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30 May 2010

How to Look Like a Complete Nerd

Or “Fitting in at Anime North”

  • Take two new “collector’s edition” coke bottles ($1.50 each, way too expensive).

Who collects coke bottles anyway?

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30 May, 2010 at 16:12 by Michael Hartog

Tags: anime, how-to, potions
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1 May 2010

PS3, S/PDIF output to computer

Recently posted this on a forum but I figured this might be a good place as well:

Goal:
5.1 output from my PS3 through my computer.
Why? I don’t have any other way to output to 5.1 from it without spending money (receiver + different speakers).

What I have:
First gen PS3, HDMI and TOSLINK cables.

Monitor has HDMI -> analog stereo output
Problems: Constant low hum (monitor has bad quality output) and only 2.0 sound. This requires the monitor to be on HDMI output to passthrough audio as well.

This motherboard. It has a Realtek ALC888 chip. I also have the separate bracket for TOSLINK in.
Problems: This can do stereo but no DTS/Dolby, but it fixes the buzzing problem. It can also play when the monitor is on different output.

And a Creative X-Fi Extreme Audio card.
This has S/PDIF in, but I am not spending $100+ on the options they have to actually use it. Instead I am trying repin the gigabyte bracket and have it connect to this card. It does have DTS/Dolby decoding :D

So, the gigabyte manual says that the bracket has three pins.
1. red – Power
2. yellow – SPDIF_I
3. black – GND

So I switched black and yellow to match up with this pinout diagram of the creative card (top left, +5V, GRN, SPDIF0 IN)

Plugged that in and… nothing. I can hear feint popping when I switch audio output devices on the PS3, but the Creative card never shows a signal (“Unknown or invalid signal”, just like when disconnected).

Any help or insight would be appreciated, thanks.

P.S. I think I may have destroyed any input on my sound card by fooling around with this. My microphone no longer works on that sound card :(

1 May, 2010 at 1:25 by Michael Hartog

Tags: games, nerd, optimization, ps3
Posted in Gaming, Technology, random | No Comments »

3 Oct 2009

Silly Accents

I have recognized after many years that every time I think or say something extremely ridiculous I think or say it with a Monty Python accent.

This subsequently feeds the whole silliness thing and makes the accent grow even more ridiculous.

I don’t think this is a problem but it might get me in trouble someday.

3 October, 2009 at 22:16 by Michael Hartog

Tags: random
Posted in random | No Comments »

17 Sep 2009

This Post is

This post is meant to be read from the bottom up.

How did you get here?

This post is meant to be read from the top down.

17 September, 2009 at 23:17 by Michael Hartog

Tags: random
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