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Re: Hardware Hacking: CD Player Repair 101

Elise Pearce — Sun, 28 Jan 2018 15:59:33 -0000

Thank you so much, seems to have done the trick for me! Had used a CD lens cleaner to no avail. Just used the fabric I use to clean my glasses... et voila! Also blew some air using a canister (the kind you use for PCs) just to be on the safe side.

Re: 5 Free Audio Analysis Tools

Peter — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 02:11:43 -0000

Hi Ahmad, thanks for the tip. I haven't used Praat (http://www.praat.org). It looks like it is focused on speech analysis, which wasn't what I'm looking for. But if you want to extract speech, I think this is a good tool.
(PS I really should update the post somedate, it's a bit outdated)

Re: 5 Free Audio Analysis Tools

Ahmad Khalafallah — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 18:36:32 -0000

Did you see praat? This is another tools for audio analysis. If you see it do you think it stands as one of these tools?

Thanks

Re: Hardware Hacking: CD Player Repair 101

yay — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 12:05:01 -0000

Thanks for this man! I have a combo fm/cassete/CD Aiwa portable player from the olden days and the CD player part was completely broken. After reading online about trying rubbing alcohol to clean the lens, that brought it back to life a bit and managed to read the table of contents and skip around to different songs. Problem was that songs were skipping a LOT.

You gave me the idea of using the lens cleaning kit that came with my glasses on it. Just a few quick rubs on its (luckily exposed) laser and it's working almost perfectly! No one else on the internet recommended using it and therefore reminding me of it.

Thanks again!

Re: Boost your site with free clipart

Роман Васильев — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 02:22:38 -0000

I recommend this http://bsccongress.com

Re: How to use images in ActionScript 3 with FlashDevelop (and some other AS3 tips)

Muerte Exe — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 19:29:29 -0000

If Anyone else is getting an error where your Flash screen just turns to one color after inputting the Stage listener , Check the answers on this page http://stackoverflow.com/qu... It Helped me out you just need that ADDED_TO_STAGE Listener

Re: PayPal, a Useful Integration Guide

LeslieYanez2 — Thu, 05 May 2016 22:01:32 -0000

Thoughtful comments ! I learned a lot from the facts , Does someone know if my company might acquire a template MO DWC WC-G-11 form to complete ?

Re: Hardware Hacking: CD Player Repair 101

citic101 — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 05:37:55 -0000

hi peter , thanks for taking the time to write in such detail , just to open this up looks like it will take a while , the tray moves when i use my fingers , ill plug it in and check on the " noise" .... ill tell you how i get on ... regards ... john

Re: Hardware Hacking: CD Player Repair 101

Peter Backx — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 04:04:26 -0000

Hi Citic101. With regard to the speaker cables: yes, you should be fine with any speaker cable. I wouldn't spend too much money on "premium" cables, though, but that's up to you.

If you try to open the tray, do you hear a noise? If yes, it's very likely a problem with the belt that's driving the mechanism. This is the most common thing I see in old equipment. I haven't fixed this on my player, so I don't know how difficult it is.

Since it's a micro system and it is cramped on the inside, I don't think it will be any easy repair. But is should be manageable, just keep track of everything you open up and make a lot of pictures while doing so. You should be able to find a replacement belt on eBay

You can search around on YouTube to get an idea of what's involved with this repair.

If you don't hear any noise when pressing the eject button, it's much more difficult to diagnose. It could be the controls not working (carefully open the case and see if anything is loose), or it could be much worse and may not be worth repairing (open the case, and manually try to push the mechanism to see if it still moves to start with).

Re: Hardware Hacking: CD Player Repair 101

citic101 — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 17:08:52 -0000

HI My pioneer xc L77 tray does not open !!, do i need to buy a new tray or can it be fixed ? , plus the hampsters eat into the speaker cone so that need to be replaced .... also if i buy quality speaker cables can i just push the wires into the back as i think quality cheap cables will make a difference to the sound of this machine ( its my GF music system and i dont want to throw it away if it can be fixed as the radio works or did when the speakers were up and running ) Thanks citic101@yahoo.co.uk

Re: The Jekyll migration cheat sheet (make #3)

Peter Backx — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 14:08:05 -0000

Comments are back! Lets see if every one can behave ;-)

Re: Java PayPal IPN Servlet

Peter Backx — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:49:55 -0000

I checked my own code and it's also using maps, so I'm pretty sure the order doesn't matter.

Re: Java PayPal IPN Servlet

Jon — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:37:46 -0000

Hi Peter

Does the ipn validation request need to have the parameters sent back in the same order that they were received? In my environment (JBoss AS 6) req.getParameterMap() doesn't give me a map with the values in the original order.

Jon

Re: Recreating the Ticket to Ride Game in ActionScript 3

Jamison Mergens — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:29:45 -0000

Awesome.

Re: Embedding Bitmap Images in ActionScript 3 with FlashDevelop

ReaperOscuro — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:52:22 -0000

Well it is now working, the suggested syntax being:

public class Main extends Sprite { [Embed(source='../lib/background.svg')] public var background:Class; public function Main():void { var bck:Sprite = new background(); bck.x = 0; bck.y = 0; addChild(bck); }

worked without having to add to library. It says to save svg as "Plain SVG", so maybe saving in "Inkscape SVG" made a difference. Further every time I embedded it actually created:
[Embed(source='../lib/background.svg', mimeType='application/octet-stream')]
removing the mimeType made it work.

Thanks again for your time!!

Re: Embedding Bitmap Images in ActionScript 3 with FlashDevelop

ReaperOscuro — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:33:31 -0000

Evening,

Mui thanks for this concise and clear tutorial -exactly what I needed, trying to add my games background and failing.

However, I'm still failing -but of my own accord: I made the background via inkscape (to poor to afford illustrator), so the file format is svg. Oh yes. It compiles with no problems, but of course nothing is displaying. And no option to add to library.

If you have any thoughts on that I'd be most grateful, and in the meantime I'll hunt around and report back if I find a solution. Thanks again!

Re: Google AppEngine, Vaadin, Spring, a Match Not Made in Heaven

Peter Backx — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:28:53 -0000

Well Joe, maybe you should've read the entire post.
There's a link at the bottom: http://www.streamhead.com/m...
And even that tutorial was improved upon a while ago by this post: http://www.streamhead.com/v...
So yeah, I've been working weekends to keep you happy. All for free.

Re: Google AppEngine, Vaadin, Spring, a Match Not Made in Heaven

Joe Schmoe — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:57:31 -0000

By "next weekend", did you mean next weekend of the following year?

Re: Building the Io Language on Windows

Julien — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:52:15 -0000

Okay, apparently the "path" is the Windows PATH environmental variable, and you access it (in Win7) by opening the Start menu > right-click on Computer > Properties > Advanced system parameters, in the left menu > Environment variables > double-click on "Path", in the System variables section - and adding a semicolon followed by the absolute path to MinGW's bin folder.

Re: Building the Io Language on Windows

Julien — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:04:38 -0000

Thanks for the hint, but how do we add the MinGW folders to the path?

Re: Java PayPal IPN Servlet

Peter Backx — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 04:58:14 -0000

No, the servlet does not check for duplicates. The servlet does the validation callback to verify the integrity of the message, but after that step, it just logs whatever it receives.
It is a very good feature request though, so I'm going to add it to the short list of feature requests (first I want to get proper Maven building/repo working)

Re: Java PayPal IPN Servlet

DFB — Tue, 31 May 2011 11:46:34 -0000

Hello Peter,

We have talked about this topic on stackoverflow. I have a quick question on the IPN Servlet. PayPal IPN Guide recommends that the IPN receiver guard against duplicate IPNs from PayPal (that can be sent in some cases). Is there anything in the servlet to guard against duplicate notifications?

Thanks.

Re: JEE vs Drupal – On Apples and Oranges

NABH — Sat, 28 May 2011 01:46:53 -0000

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Re: Android Tutorial: Creating and Using an SD Card in the Emulator

hyunjungsoh — Thu, 26 May 2011 07:51:01 -0000

How come I can't see the images I pushed inside the gallery?

Re: PayPal, a Useful Integration Guide

Peter Backx — Wed, 25 May 2011 02:23:40 -0000

Integrating with PayPal is a mess. If you want to use the standard payment APIs, I suggest you take a look at http://www.streamhead.com/j...

If you want to pursue this route, feel free to contact me as this will give me an opportunity to improve my own library and my own code. It still needs a lot of work.

BTW I've also replied to your StackOverflow question with my general ideas on why you may (not) want to use the PayPal APIs.