Well, the plans to run AdvanceMame under Linux on my arcade game are now out the window. It just seems too complex for what I’m wanting to do.
I’m now going to try it with FreeDOS for sake of simplicity.
If things go according to plan, I’ll have the whole thing (nearly silently) running off of a CF card by this time next month. (Waiting for parts…)
Gur. I’d forgotten what a pain in the ass it is to get anything working under Linux. I want to install one silly app and the requirements become a strawman diagram. :\
Well, since Kompressor has taken his site down, I have mirrored it here.
I also just finished upgrading the hardware in my MAME cabinet. The Slackware 10.2 discs are coming down via BitTorrent right now, then I’ll get to work on redoing the software. I’ll also try and get some good photos of it once it is done, too.
Problem with my laptop fixed.
First I had to edit the userinit line per KB Q249321 using the Offline NT Password & Registry Editor, then I logged in, got a blank screen, hit Ctrl-Alt-Del, fired up Task Manager, used that to launch regedt32, followed 223188 to change the boot volume back to C:, rebooted, and all was good.
The problem was caused by C: somehow changing to E: (WTF?). Yeah, I’ve got no idea how, but the problem is solved.
The error which was received is as follows:
Your system has no paging file or the paging file is too small.
This was received on my Windows XP SP2 laptop after logging into the machine with any username, then the machine would slowly return to the login screen. If one tried to log in via safe mode, they would immediately be returned to the login window.
Well, hopefully this will help someone somewhere down the line…
The existance of Gallery2wiki gives me even more incentive to look at moving my personal website to MediaWiki. I’ll have to get my head around MediaWiki one of these upcoming days and just move my site to it. It shouldn’t be a big deal.
On Friday I came home from work and rather unexpectedly found the box containing my new monitor, a Dell 2005FPW, sitting on the front porch. This wasn’t supposed to be delivered until Monday, and it had a light dusting of snow on it, so I brought it inside to warm up. I let the monitor sit until today (well, Saturday) and after getting home from visiting
Today while out and about I also purchased my first tank of gas for the new car and got a first car wash. I’ll get a better handle on this number after a few more tanks and a bit more mixed driving, too. I also grabbed some photos of the car outdoors and in the daylight (photo gallery retired), both in an unwashed state and after getting it all cleaned up.
Oh, one last thing? Those two monitors that I want to sell? They can be seen in this photo and are a pair of IBM P260 displays with perfectly flat (vertically and horizontally) Sony tubes. They are really, really nice, and after doing a bit of research into market price, I’m going to ask for US$200 for the pair. So, if you want them, let me know and I can bring them to you or whatever. They work quite well. Also, please note that the color is off in the photo I linked to because I figured the white balance based on the room and the lights currently in there, not on the displays. So they will naturally look a bit off. But, yeah. $200. Not bad at all.
Hrm, now I think I’ll go start thinking about bed. It’s getting late.
Well, I got my new monitor today. For some reason Dell has chosen to put a DVI-D connector on the monitor, not a full DVI-I. (See Wikipedia’s DVI entry for more info) on their monitor, meaning that I have four extra pins to contend with. Uggh! Why couldn’t Dell just use the DVI-I connector and ignore the analog bits?
I think my best route is to simply break the four extra pins off of the cable. They aren’t needed, anyway.
UPDATE: Fuck. After removing the four extra pins from the DVI-I cable, I have realized that the wide, flat pin on a DVI-I connector is wider than the one on a DVI-D cable. Uggh. So now I need to order a 15′ DVI-D cable in order to use my new monitor properly. Poo.
UPDATE 2: Ahh, it’s working now. I just needed to operate on the cable. Woo! Better than waiting a few days for a new one.
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Does anyone here know how to have OS X (10.4.3) do the equivilent of a ‘diskutil repairVolume’ on reboot, before the OS is up? I’ve got a machine I don’t (currently) have physical access to which needs the root disk repaired so I can’t boot the install CD and run the check that way.
Also, anyone remember the issue with rsyncing to external volumes that I’ve been incessantly complaining about? I’m now thinking that I’ve got an issue with the source data, which was somehow manifesting itself in errors with rsync being unable to find destination files after they were written. There’s some weird inconsistancy here. Or maybe I was reading the rsync errors backwards? Hrm.
Anyway, any idea how to make diskutil do my bidding? I know how I’d do it under Windows, but OS X doesn’t seem to support this here…
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Hey everyone, I just thought you’d want to know that it’s possible to compile the version of rsync that ships with 10.4.3 (found here) on OpenBSD 3.8 (x86) with the Apple patch that enables extended attributes.
To compile it, just grab the 2.6.3 version from Apple, apply the patch, do a ./configure –enable-ea-support, and compile it. I know it’s a bit behind the 2.3.6 version which ships with OpenBSD 3.8, but it does work.
With this I’m able to back up the HFS+ volumes on my Macs to an OpenBSD box and preserve resource forks. Woo!
Look:
$ ls -als
total 150696
4 drwxr-xr-x 2 c0nsumer c0nsumer 512 Nov 3 14:01 .
4 drwx------ 3 c0nsumer c0nsumer 512 Nov 3 14:00 ..
28 -rw-r--r-- 1 c0nsumer c0nsumer 12292 Sep 10 02:08 .DS_Store
4 -r-------- 1 c0nsumer c0nsumer 82 Sep 10 02:08 ._.DS_Store
44416 -rw-r--r-- 1 c0nsumer c0nsumer 22710505 Aug 23 11:34 01_PolkaMegamix.m4a
[...]
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This is one of the coolest pieces of software I’ve played with in a while. It’s the bit from Tron, and it answers questions when you click on it.