[ql-users] Is there anybody out there ?
Bit quiet today, are we all QL'ing ? I didn't get any mail last night either - must be busy out there. Anyway, here's a laugh - not ! I use a ZIP disc to run QPC on so I can travel between home and work and still do stuff QL wise. Today, I decide to upgrade my version of QPC on the Zip disc, so I slot it into my work box, and lo, it is totally blank. Selecting Properties, shows it has 100 MB of free space and nothing used at all. Oh dear, I feel something bad coming on ! Hopefully, when I get home to Win98, it will still be full of data - if not, I'm up that creek again :o( Regards, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
Re: [ql-users] Is there anybody out there ?
At 10:20 ðì 10/5/2002, you wrote: Bit quiet today, are we all QL'ing ? I didn't get any mail last night either - must be busy out there. Anyway, here's a laugh - not ! I use a ZIP disc to run QPC on so I can travel between home and work and still do stuff QL wise. Today, I decide to upgrade my version of QPC on the Zip disc, so I slot it into my work box, and lo, it is totally blank. Selecting Properties, shows it has 100 MB of free space and nothing used at all. Oh dear, I feel something bad coming on ! Hopefully, when I get home to Win98, it will still be full of data - if not, I'm up that creek again :o( Norman, I am afraid that the problem lies with the ZIP disk, not Windows (amazing isn't it?). I had in the past experienced similar problems and usually it's a sure sign that the Zip is failing. To identify if that is the case, try to listen for any abnormal noise (clicks or little bangs) while the disk is being read. If you hear anything, better throw away that disk :-(. Norton Disk Doctor was able to recover the files from the disk but the disk had to be thrown away. (BTW: I think that Zip disks carry a 5 year replacement warranty) Phoebus
RE: [ql-users] Is there anybody out there ?
Hi Phoebus, thanks for that info. The Zip disc is fairly new, but has only ever been used for QPC purposes. There are no noises from the drive - apart from the normal ones. I shall attempt to rescue it and use a new disc. Cheers, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Phoebus Dokos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 3:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Is there anybody out there ? Norman, I am afraid that the problem lies with the ZIP disk, not Windows (amazing isn't it?).SNIP This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
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At 10:50 ðì 10/5/2002, you wrote: Hi Phoebus, thanks for that info. The Zip disc is fairly new, but has only ever been used for QPC purposes. There are no noises from the drive - apart from the normal ones. There is also a possibility of the zip disk being locked in the drive while a shutdown was in progress. Usually Windows ejects all removable disks (or disconnects them - Ejection is the case though with Zip disks/drives) and if that did not happen and for some reason your QXL.WIN file was left open, weird things could happen to the FAT. This is extremely rare though (Never happened to me personally but on one occasion to somebody I know). If that is the case, the Unformat procedure of Norton utilities should be used instead of the Disk Doctor (DO NOT USE the Windows utilities as they are totally useless). Make ABSOLUTELY SURE that you have an Undo disk ready (better use a previously checked and totally blank floppy disk) for that procedure. Also it would be best if you could run that from DOS. Please contact me privately if you wish assistance with/or need other utilities for recover (i have some pretty decent ones here :-) Phoebus
[ql-users] Disk Interfaces needed
I know I have asked before, but I am desperately trying to find a spare Gold Card or Super Gold Card for a customer - anyone have one knocking about?? Rich Mellor RWAP Software 7 Common Road, Kinsley, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, WF9 5JR TEL: 01977 614299 http://hometown.aol.co.uk/rwapsoftware
RE: [ql-users] Is there anybody out there ?
Thanks for the offer. Watch this space (on Monday !) Cheers, Norman. PS. Are we the only ones here today ? - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Phoebus Dokos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 4:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ql-users] Is there anybody out there ? At 10:50 ðì 10/5/2002, you wrote: SNIP Please contact me privately if you wish assistance with/or need other utilities for recover (i have some pretty decent ones here :-) Phoebus This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
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I'm here! Oh dear... a zapped zip. It'll get better when it gets home for the weekend, I'll bet (and hope). Sun's shining here - of course. John in Wales
RE: [ql-users] Is there anybody out there ?
It better John, it better ! How come the sun is shining in Wales then - you down south ? Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: John G Hitchcock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 4:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Is there anybody out there ? I'm here! Oh dear... a zapped zip. It'll get better when it gets home for the weekend, I'll bet (and hope). Sun's shining here - of course. John in Wales This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
Re: [ql-users] Haven't seen the sun in a while...!
Hi folks. I know I don't send often, but I'm waiting for a long video render and thought I'd pipe up. I haven't seen the sun in a while - busy editing video for the upcoming QL 2002 DVD, which I hope to have finished in time for NESQLUG next month. I'm working on the AGM's Chinese meal footage at the moment, and the colour correction's what's rendering. It may not be a crab fest (though I'm sure there was some seafood in there somewhere) but it's making a nice musical interlude. Phoebus - DB tells me you've been to these things before, so any idea what time the crab fest will start on Sunday 2nd June? Just wanted to say you're not the only ones around today. Thanks for listening. Steve Reyal J-Edi(t) Knight and friend to Captain Branagh. From: John G Hitchcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Is there anybody out there ? Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 16:08:20 +0100 I'm here! Oh dear... a zapped zip. It'll get better when it gets home for the weekend, I'll bet (and hope). Sun's shining here - of course. John in Wales _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
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Hi Steve, That video rendering takes ages doesn't it ? I once rendered a bungee jump for a friend - only about 10 mins of video, it took about 4 hours to render down to an AVI, and then it woudn't run on my friends PV because it wasn't rendered with a 'standard' codec. Cost me a blank CD as well that did. My ATI graphics card added some decent codecs to my PC - and I used one of those and tested it, of course it worked fine on my PC :o) Oh Hum. Maybe it's just as well we can't do video rendering on a QL (or can we ..) yet ? Cheers, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Steve Reyal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 4:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Haven't seen the sun in a while...! Hi folks. I know I don't send often, but I'm waiting for a long video render and thought I'd pipe up. I haven't seen the sun in a while - busy editing video for the upcoming QL 2002 DVD, which I hope to have finished in time for NESQLUG next month. I'm working on the AGM's Chinese meal footage at the moment, and the colour correction's what's rendering. It may not be a crab fest (though I'm sure there was some seafood in there somewhere) but it's making a nice musical interlude. Phoebus - DB tells me you've been to these things before, so any idea what time the crab fest will start on Sunday 2nd June? Just wanted to say you're not the only ones around today. Thanks for listening. Steve Reyal J-Edi(t) Knight and friend to Captain Branagh. From: John G Hitchcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Is there anybody out there ? Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 16:08:20 +0100 I'm here! Oh dear... a zapped zip. It'll get better when it gets home for the weekend, I'll bet (and hope). Sun's shining here - of course. John in Wales _ Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
Re: [ql-users] Haven't seen the sun in a while...!
At 11:42 ðì 10/5/2002, you wrote: Phoebus - DB tells me you've been to these things before, so any idea what time the crab fest will start on Sunday 2nd June? Just wanted to say you're not the only ones around today. Thanks for listening. Actually I have no clue. Last time I was around Maryland (Don't know if you've been in the US before but the distances are enormous for Europeans so be prepared) during a crab fest, I avoided it like a vampire avoids garlic :-) - Amazingly enough for a Greek I totally despise sea food :-) - so I really can't help you there (not to mention that I will be in Greece at the time). BTW: We will have DV footage from the mini-Greek QL gathering we are planning with Darren so if your DVD isn't done by then I will be able to send you a copy in any format you like (I use a D-8 camera - unfortunately an NTSC one- but I can encode either in PAL or NTSC format)... The footage will most likely include a huge meal (Hehe I am sure I will put Darren to shame ;-) but we can arrange to exclude that :-) Phoebus
Re: [ql-users] Disk Interfaces needed
Ask Roy, I am sure he has one... Joachim - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 4:59 PM Subject: [ql-users] Disk Interfaces needed I know I have asked before, but I am desperately trying to find a spare Gold Card or Super Gold Card for a customer - anyone have one knocking about?? Rich Mellor RWAP Software 7 Common Road, Kinsley, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, WF9 5JR TEL: 01977 614299 http://hometown.aol.co.uk/rwapsoftware
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Hi Norman. I'm using a Mac PowerBook G4 and while it's pretty nippy, I've still had to wait 25 minutes for a 2-minute piece to render broadcast-safe colour correction. Still at least now the MPEG encoder won't spit at it when I encode it for authoring. The material's all Apple Quicktime DV - no AVIs or redigitising needed here, though I am rapidly running out of disk space. You never know... maybe once the Q200 comes along I can throw away this Apple stuff ;) Any takers for developing a QL(or derivative)-based real-time MPEG2 encoder...??? WHEN it works, you'll get a lot of sales - especially in the States. I know, I know - probably pushing things a bit far, but it was only in Manchester that I was discussing alternative applications for the Q60 with the D D boys. Maybe this could be one.? The question however, that you'll all be tearing your hair out over when you see the footage, is if we're all at a Chinese restaurant, then why isn't there any food on the table? Steve From: Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ql-users] Haven't seen the sun in a while...! Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 16:47:18 +0100 Hi Steve, That video rendering takes ages doesn't it ? I once rendered a bungee jump for a friend - only about 10 mins of video, it took about 4 hours to render down to an AVI, and then it woudn't run on my friends PV because it wasn't rendered with a 'standard' codec. Cost me a blank CD as well that did. My ATI graphics card added some decent codecs to my PC - and I used one of those and tested it, of course it worked fine on my PC :o) Oh Hum. Maybe it's just as well we can't do video rendering on a QL (or can we ..) yet ? Cheers, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Steve Reyal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 4:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Haven't seen the sun in a while...! Hi folks. I know I don't send often, but I'm waiting for a long video render and thought I'd pipe up. I haven't seen the sun in a while - busy editing video for the upcoming QL 2002 DVD, which I hope to have finished in time for NESQLUG next month. I'm working on the AGM's Chinese meal footage at the moment, and the colour correction's what's rendering. It may not be a crab fest (though I'm sure there was some seafood in there somewhere) but it's making a nice musical interlude. Phoebus - DB tells me you've been to these things before, so any idea what time the crab fest will start on Sunday 2nd June? Just wanted to say you're not the only ones around today. Thanks for listening. Steve Reyal J-Edi(t) Knight and friend to Captain Branagh. From: John G Hitchcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Is there anybody out there ? Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 16:08:20 +0100 I'm here! Oh dear... a zapped zip. It'll get better when it gets home for the weekend, I'll bet (and hope). Sun's shining here - of course. John in Wales _ Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990. _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
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Hi Phoebus. Well, the plan at the moment is to complete Manchester's DVD in time for Washington, and produce a second DVD with material shot in Washington. I'll discuss the possibilities with him re. using your material and we'll see how it goes, so thanks for offering. Shame you won't be around in a few weeks - would have been nice to say hello in person. Steve From: Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Haven't seen the sun in a while...! Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 12:14:07 -0400 At 11:42 ðì 10/5/2002, you wrote: Phoebus - DB tells me you've been to these things before, so any idea what time the crab fest will start on Sunday 2nd June? Just wanted to say you're not the only ones around today. Thanks for listening. Actually I have no clue. Last time I was around Maryland (Don't know if you've been in the US before but the distances are enormous for Europeans so be prepared) during a crab fest, I avoided it like a vampire avoids garlic :-) - Amazingly enough for a Greek I totally despise sea food :-) - so I really can't help you there (not to mention that I will be in Greece at the time). BTW: We will have DV footage from the mini-Greek QL gathering we are planning with Darren so if your DVD isn't done by then I will be able to send you a copy in any format you like (I use a D-8 camera - unfortunately an NTSC one- but I can encode either in PAL or NTSC format)... The footage will most likely include a huge meal (Hehe I am sure I will put Darren to shame ;-) but we can arrange to exclude that :-) Phoebus _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
RE: [ql-users] Haven't seen the sun in a while...!
At 12:46 ìì 10/5/2002, you wrote: Hi Norman. I'm using a Mac PowerBook G4 and while it's pretty nippy, I've still had to wait 25 minutes for a 2-minute piece to render broadcast-safe colour correction. Still at least now the MPEG encoder won't spit at it when I encode it for authoring. The material's all Apple Quicktime DV - no AVIs or redigitising needed here, though I am rapidly running out of disk space. You never know... maybe once the Q200 comes along I can throw away this Apple stuff ;) Any takers for developing a QL(or derivative)-based real-time MPEG2 encoder...??? WHEN it works, you'll get a lot of sales - especially in the States. I know, I know - probably pushing things a bit far, but it was only in Manchester that I was discussing alternative applications for the Q60 with the D D boys. Maybe this could be one.? Actually when the GF will be hopefully available, its onboard DSP will be able to deal with tasks like that IIRC the specs Nasta released. Realtime MPEG2 decoders/encoders exist currently and I really see no reason why a QL-based system could serve as one and yes that wouild sell nice (another good Idea would be a QL used as an mp3 decoder in a car :-) (We will need a shrinked enough QL system, probably equipped with one of these new Coldfire chips though ;-) Phoebus
Re: [ql-users] Haven't seen the sun in a while...!
At 12:58 ìì 10/5/2002, you wrote: Hi Phoebus. Well, the plan at the moment is to complete Manchester's DVD in time for Washington, and produce a second DVD with material shot in Washington. I'll discuss the possibilities with him re. using your material and we'll see how it goes, so thanks for offering. Shame you won't be around in a few weeks - would have been nice to say hello in person. Steve I know but between the QL and Sun'n'fun in Greece (windsurfing and booze included) -not to mention my parents that would kill me if I didn't show up ;-) - there's really no contest :-) Phoebus
Re: [ql-users] Is there anybody out there ?
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] uk, Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Bit quiet today, are we all QL'ing ? I didn't get any mail last night either - must be busy out there. Anyway, here's a laugh - not ! I use a ZIP disc to run QPC on so I can travel between home and work and still do stuff QL wise. Today, I decide to upgrade my version of QPC on the Zip disc, so I slot it into my work box, and lo, it is totally blank. Selecting Properties, shows it has 100 MB of free space and nothing used at all. Oh dear, I feel something bad coming on ! Hopefully, when I get home to Win98, it will still be full of data - if not, I'm up that creek again :o( ... Just shows that the SyQuest disks are far more reliable :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
RE: [ql-users] Haven't seen the sun in a while...!
On 10/05/02 at 13:02 Phoebus Dokos wrote: Actually when the GF will be hopefully available, its onboard DSP will be able to deal with tasks like that IIRC the specs Nasta released. Eh, information is only as good as it is accurate. The DSP is not on the GF (for it to fit, the printed circuit board would have to be from a 4 - or more - dimensional space :-) ), but on the Aurora II, which will be the next project after the GF (and that one will be much simpler and quicker to do). And I have not released the specs for Aurora II :-) Phoebus, before you leave for Greece, do you by any chance have the LRESPR version of the QUBIDE driver? I need something to test the Super/EtherIDE with :-) Nasta
