Done with the project. Got A+. Done with the school (for now). Starting new job on Monday, May 12, at Global TV Calgary.
Done!
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Final project
Working on a final master control project for the school – no time for anything else until April 15th. After that, we’ll see. Probably will write more on this pages.
Bye for now.
Major renovation
Spring is close. We are still getting some snow, but you can feel the spring in the air. It’s time for major renovations – even this blog is up to it. So, I won’t rant too much, I have work to do.
Some broadcast links for the summer enjoyment
Today was our second last day of the Intro to Broadcast Systems (or whatever was the name) course in the second semester of the Broadcast Technology program, here at SAIT Polytechnic (Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America, planet Earth, Solar system, … did I went too far?). Main question was: what to do during the summer to start second year better prepared? Wayne’s answer was – read the stuff online. Here is my contribution of some interesting web sites that I found recently.
Wikipedia – Category:Broadcast Engineering has lots of links to broadcast related articles
Broadcast Dialogue
Broadcast Engineering – magazine
Broadcastpapers.com – online library of technical & business whitepapers in the broadcast industry
Charles Poynton web site (color, video technology, DSP)
Extron Electronics (diff. technology related articles)
DVD FAQ (interesting questions regarding DVD technology)
That’s just beginning. I will post more links here, and you can do it too, in the comments.
Good luck on the exams and enjoy the summer.
P.S. And of course, how can I forget this one: WABE
Free 01
Well, I’m sitting in the SAIT library, and I’ve just found this on the Net. Here it goes:
“As we enjoy great advantages from the invention of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.”
Benjamin Franklin, on declining patents offered by the governor of
Pennsylvania for his “Pennsylvania Fireplace”, c. 1744
OK, that’s enough for today, isn’t it?
Happy Towel Day
Lab Power Supply v1.0
Almost finished. Most of the day spent in the basement, working on the power supply. Will put pictures when finish it. Continuous regulation from 1.2V to 19.5V. LM317BT can give 1.5A. Nice for start.
Kernel panic? Server dead!
Well, my server with clarkconnect linux died a couple days ago. Kernel panicked and I didn’t have time to fix it. I just killed it, and installed IPCop instead. Works fine, so far. It’s an old box, Celeron 433MHz , 128Mb RAM and 4.3Gb HD. Little bit an overkill for the task, status said that average idle cpu is 98.79% and average free memory is 42.09%. Swap usage is 0 (zero).
So, that means that there is no more poprzen.pointclark.net. Gone. There is an extra NIC in the ipcop box for DMZ. Web server will be alive again, but not with clarkconnect linux. I do not have nothing against it, just want to try something new. Maybe gentoo, or debian? I don’t know yet. Have to find decent and cheap old box for it.
Scanner AcerScan 620U and Linux
How did I setup AcerScan 620U to work with SANE driver:
As a root, open file /etc/sane.d/dll.conf with your favorite editor (vi if you are on command line) and uncomment line snapscan.
Download firmware from www.benq.com. I can’t remember exact address, but search for “acerscan 620u” or something.
Save firmware file somewhere in your home. Let’s say, ~/scan/u96v121.bin.
In the /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf put full path to the saved firmware.
firmware /home/goran/scan/u96v121.bin
Added on Dec. 26:
Looks like that 620U is not supported on benq web site (or I couldn’t find it). So, after little bit of googling, found drivers on a www.nix.ru. After 12Mb of download, open zip file. A firmware file sits in a bin directory.
Welcome here!
After more than a year of using wordpress on my home server, I found out that nice people from wordpress.com are giving space to waste. Thank you, wordpress!
So, here I am, starting my new/old blog. It will take few days to move some of the articles. Also, have to notify people who were visiting the old pages. Well, it’s Christmas time, reason to contact them anyway. It will be fun here, I guess.