What Are You Doing Right Now
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Drinking some not your father's today was anything but a good day.
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Getting ready for my 4th of 5 fantasy football drafts.
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Yeeeeeeesssssssssss. I can run Fedora or Korora on my Chromebook now. The recent updates have fixed the really bad screen flickering.
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Just logged off the AdaFruit Ask an Engineer. - I don't suppose I should be terribly surprised. I didn't get an answer....
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@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Yeeeeeeesssssssssss. I can run Fedora or Korora on my Chromebook now. The recent updates have fixed the really bad screen flickering.
Nice
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just logged off the AdaFruit Ask an Engineer. - I don't suppose I should be terribly surprised. I didn't get an answer....
LOL, what were you looking to find out?
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Just back from an outing at Letchworth State Park. Did some filming and then went to the Charcoal Corral for ice cream.
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Fought with a students Lenovo laptop (with Windows =
)but have given up. It seems the Intel AC WiFi card is flaky.
Watching the wireless adapter in Task Manager I see extended periods of activity and the periods of 0% activity. Ethernet is fine. -
Yeheyyy!!! Finally done with my task, dealing with vendor to get the best discount.
Now i have to check out the license for VMware server
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Diagnosing why a Epson T88V won't work
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Explaining to someone how to do their job, which in no way is related to IT.
"Well which one does our US counterpart do?" Depends on how the job is setup. But honestly I can't tell you how to do the job, we have SOPs for a reason
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just logged off the AdaFruit Ask an Engineer. - I don't suppose I should be terribly surprised. I didn't get an answer....
LOL, what were you looking to find out?
Looking for a small (wireless or wifi) device to replace the door and window sensors on an alarm system. Can't find any system that will perform the announcements needed when a door is opened.
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@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Fought with a students Lenovo laptop (with Windows =
)but have given up. It seems the Intel AC WiFi card is flaky.
Watching the wireless adapter in Task Manager I see extended periods of activity and the periods of 0% activity. Ethernet is fine.How old is the machine? Lenovo laptops from 3-2 years ago had malware called SuperFish. Supposedly Lenovo released a new NIC driver that didn't include it, but since I physically ripped the old card out of my machine and replaced it with a non keyed Lenovo POS I haven't had that issue.
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just logged off the AdaFruit Ask an Engineer. - I don't suppose I should be terribly surprised. I didn't get an answer....
LOL, what were you looking to find out?
Looking for a small (wireless or wifi) device to replace the door and window sensors on an alarm system. Can't find any system that will perform the announcements needed when a door is opened.
A Pi could easily do that. Door sensors are about the simplest type of sensor to work with, and playing sounds is quite simple as well. (say, festival, spd-say, or espeak)
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Fought with a students Lenovo laptop (with Windows =
)but have given up. It seems the Intel AC WiFi card is flaky.
Watching the wireless adapter in Task Manager I see extended periods of activity and the periods of 0% activity. Ethernet is fine.How old is the machine? Lenovo laptops from 3-2 years ago had malware called SuperFish. Supposedly Lenovo released a new NIC driver that didn't include it, but since I physically ripped the old card out of my machine and replaced it with a non keyed Lenovo POS I haven't had that issue.
Yeah, I remember that. I like to bring it up as often as possible
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just logged off the AdaFruit Ask an Engineer. - I don't suppose I should be terribly surprised. I didn't get an answer....
LOL, what were you looking to find out?
Looking for a small (wireless or wifi) device to replace the door and window sensors on an alarm system. Can't find any system that will perform the announcements needed when a door is opened.
A Pi could easily do that. Door sensors are about the simplest type of sensor to work with, and playing sounds is quite simple as well. (say, festival, spd-say, or espeak)
Well, a Pi would be the cross interface - yes. But I can't see having a Pi at each door or window. I believe the better solution is the ESP8266 board. But I'm still researching on that.
the project has:
- 5 doors
- 20 Windows
- Glass break option(?)
- Motion option(?)
Even if you used the Pi0 it would be a bit costly... Biggest problem is the installation on some windows. there are 5 sets of either two or three windows,.. Like to not have to tear up the house installing these.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Fought with a students Lenovo laptop (with Windows =
)but have given up. It seems the Intel AC WiFi card is flaky.
Watching the wireless adapter in Task Manager I see extended periods of activity and the periods of 0% activity. Ethernet is fine.How old is the machine? Lenovo laptops from 3-2 years ago had malware called SuperFish. Supposedly Lenovo released a new NIC driver that didn't include it, but since I physically ripped the old card out of my machine and replaced it with a non keyed Lenovo POS I haven't had that issue.
Going by the install date, the overall cleanliness, non-worn looking mouse keyboard & track pad it's less than a week old. Good specs Core i7, 2GB Radeon GFX (can't remember the exact series), SSD, Win10 Pro, 16GB RAM. Bad vendor.
The issue was hautningly similar to @scottalanmiller's Lenovo Yoghurt (Yoga ?) experience.
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@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Fought with a students Lenovo laptop (with Windows =
)but have given up. It seems the Intel AC WiFi card is flaky.
Watching the wireless adapter in Task Manager I see extended periods of activity and the periods of 0% activity. Ethernet is fine.How old is the machine? Lenovo laptops from 3-2 years ago had malware called SuperFish. Supposedly Lenovo released a new NIC driver that didn't include it, but since I physically ripped the old card out of my machine and replaced it with a non keyed Lenovo POS I haven't had that issue.
Going by the install date, the overall cleanliness, non-worn looking mouse keyboard & track pad it's less than a week old. Good specs Core i7, 2GB Radeon GFX (can't remember the exact series), SSD, Win10 Pro, 16GB RAM. Bad vendor.
The issue was hautningly similar to @scottalanmiller's Lenovo Yoghurt (Yoga ?) experience.
Exactly - which was the same problems I had before I replaced the wNIC card.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Fought with a students Lenovo laptop (with Windows =
)but have given up. It seems the Intel AC WiFi card is flaky.
Watching the wireless adapter in Task Manager I see extended periods of activity and the periods of 0% activity. Ethernet is fine.How old is the machine? Lenovo laptops from 3-2 years ago had malware called SuperFish. Supposedly Lenovo released a new NIC driver that didn't include it, but since I physically ripped the old card out of my machine and replaced it with a non keyed Lenovo POS I haven't had that issue.
Going by the install date, the overall cleanliness, non-worn looking mouse keyboard & track pad it's less than a week old. Good specs Core i7, 2GB Radeon GFX (can't remember the exact series), SSD, Win10 Pro, 16GB RAM. Bad vendor.
The issue was hautningly similar to @scottalanmiller's Lenovo Yoghurt (Yoga ?) experience.
Exactly - which was the same problems I had before I replaced the wNIC card.
Yeah I said that there was an issue with the wNIC and that she should get it replaced.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just logged off the AdaFruit Ask an Engineer. - I don't suppose I should be terribly surprised. I didn't get an answer....
LOL, what were you looking to find out?
Looking for a small (wireless or wifi) device to replace the door and window sensors on an alarm system. Can't find any system that will perform the announcements needed when a door is opened.
A Pi could easily do that. Door sensors are about the simplest type of sensor to work with, and playing sounds is quite simple as well. (say, festival, spd-say, or espeak)
Yeah, that seems pretty generic. Why do you need the engineer to answer that question?
