[Colonol Dekker]

 

I thought I was past drunken posts...
Still AWESOMESAUCE night that I had to share

[Nuke]

i ****ed up linux on my pi trying to install bluetooth, so i restored the original image file. now i cant remember what i did to get my network to work. **** LINUX!!! im installing riscos as soon as the pi version comes out.

also keeping the raspberry pi powered is a chore by itself. i dont have a single adapter that can source the neccisary ampage. so running off batteries is what ive been doing. of course being makeshift battery packs i made from a dead laptop's battery, they dont have any safety circuitry. i have a shottkey diode protecting my polatity not that there arent 50 other ways the supply can short out and fail, being built on a breadboard and all. seems the maximum output you can get out of an lm7805 in a to-220 package is about an amp and a half. assuming you have a good heatsink. now the pi uses about 700ma. so long as you don try to stick a wifi dongle on it or a bluetooth dongle on it your fine. if you do, you need moar ampage.

i also found a big ass chipset heatsink from a mobo i threw away a long time ago, and i bolted it to my main regulator, so it can source the full 1500 ma. 700ma to the pi, 800ma to the usb hub and all its crap.  id prefer 2 amps, sending most of it to the usb hub and only source what is neccisary for the pi. i hear you can hook two 7805s to the same power supply, and connect their outputs together with a small resistance between it and the output rail. and this effectively gives you 3 amps with a large heatsink on each.

of course thats not really gonna work. running batteries most of it will get wasted as heat. as soon as the batteries drop below 7 volts (2 lithium, cells in series, balance charged), the regulated voltage starts to drop as well. their nominal voltage is 7.4 volts, and im charging them to slightly over 8 volts, which is probibly higher than you should go with a lithium battery. but it only seems to last a couple hours and then the pi starts acting all glitchey because it doesnt have enough power. i really need a switch mode regulator. i could just hook my helicopter battery too it and it will run all day.

im sure if i take a rock to one of my switch mode regulators i can pull out the ic that handles everything. and then it only takes about a page of math to set it up the way you want. and to wrap your own inductors becuse its that or a bunch of unlabeled salvaged inductors. you only need one though. its mostly capacitors, for filtering and storage. i could just buy a module, a ubec or one of the simpler more expensive single chip switching regulators. but i dont have the 4 bucks neccisary to buy one and dont really want to wait 3 more weeks till i get more money. maybe i could steal something.

[z64555]

After several weeks of crash-course C++ STL template learning, fighting with DLL's and linker configurations, I've finally made a program that can spit out the beginnings of a .OBJ file by using a custom made OBJ file buffer API.

Code: [Select]

# lib_Zobj v0.0.0

v1 1 2 -42

# 1 geometry vertices,
# 0 texture vertices, and
# 0 normal vertices

p  v1
# 1 points
# 1 point groups
Feeling a bit like a boss at the moment. 

[Pred the Penguin]

I hate cars. Cars suck. **** cars.

Disclaimer: I just failed the road test

I failed it yesterday too man. Wasn't insta-failed but failed 3 out of 5 sections by a point each (our test consists of 5 sections of which you need to pass 4). Biggest killer was my 'Vehicle Management', I was a bit of a derp hillstarting and had a habit of coasting. My instructor never picked up that I did it (and so neither did I), but my examiner certainly did. Oh well! Everyone passes it sometime!

Taiwan has the most lazy driving instruction practices. We basically drove on the same course as the test for one month. There are markers (removed during the test) to show where to stop and go, and the instructors tell you to memorize how many turns of the wheel and what to look at in your mirrors in each section... and still some people failed!

No wonder there are so many car accidents in Taiwan... 


In other car news, I ****ing hate title and registration fees...

[Mongoose]

It's even worse over here.  The biggest deal in most state tests is the dreaded parallel parking...a skill which I have yet to need to use since my license test some eight years ago.  The "road portion" for me consisted of going through the parking lot of the shopping center where the DMV office was, taking a right-hand turn out onto the main road, and then coming back into the parking lot.  It took all of ten minutes, if that.

[SpardaSon21]

I didn't have to parallel park, but I did have a portion of the test where you have to reverse parallel to the curb until the instructor tells you to stop.  In California hitting the curb at any point is an instant fail, so that's a harrowing part of the test.

[Scotty]

Got to watch K-State stomp Miami (FL) into the turf 51-13.  Texas A&M is bulldozing over Florida, and even KU is winning.

Go (current and former) Big 12!

[deathfun]

I just take the bus
**** all this driving ****

I'll walk and bus wherever I need to go

[FireSpawn]

Shared a spicy mexican pizza tonight with some friends while we watched DVDs, and we completely doused the thing in hot sauce. And once again, I forgot to wash my hands before taking a piss. 
 Despite cleaning my junk off in short order, that **** is still burning!

[Bob-san]

I may have burned the top layer of cheese on a Stoffer's lasagna and incinerated the top of the tray. But damn it, that was good lasagna! (Once the burned parts were removed, of course.)

Also tried to resuscitate some Pizza Hut breadsticks from a few days ago. They were more like massive croutons than breadsticks.

[Nuke]

lol, its all sauce. make your own and dont get jacked.

[Nuke]

Shared a spicy mexican pizza tonight with some friends while we watched DVDs, and we completely doused the thing in hot sauce. And once again, I forgot to wash my hands before taking a piss. 
 Despite cleaning my junk off in short order, that **** is still burning!
-snip-

heres the point where i burst your buble and tell you that the stuff that makes hot food hot, is not water soluble.

[Klaustrophobia]

what the hell do you do in your piss routine that gets whatever is on your hands up IN your junk? 


or is it just covered in open sores?

[FireSpawn]

what the hell do you do in your piss routine that gets whatever is on your hands up IN your junk? 


or is it just covered in open sores?

Not in, on.

Edit: No sores, just sensitve skin.

[SpardaSon21]

Yes, but the penis is covered in that lovely material called skin that's supposed to not erupt in burning agony when hot sauce is applied to it, since we get hot sauce on our fingers all the time.  Your penis must be damn sensitive to react that way.  Put that organ to proper use then!

[Nuke]

so it has come to this. 

[An4ximandros]

Maybe said skin was... removed

[SpardaSon21]

Ouch, yeah, hot sauce there would be a total *****.  Theoretically though, with careful positioning of the hands it should be possible to avoid that area.

[BritishShivans]

*snort* *snort*

It amazes me how the penis continues to be a problem for numerous men.

Thankfully, I have the sense to wash my hands before going to piss, especially after my hands have gotten chemicals/sauces/substances which may or may not burn my penis.

Pain is really not that bad for me, though. It's very annoying, however. My side has hurting for a while, and while it's gotten better, it means I have to be gentle when I'm sleeping on my right, otherwise it can flare up and make going to sleep harder. It's very frustrating at times, because I mostly sleep on my sides - laying down is fine and all, but it gets uncomfortable when I'm sleeping.

[Mongoose]

I just take the bus
**** all this driving ****

I'll walk and bus wherever I need to go

Yeah, try doing that when there aren't any buses around.