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The Palouse, Washington.
My current computer desktop background. This is the Palouse in Southeastern Washington.
Pin-automaten draaien op Microsoft NT4
Dit is misschien zelfs Win98!
In straaljagers werden jarenlang Sinclair ZX-81 computers gebruikt inclusief programma's op cassettebandjes. Misschien nog steeds...
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This is a very long retirement project.. Never Ending!
It takes me ages to select a slide from the box section, hold up to the light, rotate to load, load 4 in the holder, blow some dust off, poke into the Polaroid scanner and wait for it to read them, select settings, preview the set. select each one and scan, save to folder the correct folder, copy to a USB stick to transfer from the NT computer to the WIN10 laptop with UHD monitor, edit, crop, remove dust if I can be bothered, maybe alter the contrast or Gamma a little, save add a description as the file name, add tags, more description, select Album, maybe a Group or two, and load to flicker...
Then we look up the old diary or car logbook for the correct date taken of the photo, and maybe add the shot onto the often useless in the Australian outback, MAP!
Type A is the female port on the computer (the host). The ports on the peripheral or mobile device are Type B, Mini USB, Micro USB or Apple Lightning.
Before USB-C was introduced, Type A ports were found on every computer.
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USB-C is Symmetrical
Have all the ports on my new iTECHWORLD JS80 jump starter.. 08-05-21
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1) MP4 / WMA / MPX/ DRM (Can Save WMV, WMA, ASF, MPG, MPEG, MOV, and AVI into AMV)
2) USB flash disk, 1GB MP4/ 2G MP4 /4G MP4 /8GB mp4 built-in flash memory
3) Digital voice recording; 8 hours recording for 128M and VOX recording
4) 1.8" TFT color display MP4
5) ID3 support, Lyric display
6) E-book function and photo browse
7) Support multi-language display: Simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, English, Spanish, Italian, German, French,
Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Swedish, Czech, Denmark, Polish, Russian And Thai
8) 7-mode equalizer
9) A-B repeat function
10) Rechargeable lithium battery through USB / AC charger
11) FM frequency modulation: Listens to frequency 76~108MHz
12) Color: White and black
13) No driver needed under Windows ME, 2000, XP or above (except Win98)
14) Accessories: Earphone, CD drive for Win98, USB cable, charger, users' manual
One of our pleasant camps on our favourite plain....
Nice and remote, but now with our sat. phone, who cares...
I worked through this area in 1965, so felt familiar, and found dams and rock outcrops I had camped at before.
Used NatMap raster maps on the old IBM Win98 laptop to check the odd fence and intersection, with our Garmin eTrek, GPS, so knew where we were...
This was our camp #104 for this trip, near Spy Hill, S31d 18'23" 123deg 42'50"
This part of the Nullarbor can get soft after rain, and the soil turns to mud after rain, but it makes for great digging for an excellent campfire. We can poke long sticks down a ramp into the hole, and plonk the grid over the top for the kettle....
See also around here... www.flickr.com/photos/spelio/5332523991/
Dave and I camped at Spy Hill with lots of mossies and had 'roo stew with some tough bits on 3rd July 1965.
Dave wandered off into the bush for a few hours checking rocks while I lit the fire, did some washing and finished reading some cheap Western. "THE LONGHORN FEUD"
Dave to bed at * and I practiced my harmonica! But it was too peaceful in the bush, so I went to bed too.
notes in diary.. today is 50yrs later!
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My computer died (see below)! I took out parts, one at a time, to make sure that one of them wasn't the culprit. None were. Finally, I was down to keyboard, mouse, and network card (the harddrives are unplugged). Still, no go. It was unfortunately the motherboard that fried. This computer had kind of grown too huge to fit inside it's own case, so it was time to finally decomission Storm, start using Hell as my new primary, and start thinking about building a new computer: Hades.
The wiring isn't quite as crazy at it looks (though it IS crazier than anybody's Mac and most peoples PCs) -- a lot of those wires are for the PS2, which is now also broken.
BACKSTORY: My favorite computer EVER died. Moment of silence for "Storm", 1999-2007. This computer started as 1 of 3 identical post-house purchase computers we built for ourselves, to supercede our pre-existing college-era 3 computers (2 defunct Pentiums and a K6-233 which can still run Win98 today). It underwent one MAJOR upgrade, changing cases and practically becoming a new computer... So from 2001-2008 it was unique. I had really, really, REALLY grown into that machine. I'm still not as grown into my current machine Hades yet, and it has been well over 6 months.
So suffice to say, this computer dying SUCKED. And now I had to salvage all useful parts.
As for the death, I pretty much covered what happened day-by-day, starting at day 1, when it broke, continuing on to day 2, and Days 3-10. I then wrote about 10 more blogposts about the birth of Hades
decommissioning computer.
Butt-head sticker, SATA controller card, clipboard, compressed air, computer case, keyboard, motherboard, network card, screwdriver.
Beavis & Butt-head.
Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
August 20, 2007.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
Here is how it currently looks set up. The laptop inside is running Win98 with a slideshow screensaver. All I have to do to change the pictures is upload the images I want to the slideshow directory. I can do this using a wireless networking card in the PCMCIA slot.
Wow this was a trip down memory lane. My brother in law arrived today with his old computer under his arm. "Can you get my book collection inventory off this please?" You know the drill I'm sure. No monitor, keyboard or mouse. I keep a spare monitor handy, but the PS2 keyboard and mouse are buried in the container somewhere & I have a dozen people to feed. A quick phone call and a friend arrives with those.
I fire it up. It promptly throws up several dozen error messages then the desktop crashes. The computer is still running though. AV throws up several warnings about viruses and trojans before that too crashes. Hmm. Win98. I have a copy of that lying around somewhere. Install over the top. No go. It keeps all the old C#$P and still misbehaves. OK so I install to a new directory. It asks for key. That's somewhere in the container too. Sigh. back to the old copy to try and get the key from that before it dies. No joy.
Hang on I have a couple of old computers in the office. One is a desktop and one is a server. I try the desktop first. It boots Yay! but it comes up with Windows Server 2000 WTF??? Luckily I remember the password I used back then. I look inside. It is actually a hacked desktop running a couple of SCSI-W drives. But there is an IDE cable going off to the CD-ROM. It has an extra plug on it. Brilliant. Drop in the sus drive. Both HDD and CD fail. Yep CD works on its own. OK lets play with jumpers. Move CD to Slave position Both work, but the HDD comes in as drive C, thus booting the very RS Win98. More playing with jumpers. Eventually I discover a combo that allows the HDD to come up as the slave, and that allows the SCSI drive to boot normally. And it sees the HDD. AND a thumb drive.
A quick check and the needed file is there and appears to be intact. Copy to the thumb drive and remove to a newer beast. No known viruses on these files, so I load them with the application. Crash. Hang on. I wrote this app. A little tweaking and I get the file to read. Why was I so anal about security back in the day? Sigh. Luckily I kept the old security keys handy. I doubt I remember enough to hack the security the hard way.
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Easy connection with PC/Laptops, no driver needed
Built in 2G memory for as long as 5 hours video recording.
With extended memory slot for TF/Micro SD card.
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Specifications:
Power Supply：built-in 550mAh lipolymer battery
Power duration: 4-5 hours
Power Adaptor: 5V DC/500 mAh
Built-in 2GB memory, support TF card Max 2GB
Camera hardware resolution: 1.3m pixels.
Reading Speed > 700kbs, write >500Kbs
Resolution：320*240
Playing Speed: 30fps
Power Consumption: <0.4W
Video Format: 3GP
Card Slot: TF/Micro SD card
Physical weight 39g with battery
Working Temperature: 0 C - 60 C
Storage Computer: -20 C - 80 C
-Operating System: Win98，WinMe, WinXP, Win2000, Windows Vista
Accessories:
USB cable
User manual
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I bought my last computer in 1999. It was a Compaq desktop machine with a 256MHz AMD K6-2 processor, a 120 MB HDD and 128 MB RAM, running on Win98. It died in May 2006 of HDD failure and is now probably rotting away on some electro waste dump in East Africa or wherever they bring these things instead of recycling them like they tell us.
Since 2001 I have constantly been using company notebooks. They were all Windows machines, and they served their purposes well, both for my job as well as the rest. But now that I will quit my current job and will have to return the company notebook, and what with that Vista stuff going on, I thought it would be a good opportunity to return to the Mac World which I used to belong to from '92 to '98 while working at the university.
I picked it up today at a local Mac dealer and spent the rest of the afternoon installing Firefox, Greasemonkey and all my related scripts, GIMP (which isn't that trivial to install
with a Mac, but I got it running), Skype and the Flickr Uploadr. That covers around 80% of the tasks which I use the machine for in private. I have bought a Parallels license too, just in case I get homesick for the Windows world, and will probably acquire some office stuff. If anyone has a good tip what's compatible with MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint on a Mac and comes cheap or for free, please let me know.
Other than that, it's all very exciting.
Tomorrow I will go to London and return late. Thanks for all your recent good wishes for the job interview - I will let you know tomorrow night how it went ... And I really look forward to the flight with the Fokker 50 and to meeting Tildy and Miriam there!
The new office is clean and organized.
...and deadly dull.
Of course, there's still another 50% of crap I'm resisting setting up because I'm desperate to pretend I'm tidy and organized. Truth be told... this desk and computer system could be so much worse.
Buying a new house is great in that "fresh slate" sorta' thing but starting over isn't what it's cracked up to be.
I've got a lot of decorating to do and getting some new furniture. The old stuff is pretty tired and frankly, I need a change.
So... many... ribbons... The 2 SATA cards use the ultra-thing red cables in the cardboard box, but the 3/4 IDE drives needed the old wide grey ribbon cables. A few of these are ATA/66 double-speed cables, but most of them are the old ATA/33 cables... I've found Windows installations to be the most hardy if installed on an IDE drive with an ATA/33 "slow" cable. Or a SATA drive. Stay away from ATA/66 for system drives. Another ribbon cable for the cd-rom -- but it broke and I pulled it out. But the cable was still in there. Another ribbon cable for the "external" (not really, but it did exist outside of the case) floppy drive -- but it seemed to have walked away somewhere in the night. It's kind of sad how small my computer "zipped" to, upon taking it apart.
BACKSTORY: My favorite computer EVER died. Moment of silence for "Storm", 1999-2007. This computer started as 1 of 3 identical post-house purchase computers we built for ourselves, to supercede our pre-existing college-era 3 computers (2 defunct Pentiums and a K6-233 which can still run Win98 today). It underwent one MAJOR upgrade, changing cases and practically becoming a new computer... So from 2001-2008 it was unique. I had really, really, REALLY grown into that machine. I'm still not as grown into my current machine Hades yet, and it has been well over 6 months.
So suffice to say, this computer dying SUCKED. And now I had to salvage all useful parts.
As for the death, I pretty much covered what happened day-by-day, starting at day 1, when it broke, continuing on to day 2, and Days 3-10. I then wrote about 10 more blogposts about the birth of Hades
decommissioning computer.
IDE cable, SATA cable, Sharpie, WD-40 lubricant, box, compressed air, computer, computer fan, fan, fire extinguisher, floppy cable, lighter, remote control, ribbon cable, screwdriver, wire.
Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
August 20, 2007.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
Blast from the past.
This is my old (1999) Dell 3500 laptop. It came with:
Win98, 6 GB HDD, 16 MB RAM, 366 MHz Celeron.
Currently:
Xubuntu 8.04, 60 GB HDD, 256 MB RAM
My sister in law uses it for lightweight web-surfing and homework for the kids.
Philadelphia 2008 Home
For the last three days I have been re-arranging my computer room. I had to roll the behemoth desk to the other side of the room and re-jigger myriads of cables and power cords. After three failed attempts I got my matrix of six PC's back up to keep my little construct going once again. I some how managed to damage the motherboard in my main computer system named "Samantha 7" (You 60's anime folks will get the reference) Seems like I fried the the keyboard and mouse inputs that were running through a KVM switch. The keyboard seemed to work fine until the windows log-in and then the entire system froze up. Having no time to seriously trouble-shoot that problem any further I switched the keyboard to a USB port and that did the trick. The Oracle was correct... There is always choice. :-)
In the end, my various peripherals were all in electrostatic bags, because I hoard them for this exact purpose. Those things that still had their original box went back into those as well. This stuff stores easily in drawers/crawlspaces. You can also see my trusty computer tookit, which has come in handy so many times. Especially the claw thing with the 3 metal fingers that comes out and grabs the tiny screws that my hands are too big to handle. And the bottle o' screws is very handy too.
BACKSTORY: My favorite computer EVER died. Moment of silence for "Storm", 1999-2007. This computer started as 1 of 3 identical post-house purchase computers we built for ourselves, to supercede our pre-existing college-era 3 computers (2 defunct Pentiums and a K6-233 which can still run Win98 today). It underwent one MAJOR upgrade, changing cases and practically becoming a new computer... So from 2001-2008 it was unique. I had really, really, REALLY grown into that machine. I'm stillnot as grown into my current machine Hades yet, and it has been well over 6 months.
So suffice to say, this computer dying SUCKED. And now I had to salvage all useful parts.
As for the death, I pretty much covered what happened day-by-day, starting at day 1, when it broke, continuing on to day 2, and Days 3-10. I then wrote about 10 more blogposts about the birth of Hades
decommissioning computer.
PCI card, WD-40 lubricant, box, cards, computer, screwdriver.
Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
August 20, 2007.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
Here's a montage of images showing some 48-bit stacking work in WinImages (beta version 7.5g -- contact me via flickrmail if you'd like to try the new astro-oriented features, no charge. Win98, XP or (possibly) Vista required. Can't vouch for Vista -- untested, don't care. Works just fine on the Mac under Parallels w/XP.)
Briefly, there are four photos([L-1...L-4]), which are stacked to improve noise and accuracy, de-streaked using [L-5] to remove star trailing, and finally some of the light pollution is removed using [L-6] for the end result, which is marked [M].
In the rest of the description, I'll discuss exactly how that was done for those of you who are interested.
The first thing to understand is what you're looking at, above.
WinImages treats layers differently than most other software. When you work with a layered image, all layers are available on screen at once, each layer in its own window. The final result of combining all those layers is called the "master image" and is also visible. You can edit or modify any layer by simply working in the appropriate window.
So what you're looking at above is a six-layer image where each layer is marked [L-X] in its title bar, plus the master which is marked [M], and one separate image that is a clip taken from the master (at the lower right, entitled "rescale...".)
I don't have a telescope or a tracking mount (and I'm kind of having fun seeing just how far I can push things using just a camera and a stock tripod and lenses) so I face some pretty severe light and noise problems. In this case, we add moonlight. Lots and lots of moonlight.
The four images at the top [L-1, L-2, L-3, L-4] are clips of essentially the same region from the four original 8-second exposures taken from the same position at about 20-second intervals. The dark diagonal lines at the bottom right of each frame are power-lines.
These four images aren't exactly the same size, and in my software, they don't need to be. They are stacked, each in their own layer, aligned to lay precisely over one another (usually temporarily set to "absolute difference" mode, which makes extremely accurate stacking alignment trivial); and all images are then set to "accumulate" layer mode. A nice consequence of this approach is that the four original images are actually in the layered composite, unmodified, so you can always mess with the image further if you're so inclined.
The output of that 4-layer stack is a 48-bit accurate sum, which is divided by the number of images in the stack (4), which results in a 24-bit output with 1/4th the noise and about 4x the smoothness (for four images. It gets better and better, the more images you provide.)
There's no limit to the number of images in the stack (well, you do need at least one... :-), and if needed, images may be rotated and scaled as well as re-positioned on an X/Y basis using a warp layer.
Once I had this stack of four images positioned, I duplicated the resulting master image and added it back; that's the first one at the lower left [L-5]. I put this into "minimum" layer mode, and then moved it to reduce the visible trailing that is a consequence of an 8-second, non-tracking exposure. This gave me a master image where the stars were points as one expects.
These particular images were taken on an evening when the moon was 1/2 full and just out of the camera's field of view. That's what the annoying level of background light is from — it is desirable to remove this.
The next image [L-6] (2nd, bottom row) is the result of a *very* severe reduction in size of the master image resulting from [L-1...L-5] to about 10 pixels wide, which is a sneaky way to remove most detail; doing so produces sort of an average color for most of the image.
A few image features aside from the background were left, such as the orion nebula and a couple of bright points at the upper left. I removed them in about five seconds with the "remove" filter, and then scaled the result back into a new layer [L-6], which you see here.
I put the [L-6] layer into "absolute subtract" mode, which essentially sucks the background color right out of the image percolating up from the other layers, and results in a new master that is much more pleasant to look at.
The final master image is the 3rd image on the bottom row; a larger clip of the nebula taken from it is at the far right, bottom.
Look how [L-6] is mostly reddish where the light problem is really bad, slightly reddish at the top right, but also note how I knocked it back to black with a soft black area fill at the upper left; that was so that the nebulosity at and around IC-434 and the Horsehead region would show. See it at the top left of the master [M] image?
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All four shots were taken with Canon EOS 40D, Canon EF f/12.L 85mm prime lens at f/1.2.
That`s my old studio setup - back in the days from stuttgart.
- Powerbook G4 500 (OS 9)
- ibook G3 500 (OS 9)
- Athlon 600 (Win98)
- Yamaha Keyboard (stolen from my grandpa)
- Boss SP-202 Sampler
- Roland TR-626
- Doepfer PocketControl
- Behringer MX602A Mixer
- RME Multiface & Firewire Cardbus
Big Pimpin Audio-Wanksta.
Fuck It.
Currently relegated to the spare desk, this Cube is due for repair, and an upgrade. I kinda feel sorry for it, being flanked by a Win98 machine and a Linux machine, but them's the breaks.
Now I remembered my old WIN98/NT PC has three 6-Pin IEEE 1394 inputs!
Had not used it for this from memory!
see Notes.... Old Panasonic NV-DS28 I bought on eBay to copy miniDV tapes as the NV-DX100EN and AG-EZ35 had both died. and whereisit...
Never tried them, but a phone call away
or call 1300 435 164
good luck,
report back!
Download Sony PlayMemories here...
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A close-up of some of the stickers I had on my old computer. I love stickers; they make everything more personal. Hell, I had a sticker book in middle-school, even though that was more of a girl thing. What sucks is there's no easy way to save your stickers once what they are attached to becomes trash.
BACKSTORY: My favorite computer EVER died. Moment of silence for "Storm", 1999-2007. This computer started as 1 of 3 identical post-house purchase computers we built for ourselves, to supercede our pre-existing college-era 3 computers (2 defunct Pentiums and a K6-233 which can still run Win98 today). It underwent one MAJOR upgrade, changing cases and practically becoming a new computer... So from 2001-2008 it was unique. I had really, really, REALLY grown into that machine. I'm still not as grown into my current machine Hades yet, and it has been well over 6 months.
So suffice to say, this computer dying SUCKED. And now I had to salvage all useful parts.
As for the death, I pretty much covered what happened day-by-day, starting at day 1, when it broke, continuing on to day 2, and Days 3-10. I then wrote about 10 more blogposts about the birth of Hades
decommissioning computer.
Butt-head sticker, No MPAA sticker, computer case.
Beavis & Butt-head.
MPAA. copyright. politics.
Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
August 20, 2007.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
This is my desktop on my PC. It's pretty hacked up. I used to use litestep as a replacement shell, but upgrading to WinXP broke my old setup, so I went looking for something new that wouldn't totally replace the shell(since as a consolation I liked the XP shell in general a lot better than Win98.) I ended up with a combination of Serious Samurize and TsDesk. The former is a desktop overlay, and it powers all the stuff along the bottom there... performance meters, iTunes output, etc. There are also weather and calendar modules and lots of other stuff, but they broke on me and I haven't bothered to fix them yet. The latter is pretty much just an extension of Active Desktop to make it do what it originally should have, ie, let you have a real dynamic webpage as your desktop. So, I've got links to lots of crap instead of ugly, inefficient shortcuts thanks to that, plus the search dropdown and the included text file that is my notetaking space.
The JD flag covers the cables from the PC to the screen. The PC is an old lady running Win98 and acts as my jukebox. Behind the flag is also my extra stock: beer and soft drinks.
Incrível, uma agência enorme da caixa perto do pátio novo do NorteShopping, os caixas eletrônicos todos branquinhos (a foto ficou horrível porque o cel é horrível), tudo moderno, e os malditos PCs rodam Win98!
Tem mais é que ficar igual os da UVA mesmo, povo pão duro do cão! :D
The first thing I see on the Windows 98 desktop is...an error message! I clicked "ignore," and I was subsequently greeted with the infamous "illegal operation."
This screen on the face of Oslo's most visited building showed the upper-left quarter of a Windows '98 splash image almost all day today. Classy.
This was one of the blandest case-fronts I ever had. Possibly due to it being detached most of the time, as it was a removable faceplate. Black electrical tape covers the hole left behind by my floppy drive, which didn't have room in the case, and hung over the side with an electrostatic bag taped around it. Except one day, it was gone. I think it walked away. This pic is boring, but sentimental to me.
BACKSTORY: My favorite computer EVER died. Moment of silence for "Storm", 1999-2007. This computer started as 1 of 3 identical post-house purchase computers we built for ourselves, to supercede our pre-existing college-era 3 computers (2 defunct Pentiums and a K6-233 which can still run Win98 today). It underwent one MAJOR upgrade, changing cases and practically becoming a new computer... So from 2001-2008 it was unique. I had really, really, REALLY grown into that machine. I'm still not as grown into my current machine Hades yet, and it has been well over 6 months.
So suffice to say, this computer dying SUCKED. And now I had to salvage all useful parts.
As for the death, I pretty much covered what happened day-by-day, starting at day 1, when it broke, continuing on to day 2, and Days 3-10. I then wrote about 10 more blogposts about the birth of Hades
decommissioning computer.
Goliath sticker, computer case.
Gargoyles.
Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
August 20, 2007.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
Christ, #G and GPRS roaming doesn't work, networks are flaky, none of the cafes have wifi. Managed to track down two internet cafes. One had three seats and the interiour of an expensive spa Italian style (complete with pillows and a fancy chess game and lots of gold-plated stuff), the other one (where I am now) has a coke machine, 10 old PCs running Win98 and the athmosphere far worse than most internet cafes I visited over 10 years ago. What's wrong with these people....
Small network at home, one old white box has Win 98SE. It's a very difficult operating system as millions of us know. Here's to it's memory, may it RIP.
This is a screenshot I found in an old pc.
It recalls another computer Era, yet it dates only 1998!
I suppose the OS installed could be Win98 or 95, yet many file operations were still performed via NC !
Fidonet has been my first interface to world wide networks and to the internet, with the old BBS "Catania Uno".
My modem was a 9.600 BAUDS !!! ;-)
It was absolutely another era... and sometimes I miss those years of incredibly fast transition.
I'm posting this old image to share with you my feelings about it!
Specifications:
1.8" LCD, TFT color display
Internal Memory: 8GB
MP3 / WMA / AMV (Can save WMV,WMA, ASF, MPG, MPEG, MOV, AVI into AMV).
Support MPV, MPEG I/II layer 2/3, 8-448Kbps.
Digital voice recording; 8 hours recording for 128M and VOX recording
FM radio
ID3 support, Lyric display
Support Multi-language system on manual:English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Denmark, Czech, Polish, Russian, Turkish
7 mode equalizer
Function of browse of JPEG picture
Repeat A-B,Normal, Repeat All, Random.
USB 2.0 specification supporting
Long time playback
Rechargeable lithium battery through USB/AC charger
No driver needed under Windows ME, 2000,XP or above(except win98)
Colour option: Silve, Pink, Black, Blue, Green, Red, White
Approval:CE / FCC
After sales service:1 year warranty
Accessories
USB cable
earphone
Power adapter charger
Mini CD with driver and software
User Manual
So many things were put on hold for the 5 years we built our addition. 3 of those years comprised time wasted in violation of a contractual deadline. Playing pool, playing DDR, playing guitar .... So many thigns we used to do. But we had to retreat 100% into our computers, and still haven't fully emerged yet.
Also: In the upper-left, you can see my 4th-to-last computer, "Hell" (the first "Hell", not the current "Hell"... I'm on my second cycle through names, with my newest computer being the 2nd "Hades"). I'm about to finally trash old Hell; it's hooked up in the living room right now for one last gasp, whereupon I realized there's only ONE file left I might want to copy -- and old WAV fo me laughing. But since there is no USB, no floppy, and no network... I'm not going to bother. Anyone want a K6-233 w/4G & Win98?
Soloflex, computer, dancepad, guitar, pool table.
upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
March 3, 2007.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
This is, to date, the best of 4 different SATA controller cards we've bought, courtsey of Silicon Image. STAY AWAY FROM Addonics cards! This let me install two 500G harddrives into a computer that otherwise only supported 120G harddrives. Once I had 120G x 4, I was maxed out at 480G, which was NOT enough for me. So I added 1T (1000G) to my original 480G for a total of 1480G. After one of my 120Gs crashed, I still had 1360G!
This card also provided firewire (which I never used), and 3 external USB ports. Over the life of my computer, my thumbdrive gradually stopped working in my USB hub. Then, it gradually stopped working in the USB ports that came with my computer. In the end, this card was the only way I still had functional USB thumbdrive port (my keyboard & mouse still worked on the bult-in ports)! I might put this (or the Addonics one which we refuse to hook up to anything we care about) into my old pre-USB Win98 computer ("old Hell/1990s Hell")simply to ferry stuff to it easier. The Win98 computer doesn't have a floppy, y'know...
BACKSTORY: My favorite computer EVER died. Moment of silence for "Storm", 1999-2007. This computer started as 1 of 3 identical post-house purchase computers we built for ourselves, to supercede our pre-existing college-era 3 computers (2 defunct Pentiums and a K6-233 which can still run Win98 today). It underwent one MAJOR upgrade, changing cases and practically becoming a new computer... So from 2001-2008 it was unique. I had really, really, REALLY grown into that machine. I'm still not as grown into my current machine Hades yet, and it has been well over 6 months.
So suffice to say, this computer dying SUCKED. And now I had to salvage all useful parts.
As for the death, I pretty much covered what happened day-by-day, starting at day 1, when it broke, continuing on to day 2, and Days 3-10. I then wrote about 10 more blogposts about the birth of Hades
decommissioning computer.
SATA controller card.
Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
August 20, 2007.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
Real pixels (front) Virtual pixel(back)
Pixel pitch
20mm
20mm
Modules size(mm)
320 x 160
320 x 160
http://powerpro-lite.com/Outdoor-LED-Display-china-E9/Outdoor-LED-Display-manufacturers-1.html
http://powerpro-lite.com/Indoor-LED-Display-china-EA/Indoor-LED-Display-manufacturers-1.html
Pixels quantity in s.q.meter
2500
2500
LEDs in pixels
2R1G1B
2R1G1B
Pixels in each modules
16 x 8
16?8
Viewing distance
50m
50m
Viewing angle
110/45
110/45
Consumption
190 W/m²
250 W/m²
Driving method
1/4 scan
1/4 scan
Box size(mm)
960 x 640
960 x 640
Pixels quantity each box
1536
1536
Minimum size to show video(mm)
7680x5120
7680x5120
Resolution in minimum size(pixels)
384 x 256
384 x 256
Frequency of frames
60hz/s
Refresh rate
>=400hz/s
Temperature
-20~40
Voltage
AC100-220V
Grey scale/color
>=16.7M colors(synchronized)
Brightness
R / G / B each color 256 gray
Life-span
>100000 hours
Malfunction dot rate
<0.0001
Operation system
WIN98 / WIN2000 / WINXP
Operate Software
XMPlayer
Input signal
RF / S-Video / RGB / RGBHV / YUV / YC / COMPOSITION
Control system
DBQ-2007 controller + distribution controller + optic fibre
transmission(optional)
Outdoor LED Display ,Indoor LED Display ,LED Dance Floor-Video ,LED Twinkle Light ,LED String Light ,
New hard drive in my old old lappy... tried linux, but in the end had to go for win98 - the machine literally couldn't take anything else. Saw this screen when reloading win98 which made me giggle.
Shots of an old 250MB (not GB!) hard drive I had lying around the office. It's the slave drive off of an old Win98 PC. To get the RW head to move, I put ~100MB of junk on there and ran a scandisk.
So the Mac is loaned to a roommate with no computer. To replace it?
The Sony VAIO T0w3r of P0w4r!
Came with a PPGA Cel433 and 64MB PC100, running Win98. Has an Asus P2B-AE board that I've currently flashed with the beta P3B-1394 BIOS patched with TUSL2-C Tualatin-aware microcode. It even preserves support for the onboard Aureal 8830 sound chip, another rarity. Firewire support is fully present in 400mbps mode. Oddly enough, only OEM system ever to ship with a CPU mounted in a slotket configuration - i.e. a PCB that fits into a Slot 1 SECC\SEPP interface and presents a 370-pin socket, with additional jumper blocks that set vcore, fsb and other features. So my previously bone-stock PCV-R522DS now has a Katmai 533 Slot 1 ES processor in it. ES means it's an original Intel engineering sample and is probably preproduction. Due to the technology of the current slotket, a 4.5 multi is hard set with a FSB of 100 for only 450 mhz, an 83 mhz underclock. Two scrounged 128MB PC133 DIMMs, a 4X AGP BBA Radeon 7000 64MB DDR video card, and a generic VIA chipset 4-port USB 2.0 PCI card round out the package with a D-Link DFE-530TX rev B. NIC providing network connectivity. With this configuration, this machine comfortably runs Edgy Eft with the stock Gnome setup and serves well as a web\aim\irc\junior SETI box.
And this is why you become a computer nerd, kids.
Net cost: $0
Future plans: Obtain Iwill slotket which allows for Tualatin and some FSB overclocking. Already have Pentium III-S 1.2 chip and Volcano7+ ready for some overclocking attempts.
still keeping the screenshot of the last arrangement i did with the winamp plugin . . . many many years back
..one of the best system designs when I bought it some six years ago - now needs upgrading I think with a more modern idea/s
Specification:
2.8" QVGA TFT LCD Touch Screen Display
Internal Memory: 8GB
MP3 / WMA / AVI (Can save WMV, WMA, ASF, MPG, MPEG, MOV, RMVB into AVI).
Support MPV, MPEG I/II layer 2/3, 8-448Kbps.
Mini SD card support
Digital voice recording; 8 hours recording for 128M and VOX recording
ID3 support, Lyric display
Support Multi-language
7 mode equalizer
JPEG picture
Touch Screen
FM radio optional
E-book function, support TXT word file
Repeat A-B,Normal, Repeat All, Random
USB 2.0 specification supporting
Long time playback
Rechargeable lithium battery through USB/AC charger
No driver needed under Windows ME, 2000,XP or above (except win98)
Approved: CE / FCC
After sales service: 1 year warranty
Accessories:
User Manual
Earphones
USB Cable
Power Adapter
Mini CD with Driver and Conversion Software
Specifications:
1.8" LCD, TFT color display
Internal Memory: 8GB
MP3 / WMA / AMV (Can save WMV,WMA, ASF, MPG, MPEG, MOV, AVI into AMV).
Support MPV, MPEG I/II layer 2/3, 8-448Kbps.
Digital voice recording; 8 hours recording for 128M and VOX recording
FM radio
ID3 support, Lyric display
Support Multi-language system on manual:English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Denmark, Czech, Polish, Russian, Turkish
7 mode equalizer
Function of browse of JPEG picture
Repeat A-B,Normal, Repeat All, Random.
USB 2.0 specification supporting
Long time playback
Rechargeable lithium battery through USB/AC charger
No driver needed under Windows ME, 2000,XP or above(except win98)
Colour option: Silve, Pink, Black, Blue, Green, Red, White
Approval:CE / FCC
After sales service:1 year warranty
Accessories
USB cable
earphone
Power adapter charger
Mini CD with driver and software
User Manual
ITEM DISCRIPTION:
Clip mp3 player with screen,card slot support 1~16GB TF card, mini mp3 player..
Specification:
1.support MP3/WMA/WAV/ASF format
2:Firmware upgrade
3.Served as USB flash disk
4.No driver needed for Win98/2000/ME/ XP
5.Screct capacity function for your personal date
6.Voice recording&tape ,can store WAV/ACT voice format by microphone(optional function)
7.Seven playing models
8.Seven EQ models
9. Sleeping &Timing off function
10.Carton Menu
11:Size:12mm*41mm*27mm
Packing:
1 x Screen Clip mp3
1 x USB Cable
1 x earphone
1x Box
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