Ok so I know I havn’t posted in over a month so I thought I would change the theme. 😛 Right now I’m awaiting my time table for college. I’m sure your all wondering what I have been doing all summer and it’s simple. I’m eather working, or siting around doing nothing. I hope when school starts I will have some more exciting projects and some more tutorials to post here. It’s not a matter of if, just a matter of when.
Mac vs PC
A battle that might never end between Mac and PC users. A battle that is won but no one on the PC side will admit it.
The battle between Mac and PC have been going on for years and years. This history behind Apple and Microsoft has always been to “out do” the other. Microsoft I hate to brake it to you… but you lost.
I recommended my second Mac out to a friend of myna who was getting a laptop to do her writing on. She got it in November and has never had a issue with it. My laptop is a little older but still has some good hardware in it. I run XP Pro hooked to my domain at home. Over the time she has had her nice running Mac, I have formatted my Windows based laptop 10 times. That’s right, 10 times. And not only just the formatting but I don’t think any peace of software has worked correctly on it. Even Miro couldn’t play video back with out horrid lag and being very choppy.
Every since the last format, it’s been acting really weird with the file sync to my home server but today was the day it finally died.
It’s funny because I sit here writing this and reading the slides during the XP Pro install.
“Music and entertainment just got better” This is a great line. I have always had issues playing 340kbps music files.
“Now it’s easier to get help — and to help others!” Yeah it’s easy if grandma can forward the ports through her router.
“The computer will be faster and more reliable” Lets just all take a minute and laugh.
“Get support for the latest hardware and software” It goes on about Direct X 9 after that. Does that mean Miro should have been able to play my shows?
“Surfing the Internet: safe, fast and flexible” If you use Firefox 😛
“Explore your creative side with photos and videos” but they can’t be to big or else explore will crash.
“Windows Movie Maker makes it easy and fun to capture, and edit video” Yeah right. If your trying to make a video slid show of picture, Windows will crash due to buffering issues.
So to sum up. Windows sucks. I’ll let you know how much better it is now that it’s formatted.
Edit: Ok I haven’t even posted this yet and I already have my first issue. USB stick with all my drivers on it won’t come up in My Computer… O look 5th times the charm!
O How I missed my good friend Robert
A friend I met at a pervous forum software appeared on Imperial BB’s forums today. It seems like users are getting frustrated with the going’s on at the other software. So for some Saturday night fun me and Robert thought it would be a good laugh to stir up some shit. 😛 This was said in the channel of the other forum software.
MiNT: apparently theres been a new security release
MiNT: ive missed that one
Snake: been a few Toungue
MiNT: id apply it, but mybb doesnt have a feature which lets you do it automatically
MiNT: so i really cant be bothered
Snake: errrm yeah i think i’m still at 1.2.10
Snake: its to bad really
MiNT: hmm
Snake: o well
Complicated:
Complicated:
Complicated: Lets hack him
MiNT: maybe we should find a fourm software that does handle the update automatically
MiNT: do you know of such a software?
Snake: hmmmm…. yes but what other software does it?
Snake: vB?
MiNT: phpbb?
Complicated: SMF ?
MiNT: smf?
Complicated: LOL
Snake: phpBB…. eek never that agains usfull features
Snake: there*
Snake: against*
Snake: usefull*
Snake: lol god dam
MiNT: smf is too simple to have such a useful feature
Ryan> Still spelled useful wrong
Complicated> SMF is about the worst software I have EVER EVER EVER came across
Snake> phpBB is to stupid to have it
MiNT: vb is too expensive for me to even see if it has the feature
Snake: they kinda remined me of MyBB RC2
Snake: but i think RC2 was better
Ryan: It doesn’t, MiNT. Toungue
MiNT: fair enought
MiNT: *enough
Snake: lol
MiNT: thats £100 saved not finding out for myself
Snake: Imperial BB has it
MiNT: =o
Snake: i think i know some people over there to :S
MiNT: imperialbb you day?
MiNT: *say
Snake: i’ll ask them about it
Snake: yeah they have it
MiNT> =o
Snake: there mods were nice enough to send me a old version just so i can test it
MiNT: thats phenomenal!
MiNT: i think im going to switch all my sites right away!
* Snake consideres it to
MiNT: Imperial BB allows me and my clients to effectively communicate over the internet!
Snake: with easy of upgradeing Big Grin
MiNT: so whats that url again?
Snake: http://www.imperialbb.com thats right… thats http://www.imperialbb.com for you slow people… get your free copy today!
MiNT: right: http://www.imperialbb.com/
Snake: thats the URL http://www.imperialbb.com
Snake: again thats http://www.imperialbb.com
Snake: Toungue
MiNT: thats great, im going to http://imperialbb.com/ to download my copy of Imperial BB NOW!
MiNT: just look at that crisp clean interface: http://imperialbb.com/
MiNT: Imperial BB: supported by a MyBB Fan
Complicated: Oo
Crossfader on Behringer DX 1000
Now that I have my computer up and running I have been messing around with a program called Virtual DJ. If your into making your own mixes and DJing then this might be a program you want to check out.
Virtual DJ is really cool and feature packed. One of the features is it lets you set 2 sound cards to be the output for Decks A and B allowing you to use a external mixer as your control for your crossfading and main mix output.
After doing this and playing some songs I noticed that the Crossfader on my DJ board (Behringer DX 1000) was cutting the sound out to soon so by the time the slider had made it to the middle both tracks were at half volume. What I wanted was to have Deck A be on full volume till the slider hit half way and then have the volume decline but all of this happening while Desk B’s volume is coming up.
I remember reading in the instructions that you could adjust the slop and overlap of the crossfader. I figured it would be like two knobs on the back or something but the adjustment is on the main motherboard inside of the case. This sounded like a great excuse to take it apart 😀
After removing all the back screws I came to this.
Looking closer down need the Crossfader I found the two potentiometers.
According to the instructions it says not to mess with the overlap but to turn the Slop potentiometers all the way to the right to get what I wanted. (Make sure you check the instructions before doing this to your board) So then after putting all 10 screws back in I hooked the board up and away it went. PERFECT!
That was a fairly simple adjustment and I hope this will help you tune your board to what you want.
I Blake Miller do not take responsibility for damages you might cause to your equipment.
Computer Issues? Your telling me!
I have not been around many of my local online community’s recently do to major computer issues I have been suffering through.
In my last post I made you all aware that I had ordered a new bare bones kit from TigerDirect.ca. Well I received all the parts, put it together, turned it on… install Windows XP Pro… Install drivers then bam… random reboot. So I ran it for about a week. Very fast bur random reboots. I ran the great utility “Dr Watson” that’s built into Windows to see what was going on. Checking through logs I found that every reboot was caused by the nVidea driver taking a dump.
My first thought was the video cards so I took on of the XFX nVidea 8400 GS’s out. Again, still the same problem. So then my second thought was RAM… Took 3GB of the OCZ RAM out. Still same issue. Last thought was power supply… changed that… still same issue.
My calm father called MSI and gave them the situation of what was going on. They gave us a tag number and we shipped the board back.
A week later we were starting to get concerned about where the board had gone because we had herd nothing from MSI. That Friday a package showed up from MSI with a brand new mother board.
Again, hooked it up, installed Windows XP… still same problem.
Well I was pissed by this point. (Who wouldn’t be)
So me and my dad were talking about the MSI mother board. All of our computers we have ever built we always used AMD processor, ASUS mother boards and ATI graphics cards. Having a MSI mother board and nVidea graphics cards was a new realm but we figured it wouldn’t be a big deal. Every thing pointed back to the motherboard.
We order a nice ASUS N2M-SLI from ShadowTech Computer Services. (There located a few blocks away from my house) The next day the motherboard was in and still the same problem but this time when we went to install Window s we would get a memory flow error… something witched I have never seen before. This time we called up our friend Tim from ShadowTech and asked him about the problem.
Tim nicely tolled us that OCZ RAM needs to have voltage bumped up for it to run stable. Sure enough, bumped up the voltage and away it went. 4GB of RAM… AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5400+ 2.81 GHz and XFX 8400+ GS running software SLI.
Not bad for a months worth of screwing around… Now I just need to find where the Christmas video’s went 😛
