Theo Verelst Local Diary Page 56
I've ditched the usual header for the
moment, I think it doesn't help much anyhow.
This page is copyrighted by me, and may be read and transfered by any
means only as a whole and including the references to me. I
guess thats normal, the writer can chose that of course, maybe
I´ll make some creative commons stuff one day, of course I have
made Free and Open Source software and even hardware designs available!
This
page is under contruction, so check back later, too.
Fri Oct 31 22:19, 2008
"This page is best viewed on a full HD
screen!"
Isn´t that cute? No, quite true, though.
Server statistics of this year:
| Summary by Month |
|
| Month |
Daily
Avg |
Monthly
Totals |
| Hits |
Files |
Pages |
Visits |
Sites |
KBytes |
Visits |
Pages |
Files |
Hits |
|
| Oct 2008 |
726 |
609 |
66 |
38 |
1943 |
5369146 |
1187 |
2064 |
18881 |
22515 |
| Sep 2008 |
1043 |
845 |
125 |
39 |
2447 |
4201245 |
1198 |
3763 |
25373 |
31303 |
| Aug 2008 |
887 |
772 |
81 |
42 |
1789 |
6376547 |
1314 |
2537 |
23944 |
27527 |
| Jul 2008 |
882 |
755 |
111 |
49 |
1934 |
6397558 |
1545 |
3445 |
23414 |
27342 |
| Jun 2008 |
704 |
586 |
85 |
48 |
1957 |
10821574 |
1456 |
2573 |
17604 |
21149 |
| May 2008 |
782 |
619 |
116 |
56 |
2439 |
49249541 |
1760 |
3604 |
19210 |
24263 |
| Apr 2008 |
663 |
494 |
87 |
54 |
2074 |
12749849 |
1642 |
2626 |
14841 |
19913 |
| Mar 2008 |
683 |
557 |
70 |
35 |
2273 |
10608585 |
1113 |
2199 |
17285 |
21200 |
| Feb 2008 |
509 |
417 |
40 |
16 |
571 |
5742718 |
359 |
883 |
9183 |
11204 |
| Jan 2008 |
86 |
47 |
15 |
6 |
8 |
7323 |
18 |
46 |
141 |
259 |
|
| Totals |
111524086 |
11592 |
23740 |
169876 |
206675 |
The magical 30,000 hits per month limit crossed in september, well
well, I don´t even recall doing much to cause that, maybe the AES
audio demo I did, I don´t know. 10 DVD´s uploaded in May,
that´s a bit too much maybe ? I don´t know, the provider
officially was chosen by me to allow a webserver, 50 gig per month is a
bit much I suppose, but for the server is peanuts, I do quite a lot
more per week if I´m busy with HD materials on the local net.
A shrunk frame from a HD scene I made
Another AES meeting
About an orchestra amplication setup in a fairly well known theater,
however moved from the original location (Vredenburg).
Well, well those impulse response based reverbs...
A multiscreen setup
I had the chance to obtain a 1920x1200 pixel monitor/screen of 28 inch
for a really challinging price (only a small part of 3 digits), which
is a probably new technology (Hanspree) 3mS, 500Cd/m^2, HDMI/DHCP nice
black looking piece of machine providing quite more than average
brightness (about twice) and appears the require the 100 Watts to prove
it... HDMI means it can get signals from a HD DVD player, which in that
case also can be assured the copy protection is available so it shows
it's best resolution, or a HD camera (works totally great), and so for
a relatively low price can show real and bright and fast 1080 HD. All
computers can also be connected over a DVI to HDMI converter cable,
which works great, or using a standard monitor cable.
The pictures below show the screen in test on a Pentium D media
computer running at the moment XP, using a little over 50 frames per
second (fr matching TV films and especially the HD camera materials at
50 or 25 (after processing) fps. The size is huge compared to the 17
inch (large) notebook screen and the thus far large 22 inch Philips
(1680x1050).
Some blowups of movie frames from a HD DVD player:
The times 8 symbol comes from the movie player, I didn't edit it in,
and the blownup titles show the imperfections when the material is
blown up.
Full 1080 mpeg2 and DTS-HD sound are great in many cases.
Probably this is one of the most fun tests, the HD camera connected to
a HD monitoring HD notebook screen (real time with a little delay) and
simultaneously a live connection over HDMI (digital) to the new screen
running in 1080i/50 mode with the camera live or recorded images.
Notebook maintenance
There are two main kinds: cleaning and mechanic and software
maintenance, and another, bad kind: virus and such removal.
The latter has plaged me now for the first time in I guess two years of
fairly intensive use (by two person, but mainly my use). What can I
say: 72 pollutions of whatever brrr kind after probably one mistake,
while a few weeks before I checked there was no problem whatsoever (by
the same free virus scan, and occasional process list and netstat
check). Cost me a day and a half because I spend only a few hours a
time (I was annoyed a bit) but it's running perfectly good again with
XP Pro, SP2, no updates, and more (legal and normal) software than God
might allow for some... No, just joking, it has quite a bit of software
from HD video editing and viewing to Digital Hardware design packages
in various versions.
So after it was cool again (it is normally connected to a quite fast
ADSL modem/router and an additional switch which only allow one
specific stream coming from the outside internet, which is hard linked
to connect to the hardware address of the Linux server this page is
on), I thought I'd clean the screen, and try to grease the fans inside
the big scientific notebook:
It has a measured bus speed of 2.5 Gigabyte per second according to a
Linux test tool (it runs Linux, too) which used to be fast for
desktops, even, and clearly above the heatpipes abobe the main Nvidia
professional Quadro graphics card can be seen, and the place for the
fans on the sides, which I took out, vacuum cleaned, and supplied with
new oik for the bearing, which indeed made them sound quieter, run
better and I guess have more lifetime (there from little over 2 years
ago).
So it works good again, and I though I'd try it with an external HD
screen on top of the built-in HD screen (real 1080+, 1920x1200 actual
pixels), either as the only screen (brighter, bigger, less wear for the
builtin screen in non-portable use) or (I just tried on Fedora 8) as
extra screen, so that the total screen size is more than twice 1080 HD!
Worked great, video an span poth screens (I have no more than 2K
material, though), I transcoded the new James Bond trailer (in
1080 HD of course) from h264/mov to mp4 and mpeg-2 which mplayer can
play without hickups and look smashing on the new screen.
pas d'envie
As electronicist I think that's kind of an average motto for the last
decades for many.
