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Desire

Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 587 Location: AK
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Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 12:09 pm Post subject: |
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I'm sure she will love the playset, once the weather permits!
Though one thing Alaska has taught me is that there is nothing wrong with kids playing outside or at the playground when it is raining, that is why they make rain gear. ;D (Though I would not suggest having a kid use a wet slide with rain gear on! )
Also, playgrounds when it is 30 degrees out or in the snow are just as much fun as when it is 70.
I also have realized that I can never, ever take my son to most states during the summer months or he will melt into a puddle goo. _________________ "Her kisses left something to be desired -- the rest of her. " |
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Atrophy Annie

Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 1690 Location: Your Mom
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Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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Oh man, scratch that. I look forward to using the swingset! _________________ Way to kill the conversation, Patty.- Trevor |
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Yinello

Joined: 09 May 2012 Posts: 3463
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Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 1:21 am Post subject: |
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Animecon saturday squeeeee |
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mouse

Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 21164 Location: under the bed
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Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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Atrophy Annie wrote: |
Oh man, scratch that. I look forward to using the swingset! |
i would totally use that swingset even in the rain. _________________ aka: neverscared!
a flux of vibrant matter |
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Dogen

Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 11274 Location: PDX
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Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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Yinello wrote: | Animecon saturday squeeeee |
Ummm yeah, I'm gonna need you to come in and work on saturday. _________________ "Worse comes to worst, my people come first, but my tribe lives on every country on earth. I’ll do anything to protect them from hurt, the human race is what I serve." - Baba Brinkman |
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eureka00

Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 2068 Location: Pretzel City
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Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 9:05 am Post subject: |
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mouse wrote: | Atrophy Annie wrote: |
Oh man, scratch that. I look forward to using the swingset! |
i would totally use that swingset even in the rain. |
We did play on it a little bit last night after we got home as there was a break in the rain. _________________ Eureka00: "Reminding you of your addictions" since 1982. |
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Him

Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 4367 Location: On edge
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Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 12:22 am Post subject: |
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I built a gravity bong. Listening to Fleet Foxes and greeting the morning with a hit from the bong. Oh how I've longed. _________________ A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray |
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nathan

Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 6316
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Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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I've never understood the wake and bake. Intellectual fuzziness shouldn't be pursued until hope for humanity is lost, and that's rarely pre-5:30 pm. _________________ Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil. ~ Ellen Degeneres |
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fritterdonut

Joined: 24 Jul 2012 Posts: 1458
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Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 1:52 am Post subject: |
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Went to the Vancouver Mini Maker Faire. Lots of cool stuff around, from Tesla coils to a 50 ft. robotic, hydraulic-driven snake. Spent a long time lusting after the 3D printers on display, but the $1000+ price tags on most of them scared me away. Came away with a Raspberry Pi (a microcomputer, not the baked good) (http://www.raspberrypi.org/).
And so begun a puzzling hour of trying to install things when I have 4 accessories (a USB key, a mouse, a keyboard, and a wifi adapter), and only 2 USB slots - and not enough juice to power them constantly, meaning the Pi reboots EVERY time I plug either the wifi dongle or the USB key in:
Install the wifi adapter and connect to the internet.
The wireless internet needs a password.
The keyboard is impossible to type with due to amperage issues.
>copy password to text file, copy to USB stick
>use mouse to copy the text file to the Pi, and copy paste text into wifi setup
okay, now I need an on-screen keyboard to type properly with
>use USB stick to copy apt-get commands into terminal
Now you need the keyboard to hit "return" to enter the command
On screen keyboard is installed, everyone is happy. The Pi is hooked up to wireless internet and controlled by my wireless mouse, which can also do the typing thanks to the on-screen matchbox keyboard. Victory!
Wait a second, Raspbian (the suggested OS for the Raspberry Pi, Debian-based) doesn't have native flash (SWF) support. Dicks, I wanted to stream Youtube videos.
>Someone has to have made a plugin for this, right?
All the plugins for Raspbian flash play streamed flash too slow to be usable.
Now find a new distro that has better flash support (openELEC or RaspMBC?) and do it all over again.
>Double dicks.
Overall a lot of fun though. _________________ The Thirties dreamed white marble and slipstream chrome, immortal crystal and burnished bronze, but the rockets on the covers of the Gernsback pulps had fallen on London in the dead of night, screaming. - William Gibson, The Gernsback Continuum |
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eureka00

Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 2068 Location: Pretzel City
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Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 4:18 am Post subject: |
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fritterdonut wrote: | Went to the Vancouver Mini Maker Faire. Lots of cool stuff around, from Tesla coils to a 50 ft. robotic, hydraulic-driven snake. Spent a long time lusting after the 3D printers on display, but the $1000+ price tags on most of them scared me away. Came away with a Raspberry Pi (a microcomputer, not the baked good) (http://www.raspberrypi.org/).
And so begun a puzzling hour of trying to install things when I have 4 accessories (a USB key, a mouse, a keyboard, and a wifi adapter), and only 2 USB slots - and not enough juice to power them constantly, meaning the Pi reboots EVERY time I plug either the wifi dongle or the USB key in:
Install the wifi adapter and connect to the internet.
The wireless internet needs a password.
The keyboard is impossible to type with due to amperage issues.
>copy password to text file, copy to USB stick
>use mouse to copy the text file to the Pi, and copy paste text into wifi setup
okay, now I need an on-screen keyboard to type properly with
>use USB stick to copy apt-get commands into terminal
Now you need the keyboard to hit "return" to enter the command
On screen keyboard is installed, everyone is happy. The Pi is hooked up to wireless internet and controlled by my wireless mouse, which can also do the typing thanks to the on-screen matchbox keyboard. Victory!
Wait a second, Raspbian (the suggested OS for the Raspberry Pi, Debian-based) doesn't have native flash (SWF) support. Dicks, I wanted to stream Youtube videos.
>Someone has to have made a plugin for this, right?
All the plugins for Raspbian flash play streamed flash too slow to be usable.
Now find a new distro that has better flash support (openELEC or RaspMBC?) and do it all over again.
>Double dicks.
Overall a lot of fun though. |
You and Wheels will have much to discuss. _________________ Eureka00: "Reminding you of your addictions" since 1982. |
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Yinello

Joined: 09 May 2012 Posts: 3463
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Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 6:55 am Post subject: |
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Dogen wrote: | Yinello wrote: | Animecon saturday squeeeee |
Ummm yeah, I'm gonna need you to come in and work on saturday. |
Anyway it was fun. I got kitty ears!
The black ones. >:3 |
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WheelsOfConfusion

Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 14325 Location: Unknown Kaddath
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Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 8:48 am Post subject: |
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fritterdonut wrote: | Went to the Vancouver Mini Maker Faire. Lots of cool stuff around, from Tesla coils to a 50 ft. robotic, hydraulic-driven snake. Spent a long time lusting after the 3D printers on display, but the $1000+ price tags on most of them scared me away. Came away with a Raspberry Pi (a microcomputer, not the baked good) (http://www.raspberrypi.org/).
And so begun a puzzling hour of trying to install things when I have 4 accessories (a USB key, a mouse, a keyboard, and a wifi adapter), and only 2 USB slots - and not enough juice to power them constantly, meaning the Pi reboots EVERY time I plug either the wifi dongle or the USB key in:
Install the wifi adapter and connect to the internet.
The wireless internet needs a password.
The keyboard is impossible to type with due to amperage issues.
>copy password to text file, copy to USB stick
>use mouse to copy the text file to the Pi, and copy paste text into wifi setup
okay, now I need an on-screen keyboard to type properly with
>use USB stick to copy apt-get commands into terminal
Now you need the keyboard to hit "return" to enter the command
On screen keyboard is installed, everyone is happy. The Pi is hooked up to wireless internet and controlled by my wireless mouse, which can also do the typing thanks to the on-screen matchbox keyboard. Victory!
Wait a second, Raspbian (the suggested OS for the Raspberry Pi, Debian-based) doesn't have native flash (SWF) support. Dicks, I wanted to stream Youtube videos.
>Someone has to have made a plugin for this, right?
All the plugins for Raspbian flash play streamed flash too slow to be usable.
Now find a new distro that has better flash support (openELEC or RaspMBC?) and do it all over again.
>Double dicks.
Overall a lot of fun though. |
I'm using a 10-port powered USB hub to both supply power to the Pi (via a 2xUSB-to-micro-B Y cable) and provide extra ports. I was having trouble with it, though, and need to see if an updated version of Raspbian can fix some of the issues that were being caused.
Apparently the Pi foundation had to kind of skimp on the USB controller hardware and it causes a lot of random hangups with many USB hubs. Also, this is a first-gen B board (with half the RAM of current versions); your board might not have the same problem. |
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fritterdonut

Joined: 24 Jul 2012 Posts: 1458
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Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 9:17 am Post subject: |
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WheelsOfConfusion wrote: | I'm using a 10-port powered USB hub to both supply power to the Pi (via a 2xUSB-to-micro-B Y cable) and provide extra ports. I was having trouble with it, though, and need to see if an updated version of Raspbian can fix some of the issues that were being caused.
Apparently the Pi foundation had to kind of skimp on the USB controller hardware and it causes a lot of random hangups with many USB hubs. Also, this is a first-gen B board (with half the RAM of current versions); your board might not have the same problem. |
From what I've read, it appears the issue I was having was tripping the USB polyfuse when I tried to draw more than ~140mA from the USB sockets. Every time I plugged in the USB stick or the wifi dongle the sudden voltage spike required to start them would draw >140mA, resulting in the Pi restarting.
I'll be getting/making a battery pack with enough juice to run a powered hub and the Pi soon. Also going to pick up a cheap USB keyboard - the only keyboard I had on hand was my gaming keyboard, which uses way too much power. _________________ The Thirties dreamed white marble and slipstream chrome, immortal crystal and burnished bronze, but the rockets on the covers of the Gernsback pulps had fallen on London in the dead of night, screaming. - William Gibson, The Gernsback Continuum |
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Him

Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 4367 Location: On edge
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Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 10:32 am Post subject: |
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nathan wrote: | I've never understood the wake and bake. Intellectual fuzziness shouldn't be pursued until hope for humanity is lost, and that's rarely pre-5:30 pm. | The week end is just one long day as far as I'm concerned. _________________ A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray |
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fritterdonut

Joined: 24 Jul 2012 Posts: 1458
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Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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fritterdonut wrote: | WheelsOfConfusion wrote: | I'm using a 10-port powered USB hub to both supply power to the Pi (via a 2xUSB-to-micro-B Y cable) and provide extra ports. I was having trouble with it, though, and need to see if an updated version of Raspbian can fix some of the issues that were being caused.
Apparently the Pi foundation had to kind of skimp on the USB controller hardware and it causes a lot of random hangups with many USB hubs. Also, this is a first-gen B board (with half the RAM of current versions); your board might not have the same problem. |
From what I've read, it appears the issue I was having was tripping the USB polyfuse when I tried to draw more than ~140mA from the USB sockets. Every time I plugged in the USB stick or the wifi dongle the sudden voltage spike required to start them would draw >140mA, resulting in the Pi restarting.
I'll be getting/making a battery pack with enough juice to run a powered hub and the Pi soon. Also going to pick up a cheap USB keyboard - the only keyboard I had on hand was my gaming keyboard, which uses way too much power. |
Edit: Ordered a 7" TFT monitor for it, probably going to be using it as a NES/SNES emulator for a while. _________________ The Thirties dreamed white marble and slipstream chrome, immortal crystal and burnished bronze, but the rockets on the covers of the Gernsback pulps had fallen on London in the dead of night, screaming. - William Gibson, The Gernsback Continuum |
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