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Making, baking, and (un-)breaking things in Southeast Michigan.

MAME Cabinet

January 4, 2006

Well, talking to some #llamasoft people got me thinking… I should just replace the monitor in my MAME cabinet with a real, decent sized one. So I think I’m going to see if the Vision Pro 27″ SVGA Universal Mount Monitor from Happ Controls. It’s US$349.95 for the tube, plus another $13.15 for the monitor bezel. As long as it’ll fit in my cabinet, I think I may go that route… It’d be a great, massive display which would actually accept a VGA signal.

Hrm… That really would polish off the cabinet…

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Painting…

January 3, 2006

Blah. I kinda screwed up in painting part of my MAME monitor. I didn’t paint enough of the bezel, so when one looks into the monitor at a very low angle, there is still some beige visible. I’ll have to fix this another day. :(

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Arcade Update

January 3, 2006

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…)

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Leenucks

January 1, 2006

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. :\

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Stuff done today…

January 1, 2006

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.

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MAME :(

December 31, 2005

Crap. The sound card in my MAME cabinet just died.

I’ve got plan to replace the innards of the machine, but I was hoping things would hold out through tonight.

Ah well, no MAME cab for a few days…

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Clocks…

December 31, 2005

I think that most of my clocks, and most assuredly all the clocks that matter (car, computer, phone, etc) will automatically compensate for the leap second tomorrow.

This is a good thing.

The other clocks (microwave, stove, bathrooms, etc) aren’t accurate enough to matter.

I like the whole clock-set-via-GPS-and-WWVB thing. Now, if only the VCR in my office would actually automatically be set correctly. Today it is three minutes off. Last week it was hours off. I think Comcast can’t send a proper time signal.

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Trader Joe’s 2005 Vintage Ale

December 28, 2005

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Yesterday when poking picking up some groceries at Trader Joe’s I noticed some rather interesting bottles labeled ‘Trader Joe’s’ but with a distinctly Unibroue bit of text below the label priced at $4.99. Looking at the cap and the back of the bottle shows that yes indeed, Unibroue makes it. Based on this I picked up a bottle, but I still haven’t given it a try yet.

So I have to ask, have any of you happened to try this rather interesting private label bottling by one of Quebec’s finest breweries?

I should also note that the metal cap covering the top of the cork is identical to the one on a bottle of Unibroue’s 2005, but the bottle is (obviously) different.

On a related note, I added a bunch more photos to the beer section of my photo gallery (photo gallery retired). I’ll point to some of the more notable ones here:

· New Holland Brewing Company’s Dragon’s Milk Ale
· Each of the beers in Bell’s Wheat Project: Wheat Two, Wheat Four, Wheat Six, Wheat Eight, and Wheat Love
· Dogfish Head’s Pangaea
· Lindemans Framboise Lambic

Oh, and there should be a bottle of Dogfish Head‘s Fort in there soon, to hopefully be opened on NYE. I received a call earlier this evening from my favorite local beer shop The Red Wagon Wine Shoppe that it had come in. Woo!

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Broken Laptop (Unable To Login)

December 27, 2005

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…

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