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2003-03-03 23:02:21
More $ invested into this project: I just got the CD that contains the song that my video uses, and besides having the warm fuzzy feeling of giving a few cents to the artist (</sarcasm>), I now have the highest quality audio data I can possibly get. I also have been working from DVDs this whole time, so that's about the highest quality video data I can possibly get.
Well, OK, if I had access to the Evangelion film reels _and_ if there was a DVD Audio version of this song out (or if I had access to the original studio recording), then maybe I could do a better job. But whatever.
So, whee. I feel 3l33t. :/
On another note, I think that's the first time I've used l33tspeak and a smiley in a journal entry.
I substituted the MP3 with the raw PCM data (yeah, I was using the MP3 directly, and I don't use WAV, although I should), and _wow_, is there ever a difference. You wouldn't notice it just by listening to the MP3s, but man oh man, is there _ever_ a difference.
So that fixes the quality problem.
Too bad my editing skills still suck.
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2003-03-03 17:29:44
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2003-03-01 18:59:19
Seems that the problem, or at least the biggest piece thereof, was indeed a faulty RAM stick: I removed the last stick in the memory banks, and this system is behaving quite well all of a sudden.
There are still mysterious internal compiler errors generated by GCC every now and then, but I can't trace to what hardware component those may be coming from -- or, indeed, if they're software faults. (I highly doubt that GCC is faulty, but it's still a possibility, no matter how improbable...)
Thankfully, they're few and far between.
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yay for broken hardware
2003-03-01 01:46:22
I'm currently trying to convert an old system to a Gentoo Linux box so that I can continue my video editing over quarter break. Here's the specs:
- Pentium III/800
- 1 GB RAM
- Adaptec Ultra2 SCSI AIC7890, 2 19 GB fixed drives (by IBM and Seagate, don't know specific model numbers)
- Some ATI video card
- ESS Solo1 onboard audio (it's enough)
All in all, it's not a bad system.
Or is it?
There's something _nasty_ in the system that's causing random kernel panics in the craziest processes -- rsync, sh, gcc. I know for a fact that it's not Gentoo; I've installed Gentoo on five totally different systems before, and I've never had problems like this. The only thing that I can blame is the hardware. Most likely, it's a bad memory stick, but trying to figure out which one (all eight banks are full) is damn near impossible. That is, of course, assuming that only _one_ of them are bad. If I have multiple bad memory sticks, then that's gonna suck.
And no -- in my experience, POST doesn't detect subtle errors all too well. Oh sure, it's good for finding out just how much RAM you have in the system, and if one stick is _really_ blown to hell, but the subtle problems mostly slip by unnoticed. Ironically, it's the subtle problems that cause the most agony.
Right now, the system is actually being well-behaved and running smoothly through the bootstrap process, This is, however, the second time that I've had to initiate the build, and I find that I can't sleep for fear that I'll wake up and have to do the whole damned thing all over again.
Is that a stupid thing to be afraid of? Taken in perspective to other events, yes. However, I don't really want to invest a lot of time in rebuilding this box; wasting time just pisses me off.
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Basically, what I hope to accomplish with this system is transfer all 36 gigabytes of video data, currently here on my laptop, onto my network. The majority of the data consists of VOBs, which will go somewhere else; the rest of the data will go onto the local drives.
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FUCKING HELL. It oopsed again. In the same process.
Goddamnit! It never did this before! Same Gentoo version, same everything!
I must be the only compsci student who hates computers...
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a true artist
2003-02-27 19:00:37
To get your mind off of the whole AMV/VCA bullshit, here's a true piece of art. Many of you have already seen it, but what the hell.
http://www.verylowsodium.com/fanimutation/exuberance.php
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