I lost the blog entry I was writing when the power went out. Reki and Nemu are offline, their 17″ monitors to hungry for the UPS. Kuu is breathed life, and she still works hard talking to the wired. Rakka, then, faithfully provides low power ssh client to Kuu, in the form of a laptop.
And [...]
I left my Sony Clie outside in the car overnight; it was found this morning in an odd state. The liquid crystal display was frozen, resulting in some interesting lag on screen redraw. The batteries were almost entirely run down. It’s on the charger now, and I hope it doesn’t experience any long-term battery life [...]
I picked up a Dynex USB 2.0 Crystal Hub from BestBuy a handful of months ago. This was done in growing frustration with my inability to plug multiple usb devices into my Space Cadet Keyboard.
Some might know about this strange modification of an old Compaq keyboard I favour: The back of the chassis sports a [...]
The date was 2004-11-29 17:09:18 GMT-5. I received a quick IM from _Quinn, just moments before she left us.
Az-chan went down for a reboot to hopefully fix a strange cd-burner problem. She responded to Ping for a short while after terminating communication with the others.
All processes and short-term memory were wiped. It was quick [...]
Matoko, my cdless 486 laptop is having her aging Slackware8 install upgraded to -current. I had bounced around the idea of installing Gentoo, but decided against it on the basis of harddisk space availability. I currently have Slackware-current installing from NFS.
In other news, the Xplornet guys dropped by this morning when I was busy waking [...]
After a cursory bit of curiousity, I have discovered that my WindowsXP desktop machine (media production) had a primary partition with over 40% fragmentation. Read, BAD! I have become accustomed to EXT3, and forgotten about filesystem fragmentation completely. Time to defrag!
Shannon’s last motherboard pop[p]ed via ESD (we think) . Windows no longer works with it, with 30 second of uptime until BSOD (including with the install cd). Linux is rock solid stable. However, that doesn’t help her much, considering required software applications.
Thus, new fansy-shmantz motherboard, which kicks mine’s arse.
In stripping down the machine (under the assumption that the motherboard was toast), I found what appears to be rat feces deposited around the Amibios chip, and urine-induced oxidant on the SMC FDC37C669QF Multi/IO controller. The SIS5513 IDE controller appears besieged by small chunks of seed shells.
Dave and I are (finally) beginning an indepth focus on modular midi controllers, designed primarily for controlling live video generation software. This project has sat idle way too long.
LEMUR is a handy and modular touchpanel based controller designed for audio and multimedia real-time applications. Our technology associates multitouch capabilities with visual display. LEMUR is provided with an extensible library of User Interface Objects such as faders, switchs, pads, keyboards, strings, etc. A software editor (Windows, Mac OSX, Linux) allows the user to build [...]