Bought myself a 640 GB harddrive for my PC (I now have ~2TB space) and 8GB flash for my Sansa MP3. As always, was too lazy to update this blog.
Nothing too special about Christmas holidays. They were good.
The new year party was really good. Lot of fireworks as always.
I’m too tired to type so I’m going to bed. It’s 5:19am now… (GMT+2)
Happy new year 2009 everyone !!! (jeez, how fast time flows)
Category: Old weblog
Oh, I love winter holidays. They’re also a good chance to buy something new (this time – for my PC).
Will add an additional 500GB or 750GB hard disk to stop these annoying “Low disk space” messages from appearing. I’m running out of things to delete.
That’s all for now.
Will update the blog during holidays.
Found a nice way to make those uber large (and not so large) applications portable. ThinApp is a nice solution for making applications portable. Too bad it doesn’t support apps using their own drivers.
I need to make a little program in Maple (large math tool suite), but I dunno if my program will work on a very old version of Maple, on which I’m supposed to test/demonstrate it, so I made Maple portable. Now it can run directly from my USB flash in case if I need it. The funny thing that Maple is about 600meg in size when installed, portable version is only 167meg.
Maybe I will also make my good old Delphi 5 IDE portable, if possible.
Ok, I’m will need a laptop in the future… Because I need to run these all apps somewhere…
Yes, it’s 3:30 am now here, where I live (my gmail account timezone is incorrect)
Haven’t updated my blog for a while, so today I decided to update it.
Trying to get a binary number (of any length, stored in two files, result in file) XOR program in macro assembler. Not that easy as doing the same thing with C, C++ or Delphi. I am supposed to do the task using Turbo Asm, but that would be a programmer’s nightmare (raw assembly, ancient CPU architecture (circa 1989, my old unused Mendocino CPU from 1999 is 10 years newer), so I switched to Masm32. Almost finished, hope it will work.
Also made a small program to open IPTV from my browser. Just enter channel address and VLC will fire up and view my IPTV.
Also installed a bunch of things in one person’s laptop and got rewarded for that.
Also, maybe I found a way to get things shipped to me from USA. Some PC parts are cheaper there. I wonder how much the shipping would cost…
Will try to update this site in december.
Almost finished a simple timed launch application and it’s icon handler (Icons are different for each profile and are easily configurable).
Will write more about the program and and post a link to it when program is finished
Until then, bye.
Experimenting with win2003, created my own DNS (running in a virtual machine) and it works.
So now i’ve got my own tld: *.dds. Mapped my IPTV channel IPs so I do not have to remember them.
(for example, mapped Discovery channel to discovery.iptv.dds, so I do not have to remember 239.2.3.21 and 85 other IPTV channel IPs, which now have names)
Created some virtual hosts, they all work.
Well, I use and work with PCs since 1999 but this is my first experience using a real server OS. DNS works in my secondary PC too.
Well, I’m not saying that I really need a DNS, but having my own domains in LAN
without having to edit hosts file in every network computer is nice.
I had one big problem: after installing win2003, IPTV stopped working in my virtual machines (it does that sometimes, I don’t know why. Unplugging&plugging back utp cables sometimes solves the problem, sometimes a restart is required, sometimes I need to restart host PC).
Spent a few hours trying to fix it without success, then restarted host PC and IPTV started working again! If all problems could be fixed so easily… 🙂
It was long since I updated this blog.
Some new things: I installed linux-based firmware to my router because original linksys one was a POS (if I wanted to listed to internet radio for longer time, the router would freeze completely requiring a power-reset, also it was freezing randomly without any reason, disabling internet access completely).
It is much more stable and running for 10 days without any problems (freezes, loss of internet and similar). IPTV also works without any problems.
Well, nothing else to say.
Just wanted to make a new post here.
All is OK for now, all my PCs are feeling OK.
I wish I was feeling that good.
Will try to update tomorrow.
I forgot to say, I’ve bought a USB based charger Energizer Duo. It works as expected, but the driver is buggy. The clock sometimes shows crap. I tried to recharge (well, not completely recharge) 2 GP 2100mAh AA cells, the charger overcharged them, so they got hot as hell (and the clock was showing 1:40 left !). It charged 2 included enegizer 800mAh AAA cells wayy longer than 2h as was promised on the package.
I connected the charger to a powered hub, now the batteries recharge faster. It seems that the usb port in my pc doesn’t have enough juice to charge batteries faster.
The charger also works with my wall USB charger and car 12V to 5V USB charger.
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I also bought a blinkie a few months ago. I now found a better use for it. I now use it as a decoration for my secondary monitor (the one virtual PC uses). The blinkie uses 3xAA cells which keep running out after a few days. I connected the blinkie to my second USB wall charger and the blinkie worked (the charger dropped voltage to 4.35V). I had to add a variable resistor to avoid overloading the blinkie as it was too bright. I made an usb plug for the blinkie from an old usb cable. I’ve tested and the blinkie works with computer usb ports too as the blinkie is LED based and default 100mA juice from usbport is enough for it.
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One bad new: my phone’s lcd broke and the warranty is void. I will now have to pay for the repairs.
Simply wanted to update.
Well, VM is much more stable now.
But I see that our main system is running out of diskspace and that is not good.
Don’t have any extra cash for harddrives now, so I have to remove some stuff (removing duplicates now) from them.
Well, nothing more.