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On debian testing it currently has a bug in which you need to install python-pil by hand (by apt, but the dependencies include python-pillow instead). i.e. you can install python-pil by hand or you can just comment out a line that checks pil.VERSION in the code (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif).

Yeah I hit that bug a day or two ago, actually, when i finally did some upgrades in Debian Sid.

mcomix's pretty awesome, mostly because the code is very simple to read. I use a heavily tweaked version (e.g. it read a file called sha1.txt inside my zips and print warnings if the sha1 sums do not match).

Yeah my version's been tweaked just a wee bit as well; namely I changed the corner of the page that is in view when not "fit to the screen" to always be the same whether paging forward or backward. I also changed the granularity of the zoom stepping so I have more precise control. It really is fantastically readable code. I still don't really love Python, but this is proof that decent large-ish python programs can be written.

A huge majority of the extensions I've made to it are in the form of small programs that I execute through the "open with..." functionality. The first nine "open with" options are mapped to the numeric keys on the keyboard (1,2,3,…,9), which means I can map them to special functionality.
'Categorize' is a special tool I made so I can symlink things into directories representing different 'tags' or categories I've created. Basically makes it a horrible filesystem based database.


I also have wrapper scripts that let me browse all the files in all subdirectories of a given dir recursively, or randomly go to a directory/file.

It's a laptop. Windows is already pre-installed. My desktop on the other hand...

Having it pre-installed doesn't mean you should use the pre-installed version
I was downgrading laptops to VLK licensed XP Pro until around 2012.
And re: cooler:
Probably good. A Pentium D stock intel cooler would also likely work but it'll be loud as hell.
(Pentium D was two netburst CPU's in a single package)

Keep an eye on the temperature while editing/encoding, and kill it pre-emptively if you decide it's not cooling it well enough.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Aug 10 2019, 09:58

Someone please delete this, accidentally doubleposted

I'll delete it, just wait till i become a mod.

PENGUIN EDIT: Nah (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) (PS. cleaned up)

This post has been edited by blue penguin: Aug 11 2019, 02:12

I have come to instinctively distrust all apps that have the current year written on their Play Store icon

I have come to instinctively distrust all apps that have the current year written on their Play Store icon

I have come to instinctively distrust all apps that are listed in the Play Store

Also soldered together an adapter for my Sun workstation keyboard today. Still a rubber dome board which is a tragedy, but it's such a good looker and I really enjoy the layout (it's the Unix layout, not the "PC Layout"). And it's a Fujitsu board – they tend to be a bit better than some other budget boards. This is at least smooth feeling.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Aug 11 2019, 10:10

I miss 80's plastic.

In a strange dream last night, I was searching for information. I typed and typed but nothing came up but white fuzzy screen. I went outside and opened the trunk lid to look for something. Never finished that dream thought as I went inside the car's cabin to push the OnStar button to activate the car's local WiFi router. It worked, I could connect to the internet with my tablet. The house router was connected to the chinese ISP Baidu which bought out everyone else. I was banned by that chinese ISP because I typed "Sad Panda looks like Xi Jinping" but I don't know where I had said or typed that.

Sigh. I hate it when tech sites gave "no RGB" as a con in their RAM reviews.

Sigh. I hate it when tech sites gave "no RGB" as a con in their RAM reviews.

You may not have known it, but my respect for you just grew exponentially.

Another attempt to circumvent recaptcha ban on my laptop failed.
I wish I had the guts to write to my government, so they start banning that shit from public services, encourage it to be banned for private services (especially key things like banks), and possibly cause that to come out in the news, and poke Google.
Trying to negotiate directly with the company would probably be a loss of time, as it is a well designed fraud to begin with.

I miss 80's plastic.

You should visit some time.
(I'm only half joking; It seems like you know your technology and I'd love to pick your brain about it. Still fighting SCSI demons with this Amiga in my quest to upgrade the HDD to something from this millenium.)
Would probably be really awkward though, knowingly meeting someone IRL that you met on a hentai site... So never mind I guess. I swear I'm not as much of a dick IRL as I am online though.

Not pictured: Commodore VIC-20, C64, TI-99/4A, Macintosh Plus (yuck), Atari 2600, several american NESes, Model 1 Sega Genesis/Sega CD (OK, I guess the CD addon is from the 90s), interior of a Volvo 240 station wagon, Apple IIe monitor. Game Boys. Maybe forgetting more (probably).







This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Aug 13 2019, 19:05

Finally found a use for my Arduino Uno I got around 2012-2014.
Couldn't use it for keyboard converters like I could with an atmega32u4 board, so I turned it into a PSX (PS1) modchip for playing CD-R's. It uses PsNee. Barely had to modify the case at all to make it fit - just sanded down one of the support structures for a single screw post. If I could have been bothered to desolder the headers that wouldn't have been a problem either.

That upside-down IC is being used to buffer a composite sync signal so i can combine it with the green output line and have "sync on green" RGB output. I wasn't sure if the place I tapped it was being fed by an open collector or not, so I just put a 74LS08 in there and tied both inputs of a gate together to make sure it could drive a 75 ohm load.


This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Aug 18 2019, 07:20

That black thing with the blue eye would fit an evil robot in SF (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

Thought: this may be my last full week on Windows XP and this old computer. :notsurewhatsmileytoaddthere:

edit: yes Science Fiction.Actually I'm pretty sure I saw a robot head looking like that before, causing that thought in the first place.

This post has been edited by uareader: Aug 19 2019, 19:38

That black thing with the blue eye would fit an evil robot in SF

Not sure what SF is unless you just mean science fiction, but what you're looking at is called a laser pickup. It's for reading CD's in this case.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Aug 19 2019, 09:34

You have to turn it on and stare directly into the beam.

My water pump is making a weird grinding noise and my computer won’t boot (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)

My water pump is making a weird grinding noise and my computer won’t boot (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)

Sounds like you made a few mistakes here, the first of them being liquid cooling.

My PC is very low demand in terms of power, to the point that a little while ago I accidentally disconnected my PSU fan for a week of 24/7 uptime and never even noticed. (I'd replaced the original sleeve bearing PSU fan with a better double-ball-bearing one after it started making noise. New fan is controlled by motherboard; I set it to stay maxed out at all times. Cable came out while I was rigging up my SCSI controller.)
I replaced the PSU anyway to be safe, but my computer was up that entire week.

GPU max wattage appears to be 38W according to nvidia-smi, and Intel rated my CPU at 69 watts TDP but who knows what it actually draws with modern TDP metrics.

GPU gets all power off the PCIe bus.

My build started its life as a bunch of upgrades to a 2005 Pentium 4 HT dell dimension and parts were chosen based on both price points and fitting easily in the allowance of the original ~305 watt OEM Dell PSU it used at the time.

Only things that are the same now are the boot HDD (I have backups) and the sound card. At this point, I'm honestly just fascinated to see how long this disk will last. And I'm pleased enough with my Audigy 2 that I don't feel like upgrading still, since I use sample rates above 48khz extremely rarely and I always have onboard for that. (Audigy 2 can do >48khz, but it opens a can of worms because of its DSP needing to operate at 48khz and doing downsampling if needed).
Plus the sound card provides a firewire port if I ever need one. And S/PDIF. And a wavetable MIDI synth. In fact the only thing it is really noticeably lacking is an OPL3 chip and a gameport, but that's expecting too much.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Aug 20 2019, 09:31

But does your 750ti have a TV-OUT port and did you convert it into AGP slot?

And does your mobo have an infrared port and serial port & your case a turbo button?


Those are the real questions.

But does your 750ti have a TV-OUT port and did you convert it into AGP slot?

I wish.
I have another motherboard for that kind of stuff.
And another for ISA slots.

All of my TV's are pro monitors (CRT's) that have RGB inputs, though, and two of them can sync to 480p as well as 480i, so "TV out" isn't strictly necessary. My latitude D610 has that port though, as does my D630 with the dock connector.

And does your mobo have an infrared port and serial port

Yes.

& your case a turbo button?

No.

Those are the real questions.

I assumed as much.
I'm sane, I swear. I just love old things.


Because it's micro ATX in a full ATX case I have convenient places to mount breakouts on the back of the case.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Aug 21 2019, 01:19

Just made a "weeaboo mode" playstation (1) controller by cutting some traces and swapping the X and O buttons, for the stupid games that got their buttons swapped for the US market for no good reason.
Now I just need to think of a sticker or decoration/art piece to draw on the controller to signify that it's different.

Looking at the logs of a DNS-level adblocker I recently installed on my Android, 32% of all blocked requests were directed to data/bug monitoring platforms (Crashlytics, BugSnag, Instabug, etc.), 18% to assorted analytics sites (mostly Google Analytics) and 50% were actual ads
That's a whole fucking lot of telemetry my apps are producing
No wonder people get paranoid