A Coffee between friends :-) How was Your Day ?

[woofy 12]

4mbit is luxury. I get just 1mbit at home and before I changed ISP I was only getting 500kbit (I'm 6.5km down copper wire from the exchange). I've considered getting a 20mbit satellite system but its soooo expensive.

On the plus side, I too have endless green fields and fenland to walk in

And I've just measured 75mbit here at work.

 

[foehnsturm 969]

No cows or horses here, but some trees ... and 100mbit fibre to the home

 

[Nicolinux 288]

Nice view. Quite some trees there.

The crazy thing is, my former apartment is only 200m (beeline) away and I had 50mbit there :/

 

[nallath 1,123]

At the UM office, you're happy if you get more then 45kb/s...

 

[Dim3nsioneer 557]

At the UM office, you're happy if you get more then 45kb/s...

 

Rumour has it that the UM support team only gets 4.5b/h... ok, that was a very bad joke... :oops:

I'm quite happy with my 10Mbps... and with the Ultimaker support team...

 

[IRobertI 520]

Speaking of bandwidth, I got a letter from my ISP today. "Hey, we've upgraded your upload speed to 100Mbit. Oh and we also raised the price!". Gee, thanks... Maybe ask first next time?

 

[Nicolinux 288]

You have no idea what dirty deeds I am willing to do for a fast internet connection...

My ISP even called me once and told me they had 50mbit available at my address. Turned out they had the wrong address :(

 

[woofy 12]

[Glum]

At home now and measuring 0.36Mbit download speed. It's really slow tonight and I'm drooling again over a satellite broadband system.

[Glum]

[aaronalai 2]

Hey guys thanks for the support!! The next day I woke up and felt much better, and found myself not dwelling on the previous days events. I spent the day walking around in beautiful weather and eating delicious food and ended with drinks at a comedy club. All in all it was a pretty great day! I feel that my next presentation will go much more smoothly.

@Ian, yeah if there is any way you could record your presentation I would love to see it! Even if it's in German and I can't quite understand everything .

 

[ian 32]

Hi Aaron.

This year im doing my presentation in English.

But im sure one or two german words will slip in there some where ;-)

Im just polishng off my presentation now.

Im trying to keep it as simple as possible as I noticed last year... the less on the screen and the more coming from the presenter.. the better :-)

Last year they had a small dodgy camera setup but I guess Florian has a better camera setup this year.

Oh god.. fingers crossed......

Ian :-)

 

[skint 61]

Guess what... I am on holiday playing golf tomorrow yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!! Sunshine, golf and a couple pints afterwards Happy Thursday afternoon lol

* Apologies for all of these poor workers that have to do a full week. I take no responsibility for anyone crying or throwing a hammer at their screen.

 

[Nicolinux 288]

Don't worry. You can't golf and print at the same time. We'll see who will be crying or throwing a golf club at everyone in the vicinity

 

[skint 61]

I`m hoping to set a print going before I go out though, plan it for about 6 hours should work

 

[ian 32]

ok its 10 minutes to 2 in the morning.

I have finished my 3d presentation for the big day tomorrow.

I have a bag of prototypes and my right foot has fallen asleep... im ready....

Ill either wow them or make them pee themselves laughing.. lets see what happens ;-)

wish me good luck guys.....

Ian :-)

 

[Nicolinux 288]

Good luck Ian!

 

[illuminarti 18]

Good luck Ian!

Talking about luck, I could use a bit too. I'm trying to get out and join the gang at Maker Faire in San Francisco. I was supposed to go yesterday morning, but that flight was flat out cancelled the night before. So I was rebooked on a flight at 6:30pm yesterday - but that was delayed so long that my connecting flight (the last one of the day) would already have left by the time I got to Chicago.

And so now I'm left with another attempt at 4pm today... if that doesn't happen, it probably won't be worth making the trip out there at all :-(. Flying between anything but the biggest airports in the US is becoming a very frustrating experience. The system is stretched so thin - there are no spare aircraft and no spare seats to work around any problems. After the 3DPrintShow in New York earlier this year it took me two days to get a flight home, after they cancelled my original flight due to 'lack of crew' (despite all the passengers, and a fresh crew, being on the plane ahead of schedule) :-(

 

[IRobertI 520]

Fuuuuuuu... My NAS is showing the RAID as degraded. Why do HDDs hate me so much *sigh* I guess it was because I thought that it would be nice to upgrade a few days ago... Meh, I'll guess I'll have to waste some cash and get a new drive in there before the whole thing goes down. Annoying as that money could've been spent on something more fun.

</rant>

 

[Dim3nsioneer 557]

@illuminarti: There is only one way to speed things up. Just ask a small question... :mrgreen:

 

 

[woofy 12]

Heh heh.

Thanks to some help from a couple of moderators, I've had a name change!

Cheers guys.

[ian 32]

Morning guys !!

Back safe and sound from Erfurt :-)

Had a lovely time meeting many cool people and seeing some new tasty technologies... plus some amazing new materials coming out of colorfabb ! ;-)

Did my presentation at 4PM on Friday... the people were a mix of business men and were tired... I spoke too fast becasue I was excited and after the presentation.. I didnt get one question.. so I guess I bombed out a little :-(

But I think If I had talked about candyfloss and my childhood.. the people would not have noticed...

Screw it !... I had fun and it was a really interesting Fair like always !

Florian Horsch and the two amazing Messe Girls did a brilliant job ! :-)

Ian :-)

 

[ian 32]

Here is the Presentation I did in Germany :-)

http://umforum.ultimaker.com/index.php?/topic/5770-my-presentation-from-the-big-erfurt-3d-fair-germany-2014/

 

[ian 32]

David Braam programmer from Ultimaker 3D Printers released secret snap shot of upcoming Cura at Erfurt 3D Messe Germany !

 

[Dim3nsioneer 557]

Very unusual that it's not Daid himself leaking the news...! ;-)

[ian 32]

i think time I was just a little faster with leaking... hehe :-) LOL

 

[ian 32]

The Difference between Open Source and Closed Source People ;-)