Tendo City - Erich's Techology Corner

Fix Tendo City

Mon, 22 Jan 2018 23:50:58 +0000

Seriously, this site has a bunch of lingering issues which need fixing!

- This text is on the top of the screen on every page in Tendo City:

Quote:Warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is deprecated, use preg_replace_callback instead in ..../includes/class_bootstrap.php(430) : eval()'d code on line 118

Sometimes it's only that one, and sometimes you also see this one (below) below it, either once or several times, but it's kind of annoying and should be fixed.

Quote:Warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is deprecated, use preg_replace_callback instead in ..../includes/class_bbcode.php on line 2958

- As of a few days ago the "Edit Post" button stopped working for in-line post edits. Now all I can do is center-click it to open the full edit window in a new tab, but cannot do an in-line edit as you are supposed to be able to. This is annoying!

- The new or edit post screen is a jumbled mess, with text overlapping text and checkboxes underneath buttons. I don't know what happened here but it's not good.

- It automatically double posts pretty much every time I post. Having to then delete the extra post after posting, every time, is kind of a pain.

- And lastly, once again, the admin panel does not have the export database feature in it anymore, so there is no way to back up the database without FTP access that we do not have! I really, REALLY want a more up-to-date backup of the database, instead of the now years-old one that I have...

Hard drive issues

Sun, 17 May 2015 03:23:44 +0000

Okay, I'm having issues with a hard drive, and I wonder if anyone can help.

I have Windows Vista, and there are 4 hard drives in the system (two 320GB drives, a 500GB, and 2TB). One of the four SATA ports on the motherboard broke off several years ago, so I got a PCI SATA card for one of the drives. The 500GB drive is the one attached to the PCI card. I recently got a 4TB external drive, which uses USB.

Some time (I don't know how long, for a while I didn't notice the drive was missing... :p) after moving a bunch of stuff over to the new drive, the 500GB drive, the one attached to the PCI card, has vanished from Windows. Neither the drive nor any of its partitions exist in Disk Management, and the disk does not appear in the Device Manager either. The drive isn't listed in the system BIOS either, but since it's attached to a PCI card and not the system, that might be expected. The drive IS listed in the PCI card's RAID-settings BIOS, which is by Silicon Image, but you can't do anything there except set up RAID options, which I'm not using. So I knew the drive wasn't totally dead, something (I have no clue what) just went very wrong.

Next, I tried attaching the drive to the motherboard, using the SATA port that the 2TB drive is on (I forget which of the two physical 320GBs is the boot drive, so I didn't want to mess with those unless I have to). I didn't attach the 2TB to anything, just left it unconnected. This... caused Windows to fail to correctly boot -- the screen went black after the Windows logon screen (where you choose an account and enter your password). I could get the Task Manager to open and get to a few things through that, but it didn't really work. This was quite concerning to say the least.

After this, I re-hooked up stuff the way it was at first -- 2TB to motherboard, 500GB to PCI card. If the problem is something relating to the PCI card, I don't want to mess up some other drive too by hooking it up to it...

Most recently, I tried a Linux boot DVD that I made several months back, to see if I'd get any farther there. Here things get interesting -- Linux can see the 500GB drive! Now, the 500GB drive has three partitions on it, two about 220GBs and one about 9GB. Linux could see, and access, two of those partitions, the small one and one of the 220GB ones. I copied some files off of both partitions to another partition and it worked fine; access was slow, but it's doing it off of an OS on a DVD, so maybe that was a factor. Anyway, it worked with no problems.

Now, the third partition, called Amur, is an issue; Linux can't mount that drive. It can see the partition name and the amount of data on the partition (~120GB full of ~220GB), which is correct, but can't open (mount) the drive. Maybe this is related to why Windows can't see the drive at all? The OS gives the error message "This location could not be displayed. Sorry, could not display all the contents of “Amur”: Error when getting information for file '/media/ubuntu/Amur/$RECYCLE.BIN': Input/output error". Hmm.. interesting; I don't know what it means, but it's something different anyway. Is there any way of fixing this and gaining access to the drive again?

Going back to Windows afterwards, the drive still doesn't exist in either the Disk or Device Managers. Other partition management programs in Windows cannot see the disk either.

So uh... any help here? I'd prefer to not lose the data on the drive (I could at least copy over the two partitions Linux can see to another drive, but not the other one of course), but anything that gets the drive working again would be great.

This is amazing..

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 22:49:10 +0000

I've been playing around with AutoDesk Catch, just snap some photo's and get a 3D model ready for the most poplar animation software.
Check it out: http://www.123dapp.com/catch

My attempt:

Completely worthless, HP Software.

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 01:58:40 +0000

Wow, the HP printer and scanner repair wizard is the most worthless thing ever. My scan over network wasn't working, so I did all the usual things I checked my driver version, looked for software updates, ext. It still didn't fix the problem, so I decided to try running HP's printer diagnostic utility.

All I can say is that this is the most worthless thing ever! It has about 5 or 6 tests that it runs, and as far as I can tell after every test, it can give only one response, "Reset your printer, and restart your computer." Now, I have a network printer, so when the test came back that windows was unable to communicate with the printer driver, what is rebooting my printer really going to do!?!? Since the printer isn't connected to the PC via USB, powering down isn't going to affect anything, driver wise. In fact powering down a network printer has no effect on it's clients at all! Seriously, after every test it gave the same answer, reboot your printer. It's like this program was designed by a third grader.

Finally, I broke bad and removed everything HP from my machine and re installed the printer driver, and now it's working again.

+Everything With Blender

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 21:31:10 +0000

My homage to the +Button in the blender interface. I wish every file dialog box had a plus button, I love the heck out of that feature!

[video=vimeo;46011723]https://vimeo.com/46011723[/video]

Enjoy!

"Woo Hoo"

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:46:12 +0000

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Stock Meshes Used:
mario game pack from fastcraft5
Daisy Flowers from Calli

Made with Blender internal and some good old fashion "node-ing"
Feedback is much appreciated!

My Latest render

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:51:21 +0000

Check it!

[video=vimeo;45613540]http://vimeo.com/45613540[/video]

Fruit fluid slo mo study

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 19:55:18 +0000

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I guess it's ok for a first try, but you should see the finished shot from the guy who made the tutorial it's way better. Although his machine had more cycles mussel than mine he rendered his at 3000 passes in seven hours my machine took all night to do 1300 passes. I would love it one day if you could get a Cuda machine, I'd make fruit explode bananas. :)

Done from a tutorial here.

Beauty and the Beat!

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:55:47 +0000

My attempt at hair from the movie "Brave"

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:09:35 +0000

My attempt at curly hair similar to the new Pixar movie "Brave". I tweaked the animation a little bit.

Edit:
I reworked the animation a little bit, she was a bit floaty.. Ok, she was allot floaty.. Alright she looked like crap :) I think it's better now. What do you think of my curly hair particle system? I reworked the hair a little bit also.

Come celebrate amazing 3D artests with me!

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 05:59:55 +0000

I'm launching a new promotion on my site Everything Toven.com. I am going to start featuring great 3D artists on my blog. Amazing artists will earn the right to feature this award image on there site. Just a little something I came up with.

I made a funny! :)

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 01:33:56 +0000

Link

Massive Blender Particle Simulation

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 23:26:36 +0000

This video shows the awesome power of the new Blender particle system. There are allot of things about my twister I don't like like, for example I think the simulation is to slow. But you get the idea, properly configured, Blender particles can do some pretty awesome things.

Important HP Advisory, "You don't know what you are doing"

Mon, 28 May 2012 04:53:55 +0000

HP just sent me a advisory with the title "USB 3 HDD exhibits slow transfer speeds." LOL, so I click on it and the resolution was something to the tune of nothing is wrong with our laptops your probably doing it wrong.. :)

So my question is that, they listed specific models this issue affects.. So I guess the moral of this story is if you own a:
HP EliteBook 8460p Notebook PC
HP EliteBook 8460w Mobile Workstation
HP EliteBook 8540p Notebook PC
HP EliteBook 8540w Mobile Workstation
HP EliteBook 8560p Notebook PC
HP EliteBook 8560w Mobile Workstation
HP EliteBook 8740w Mobile Workstation
HP EliteBook 8760w Mobile Workstation
HP ProBook 4230s Notebook PC
HP ProBook 4330s Notebook PC
HP ProBook 4331s Notebook PC
HP ProBook 4430s Notebook PC
HP ProBook 4431s Notebook PC
HP ProBook 4435s Notebook PC
HP ProBook 4530s Notebook PC
HP ProBook 4535s Notebook PC
HP ProBook 4730s Notebook PC
HP ProBook 6460b Notebook PC
HP ProBook 6560b Notebook PC

You don't know what your doing and shouldn't be using a computer. The rest of us are good though.. :)

I make awesome music with adobe audition..

Sat, 26 May 2012 18:49:49 +0000

Have a listen!

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I just recorded my friend with my plain old computer and awesomefiedit with adobe audition... What do you think?