Being Bored

piranha · Post by **piranha** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:31 pm

What do you guys do when you get bored in programming an OS?
I just can't get any new ideas........

Alboin · Post by **Alboin** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:59 pm

I read. Mathematics, Linguistics, most anything.

Watch TV.

Galaga is nice. There's always nethack too, along with the occasional RPG.

Programming something besides an OS is also a possibility.

Art is also pleasant. Pencil, charcoal, paints, etc.

Yeah...

Note: All of the above involve a cup of tea nearby and an ample supply on hand.

Zacariaz · Post by **Zacariaz** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:30 am

i often have the same problem. At the moment however, Jeff Hawkins is the answer for me, maybe it will me to you allso:
http://www.onintelligence.org/
http://www.numenta.com/
http://redwood.berkeley.edu/
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/125
(and ted.com in generel, you'll find amazing stuff there.)

Allso i practise the art of programming seemingly useless programs, involving complex structures of varius sort, uncomprehensible math, and so on. Sometimes i learn something, sometimes i get a interesting, maybe even usefull result, and sometimes it just helps to pass the time...

Anyhow, its easy to find something to do, however if it has to be of any personal interest or importance, well i guess im just not the right guy to ask

os64dev · Post by **os64dev** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:35 am

piranha wrote:What do you guys do when you get bored in programming an OS?
I just can't get any new ideas........

Write applications for your own OS.

Solar · Post by **Solar** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 1:14 am

Having a family with two kids, mostly.

Last weekend we went to the airport, just to show my daughter (3) the big planes.

Reading.

Not thinking about computers for a change. (Apart from my hobbyist projects, it's my 9-to-5 profession too.)

I must be getting old.

AJ · Post by AJ » Thu Aug 23, 2007 3:15 am

Music, cycling, kayaking, online gaming and currently moving house

JackScott · Post by **JackScott** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 4:06 am

I'm glad to see somebody else likes Kayaking!

Bushwalking (hiking), writing, eating, playing SNES games, etc

I've got a couple of other growing hobbies. Currently I'm sound (effects) engineer for a production of The Wizard of Oz. I'm also busy recording people in the studio (something I want to get into more after I leave school).

Combuster · Post by **Combuster** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:19 am

Play an instrument
Take dance lessons
Build the most idiotic constructions from Lego

JamesM · Post by **JamesM** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 7:52 am

Wow, awesome, more kayaking osdevers!

I just passed my level 2 kayak coach assessment - so I'm an instructor now! woooooo!

(If you can't tell, im pretty happy about it

)

JamesM

AJ · Post by AJ » Thu Aug 23, 2007 10:24 am

Hi,

I was hoping to do that too, but I need my BCU 3* first and my club cancelled the assessment due to not enough takers

Adam

inflater · Post by **inflater** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:16 pm

I'm into "easy electricity" by now

I've maked my own "air-conditioner" - a CPU fan set onto 12 volt transformer put in a 8x8x8 box with the back side cut off and the box opening is open for best air flow.

Also I've made some "multi-transformer" - its just HP Vectra's PSU (from 1996 and still working

) with two pins shorted in order to work. That Vectra had some problem (it wouldnt boot, display anything on screen, beep on POST - wonder if that machine got into POST

, etc.) so I'm planning a little extension to the "multi-transformer" - a Seagate 850MB ATA HDD will be used as a speaker (dunno if that harddisk works even with this mobo failure, so i think - throw it in the trash, or have fun with it?

). You maybe seen these things on google video, but my modification will be with spinning disk platters

I wonder how Boney M or these oldies/dance/... songs would sound on my "new" speaker

I'm doing this just for fun, I'm bored and OSdeving every day is boring alright (for me)

Regards
inflater

piranha · Post by **piranha** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 6:32 pm

Thanks, guys.

I just got a new idea for my OS. It's a system monitor.

but I am just voicing this.

AndrewAPrice · Post by **AndrewAPrice** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 8:48 pm

inflater wrote:I'm into "easy electricity" by now I've maked my own "air-conditioner" - a CPU fan set onto 12 volt transformer put in a 8x8x8 box with the back side cut off and the box opening is open for best air flow.

I made a super fan once! I chained 12 CPU fans togeather all facing the same way, and sealed them togeather tight with duck tap, leaving the only openings at the front and back. Really noisey, but I think it would have been more effective to have made a large sheet of fans rather than one long tube.

os64dev · Post by **os64dev** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 12:45 am

Combuster wrote:Build the most idiotic constructions from Lego

Nothing to be ashamed of. It helps creative thinking at least that is what i tell my self when i am playing with LEGO, hell and i am 34.

Brynet-Inc · Post by **Brynet-Inc** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 1:18 am

I don't mean to offend, but if "anything" computer or science related gets you bored.. It's time to find a new hobby.

As for the mentions of sports.. boring.. not at all interesting to say the least..

Apologies for my opinions, They're unique..

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