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greg_mitch
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| akajester wrote: | remuxing transformers 2 imax edition for tonight viewing. while waiting, vpn'd into work to turn off the
"check filter" alerts from the server room cooling unit. I woke up to over 250 emails from the darn thing.  |
For the love of God...CHECK THE DAMN FILTER!!!
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zaphod
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- getting rid of the DRM on about 7 hours of purchased music so that i can play them on my squeezebox. simple to do, but a pain
- spent a day last week turning a poorly scanned copy of an otherwise unavailable manual into PDF. which doesn't sound too geeky until you find out that i did it by writing the raw postscript for the manual, including the diagrams. then, since i had the text typed in, i converted it all to a webpage. gave it all to the manufacturer as a gift because they didn't have a copy of the manual either
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Elaine Benes
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Rebuilding my 4th HTPC in the house because the case it currently is in is too big(12"x10"x2").
Playing with my new*(to me...) April 1999 XG-1352(859 hours on the meter...).
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Nashou66
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| ecrabb wrote: | Laying out all the pages and hooking up IR codes for the iPhone- or iPod touch-based remote I'm beta-testing, so I can start making custom buttons for it all.
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Crab keep me informed on that! I haven't followed the AVS thread on that. What network gateway did you go with?
I really want to try it out some time. I should PDF the guy the Marquees RS 232 codes.
Oh and I just printed shipping labels for Chips set of new Thomas tubes for his Ampro, is UPS open today?
Athanasios
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ecrabb
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| zaphod wrote: | | spent a day last week turning a poorly scanned copy of an otherwise unavailable manual into PDF. which doesn't sound too geeky until you find out that i did it by writing the raw postscript for the manual, including the diagrams. |
OK, with all due respect for über-geekiness, for the love of God, why did you write raw Postscript? Wouldn't it have been easier to just go Word to PDF with CutePDF or something?
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ecrabb
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| Nashou66 wrote: | Crab keep me informed on that! I haven't followed the AVS thread on that. What network gateway did you go with?
I really want to try it out some time. I should PDF the guy the Marquees RS 232 codes. |
I'll keep you posted. I was planning on writing up a post on my experience with it when I get a littler further along on my custom graphics.
I'm using the Global Caché GC-100-12. I got a surplus unit for about $200. My iPhone... That's a sunk cost... The only other thing I really spent any money on was the Logitech BD adapter for the PS3 so I could power up from iRule.
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Curt Palme
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Jeremy, did I make any sense on the phone last night? I was REALLY hammered. 2 litres of bitchpops, I was into the bottle about 3/4 when you called.
Surprisingly, I'm at about 85% functionality this morning.... I don't typically get hangovers. I was expecting one with that volume of intake though.
Yesterday I repaired my first official plasma. buy board on eBay, install, presto bingo, it works! (mind you, I did have to diagnose it correctly.  )
For whatever reason, projector sales went through the roof on the 30th. 6 confirmed sales, all closed on the 30th, so today I'm prepping sets to ship out on Monday. What a nice start to the new year!
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macgyver655
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I'm actually doing some plumbing today.
Congrats on your plasma fix Curt..... 
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AnalogRocks
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| Curt Palme wrote: | Jeremy, did I make any sense on the phone last night? I was REALLY hammered. 2 litres of bitchpops, I was into the bottle about 3/4 when you called.
Surprisingly, I'm at about 85% functionality this morning.... I don't typically get hangovers. I was expecting one with that volume of intake though.
Yesterday I repaired my first official plasma. buy board on eBay, install, presto bingo, it works! (mind you, I did have to diagnose it correctly. )
For whatever reason, projector sales went through the roof on the 30th. 6 confirmed sales, all closed on the 30th, so today I'm prepping sets to ship out on Monday. What a nice start to the new year! |
Curt, you sounded like the drunk guy at the bar that want's to be everyones friend and doesn't stop talking. Every time I went to say something it took you about 3-4 seconds to comprehend what I was saying
Other than talking a little faster than you normally do you weren't slurring your speech you sounded like you.
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AnalogRocks
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BTW I just woke up. at 1:15pm. I still have 1/2 the airplane bottle of rum left. 
I finally got the bluray to play on the HTPC in time for me to fall asleep and wake up to the sound of the menu music several hours later. Good thing I was watching on the 17 Viewsonic monitor. I would have been annoyed if I had an image of Mel Gibson burned into my RPTV or my Ampro 4000 tubes.
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zaphod
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| ecrabb wrote: | | zaphod wrote: | | spent a day last week turning a poorly scanned copy of an otherwise unavailable manual into PDF. which doesn't sound too geeky until you find out that i did it by writing the raw postscript for the manual, including the diagrams. |
OK, with all due respect for über-geekiness, for the love of God, why did you write raw Postscript? Wouldn't it have been easier to just go Word to PDF with CutePDF or something?
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because when i started coding in PostScript, circa 1985, there was no word or other such things. the "manual" for the printer we got was 5" of language definition. after working with other drawing tools at the time, i saw how advanced this was so i taught myself the language. 25 years later, everything that i've coded in PostScript is still usable, but the stuff i've written in Word, WriteNow, Draw, WordPerfect, Ventura, PageMaker and so on are nothing but diskspace.
I've always preferred text processors to word processors anyways, so i'm typically faster using the text processer that I wrote as opposed to word or somesuch. It's written in PostScript of course
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Curt Palme
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Curt, you sounded like the drunk guy at the bar that want's to be everyones friend and doesn't stop talking. Every time I went to say something it took you about 3-4 seconds to comprehend what I was saying
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Well that's embarrassing enough. Thanks for posting!  
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akajester
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| zaphod wrote: | - getting rid of the DRM on about 7 hours of purchased music so that i can play them on my squeezebox. simple to do, but a pain
- spent a day last week turning a poorly scanned copy of an otherwise unavailable manual into PDF. which doesn't sound too geeky until you find out that i did it by writing the raw postscript for the manual, including the diagrams. then, since i had the text typed in, i converted it all to a webpage. gave it all to the manufacturer as a gift because they didn't have a copy of the manual either |
did you try tunebite? gave it an input folder and it did all my music in one night. awesome, and super easy!
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AnalogRocks
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| Curt Palme wrote: | | AnalogRocks wrote: |
Curt, you sounded like the drunk guy at the bar that want's to be everyones friend and doesn't stop talking. Every time I went to say something it took you about 3-4 seconds to comprehend what I was saying
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Well that's embarrassing enough. Thanks for posting! |
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Call me right now and I'll talk significantly slower than I normally do. I'll also probably tell you to eff off for phoning.
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zaphod
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| akajester wrote: | | zaphod wrote: | - getting rid of the DRM on about 7 hours of purchased music so that i can play them on my squeezebox. simple to do, but a pain
- spent a day last week turning a poorly scanned copy of an otherwise unavailable manual into PDF. which doesn't sound too geeky until you find out that i did it by writing the raw postscript for the manual, including the diagrams. then, since i had the text typed in, i converted it all to a webpage. gave it all to the manufacturer as a gift because they didn't have a copy of the manual either |
did you try tunebite? gave it an input folder and it did all my music in one night. awesome, and super easy! |
nah i used the brute force method, because i had to reintegrate with iTunes. sigh.
if i bought the music then i should be able to play it on my squeezebox.
my music, my squeezebox. sigh.
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cmjohnson
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I spent more time working on these two Barco DLP projectors today. One appears to be perfect. The other has a speckle problem but it's only in the blue channel and it IS present at all times. Being blue, it wasn't so visible on some screens. Even on a white screen, you get yellow pixels instead of white, at the same locations as the blue pixels on a black screen.
I'm suspecting the blue DMD itself, or its driver board at least. Native resolution is 1280x1024 and I doubt I'll find cheap replacements.
But this makes things a little easier, in some ways. I'm just going to stay focused on the good unit for now and try to sell it for a nice
fat profit and offer the not so good unit as a spare parts unit for a whole lot less. The lamp is worth a considerable amount and so is
the SDI option card, and probably the soft edge blending option package, too.
CJ
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digitalayon
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moving data to my windows home server
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AnalogRocks
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Just finish watchin Resident Evil at 1080i/72 on my 1998 17" Viewsonic CRT monitor off the freshly re-rolled HTPC.
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Spanky Ham
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| ecrabb wrote: | | Nashou66 wrote: | Crab keep me informed on that! I haven't followed the AVS thread on that. What network gateway did you go with?
I really want to try it out some time. I should PDF the guy the Marquees RS 232 codes. |
I'll keep you posted. I was planning on writing up a post on my experience with it when I get a littler further along on my custom graphics.
I'm using the Global Caché GC-100-12. I got a surplus unit for about $200. My iPhone... That's a sunk cost... The only other thing I really spent any money on was the Logitech BD adapter for the PS3 so I could power up from iRule.
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Do you have a link to the AVS thread? I was looking for it, but didn't see it. I wonder if this is the same guy from Cedia who was talking to Ken about this.
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