Monday 11 March 2024

Is the following skype ID connected with a scam live:.cid.1bc6100a59ab1222 [answered]

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Monday 26 February 2024

Is McDonalds the biggest cow killing organisation and other thoughts

 Recently have been exploring what it means to have a mammalian brain and this let me to thinking about eating animals.

Here are some questions I was flinging around.

Is it better to eat a bird rather than a mammal?

Is McDonalds the biggest cow killing organisation in the world? Do they have McDonalds in India where the cow is sacred? I know from my work in Kuwait that they have a different menu there.

Is KFC the biggest chicken killing organisation in the world.


Sunday 25 February 2024

How to format a 720KB Double Density Floppy Disk - WINDOWS 10 - 2024

" The 720k is what’s known as a double density diskette, or DD for short. It’s called that because it can encode roughly twice the as many bits per time unit compared to single density. The way it accomplishes this is through a line coding scheme called Modified Frequency Modulation or MFM for short." Bing Search


It's 2024 and I've decided to format floppy disks - especially as I have a Roland W-30 Sampler and Roland MC500 midi sequencer that uses them.


Is you have the correct USB floppy drive ( older the better) then you can issue the following commands...


FORMAT A: /T:80 /N:9 

C:\Windows\system32>format a: /t:80 /n:9
Insert new disk for drive A:
and press ENTER when ready...

The type of the file system is RAW.
The new file system is FAT.
Verifying 720 KB
Invalid media or Track 0 bad - disk unusable.
Format failed.

FORMAT A: /F:720

C:\Windows\system32>format a: /t:80 /n:9
Insert new disk for drive A:
and press ENTER when ready...

The type of the file system is RAW.
The new file system is FAT.
Verifying 720 KB
Invalid media or Track 0 bad - disk unusable.

Format failed. 

OK the above was with a bad floppy - I wish I knew if it was possible to fix.
However with the right combination of drive and floppy you get..

C:\Windows\system32>FORMAT A: /F:720
Insert new disk for drive A:
and press ENTER when ready...
The type of the file system is RAW.
The new file system is FAT.
Verifying 720 KB
18 percent completed.
99 percent completed.
Initializing the File Allocation Table (FAT)...
Volume label (11 characters, ENTER for none)? LIVE
Format complete.
     713.0 KB total disk space.
       62,464 bytes in bad sectors.
     652.0 KB are available.

        1,024 bytes in each allocation unit.
          652 allocation units available on disk.

           12 bits in each FAT entry.

Volume Serial Number is 8ED3-5ABF

Format another (Y/N)?

So yes format 720KB floppy works in windows 10.

Friday 19 January 2024

mapping a drive to a folder in windows 10 / 11 [ANSWERED]

In windows a simple command will allow you to map a folder to a drive letter. 

I use this for portable apps. I like to sync my portable apps folder, so I use the 

following from command prompt

 Subst P: C:\Users\Public\Documents\Portable

Then I install to p:

Simples!

Tuesday 12 December 2023

[ANSWERED] - How to reduce WinSxS folder and save space on your hard drive

Issue the following comand..


 dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /AnalyzeComponentStore





a cleanup may be recommended. If not, your winSxS doesn't need to be compacted.

[ANSWERED] - how to remove windows update files ( and save 800MB ) on your hard disk

Here's how I saved 800MB storage by removing windows update files

start with 
net stop wuauserv





Then

rd /S /Q C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution





then

rd /S /Q C:\$WINDOWS.~BT


then start update service again

net start wuauserv



The folder size before


The folder size after

so you can see I saved 800MB with this


Tuesday 29 August 2023

SamplerBox Grand Piano patch errors - Raspberry Pi 2 Model B (V1.1 2014)

An answer to
https://www.samplerbox.org/forum/403/presets-empty

 I'm also using RPi V1.1 Model B

I can confirm the Grand Piano doesn't work ( 3 Grand Piano )

However I have 4 Lately and this works.

It takes a while to load and then there is a crash sound ( like all notes playing at once )

then it works. 


I get a lot of "Callback queing killed" when I press a key on the keyboard.


Also when I make 0 GrandPiano I get the following errors.


We have None, we want 0 GrandPiano

A0v4.wav: ignored sample as velocity 40 higher than velolevs 1 for voice 1

A1v4.wav: ignored sample as velocity 40 higher than velolevs 1 for voice 1

A2v4.wav: ignored sample as velocity 40 higher than velolevs 1 for voice 1

A3v4.wav: ignored sample as velocity 40 higher than velolevs 1 for voice 1

A4v4.wav: ignored sample as velocity 40 higher than velolevs 1 for voice 1

A5v4.wav: ignored sample as velocity 40 higher than velolevs 1 for voice 1

A6v4.wav: ignored sample as velocity 40 higher than velolevs 1 for voice 1

A7v4.wav: ignored sample as velocity 40 higher than velolevs 1 for voice 1

C1v4.wav: ignored sample as velocity 40 higher than velolevs 1 for voice 1

C2v4.wav: ignored sample as velocity 40 higher than velolevs 1 for voice 1

C3v4.wav: ignored sample as velocity 40 higher than velolevs 1 for voice 1

C4v4.wav: ignored sample as velocity 40 higher than velolevs 1 for voice 1

C5v4.wav: ignored sample as velocity 40 higher than velolevs 1 for voice 1

C6v4.wav: ignored sample as velocity 40 higher than velolevs 1 for voice 1

C7v4.wav: ignored sample as velocity 40 higher than velolevs 1 for voice 1

C8v4.wav: ignored sample as velocity 40 higher than velolevs 1 for voice 1

D#1v4.wav: ignored sample as velocity 40 higher than velolevs 1 for voice 1

D#2v4.wav: ignored sample as velocity 40 higher than velolevs 1 for voice 1

D#3v4.wav: ignored sample as velocity 40 higher than velolevs 1 for voice 1

Opened input "Midi Through:Midi Through Port-0 14:0" as SMFplayer

D#4v4.wav: ignored sample as velocity 40 higher than velolevs 1 for voice 1

Opened input "Axiom 25:Axiom 25 MIDI 1 20:0"

D#5v4.wav: ignored sample as velocity 40 higher than velolevs 1 for voice 1

Opened input "Axiom 25:Axiom 25 MIDI 2 20:1"

D#6v4.wav: ignored sample as velocity 40 higher than velolevs 1 for voice 1

Opened input "Axiom 25:Axiom 25 MIDI 3 20:2"

Exception in thread Thread-3:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/threading.py", line 917, in _bootstrap_inner

    self.run()

  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/threading.py", line 865, in run

    self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)

  File "./modules/http_gui.py", line 212, in HTTP_Server

    httpd = server_class(server_address, handler_class)

  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/socketserver.py", line 452, in __init__

    self.server_bind()

  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/http/server.py", line 137, in server_bind

    socketserver.TCPServer.server_bind(self)

  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/socketserver.py", line 466, in server_bind

    self.socket.bind(self.server_address)

OSError: [Errno 98] Address already in use

D#7v4.wav: ignored sample as velocity 40 higher than velolevs 1 for voice 1


F#1v4.wav: ignored sample as velocity 40 higher than velolevs 1 for voice 1

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F#7v16.wav: ignored sample as velocity 115 higher than velolevs 1 for voice 1

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