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Rahul2001

7:07 PM

@BenN xD

@qwertyuiop It joke. Make funny.

qwertyuiop

@Rahul2001 No

Rahul2001

#JourneymanGeekQuotes

@qwertyuiop lol

Anyways, goodnight guys

Have an MUN tomorrow...

Ben N

Good night

JonasCz

7:20 PM

Hi all ! I recently picked up an ancient netbook which is pretty broken and falling apart, but works. I want to take the innards and screen out and build a case / box for it (maybe out of wood or such) and turn it into a digital "photo frame" / video player / NAS of some sort.
Has someone tried this before ? Is there a guide for this ? Possible pitfalls ?

Unfortunately clippy doesn't offer any useful info..

Psycogeek

try search like google.com/…

because something like that would be most like what they often present at hack a day.

then you could read about other projects till your eyes bug out, or just get started on your own. you have nothing to lose for trying, other than your time. and a really crusty old unstable (bad caps) or broken one, might not be worth your time, when a "better" used ones are hard to re-sell so cheapish. But you will always be learning, and by not reading what others have done, you might do something different and better.

because all of this stuff is assembled in whole pieces for the most part, even working with seperated display pannels is easier than you would think.

JonasCz

Yup, there's definitely nothing to loose - got it for two Euro on a car boot sale. I installed Linux on it, it seems to work okay. I guess I'll just dive in and see what becomes of it

If I get ever get round to actually doing it it, that is...

I've taken apart & reassembled quite a few laptops, so shouldn't be too hard
Harder bit will be putting together a nice-looking case for it

Thanks for the link, too

Psycogeek

7:40 PM

I work with plastic, acrylic and ABS , using solventy glues, and can whip up a case before the day is over. But we got a plastic store local (Tap Plastics) and i gather cheap scrap from them often. Acrylic and abs will actually score and break just like glass, so it can be done with a minimum of tools.

polycarbinates for plastic windows, can be bought at most hardware stores.

Metal is good, if you isolate electrical, because it will transfer heat to the air better. Wood tends to be more insulative of them all, but Holes and fans fix anything.

JonasCz

Yea, I'd prefer to use wood, I think it looks nicer.
I could use a big, slow spinning fan instead of the tiny one in the netbook, which would give better cooling (?), with lots of holes, heat shouldn't be a problem.

Psycogeek

yup big fan low rpms

they even make stand alone case/computer fans with thermal sencors and rpm graphing , wherin the fan even not controlled by the system, adjusts for the ambient conditions and work.

not so many around anymore because of the motherboard temp/fan control. ebay.com/itm/… but antec and thermaltake both have had various ones

Psycogeek

8:15 PM

superuser.com/questions/1087952/… <-- needs one more dupe vote, user never returned soo.

Psycogeek

8:28 PM

^ Done

Burgi

@Rahul2001 you need to ge out more....

djsmiley2k

party like it's 1960 1/1/00:00

Burgi

you mean 1969 surely?

Unix time

Unix time (also known as POSIX time or Epoch time) is a system for describing instants in time, defined as the number of seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), Thursday, 1 January 1970, not counting leap seconds. It is used widely in Unix-like and many other operating systems and file formats. Because it does not handle leap seconds, it is neither a linear representation of time nor a true representation of UTC. Unix time may be checked on most Unix systems by typing date +%s on the command line. == Definition == Two layers of encoding make up Unix time. These...

DavidPostill

!!s/1969/1970/

ChatBot John Cavil

@DavidPostill you mean 1970 surely? (source)

Burgi

8:42 PM

@DavidPostill i took @djsmiley2k's comment to mean the moment before the epoch

Psycogeek

we need to shift to metric time someday. 10 MTU (metric time units) in a day, 100 MMUs metric minute units in an hour , 100 MSUs in a MMU.

odd and useless fact, it takes microsoft about 300MB to setup computers with a single unit change for daylight saving time. :-P

something most people could probably do with 20K :-)

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That Brazilian Guy

10:12 PM

@Psycogeek Done and failed.

Swatch Internet Time

Swatch Internet Time (or beat time) is a decimal time concept introduced in 1998 by the Swatch corporation as part of their marketing campaign for their line of "Beat" watches. Instead of hours and minutes, the mean solar day is divided up into 1000 parts called ".beats". Each .beat is equal to one decimal minute in the French Revolutionary decimal time system and lasts 1 minute and 26.4 seconds (86.4 seconds) in standard time. Times are notated as a 3-digit number out of 1000 after midnight. So, @248 would indicate a time 248 .beats after midnight representing 248/1000 of a day, just over 5 hours...

It was a triumphant failure

Psycogeek

10:23 PM

ahh they just did it wrong, people would still want to say "it is half past 3" not "were on the 367th beat"

like dis one en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time

which reminds me we need to redo GPS to base 10 decimal too :-)

ohh how the world would be different, on a different world. Like where people growed up with a Base 14 numerical system, and how to them it would be percieved to be the "correct" way to do numbers.

qwertyuiop

11:14 PM

!!caat

ChatBot John Cavil