My dirty solution was going to be a cat-6 switch (physical switch with two buttons), and that's likely what I'll do in the truck. I need to switch PTT, PTT ground, Mic High, Mic Low, and 8V power. No need for hook switch unless I have a spare contact. I would common the PTT grounds, and diode common the power, but I want to keep the mic ports isolated. If it was a pair of dash mounted ~50W radios, I wouldn't bother. The mics plug into remote control heads, either head has a 17' cable going back to a ~100W radio in the trunk (plus another 6' or so in either coiled mic cord). 46' of wire with all that RF plus car RFI is begging for trouble if it's commoned.
Algorithms can be very easy to write.........because they contains functions that you don't implement while writing them, and THEY are the headache (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif)
Algorithms can be very easy to write.........because they contains functions that you don't implement while writing them, and THEY are the headache (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif)
And then in the US you can patent those algorithms based on code others wrote and have a legally authorized anticompetitive product.
Thought: looking at the posts on this board I think I might be more active than I have any reason to be on here (IMG:[i.imgur.com] https://i.imgur.com/XKr7suY.png)
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The connector on these control heads is dumb. The head uses a male DB-50 with a plastic shell sunk into the housing, and 6 pins removed to split into 3 smaller plugs. In normal use, plug sections have retainer clips that snap into the housing to hold them. Got some female DB-50 with crimp pins, and a couple cheap pin tools. Should be able to trim down the connector pretty easy to make it hit the desired pins. The crimp ones are just a simple molded peice with a metal ring on it; the solder cup stuff falls apart when you hack on it. Need to work out how creative I'll need to get with a backshell, and if friction will retain it acceptably enough.
@dragontamer8740 I found a bit more info on the odd serial bus. It's basically a chimera of CAN and a couple of the industrial serial busses existing in a harness wiring and internal flavor, and running at 9600 baud. Harness version has a bidirectional differential pair, held in one state by resistors and actively driven to the other. It also has a bidirectional single-ended busy line. It's ran as a twisted air + 1c in a sheild, up to 100 feet. The internal version has Tx, Rx, Busy In, Busy Out, and Reset. Reset is ran by a watchdog in each device, if it times out everything on the bus resets, then sends it's identifier info.
Also curious is an interface bus used for button inputs and status LEDs. It has a Data In, Data Out, Clock, and Strobe. It runs modules that are basically 16 bit shift registers, with 8 buttons, 8 indicators, backlighting, and 3 digital input and output pins. Depending on the thing driving the bus, 2 or 3 modules can be daisy chained. The bus's controller will cycle through 2 or 3 16 bit words through the data lines, then send a strobe pulse to pump the data in/out of the shift register. One bus cycle takes 20mS or so. A bit odd, but it makes the modules need no adressing/programming or jumpers- the thing driving the bus knows what each I/O is, and the order the modules are in.
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The Famicom's front expansion connector is a super-recessed male DA15 connector. I'd love to be able to connect things to it without buying a neo geo controller extension cord for parts.
Re: CAN: Ah; Bosch strikes again. Makes me wonder again about if anyone's made an OBD-II device that doesn't require paying the royalties. Those things are so overpriced.
Really would have been nice if they'd used pretty much anything else so I'd know more about it.
Intern: "What's that one thing HDD's are pretty bad at?" Executive: "Do you mean random data access?" Intern: "Yeah, that. Well, I was thinking. What if we made them even worse at that, and then badged them as NAS drives?" Executive: "We're bringing you on full-time as head of Marketing."
Almost bought an SMR WD Red drive today. Haven't bought a new HDD since I got a 2TB black in 2014, so I wasn't looking out for it.
Intern: "What's that one thing HDD's are pretty bad at?" Executive: "Do you mean random data access?" Intern: "Yeah, that. Well, I was thinking. What if we made them even worse at that, and then badged them as NAS drives?" Executive: "We're bringing you on full-time as head of Marketing."
Almost bought an SMR WD Red drive today. Haven't bought a new HDD since I got a 2TB black in 2014, so I wasn't looking out for it.
WD Marketing Head: People found out about the performance drop and sales are falling.
New Intern: What if we just make it spin faster then it will match the original spec and we only have to trade off mtbf which nobody understands anyway.
Exec: Promoted to head of engineering.
Zoom is funny sometimes.
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WD Marketing Head: People found out about the performance drop and sales are falling.
New Intern: What if we just make it spin faster then it will match the original spec and we only have to trade off mtbf which nobody understands anyway.
Exec: Promoted to head of engineering.
I laughed. At that, not the zoom thing. Putting in "WD Marketing Head:" was a good call to get that snowballing effect going.
Are WD doing that now? Classic drivemakers' sort of move so I'd not be overly surprised.
Thought that's basically what WD black was though (yeah i know the firmware is different and probably missing a few commands).
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I laughed. At that, not the zoom thing. Putting in "WD Marketing Head:" was a good call to get that snowballing effect going.
Are WD doing that now? Classic drivemakers' sort of move so I'd not be overly surprised.
Thought that's basically what WD black was though (yeah i know the firmware is different and probably missing a few commands).
Yeah, but they got sued by data centres I think because they are really obsessed with MTBF as it has an operational and financial implication for them. Some techies (I think) did testing on temps, noise levels, and were able to analyze the audio to determine that the drives were spinning faster than spec and it would lead to premature failure.
I wonder what changed between the version of Firefox, for videos to now appear as a solid black shape now. I think that before (can't be sure, bad memory), there was a play button overlay, so it was recognizable that it's supposed to be a video here. Now on my config, it could be 3 things: a video, an animation starting with a full black layout (because I have an extension that stop gif on 1st frame), or just a genuine black shape image.
I wonder what changed between the version of Firefox, for videos to now appear as a solid black shape now. I think that before (can't be sure, bad memory), there was a play button overlay, so it was recognizable that it's supposed to be a video here. Now on my config, it could be 3 things: a video, an animation starting with a full black layout (because I have an extension that stop gif on 1st frame), or just a genuine black shape image.
they changed something related to rendering again, I also sometimes get the 'half of the page is gone' bug again I had ''fixed'' with disabling webrendering, and videos crash at times.
on another note, went and did the annoying thing of finally updating to the firefox without proton toggles, wasnt too bad as I gave up half way after just disabling random padding values in * { } css rule. the newest firefox scraped of random padding, might've done a bit too much but whatever:
slightly related to the HDD talk, decided on filling the 2.5" slots in server with 1tb hdds as they're a good ballance between existing cheap on the second hand market and giving me an okay final raid storage. have about 5 randomly assorted ones of toshiba, seagate and samsung in the mail. time will tell how well it will work out, spending about ~10-20 per drive this way, which is managable
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went and did the annoying thing of finally updating to the firefox without proton toggles, wasnt too bad as I gave up half way after just disabling random padding values in * { } css rule. the newest firefox scraped of random padding, might've done a bit too much but whatever: [attachmentid=156790]
slightly related to the HDD talk, decided on filling the 2.5" slots in server with 1tb hdds as they're a good ballance between existing cheap on the second hand market and giving me an okay final raid storage. have about 5 randomly assorted ones of toshiba, seagate and samsung in the mail. time will tell how well it will work out, spending about ~10-20 per drive this way, which is managable
Can't see your image. Also, hope your 2.5" drives aren't SMR - or if they are, that you aren't doing a ZFS RAID.
If you want my latest FF CSS and such, I can provide it. I'd also be willing to remove certain tweaks of mine to get something closer to whatever you want.
Also compact mode is still an option if you enable selecting it with a hidden pref.
Thought: Found a bug in Argyll that stops USB colorimeters from being enumerated on big endian machines (it does bad bitwise shifting on big endian machines with USB vendor/product ID's). Kinda want to report it, but it looks like the only way to report it is via mailing list and I sort of hate email so I keep putting it off. Calibrated the powerbook using network X forwarding with argyll running on a little-endian machine for now. (IMG:[i.imgur.com] https://i.imgur.com/aFJ175W.png) Feels bad, man.
Related thought: Would be awesome if they'd just bring the 5.25" half height HDD form factor into production to get more capacity, instead of making the drives perform exponentially worse. Yeah I know that a 5.25" HDD would have longer seek times. But it wouldn't randomly decide to take 10-20x longer than it normally would to do a task because it needs to do garbage collection. I far and away would prefer consistency over anything else.
Can't see your image. Also, hope your 2.5" drives aren't SMR - or if they are, that you aren't doing a ZFS RAID.
seems I added an attachment from another tab I was editing on, and it disappeared afterwords, readded it with a full edit now. also I was planning on a zfs raid this time since I was going to go with proxmox. not very famliar with it (yet), whats the downsides? why wouldnt it work out with SMR drives?
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If you want my latest FF CSS and such, I can provide it. I'd also be willing to remove certain tweaks of mine to get something closer to whatever you want.
Also compact mode is still an option if you enable selecting it with a hidden pref.
I was planning to go off yours, or some other people's that put in more effort, but just some messing around turning padding off landed me on something livable. and the less precise/detailed the css the more chance I have of it working for some versions in the future.
in other thoughts/news, got around to fixing that clock from a while ago, started working fine after just replacing all the crystal related circuitry. now it has a seiko crystal. glad I dont have to go about hunting down that chip: at least I have replacement for all caps in its circuit and spare crystals now in case I ever need to replace those, and the vfds for these do show up on ebay. can probably keep it alive forever at this rate
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I am dumb (no surprise to anyone so far). I was trying unsuccessfully to get the clipboard sharing to work between my virtual machine and the host, to get the japanese text fro visual novels to check translations. And since it failed, I desperately tried to reconstitute the kanji with an option "search kanji by radical", picking randomly. I forgot I had solved that issue a long time ago with a program that, while translating nothing, could give all kind of useful info, like readings in another alphabet on a source japanese text. And it happen that it also provide those "radicals" I would need for my earlier search.
Well, all my config is a zombie anyway (the dictionary need time travel to be installed, VNR is dead, and versions still on the net may be filled with viruses, AGTH and ITH are dinosaurs, the games themselves are old enough to still work despite bad support for 3D acceleration, all fitting in a virtual Windows XP). But other environments would go "aaaarrrrggghhh zombies!!!" and shoot everything down (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)
not very famliar with it (yet), whats the downsides? why wouldnt it work out with SMR drives?
Every time you write any file, you have to rewrite a ~256MB chunk of data around the file.
My computer gets starved when I try to do torrents on an SMR disk. Rebuilding a RAID involves a crapton of small writes, so it's even worse. If it normally takes a day, it might take a week with an SMR drive.
To maintain any semblance of performance it's a good idea to do trims on them (like you would with an SSD). Just don't try to use the disk for anything while the trim runs.
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how high are the chances of burning a CPU and/or a GPU from a laptop? because I would like to mine but with a laptop, I would not like to burn it
I can't tell what you are asking.
Burning? Like, overheating? Are you thinking of swapping them or something? It completely depends on what you swap it with.
Just ran my first ever fstrim on an SMR hard disk I've been using for two or three years. Took hours and I couldn't do anything with the computer during that time due to I/O starvation.
Yes, many SMR disks have trim capabilities.
This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Sep 19 2021, 05:35
Every time you write any file, you have to rewrite a ~256MB chunk of data around the file.
My computer gets starved when I try to do torrents on an SMR disk. Rebuilding a RAID involves a crapton of small writes, so it's even worse. If it normally takes a day, it might take a week with an SMR drive.
To maintain any semblance of performance it's a good idea to do trims on them (like you would with an SSD). Just don't try to use the disk for anything while the trim runs.
I do cheat severely with my network storage, its always nfs shares with async enabled, which somehow allows me to saturate network speeds even on drives that barely reach 100M/s writing. and raid profissioning was going to take forever anyway, plus them being 1tb drives its probably not too painful, and hopefully not something that happens too often
in a sidenote, got the clock back in the yellowed case, replaced all the buttom foam with my large supplies of chinese mystery white packing material. enjoy in full yellowed soviet glory:
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