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Date: 17/11/2005 | Oh this is too cool. My PC has 1 ethernet port and my cable modem is
plugged into that. So to network the Mac Mini in is pretty hard. But it turns
out that you can network an XP machine to an OS X machine using Firewire.
How hella cool is that! It's called IP over Firewire and it rocks.
My PC mother board is old and lame, and I've run out of PCI slots (kinda). Because the slot next to the video card needs to stay free to get enough air flow over the Nvidia 6200 which has no fan (factory heatsink only). No onboard ethernet either, so I have 1 NIC, a sound card, a USB2 card, a Firewire card and the TV tuner card. And 1 free slot next to the AGP card. Anyway it's all cool... firewire comes to the rescue. I'm posting this from the Mini ;) |
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| New Software | |
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Date: 17/11/2005 | There are new releases of all 3 of my main apps today, i.Scribe/InScribe, i.Mage and i.Ftp. Man, busy busy busy.
Also I've updated the InScribe page to include a bunch of screenshots specific to InScribe as opposed to the free i.Scribe. Covering the features just in InScribe, like multiple accounts, MAPI export and user filters. Enjoy. |
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| Push Towards A Stable Scribe | |
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Date: 17/11/2005 | Well Scribe v1.88 Test15 is out and all outstanding issues (bar feature rewrites for v1.89) have either been completed or are waiting for more information from users. Test14 has gone really well, except for the forwarding being broken there has been very little in the way of negitive responses (bar a few false alarms).
I've been working on becoming even more consistant in chasing up every little thing so that issues don't fall through the cracks. Between the Bug Database and my Inbox, which I now colour code issues, I keep tabs on everything and chase up all the reports of bad behaviour. The way I'm running my Scribe related folder is to colour code emails that I've actioned as green, things that are waiting on more information as orange and outstanding work as red. The idea being to make everything green or orange. Every day or so I go back over all the unmarked (white) email I havn't looked at and do something about it so that I can mark it with a colour. It's somewhat satisfing to have all your "todo" items ticked off. It does mean that I feel compelled to not ignore stuff I don't want to deal with, which is a good discipline I guess... stops you being lazy. At least you don't get a canned response from Memecode like most larger companies will give you these days. |
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| iTunes | |
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Date: 16/11/2005 | Everytime I open iTunes it askes me to find the files in my play lists. Eh? What you say iTunes? The files are in the same damn spot they were last time. iTunes is teh Suck!
So I thought google will fix this for me. After consulting google (who failed me) I found this. Which sure makes for interesting reading. I want to believe all that crap about the labels screwing the musicians but there are a few little problems with their anti-label rhetoric. Lets see:
I know the cost of recording is now a lot lower with the advent of modern gear, but advertising is still a major part of the visibility of an up and coming artist. A great artist with no money is not going to connect with many people by selling direct over the 'net. They don't produce fantastic recordings because of budget issues, and even if they leap frog that issue they don't get seen by anyone. Labels still have a part to play, and they shouldn't be cut out of the picture. That said I would think twice about signing up with a label. As a muso myself I would try and go with a small independant label that wants to spend very conservatively and has their head screwed on straight. |
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| Mac Mini DVI Pinout? | |
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Date: 15/11/2005 | There already exists a converter for the Mini (and Powermac) that gives you Composite Video and S-Video out of the DVI port. But it means you can't have the main display plugged in as well. The adapter is not doing any signal conversion, just exposing the right pins in the DVI cable as an RCA jack and an S-Video jack. But what pins would those be?
So my devious mind went to work, and I see no reason why you couldn't (in theory) have a pass-through converter that exposes the composite and S-Video signal AND the DVI signal. So you can have BOTH tv-out and your main display happening at the same time. Niiiiiice! But from my reading of the DVI interface specification (pinouts) there is no "composite video" or "s-video" pins, just analogue RGB and sync. So dear reader, what exactly is the pinout on the Mini, something different? If given half a chance I'd like to try cobbling up a Composite & DVI adapter up from scratch. Hopefully short of buying the Apple adapter and ripping it apart to see how it's done. |
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| If msdev.exe crashes on startup then... | |
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Date: 9/11/2005 | ... read this. Basically it comes down to deleting the registry key HKCU\Software\Microsoft\DevStudio\6.0\Layout and things will return to normal. Microsoft Visual C++ v6 was crashing every time I tried to start it. Even after a reboot and cleaning of the process list. In my case the crash address was 0x77f57ec4 / 0x00140000. This might help someone, somewhere, sometime... |
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