I have air conditioning again! And the installers seem to have done a pretty good job. Everything looks nice and orderly, and the price seemed pretty reasonable. Also, it’s amazingly quiet. Metered from 2′ from the front panel, about 1′ above the unit I was seeing 72dB on the meter.
It’s also becoming much cooler in my house. Yay!
It works. All of it. Everything on the board. Except for one little snag (one part label is printed backwards) the whole thing works as designed.
The input buttons, the LCD, the MIDI LEDs, the memory, all of it.
The voltage regulators run a bit hot (~150ºF when the LCD is connected) when using the 12V SID. Using a 9V one instead should make things a bit better. I don’t like this, but there’s really no easy solution short of using an external switching power supply and redesigning the board. Which I’m not going to do. It’s well within tolerances, though.
I think that next I’ll build a board to handle the 9V SIDs, then I’ll have two complete boards for myself. Then I’ll build either one or two enclosures. I’m also tempted to shove one into someplace interesting… Like a MIDI keyboard. :D
Well, they are here. This means that tonight I’ll be assembling the first of the MIDIbox SID-NUXX Mainboard PCBs. Hopefully they will work. :D
For now I’m going to get some cheese bread from Hungry Howie’s for dinner. I know it’s not healthy, but it’s cheap and easily obtained.
Oh, I need to keep sticking with cheap because I just committed to spending $2525 to have the central air conditioner in my house replaced. This new one should be more efficient and it’ll actually work.
I’m having a bit of a ssh / networking problem. It’s really confusing me.
If you would like to read about it and hopefully help me solve it, please do. I’ll break sections of info up with hr’s.
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Ah. That keeps me a little cooler while down in the basement…
When I was little I had a bunch of 120VAC chassis fans salvaged from various bits of AT&T telecom equipment. I used to hang them in various places around my bedroom in order to make it cooler. Up in doorframes to move cooler air into my room, etc.
Also, yesterday after visiting Erma’s with Danielle I was forced to launder some money. At least it’s better now.
Back in 2003 I went on a cruise in Alaska. Well, while I was there I wrote a journal of whatever happened to be going through my head. Since moving to the new site format I’ve neglected to post it. Until today.
Here it is, if you’d like to see it… I may still add some more photos, but for now I’m happy with it:
I know I should be in bed, but I just made a change to my MediaWiki install which is very important. See, it’s my understanding that Google doesn’t like it very much if you are displaying AdSense ads on non-content pages.
Since MediaWiki has lots of these which I regularly use, I don’t want to upset Google by inadvertently serving myself a bunch of ads which are on these non-content pages.
The solution? Easy. Just don’t show ads on pages for users who are logged in. Since I’m using MediaWiki as a CMS, I’m the only person who will ever be logged in. So, to solve my problem, I wrapped the includes for the ad files in this:
<?php if($this->data['loggedin']!=1) { ?>
...
<?php } ?>
I know this is really basic, but I imagine others may want to know about it, so I’m documenting it here.
Ah. I finally moved a big part of my old website over: The Recipes
All the recipes I had posted before have been republished under the Recipes section of the new site. These recipes include:
Appetizers
· Katester’s Crack Dip
· HummusBreads
· Rosemary Sea Salt Bread
· White Bread (Bread Maker)Beers
· California Style Imperial Pale Ale
· Golden AleBeverages
· Honey Lemon Ginger TeaEntrees
· Plain Old Omelet
· Roasted Corn on the Cob
· Veggie Chili #1Baked Goods
· Chocolate, Toasted Hazelnut, and Almond Biscotti
· Dried Cherry and Almond Biscotti
· Everything But The Kitchen Sink Cookies
· Ginger and Spice Cookies
· The Chewy (Chocolate Chip Cookies)
· Pumpkin Cheese Coffee Cake
· Traditional Chocolate Chip Cookies
· Triple The Ginger CookiesOther
· Emeril’s Essence Creole Seasoning
· Herb Dipping Oil
· Honey Cinnamon Butter
Now I’m working on moving the journal I wrote while on my 2003 trip to Alaska into MediaWiki. It will probably take another 20 minutes at most, if I could just get up the will to do it.
Yay. All websites which I am going to continue to host and for whom the owners have contacted me have been moved to the new server.
Additionally, plans are in place to move all email over.
If things go as I’m hoping they will, I’ll have the server powered down this weekend. It’s too bad that I’m going to be wasting half a month of hosting fees with Waveform, but such is life, I guess.
I guess it’ll be back to my more ‘normal’ projects soon. :D
Things are progressing well with the server move. Except for email.
I’m having big problems with DreamHost’s email. I set up users and things just seem to never finish getting set up.
I’m not sure what’s going on yet… Hopefully tomorrow there will be someone who can explain to be what’s wrong and what is being done to fix it.
< sigh >
This is why I ran my own server before. Because if something was fucked up, it was my fault and I could only blame myself if things weren’t working right.
Option ‘B’ out of this whole thing is to drop ~$1400 on a new server and shuffle everything over to it. But then I’d have the same headaches as before.
