The collected works of fu - Page 9

pentium wrote: Developing film in my bathroom.

kids to the rescue!

pentium wrote: Admiring more of my photographs.

mirror mirror on the wall...

pentium wrote: Mamiya. I got a pretty good deal on an RB67 Pro S out of South Korea last spring. $350 for the body, lens, viewfinder and film back, plus $50 shipping. Great camera but good christ it's heavy.

all mamiyas are nice and built to last, congratulations

my all time favourite camera for stills is the fuji gx680, dressed-up in a full studio setup, it weighs as much as a decent crt monitor, no joke. every time i take it on the road it slims down to 5.5-6Kg

and oh pent, does your mom still work in that lab? gotta find me some infrared film, the more expired the better

i’m experiencing some funny behaviour with PMs

i haven’t received any notification for the last 3 years or so. i changed my email address under my profile, but i still see messages i’ve read (long time now) being displayed as new/unread

i guess pete updated things here as the ui looks different to me, are there any PM-related gotchas?

hi dex

no didn’t receive an email notification for your PM. i just logged in and saw it in the right-corner of the dashboard (or whatever its called)


i used to get notifications for both (threads+pm) but the last one I got (it was a thread notification) was 3 years ago. i usually have long pauses here but the notifications would show up in my inbox.

just trying to ping some ‘chaners and hear how they’re doing.

thanks for looking into it pete

funny. i changed that gmx email address thinking it was the one to blame but it is still there in my profile

my PMs seem to go through and i also receive replies. i just have to log-in to get notifications for either PMs or topics

anyway, as long as everyone is ok there’s not much to worry about.

@ivelegacy

fix the transporter and teleportation and i’ll hook you up with vip passes for any rave on the planet

Damn Scientists, They Lied to Us! wrote:
this was supposed to be the future

where is my jetpack,

where is my robotic companion,
where is my dinner in pill form,
where is my hydrogen fueled automobile,
where is my nuclear powered levitating house,

where is my cure for this disease

you’re like a decade late but but oh man you remind me of diego. you have a lost brother on the other side of the atlantic, italian & member of nekochan

josehill wrote: it was his "desk" use case that I thought was interesting

i agree. at that size (of the pro), the lines blur too much between handheld and desktop.

skywriter wrote: However, Apple Pen, and a drawing device - depending on the software - has more in common with Bamboo tablet's, for instance. Beyond just pointing, drawing, and clicking there is a lot of context sensitivity dependent on how you hold the pen that is advantageous.

did you try any quick+dirty tests on exporting the drawings from the pro to anywhere else?

i guess there’s the standard apple app + a gazillion more in the app store but are the export options standard formats? could you export a drawing to something which say illustrator could read/open?

i remember talking about export peculiarities regarding documents back when we were both testing the (then latest) iPad but things may have changed till then?


edit: trilingual auto spellers suck and my eyesight is getting worse

are you guys familiar with those tiny things?

i’m looking for one to pack a credit-card-size router/wifi/vpn/sftp/cardav server. reading online i see that:

-the raspberry pi has the most dedicated/helpful community and they actually develop drivers for the tiny thing.

-there’s a gazillion of other makes/names, they all run some bastardized version of lunix and most likely they won't be fun for anyone who cannot write his own driver.

i can do all of the router/wifi/vpn/sftp/cardav server with openwrt on my router and i was once able to install irix on the crybaby o2 in half an hour but no i cannot write my own device driver.

my confusion started with hardware and the associated specs. my router’s specs are:



and it does all i need the small box to do. all 3 routers are up and running for years, never had any problem so far. however, to my understanding, those single-board computers are more computer-esque rather than router-esque in terms of OS optimisation (or whatever you call it). so the ones that won’t run openwrt out of the box, will most likely come with some full-blown version of lunix: gui, bells, dinosaurs and that 1GB ram limit will likely start behaving funny.

my requirements are:

• small-size (must fit in the backpack with the basics),
• durable case (this will spend most of its life outdoors),
• 2 network interfaces (1 eth / 1 wifi),
• muscles to handle openvpn/ssh tunnels,
• compatible with openwrt (i can manage this myself just fine, yay!).

what would you suggest?


update: baseline specs + requirements

@robespierre thanks heaps man, again

as long as it’s a standard install + some kind of written instructions/manual, i can boogie.

i read that the new pi sports a 64bit cpu but it actually runs on 32bit code. same for other makes, and that’s when i usually ask nekochaners for advice.

i’m talking to a good friend about this, trying to figure out the hype and the real. for all i know in order to dive into the greatness and wideness of 64bit you gotta have more than 4gb of ram. now every new tiny board jumps on the 64bit hype but they come with either 1gb or 2gb or ram.

i mean, is there any way (masturbating to specs aside) that this makes sense? did things get so optimized?



@ivelegacy nice flair juggling your fading stickers, Cinecittà used to be a home for me. asa nisi masa

^ check; till i get my head around it

and while looking around:

this is known to work reliably: http://tinyurl.com/na7akp2

and this is the "new" 64bit: http://tinyurl.com/zvnhpjg

ivelegacy

you gonna play nice and explain things to me or i open the bag of tools and send you down the rabbit hole

not sure if this is related, i stopped getting notifications for topics/replies/pm so i tried to change email a few days ago. looked like it saved it and then pete comfirmed that he still sees the old one in my account.

yeah that rings a bell, i remember you looking for some configuration for a zyxel back when i had a kid in the crew that used to work for them. you might remember that a single aebs was enough for me, they’re dead silent, i hide one on my bookshelf and that’s it.

but then, there’s no such thing as a one/steady base/home for me and i have to make do with a trillion of isp/vpn/storage servers for my designs and dailies. that drives me nuts. so a whizz-kid in the crew came up with a solution for one of those tiny ugly things. as long as its small enough to fit in my pocket and does what i need, i’m fine. now i can focus on my work and go for walk later :)

back to the iPad, if the pro plays nice with the drawing part it may serve as a tool for me. if it takes a marathon of exporting+converting to a format that illustrator could open then it stays in the apple store.

@ive welcome aboard young dadaist, i had a hunch we’ll reach an understanding

since you might be wandering:

we used to have members here from all backgrounds, i once wasn’t the only one who couldn’t write his own driver.

a decade later there’s a bunch of people here that i trust their opinion and i ask for their advice. i grew up on paint, canvas and film they grew up on soldering irons, machinery and processors. they give me honest feedback for my rather simplistic needs; i do the same when they ask me about a camera to take with them while travelling. i’d go and test some tiny cameras if possible, i’ll never recommend the latest thing just because it comes with more megapixels.

if for reasons of taxonomy (you mention MIPS vs ARM) you’d prefer the last posts split in a different topic, please ask a moderator to do so. i wasn’t aware that they belong to a different family, sorry about that.

@dex, please split the posts after my first question to a separate topic and move it to wherever you see fit

i usually miss the technical terminology; and this time didn’t start a new topic because of ivelegacy’s mention of the other tiny computer in this thread.

mea culpa

hi sky! tried to ping you but something’s stuck in my profile

the devil and lernaean hydra together, i once managed to find a decent xerox then i had to hunt down toners left+right. threw it out the window and now do all of my printing @ specialized shops; same for pretty much everything, if my laptop can’t cut it i’m off to a post house to wrap things up. man, i’ve had enough, it either works or it’s out, simplicity über alles

if you get a chance of doodling with the iPad pro and check how it exports from itself to the rest of the planet, please post back. i see that pete might take it for a spin as well. one of my wacoms is slowly dying so it may serve as a replacement.

@ive thanks

since you develop your own software take a look @this forum . it’s mostly dev-talk about the xu4: patching, hacking and funking around with the board.

after reading some in there i see that heat brings lots of them to an end, and that 4-week guarantee doesn’t look promising either. of course, you could cook things on your own, stretch+flex hardware around so ymmv.

me being me i should get a pi but robespierre is right everyone complains about the speed of the ethernet port and having usb-2-ethernet adaptors spaghettified left+right of the tiny case breaks the compact credit-card-size solution i’m after.

gonna research some more and come back with further findings.

skywriter wrote:

fu wrote:

pentium wrote: Developing film in my bathroom.

kids to the rescue!

LOL! Or is it?????

i took a quick look at my registration date when i posted that; i realised that i know pentium and syb guardian since they were preparing for college. now if he could only find me some expired HIE

1..2..3..10..1..2 ahem

out for a drink guys, first round’s on me :)

@dex me and Oskar are the gin guys here and the bartenders of the board!

@jimmer lol no

do you remember the psycho with the font-formatting addiction PLUS a signature neurosis? he used to spin off a username every day to the point he’d have a whole thread talking to himself.

i really don’t understand why people don’t just take a walk instead

btw, is your "my o2" video still around? it should be on the wiki

pentium wrote: I've yet to touch HIE. Even 3200 Delta feels scary to develop.

go on try it if you can find a roll or two. it plays nice with all developers. i only develop it with kodak d76 though. be strict on the turns and the shakes while its inside the film tank (doesn’ t like shaking too much).

the ilfords are baby do-gooders, there’s nothing tricky about them.

guardian452 wrote: CVG->LAX on Sunday afternoon started with a delayed flight...

awesome, get ready for mediterranean blue

are the security checks sane now? some time ago every time i had to do the jfk<—>lax dance i had to go through rows of batteries being detached from laptops. "what’s that sir? is it a bomb sir? is it a terrorist device sir?" i once answered “yes, yes, yes i’m the fucking easter bunny” and they almost didn’t get the joke.

it wasn’t a passport thing for me (i still have a us one), the airport staff has gone insane. some time ago in berlin the security girl went nuts over a super8 editor i was carrying, i lost 1 hour while she was scanning a totally analogue, mechanical thing and empty too. the damn thing looks like:



i’ve also done some jailhouse rock 2 times in countries with an unmasked dictatorship, luckily we were all together (cast+crew) and the girls kept improvising with the mustaches untill the ambassador’s car showed up.

@chc, on your way back from oz, try to wear some flip-flops and see if it works any better :)

we’ve gots to fix the transporter guys

ivelegacy wrote: I have been singing the one by Eurythmics like Marilyn Manson did

david and annie are cool and a pleasure to bump into @ your local rub-a-dub

marilyn’s alright and has a genuine sense of humour

but johny has been everywhere man

ivelegacy wrote: I am your Personal Jesus "

again, personal jexus unplugged

meeting girls is pointless ive? go travel

that kid is barely legal for air-time, but wait everyone is a presenter now, just switch on the webcam

and damn is the 90s rave colour-thing still going on there?

ivelegacy wrote: I collect autographs

i can help with that, but please fix the goddam transporter, airports are tyranny

ivelegacy wrote: (she is British for one half, so ... her autograph is double styled)

never thought of that, double-styled signatures depending on blood type eh? mine should look like an accident stuck in a elevator, up for skyscrapers down for blue seas.

it’s too late to change my signature but i could always start a new career. as soon as i get hamei and syb to fix up the divco; gonna have the coolest ice-cream van around

ivelegacy wrote: and my GaGa friend would like to pull a lot of darts against her

i know i know, i’ve had a few interesting marriage-divorce-marriage cycles. mediterranean girls are flamboyant

oh! it’s been sometime since we’ve had an existential thread here :)

so yes, say that we (humans) manage to put all those cables/boards/buttons/software together, all nice and tidy without breaking anything. then we can have the bots do the hard, silly work (die romantische plan).

what would you do (with all this freedom)?

oh c’mon syb, we didn’t meet yesterday

guardian452 wrote: For most of the recommended use cases I am old-school and cling to a trusty AVR or similar mcu. If there's something that can't be done with an 8-bit chip, may as well haul out a real computer. (E.g. For routing, why not buy a real router. Media streaming, an apple tv or chromestick or embedded plex box or games console. Etc)

you know i’m like that and pretty strict with the damn tools or out of the window they fly. i’ve found out that a real router like the one @home/office ain’t portable and the really small ones won’t handle the openvpn tunnels. so i started looking at those single-boards.

the Pi has the most helpful community/documentation, i’d have gotten one but everyone says that its eth port is crippled to the point that routing lots of packets is a terrible idea.

thanks to the man behind the great firewall, i’ve finally gone for a board called cubietruck , the only one to sport a metal case , meet the requirements and in stock right there. currently in transit, it will get tested on the road and on ancient locations this summer :)

on the software side, here’s a recap of what i’ve found so far:

• armbian and its supported hardware
  
• DietPi supports a bunch of single-boards. mostly used for xbmc/media centre solutions ( full list of software ).
  
• Docker on Raspberry Pi
  
• The Reference of Raspberry Pi Downloads

if we could stay cool, it’d really nice r-ten. chances are slim though..

cool afrodelic avatar, kinda tricked me while associating the username as i was expecting the pixar lamp

was it you or sky (or both) that promised to fix the transporter? we’ve got a fresh kid on board willing to help you :)

pepsichologist

ivelegacy wrote: a leading engineering company designing, in Cheltenham UK
gets no less than 40000 - 60000 UKP annum

don’t let the numbers fool you, living cost in different cities ain’t a 1:1 relationship
spend some time in london/uk and you’ll hear everyone bitching about how expensive everything is
apropos, since you're coming from mediterranean blue, you won't like grey skies and being pissed with showers every freakin day

ivelegacy wrote: what the robot Hell ? more money, more hardware , that's a strategy...

that “more more” syndrome is what burns us every time, we’re the most self-destructive species known today.
that in-a-void is always there, you either make friends with it or become just another neurotic masturbating to “progress”

i have probably used every mac model for one reason or the other and i’ve owned lots of them throughout the years. since jose made a list:

josehill wrote: [*]PowerBook Duo 270c - includes interesting stuff like Aldus Pagemaker and Aldus Persuasion

was this the one that used to come /w a pimped dock (including a screen) that turned it to a full desktop back then? a good friend of mine used to design+publish a whole magazine on it (w/ pagemaker) for years

josehill wrote: [*]PowerBook3,1 - (G3 Firewire/Pismo) upgraded with ZIP drive.

pound for pound & inch by inch this is the best laptop i’ve owned and used by far. a truly professional laptop (no matter what each ones profession was), repairable/upgradable in 30 seconds and all of the expansion ports were on the rear. hello apple!? not on the bloody left/right sides of the machine. did everything i could to keep it as my main driver (maxed out everything, upgraded the cpu to a G4) but the early versions of OS X were an experiment of hardware specs and software transitions.

from the classic era, my favourite was the quadra 840av, great “home” desktop with video capabilities way beyond its time. can’t recall the specifics but it included a bunch of extra DSP chips that did handle audio/video properly. it also required a customised version of MacOS due to its special hardware.

josehill wrote: Oh, yes, and a Newton MessagePad 130!

dang! don't know how i got that lucky back then, my handwriting is probably the worst on the planet but i've owned the last newton 2000 or 2200 something and its handwriting recognition would work great for me. due to its looong size, i have fond memories where friends would ask me why do i carry a flatbed scanner

today, after a few experiments with some macbook air models (and their fixed ram) this “old” macbook7,1 cuts everything i do (16GB ram / SSD) and what cannot be done on it gets done in the studio not at home.

josehill wrote: Yes, the Pismo is a terrific machine... My Pismo was a freebie I got from a digital prepress guy...

if you have some space, treasure it jo :)

i’ve done loads of projects on it and i miss its functional glory every single day. pete once helped me with shipping a “portable” firewire array from cali to hampstead theatre where i used the pismo to do lots of straight-to-disk recording via firewire. the pre-press guy’s setup is still capable of doing lots of damage, i’designed 2 pop-up books on the pismo while it was on its MacOS 9 days. dtp-wise, you can still do anything you like and pass it on to the press in pure .ai/.eps format.

josehill wrote: I'm really not looking forward to the day when the only options left are iThingys with everything soldered in.

i understand that some engineering/industial design cases will introduce certain changes over time. what i cannot get (and is what pissed me the most after using apple machines ever since they came out) is the psychosis of “no user-replaceable parts” in the “professional” line-up. for the work i do, most interesting locations won’t have an apple store round the corner; how come i cannot change the bloody battery? i should be able to ring a reseller and have a damn battery fedexed over not the other way round (fedex the whole laptop in order to replace its battery). you all have similar points coming from your work’s pov.

SPSDOD wrote: I also consider 10.3 the first version of OS X that was responsive enough for serious work to be done.

i’m terrible with model numbers (some times i remember the cat’s name, other times the numeric version) but iirc, yes 10.3 was getting up to comparable (MacOS 9) responsiveness and it also brought back the colo(u)r labels, something we used to tag our projects ever since, what was it guys? MacOS 6 or something.

do you remember william tell ivy?
start practicing how to walk with an apple on your head as your girl prepares her darts

meanwhile, since you like r. l. stevenson, read the “suicide club” :)

ivelegacy wrote: - I'm only happy when it rains
I'm only happy when it's complicated

good, here’s to youth and determination!
of course weather shouldn’t stop you from travelling

skywriter wrote: We need something as broken and half-assed as our own childhood to make it all work :-)

absolutely
they’re called archetypes for a good reason :)

uh-oh you gwuys!

are those tiny things able to flash firmware on a router’s chip?

i recall some gadgets that somehow clip on the flash chip and you can flash the firmware directly, no need to desolder/resolder, but i don’t know what they’re called.

http://tinyurl.com/hlcgfcw

@commo, give us a phat baseline groove when you plug the korg in

@ive, boy your tablecloth! screams mediterraneao those lemon-yellow tints mess with your light-meter. the lady that takes care of my holiday home in spetses brought an exact same one last summer for my coffee-table.

on practising your english, go back to stevenson, did you get “the suicide club” yet? textbooks are fine but nothing like good, meticulous prose.

last thing i got is the nanoputer but haven’t received it yet. computah-kid is working on it; then it comes my way for a realistic test in the wild.

uunix wrote:
I'm looking at an 18U rack cabinet to tidy everything up.

is that jenga stack @ your home uu?

uunix wrote: BTW, does anyone know what AJ TV is meant to do?

it’s meant for quick previews and/or output of a quicktime sequence. instead of launching your editor, you fire up aja tv that talks to the aja hardware.

it should display something (as long as you're feeding the aja hardware with something from its input)

think of it as a live preview of what goes in/out of the card (without having to fire up the full-blown editor). if this is a messed up mac os x install, you might have better luck starting afresh.

uunix wrote: I reckon the OSX install is fine, but the AJA install maybe a bit skew-whiff.. So yes, it may be worth starting from scratch.

you said that you funked with the /Library stuff while trying to sort out the aja versions, so that may have broken something along the way

uunix wrote: But what you are saying fu, is that starting AJ TV should open a window that display whatever input the card is receiving?

yep, as long as there is input through the card, aja tv should display it live as it happens. check your aja control panel and its input settings.

i’m not in front of a cutting station right now but iirc, there should be a button like “continue playback when in background” that should be checked in aja tv preferences.

what's in the input channel of the kona? camera? vtr?

take a few snaps of the i/o spghetti and a screenshot of your aja control panel

not sure i understand what you’re trying to do, output something from the octane and feed it into kona? that “something” the gets in has to be an uncompressed feed/signal.

you don’t really need aja tv (unless you are editing for 8h/day at least) but it should provide a live view of what’s cooking through the card.

lol just a t-shirt pent? is the vid of your steve ballmer parody still around?

lol robes

pent even matched the plaid blazer back then, it was his first job or something close to that.

do it!

get syb dressed with a steadicam vest or maybe have him drumming on the side and go crazy :D