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<Yono>

anything new going on?

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sorune hey Starkey

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thats about it

<Yono>

heh, oh well

[03:40]

the only thing thats going on is in channel #sorune anyone is welcome to come in the channel (since pretty much no one knows the channel exists right now) :)

[04:06]

<iswm>

30 is a start

[04:06]

<Yono>

iswm: 30?

[04:08]

<iswm>

30 people in here

[04:11]

well, there is 1/10th of that in the #sorune channel :-)

[04:12]

<iswm>

Oh, #sorune. Missed that.

[04:24]

not really, i just registered it a while ago

[04:24]

and im usually the only one on :)

[04:43]

* lennym doesn't use sorune and wants to know the benefits of it over NDBM

[04:45]

* chreekat waves

[04:47]

lennym: I use sorune because I can do everything cleanly from the command line. (Note that this *isn't* why I *don't* use NDBM; I don't know if NDBM has the same capabilities or not)

[04:48]

chreekat: it does have commandline capabilities, but i have never used them

cheers

Nice

sorune: what are special subdatabases?

[04:51]

the playlist import and export feature seems neat although i don't think i would use it much

[04:52]

lennym: album under genre and artist under genre

[04:52]

works best with garbage fw

[04:53]

sorune: of ok. thanks for the info

[04:54]

np

[04:55]

anyone on here know edbgon's email?

[05:45]

night all

[06:40]

* [Chameleon] is listening to -< A Knight`s Tale - Soundtrack - Takin` Care Of Busines (4:48) >-

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* [Chameleon] is away: ZZzzz...

[17:52]

<ivel|Work>

'Dem are on sale:

[17:52]

<ivel|Work>

www.buy.com

[18:10]

still too dammned expensive for me :(

[19:33]

anyone knows of a tool that can split a flac file by cuesheet, without decoding and reencoding it ?

[20:17]

nerochiaro: check out the last post by Josh Coalson on this page www.hydrogenaudio.org

[20:18]

i'm looking at it

[20:18]

ah, pity

[20:18]

i think i'll keep that large file then, i can live with it

[20:20]

i was reading HA a bit today... it's suprising to see how far certain persons are willing to go to backup their music collections...multiple RAID5 backup servers seem to be all the rage around that crowd

[20:22]

yeah. When I first started looking for a flac+cue splitter, I felt disappointed that I wasn't ripping all my music to that.

[20:22]

until I realized there wasn't a nice easy way to use them.

[20:22]

I'm happy with my 1 song, 1 flac setup.

[20:23]

I only rip long concept albums or trance mix CDs as single track

[20:23]

I can live with the pause on ost CDs that run 1 or 2 songs together

[20:23]

JoshMalone: isn't FLAC gapless even when muti-track ?

er, multi-

JoshMalone: do you generate a cue sheet on those single-flac rips?

if your player can do it, I suppose

well - I rip to mp3 :)

I don't use flac

anywhere

ah, gotcha

I'd love to see virtual tracks on the Neuros (a-la cue sheets), though

[20:25]

for my Blank & Jones collection :)

[20:25]

JoshMalone: i don't use flac either (yet), usually, but i want to backup some of my music on DVD and flac seems just right

[20:26]

IMHO, the meager space savings of FLAC isn't enough to justify not being able to just drap the CD in a CD player and play it

[20:26]

DVD is another story, though

[20:26]

I don't currently have a DVD-audio player, but my media player I'm building would be able to do it

[20:27]

the act of physically rising up from the chair, get the cd from the rack, pop it into the stereo and replace afterwards it's so tiresome that i want all my music to be always on my disk

[20:28]

well, ok, not really, but it's a lot more convenient anyway

[20:29]

well - I'm one of those freaks that enjoy's browsing his cd rack

[20:29]

1 album : 1 disc :)

[20:30]

old fashioned, eh ? ;)

[20:30]

yeah

[20:31]

that, and my music collection is only ~300 CDs

[20:32]

well let's say that my cd collection is rather small, and that much of my the music i listen to i have never seen the actual CD, if you catch my drift ;)

[20:32]

heheh :)

[20:33]

I have plenty of music like that, too, but it's nowhere near the size of my CD collection

[20:33]

demoscene stuff, some mp3s I've bought, etc.

[20:34]

you were the one who sent me the link to that LCD demo, right ? you're really into that stuff, aren't you ?

[20:40]

yeah - big time :)

[20:40]

in the sense that you also code demos or just a fan of them ?

[20:41]

just a fan, really; I can't code my way out of a wet paper bag :)

[20:41]

hehe

there's some amazing stuff in that scene, especially the unbelievable amounts of beer and other intoxicants that flow during demoscene parties

LOL

yeah

or at least, that's what they are legendary for

never been at one though

booze seems like .5 to .75 of a demo party

[20:43]

me, neither :( :( :(

[20:43]

but i have looked at this: www.slengpung.com

[20:43]

yeah

[20:44]

I'm listening to NEctarine demoscene net-radio right now

[20:44]

80% of the time the random pic on the home page shows either beer or joints somewhere in it :)

[20:45]

LOL

[20:46]

and i love this from the FAQ: "What's this site about? All I can see is ugly nerds and their computers. What kind of weird people are you anyways?"

[20:46]

I've got a good collection of scene music on my N, too :)

[20:47]

ROTFL

[20:48]

i'll go get some food now, i'm hungry. later

[20:48]

l8r

[21:09]

<DeepB>

JoshMalone: i could setup a demoscene.org mirror right now

[21:10]

<DeepB>

i think i've leeched all the stuff on their FTPs

[21:10]

<DeepB>

i love it

[21:11]

<DeepB>

well, most of the stuff

[21:11]

<DeepB>

there are tons of crap in there

[21:12]

DeepB: completely unrelated but, how is the weather down there ? are you being hit by heavy snow ?

[21:13]

<DeepB>

not on my home town, as we are by the sea level, but yes, we have some serious snow and ice problems all around

[21:14]

DeepB: I don't have that much space, but I've got a few DVD's worth of archives lying around

[21:14]

same here, even thought yours should be worse. i have seen the meteo satellite charts and all that stuff is expected to move up here in the weekend, so i was just checking out how serious was it

[21:14]

particularly AmiDemo mpegs :)

[21:15]

<unknown_lamer>

I would recommend not putting the little voltage regulator on backwards by accident.

<unknown_lamer>

Because I just sort of lit it on fire.

<unknown_lamer>

And then I ripped the positive lead by accident

<unknown_lamer>

I'm going to resolder it tonight and hope it still works :-\

wow!

cool :)

<unknown_lamer>

Maaaybe

[21:17]

<DeepB>

nerochiaro: do you know the Andaluc�a region? they are usually at 45-50C on an average summer.. they're getting -20C right now.. thrilling

[21:17]

<DeepB>

Seville, Marbella, etc..

[21:18]

DeepB: damn, that's pretty serious then

[21:20]

DeepB: I want to ensure that i am safe in my warm home when the cold wave you have now reaches my town

[21:20]

I completely hate cold

<DeepB>

i went skiing last weekend

<unknown_lamer>

Hooray, my neuros is still alive.

<unknown_lamer>

I only killed the little pcb on the battery.

<unknown_lamer>

now to charge my flash backpack for the first time in a year...

DeepB: i'm not a big fan of skiing, although i did a lot of it when i was youger. kind of lost the enjoyment of it, after a wile

while

<DeepB>

unknown_lamer: you screwed your N?

<unknown_lamer>

<unknown_lamer> I would recommend not putting the little voltage regulator on backwards by accident.

<unknown_lamer>

<unknown_lamer> Because I just sort of lit it on fire.

<unknown_lamer>

<unknown_lamer> And then I ripped the positive lead by accident

<unknown_lamer>

<unknown_lamer> I'm going to resolder it tonight and hope it still works :-\

<unknown_lamer>

<JoshMalone> wow!

<unknown_lamer>

DeepB: I've been messing with that 2400mAh battery

<DeepB>

nerochiaro: it was fun, but we got an horrible weather

<unknown_lamer>

DeepB: and just to double check that the PCB still worked again I popped it onto the real neuros battery

<unknown_lamer>

DeepB: but I accidentally hit it on backwards and it lit on fire.

<DeepB>

ugh..

<unknown_lamer>

I guess I'll be ordering a battery from NA after all.

<DeepB>

glad to see you can still type while in flames ;)

[21:24]

<unknown_lamer>

heh, the PCB is like 20mx15mm

[21:24]

<unknown_lamer>

The important part is that it didn't fry my hd backpack or the neuros head

[21:24]

DeepB: JoshMalone: that new 3A-capable adapter i was talking about the other day with you, and it works perfectly.

[21:25]

put "i purchased" at the start of the sentence, please

[21:25]

<DeepB>

nerochiaro: excellent

[21:25]

indeed, 16Euro well spent, i'd say

[21:26]

only thing, it looks, measures and weights like a real brick. the neuros seems like a little pebble besides it

[21:27]

LOL

[21:28]

it's have to be huge to do 3 amps :)

[21:28]

<DeepB>

my mom set her laptop adaptor on fire last week, don't ask me how

<DeepB>

so she has to buy a generic one, since the original was much more expensive

<unknown_lamer>

I just emailed NA

<DeepB>

6A ~ 15V

<DeepB>

it is half the laptop size

<unknown_lamer>

They told me last summer that it was $12 for a new battery and I'm just double checking that the offer is still good.

<unknown_lamer>

I wonder if I could just order the PCB ...

<DeepB>

she almost need another suitcase for it ;)

[21:30]

DeepB: holy crap! 90 watts! that twice a typical notebook supply

[21:30]

<unknown_lamer>

I'll have to check the hardware schematics to see if they cover the battery stuff too.

[21:30]

<unknown_lamer>

But now ... to work!

[21:31]

<DeepB>

JoshMalone: yep, it is almost three times bigger than the original one

[21:34]

<DeepB>

unknown_lamer: i've heard similar batteries are available in RadioShack and such, as they are not propietary

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<unknown_lamer>

DeepB: but do they have the PCB?

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* unknown_lamer dips out to go to class

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<DeepB>

i doubt it

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<unknown_lamer>

I need that because I lit it on fire :)

[21:46]

heh... you guys are skiing and having snow and ice problems. it is summer here in NZ

[21:48]

lennym: dammit! don't remind me that

[21:51]

<DeepB>

nero hates cold, lennym wanted to work in EU, you know .. you both could setup an arrangement for perpetual summer, involving impersonating and some other hardly legal stuff

[21:52]

haha... yeah but i can already do that. i am an American living in NZ with a job here and an offer for permanent residency ;)

[21:53]

heh, would be nice to do, half-year here and half-year i some sub-tropical country

[21:53]

is anybody working on a GCC port for the TMS320-C54? i looked on the wiki and it the page on SF that it links to has 0 activity

[21:54]

i am actually heading back to the states for the northern summer in april

[21:54]

i just had 2 winters in a row, so 2 summers in a row is needed

[21:56]

<DeepB>

lennym: that project is somewhat stalled

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well, there's chreekat that's working at it, though. he seems to be really into that

[21:57]

he's doing it for the university, so he's not associated to the sf.net project, but he's working at it nonetheless

[21:58]

you might want to ask him for the status, though. he's here often

[22:00]

iok

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<DeepB>

nerochiaro: how's the rpg going?

[22:02]

DeepB: i'm at the battle on onderon, on the sky ramp. didn't touch it for some days, as i got back to work on the firware, though. damn distractions! ;)

[22:02]

did you see that link to the alternate ending i sent you in pvt message ?

[22:03]

<DeepB>

yep, but i haven't understood a word of it, it was kinda messy

[22:04]

did you read the first post in the thread ? that's messy indeed. but later, on the second page, there's an edited version that's looks orderly

[22:04]

<DeepB>

but any alternate ending.. any.. would have been better

[22:05]

heh, i imagine. it's always that way when the producer cuts away the funds before the end of the developement and they have to tack an improvised thing at the end of the game. at least, that's one of the rumors

<DeepB>

do you know if the xbox version is the same as ours?

it is

it went out earlier, too, so it can't be better

some months earlier than the pc version

<DeepB>

you played the original one, didn't you?

yes

IMHO so far this one is much better (bugs aside)

<DeepB>

the faces of NPCs are the fucking same in this one

[22:09]

some of the faces of your own character too, at least to me

[22:10]

<DeepB>

and they repeat themselves through the game as a garlic based breakfast

[22:10]

yes, they use a lot of generic models, especially for aliens

[22:10]

nice way of putting it, though :)

[22:11]

<DeepB>

i'm into Republic Commando now, they're all clones so i can forgive that point

[22:11]

shooter, right ?

[22:11]

<DeepB>

but pissed me off on kotor

[22:12]

<DeepB>

yeah, with small strategy bits, you command a three clones squaq

[22:12]

character desing in kotor2 is good, kreia's character as the manipulative old bitch is great. and most of the lines of the HK droids are priceless

[22:13]

some of that dialogue, especially the one with the killer robot on peragus, quite cracked me

[22:16]

<DeepB>

i went for DS points, so Kreia was very confident in me, .. she's a funky bitch

[22:17]

indeed. i just hated the wookie, and to some degree Atton, even though his dialogue was a big step forward from his near-clone Carth

[22:18]

and of course they should put to jail who decided that even in subtitles the droids should have beep-beep instead of meaningful words

[22:18]

<DeepB>

your Revan was a female?

[22:19]

y

[22:20]

<DeepB>

then you'll meet Carth again, at some point

[22:21]

mmh, if i remember correctly, you kill him at the end of the first, if you played darkside

[22:21]

as i did

[22:22]

so meeting him again really looks like some plot hole to me

[22:23]

<DeepB>

he is Admiral Onassi now, still a whinning freak

blah. killing him was one of the best things in the first episode

<Yono>

hi guys

<DeepB>

hehe, indeed

<Yono>

any news from joe on how the meeting went?

hi yono

not that i know of