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Post by paulpsomiadis on Jan 14, 2007 15:53:18 GMT -5
LOL! Good luck man...I hope you make it! I just saved up and bought the 64MB cart from Tototek. Oh and I'll be posting your IIT-387 tomorrow (would have been this weekend, but I was fixing some old PC's for a friend...)
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Post by paulpsomiadis on Jan 17, 2007 16:22:28 GMT -5
@tom - I posted your IIT 387 FPU today... ;D ...check your PM's for the details!
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Post by Tom Maneiro on Jan 18, 2007 0:11:33 GMT -5
Nice! Now... the long wait... I have some news too... - I now have Internet on my base... thanks to the EV-DO cellphone of my pal However, the service is pure crap, but it's better than nothing... - My Samsung WA3216A was experiencing DMA issues (errors when copying files and DMA enabled), so i had to change it with a Samsung SV0432A (with a spare gig to waste). It seems to be a problem with early Samsung DSPs (most Samsung HDs of that era used a bunch of Adaptec/Hitachi chips (a quite good combo), but some "advanced" ones used an all-in-one Samsung DSPs. Those "Winner Advance" series may have buggy DSPs that fail under DMA pressure, leading to data corruption) My "secret" project is going fine... - OK, i will give some details about my "secret" project: it's related with anime dubbing (think as fansubbing, but using ripped audio tracks: can't download your favorite series in your native language? Do you hate fansubs, but your favorite series is only licensed for TV broadcasting? Fix it by yourself! You only need a TV and a audio cable). That SBLive! is the key. A fast drive and a minimal memory load is needed to achieve perfect recordings (without X, Knoppix runs very well under 64MB, with NO swap usage at all!). I use my laptop to control the process (over SSH, using some custom scripts). Neat way to use an old P200MMX, eh?. For even better results, keep a mixer open in one console, and do the rip in another.
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Post by paulpsomiadis on Jan 18, 2007 18:45:23 GMT -5
Sounds kewl! Here's an amusing story... ;D I bought a DVD of "Dominion Tank Police - Episodes 1-4" which is a mini OVA. Episodes 1&2 played fine (the DVD mastering company had ripped them from the Laserdisc version). However, EPs 3&4 had the sound TOTALLY out of synch! Why, you ask? Well... The audio and video were recorded separately then muxed later... Problem was that they recorded the audio from an EARLIER time index than the video for EPs 3&4, and forgot to tell the muxing people to edit the audio track to match the video... DOH! So I had to fix it manually so I could watch EPs 3&4 in-synch... ...works great now! ;D
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Post by Tom Maneiro on Jan 18, 2007 22:11:06 GMT -5
At least you have high quality media... i'm struggling here to find raws! All that i can find is crappy fansubs! My best bet is to buy a "pirate", fansubbed DVD in a local website And USB TV sticks are pretty rare and expensive over here (not to mention that you need an overpowered system to watch and record TV without skips) Anyway, a TRUE fan can do everything for watch their favorite programs over and over and over... BTW: the series are Pita-Ten and Steel Angel Kurumi. I could probably get a original SAK DVD set (from ADV-Films, maybe with a Spanish dub), over $40! But, with Pita-Ten, the things are quite different: the series is not licensed at all in USA, and in Latin America, it's only licensed for TV broadcasting (by Animax). Too bad for a excelent piece of anime... most series are shelved, and never see a decent DVD release for the always-growing LA fan base. Status: 4 episodes ripped, over 50 remaining... I really need to install that 20 gig Samsung HD! (each recording eats 270-280MB, and after stripping the crap, i end with 240MB audio tracks for a 24-minute show).
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Post by paulpsomiadis on Jan 19, 2007 23:46:54 GMT -5
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Post by Tom Maneiro on Jan 20, 2007 18:41:31 GMT -5
Off topic? Maybe... but how many people out there do have a home dubbing studio, fueled by a P200MMX and a Core 2 Duo? ;D And yes, i've added all episodes from both series. Pita-Ten rips should end in 4 weeks (daily broadcasts), but Kurumi will take the entire year because they only are broadcasted on Tuesdays. Also, since there are two seasons (SAK and SAK2), they sum 39 episodes (26+13, not counting the two-episode OVA). My priority now is Pita-Ten, SAK is just a (sexy) bonus Bad news: i just broke my only pendrive (and discovered that it was a Toshiba 100%! I did not know that Toshiba make flash chips). Odd accident involving a laptop, a doubledecker bed, and a strap that got hooked somewere... RIP TechSolutions 1GB At least, it survived for a backup. PS: Original dubbed Steel Angel Kurumi DVDs have "clear sheet" covers that let you to flip Kurumi&sisters clothes: from underwear to maid costumes
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Post by paulpsomiadis on Jan 20, 2007 23:11:10 GMT -5
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Post by Tom Maneiro on Jan 27, 2007 10:55:44 GMT -5
Talking about HDs, some random shots from the Computer Organization lab stash: These drives are like James Bond: they never die!. Here are a couple of Seagate ST-157A's (42MB) and a Quantum ProDrive 40AT (40MB). These still works fine, although it's a nightmare to setup them to have it working in the same system at the same time. It requires some hotswapping (either IDE cables or jumpers). Sadly, new HDs are disposable, unlike these golden oldies ;D And here is a unknown "Piece-of-Crap(TM)": a JTS Champ! This one is still alive, but full of bad sectors and mechanic faults. Most JTS drives were pure crap, and died after some months of usage, but there are one or two Champ/Champion/Palladium drives out there that are still alive! (it was a hit-or-miss pick: it dies quickly, or it works forever). JTS merged with Atari, but they quickly ran out of cash, and sold Atari to Hasbro, theh JTS went bankruptcy and dissapeared. EDIT: fixed JTS merger history
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Post by paulpsomiadis on Jan 27, 2007 17:42:05 GMT -5
Would have been funnier if you took a pic of the JTS when the scan had finished, so we could see all the bad sectors... ;D ...ah well!
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Post by Tom Maneiro on Jan 27, 2007 18:06:32 GMT -5
There are no such shot: HDAT choked after 60% progress ... Let's see how SpinRite deals with this piece of crap. There are also a couple of Champions that we need to check there, an initial test give two dead drives, but that Champ seemed to be dead at first look. Conner Peripherals briefly resurrected in early 2000s as Conner Technologies, but they merged with ExcelStor. Anyone out there use ExcelStor HDs? I've read that they're rebranded IBM/Hitachi HDs. Also there is "Magnetic Data Technologies" (MDT), their HDs looks like refurbished WD drives. Odd... ;D Any another wacko HD brand out there?
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Post by paulpsomiadis on Jan 28, 2007 0:06:55 GMT -5
Hmm...sounds similar to the 'clone' 3Dfx cards that appear occasionally in the Asian market... I've seen some of the boxes that they came in - and YES they do have 'Engrish' writing too! LOL! ;D
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Post by Tom Maneiro on Feb 3, 2007 1:39:57 GMT -5
Updates for this week: - Finally i've tested the 386 10-mbit NIC: it works nicely! (at least for file sharing). Next thing to test: WWW (once i get a router AND a surge protector with extra plugs) - Here are some photos of my homebrew anime dubbing studio. This project is codenamed "PTL Project": From left to right (in "speedometer gauge" direction): recording box, console, premiun cable feed by Supercable, audio/network cable, low-end TV, control/encoding box, bed Added a warning label for pesky roommates, classified 1.3K explosive material (for those explosive 48X CD-ROM drives and Dell batteries) ;D Rip status: - Pita-Ten: 50% (second half done) - SAK: less than 10% ;( - I'm considering to add other series, but there are too many candidates (Di Gi Charat Nyo!, I'm Gonna to be an Angel, and possibly others), and too litte HD space - Samsung WU33205A: experiencing read errors. Will need replacement soon.
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Post by oompa loompa on Feb 4, 2007 15:44:12 GMT -5
i think you should do some major assembly language development on those machines - like making your own operating system and etc. there is a ton of documentation on the web for starting out
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Post by Tom Maneiro on Feb 4, 2007 20:03:25 GMT -5
Since i just wrote my first crack last weekend ( ;D ), i may do it someday, when i'm bored and free of the university liabilities (like develop 2 Java apps with GUI and databases, plus one Operating Systems project in C using semaphores, message queues and other insane stuff, all of these in only 3 weeks). It seems that Linux partitions can't be easily mirrored to a different HD if it's of a different size/specs, so moving the Knoppix setup to the new HD will be quite long (not difficult, and NOT IMPOSSIBLE). Then, the recording box will have a 20GB recording disk, enough for work as an storage server.
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