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[Notebook]

Shame, Jonathon Amos is usually good.

N.

 

[Andy44]

Shame, Jonathon Amos is usually good.

N.

It seems to be an editorial decision by the BBC:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym#Pronunciation-dependent_style_and_case

 

[Notebook]

Well, that's moderately making sense. I suppose I do say Nasa, but spell USA and FBI or MMB(Milk Marketing Board, UK, long gone).

N.

 

[Andy44]

About 20 minutes ago my smart phone started acting wonky and suddenly won't charge.

I'm about to go on a 4 day trip out of town and was counting on it working.

Murphy's Law strikes again!

 

[Linguofreak]

About 20 minutes ago my smart phone started acting wonky and suddenly won't charge.

I'm about to go on a 4 day trip out of town and was counting on it working.

Murphy's Law strikes again!

Define "wonky".

I had a period recently where my phone was charging intermittently and eventually stopped charging: right after it stopped charging, I found a burnt spot in the insulation on my charging cable. The fault had been in the cable and not the phone all along.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

About 20 minutes ago my smart phone started acting wonky and suddenly won't charge.

I'm about to go on a 4 day trip out of town and was counting on it working.

Murphy's Law strikes again!

Define "wonky".

I had a period recently where my phone was charging intermittently and eventually stopped charging: right after it stopped charging, I found a burnt spot in the insulation on my charging cable. The fault had been in the cable and not the phone all along.

Andy, you wouldn't happen to have pets with a tendency to chew on things, would you? My sister's cat loves to chew on white charging cords... and only white. Black ones, for whatever reason, are simply unpalatable.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

The submarine UC3 Nautilus, which supported the Copenhagen Suborbitals launch attempts, sunk today under mysterious circumstances.

According to the designer and owner, he did some tests with the submarine until the ballast tank system failed. He was rescued by the coastguard.

There is some suspicion that a journalist who was believed to be on board and is now missing was murdered. The owner is being held by the police.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...r-held-copenhagen-police-suspicion-murdering/

Very strange.

 

[Andy44]

Define "wonky".

I had a period recently where my phone was charging intermittently and eventually stopped charging: right after it stopped charging, I found a burnt spot in the insulation on my charging cable. The fault had been in the cable and not the phone all along.

Nope, different cables, same result.

The phone started beeping and a message box would flash up repeatedly like some app was stuck. Restarting didn't help. Removing the battery didn't help. Starting in safe mode didn't help. Plugged into anything phone says the charger is not the "official" charger. I think I'm screwed.

Andy, you wouldn't happen to have pets with a tendency to chew on things, would you? My sister's cat loves to chew on white charging cords... and only white. Black ones, for whatever reason, are simply unpalatable.

Nope, no pets, and it's not a cable problem. It looks like a phone hardware problem.

And I don't have time to waste at a phone store getting a new phone and reloading all my stuff tomorrow. <sigh>

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So I reset some settings on it and it seems to charge now, but it's not as "smart" as it was before. Off on my road trip now, wish me luck!

 

[Urwumpe]

Did somebody already try running Jenkins on a Raspberry Pi 2? The performance seems to be rather mediocre there, does somebody have some subjective impression how the speed is? I don't plan using it for actual development, I want to have a highly portable solution for tutoring.

 

[jedidia]

Did somebody already try running Jenkins on a Raspberry Pi 2?

I have a bit of experience with jenkins and quite a bit with the raspi 2, but not combined. However, when it comes to task crunching, the raspi 2 really isn't that good.

It should run the server just fine, there's plenty of memory, however building stuff on the pi does take time. How feasible the idea is is really down to how complex the applications have to be that you're building for your tutoring purposes. Running a few simple java unit tests and doing a maven build of simple code will work just fine for any purposes (especially when using the oracle jdk for running code - that thing is more than double as fast as openJVM!). Compiling complex stuff will take time. As a very rough benchmark, we compile the gphoto2 library natively on the pi during device setup, and while I have never measured the time exactly, I'd guess from felt memory that it takes somewhere around 5 minutes.

The pi3 does a bit better, but usually copmiler tasks don't make use of the additional cores available.

So if you just need something to show the concepts, the pi2 will do fine. If compiling and managing builds of complex and long dependency chains is part of your tutoring, there might be a lot of waiting involved. A VM on a thumbdrive might be the better highly portable alternative here.

 

[Urwumpe]

A VM on a thumbdrive might be the better highly portable alternative here.

Well the problem is, that we need to bring our own CPU... and using a laptop might mean management has to get involved... and I prefer letting the plan mature enough that management can't stop it. :lol:

 

[Thunder Chicken]

"Fix one problem, two more shall take its place. Hail Honda." :lol:

Only two? I'm now on my motor mounts. Didn't realize that OEM Honda mounts were made out of marshmallows.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Only two?

:rofl:
You're right, it's usually more.

I'm now on my motor mounts. Didn't realize that OEM Honda mounts were made out of marshmallows.

Now THAT's a new one to me. :blink:

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Now THAT's a new one to me. :blink:

Yeah, I think some of the clunking that I am experiencing are the motor mounts bottoming out. Some Googling suggests this was a thing with the 7th generation Civics. I looked at them and they are intact (no splits anywhere), but when the engine runs they don't dampen any vibration. I can push down on the engine by hand and bottom out the driver's side mount, squashes like it is made of foam.

They don't look too hard to replace (except the rear mount, need a lift for that). I just ordered an aftermarket mount set and will put it in when they come in.

 

[willy88]

They don't look too hard to replace (except the rear mount, need a lift for that). I just ordered an aftermarket mount set and will put it in when they come in.

That kind of thinking is what entices those bolts to seize further than is reasonable. :rofl:

 

[Fabri91]

Well the problem is, that we need to bring our own CPU... and using a laptop might mean management has to get involved... and I prefer letting the plan mature enough that management can't stop it. :lol:

Any reason you haven't looked at the Raspberry Pi 3? It's got a decent performance bump compared to the 2 if that's an issue.

 

[Urwumpe]

Any reason you haven't looked at the Raspberry Pi 3? It's got a decent performance bump compared to the 2 if that's an issue.

Actually its just a matter of availability and rapid research. I can get a complete Raspberry Pi 2 kit (+case, radiators, power supply) in less than 24 hours by geographic coincidence. It would take a few days longer with a Raspberry Pi 3 and cost a bit more.

Also the Raspberry Pi 3 has a onboard Wifi module, which might make it less suitable because of security concerns... don't ask, it makes no sense unless you are inside a closed system of axioms...

 

[tl8]

FYI, the Pi 2 and Pi 3 have the same hardware now. The only difference is the addition of the Wifi module.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

British Battleships are on their way to World of Warships!

 

[jedidia]

FYI, the Pi 2 and Pi 3 have the same hardware now.

Huh? last time I checked, the Pi3 did have more cpu cores. Has it been downgraded?