What are you working on right now?

Martin · 2015-12-15 20:17:23

Does refreshing (sanding and varnishing) two pair of old oars count?

/Martin

nobody0 · 2015-12-15 20:54:27

Side project? Created a Debian Jessie Openbox live iso with efi support and an Ubuntu 16.04 Openbox live iso. Not decided yet on uploading. Now playing with creating a Debian Jessie Cinnamon live iso. Once that done, would play with Debian Jessie Mate.

Urządzenie Rozruch Początek  Koniec Sektory Rozmiar Id Typ
/dev/sdb1  *              0 2324479 2324480    1,1G  0 Brak
/dev/sdb2               260    4803    4544    2,2M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)

Horizon_Brave · 2015-12-15 21:59:13

Working on setting up a github... I want to begin taking people's simple scripts and code, and try to figure out what they do, how they work, and maybe add and re-write them to give myself some exercise.

Sector11 · 2015-12-15 22:08:55

Martin wrote:

Does refreshing (sanding and varnishing) two pair of old oars count?
/Martin

YES!

@Horizon_Brave - nice one!

MAC the Bloody · 2015-12-16 01:15:32

Helping two freinds build thier model railways and helping a third custom build a Southern Pacific Alco PA loco in TT scale.

Fun stuff.

g33zr · 2015-12-16 13:20:49

Rewriting a short story about an IT guy who lives on a boat and tells a story about a mistress (not his) to a lady friend (with benefits).

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glittersloth · 2015-12-16 13:27:02

^ You're not writing damo's autobiography, are you?! O_O

g33zr · 2015-12-16 16:01:46

LOL, no, this guy is a Yank and a divorced former math teacher who then goes into IT (maintaining servers), but the story is really about a woman he knew who was the mistress allegedly of her uncle. Not an iota of autobiography in the story--pure fantasy. 8)

pvsage · 2016-01-07 07:27:53

Bumping this thread because I've done a little more work on my bike lighting. This is the clearest pic I could get in nighttime conditions:

I guess my optics need something like twilight conditions to capture something similar to what my eyes can see at night. Anyway, now the tail, fork, and headlights are all powered by the batteries in the waterproof box on the luggage rack. Single inline pushbutton switch turns the whole thing on/off; single set of batteries to charge on the weekend. I also took the fork lights out of the tubing and wrapped them around the fork arms so they're visible from nearly 360°.

The blue light at the handlebar is one of a stereo pair of popup speakers with the "xpanded bass" diaphragm. (Hey, stereos have been standard equipment in cars for several decades; I don't see any reason why I can't have one on my bike. It's safer than listening with IEMs.) Before I got these, I had tried using a pair of satellite speakers (from an old "home theater in a box" that ate some lightning about a decade ago) driven by a pair of Lil' Smokeys; surprisingly, these wee buggers sound better and get a lot louder before distortion kicks in. The stereo is electrically separate from the lights (USB rechargeable batteries) and is not weather hardened, so it's mounted so I can pull it off and bag it in a jiffy.

DogMatix · 2016-01-09 01:54:06

Currently working on interactive teacher resources for schools and catalogues and marketing materials for a tool company.

@pvsage Your bike lighting is awesome. I once had a 1960's Lambretta with 6volt lighting and no indicators. I got overtaken whilst I was attempting to turn right (UK). Which didn't end particularly well!

hhh · 2016-01-09 02:28:24

BL RC2 of course. Also about to try and build @Unia's gcolor3 color picker tool on Debian. I may have to open a support thread for it.

Sector11 · 2016-01-09 02:38:58

As in Unia wrote it?

ohnonot · 2016-01-09 09:33:03

Sector11 wrote:

As in Unia wrote it?

most probably, yes.
it's "just"(*) a wrapper around an already existing gtk3 widget.

(*) not that i had the ability to do something like that

damo · 2016-01-09 10:24:11

Sector11 wrote:

As in Unia wrote it?

Gcolor3 - a simple color chooser dialog in GTK3, much alike gcolor2.

gcolor3 on github

Sector11 · 2016-01-09 11:35:25

Well, now that I see it I do recall it.

Thanks guys

Temetka · 2016-01-10 20:11:43

I'm working on my Precision M4400 and Thinkpad X301.

The Thinkpad needs an mSATA SSD to be up and running. It's stupidly light (weight) and will be a nice work laptop so my bag doesn't kill my shoulders.

The M4400 is my crown jewel. I picked up a 2nd one off e-bay because one of my USB ports was loose and I didn't feel like resoldering it.

The old one will go to my son to replace his Latitude E6500 and will be a great upgrade mainly because he gets a dedicated GPU in the form of an GeForce FX570 with 512MB GDDR3 RAM. Way better than Intel GPU he was using. He plays some games such as FTL, Heroe's of the Storm and various GBA emulators. I spent all Friday evening cloning his HD over to a bigger drive (120GB to 250GB) which being a WD Blue vs. the Seagate he had and also having higher areal density means that the system is more responsive.

For my "new" M44000 - it's a beast. I plan to upgrade the CPU to an Intel QX9300. It's a qaud core CPU with 12MB of L2 cache and runs @ 2.53GHz. Slightly slower single thread performance than the T9800 I have in here now. But I got some great upgrades with this system:

1. LCD went from 1280x800 to RGBLED (100% Adobe SRGB) 1920x1280
2. FX1700 which is faster than the the FX750 in the "old" M4400 which went to my son

Some people may be wondering why I'm using the older C2D platform as my main rig. It's all about the LCD which is amazingly beautiful to look at and it's glorius 16:10 aspect ratio. Plus moving to a C2Q CPU should keep my CPU performance roughly equal to a 1st or 2nd gen laptop i7.

Also, the keyboard on this machine is backlit and very comfortable to use. I actually want to type on this.

I've also got 8GB of RAM and a bay adapter so I can replace the DVD-RW drive with a 2nd SSD.

I love business class laptops.

mrneilypops · 2016-01-10 21:13:17

mrneilypops sidboX

flavours of bunsenlabs and crunchbang on Sid...

some favourites in the mix;

spaceFM

sublime text

iceweasel aurora

stay tuned...

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damo · 2016-01-10 21:21:30

Scripting the controls of a Wacom graphics tablet and stylus, drinking Bath Ales "Gem", listening to Goldfrapp.

One of those 3 isn't going very well atm......

mrneilypops · 2016-01-10 21:24:25

^Goldfrapp =

damo · 2016-01-10 21:26:44

mrneilypops wrote:

^Goldfrapp =

Ooh-la-la

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