digiSal.com Forums About Nothing

Awhile back I posted that Bev had gifted me a USB turntable for xmas. I have played with it off and on, grabbing must haves first and flipping through the pile of LP's. Lately I have been on a tear.

Idle observation .... Colombia Records produced by far some of the best vinyl in it's time. Best in the fact that a lot of the stuff I am converting is over 30 years old with various amounts of play time under the stylus. The Columbia vinyl has converted with the least amount of hiss/pop or general mayhem.

One thing I was thinking about is that the older player technology (record player, carseette, 8-track) was of a physical nature. There were belts, rollers, motors, etc. involved. I remember the strobe discs you could use on a turntable to calibrate the turntable speed. Now all that is taken care of using the CPU clock. There was also a physical layer involved whether it was the stylus or the recorder heads. Weird how things have evolved. I can't help but think our grandkids are going to be amazed that we use hard drives with mechanical spinning parts. Weird how things have/are evolved/evolving.

Listening to Canned Heat "Living the Blues' at the moment. Ripped off of vinyl. This record was release in 1968 as a double album and in fact was the first double LP produced that placed well on album charts. I can see the store I walked into to buy this sucker. Remember record stores? LOL

David

There is a utility call the Super Hybrid Engine that over and underclocks this netbook to balance battery life and performance. I can't get it to auto-start (tried dragging a shortcut to it to the Start Menu) as it seems to need permission to run (UAC - you gotta love it). I ran a utility called CPUZ and just running through the modes I get a 800 mhz low power mode, a 1 ghz High performance mode, and a 1.7 ghz Super performance mode, and an Auto that runs through them automatically depending on what you are up to.

Man, i love my Android phone. A real geek would I think.

I have the first Android phone, the G1 with Tmobile and the things those hackers over at www.xda-developers.com do is amazing.

Like what you say?

Well, since the G1 has come out many, many other phones have come out that are made by HTC but are all Android phones. So what do these hackers do? They get an OS dump of the whole phone and then port it over to the first gen G1.

So on my G1 I have run it as a Sprint Hero, Verizon Droid Eris, Motorola Blur, and the HTC Legend. All have different features and different versions of the Android OS.

The first version of Android OS was 1.4, then, 1.5 (Cupcake) after that was Donut (1.6), then Eclair (2.0) and (2.1).

The G1 should be running 1.6 right now. But ever since 1.4, these hackers have been ahead of the game and because of them, so have I. For weeks I will run 2.1 on my phone. Then switch to a Hero Rom or Droid Eris Rom because they have the awesome user interface called Sense UI which brings a boatloads of social network integration, which I love. Some of these Roms are not really every day use and can slow down at times. The Droid Eris rom was a good one. Ran that for weeks.

You see, these Roms are way to big for the G1. Not enough space. They only got enough space for the 1.4 through the Donut roms. So these guys create a special SPL they call DangerSPL. I wish I could explain what that is but you can go here to get an idea.

The other thing they do is they make it so when you install an app it goes to the SD card instead of the phone internal memory, BUT in order to do that you have to partition the card in Linux formats. Why? Because  Android is Linux. I always have a Linux workstation or bootable ISO so thats a snap.

The Eclair Roms, especially with Sense UI, also use a lot of memory so we can create a Linux Swap parition to help it. So cool.

But the best part of all this is that with scripts like Nandroid and Switchrom you can backup the whole OS and then switch between Roms on the fly. So freaking cool!!!

I love the Eclair Roms with Sense UI but sometimes its just to slow so there is a custom Donut rom out there that FLIES. Ill use it for a few days, and then switch to the latest Eclair Rom.

Also, to help with speeds the hackers or devs as they like to be called, require Clarse 6 memory cards because the have faster read/write speeds. i am on a clarse 2 card!

Anyway, thats what I am really into these days. I am forever checking the XDA Forums and Twitter for the latests. Twitter has a feature called Lists, so I just create a list of all the Android Rom Devs and whenever I want, which is all the time, I check the list. I used to follow all the devs but it was to much noise.

 

Since I am settled into the Netbook I took the desktop I was using and cleaned her up and put it out for the wife to use. That retired a 5 year old slow XP desktop. She wants a Mac for Christmas, and I am kinda looking forward to playing with a Mac some.

Still loving the netbook, though. Haven't hooked a mouse to it yet, but I probably will soon because I want to photoshop up a bunch of pics of me and famous people - like in Forrest Gump - to hang up in my office. Why not decorate with faux style...

I always hated upgrading - I was a doofus and when I had my YaBB I hard coded things - such as using text links instead of graphic buttons because I was still on dialup and I wanted the board to be fast. All my coding would pop and I'd have to do it again. I finally installed a stock board at one point and I think I zorched previous posts.

I always looked for a thread based system that would just maintain 500 or 1000 threads and then self-zorch the oldest from there. My forums are dead - I used robots.txt to keep search engines out so that I could keep the membership to word of mouth. Except when Jason Scott showed up (from textfiles.com) - a celebrity!

BTW - his video series on BBS's from back in the day, and it was really interesting.