[X] My Assistant

Whenever I try to run VirtualBox after a couple months of not doing so, the chances of it not working approach 100%.

Meanwhile, Qemu always works but is more awkward/annoying to do some simple things in.

Today I had to run FrameMaker to decode some old N64 developer documentation. Unfortunately I don't have any hardware to run IRIX on, so I had to use a Windows VM.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Mar 13 2020, 03:03

If anyone has a nice method of converting old framemaker 3.x and 4.x documents to PDF's/Postscript files or similar, let me know. Printing to a PDF seems to often lose the first page when I try it in an XP VM (using framemaker 4.02). I can't find a link for framemaker 5.5.6 linux beta, which might not even work anyway as it's apparently time bombed and the binaries are also about 20 years old.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Mar 13 2020, 18:35

This DC to DC converter works pretty slick, gives me 13.8V from a 5S or 18/20v lithium pack. It works great with VHF radios, but unsure about an HF radio. It's only rated 20a, which is what I need, but it's 20 chinese amps. It's also more likely to have noise down there, but one way to find out..

Just discovered someone managed to put a youtube video in its signature.
Now I know leaving youtube/javascript as blocked as possible even here is a good idea after all.

edit: tried to find the person again, but the signature must have been changed, not found.
edit2: loli-hujan86 got it right, I wonder why I could not find it again when browsing my recently seen topics to seek it

This post has been edited by uareader: Mar 20 2020, 14:50

Just discovered someone managed to put a youtube video in its signature.
Now I know leaving youtube/javascript as blocked as possible even here is a good idea after all.

Who?

Who?

This guy maybe

That's against the rules, just report him.

You must obey the rururules~

Thought of the day: A lot of the tech chat board posts seem to boil down to this unfortunately.

The one thing that I own that seems to have actually appreciated in value over time.
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This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Mar 21 2020, 06:18

Should probably not post your details brosef.

Should probably not post your details brosef.

Fair but there aren't many details there that aren't already known.
That's not been my zip code in several years.

I've recorded a movie on a length of 3h25, and it weigh 315MB
I think this is gonna be ugly, if it even work. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

edit: indeed, it didn't work, it tried to record the wrong way or something I guess, I hope next attempt will work better.

This post has been edited by uareader: Mar 24 2020, 21:30

Ha, even lithium batteries and SSDs are selling out.

Ha, even lithium batteries and SSDs are selling out.

Still never bought an SSD. And my battery is still good for the moment thankfully.

I don't know if it's official policy or not for the state govt to embrace free MS Office alternative, since I noticed almost every computer in the Public Works Dept has a free Office application installed. But it's not LibreOffice. Instead it's the ad-version of either WPS Office or Kingsoft Office for whatever reason.

I finally finished watching animes from a saved old version of a result of the search engine of a site.

Now to find new animes without retrying the old, I would need to parse the old search result, save all titles that it contains in a more practical way, then come up with a script that could use this save to remove all entries in a new live search, so I can only explore new stuff.
...
Just thinking of it make me confused (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif) and tired (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/faint.gif)

edit: oh right, the gif not appearing remind me I need to try making a script to restore the "pause gifs" feature from an extension of pre-quantum era...siiiiiiiiiigh

This post has been edited by uareader: Mar 25 2020, 18:14

Some of the computer cooling projects during lockdown are getting a bit overboard.



Not the best cooling solution but the most pointlessly elaborate?

Having to sort my anime folder to make it comprehensible to PLEX annoys me...but I guess it's my own fault for being a slob.

That I'll have a problem buying a new CPU this year, ehh.