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Post by Tom Maneiro on Jul 27, 2007 21:01:09 GMT -5
I can remember my early days on the net, back in 2002, with a 56K modem working at 29K, when my first download manager was the adware-bugged GoZilla! (pretty nice, and i learned how to hack the ad engine to retrieve ads from my LOCAL web server ;D). It had a "link leecher": simply point to the webpage, and it will show it you as a FTP directory. Just pick the files, and you're set!
Ah, those were the days....
In other news, my SpinPoint MP0603H finally reached home! That thing is REALLY small and light! Tomorrow will be a long and boring day...
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Post by paulpsomiadis on Jul 28, 2007 14:15:20 GMT -5
Re-installing always IS long and boring...  ...but if it wasn't, the rewards of a clean install (and thus a clean system) wouldn't be worth it.  |
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Post by Tom Maneiro on Jul 28, 2007 16:24:04 GMT -5
The idea was to clone the entire drive, but unfortunately, i was unable to find the needed resources (second PC with >40GB free, external USB enclosure)... so i will resort to "Plan Z": burn some CDs (maybe DVDs, when i bring back my other laptop to home), and reinstall... Yes, it's boring, but when you have no choices... And, for make things even worse, the Momentus started to fail... again! The "tic-tic-scratch" strikes again today! And i'm not alone: a classmate also lost his data from the exact same disk in another HP laptop! Soon, all Momentus 42 will blow up, causing Seagate to sell more crap as replacements. NOT GOOD!  EDIT: Expect another "install party", complete with a full "Slam that Momentus!" slideshow. For now, some photos of the disk, waiting for showtime ;D   No scams this time, it seems... But i no longer will use creditcards on MercadoLibre (at least until they implement PayPal). |
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Post by Tom Maneiro on Aug 3, 2007 19:58:45 GMT -5
Good news for all of my projects and stuff: finally i did removed that pesky Momentus from my system! The new SpinPoint is working now: it's FAST (that 8MB of cache helps a lot), damn silent, but not very fresh (51° on minimal loads???). But... the moving was not a piece of cake... I had to make some room in my other laptop to fit a 28 gig disk image, boot with a Knoppix pendrive (no more scratched CDs!), fiddle with IPs and networking issues, and start with dd_rescue. The MBR and XP partition were rescued sucessfully, but dd_rescue choked with the second partition (a 15gig FAT32, for shared use between Linux and Windows): there were about 2 megs of bad sectors (tic-tic-tic-scraaaatch-spindown-...), that caused major slowdowns in the process... After waiting for 5 hours, i decided to cut that rip, and had to mount and copy the partition files to my rescue system. A while later, i swapped HDs (pretty easy on my nx90100, but must be careful because the HD slot cover can be quite tricky to remove), and started to move back everything. 1 hour later, the system was back to business! If you want nightmares, click here, and try to sleep Now, what i could do with that piece of crap? My ideas: - Baseball - Soccer - American football - Flamethrower - HD BBQ - "Slam Dunk" - Slam into the floor - Disc throwing - "Hammer that HD!" - Use for backups (yeah, right... ;D) |
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Post by paulpsomiadis on Aug 3, 2007 20:24:43 GMT -5
BEST idea for the SeaCR@P HDD... Impact testing! ;D ;D 1) Find tall building (somewhere you won't get disturbed) 2) Draw "X" on ground with chalk.  3) Climb stairs to roof. ;D 4) Throw HDD at X on pavement.  Write down the number of times till TOTAL DESTRUCTION! ;D ;D |
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Post by GiGaBiTe on Aug 6, 2007 0:09:58 GMT -5
2 weeks and 26,563 tries later, drive still spins up.
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Post by paulpsomiadis on Aug 6, 2007 22:17:29 GMT -5
10 seconds later - drive cylinders shoot out and bust through a nearby wall at high velocity! OMG LOL! ;D |
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Post by paulpsomiadis on Aug 12, 2007 3:14:20 GMT -5
Revised specs of my Hybrid Cx486sx/387sx PC... #SNB-M019 mini-386 mainboard #TI486SXLC2-50 Processor (running non-clock doubled @25mhz) #IIT 3C87SX-33 @25mhz #2MB ATI Mach64 GFX #16MB RAM (4x 4MB) #Goldstar IDE controller & I/O Ports card #1GB Seagate Medalist IDE HDD [512MB accessible due to BIOS] (Boot Drive) #2.5" 1.44MB FDD #Adaptec AHA-1510a SCSI card #Pioneer Slot load SCSI DVDROM [DVD-U03S] #Yamaha CDRW [CRW-6416S] #WD Enterprise 3GB SCSI (Data Drive) #D-Link Network card #Sound Blaster AWE32 (inc. 512K RAM) #200W PSU I couldn't imagine having something THIS awesome way back when I first owned this PC... (you would have needed an ARMY of suitcases full of cash back then to buy all this! LOL!)  ;D |
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Post by paulpsomiadis on Aug 13, 2007 18:51:04 GMT -5
And indeed they are! ;D I recently got a Yamaha CRW-6416S second hand on eBay for just £6!!! So I decided to update the firmware while the drive was plugged into my Hybrid Cx486sx/387sx machine...BIG MISTAKE!  The ISA bus is too slow and I ended up with a "bad flash"...d@mn!  But all was not lost! I moved the drive into my Athlon machine temporarily and re-flashed it into working state...how you ask?  Well, it seems that Yamaha writers have a 'recovery' firmware (known as CORE). So all you do is edit the .INI for the flash program from THIS : Device name = Yamaha CRW-6416S To this : Device name = Yamaha CRW-6416S CORE Then you can re-flash your damaged drive with working firmware - AWESOME stuff from Yamaha! (And yeah, I can write CDR/CDRW on my old machine - but it's only fast enough to do 1X speed...still works great though!) |
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Post by paulpsomiadis on Aug 23, 2007 16:06:40 GMT -5
Hmm...thread seems to have died off... @tom - did you get that Genesis SSF2 manual I sent you yet? |
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Post by Tom Maneiro on Aug 23, 2007 17:52:28 GMT -5
Since everybody is on vacation at this stage of the year, yes, these forums are a bit dead for now. I still have pending to upload some pics of my last experiments... like running NetBeans on my recording box (remember lil' Saki? This is another of those cruel experiments...) And about the manual: i'm away from my base right now, but the housekeeper should have received the manual... but i have no way to know until September 17th... Hopefully it should haven't lost in the mail. Projects update: - Twin Spica DVDs: Work is halted, due to unfinished downloads of EP01 (deleted the original raw by accident, but i still have a slighty lower-quality raw), EP17 (still waiting for edit audio) and EP20 (same as EP01). In the meanwhile, i got the creditless opening, for put my credits  Once i get EP17, the DVD authoring will resume. - Dear Boys DVDs: Project halted due to the lack of raws  - Crazy experiments with old boxes: will resume on September 17th - I'm running out of harddrive again: just filled my TravelStar with Di Gi Charat Nyo, Ashita no Nadja, Steel Angel Kurumi and Burn-Up Excess. I have planned to snag Galaxy Angel, but i'm waiting for renew my Megaupload Premium (just expired yesterday now waiting for a creditcard with goverment-approved $$$ due to local stupid currency exchange controls). DVDs start to stack over here Sorry, no HQ-DVDs releases are planned here (too many episodes, and quite poor audio rips), just lame XviD/DivX archival - I'm working on some tools: a Java port of my license plate maker for add new plate types (the Genesis/MD version will also be updated and will feature some improvements), a Share P2P spanish infosite (complete with a nodelist), and some other stuff. Time to wipe the dust of my BasiEgaXorz rig - Right now, i'm doing absolutely nothing ;D That's life... and i have two months of it per year |
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Post by oompa loompa on Aug 23, 2007 20:12:36 GMT -5
The idea was to clone the entire drive, but unfortunately, i was unable to find the needed resources (second PC with >40GB free, external USB enclosure)... so i will resort to "Plan Z": burn some CDs (maybe DVDs, when i bring back my other laptop to home), and reinstall... Yes, it's boring, but when you have no choices... And, for make things even worse, the Momentus started to fail... again! The "tic-tic-scratch" strikes again today! And i'm not alone: a classmate also lost his data from the exact same disk in another HP laptop! Soon, all Momentus 42 will blow up, causing Seagate to sell more crap as replacements. NOT GOOD! EDIT: Expect another "install party", complete with a full "Slam that Momentus!" slideshow. For now, some photos of the disk, waiting for showtime ;D hey tom, how much did you pay for your hard drive? i think i just bought the exact same model as yours (60gb spinpoint, brand new) haha  |
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Post by Tom Maneiro on Aug 23, 2007 23:26:50 GMT -5
Just about $110 (plus S&H) on MercadoLibre. Very expensive! You should be able to find it cheaper on eBay or Newegg or somewhere in the 'States. In Euro stores, it's below €45 (just over $50) The drive is DAMN silent, and pretty fast! However, an minor issue that i've noticed is that the drive clicks. It's very rare, but it does very audible clicks once or twice per week... From some reviews of users on the net, this is normal (recalibration thingies or something like that), and should not affect the reliability of the drive. I'm very confident on Samsung drives, so let's hope the best... Go ahead, buy it! Or save your bucks for this 320gig MONSTER by Toshiba! You can add some pr0n, a Vista setup, "backups" from PirateLand, and with the remaining 2 megs, save your school works This reminds me that i need to buy another SpinPoint, but for my recording box... |
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Post by paulpsomiadis on Aug 24, 2007 11:26:27 GMT -5
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Post by Tom Maneiro on Aug 24, 2007 12:01:34 GMT -5
The SpinPoint F1 (with those monster 334gig platters) is delayed until October at least... vaporware from Korea? (BTW: there will be 320, 500, 750 and 1000 GB versions... why not a 666 gig drive? ) Also, i have that odd feeling that storage has not grown at all: a 2 gig disk in 1997 goes full at the same speed of a 160 gig drive in 2006. Today, 1 TB seems to be a lot, but tomorrow it will be on the same spot of 80 gig drives: too litte space! While i had my Megaupload Premium, they allowed me to see how much gigs i were transfering everyday: there were a couple of 4 GB days! 4 GIGS IN A SINGLE DAY! In a month, this equals... 120 gigabytes?!?!?! And that was with a poor 1Mbit DSL... Now that fiber connections are getting cheaper, a 1TB drive will not make any difference at all: you wll blow it with crap at the same speed, and maybe FASTER! I want a infinite hard drive NOW! Maybe some quantic-storage-gizmo, a four-dimension storage matrix, or something like that |
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Once i get EP17, the DVD authoring will resume.
