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Anyone here got experience repairing CRT's? Trying to understand how transistor-based pincushion adjustment circuitry works while I await parts that I'm going to try to blindly replace.

I have a schematic, and am basically just replacing all the pats in a small region of the board one by one until I hopefully find what's up.

I've done some small CRT repairs before, but they're a mystery to me as often as not. Even if I have successfully helped someone repair one over the internet once before (it was just a voltage regulator that needed reflowing).

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Nov 28 2022, 09:38

Replaced a transistor and it came back to life.
The part was marked as 'obsolete' on digikey and they were just selling off their remaining stock of it. So I picked a good time to get it (wasn't too late). Finding electrical equivalents is annoying, and half the time they have the wrong pinout.

Still smells slightly of leaky capacitor, though. I can't figure out which one it is and don't want to go all-in on replacing all of them...

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Dec 3 2022, 03:59

Is there a portable AI art program for windows?
Things I saw either were nightmares wanting to install lots of things all over the place and registering themselves in the system in weird way, or suspicious because who know if the source and the install really match (especially with lots of external dependencies), or both.

Probably not.
Who would want to take the time to rewrite for such a crippled platform?

You might be able to get away with Cygwin, but have fun setting that up. Just getting CUDA waifu2x working was a pain in the ass on an actual linux distro for me, let alone something newer like one of those AI art programs. Performance will likely also be bad on Cygwin. It certainly isn't going to be very easy to set up.

I expect it's going to be like waifu2x, where it eventually gets ported to windows by one of the few autists who insist on using it, and where it will perform slower and be less up-to-date at all times.

Sorry this isn't especially helpful, but most people who do ML (machine learning) aren't going to use a shitty OS llike windows when there's existing infrastructure to be used targeted at unix-likes. Unless they're making a commercial product and therefore obligated to because consumers are scared of new things. I think you shouldn't be encouraging AI art anyway, though.

If you find something, it likely will be commercial in nature, at least for a while.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Dec 22 2022, 15:31

Is there a portable AI art program for windows?
Things I saw either were nightmares wanting to install lots of things all over the place and registering themselves in the system in weird way, or suspicious because who know if the source and the install really match (especially with lots of external dependencies), or both.

Not sure what you mean by Portable, however make sure you only get them from trusted places like Github.
Here's one of the better guides for set up and for finding files.

[rentry.co] https://rentry.co/UnofficialUnstableGuide

Probably not.
Who would want to take the time to rewrite for such a crippled platform?

You might be able to get away with Cygwin, but have fun setting that up. Just getting CUDA waifu2x working was a pain in the ass on an actual linux distro for me, let alone something newer like one of those AI art programs. Performance will likely also be bad on Cygwin. It certainly isn't going to be very easy to set up.

I expect it's going to be like waifu2x, where it eventually gets ported to windows by one of the few autists who insist on using it, and where it will perform slower and be less up-to-date at all times.

Sorry this isn't especially helpful, but most people who do ML (machine learning) aren't going to use a shitty OS llike windows when there's existing infrastructure to be used targeted at unix-likes. Unless they're making a commercial product and therefore obligated to because consumers are scared of new things. I think you shouldn't be encouraging AI art anyway, though.

If you find something, it likely will be commercial in nature, at least for a while.

I have yet to find anything that doesn't have a Windows version of it. Plus all linux stuff does actually run on windows, it's linux that cant run windows programs. Basically everything is a pain in the ass to get working on linux, hence most people use Windows Server, and those that don't in the professional space normally use OpenBD. The people that actually use Linux are always just those FOSS people that refuse to pirate better software. (something effectively all professionals actually do)

But hay I'm not going to bash it too much, the FOSS people that have yet to go insane are actually pretty useful, and I use software made by them all the time. That said never tell them who actually uses their software they will brick it because a guy stole their font, or refuse to fix IPV6 for their forum software because you made fun of a guy. [Xenforo in the last case]

i found this thread from other question, may anyone answer about ehtracker?
i have posted here https://forums.e-hentai.org/index.php?showtopic=264469

how the ehtracker track the statistics?
as far as I know, tracker cannot distinguish which seed data comes from DHT peers or ehtracker peers.
and the statistics will be announced by client and the tracker use it.

If you download and use the personalized torrent then it tracks.

It does this by looking at the announce URL used. It can be personalized and yet still result in the same peer data being returned, the only difference being that the server (tracker) can now uniquely identify your client.

They still depend on peers reporting back to the tracker, however, I do believe.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Feb 6 2023, 02:38

Not sure if this the right place, but:
How can I name my ImageMagick output files with only odd/even numbers?

So, the idea is that I want to split some double-paged image in 2 normal page. After browsing Google and stack, I input this line magick *.jpg -crop 1075x1518+0+0 cuta.jpg (to crop the left half) and magick *.jpg -crop 1075x1518+1075+0 cutb.jpg (to crop the right half). So far so good. But then I have all left side, follow by all right side, and then have to manually rename them back into proper order.

So, is there a way to rename all the left side with even numbers, and all the right with odd, so they will auto sort themselves?

Also pls note that I'm not tech-savvy (just got taught how to use ImageMagick and Pdfimage a few hour ago), so a simple and a bit detailed instruction is much appreciated

This post has been edited by bunnygunny: Mar 9 2023, 18:29

1. After installing the live image of a Linux distro, will anything I on it (e.g. install/uninstall applications, drivers, save files, change system settings etc.) stay permanent in the next boot?

2. A USB3 flash drive that's inserted into a USB3 port always become hot to the touch after a while, even when I didn't do any file transfer or open any files in the flash drive. Will that flash drive die in prolonged use due to the heat? Heat doesn't occur when I plug the USB3 flash drive into a USB2 port and when I plugged a USB2 flash drive into the USB3 port.

1. After installing the live image of a Linux distro, will anything I on it (e.g. install/uninstall applications, drivers, save files, change system settings etc.) stay permanent in the next boot?

2. A USB3 flash drive that's inserted into a USB3 port always become hot to the touch after a while, even when I didn't do any file transfer or open any files in the flash drive. Will that flash drive die in prolonged use due to the heat? Heat doesn't occur when I plug the USB3 flash drive into a USB2 port and when I plugged a USB2 flash drive into the USB3 port.

Its lifespan may be shortened by heat but I would not worry too much about it.
Just keep backups. It's probably not going to shave years off of it.
If you're worried, get a little USB fan and aim that at the drive. Just having air move over it will help a lot.

For things to survive a reboot on a bootable (USB) flash drive you need 'persistence.'
[duckduckgo.com] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=persistent+usb+linux

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Mar 11 2023, 18:09

I wonder if there could be a program, available on windows, that could create some checking/recovery data from a file, not only allowing to check if it got corrupt, but also to attempt to repair it.
The point is that this checking/recovery data would take a lot less space than a full or archived copy of the file to "protect".
The issue with that question is that all keywords I can think of will lead me to things that are very different principles from what I'm talking about (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif)

I wonder if there could be a program, available on windows, that could create some checking/recovery data from a file, not only allowing to check if it got corrupt, but also to attempt to repair it.
The point is that this checking/recovery data would take a lot less space than a full or archived copy of the file to "protect".
The issue with that question is that all keywords I can think of will lead me to things that are very different principles from what I'm talking about (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif)

Maybe [www.snapraid.it] Snapraid? Haven't used it on Windows personally but it is available for it.

I wonder if there could be a program, available on windows, that could create some checking/recovery data from a file, not only allowing to check if it got corrupt, but also to attempt to repair it.
The point is that this checking/recovery data would take a lot less space than a full or archived copy of the file to "protect".
The issue with that question is that all keywords I can think of will lead me to things that are very different principles from what I'm talking about (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif)

I think what you might be looking at is Parchive, there might be better solutions but i can't think of any on Windows.
[en.wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive
[hp.vector.co.jp] https://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA021385/

I don't see how you can have self-healing that can automatically repair corrupted data without redundancy. Best will be compressing the redundancy. Or of course, filesystems like ZFS that have integrity features that can help prevent data corruption in the first place. Not really an option on Windows though.

Maybe [www.snapraid.it] Snapraid? Haven't used it on Windows personally but it is available for it.

As far as im aware snapRAID does not support compressing parity data so the parity data will be as big as the content being backed up.

This post has been edited by -terry-: Mar 12 2023, 11:10

Maybe [www.snapraid.it] Snapraid? Haven't used it on Windows personally but it is available for it.

There is also PArchive. (PAR2 format)
[parchive.github.io] https://parchive.github.io/
[sourceforge.net] https://sourceforge.net/projects/parchive/

I know some people used to burn CD's with archives made with it when backing up their data.

WinRAR also has support for some kind of parity in rar archives, apparently, but I'd not recommend it.

I think what you might be looking at is Parchive, there might be better solutions but i can't think of any on Windows.
[en.wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive
[hp.vector.co.jp] https://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA021385/

I don't see how you can have self-healing that can automatically repair corrupted data without redundancy. Best will be compressing the redundancy. Or of course, filesystems like ZFS that have integrity features that can help prevent data corruption in the first place. Not really an option on Windows though.
As far as im aware snapRAID does not support compressing parity data so the parity data will be as big as the content being backed up.

Dammit, that's what I get for not reading all replies before posting.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Mar 14 2023, 04:21

I'm sorry if this the wrong place to ask.

I downloaded a game form anime-sharing, the uploader, esan, i've downloaded from before with no apparent issue. iirc, none of the games i've got from there turned up a windows defender alert when scanned

but this file, i got from rapidshare. after downloading, I scanned the .rar file with my microsoft defender said it had PUA:Win32/PornTool, not knowing if its ok, i deleted it, then picked a katfile link from the same poster, hoping if any malware was present that it was attached by rapidshare itself?

if i'm allowed, can i post the anime-sharing or rapidshare link for someone to double check? I'm not exactly someone who can fix a computer if i screw it up with a virus

and it's tough to find a live download for older games. I thought i had an accout on that site, but apparently i don't, so i can't ask over there.

PS, i also ran it through Virus total & 13 of 51 spotted various potential threats, though the other 38 detected nothing.

Though i downloaded another game from a different uploader, by the same game studio, Inohead, while my Windows Defender didn't seem to trigger on that, the Virus Total site




Bitch Kazoku Hentai na Nichijou.rar 13/51 security vendors and no sandboxes flagged this file as malicious

bitch kazoku.exe 30/72

Bakunyuu Mama Haramase Netori.rar 13/56

bakunyuu Mama.exe 30/72 security vendors and no sandboxes flagged this file as malicious

neither game is all that big & it seems strange that 2 seperate uploaders would upload games laden with Trojans

This post has been edited by Comrade Claus: Mar 16 2023, 00:52

This is the right place, but I really don't know what I can say. I've gotten rather good at figuring out what is or isn't malware on my own, and I don't use windows either.

I don't trust virus scanners.

Just giving filenames with no sizes, details about contents of the rar files, etc. makes it hard for me to give useful advice.

Direct download EXE's should almost always be extracted with something like 7-zip to see if they are just self-extracting archives. I would not try to run them.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Mar 17 2023, 00:23

I would just run them inside a virtual machine or a sandbox (i think Windows even comes with one powered by Hyper-V now) if you aren't sure if anything is malicious or not. Chances are someone resorting to infecting people by backdooring Japanese H-games does not have elaborate exploits to escape virtualization.

Does anyone else here know how to decrypt and extract image files from DMM's dmme files? It's for two tankoubons.
I usually go to genl for this, but they have been offline for close to two weeks now, and they haven't responded to my messages here and Tox.

EDIT: I've managed to crack the files. Thanks to the good folks at the other thread.

This post has been edited by NekoHime27: Mar 29 2023, 11:52

What epub-to-image conversion software do you guys recommend?
I've tried AVS, Filestar, and BitRecover.
AVS and Filestar fucks up the image ratio.
So far, BitRecover has produced the best result, but it crops the bottom of the image ever so slightly into its own page, as shown below.
UPDATE: TIL you can just change epub to zip then extract the images.

This post has been edited by NekoHime27: Mar 29 2023, 13:05