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Pollyanna posted:trying to make a chromiumos partition on the slowly dying family computer post more threads about installing stuff on old imacs
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Jul 25, 2013 20:16
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Pollyanna posted:because dad wants to be able to use the internet but doesnt want to pay for windows I can think of a solution a millions times better than this and it literally involves "not paying for windows"
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Jul 25, 2013 20:27
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"install gentoo" is not a solution, echoing penis
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Jul 25, 2013 20:52
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install lindows
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Jul 25, 2013 20:53
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I'm still confused as to why PCLinuxOS is a popular distribution
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Jul 25, 2013 22:40
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sports posted:I'm still confused as to why PCLinuxOS is a popular distribution because it's "So cool ice cubes are jealous"
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Jul 25, 2013 22:43
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 I didn't make it but it's a part of my garden building hobby.
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Jul 26, 2013 05:09
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I'm really, incredibly, existentially bored waiting for school to start and my reserves paperwork to get through. I need ideas on what to do with my time that's useful and cheap.
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Jul 26, 2013 07:25
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arduino is gonna be some poo poo I harp on about for ages u might as well get in in that
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Jul 26, 2013 07:54
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echinopsis posted:arduino is gonna be some poo poo I harp on about for ages u might as well get in in that maybe, maybe, but i don't know what I would do with the thing that doesn't require extra $$$ crap.
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Jul 26, 2013 08:09
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ive just discovered fasttech which is the same but different to dx.com and anyway for like 20 bucks you could make an arduino turn a servo and maybe another 10 and you could put a laser on it and sing a coimputer and a webcam and coding effort you could make a device that actively tries to blind people by shining a laser in they eyes if they look at your web cam have a sign above said 'cam that says "yo dont look at me or you will go blind" and after 5 seconds of face recognition it fires an infrared laser (s they cant see it) at they eyes until they can no longer see? a prank gone too far? only time will tell b) do this but set it up on the street somehow. itll basically end up a pyramid scheme of laughs and you will be at the top
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Jul 26, 2013 08:56
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Make one that autotargets airplanes and then put it in a public park obv make sure you don't get any fingerprints on it
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Jul 26, 2013 08:58
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countdown to visit from suits in a van:
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Jul 26, 2013 08:58
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i saw a post on reddit (trap sprung) by this guy who used to work in congress whos made an app that alerts you whenever congress is voting on something, and lets you indicate how youd vote and tells you how your congressmen voted. he says the bells in congress are radio controlled, so he has a computer set up somewhere in/near congress (i'm assuming it's in one of his friend's offices) that detects the signals and triggers the notification in the app. its pretty cool. https://vimeo.com/70741310 cause i know nothing about programming or computers, and since i've worked in parliament and still have pretty easy access to the building and to staff there, i was thinking of building a similar app for britain. in fact, ive been thinking about making a similar app for over a year now, but now that i know someone else is doing something similar, i'm more confident about going ahead. if parliament's bells are radio controlled, i could make the signal detector thing out of a raspi with an i2c? it'd be cool to teach myself how to make an app and do some hardware stuff too. my programming knowledge is pretty much nonexistent at this point, but why not learn by doing? i don't want to monetise it, and i don't know if i'll even publicly distribute it, but it'd be cool to do it for my own interest.
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Jul 26, 2013 10:56
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what happens if they change the frequency of the bells or his friend is restructured out of his/her current position or the government gets annoyed and bans the computer or same questions apply to you. much of my dealings with government departments in my it days amounted to suspicion due to lack of basic understanding of how computer poo poo works, thus it is easier to stick with the status quo.
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Jul 26, 2013 11:03
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 "whats's this strange box doing here?" "zomg ur hacking da govment!" "you are sentenced to 80 years in prison for treason"
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Jul 26, 2013 11:47
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Sweevo posted:
yeah, probably i did find some info about an proof of concept app for parsing/displaying parliamentary annunciator data that a group of folks made at a 'hack parliament' event last year: quote:Challenge number one was the source data. The annunciator system is entirely proprietary, very old and was conceived in a time before networks, never mind the internet. The nice Parly people gave us a dump of the data for 4 hours in the Lords last Thursday, and we went from there.
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Jul 26, 2013 11:50
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the current parliamentary annunciator system (tv screens with who's speaking, what the debate's about, how long they've been speaking...etc) is directly descended from electromechanical victorian tech that printed onto paper tape.
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Jul 26, 2013 11:53
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beep boop "your congressman voted against free healthcare for 9/11 first respondants. have a nice day"
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Jul 26, 2013 16:28
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beep BOOP my app is powered by some celeron desktop in a congressmans closet
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Jul 26, 2013 21:13
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The Best Christmas posted:america is a a shameful place is it reasonable to emigrate to canada as an american
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Jul 27, 2013 00:39
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do it
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Jul 27, 2013 01:10
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go to Australia on a boat. They like that.
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Jul 27, 2013 01:14
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i made http://fartgeist.com (nws) and someone bought an ad for it on SA for some reason
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Jul 27, 2013 02:14
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yeah my daughter still asks to play the lime game every now and then gently caress you
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Jul 27, 2013 02:28
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Angry Moo Cow posted:yeah my daughter still asks to play the lime game every now and then gently caress you that owns
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Jul 27, 2013 02:28
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for your next project, get nonomatic on ios already
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Jul 27, 2013 03:32
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The Best Christmas posted:for your next project, get nonomatic on ios already that will probably never happen. check out pixelogic
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Jul 27, 2013 06:08
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coffeetable posted:it's not nuclear but iirc you need more than about 25 kV to get problem x-rays, which is why that's about where old crts topped out voltage-wise.
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Jul 27, 2013 06:44
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vapid cutlery posted:that owns yeah since then she keeps pointing out the differences between lemons and limes everytime she sees either one of them and its all your fault. how does it feel to be an educationalist?
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Jul 27, 2013 06:47
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Angry Moo Cow posted:yeah since then she keeps pointing out the differences between lemons and limes everytime she sees either one of them and its all your fault. very naise
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Jul 27, 2013 07:31
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please don't show her fartgeist.com
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Jul 27, 2013 07:31
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Base Emitter posted:iirc you need more than about 25 kV to get problem x-rays, which is why that's about where old crts topped out voltage-wise. please tell me they only figured this out after the first 30 kV CRT debuted.
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Jul 27, 2013 07:54
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vapid cutlery posted:very naise
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Jul 27, 2013 08:08
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so i have this plan to build a semiautonomous UAV; the physical airplane part is easy enough but i want to stuff it with the guts of an old phone so i can preprogram it with GPS coordinates that it will fly to also using the accelerometers in the phone for inertial navigation to supplement the GPS is a thing that would be cool to do could i just use a rooted android phone? how easy would it be to get it to talk to an arduino or something through the USB port so that it could control the plane?
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Jul 27, 2013 08:16
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ol qwerty bastard posted:so i have this plan to build a semiautonomous UAV; the physical airplane part is easy enough but i want to stuff it with the guts of an old phone so i can preprogram it with GPS coordinates that it will fly to The NSA now has an entire division watching you.
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Jul 27, 2013 08:17
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Pollyanna posted:because dad wants to be able to use the internet but doesnt want to pay for windows please work out
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Jul 27, 2013 08:19
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Moist von Lipwig posted:please work out  im glad ive got you in my life MvL
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SRQ posted:The NSA now has an entire division watching you.
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