IRC log for #brlcad on 20070427

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00:23.38 IriX64 winaxepro is nice you get to see all the pretty colors in havoc and friends :)
00:35.50 IriX64 Labf are the makers if anyone cares, says it'll run on Linux too.
01:02.08 IriX64 err got that wrong, linux stuff on your windows box, is that right?
01:58.02 IriX64 wy does this happen ----> http://www.pastebin.ca/460460
01:58.09 IriX64 why too.
02:01.37 Twingy rm -rf autom4te.cache
02:02.33 IriX64 ty
02:02.55 bjorkBSD IriX64, is your system always compiling?
02:03.06 bjorkBSD it would be done by now even on a 386 :P
02:03.06 IriX64 90% of the time:)
02:03.11 bjorkBSD how comes?
02:03.27 IriX64 different things go on all at the same time.
02:04.47 IriX64 anything I give you should be considered "produced by beta code"
02:05.41 bjorkBSD ah so you're 'fixing' it? :)
02:05.57 IriX64 truth bells ring :)
02:09.19 IriX64 twingy, doesn't make distclean remove that?
02:16.10 IriX64 this happens on a ./autogen.sh --verbose ---- > http://www.pastebin.ca/460476
02:18.19 Twingy dunno
02:18.40 IriX64 me either.. can't be important ;)
02:19.59 Twingy gonna make me some circuit boards
02:20.26 IriX64 all right a silk screener :)
02:20.39 Twingy silk screener would be easy
02:20.49 IriX64 heh what etch pen then?
02:20.52 Twingy just put in a paint marker
02:20.59 Twingy 1/16" tip
02:21.09 IriX64 chisel of course
02:21.40 Twingy or cut a stencil
02:21.49 IriX64 cookie cutter
02:21.50 Twingy but won't be aligned perfectly
02:21.57 IriX64 or at all
02:22.10 IriX64 mirror image is fun too
02:22.27 Twingy pcb takes care of all that
02:22.46 IriX64 what do you use for laying out the board, brlcad?
02:22.52 Twingy gcam will take pcb gerber and allow you to position then you can instruct the machine to cut out the board on pass #3
02:22.57 Twingy no, pcb
02:23.20 IriX64 never heard of it but then i haven't played with such in a decade
02:23.34 Twingy great little program for making double sided pcb's
02:23.42 IriX64 sweet
02:23.54 Twingy set one side to ground and other side for power and signal
02:24.05 IriX64 multilayer?
02:24.11 Twingy then solder paste and a cheap $30 electric grill
02:24.21 Twingy multilayer yes, but you can't mill that
02:24.30 IriX64 bang you're producing
02:24.34 Twingy you'd have to epoxy them together
02:24.48 IriX64 guy i know used to send his away to get done
02:24.59 Twingy I could probly do 2-layer without a problem
02:25.09 Twingy beyond that I think I would just have it manuf
02:25.23 IriX64 that program do auto-route?
02:25.39 Twingy rats nest stuff
02:25.44 Twingy not as good as eagle
02:25.47 Twingy but it's free
02:25.52 IriX64 meaning some hands on?
02:25.59 Twingy good for laying out small 8-bit MCU stuff
02:26.06 IriX64 got it
02:26.21 Twingy most stuff I do is < 100 traces
02:26.36 Twingy one I did last night is ~40
02:26.40 IriX64 what are you building?
02:26.48 Twingy work stuff
02:27.12 IriX64 if it goes wrong put it in the forge, get your copper back:)
02:27.38 Twingy I used to make these with ferric chloride etching
02:27.45 Twingy that was just a pain
02:27.56 IriX64 too much washing?
02:27.57 Twingy I still have a liter of it in the garage
02:28.01 Twingy it's toxic!
02:28.09 Twingy has a huge jolly rogers symbol on it
02:28.15 IriX64 heh donate it to someone :)
02:28.18 Twingy it'll eat a penny in minute
02:28.26 Twingy fun stuff
02:29.01 Twingy UV and FeCl etching is waste of time
02:29.10 IriX64 toululene for cleanup?
02:29.17 Twingy orange peals
02:29.29 Twingy or lemon
02:29.35 IriX64 citric
02:29.38 Twingy jes
02:30.21 Twingy when you are doing traces < 20mil it's impossible
02:30.37 Twingy UV can do 10mil sorta
02:32.05 IriX64 outta my realm now
02:33.20 Twingy I'll probly be working on gerber stuff all weekend
02:33.33 IriX64 gerber?
02:33.39 Twingy RS274
02:33.47 Twingy photoplotting format for PCB's
02:33.57 Twingy just need to make a sexy photoplotter->MCB algorithm
02:33.57 IriX64 not familiar with that standard
02:34.22 IriX64 heh tie her in colors
02:35.01 IriX64 done anymore work on the forge?
02:36.46 IriX64 back to work
02:39.43 Twingy I made a new one
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02:39.52 Twingy far more efficient than last one
02:40.35 Twingy I need to put a piece in an cut the rocket motor out
02:40.45 Twingy need to finish gerber first
02:40.55 Twingy rocket will need electronics
02:40.59 bjorkBSD how expensive was it, Twingy?
02:41.04 Twingy wsa what?
02:41.10 bjorkBSD new forge.
02:41.20 Twingy heh, it's a bucket and a piece of threaded rod
02:41.39 Twingy so like $2.50 maybe ?
02:41.57 Twingy 30%-40% more energy efficient than last one
02:42.43 bjorkBSD damn!
02:42.46 bjorkBSD any pix?
02:43.27 dli cvs building fails
02:43.37 Twingy picture an upside down bucket with a rod out the top with various slits and cuts from a bandsaw
02:44.06 bjorkBSD cool :)
02:44.29 bjorkBSD your own invention or a popular idea i've not come across yet.
02:44.53 Twingy my idea cause I'm poor
02:44.57 Twingy and I had a bucket
02:45.01 Twingy and a piece of rod
02:45.24 Twingy and wondered why I even bothered with the bricks
02:52.30 bjorkBSD since it's your invention, some pix would be nice :D
02:52.43 bjorkBSD ... por favor, ie
02:52.45 Twingy it's not an invention!
02:52.49 Twingy it's a friggin bucket!
02:52.55 Twingy I'll try and take pics this weekend
02:53.01 bjorkBSD heheh i know.
02:53.28 bjorkBSD it's the mundane easily overlooked things which spark the best ideas.
02:53.35 Twingy yep
02:56.42 Twingy this cnc mill is the best $1800 I ever spent hands down
03:01.18 bjorkBSD a taig?
03:01.32 Twingy jes
03:01.43 bjorkBSD i'm poorer than thou
03:01.52 Twingy I bought it after I sold my town house
03:01.54 Twingy I had money then
03:01.56 bjorkBSD hah!
03:02.10 bjorkBSD i can only afford one of those things after i build it from gingery's specs.
03:02.20 Twingy had enough money for tile in the kitchen, redwood for the living room, and a taig cnc + tools
03:03.00 Twingy next summer I'm going to dump a bunch of money into making the front/back yard look nice
03:03.13 Twingy too poor this summer
03:08.18 Twingy I need to put in a digikey order soon
03:08.25 IriX64 http://www.pastebin.ca/index.php <--- heh bu_bomb() works :)
03:46.45 IriX64 man i did it again, pasted the index, urfffff :(
03:51.01 IriX64 http://www.pastebin.ca/460579
03:51.17 IriX64 ahhhh forget it it's not important
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07:23.27 clock_ brlcad: did you see my capscrews?
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19:06.05 brlcad clock_: not yet, been on travel all week, just got back .. be a while to catch up
19:26.18 smallfoot- oh
19:26.20 smallfoot- welcome back
20:30.01 *** join/#brlcad IriX64 (n=mario_du@bas2-sudbury98-1177871943.dsl.bell.ca)
20:31.38 IriX64 clock_: where may I see these cap screws?
20:35.31 IriX64 http://irix32.spaces.live.com/photos/work <----- your geometry, but i'd like to include something besides example geometry, and all i can do is a mug :)
20:41.31 clock_ IriX64: http://ronja.twibright.com/3d/ the bottommost entry
20:41.43 IriX64 ty
20:42.05 IriX64 do you mind if i copy these?
20:42.28 clock_ they are under GFDL
20:43.06 IriX64 not familiar with GFDL, explain please.
20:43.46 clock_ do you know CC-BY-SA?
20:43.57 IriX64 no.
20:44.02 clock_ Creative Commons by Share-Alike
20:44.34 clock_ you can copy GFDL stuff as long as you give people access to the source and if you make a derivative work, it has to be under GFDL too
20:44.39 clock_ it's basically a GPL for documentation
20:44.45 clock_ also made by Free Software Foundation.
20:44.49 IriX64 thought it was some kind of licence thats why I ask, ill give proper credit, how would you like it worded?
20:44.52 IriX64 ty
20:45.38 clock_ (c) under GFDL 2007 Karel Kulhavy?
20:46.36 clock_ are they useful for you?
20:48.22 clock_ You can also generate yourself some bolts, with this program http://ronja.twibright.com/3d/lib/hex.c
20:48.38 clock_ link allenbolt and hexbolt to be symlink to the program executable and then run e.g. ./allenbolt M3x40 or ./hexbolt M12x700
20:52.20 IriX64 id need source (rebuild ala cygwin)
20:52.38 IriX64 whoa that is source, ijust a sec.
20:53.15 IriX64 ill compile it latewr let me finish this.
21:00.36 IriX64 http://irix32.spaces.live.com/photos/twibright The first page caption points to your page.
21:00.54 IriX64 they're not in any particular order
21:01.29 IriX64 had no idea you could do threading in brlcad :)
21:01.52 IriX64 have no idea period ;)
21:05.51 IriX64 compiles clean and it runs will run on windows with the cygwin1.dll clock_.
21:05.52 clock_ oh man the angle dist cursor is awesome
21:05.58 clock_ IriX64: good
21:06.02 clock_ IriX64: are you a brl-cad developer?
21:06.08 IriX64 heh they did a good job on that
21:06.17 IriX64 nah man i just play
21:07.34 IriX64 my addiction calls, ill be back after i satisfy the tobbaco craving.
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21:24.48 IriX64 gcc -o hex.exe hex.c <--- results in an exe, no errors no warnings, I like that
21:25.14 IriX64 should include in external, then just exec hex
21:30.31 ``Erik http://fridge.ubuntu.com/files/no-pony-for-you.jpg
21:33.51 IriX64 they never heard of my little pony?
21:43.48 clock_ The mged already corrupted itself the database in a way that even restarting mged doesn't fix it:
21:43.51 clock_ Initializing and backgrounding, please wait...db_dircheck: Duplicate of '', given temporary name 'A_'
21:43.54 clock_ db_dircheck: Duplicate of '', given temporary name 'A_'
21:43.57 clock_ db_dircheck: Duplicate of '', given temporary name 'A_'
21:44.00 clock_ Done
21:44.16 clock_ How can I get rid of it? The database operations now randomly fail with nonsensical messages, I cannot replace a too thick M8 screw with a good M8 screw.
21:48.03 brlcad either g2asc && asc2g or do a keep in mged of the pieces that are okay or export or convert .. depends on the nature of the corruption
21:49.04 clock_ now I exported into ascii and cannot reimport
21:49.46 clock_ says Error: Temporary file (./_asc_2_g_temp_) is in the way (rename, delete or move it)
21:50.37 brlcad remove the temp file
21:50.46 brlcad unless that's what you actually named it
21:51.27 clock_ When I remove it and import, mged just disappears and mged.core appears
21:51.32 clock_ is that intended behaviour?
21:51.40 brlcad huh?
21:51.44 brlcad what are you doing?
21:51.47 clock_ The binary data are saved into mged.core instead of perpend.g?
21:51.56 clock_ 1) make sure perpend.g doesn't exist
21:52.01 clock_ 2) mged perpend.g, create yes
21:52.06 clock_ 3) import perpend.asc
21:52.20 clock_ that's all folks
21:52.36 brlcad ah
21:52.55 brlcad that wasn't one of the approaches I mentioned :)
21:53.09 brlcad run asc2g
21:53.11 clock_ how do I make perpend.g from perpend.asc?
21:53.31 brlcad this is failure recovery, have to see the output, make sure it can succeed
21:53.50 brlcad likewise if there were any errors during g2asc, that would be very important
21:53.53 clock_ couldn't the mged remove temp files when segfaulting?
21:54.01 clock_ Or, generate unique temp filenames?
21:54.16 clock_ Or instead of bugging with the annoying temp filename existing message, just silently delete the file himself?
21:54.30 clock_ alias mged="rm *temp*; mged"
21:55.07 brlcad it could do a lot of things, though potentially deleting user data wouldn't likely ever be one of them
21:55.14 clock_ OMG I made it
21:55.30 clock_ after several segfaults and database corruptions, I MANAGED TO REPLACE 3 SCREWS!
21:57.01 clock_ OK, g2asc and asc2g is the magic anti-mged cure :)
21:57.54 brlcad not always, but it's often a means to recover from an intentional or unintentional error
21:58.35 brlcad not a "standard operating procedure" in the least though.. you obviously encountered at least one critical bug somewhere along the way
21:58.47 brlcad whatever corrupted the database in the first place
21:58.48 clock_ "" duplicate, renaming to "A_" also funny ;-)
21:59.15 clock_ when I encounter a critical amount of critical bugs I stop sending bugreports ;-)
21:59.28 brlcad somehow the database contains a geometry object that has an empty name
21:59.46 clock_ casuse I just want my data and cannot spend 15 minutes collecting stacktraces every 5 minutes
22:00.43 brlcad they also have to generally be fully repeatable to get fixed, and db corruptions rarely ever are (they're generally exceptionally rare)
22:00.43 clock_ or did you already run out of my stacktraces and need a batch of fresh ones? :)
22:01.14 brlcad you're certainly getting there ;)
22:01.33 clock_ also those 0.0000mm overlaps are funny
22:01.42 clock_ and it makes glitches in the screw pictures at coordinate zero
22:02.09 clock_ floating point arithmetics a.k.a. the fish was sooooo big ... no wait ... sooooooooooooo big
22:03.36 clock_ rtweight seems to hang on the treads and g2dxf seems to run excessively long
22:03.46 clock_ threads not treads
22:05.22 brlcad i would expect g-dxf to take a long time on the threaded models, they're also undoubtedly smaller than the tessellation tolerance
22:05.42 clock_ Wanna a reproducible bang? I send you perpend.asc and it should bang mged 7.8.4
22:06.01 brlcad howso?
22:06.09 brlcad on File -> Import?
22:06.09 clock_ what's your e-mail?
22:06.12 clock_ yes
22:06.45 brlcad sure, send it over -- send it to bugs at brlcad dot org
22:07.48 clock_ OK sent
22:07.52 clock_ do you get that e-mail?
22:08.01 clock_ Can you try? Do you have 7.8.4?
22:08.09 clock_ Or you can try with whatever version, what happens :)
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23:12.54 smallfoot- brlcad, when is next win32 binary release getting done?
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23:57.09 IriX64 http://irix64.spaces.live.com/photos/stuff <----- frame buffer support works

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