The collected works of Megatron-UK

How about using ffmpeg with the "-ao copy" and "-vo copy" options, but selecting a different container format that the Mac is happy with?

So you like FMV games and digital comic books then

Can't go wrong with a Neo Geo though (any of them; AES/MVS/NGP/NGPC/HNG64...)

I guess you're looking for an X68000? ... I wouldn't mind one of those myself, or an MSX Turbo R.....

15KHz screen modes should work on most european TV's made in the last 20+ years, as long as you have RGB+CSync signals and a SCART socket.

For non-fighting games on the Neo I can heartily reccomend Pulstar and Blazing Star - two awesome horizontal shooters. And you can't forget about the Metal Slug series!

BTW, this is my current collection....

http://targetearth.dyndns.org/vgdb_vg_games

Output from my work machine (dual core Athlon X2 5600 + Nvidia Quadro 3450):

Talking of saving money on electricity bills, I just rebuilt my home server from dual AMD Athlon MP 2800+'s that I've had for years, to a single high-efficiency Athlon X3 400e (unlocked from 3 to 4-cores; detects and works correctly as an X4 6400e). The MP's are 65w TDP each , and the X3 is 45w TDP, total . I also swapped from 8 x 7200rpm 500GB and 4 x 7200rpm 320GB SATA drives to 5 new Samsung Eco 1.5TB drives.

I run the server from a 700VA APC ups... previously it ran from two 650w power supplies (one for the board and 4x320GB drives, the other for the 8x500GB drives) it would light up all 5 of it's power-useage-level led's on boot-up of the server, and settle at 3-4 led's during running. The same ups now momentarily flashes a single led on power up, and shows no led's during normal running! I'm amazed at the power requirements of the new setup and how much cooler the whole thing runs (I've been able to turn off the majority of cooling fans and run the rest of them at 5-7v, instead of 12v).

They're dead. I paid for two adapters in December and hadn't received them by February. They didn't respond to Paypal communication either by me or Paypal themselves - so Paypal refunded me.

It makes me cringe when I hear accents like that and realise that's what most people outside the British isles think we all sound like.....

News on TheRegister.com this week also hints of AMD's tier 1 customers (HP, Dell, IBM, Oracle) getting their hands on the new 12-core Opteron shortly.... that's going to mean a huge amount of processing power in a single 2 or 4 socket server. That and the 6-core Xeon's must be going at least some way to negate the argument for the traditional big, shared image systems.

If you're Python oriented, you could try Zope and/or Plone - they're both through-the-web editing systems (Plone basically drops a ready-made CMS on top of the Zope application server). I maintain well over 100 Zope apps at work and they're not bad - some nice advanced features such as a neat client/server architecture that seperates your app server from the data/code it serves (and thus scales horizontally quite well), rollback of edits, overall - quite a decent architecture.

There's also Wordpress and MoveableType, if you want something more 'bloggy'. Though I can't stand Wordpress - it's really fragile.

Where's the best place to find a cheap copy of OS X 10.5? I've just bought a 1.42GHz G4 Emac to replace an even older G3 Imac I have set up in the corner of my kitchen to browse while cooking
It's coming with 10.4 installed (no media), but I'd rather have an up to date legit version as I plan to reinstall and partition it with Debian PPC as well.

... and of course, the number one culprit; Dick Van Dyke

Can you symlink libc.so.54.0 to libc.so.53.1? It looks like the packages are linked against a specific version, rather than just libc.so

I found with both of my machines (I2 & Octane2) that the cpu fan makes negligible noise compared to the power supply & chassis (I2) or disk bay (Octane) fans - you might want to consider those aspects before looking at watercooling.

I wonder if you can set which display is primary in the BIOS?

After finding myself with a bit of time this weekend I'm finally getting around to rebuilding the Octane 2 I've been putting together over the past year or so.

I've just bought a new 15krpm Cheetah and am trying to follow the same DINA network install procedures that I used to rebuild my Indigo2. However, I'm not getting any network connectivity in the PROM on this machine; netaddr has been reset to an unused address and I've tried the syntax for booting both sash and fx from the DINA appliance.... but the prom keeps coming back that it cannot connect to the host. I've no problems from my linux machines connecting to the appliance (which is happily sitting updating via nekosync).

ping via the prom also doesn't appear to work to any of my other machines.

The network *does* work once in IRIX.

Any suggestions?

Ah found the problem - dhcpd was broken on the DINA box. Fixed the config and the Octane has started picking up an address when it makes bootp requests.

Now to partition the disk and figure out how to install IRIX with VPro support using a base 6.5 release and 6.5.29 overlays; fun, fun fun!

Yep, all sorted now.

I have a fully populated board of 8 x 256MB modules, probably not good in terms of heat and power - and also a couple of ECC errors keep cropping up in the system log for a couple of the modules.
I'd like to replace them with (ideally) 1GB modules instead. Anyone in the UK got some that they would be willing to sell for a reasonable price?

Also after a good condition (blue) front flap/door as mine was destroyed when the machine was delivered

Check out the sets of "The IT Crowd" in every single episode. A gamer/computer geeks dream.