Log from #neuros IRC channel

physically, on concrete

while the disk was spinning

crap! still alive ?

not a single scratch

[00:34]

and it works as before

[00:34]

~1.5m. free fall

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i am convinced that this brick is evil. today i was on the train and saw a girl fiddling with her iPod... you know what i thought ? how can she use such a flimsy thing ? i'm too used to the reassuring bulk of my brick i guess

[00:35]

i'm a slim guy, i have a lot of space on my pockets

[00:35]

i do not feel the bulkiness either

[00:36]

my friends say it's a huge beast, but i just feel it handy, not bulky

[00:37]

same for me. i keep it in the jacket's inside pocket, and it's perfect there

[00:38]

i'm actually starting to have fun describing it to people who ask "what's that?" ... last time my answer was "the iPod's evil fat twin"

[00:38]

i mean, a smaller size would help, but most of the time i won't give a damn

[00:38]

hahaha

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same here. plus you get the shock absorbing shell for free

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more or less

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i use to call it "one thousand CDs" in front of others

[00:42]

what the hell did happen to irssi ?

[00:44]

dunno yours, but mine usually has uptimes higher than the w2k server on my office

[00:44]

lucky you. mine doesn't get along well with the cygwin console, so from time to time something goes ape and loses all formatting, starts writing lines in the wrong places and i have to close it

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but i love it. won't go back to any other client now

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do you happen to know how to get inline privmsgs?

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on the current window, i mean

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i like them in a separate window, so i never tried to do that

[00:47]

hey, you were the one who liked Lacuna Coil a lot, right ? have you ever listened to The Gathering ?

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nope

[00:49]

try them, the music is very nice, and the voice of the singer is as beautiful, if not better, than cristina scabbia.

[00:49]

pick up "how to measure a planet", for a start

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ok, will do

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thank you for the pointers

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i'm now watching willy wonka ;)

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:)

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that movie makes me so sad, for some reason

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probably because in my opinion the kids all die, and die atrocious deaths like drowned in chocolate or the like

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it's the usual horror movie

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they're all together, having fun

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on a weird, scary place

and they die, or fall, or whatever, one by one

same script as all other teen horror movies

but made for kids

that makes it scarier even

[00:55]

the boat ride is awesome

[00:55]

Marilyn Manson took the speech of Wonka in the boat for a song

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heh, says it all i guess. One thing i hate of that movie is the hypocrisy: how the poor guy (the protagonist) is as bad as all the others, because he tastes the forbidden stuff like the others, but is a little smarted and manages to avoid death by decapitation. and in the end inherits the factory.

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what's the moral of that ?

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what is that teaching to kids ?

yeah, i really hope Tim Burton will put a very naughty end to both Charlie and his grampa

;)

he's doing a remake ?

yeah

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that's awesome. burton has the potential to make that movie finally right

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i have put so much hopes on that movie, that i'm almost sure it will dissapoint me

well, you should never do that with a movie. it's a sure-fire way to ruin your fun

crap, i need to see a good movie. last i saw was that crap of cheap horror called The Grudge

what a piece of shite

yeah, i know.. every book i read, comes to a crappy movie

[01:03]

we watched 'Good Bye, Lenin' on dvd last sat

[01:03]

never trust movies from books

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that was a real good one

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what is that, the one with the grandma that thinks she's still in communist regime ?

[01:04]

yeah, that one

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never got around to see it, but i heard only good of it. let's fire emule, and see what it tells me ;)

[01:05]

ahh, 67 sources. very good.

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thanks for the tip

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np, i really liked it

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the grudge is that one with buffy on it?

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yeah, yeah, don't mention that to me. i went to see it just because my girlfriend is a fan of buffy and wanted to take me along. enough said.

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the movie is maybe nice for the first, say, 25 minutes, maybe 30

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buffy==crap, angel==crap, charisma carpenter=goddess

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who is charisma carpenter ?

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the usual stupid girl in danger

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first on buffy, then on angel

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let me look her up

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pretty nice

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by the way, that movie gets boring after the initial couple of deaths. the rest doesn't make sense, they all die just because they enter an house. period. not explanation, no closure, nothing. they just die. all of them.

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i think it's a remake from a jap one

it is. the director is the original one, as is part of the cast. and is shot in japan. so it's pretty much the same movie

just hollywood-plished

polished

plus buffy

i saw the original one, plus the sequel

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and it was useless like i said ? or better ?

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and i watched them alone, in the dark, like they should be watched

some scary moments

but plenty of crap

like ringu

yeah, that one was better, though

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i saw the hollywood version of that too

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but it had some great scenes

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* GarBage chills.... the elevator!

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in the grudge you say ? crap, that was good

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yep.. i think i'm mixing jap faces... how odd

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in the ring (hollywood version) i like a scene when she's watching the video on the slow motion. don't know if that's also in the japanese one

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can't remember? when the girl came out of the TV?

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* GarBage warns SPOILERS ALL OVER

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no, that was the worst part of the movie. ruined everything. i hated it. all the movie was so great because people died scared with horror on their faces and you never know why, so you imagine it. and it's scary. but then you see her, and it's the usual monstrous kiddie girl white from drowning

[01:22]

big deal

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ruined all

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<Yono>

nerochiaro: did you find out about the spare serial connection?

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nope

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<Yono>

I can find the topic mentioning about it if you'd like

email it to me, if it's not too much hassle. thank you.

<Yono>

email what?

the link to the topic ?

<Yono>

oh, um alright

that's because i'll be soon asleep

good night everyone people.

<Yono>

later

ciao nero

gar, hage a nice movie

bye

[02:36]

<Yono>

ghavenga: www.neurosaudio.com

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I hope nerochiaro gets this - I guess he can look in the log tomorrow - I don't know if there is a spare serial port available, I haven't looked at the schematics close enough yet.

[02:51]

neuros still going with only one bar down

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<noiz>

does anyone in here use Debian?

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noiz: yeah

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<noiz>

is there an apt package for unrar, because i cant seem to find it

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<noiz>

or what is the easiest way to get it

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apt-get install unrar-nonfree

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<noiz>

k

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surprisingly my neuros is beating my brother's ipod in the battery test.

<noiz>

is there any free version of unrar that id be able to get?

I like Izarc

yes, there is, but get that one

it does about every form of compression known to man

can anyone recommend a good news reader?

noiz: www.izsoft.dir.bg

gernika: I use bloglines.com

Check this out... www.spectrumdigital.com

ok thanks SmrtJustin

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np

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ghavenga: what exactly is it?

[03:09]

it's basically the prototype for your neuros - just add hard driver

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drive - I sound chinese

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That board has a close relative to the TMS320DA150 (which, btw, I cannot find the data sheet for ANYWHERE, which is key to answering the serial port question).

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I wonder if you have to sign an NDA to get the data sheet for that device. I'll talk to my TI rep and see what I can do.

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Well, it's 7pm, I feel like crap 'cause I'm coming down with a cold, so I'm going home.

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See you guys on the flip side.

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see ya

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do you think theres a differance in power usage if the headphones are plugged in or not?

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crap

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i'm crying like a child

?

"The sea inside"

fucking awesome movie

Ok, rss feeds ... almost .. done ...

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gernika: you work fast, dude

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GarBage: and I will continue to do so until I get a girlfriend :)

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lol

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hmm I think headphones do use power, because when I plug them it the power goes from 1 to 2 bars, but when I take them out it stays on 2 bars

hey everyone

* GarBage heys back

hey

sorune, in the 0.5 version does it add years to the album line?

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if it's a duplicate album title, you mean?

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well I just noticed on some of my songs it had: Album [Artist, Year] in the album line

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but when I rebuilt my DB w/ 0.4 they werent there anymore

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that should only be added for duplicate titles (a way to distinguish them)

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can you shut it off?

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or is it built in?

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you mean, you like having all the "Greatest Hits" albums in one listing???

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i didn't think anyone liked that, so i didn't make it optional

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well it just adds a lot to that line, I rarely browse by album

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so I see your point I guess

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why does it add the date though?

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oh nvm

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I see, for multiple greatest hit albums by the same artist

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because some artists have multiple "Greatest Hits" albums

i didn't check though if that's the case with a given user's collection though...

i could make that change, i suppose

it'd be nicwe

nice*

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you may not want to make it case sensitive

[03:57]

<Yono>

hey guys how, cool is this, I'm VNCing my old, old, OLD, palm m500 with my wincomputer :)

cool?

<Yono>

I just got to find some kind of wireless connection...

<Yono>

hmm, there are probably some bluetooth modules on ebay..

<Yono>

SmrtJustin: cool or extremely nerdy, depending on your point of view

<Yono>

;)

Yono: forget gernika, it's YOU who really really need a girlfriend

<Yono>

:-P

I dont have a palm, but I guess if I did, that would be cool

GarBage has kind of a point....lol

kind of has a point*

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2late, nite all

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<noiz>

later

[04:00]

nite GarBage

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l8r

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man, it's too bad everyone is gone by the time I get home

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That's the problem with living on the east end of a very big ocean

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(..and not being at home until 8pm or later, local time)

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Anyway, to those of you who asked, I am working on porting gcc to the TMS320C54x family.

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I'm not an expert, but I am 22 year old student, so I have lots of time, energy, and resources. ;) Plus, I have C4X and C6X ports to work with.

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ghavenga: I think the consensus is that the TMS320DA150 is a TMS320C5416, but.. special(?). The only reference to DA150 is on a press release.

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* chreekat hopes ghavenga reads the logs

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speaking of "working on porting gcc" and "not being an expert", time to set up gcc sources and give it a warm-up compile

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<erwan_taf>

hi all

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<erwan_taf>

lo nerochiaro

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<erwan_taf>

hi GarBage

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<erwan_taf>

GarBage: I might found an allocation error in the code, could you check it ?

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<erwan_taf>

GarBage: in cvs.sourceforge.net

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<erwan_taf>

GarBage: unsigned short owner[6]; GEN_eepromRead(OWNER_NAME, 10, (int *)owner);

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<erwan_taf>

GarBage: it stores 10bytes in a 6 bytes char

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<erwan_taf>

GarBage: I'm I right ?

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i told him you found that yesterday night. should be fixed already i think

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<erwan_taf>

ok

[15:09]

erwan_taf: <GarBage> i love overflows...

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;)

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<erwan_taf>

So am I :)

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<erwan_taf>

this one should'nt appear usually but :)

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ghavenga: if you're reading the logs... you seem to have trouble finding the data sheet for the DA150 ... is this what you're looking for ? neuros.php-help.com

<erwan_taf>

nerochiaro: this time I must be wrong but I can't figure why.

<erwan_taf>

GEN_eepromRead(BAT_2_DISCHARGE_MSB, 2, &Delta_2V);

<erwan_taf>

Delta_2V is an int

<erwan_taf>

but it seems that is the write syntax

<erwan_taf>

found in source/BATTERY/BAT_main.c

<erwan_taf>

wonder how to store 2bytes in an int

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<erwan_taf>

the code seems to set the double of size of the third argument as seconde arg

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<erwan_taf>

like

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<erwan_taf>

GEN_eepromRead(foo,2*sizeof(x),x)

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<erwan_taf>

in GEN_eepromREAD

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<erwan_taf>

if(hiByte) *ptr = (unsigned int)(lData << 8) & 0xFF00;

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<erwan_taf>

GarBage: I'm wrong, this is normal

[16:05]

<erwan_taf>

GarBage: My bug wasn't one

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erwan_taf: dude, you're not the most clear person i've heard when you try to explain code ;)

[16:20]

<erwan_taf>

you kidding me

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that might be because i don't have the code here, maybe

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but still..

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<erwan_taf>

sorry

[19:08]

<noiz>

anyone on?

[19:08]

good Time Of Day

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<ivel|Work>

noiz: not here...

[19:31]

noiz: i'm going away from the machine for a little while, so i won't be responding to /msgs

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<noiz>

k

[21:14]

hi people

[21:18]

erwan_taf: you still around ?

<Yono>

hey, anyone around?

yeah

<Yono>

hello

for a bit, anyway

[22:33]

just got my video capture driver working!

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<Yono>

congrats

[22:34]

thanks - almost ready to take to LinuxWorld!

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what's up with you?

[22:36]

yono, got your link. thanks

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<Yono>

np

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<Yono>

hmm, looks like some ipod owners got a little desperate for battery power: www.hackaday.com

cool. we don't charge via usb, though

jesus - what aterrible circuit!

<Yono>

nerochiaro: the next models do

use a regulator

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JoshMalone: luckyly you never saw the circuits i made in electronics classes in high school

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I think the neuros could, if only you could shut off the HD when the usb is plugged in

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only that resistor keeps the thing from catching fire

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SmrtJustin: shouldn't be very difficult to do

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i think

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no, probably not

I think the neuros could save itself a lot of battery power if it managed its hard drive access better

SmrtJustin: no, what '

'

no it probably wouldnt be difficult to do*