The collected works of pentium - Page 8

With less than a month to go, I'm already getting notes on my office desk from people asking to bring stuff back ranging from a Sega Wondermega Mk.I to keychains...
My camera is also about to kick the bucket. Low light pictures are starting to show off too many dead pixels and I don't have the money to replace it or risk buying a camera from London Drugs and returning it before the two week return policy expires. Looks like I have to drag out the crap consumer grade Kodak.

hamei wrote: You know, having a camera changes the experience quite a bit. It would not be a bad thing to forget the camera entirely.

Unfortunately that is not really possible. At least for part of the trip.

!WARNING! NERDY ANIME STUFF AHEAD

Over the last few months me and the others who I am going with have negotiated and set aside a big chunk of time to roam about Tokyo and go to various locations that were seen in the TV series Digimon (if my avatar, hostnames and other fodder has not told you I'm a huge fan, this proves it ). The final cut should be available on Youtube and as a single HD torrent sometime in the fall or winter of this year. I put a lot of work into this project too. I wrote scripts, mapped locations, and bought new equipment just for this short window of time I will get to film all the raw footage I can before I take it home and start working on it.

OKAY, RESUME YOUR NORMAL LIFE

I agree though that dragging a camera everywhere really ruins the moment sometimes. At the expense of quality I guess I can just take along my little Kodak and use that. It at the least can fit in my pocket. The Olympus won't.

Okay, rule 1:
If you ar going to pack this time of year, prepare for southern Ontario/Florida weather.
After nine hours of flight, two hours of train travel and a nasty case of jet lag I'm finally here.

Spent the day roaming around Akihabara today.
The place sure feels like it's changed from the electric town it is was. Ther eis a fair amount of anime merchandise all over the place. Never knew One Piece was still so popular.
I finally did come across a scattered few shops which specialized in random electronics and bought a brand new Cisco Aironet 340 for 800 yen and then went to the Super Potato and bought some game stuff and a WonderSwan with games for 1700 yen.
The rest of the day was spent being dragged through the various anime shops that dot the area.
I'm suprised at the other fantastic prices. 3500 yen for a Famicom.....65800 yen for a Vectrex.
Oh, my luck also gave out and we are getting the broad side of a typhoon that's off to the....
Crap. I don't know if you deem it the east or west.
Anyways, it was raining on and off today and thank god, the humidity was a lot weaker.
Also, I see a lot of places do not allow for photography.

No. I live in BC. I'm just saying it's as humid as an Ontario summer.

Another day, more fun.
Me and the rest of the group slept in, then went for ramen at lunch.
After that we visited the residence of the people who were greatful to rent the apartments while we are here and spent the afternoon there. After that we all went to the soba and then went bowling. Following two action packed games of ten pin (canada only has five pin) we split with the parents and went to the arcade.
It was win.
It was also expensive.
We spent a good 2000 yen in the Gundam PODs (air conditioned, audio interconnect and a domed panoramic display system I could only wish was driven by an SGI) and another 1000 in the other various machines.
Now we are hunkering down and enjoying sake with friends. Tomorrow we flip a coin to see if we go to Yokohoma or Shibuya/Harajuku.

woo, this sake is good.

Would this be the kind of thing I should go and annoy him about?

Way too cool. That's a really nice haul for $200.
Are the drives included?

Is is still that nasty there?
Geez, I would of expected at least the mid 20's by now.

Great to hear of another one coming back to life.
The IP6 will support a full compliment of parity 4mb SIMMS which double the memory spec to 64mb and the system does not complain about it If you can get the memory, I dare you to five it a shot.
I recommend you fit a QIC150. With the volume header on my drive full of bad blocks, I found something enjoyable about booting my system by initially loading sash from a tape.

Bit of a stroke of luck.
I have located IBM's QIC tape option for the PS/2. If I recall, 1.3 came in both floppy and tape form, right?
What are the chances I can rebuild a distro tape?

Ouch! This is certainly a wrench in the gears.
Exactly how big is the mirror and how much monthly bandwidth does it comsume? It would be a disaster if this went offline, even if it was only for a period of time.

Twenty bucks says the whole video was edited and composed on that Indy as well.

Tacky T-shirt or pens.

Ooh. This isn't the fancy graphical client I would want to see running but to tout that you are running a minecraft server on something like an SGI would be explicitly cool.
I wonder waht kind of fancy optimizations we could come up with.

Sparkle made power supplies for SGI?
Dear lord. No wonder they fail so much.

As an earlier thread states, I spent time in Japan earlier and the group liked it so much, we'll be doing it again in Summer 2012.
One thing we found was that sharing one cell phone between the group was hard. The budget phone we borrowed while we were too was also not too friendly on the language side.
I have a DoCoMo N504i that I found at a shop here. It's an 800mhz phone from 2002, has the basic functions and you could switch the language to english. The battery also seems to still behave as well.
Thing is, we don't know how the phone registration system works there. Are we able to go to a dealer, get it activated, then slap a temporary phone number on it for two weeks for a small amount of money or are phones permanently bound to the registree (kind of like some license plates are registered to one VIN) and can only be used under only one contract?

So there is no option at all.
Fantastic.