February 17, 2006
The minutes of the Friday Happy Hour @ Posse East. 17 Feb 2006. [Much Much More Inside]
The topics, with appropriate references, as discussed during happy hour:
- Lazy Monday -- the West Coast response to Lazy Sunday. 3 stars.
- Lazy Muncie -- the MidWest [Coast] response to Lazy Monday and Lazy Sunday. Includes cameo by Jim Davis. 5 stars.
- National Semiconductor's 18245 motor driver IC. For the robot arm in you.
- Wireless music players -- what should the Javelina do?
- Hack your own linux-y wireless music player from a wireless router.
- Purchase the linux-y Omnifi DMS1 Digital Media Streamer.
- Those that are tired of Adobe's crappy Acrobat software are strongly encouraged to install the Foxit Reader as soon as possible.
- Losing your property to a mega-business under eminent domain laws is nothing new, as the (former) residents of Poletown, Detroit, show us quite clearly.
That is all.
By the way, I love when posts like this happen. It's like the "for further knowledge" portion of a saturday kids show or Reading Rainbow or something.
Also, reflecting on Lazy Muncie, wouldn't it be a shame not to do a Chopped and Screwed version of "Lazy Austin/Lazy Houston"? Imagine a scene with mrflip in front of The Salt Lick singing "Texas plus vegetarian equals CRAZY SACRILICIOUS!"
Yeah, right after I got in bed last night, I remembered that I was supposed to post about the power supplies, too. Sorry, Ned.
- Toms Hardware does a nice job in "5 Power Supplies Get the Full Juice Treatment". -- extreme testing of "high end" power supplies.
- Also, "Inadequate and Deceptive Product Labeling: Comparison of 21 Power Supplies." An indepth followup to the '5 @ full juice'.
- To determine how much power your new power supply should be able to provide, your friends at Advanced Micro Devices have written a "Builders Guide for Desktop/Tower Systems" [PDF]. This whitepaper lays out some nice guidelines for optimum airflow through the case, and provides tables to help you calculate the power draw of all of the different devices you have.
- I purchased the Enermax Noisetaker EG495P-VE. It gives 485W, and is very quiet. What impresses me the most so far is that the fans will stay on for a few minutes after the system is powered off to continue cooling the power supply. Just like the cooling fans on modern automobiles. Radtastic.
The link to "much much more inside" is busticated. Could a mod remove the 'www' from that link to make it work?
No, it's actually just misspelled. My bad.
As always javalina must distort the official record. It was noted during the discussion that he was a stupid ass and should just buy an ipod to connect with his stereo.
Also, david plans to take over the world using a heretofore unmentioned WMD: The giant fresnel lens.
Dang, even the Muncie Visitors Bureau is into Garfield...
For the record, I never said anything about the top secret Jesus halo behind the prism rosarie the bends light so twisted that DJ Screw (from Houston) got a headache.
...Flip asked what was the audio mystery which causes the grammophone to make the sound of a record loud and I agreed, and compared the function to the sound equivalent of a Fresnel lens. Splat didn't agree. I revised the comparison to a waveguide, but the damage was done. My guess is he must be sore that the universe is non-deterministic.
At one point, there was some absurd, made-up anecdote about how AMD plans to make their processors faster by including Fresnel lenses.
I still don't know how a grammophone really works.
Also, the effectiveness of the pickup line, "Dude, you're getting a Dick(TM)!" was discussed.
I am under the impression that the group needs a court reporter to keep track of the conversations.
Oh, goddamit...
How a gramophone works; their history; how to spot a fake HMV; and how to transfer a 78 RPM record to MP3.
Tina tells me that court reporters make over 100k per year so I don't think we can afford one. I still don't fully believe her that they make that much but she's proven to be right 98% of the time.
More surprising 6-figure jobs
This week, we look at (unsuper) models, (court) reporters and captioners....From cnnmoney.com
Don't question the Tina.
So I just realized that whoever suggested the slingbox to javelina as an audio streaming device really meant the squeezebox instead. Wired magazine seemed to really like the device but for the same price you could just buy and iPod and carry your music with you wherever you went.
Yeah, splat that was my bad on the similarly-named boxen. Turns out the Slingbox allows you to watch TV (and I guess your personal Tivo) over the internet by streaming from your house to wherever you are.
I think Javelina is looking more in the $50-90 range... Besides the $300/30GB iPod you'd need $100 more of dock+remote+cables to get an equivalent setup, and you'd only have access to a 30GB slice of your music collection. Plus the Burr-Brown DAC in the squeezebox is nothing to fuck with.
I heard the Wu Tang Clan aint nothin' to fuck wit' either.
Wow -- Tina's article answered another long-standing question: Are Closed Captions of a live broadcast transcribed by a human or a machine? (ans: human.) The Flivo has a little-used (by me) feature to transcribe a program to a webpage by capturing its CC stream along with periodic still shots. I think in the near future DVR users with multiple tuners will be able to set the machine to monitor CC for certain keywords and opportunistically capture programs that hit. Which just goes to show, as anyone who's wheeled their bike up a handicapped ramp knows, that accessibility benefits all users.
It's true: the Wu-Tang Clan is nothing to fuck with. Neither is Rudy Ray Moore. But if you protect ya neck someday the mysteries of chessboxing will be unravelled.
If you can stay the same weight or type really fast, have we got a job for you!
Yeah, I looked at the Squeezbox, too, after browsing web pages about the Omnifi DSM1. It's more expensive than the DMS1. Yeah, the DAC might be better, but they don't tell you which Burr-Brown DAC makes it go. Burr-Brown (a division of Texas Instruments) makes 141 different types of 'general purpose' DACs, and another 68 different types of DACs specifically for audio. My NAD C540 compact disc player uses one of the Burr-Brown 24bit DACs, but I don't know if I want to spend quite that much money on a widget to play MP3s, since those are sort of crappy sounding anyway.
your disk player has NADS.
Dang. Guess what comes up at the bottom of the second page of Google Search results for 'omnifi dms1 hack'...
PS: There's still no "FOOD" category.
Oooops. Never mind. I see now that there is a "FOOD" category. Just had to look at habcous' recent post. I'm dumbe.
What am I supposed to see there? Am I supposed to see that you could have bought and hacked a DirecTV? But you don't have a TV or DirecTV service.
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I found what I assume you're talking about at the top of the third page.
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