Journal mcgrew's Journal: Age-related mental degradation 6
I've been digitizing all my analog data, and I have so much it will probably take the rest of my life to complete. I still have a crate full of unsampled LPs, a grocery bag and seven full cassete holders full of cassettes that haven't been sampled, plus books and books of film photos that I haven't scanned. And a whole bookshelf of VCR tapes. After half a century of collecting you wind up with a LOT of data.
Lately I've been moving my Star Trek tapes to DVD using a "DVD recorder", a standalone box that acts like a VCR, only it uses DVDs instead of tape; it was an "impulse buy" I picked up when I was shopping for a DVD player. A problem arises, though -- the Cisco router causes interference, resulting in noise in the audio portion, so I have to unplug the router and stay off the internet while I'm recording. The fault is in the VCR rather than the DVD, because there's no interference when I'm recording off the air. The DVD recorder had pissed me off the day before -- I was adjusting the VCR's tracking, which made the DVD recorder think the tape was "protected" by macrovision, and I had to back the tape up and start over. Stupid DRM only hurts non-pirates; I could easily get far better copies of these old tapes (most of which are off the air and have "ghosts" and other analog noise) from TPB.
So the other day I kind of forgot, and switched the TV over to the computer that uses it as a monitor, and stupidly tried to move some oggs that I'd reripped from CDs I'd sampled and burned that I'd lost the files to after a hard drive failure, to the notebook. I learned backups at Hard Knox University, the tuition there is extremely expensive! SIU was lots cheaper, they only take your money. Of course, the files wouldn't go, and after a "WTF" followed by "oh shit, mcgrew you're a dumbass" I switched it back to TV mode, finished the show, plugged the router in... and the PC still couldn't see the notebook.
Fuck. Internet? Nope, but the notebook was happily displaying Google. I pulled a "windows" on my Linux box and rebooted it, which of course didn't help a bit. I spent two hours on the goog and gave up. Damn. This shit should be easy; hell, I networked two DOS PCs together back before 1995 using serial cables and a crossover plug. I later networked them with ethernet cards and a crossover ethernet cable, added a hub when the Ex who I was still married to got a notebook. Hell, I run NWAdmin at work. This shit should be easy!
I started cursing Linux. "Damn," I thought, "If I can't do this, how is a normal person supposed to?" The notebook running Win 7 had no such trouble. I started poking around in the settings, and saw that the computer could see that the router was there, but couldn't get any farther.
I gave up again, put another tape in and fired up the DVD recorder and unplugged the router.
When the show was over, I plugged the router back in -- and damn if the network wasn't working again! Apparently, the glitch was in the router, not the computer.
I should have figured that out in five minutes. Damn. Maybe it isn't age; maybe it's Amy. She got married last month, so now I refuse to have sex with her, and she keeps trying to tempt me.
Nah, I'm just getting old.
Why *aren't* you using TPB? (Score:2)
All the Star Trek TOS episodes are here:
https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6405084/star_trek_tos_season_1_2_3_complete [thepiratebay.org]
Downloading isn't any more illegal than ripping (or re-ripping, since you already ripped these).
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They're playing TOS on MeTV on Saturday nights, so I've just been re-recording them off the air. I do need the last episode of TNG (what I've been recording; haven't sen a lot of them in years), because I loaned the tape to someone and never got it back. I also need the entire last season of Voyager; I didn't even get to see that, because the station that was playing it switched networks and it wasn't broadcast here. I'd have bought it if I'd seen it for sale, but the only seasons of STV they had on the she
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You don't give two shits about legality, good then we're on the same page :-)
I have a torrent of Star Trek TOS (not the same one I linked to earlier) that I can confirm has good video quality and decent naming, and I have a confirmed-good TNG torrent, I'll email you the .torrent files later.
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I'd appreciate that! Also, I'd really like to see the last season of Voyager. But forget "Enterprise", I never made it past the shiity theme song on that one.
Maybe (Score:1)
" A problem arises, though -- the Cisco router causes interference, resulting in noise in the audio portion, so I have to unplug the router and stay off the internet while I'm recording. "
A tinfoil hat (wrap/wall) between the router and the dvd recorder. Make a farady cage for the dvd recorder ?