Ask Ubuntu General Room

8:00 PM

lol, this can only end badly.

as long as I don't start to open my working machine - no. I am just screwing in a bad laptop of the same type like mine and hoped to be able to change graphic cards...

hmm, I don't get that mainboard ot of the shell... If it does not resign soon, I will get out my pair of nippers

Virusboy

its in a socket glued down

ByteCommander

:20453632 did you drink something?

Virusboy

yea water

ByteCommander

the removed line looked more like something with percentage...

Virusboy

8:10 PM

ignore it

ByteCommander

so what does this new info mean to me?

Virusboy

nothing

Nathan Osman

And this is why I decided to go with a desktop instead of a laptop :P

It may not be portable but at least upgrades are straightforward.

ByteCommander

@NathanOsman Two machines are better than one, but no machine might be even better than three that make me angry...

Virusboy

memory and hdd upgrades are a laptop, i wont get a seperate gfx if i cant help it

ByteCommander

8:13 PM

Damn, I scratched my finger!

Nathan Osman

@Virusboy Unless it's a Dell... remember my HDD upgrade horror story?

ByteCommander

I am leaking...

Nathan Osman

@ByteCommander That's a ~~war wound~~ battle scar. Wear it with pride.

ByteCommander

;-) / ;-( / :-P

That machine makes me see red! (Unfortunately, a double meaning is contained...)

Now I take out the nippers!

Nathan Osman

Put on some z-anaglyph glasses and you'll have triple-meaning.

ByteCommander

8:15 PM

z-what?

Nathan Osman

Anaglyph 3D

Anaglyph 3D is the name given to the stereoscopic 3D effect achieved by means of encoding each eye's image using filters of different (usually chromatically opposite) colors, typically red and cyan. Anaglyph 3D images contain two differently filtered colored images, one for each eye. When viewed through the "color-coded" "anaglyph glasses", each of the two images reaches the eye it's intended for, revealing an integrated stereoscopic image. The visual cortex of the brain fuses this into perception of a three-dimensional scene or composition. Anaglyph images have seen a recent resurgence due to...

You've probably seen them - the glasses with a red filter over one eye and a cyan filter over the other.

ByteCommander

and why can't you then just call it a pair of red/blue 3d glasses? :-/

(getting slightly pissed on by the whole world and that annoying machine...)

Nathan Osman

Because that's not what they're actually named :P

@ByteCommander ...and I know this won't help, but I do understand your frustration. I've had my share of laptop disassembly woes.

ByteCommander

There is not much missing and I will replace the nippers with the sledgehammer!

Nathan Osman

In fact, I've never attempted anything as complicated as swapping GPUs, so you're a step ahead of me already.

Virusboy

8:19 PM

@NathanOsman I do not understand how Dell has bad HDD history , Ive never had an HDD problem with it

ByteCommander

@NathanOsman Thanks for that line. The first smile this evening... :-)

Nathan Osman

@Virusboy The HDD isn't bad. It's just that I had to completely disassemble the laptop down to the chassis to upgrade the HDD.

Virusboy

all I did was remove a pplate

Nathan Osman

Well, mine was different :P

Virusboy

well was it a Latitude

Nathan Osman

8:21 PM

I can't remember.

Virusboy

I remember my D520 is like that

ByteCommander

Now those look like the right tools for that crap.

Away with the engineer's screwdriver!

Nathan Osman

No, no, no...

ByteCommander

Oh.

;D

Nathan Osman

hbdgaf

8:33 PM

It takes a Jakobs shotgun to fix a Dell.

ByteCommander

@NathanOsman I can't find something bigger. You won... ;-)

Nathan Osman

:)

Mateo

I fixed some old ibm's that had some capacitors that sheered off and ratteling around once

ByteCommander

Does anybody need a intel Centrino Duo CPU for free?

Virusboy

no im good, dont think I have a mobile socket that fits that

ByteCommander

8:40 PM

@Virusboy Do you know any special technique for soldering out plugs and sockets (USB, audio, LAN)?

Virusboy

melt the leads off

hbdgaf

@ByteCommander drag soldering sounds like what you're looking for youtube.com/watch?v=XqaZpIDEju8

Fabby

@Tim Congrats! :-) :-) :-)

ByteCommander

Hi Fabby! o/

You better do not scroll up to see what mess I made today... ;-)

Nathan Osman

@ByteCommander Pretty sure that's what I had.

@RPiAwesomeness o/

RPi Awesomeness

8:48 PM

o/

yesterday, by Mateo

𝕿𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕾𝖙𝖆𝖈𝖐 𝕰𝖝𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖊 𝕱𝖔𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖑𝖎𝖈𝖎𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖓𝖊𝖘𝖘 <- lol

Whoa

Ugh. Kdenlive's playback is having all sorts of issues :p

Nathan Osman

Yeah, I was having some issues as well the other day with audible popping noises.

chili555

@Fabby I sent an email your way.

RPi Awesomeness

It really needs a better way to render stuff into RAM :P

Mateo

@RPiAwesomeness ยภเς๏๔є เร คฬєร๏๓є

RPi Awesomeness

Argh! This stupid mic makes me sounds almost like I have problems speaking or I'm drunk or something.

@Mateo It is indeed :D

ByteCommander

8:57 PM

Looks like a sandbox in here with all the silicon dust. But now I feel happy at last.

RPi Awesomeness

You know what would be awesome, if Kdenlive could import .xcf files and you could animate the layers separately.

That would be amazing

ByteCommander

9:13 PM

Any ideas what to do with a laptop screen?

What about using as a chopping board?

Mateo

Hmm, wow, I can get a lot on this one, and three day rush it: system76.com/laptops/kudu

Thomas W.

*throws a match onto a oil slicked puddle just to watch it burn*

BOREDOM IS BAD PEOPLE!

anyways

Mateo

Hi @ThomasW. How goes things

Thomas W.

@Mateo in dire need of coffee

actually passed out for an hour on this train ride

... and the cargo train next to us on the tracks is carrying chemicals... and according to one of the info placards, ultrapasturized milk...

Mateo

Woah

ByteCommander

9:26 PM

Since when do LCD displays use High Voltage?

Thomas W.

@ByteCommander since a long time?

ByteCommander

Really? I thought only CRT do that...

Mateo

So @RPiAwesomeness want Ubuntu stickers?

ByteCommander

I'm just taking one apart...

Thomas W.

@ByteCommander they all use higher voltage levels, which is why you dont' go sticking metal into the LCD itself

@ByteCommander the CRTs needed it to generate the cathode rays

Mateo

9:27 PM

Thomas W.

LCD needs it because the tiny voltages don't help

@Mateo does the ubuntu store still have those domed ubuntu stickers

Mateo

Yep

ByteCommander

"The TFT contains cold cathode fluorescent lamps"

Hmm... Would still look nice as a chopping board.

Mateo

Thomas W.

@ByteCommander encase that thing in a sizably-thick layer of polyeurathane if you're going to do that

Mateo

9:29 PM

They are bigger than I thought...

Thomas W.

or a thick super-hard plastic

ByteCommander

But I fear that the surface will lose against our knifes...

Thomas W.

@Mateo yes they are, they're baout the size of a Dell circle logo on an Inspiron

i want one to cover up the dell logo xD

ByteCommander

That would be a nice business idea, though.

Mateo

lol

ByteCommander

9:30 PM

Anybody in here manufacturing chopping boards ;D?

Thomas W.

@ByteCommander that's what the really hard plastic/polyeurathane is for

Mateo

But yeah, perfect for that

Thomas W.

@Mateo you wouldn't happen to have a sticker sheet and be state-side already would you

(overseas shipping makes it REALLY pricey)

Virusboy

@Mateo At first I thought those were condoms

Mateo

@ThomasW. are you at the same address?

chili555

9:31 PM

LOL Ubuntu condoms!

Mateo

O_o

Thomas W.

@Mateo you mean the middletown pa address?

@chili555 y'all sickos

Mateo

@ThomasW. yep

Thomas W.

@Mateo Yep, i'm still there, although not today :P

*is travelling right now*

i'll be back there thursday afternoon though :)

@Mateo (you also know i'm looking for the domed stickers, I assume :P)

IN OTHER NEWS: I now have a set of 4 DNS nameservers, all working together :)

i'm happy now that i can run my OWN DNS for my sites and NOT pay$12 a year more for each domain

(in addition to registrar fees already)

Mateo

@ThomasW. Just one color. Or the set of those

ByteCommander

9:35 PM

Okay that was it for today. Workbench is cleaned up, bin is full of shredded silicon chips, my work is done.

Thomas W.

@Mateo Doesn't matter - either works.

@Mateo if only one, a white backgrounded one would work best

... I desperately need a cup of coffee... brb

ByteCommander

See you guys tomorrow. Bye! o/

Mateo

later

Thomas W.

i wish i had one of these... shop.canonical.com/…

but $$$ is tight :/

okay, coffee time brb

Mateo

I like the power stick idea

Thomas W.

9:42 PM

indeed

THANK YOU FINALLY

COFFEE

it shouldn't take an eon to make a cup of coffee

oic fresh brewed

nice

can an AU mod put status-norepro on this? meta.askubuntu.com/questions/13657/…

i answered my own question

Mateo

9:59 PM

@ThomasW. ooo, sometime I want the coffee maker that takes 24hr, just set it up the previous day

Thomas W.

@Mateo heh

Mateo

I think it was a cold brew type of thing

Thomas W.

10:19 PM

*shrugs*

Mateo

10:53 PM

ah geez, dell has this thing on auto renew - the "sales" team didn't even call like they promised, they just sent the current config back through the process

and it signed me up for another laptop sleeve...

I'm in: