Coffee Break - November 29, 2020
- S02E10
- November 29, 2020
bp9 fell into the youtube rabbit hole again, looking at Rube Goldberg marble music machines. Also shows off his Tandy WP-2, and revisits his client/server app, now using GnuTLS. Discussion turns towards Gnu, Wilderbeasts and the "I'm a Gnu" song. Peter is talking to New Zealand on his ham radio and describes a bomb scare! Solbu explains the advantages of running your own email server. Doug is glorious in sunshine and is playing with his new Raspberry Pi 3. bp9 is joined by Doug, Peter, and Solbu.
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Topics Discussed:
bp9
- Fell into the youtube rabbithole this weekend
- Wintergatan, a Swedish group
- marble machine that does much of what Animusic does in animation
- Search for "wintergatan marble machine" in youtube
- Rube Goldberg machine
- Marble machine version 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q
- ANIMUSIC, a series of animated music videos - https://www.animusic.com
- Tandy WP-2 (not a Model-100) Portable Word Processor, focused primarily on writing.
- WP-2 allows 80 chars by 8 lines, vs. M-100 40 chars by 4 lines.
- Tandy PDD2 - a whole 200 Kb! Compared to the original PDD which stored 100Kb
- I said Megabytes which was wrong.
- Used standard 3.5 inch floppy
- Looking at gnutls to encrypt traffic between new client/server app that he is writing.
- Looked at taskwarrior and taskserver to see what they used.
- Wants to make it identify the client as part of this process but not sure how that is working yet in
- Uses his fountain pen to take notes LOL
Peter
- Tries hard not to make inappropriate commends about the NADSBox. :-)
- Identifies a Gnu as an animal
- Mentions a bomb scare close to him, there was a full turn out. Everyone is OK.
- Needs to get a pressure washer in to clean out his valve.
- Worked New Zealand on his ham radio, sunspots are starting to get more active.
- Describes a program that controls a rotator motor through all 360 degrees.
Solbu
- Notes that all software that was running military installations fit on a standard floppy.
- The devices bp9 were showing off had more power than the computers in the Apollo spacecraft!
- Identifies a Gnu as a Wilderbeast
- Mentioned the "I'm a Gnu" song that came out in the 1950's - 1960's? by Flanders and Swann
- "I'm a Gnu" youtube video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPgo6s1lBbw
- GNU was supposed to be an acronym for "Gnu's Not Unix".
- The "G" in Gnu is supposed to be silent.
- Explains the advantages of running an email server: You has full control of access to email, no one can kick you out for any reason. A friend of his lost access to his GMAIL account because he said something bad, and lost access to everything!
- Uses POP to access his email, even though his email server is local.
- We discuss pros and cons of using POP, IMAP, or web-based email when away from the house and when at the house.
- Fountain pens vs. Ballpoint pens LOL
Doug
- Is very bright today LOL
- Got himself a Raspberry Pi 3 as an entertainment server.
- Is not running Plex because he doesn't have anything to play on it.
bp9
- Fell into the youtube rabbithole this weekend
- Wintergatan, a Swedish group
- marble machine that does much of what Animusic does in animation
- Search for "wintergatan marble machine" in youtube
- Rube Goldberg machine
- Marble machine version 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q
- ANIMUSIC, a series of animated music videos - https://www.animusic.com
- Tandy WP-2 (not a Model-100) Portable Word Processor, focused primarily on writing.
- WP-2 allows 80 chars by 8 lines, vs. M-100 40 chars by 4 lines.
- Tandy PDD2 - a whole 200 Kb! Compared to the original PDD which stored 100Kb
- I said Megabytes which was wrong.
- Used standard 3.5 inch floppy
- Looking at gnutls to encrypt traffic between new client/server app that he is writing.
- Looked at taskwarrior and taskserver to see what they used.
- Wants to make it identify the client as part of this process but not sure how that is working yet in
- Uses his fountain pen to take notes LOL
Peter
- Tries hard not to make inappropriate commends about the NADSBox. :-)
- Identifies a Gnu as an animal
- Mentions a bomb scare close to him, there was a full turn out. Everyone is OK.
- Needs to get a pressure washer in to clean out his valve.
- Worked New Zealand on his ham radio, sunspots are starting to get more active.
- Describes a program that controls a rotator motor through all 360 degrees.
Solbu
- Notes that all software that was running military installations fit on a standard floppy.
- The devices bp9 were showing off had more power than the computers in the Apollo spacecraft!
- Identifies a Gnu as a Wilderbeast
- Mentioned the "I'm a Gnu" song that came out in the 1950's - 1960's? by Flanders and Swann
- "I'm a Gnu" youtube video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPgo6s1lBbw
- GNU was supposed to be an acronym for "Gnu's Not Unix".
- The "G" in Gnu is supposed to be silent.
- Explains the advantages of running an email server: You has full control of access to email, no one can kick you out for any reason. A friend of his lost access to his GMAIL account because he said something bad, and lost access to everything!
- Uses POP to access his email, even though his email server is local.
- We discuss pros and cons of using POP, IMAP, or web-based email when away from the house and when at the house.
- Fountain pens vs. Ballpoint pens LOL
Doug
- Is very bright today LOL
- Got himself a Raspberry Pi 3 as an entertainment server.
- Is not running Plex because he doesn't have anything to play on it.
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