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Title: eevBLAB #9 - Meet David
Post by: EEVblog on April 18, 2015, 10:21:26 am
Meet David2, the first EEVblog employee.

eevBLAB #9 - Meet David (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji4ZIZKQRJw#ws)
Title: Re: eevBLAB #9 - Meet David
Post by: Radio Tech on April 18, 2015, 11:17:41 am
Good day David, Dave2, Seppy  :-+
Bout time you show up mate.
Left handed screw driver  :-DD
Title: Re: eevBLAB #9 - Meet David
Post by: ElectroNub on April 18, 2015, 12:15:21 pm
hi david,

are you the same person i saw turn that scope upside down on the shelf behind you?
Title: Re: eevBLAB #9 - Meet David
Post by: Annakin4 on April 18, 2015, 11:03:01 pm
I like David! I want to see a bit of him every once and a while! He seems pretty cool and who doesn't love the haircut?
Title: Re: eevBLAB #9 - Meet David
Post by: nctnico on April 18, 2015, 11:10:15 pm
David hates Linux so therefore I vote for making him scrub the toilets with a tooth brush!  >:D
Title: Re: eevBLAB #9 - Meet David
Post by: Excavatoree on April 18, 2015, 11:18:07 pm
I like David! I want to see a bit of him every once and a while! He seems pretty cool and who doesn't love the haircut?

In 50 or so years he'll be the Professor Poliakoff of electronics.
Title: Re: eevBLAB #9 - Meet David
Post by: Falcon69 on April 19, 2015, 01:09:46 am
huh?!  They have right AND left handed screwdrivers?!  I thought they only had right handed ones. Can you send me a left handed one? I want to see how it feels in my right hand.
Title: Re: eevBLAB #9 - Meet David
Post by: bills on April 19, 2015, 01:26:08 am
huh?!  They have right AND left handed screwdrivers?!  I thought they only had right handed ones. Can you send me a left handed one? I want to see how it feels in my right hand.
All of mine are left handed.
Title: Re: eevBLAB #9 - Meet David
Post by: Philbywhizz on April 19, 2015, 02:24:31 am
Welcome David!
Title: Re: eevBLAB #9 - Meet David
Post by: kizzap on April 19, 2015, 06:04:03 am
Mwahaha. I know what the project is!!!  :P

Twas revealed to us select people who frequent #eevblog on IRC on afternet.
Title: Re: eevBLAB #9 - Meet David
Post by: Howardlong on April 19, 2015, 06:29:35 am
(http://s3.amazonaws.com/rapgenius/filepicker%2FyJQxTqL3Rve7bj3R6VQ5_mini_me.jpg)
Title: Re: eevBLAB #9 - Meet David
Post by: funkyant on April 19, 2015, 11:28:51 am
I like David! I want to see a bit of him every once and a while! He seems pretty cool and who doesn't love the haircut?

I second this
Title: Re: eevBLAB #9 - Meet David
Post by: kcozens on April 19, 2015, 01:08:29 pm
Wow. Dave finally did it. He found a way to clone himself.  Good on David for not having an interest in social media (e.g. Twitter, and Facebook) but too bad he isn't a Linux fan. Perhaps Dave will get David to turn that scope right side up at last before all the electrons fall out of it and it stops working.  :)
Title: Re: eevBLAB #9 - Meet David
Post by: Galenbo on April 19, 2015, 06:46:31 pm
... and who doesn't love the haircut?
I would describe it as: not having a haircut.
Title: Re: eevBLAB #9 - Meet David
Post by: SeanB on April 19, 2015, 07:05:19 pm
... and who doesn't love the haircut?
I would describe it as: not having a haircut.

It takes work to keep that Afro in shape, especially if you actually wash it regularly. You need about an hour each time just to do the drying, gel and combing. Here there are a lot of small roadside hair shops that will do it, and which also do extensions and weaves. The Marge Simpson look is quite common.
Title: Re: eevBLAB #9 - Meet David
Post by: SL4P on April 19, 2015, 11:44:41 pm
OK - observations.
With two Daves - the two-shot is screaming out for a POSITIVE feedback tee-shirt.
We can forgive the funky hair!

Cheers & Welcome to the PEE pack (Professional Electronics Engineering)

Cue background music: "Land Down Under"...
Title: Re: eevBLAB #9 - Meet David
Post by: SL4P on April 19, 2015, 11:52:32 pm
Umm Dave - "You were holding it backwards." (C) Apple Inc
Title: Re: eevBLAB #9 - Meet David
Post by: george graves on April 20, 2015, 01:11:41 am
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2295566/temp/dave-face-swap.jpg)
Title: Re: eevBLAB #9 - Meet David
Post by: EEVblog on April 20, 2015, 04:59:37 am
 :o
Title: Re: eevBLAB #9 - Meet David
Post by: Muttley Snickers on April 20, 2015, 05:15:26 am
:o

You should ban him, not for the blasphemy, but for not turning the scope whilst he had the opportunity to do so.

 :-DD


Muttley
Title: Re: eevBLAB #9 - Meet David
Post by: george graves on April 20, 2015, 09:26:55 am
Sorry - I couldn't help myself - all in good fun of course.
Title: Re: eevBLAB #9 - Meet David
Post by: nctnico on April 20, 2015, 10:01:14 am
'The haircut' looks good on Dave  :-DD
Title: Re: eevBLAB #9 - Meet David
Post by: Seppy on April 21, 2015, 04:35:28 am
... and who doesn't love the haircut?
I would describe it as: not having a haircut.
Its akward that I got a haircut before the video was released. Hmm whoops.
OK - observations.
With two Daves - the two-shot is screaming out for a POSITIVE feedback tee-shirt.
Genius!
Title: Re: eevBLAB #9 - Meet David
Post by: ornea on April 21, 2015, 04:37:23 pm
Hello David. 

Welcome.

You are right about Linux, but to quote a wise old sage ... "Use whichever OS best lends itself to the task"

Title: Re: eevBLAB #9 - Meet David
Post by: cipher on April 23, 2015, 02:54:25 pm
You are right about Linux, but to quote a wise old sage ... "Use whichever OS best lends itself to the task"

Indeed.

As a PC tech and Software Engineer I've used, installed, and developed on a wide variety of operating systems, from MacOS 6 through X, Windows 3.1 through 8, BSD distros such as FreeBSD and NetBSD, and Linux distros such as Debian, Red Hat, Fedora Core, Ubuntu, Mint, and Gentoo.

I use Windows at work and home. My workplace is entrenched in Microsoft products (both user and development oriented), so I must use Windows at work.

If my workplace didn't use Windows, I'd still use Windows over Parallels/Boot Camp or something like Wine/CrossOver to run Windows environment software and games. Why? Because it just works without tweaking configs or worrying about performance on Apple hardware or flaky stability of Windows environment emulation like in Linux. Perhaps that's the fault of the market being so focused on developing for Windows?

The only alternative I see to negate the reliability issues in a Linux environment would be to run only Steam offered apps and games. But I wouldn't want to be tied down to just one portal company (no pun intended for "portal" ;) ).
Title: Re: eevBLAB #9 - Meet David
Post by: nctnico on April 23, 2015, 02:58:53 pm
Now we are done with talking about haircuts (David: when do we get to see the new haircut?)
Windows runs just fine on a Virtual box in Linux. I'm using it all the time and I usually have 2 or 3 running at the same time for different projects/purposes. The best thing is that I can copy the virtual machines over to a new Linux PC without re-installing!
Title: Re: eevBLAB #9 - Meet David
Post by: cipher on May 08, 2015, 01:37:00 pm
Windows runs just fine on a Virtual box in Linux.

Having it run "just fine" does not mean perfectly. It's still not a true Windows environment from hardware to software. And when you're a developer like me that makes a huge difference. Network stability issues, driver framework issues, etc, etc.
Title: Re: eevBLAB #9 - Meet David
Post by: nctnico on May 08, 2015, 10:52:56 pm
Don't twist my words! If you are pushing the limits you'll alway find a problem somewhere. I have tested running Windows from a virtual machine thouroughly over a period of 2 years before switching. Even timing sensitive things like programming microcontrollers (toggling pins on a USB device) works flawlessly. The biggest problem I found is disk flushing which stalls the VM for a while (depending on cache settings) but I solved that by using an SSD.
Title: Re: eevBLAB #9 - Meet David
Post by: atferrari on May 09, 2015, 04:37:49 pm
... and who doesn't love the haircut?
I would describe it as: not having a haircut.

Strictly speaking, yes!  :-+
Title: Re: eevBLAB #9 - Meet David
Post by: abigbell on May 10, 2015, 10:00:33 am
hello Dave, I do love your videos, and I have beening sitting in my chair for a whole long day, just listening to your bubblings and teardowns ,

and learn about lots of things, and thanks to you, tahnks to your sexy appearance and voice , my head is now dizzling  |O |O |O

can we have some soft sexy face and voice?  I love Cate Blanchett!

and I  dont belive your audience are more than 50%, what the hell wowan want to know about any electronics? :wtf: