EEVblog Live Event

"David L. Jones"

Dave appearing live in his pyjamas with a bowl of soggy Corn Flakes in his hand ??

Reality TV can be taken too far you know .......

... Phil

only 2 minutes waiting........... waiting...........

d:-)

-- Don McKenzie

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Scene 1:

Poor Dave trips up in a USB cable, and knocks a glass of water over his wife's Notebook computer.

Don...

Nope, gone down about 08:15 Aust EST I guess he was using the same notebook for the video blog.

Cheers Don...

Don...

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What are the odds of that, frigg'n hilarious! Yes, spilled water over the eeePC doing the live feed! EPIC FAIL! It ran for about 5 minutes with the water and then just died completely. Tried to dry it out and get back on air, but it just wouldn't even turn on. Remembered I still had my old crusty webcam so dug it out and got on with the show on the desktop in the study.

Hard drive data is ok.

Great fun!

Dave.

Sounds a lot more fun than "reality TV" and more true to how things go in real life too ;)

Cubeee the eeePC has risen from the ashes. I'm out of the dog house.

Dave.

OK Great Dave,

I felt it was the one I talked you into from "catch of the day".

And I knew where to get cheap keyboards, as I got one posted at about $18.55AUD from honkers, so I was waiting to see how you got on. But when you said there was water on top of the drive, I thought the motherboard etc., would be fried.

It made for an interesting live video blog. :-)

Cheers Don...

Yep, that's the one.

It did indeed. After downloading the recorded footage from Ustream it's pretty obvious the eeePC and/or the wireless connection was simply not up to the task. It was almost unwatchable, the video would drop out for 10's of seconds at a time. The second part which used my desktop directly connected to the net didn't drop any visible frames that I could see in 51 minutes of recording, and that was using my ancient webcam.

So it was an interesting trial. More experiments and different hardware required before trying again.

Dave.