The We Will Miss You, Chohole Complaint Thread
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That whole thing is the TV. The bottom section is the speaker grill cloth, speaker behind it.
Dana
the picture CRT tube would be almost the full depth of the cabinet, and the tube/transformer chassis not much smaller. The fabric covered areas are where thespeaker(s) would live..
Old TV and Radio Tech! :O
I don't even understand how the old stuff works, let alone the new stuff xD I just know that like, numbers go through and then stuff happens ;A;
My grandmother used to have one of those gigantic combination stereo/console TVs the size of a small refrigerator laying sideways... I remember going down to the drugstore to test the tubes on a vacuum tube display shelf when they needed replacement... back then... I think even up until the early 80s you could still buy vaccuum tubes in Genovese drugs and Woolworth...
For those too young to have ever seen one, they were usually a cabinet (where the stock tubes were kept) about 2' x 2' across, with a chest height test board with dozens of popular size vaccuum sockets that you could plug suspect tubes into to see if they were good... some had multimeter like gauges or lights and dials... it was fun as a kid to get to test them... a monkey could do it, but you felt like you were actually doing something technical.
In the early 60s you could find TVs in metal cabinets. We had a 21", RCA, b/w, in a black two-and-a-half foot cubical shaped steel cabinet with sharp corners, that sat on 18 inch high, angular, black, metal legs. No sense of style what-so-ever. Just a big black box.
If you hit the side of it (to punish the TV for rolling the image) it sounded like a garbage can. I was not allowed to tinker with that TV and had to console myself with junkers slated for disposal. I was able to make a frankenstein TV that came to life. It was b/w but I called it my "colored TV" because it had a few small spots of green paint (no idea where it came from) on the face of the picture tube. Used it in my bedroom during the last couple years of highschool.
When it was time to go off to college I was told to get rid of the "junk" in my room.
The room became my mother's sewing room.
It was on that black RCA that I and my brother stayed up to watch the late movie showing of "Forbidden Planet". Even in black & white the Krell monster in the energy beams scared me to the point of uncontrollable shaking. I was about 13 but my brother was about 8 and left the room screaming.
Wow! It is lunch time again! What will I have?
and then there was the time when Radio Shack actually sold electronics components - you could , if you were inclined, actually build a radio set from scratch (it wouldn't be pretty, but it would work) using mostly stuff from them.
A perfect description of yours truly.
Food and drink?
...ah, Forbidden Planet is in my top 5 all time favourite films.
The part that creeped me ort when I was a kid seeing it for the first time was the invisible Id Monster's footprints appearing in the dirt with what appeared to be a huge fore claw (later revealed in the plaster cast) as it made it's way into the ship where it killed the Chief Engineer and destroyed the "Klystron Transmitter".
The scenes of the great Krell machine seemed stunning for the day. incredible matte paintings and effects that were provided by the Disney Studios (which also created the image of the Id Monster when it attacked the ship a second time.
My favourite scene was where "Cookie" coerced Robby into synthesising whiskey "Will 60 gallons be sufficient?" and after the delivery is made the ship's cook remarks as he grabs a bottle and takes a swig "Real Kansas City Bourbon [coughs] and smooth too."
I still love watching it again now and then as even with all the digital effects we have today, it somehow never seems to lose it's magic. Along with others, I was rather irritated when J. Michael Straczynski (creator of the Babylon 5 series) contemplated a remake of this timeless classic.. I was terribly disappointed by the new version of The Day the Earth Stood Still (another one of my old Sci-Fi favourites) and didn't want to see Forbidden Planet suffer the same fate. There was even a major letter writing email campaign to convince him to drop the idea.
...so curious, why when I use the "insert line" does it at put a bunch of blank lines between it and the text just above? Seems to happen somewhat randomly. as sometimes it works fine and other times it doesn't .
Ever since the font change, the normal underline now becomes a bunch of dashes instead of a solid line after a comment is posited.
Another reason to go back to a more basic font like Arial.
I want to go back to bed. Maybe that will restart it and that housemate will be happy at least once in her life.
Yeah, nobody is capable of remaking a cult classic movie, or even a mildly popular one without ruining it... rarely will the director understand what made the original movie shine... instead they have to make it darker or grittier or worse yet "reimagine" it... that's usually a guarantee that it will suck and have little to do with the original source material... it's like they have no familiarity with the material and only vaguely read a three sentence thumbnail synopsis with the last five words cut off.
Hey, maybe we'll get lucky and J.J. Abrams will remake it!
No, I'm joking, he's terrible at movie stuff.
Or they just have to make a parody/comic version out of it, like Charlies Angels, Starsky & Hutch, etc...
Hey, it's their job. They have to make movies. It's publish or perish. And there are no new stories left. Gotta recycle. Any schlub can make & ruin a movie these days. But it takes a great producer to raise people's expectations of the remake to the elevation that would certainly be fatal if the movie falls on its face. "Dune" anyone?
...I didn't even like the digitally remastered versions of Star Wars: A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi that had the extra digital effects put in afterwards .There was something charming about the more basic special effects (the digital Jabba in the added Launch Bay scene of New Hope looked terrible and wasn't even scaled properly).
...and they better not remake Hardware Wars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccfbw2RJ3ow
....oops, too late, they sort of did:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYOSZwe8Ibk
Non-complaint: Wheee... I dug into my dusty corner and pulled out an old XP machine (Dell Dimension 3000), wired it up to the network, keyboard, mouse & speakers just out of curiosity. It worked and although I had forgotten the administrative password, I found that I had it written on the back on the machine. (*Whew*). Yay, it works!
But in poking around I discovered a driver for an audio device not installed. This machine has two audio output devices. It has an old "SoundBlaster LIVE!" audio card that tested OK. But the integrated audio on the motherboard had no driver installed. A little greping around the Internet and I had my driver. And now both audio output devices are completely functional. Wheee... a happy 'puter.
I'm continuing to do testing and maintenance on this old Dell before closing it up and shoving it back into the dark dusty corner again.
But never fear, there's another old Dell back in that corner. A "Dimension 2350". It's been a few years since I'd even looked at those old XP machines. It's kind of nostalgic.
Thats actually not nearly as bad as someone trying to seriously remake a decent movie using their complete and utter lack of skill while slapping together random ideas and tropes into a celluloid gumbo of banality and hackneyed tripe.
At least they aren't being serious... most of the directors that screw up movies take their accomplishments too seriously, greatly overestimating their talent.
Complaint: Arghhh.... my old Dell XP machine worked fine the first time I turned it on, but subsequent times it complained of clock not being reset. The button battery is dead. Well, I'm sure it's never been replaced in 16 years, so it's about time.
HOWEVER, my long kept stock of 2032 batteries is either gone or stored away so sucessfully that it will not be found. I guess I have to Amazon me another or two or three or four. (Did you see that? I turned "Amazon" into a verb. Just like "Google".)
I keep a stash of 2032's not so much for computers, but for glucometers... (and yes we have spare glucometers..) to important to leave to chance..
I'm so sleepy I want to sleep.
So sleep then? o3o
Posting about it is just going to make you too wake to sleep, I know from experience!
Non-complaint: Wheee... I dug out my other WinXP machine (Dell Dimension 2350), set it up and went through the same testing as the previous XP machine (Dimension 3000).
Complaint: It was sooooooo slooooow. I lost five more hairs and gained 12 more wrinkles waiting for it to complete the login.
Discovered that the CPU never goes below 40% active and zooms to 100% if you even glance at the computer. Discovered (i.e. re-remembered) that it is maxed out at 1GB of RAM, the CPU clock speed is 1.7GHz and the CPU is a #%$@* early Celeron(oy!)
However, it does have two 80GB hard drives and had been setup so that the 2nd drive was for paging and backups.
There were several unneeded drivers that had been disabled probably because the last time I looked at this machine I was trying all sorts of stuff to speed it up. So, I re-enabled them and it didn't slow down the machine any further. I'm using less than half of my 1GB RAM. I don't know why CPU usage never goes below 40%. When seemingly idle, the performance graph shows it like a solid floor at 40% with periodic spikes to 50% every few seconds. I'm wondering if the performance tool itself is causing the 40% load.
Its #2032 button battery had been changed a few years ago and seems OK still. Since this machine is considerably slower than the Dimention-3000, I stole the battery from the 2350 and gave it to the 3000. New batteries for both have been Amazoned. Satisfied with its health, the ancient 2350 machine has been retired back to the shelf.
Now, back to the Dimension 3000. When I'd opened it yesterday it only had one 80GB hard drive but I know that I had two in it at one time. So, I rummaged around in my box of spare hard drives & associated cables & parts I found two Western Digital IDE(PATA) 80GB hard drives. One brand new.
My Dimension 3000 now has two drives again. The 2nd one is, similarly as in the 2350, serving as a backup drive and for paging service. It's amazing how much more responsive the 3000 is than the 2350. But then again, it is a "Pentium4" processor at 3.0GHz maxed out with 2GB of faster RAM. I'm giving it a good workout with HD & filesystem checks & diagnostics & defragmentation, but so far everything is hunky-dory.
Kinda fun wallowing in the past.
heh - my last Dell was a Dell Precision with 2 Pentium III's and onboard SCSI.. Hooked it up to a 4 Bay external SCSI drive enclosure and a DAT tape changer.. was a fun little box, albeit a pain to get it setup in the beginning.. Biggest issue was noise, that enclosure had serious fan noise.. There was one time that the drives kept randomly disappearing and re-appearing.. Took a while to troubleshoot, but the cuase was one lead on a SCSI termination resistor was broken, and when airflow and vibration were just right, it would shift, and break contact, and then sometimes move back just enough to make contact again.. One learns to keep spare terminators on hand.
So this is a confusion ,I just filled my 2 terrabyte external ,well it's a WD Elements ,so there is a USB plug and a power plug ,now I have a portable hard drive a SeaGate 5 terrabyte ,it only has a USB plug can some one tell me if that is good or not?to move my content folders to or should I move the other stuff thats on the WDElements instead
Having the drive powered through the USB is better in my opinion
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Thank you looks like my content folders are making a move .....
Are we not allowed to post a "heads up" threads anymore if something relevant to 3D, and not a direct competitor to DAZ is on sale at a legitimate non-competitor-to-DAZ website?
Understandable if DAZ is secretly selling image editing software now... makes more sense than NFTs I suppose... but that's entirely a personal opinion I neither endorse or have invested any effort in evaluating the validity of in manner, way or form.
I really hope DAZ isn't going to start selling novelty bananas with googly eyes...
But if that's now in any way verboten, I guess the picture of Mr. Jollybanana has to go.