IRC log for #brlcad on 20070714

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00:52.07 IriX64 hi
00:55.07 IriX64 I wonder if this has been reported, creating a metaball crashes mged
00:55.42 IriX64 version 7.8.4 is mine
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05:30.08 thing0 hey yall
05:36.52 brlcad howdy thing0
05:45.24 thing0 how you been brlcad?
05:45.35 brlcad pretty good, busy like crazy
05:45.40 thing0 hehe
05:45.46 thing0 yeah work is quite intense
05:45.52 thing0 barely get time to stop and eat
05:45.54 thing0 hehe
05:47.41 brlcad oh, my belly indicates that I do still find time for that
05:47.52 brlcad though I don't usually stop even when eating ;)
05:48.50 thing0 hehe
05:48.52 thing0 yeah
05:49.06 thing0 it just means I have to wonder back to the office to get the food
05:49.17 thing0 I worked through lunch yesterday getting materials for a job
05:49.36 thing0 but I fly out this wednesday
05:49.42 thing0 so I get to have a break for a while
05:51.18 thing0 had two paid days off last week
05:51.25 thing0 cause of acid plant startup
05:51.39 thing0 it started up with no issues once one of the lines were unblocked
05:52.12 thing0 it is very good for the company I work for
05:52.12 thing0 shows we are competent
05:52.12 thing0 ;)
05:55.00 brlcad acid plant?
05:55.18 brlcad you're trippin'? :)
05:57.11 thing0 hehe
05:57.16 thing0 that's why weren
05:57.23 thing0 't allowed at work
05:57.26 thing0 incase of poisoning
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15:54.23 louipc morning
16:40.54 brlcad howdy
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20:32.17 IriX64 http://www3.sympatico.ca/mario.dulisse2/hex.c a little routine written by a friend of my son's to produce capscrews to whatever pitch you want writing out a .g file for you
20:37.06 brlcad IriX64: erm, where'd that come from?
20:37.27 brlcad seems actually like a useful tool with the right polish
20:37.46 IriX64 friend of my sons
20:38.22 IriX64 just talked to him, says its yours if you want it
20:39.11 brlcad curious how/why he wrote it
20:39.49 brlcad also curious that he chose the ascii format instead of libwdb directly :)
20:39.58 IriX64 I was fooling with brlcad and he decided to help, he's really good
20:40.08 IriX64 asc2g thats why, we're lazy :)
20:42.36 brlcad can you get jamie to post it to the patches tracker?
20:42.44 brlcad http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=105292&atid=640804
20:43.09 brlcad er, http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=105292&atid=640804
20:43.30 IriX64 he's doing it
20:44.06 IriX64 why patches?
20:44.23 IriX64 this is a littl tool
20:45.48 IriX64 Irssi is fun :)
20:46.13 brlcad it's a change, changes go into the patches tracker
20:46.34 IriX64 he thanks you
20:46.35 brlcad that gives a means to comment on and document where first-additions come from when it's someone new
20:46.49 brlcad thanks me? he wrote it
20:46.54 brlcad pretty nifty tool
20:46.54 IriX64 understood
20:47.03 IriX64 he's *very good
20:47.08 brlcad might have to update it to libwdb though
20:47.28 IriX64 do what you want to it
20:47.53 IriX64 remember if its not taking up disk space it's broken
20:49.22 IriX64 permission to do a /ver on some of the channel members (I'm testing a little bit)
20:50.33 louipc neat
20:50.45 MinuteElectron IriX64: You can do it on me.
20:50.47 louipc what kind of screw does it do?
20:50.54 IriX64 thankyou
20:51.01 louipc I was actually thinking of doing something like that eventually hah
20:51.07 IriX64 louipc i'm not sure ive never used it
20:51.59 IriX64 MinuteElectron i386? time to trade it in :)
20:52.33 MinuteElectron it is?
20:52.37 IriX64 0.8.11 is relased i'm running it here
20:52.52 IriX64 and freebsd eh?
20:53.04 MinuteElectron It is brlcad's server.
20:53.17 IriX64 is it really?
20:53.21 MinuteElectron I m using it for IRC so that people can contact me about problems with the website.
20:53.33 IriX64 ahh I understand
20:53.53 MinuteElectron Well, not just IRC>
20:54.00 IriX64 of course
20:54.03 MinuteElectron I use it to edit the website and the website is hosted on it to.
20:54.15 louipc I think debian only goes to i386 too
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20:54.58 IriX64 err :P
20:55.05 MinuteElectron What is the one after i386?
20:55.19 IriX64 z80 ;)
20:55.21 MinuteElectron hmm
20:56.20 louipc i586 i686
20:56.57 louipc pentium III is i686
20:57.14 louipc whish is pretty old
20:57.21 MinuteElectron hmm
20:59.14 MinuteElectron I have the urge to find out about my computer.
21:00.53 louipc the best way is to build it yourself :D
21:01.14 louipc then you get all the manuals for your motherboard etc
21:01.16 MinuteElectron I bought the motherboard second hand.
21:01.22 MinuteElectron It is an ePox or somthing
21:01.33 MinuteElectron No manual - just a disk
21:01.49 louipc then install unix or a unix-like OS
21:01.56 MinuteElectron I have, on the other hard drive.
21:02.12 MinuteElectron But I can't get it to work with my wireless network.
21:02.12 louipc yeah I didn't know anything until I started using linux, but I still know very little
21:02.54 louipc yeah wireless is an issue because they only release drivers for windows
21:03.14 MinuteElectron ubuntu comes with the drivers, the trouble is it won't connect to my wirless network (or anyone elses for that matter).
21:04.39 louipc they try to go about it by emulating windows in a kernel module called 'ndiswrapper' that you can load windows drivers on.
21:04.53 MinuteElectron The druvers work.
21:05.05 MinuteElectron And I can't be pissed.
21:05.48 MinuteElectron I like Unix-like OSs.
21:05.58 louipc :D
21:06.03 MinuteElectron And I want to use them.
21:06.07 MinuteElectron But Windows Just Works (tm).
21:06.12 louipc how do you know if the driver works when you can't connect?
21:06.26 MinuteElectron Because it detects the networks.
21:07.22 louipc yeah unix-like OSs are a pain in the ass to configure etc... but they don't crash and freeze as much :D
21:07.27 MinuteElectron The only thing I hate about Ubuntu: it loaded GRUB onto my computer and now I have to select windows every time I boot up.
21:07.54 louipc you can change the grub settings to boot into windows automatically
21:08.00 MinuteElectron I can?
21:08.00 louipc yep
21:08.25 louipc and if you want to boot into something else you just hold shift or something to get to the menu
21:09.35 louipc I hardly ever reboot so I haven't really looked into how to do it heh
21:10.08 MinuteElectron hehe, I wish I was in that sort of position.
21:10.08 louipc but at least you can have windows selected as default. That's easy and straightforward
21:11.06 louipc do you have a /boot/grub/menu.lst in your ubuntu install?
21:11.57 MinuteElectron *shrug* I never boot into it and I can't tell from inside windows since it is in a Linux file system.
21:12.44 louipc MinuteElectron: install Archlinux in it instead then
21:12.56 MinuteElectron ok
21:13.59 MinuteElectron heh
21:14.54 MinuteElectron louipc: What Desktop environment does it come with by default?
21:15.00 louipc it'll increase your nerd factor by 3x
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21:15.09 louipc MinuteElectron: none, you choose
21:15.27 louipc yet it's pretty easy to use
21:15.53 louipc so you can use gnome, or kde, or whatever you want really after doing the basic installation
21:16.11 louipc but... about the wireless I'm not sure
21:16.35 MinuteElectron wireless is pretty much essential.
21:16.53 MinuteElectron without it I have no internet as I am not allowed to trail cabling all around the house
21:18.24 louipc yep well you could set it up via cable then if it works
21:18.34 louipc do you know what drivers you need?
21:19.03 MinuteElectron zd1211
21:19.11 MinuteElectron I don't have a long enough cable.
21:19.41 MinuteElectron Wow, fate. I clicked Random page on the wiki and http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Networkmanager came up.
21:20.10 louipc heheh
21:20.10 louipc nice
21:23.00 brlcad louipc: it looks like it makes standard hex and allen bolts, nuts, and washers using descriptors like M10x50, M8, etc as well as generaized number of faces, height/width
21:23.37 IriX64 I know nothing about it other than he assures me it works
21:23.45 louipc yeah I noticed the washers
21:24.48 brlcad pretty useful actually
21:24.53 louipc ah ok I see
21:25.22 brlcad very similar to the existing mk_bolt tool
21:25.27 louipc could do with button head cap screws (bhcs), flat head and all those other types
21:25.33 brlcad have to compare how they both do what they do
21:25.39 brlcad yeah
21:26.05 IriX64 says he'll modify it
21:27.00 brlcad IriX64: src/mk/mk_bolt.c is the existing bolt generator, if he matches those other features it provides, it could probably just replace it outright with a better version
21:27.12 IriX64 just a sec
21:27.28 brlcad might show him how to go about using libwdb too :)
21:27.42 IriX64 he didn't look at mk_bolt, but he'll look and do what he can
21:28.13 brlcad his tools already "better" in a couple ways, so it would be nice to see it improved
21:28.16 IriX64 I invited him to join but he's shy
21:28.43 brlcad aww, he should
21:28.58 IriX64 heh i don't pressure children
21:29.51 IriX64 hangs out in #linux on efnet
21:31.02 brlcad then he already knows the ropes ;)
21:31.07 IriX64 and chains :)
21:31.33 JRogers brlcad: Is this Sean?
21:31.33 brlcad he's clearly capable coder to get as far as he's got, he could work on brl-cad more :)
21:31.40 brlcad JRogers: howdy, and yes
21:32.18 brlcad ah, docbook, hoey! :)
21:32.23 JRogers brlcad: I just got your email in response to the Doc Writer. Im interested in taking it on
21:32.30 JRogers yes
21:32.41 brlcad excellent
21:32.41 IriX64 brlcad: very capable but what he works on is up to him :)
21:32.51 brlcad IriX64: that's always the case in open source
21:33.15 brlcad you can ask, you can beg, you can bribe, but you can't make anyone do anything ;)
21:33.27 IriX64 :)
21:33.33 louipc or volunteering :P
21:34.15 brlcad JRogers: so what do you need from me to get started?
21:34.17 IriX64 but if you want something done the absolute fastest least effort way give it to a (competent) lazy slob to do ;)
21:35.05 JRogers I have been looking at some of the docs that i could find. Is there somewhere that holds the whole collection?
21:35.24 brlcad not really, which is part of the problem
21:35.30 brlcad they are in different places in different formats
21:35.38 brlcad and depending on the format usually determines where they are at
21:36.05 brlcad the manpages are spread throughout the sources, usually provided alongside the tool's code (and there are about 300 manual pages)
21:36.57 brlcad the html pages are in the doc/html directory and includes a mix of tutorial, overview, release notes, and more
21:37.28 brlcad there are text docs in the top-level (which will probably remain text), but also in the doc/ dir which could be docbookified or not
21:38.00 JRogers ok... Are you going to want to have the docs integrated right into the source tree and set to compile with the main progs?
21:38.05 brlcad there are troff docs in the doc/ dir too, a long guide to mged, and a few other tools
21:39.16 brlcad there is a massive tutorial series that is natively in ms word format, which is what you find pdf's of on the website for numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4
21:39.28 brlcad JRogers: yeah, that will be ideally what we end up with
21:39.40 brlcad so they can be version controlled, updated as needed with the sources, etc
21:40.07 brlcad probably add a configure option to enable/disable their generation since they'll depend on external tools (unless you have another idea for managing that)
21:40.14 JRogers ok.. Let me start by getting a copy of the source tree and take a look from there.
21:40.48 brlcad if you want a document to "start with", that'd probably be the html doc link #1 on the website, it's a fairly brief overview with a handful of images
21:41.10 brlcad I have that in english and italian, and maybe a copy in spanish somewhere
21:41.54 JRogers Latest Docbook standard (v5 i believe)
21:42.40 brlcad it's still candidate release, but good enough :)
21:43.55 brlcad there's something to be said for considering docbook lite, have you used it?
21:44.05 JRogers ok... Let me start taking a look around and see what im up against. Any idea's on what options re formats your going to want. I would guess HTML, PDF.
21:44.31 JRogers Not really used it much but i am willing to use whatever you want
21:44.34 brlcad yeah, html, pdf, and plain txt for starters
21:44.59 brlcad i'm not stuck on lite, i've just seen it in use more and more
21:45.43 brlcad probably makes it simpler for document writers, but then of course constrains how it can be used
21:46.33 JRogers Which ever way you want to go... To me its just all a subset of xml anyways and the only difference to me is what tags are available
21:48.47 JRogers ok.. just took a quick look at the light standard and its fine by me.. Why don't we start with that and see if it will cover our needs
21:49.09 brlcad e.g. http://www.producingoss.com/ was written using lite
21:49.51 brlcad though they didn't use any images/diagrams
21:53.44 JRogers ok... that should be enough to get me started. Are the msword docs (that the 4 pdfs where made from) on sourceforge?
21:55.05 brlcad they're not really available anywhere as i've not wanted those to "get out" cept to folks working on the project (on tasks like this)
21:55.48 JRogers ok. eventually i will need a copy of those.
21:58.21 JRogers if possible though can you email me the first one
22:00.14 louipc yar I converted one to html
22:00.21 louipc no images though :(
22:02.05 JRogers that will do. i might be able to pull the images off the pdf
22:03.13 louipc http://louipc.no-ip.org/VolumeII-Introduction_to_MGEDs.html
22:04.35 brlcad louipc: cool, did I know that?
22:05.35 louipc I just did it right now :D
22:06.17 brlcad nice, that's a decent start towards docbook format
22:06.40 brlcad just needs to be broken out into all the separate sections, reference images, tables, etc
22:07.05 JRogers he makes it sound so easy... lol
22:07.16 louipc there's pdftohtml in a package called poppler
22:07.43 brlcad no image extraction though, eh?
22:08.44 JRogers ok.. i gotta take off but i will get started on looking through some of this stuff tonight.
22:09.06 louipc it does have image extraction but that one I did is kind of odd just a sec
22:10.11 brlcad JRogers: cool, and thanks for jumping in
22:10.29 JRogers no worries.. i was bored and needed a new project to work on.
22:10.36 brlcad :)
22:10.53 JRogers louipc: if you get one with images can you just replace the other one
22:11.04 brlcad we're hurting for bodies, with a line of wants and demands at the door :)
22:11.24 JRogers once i get started im going to need devel access to the source tree for ver control
22:11.26 louipc http://louipc.no-ip.org/VolumeII-Introduction_to_MGED/
22:11.47 brlcad JRogers: yep, understood, just let me know when and send me your sf id
22:11.57 louipc I can play around with it
22:12.01 louipc JRogers: sure
22:12.36 JRogers cool. l8t all
22:13.41 IriX64 http://www3.sympatico.ca/mario.dulisse2
22:13.48 IriX64 some pictures
22:16.37 MinuteElectron brlcad: What is the current backup procedure for your server?
22:20.03 brlcad the server performs (or at least attempt to perform) a level zero every week, as well as local daily backups of most of the databases
22:20.39 MinuteElectron hmm, so the website is safe if the server crashes?
22:20.45 brlcad louipc: interesting, though it looks like that pdf was created with background images underlayed
22:20.47 MinuteElectron s/crashes/dies
22:20.58 brlcad so you can't directly extract the images without the original
22:21.14 brlcad MinuteElectron: yeah, it should be
22:21.18 MinuteElectron ok,
22:21.21 MinuteElectron that is good
22:21.28 louipc :D
22:22.02 brlcad the server it backs up to also has it's own backup processes that go on, full off-site backups usually once a year and local backups every few months
22:22.09 IriX64 louipc: have you thought of bringing the images up and screen capturing them to a file?
22:22.20 louipc IriX64: what do you mean?
22:22.32 brlcad louipc: you want to try off of the original .doc?
22:22.46 brlcad see if you can make a different pdf that will capture the images better on conversion?
22:22.49 louipc I can capture them in pdf2html I can specify a zoom level too,
22:22.54 IriX64 bing the document up on screen and take a screen shot of the area you're interested n
22:23.11 louipc pdftohtml I mean
22:23.32 IriX64 no something to take a shot of a screen area like i did mine
22:23.36 brlcad louipc: I mean the fact that it pulled the whole page here: http://louipc.no-ip.org/VolumeII-Introduction_to_MGED/VolumeII-Introduction_to_MGED015.png
22:23.37 louipc brlcad: sure I can try I will have to look up how to do it
22:23.44 louipc yeah
22:24.01 brlcad was that an option, or is there really no separate image for that screenshot
22:24.14 louipc I can try to get it
22:24.27 brlcad it certainly looks modified and not just extracted
22:24.38 brlcad because the bit depth/quality is wrong
22:24.48 louipc yeah it's the zoom
22:24.57 louipc I suppose
22:32.09 IriX64 If you like those pictures, I'll see what I can do about getting this thing working with a handfull of dlls and something like Xming or Xwin32
22:33.16 louipc might just be the rendering library
22:40.36 brlcad the coverity report is interesting
22:40.47 brlcad can't wait for them to get the whole thing indexed properly
22:41.12 MinuteElectron brlcad: Would you mind taking a look at htpd.conf for my.brlcad.org - the .htaccess rewrite rules aren't working.
22:41.14 brlcad (it aborted after processing tk)
22:41.31 brlcad MinuteElectron: sure
22:41.37 MinuteElectron thanks
22:44.02 MinuteElectron HOw long does it take to delete a single shortcut...
22:44.11 MinuteElectron Windows is weird.
22:44.20 louipc hahh
22:44.45 MinuteElectron 1 minute and counting.
22:46.56 MinuteElectron And now windows has hung. OMG
22:47.11 MinuteElectron Fixed.
22:51.34 brlcad MinuteElectron: I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be working
22:51.37 brlcad did you turn the engine on?
22:51.57 MinuteElectron Oh, no.
22:52.14 brlcad <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
22:52.15 brlcad <PROTECTED>
22:52.20 MinuteElectron Ok.
22:52.23 brlcad <PROTECTED>
22:52.25 brlcad etc
22:52.28 MinuteElectron Wait, I did.
22:53.26 brlcad let me enable it for all
22:53.30 brlcad see if it helps
22:55.10 IriX64 http://www3.sympatico.ca/mario.dulisse2/photonmappedhavoc.png and I'm sorry I interrupted your conversation, sometimes I get too excited for my own good
22:56.09 IriX64 roses need watering :)
22:56.13 brlcad MinuteElectron: try now
22:56.45 MinuteElectron ok
22:56.56 MinuteElectron no luck
22:59.57 brlcad hm, are you sure the problem isn't your rewrite rule?
23:00.31 brlcad i know mediawiki, for example, hijacks the rewrite (if you try to do what their docs say, it often won't work as-is)
23:01.35 MinuteElectron one sec
23:03.26 brlcad i've got mediawiki set up elsewhere on that server with good settings, so there's something to compare against
23:07.39 MinuteElectron I have configured MediaWiki - still no luck.
23:14.48 louipc hmm yeah I can't seem to get it to convert nicely it's a big buggy
23:14.55 louipc *bit
23:25.11 MinuteElectron Work on the site in the morning. Goodnight.
23:27.17 louipc goodnight
23:36.06 IriX64 heh it works with xming :)
23:53.30 brlcad thanks MinuteElectron, I'll take a look and see if I can get it to go

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