadmo      dmo       working   Windows Media Audio DMO  [wmadmod.dll]
04:55.32pigeonthat's the one
04:56.14pigeonany luck?
04:56.47Russah
04:56.56Russthanks
04:57.05Russnow I just need to reencode the audio
04:57.31pigeonheh, cool
04:58.11RussI think 'mencoder mms://211.43.217.86/arirang/lsk/lsk_300k_2005-04-06_198.asf -ac wmadmo -ovc copy -oac mp3lame' might work
04:58.56pigeonyeah
05:00.11RussI think I might need a -forceidx or something
05:00.41pigeoni'll probably -dumpstream -dumpfile xxx.asf first and then mencode that later...
05:00.50pigeon(that's just me :)
05:01.25Russhaving trouble getting audio in sync
05:01.46pigeonhmm...
05:06.47pigeontry things like -ofps and -mc 0
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05:14.00Russdoesn't seem to help
05:22.21Russhmm..
05:22.31Russok, I'll just dump them, and play them with the dll
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12:08.39jcathhi, anyone play with s3c44b0 before? thanks!
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13:11.51chouimatmorning
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14:01.40prpplaguehmm, i have a couple of dev policy questions i need to ask, hopefully the channel will be a little more active shortly
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14:24.36prpplagueGvzEvxre: http://kiel.kool.dk/ look someone has done an sd/mmc mode to the wrt54g similiar to my mod for the zip and pixter
14:26.39prpplagueCosmicPenguin: morning
14:26.51CosmicPenguinprpplague: morning
14:27.21prpplagueCosmicPenguin: when ya get a second, i'd like to throw some questions at you regarding dev policies
14:29.32CosmicPenguinokay
14:31.28prpplagueCosmicPenguin: ok, now i know my environment is a little different than yours, however i'd like to see how you approach this
14:32.17prpplagueCosmicPenguin: like currently busybox is at a pretty stable release of 1.00 which means if you need to do mods to it, you can take your sweet time and not worry about a new release coming out tomorrow
14:32.41prpplagueCosmicPenguin: on the other hand, some apps, are getting new releases a couple times a month
14:33.26prpplagueCosmicPenguin: and in the middle is things like the kernel, while not being a fast moving target, it is still moving
14:34.27prpplagueCosmicPenguin: so the question is how to do decide where to draw the line in trying to do your dev? if you settle on today's version of an app, do your dev work, and its out of date tomorrow, then what?
14:36.55CosmicPenguinhold on
14:44.47CosmicPenguinWell, thats actually one of my biggest problems
14:45.16CosmicPenguinBecause our validation and stablity process is  the tall pole - if I chose a version today, then it will be several months before it peters out the other side
14:46.18CosmicPenguinBut, if I had my way
14:46.44CosmicPenguinI would institute a regular release schedule - The day the release cycle started, we would use the latest stable version available on that day
14:47.41CosmicPenguinAll development would be against that version for the entire cycle.  If something catastrophic happened to the code during the cycle (major security fix, etc)
14:47.59CosmicPenguinThen we would upgrade and evaluate the impact
14:48.23CosmicPenguinWith something like the kernel - immediately prior to release, we would update to the latest maintainence release
14:48.35CosmicPenguinWhich should be low impact as far as our code is concerned
14:49.03CosmicPenguinI think the key is to maintain a strict release schedule - that way, you will always be compelled to update the version
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14:59.35prpplagueCosmicPenguin: hmm
15:01.09prpplagueCosmicPenguin: what about pushing patches back to the maintainer? if you are 2 or 3 versions behind current, is the maintanier really gonna want to mess with them?
15:01.30CP|Laptopwell, thats the problem with being a big company
15:02.18CP|Laptopon one hand, you need to be update to date
15:02.22CP|Laptopbut on the other, you need to be stable
15:03.37chouimathi CP|Laptop CosmicPenguin prpplague
15:04.07prpplagueCP|Laptop: yea, so the question is, how do you justify to your boss to essientila re-do a working release? i.e."well, the product is working, its stable, the customers are happy, why should we spend time making a new release to potientially introduce bugs and problems?"
15:04.12prpplaguechouimat:  lo
15:04.39CP|Laptopprpplague: our customers do that for us, really
15:04.55CP|Laptopprpplague: "That release is 13 months old - don't you have anything newer?"
15:05.07prpplagueCP|Laptop: ahh
15:05.21CP|Laptopthe important thing is to have both the new and old stuff available
15:05.50prpplagueCP|Laptop: see thats where we differ, 98% customers have no clue about whats running on the device, they just want to turn it on and have it work properly
15:06.07prpplagueCP|Laptop: of our customers that is
15:06.19CP|Laptopbut you deal with more "end customers" then we do
15:06.30Croftonanyone know anything about usbmon and debugfs?
15:06.41CP|Laptopour customers are making their own platforms, so they are accutely aware of whats happening on the OS front
15:06.42prpplagueCP|Laptop: yea, thats kinda what i meant about the different environs
15:06.51CP|Laptopor at least, the good ones are
15:06.55prpplaguehehe
15:07.08CP|LaptopWyse is very clueful, for example
15:07.42prpplagueCP|Laptop: i'm normally challenged with the balancing of 1) doing new releases for old products and 2) developing initial release for new products
15:08.11prpplagueCP|Laptop: we have code for some products thats only had minor tweaks for the last 4 years
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15:11.46CP|Laptopman - I shouldn't do bugzilla updates early in the morning
15:12.21chouimatwow now slashdot is even worse ... they said palm released a linux based pda but it run palmos 5.4 ....
15:15.21prpplagueCP|Laptop: i hate it when friends and relatives(in-laws are the worst) ask me to help resurrect their winblows pc's
15:16.11prpplaguelordy its hot today, its sucking the motivation right out of me
15:16.37prpplaguehttp://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/airportprofile/BGI
15:19.37CP|Laptopprpplague: I refuse to do Windows stuff
15:19.48CP|Laptopprpplague: I honestly tell them, I have no idea what to do
15:20.08prpplagueCP|Laptop: hehe, yea, most of the time i do as well
15:21.07prpplagueCP|Laptop: i'm doing one now though because they were interested in trying linux, so i'm recoving some files from their ntfs partition and loading rhat on it for them
15:21.28CP|Laptopugh - thats probably worse
15:21.35CP|Laptopat least with windows, you can blame microsoft
15:21.56CP|Laptopwindows, you have no one to blame but yourself
15:22.47prpplagueCP|Laptop: hehe, why is that?
15:24.53CP|Laptops/windows/linux/
15:26.43prpplagueCP|Laptop: still i figured i'd let them try it for a week
15:26.54prpplagueCP|Laptop: seeing how they can't find their winblows cd's
15:27.05CP|Laptopmmm... drink coasters
15:27.14prpplagueCP|Laptop: and all they do is exel files and mp3's
15:35.07CP|LaptopI should blow up in this meeting and walk out triumphantly
15:35.11CP|Laptopbut I need my job
15:51.14Croftonprpplague, I see the FCC thinks VOIP phones should work better with 911
15:51.43CP|Laptop911 is good, mkay?
15:53.41Croftonyes, but it must be a royal pain for VOIP guys
15:53.55Croftonand prpplague has a US number and a Barbados address right?
15:53.58CP|LaptopWelcome to the real world, fellas... :)
15:54.06Croftonheh
15:54.38CroftonThe FCC can be pretty out of touch
16:23.58CosmicPenguinGvzEvxre: you around?
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17:01.06T0mWjacques: http://www.lxmsuite.com/
17:07.44prpplagueCrofton: yea, so what freaking good would 911 do me
17:08.04prpplagueCP|Laptop: problems at the meeting?
17:08.20kergothprpplague: *finally* moving.  movers picked up my stuff yesterday :D
17:08.34prpplaguekergoth: lovely
17:08.38prpplaguekergoth: when ya coming to visit?
17:09.11T0mWkergoth found a job?
17:09.52prpplagueT0mW: he's got a full time job at the local boxing gym as a punching bag, hehe
17:09.59T0mWheh
17:10.22T0mWwoman's punching bag
17:10.37chouimatprpplague: wow ... I though I would have applied to be a QA tester at the local whorehouse
17:11.13T0mWmoans convincingly: 80%, wiggles well: 40%
17:11.25chouimatT0mW: hehe
17:11.59prpplagueT0mW: "works well one on one, but still needs improvement in team efforts"
17:12.05T0mWheh
17:12.09T0mW:P
17:12.44T0mW"cadaver shows more emotion"
17:17.15CosmicPenguinNow, that was funny
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17:19.38CosmicPenguinSee, now this is what I'm saying
17:20.38CosmicPenguinGroklaw had two possible responses to the Devorak article - 1) say, yes, you frickin DoSin' idiots, stop it right now, or 2) publicly mock him, and call him names for even suggesting that some OSS people are zealots
17:20.53CosmicPenguinGuess which stance they took?
17:21.07prpplaguehehe
17:21.12prpplague#2 i'm guessing
17:21.23prpplagueCosmicPenguin: problems at the meeting?
17:21.33CosmicPenguinprpplague: nah - just that people are idiots
17:21.53CosmicPenguinprpplague: for some reason, we're being held to the standard of supporting all 3 million lines of LInux code
17:22.09prpplagueCosmicPenguin: in bed with the covers up to my noise - "i see stupid people......"
17:22.11CosmicPenguinand we are publicly and loudly slapped for sugggesting that two people can't possibly handle all that
17:22.27prpplaguehehe
17:22.59CosmicPenguinFor example, if you have 32 boxes trying to NFS mount a drive on a server at the same time, and once every two weeks, one of the mounts fails, do you...
17:23.24CosmicPenguina) realize that you have an infrastructure problem, and try to fix it, or b) claim that there is a serious software issue, and mark the bug as a blocker and assign it to the Linux team?
17:24.15chouimatCosmicPenguin: ouch
17:24.28prpplaguehehe, well it could be on the other end like at abcsinc
17:24.35CosmicPenguinAnd b1) Loudly complain when somebody comments that nobody in the LInux team hacks on the networking subsystem *and* the code has been the same for the last six months *and* the problems only emerged when they added more bozen
17:24.53prpplagueCosmicPenguin: where 25% of the time the workstation does function properly and they think thats ok to ship
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17:29.28CosmicPenguinI would love to leave in a blaze of glory, but I think I would regret it later
17:30.05prpplagueCosmicPenguin: yea, live and learn for awhile d00d
17:30.27prpplagueCosmicPenguin: as long as it doesn't give you uclers or keep you up at night
17:30.54CosmicPenguinWell, eventually something is going to give
17:31.06CosmicPenguinEither things change, or they dump LInux
17:31.21CosmicPenguinAnd the second doesn't seem like a intellgent business decision
17:34.09prpplaguethats the last time i drink a lucozade, that think got my heart racing and my blood pressure really high
17:34.40prpplagueCosmicPenguin: i've really got to get cookin on this fb
17:36.22CosmicPenguinmm... kfb
17:37.37CosmicPenguinOk - second anniversary is on Friday
17:37.43prpplaguei really am disappointed in this lineo bsp for the sharp lh79520
17:37.48CosmicPenguinOur tradition is to give the "traditional" gifts to each other
17:37.52CosmicPenguinThis year, its cotton
17:37.54CosmicPenguinAny suggestions?
17:38.05prpplagueCosmicPenguin: hehe, mine is next wed.
17:38.55CosmicPenguinprpplague: last year it was paper, so I gave her tickets to a Circu De Soeli show
17:38.56prpplagueCosmicPenguin: hehe, matching coffins and burrial plots?
17:39.10CosmicPenguinprpplague: what does cotton have to do with that?
17:39.22prpplaguehehe
17:39.38prpplagueCosmicPenguin: cotton lined coffins
17:40.04prpplagueCosmicPenguin: hehe, i still haven't figured out what i'm gonna do either
17:41.42CosmicPenguinLets see -we're going to Vegas in a few weeks
17:41.45CosmicPenguinWhat can we do for that?
17:59.50CosmicPenguinprpplague: ok - I'm going to give her a bag of cotton balls
18:01.21CosmicPenguinWith a gift certificate to a spa
18:01.30CosmicPenguinmaybye - the website is acting flaky
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18:27.22kergothprpplague: you see zecke's bitbake/oe changes?  memory usage is down from hundreds of megs to like 40 or something
18:28.31CosmicPenguinI never broke 14 on the opteron
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19:22.20cdm14 during a build?
19:27.01CosmicPenguinyeah - crazy, huh?
19:27.15CosmicPenguinMost of the time, during builds, the compiler was a bigger memory user
19:27.21kergothhey cdm
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19:29.59cdmhey kergoth - how's life man?  Get shit figured out?
19:32.21Croftonturn the computer off kergoth or you will never get out of there
19:40.08kergothCrofton: heh, just did some dishes and made myself lunch.  plenty of work yet to do
19:40.32kergothcdm: heh, not really.  been down here depressed and in a rut.  _finally_ got the movers to get my shit yesterday, so i'm finally moving back to MN.  once i'm there, will see
19:53.51cdmahhh..I thought you had moved already.
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20:13.56prpplaguekergoth: oh cool, no i had not seen it
20:14.07prpplaguekergoth: that was a major reason i've been avoiding OE these days
20:14.27prpplaguekergoth: i'd already made plans to go with buildroot though for the next 2 BSP's
20:15.05prpplagueTimRiker: did you see the url i sent you about the sd/mmc i/o?
20:15.55TimRikerprpplague: I think so. don't recall if I followed it or not.
20:16.38prpplagueTimRiker: http://kiel.kool.dk/
20:16.52prpplagueTimRiker:  have a look, basically identical to what i've been testing
20:24.22TimRikernice
20:25.39prpplagueTimRiker: should be fairly easy to implement on the zipit if we can find some spare gpio's
20:25.48TimRikerthat's a big if.
20:26.38TimRikerI'm chroot'ed to debian-unstable-arm on my zipit. Any thoughts on an graphical app that handles 4bit grayscale fb?
20:26.52TimRikerI can't seem to find an X server that does it.
20:27.01TimRiker(meaning a pre-compiled one...)
20:28.40TimRikerfbgrab says: Error: Not enough memory or data
20:38.53prpplagueTimRiker: let me look, i think i might have a kdrive precompiled for 4-bit
20:41.46prpplagueTimRiker: sorry, looks like i cleaned out my test area
21:00.14jacquesexactly how many free GPIOs does one need to add a SD interface? I'm reading the http://kiel.kool.dk/ and can't tell for sure - 3? 4?
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21:07.34jacquesd`oh, answer is at very end of the article
21:23.59prpplaguejacques: implementing a soft-spi is fairly simple in most causes
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