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for what it's worth:
http://vftp.net/virtual1/temp/comb

the same technique can be applied to any log file that you can manage to parse consistently. devs that don't understand the need to escape delimiters in text fields can make your day go bad.

And we are still discussing the display in pivot mode?

OS X has a standard option in display preferences to rotate the display 90, 180, or 270 degrees. (no special software to install, that might come with a rotatable display, for windows os) It doesn't offer mirroring though, I was rather expecting to see that option. The rotation option is only available for external displays, not built-in. (imac and laptop) So you can rotate as long as you can find a way to physically rotate your display. (OS X does offer Negative however, which may have its uses on a projector)

I need to test on an Apple display to verify that it adjusts the sub-pixel kerning correctly when rotated. I'm expecting it to either adjust, or disable kerning. Those displays you can detach the foot and attach a vesa adapter, and that will hook to a vesa arm or wall mount in any of the four standard rotations.

oookay, science done. Result: Apple fails! :P Sub-pixel kerning continues, but does not adjust for the new pixel orientation. pictures. That "W" is on the screen right side up. The two 0 deg show it with the display at 0 degrees. The display is then told to rotate 90 degrees, and an averaging picture (with pixie) is taken as well as another digital camera pic.

Look carefully at 90_deg_avg.png at the /\ part of the bottom of the W, visible on the right. Both the / and the \ are on the TRAILING edge of the pixel, which should cause them to have a blue tint, but one is red and one is blue, indicating incorrect SPK. If the W were on its side on the 0 degree picture, both of those edges would have a blue tint to them, a bit like you see on 0_deg_avg.png when you look at the right pocket on the upper left of the W, it's all blue. Or when you compare the right side of the leftmost / and the leftmost \ strokes, again they are both correctly blue despite being opposite slopes. I guess I have a bug to report ;)

And I'd still like to hear from someone with deeper Windows OS experience that can comment on sub-pixel kerning support.

Is it just me or is that 76mb tif sadly lacking in quality? Looks like a lossy jpeg. Here's something off the cuff from my wallpapers folder, redstar that has more detail and is under 1mb.

I wrote this bash script to do basically the same thing. It uses openssl (built into most unix and OS X in specific) to create 1mb check files basically the same as torrent files. Follow the instructions and its easy to fix a corrupt download from someone that has a good copy, with the minimum required data transfer. The person with the bad file runs option 1 to make the check file and sends that to the person with the good file. They run option 2 which identifies bad chunks and exports them, which they send back to the first person. Run option 3 and the exports are patched into their download and it's fixed.

Last time I used it, we repaired a 3.8gb transfer by exchanging 11mb of data. (the transfer had been resumed multiple times and apparently one of the transfers glitched its offset or something)

This is easier than BT because using BT can have a bit of a learning curve for seeding. Beta but appears stable. Feedback encouraged.

Please tell me about this "common repair trick" of unplugging the "CMOS battery". Hint: it's under the logic board. Please take a look http://vftp.net/virtual1/temp/techchat/MBLB.jpg, that's a picture of the underside of the mlb.

Is cutting a hole in the bottom of a macbook a "common repair trick" for you?? Or do you mean removing what, 30 screws to pull the board?

-1: confused

http://vftp.net/catandmouse/

enjoy

True, you never see any major sites hacked. (that's an ardchive from microsoft.fr btw)

That would actually be a fun thing to work on... parking oneself in the room for a few weeks with what little of wiring diagrams could be found, determining IP addresses, mapping network segments, and drafting new network maps. Trying to research/guess passwords to machines no one had logged into for years. Figuring out what services each machine provides and to whom.

Then comes the exciting part when you start unplugging all the cables you think aren't in use and downing the machines that should be redundant or defunct. (somewhat nervously listening for the phone to ring or the pager to go off) You'd be amazed how often the blinky lights are only blinking because several machines are talking with eachother and absolutely no one else outside the room.

Some people may view this as a frightening thing to try, but I'd call it a once-in-a-lifetime challenge. :)

I've done this sort of thing before, twice, and it IS quite a rush. One of them was only slightly less tangled than this fun picture: http://vftp.net/virtual1/temp/IMAGE011_1wires.jpg