Into The Distance

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Jason Saggers

melinda into the distance

Hyundai Hub And Stud Upgrade

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Jason Saggers

It seems the last owner that owned this car cross threaded half of the nuts while putting them back on, I went to replace the brakes.

So with a breaker bar, 32mm socket, rubber melot and a puller I could replace the studs.

excel-car-hub-and-stud-upgrade (1)

And the other photos that my partner took.

: new stude in place

: yes my arm is in the way

: the drive shaft

: nice and dirty

: grease it up

: this disc is looking good

: that goes in there

: hope this doesn’t fall on me

: that looks good

: tighten this bad boy

: excel-car-hub-and-stud-upgrade (11)

: hmmm lets see

: looking good

Minecraft 1.2.4 Is Now Out

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Jason Saggers

Well the Minecraft 1.2.4 update is out with many fixes and a few new items as detailed in the video below.

A little screen shot of a cat sitting on a bed, I now have a few beds with cats sitting on each one

minecraft cats on the bed

Some of the fixes and new items include:

Chat history and better chat editing
New decoration blocks
“Back” and “Quit” buttons when OutOfMemoryScreen is displayed
Made cats more realistic
Added a “minimal” debug menu for testing with. Shift+F3 to hide the graphs
Made placing half blocks on existing half blocks (to make a full block) easier
Limit framerate on menu screens, no longer uses 100% cpu and make my computer melt
Fixed fatal crash for converted worlds to anvil, when there’s blocks at max height
Fixed an old bug with signs clearing text while you’re editing them in SMP
Fixed crash when logging in while there are blocks at maxheight at spawn
Fixed TNT ghosts in multiplayer
Fixed storage minecarts dropping enchanted items
Fixed crashes on invalid server addresses when joining a server
Fixed entities being uninterackable if they existed at login (Multiplayer)
Fixed dupe exploit with paintings
Fixed furnaces and dispensers dropping enchanted items
Fixed the “flickering” of chat as it vanishes off the screen
Fixed text rendering over items in the container screens
Fixed exploit with jungle saplings (turns other saplings into jungle ones)
Fixed launcher opening minecraft dir if the path contains a space
Fixed an off-by-one lighting bug * Fixed block transmuting (turning one block into another via pistons)
Fixed placing mushrooms in daylight, where they can’t survive
Fixed redstone lamps dropping powered block items when destroyed while on
“save-all” (server) now works even when you have toggled “save-off”
Fixed turning half-blocks into full-blocks while you’re standing on them
Fixed seed displaying in F3 debug when the seed is unknown (multiplayer)
Fixed villager texture changing clientside per profession
Fixed falling off ledge corners while holding shift
Fixed players falling when reconnecting to servers where they were previously flying

Well happy minecrafting

CyberLink Startup Items And What Are They

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Jason Saggers

I purchased a new LG BD-Rom (Blu-ray reader DVD burner combo drive) I decided to install the included Cyberlink software from the included disc and as I do from time to time I checked what was loading at startup and what I found was Cyberlink added 10 items to the start up list

Muistartmenu.exe entries.

Youcam
Labelprint
Power2go
Powerdirector
Blu-ray Disc Suite
Mediashow4

The above Mui items get loaded at start up and then unloaded again pretty much right away. they seem to be related with the language settings of each program. I have had no issues with any Cyberlink software by disabling the Mui items.

Remote Control 9 (PDVD9Svc.exe) If you use a remote control with PowerDVD then this item is required, otherwise you can disable it.

BRS (shared Files) To do with Blu-ray region protection, PDVD9 doesn’t need this to run. is also linked to “C:\ProgramData\Cyberlink\BDNAV\BRE.dat” Kill the Brs.exe process then delete the BRF.dat file and it seems to renew the 5 changes limit of PDVD9. BRS isn’t required to play movies with PDVD9 (or on my system anyway)

Power2go “CLMLSVC.EXE”. CLML stands for Cyberlink Media Library. Uses no cpu and around 3mb of system ram. I don’t know a lot about this process, it is to do with Power2go which is burning software, I would think it might have something to do with album art and audio databases for audio CD’s etc (well that is my guess anyway)

CLMLSVC.EXE performs the following behavior:

Enables a COM Object/Server on the Local Machine
Executes a Process
The Process is polymorphic and can change its structure
Registers a Dynamic Link Library File

CLMLSVC.EXE can:

Be created as a process on disk
Be executed as a Process
Be enabled as a COM Object/Server on the Local Machine
Be registered as a Dynamic Link Library File
Be added as a Registry auto start to load Program on Boot up
Be deleted as a process from disk

Fwupdate.exe

Auto updates or checks for updates for the firmware on LG optical drives at every start up, I find this annoying as it asks for admin privileges every time. I set this up as a scheduled task to run once a week and tick the “run with highest Privileges” check box which kills the UAC prompt every startup.

Minecraft 12w06a And My 1.8 Generated World

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Jason Saggers

Well I thought I would install the latest weekly builds of minecraft so to speak and all was going well until I loaded up my main world which was created with 1.8, I went for a walk to see if I could find a new jungle biome and I was met with sharp cut off’s in newly created areas.

The image below is what I was met with in each direction.

minecraft sharp cut offs

Ignore the weird draphics as the texture pack I am using doesn’t seem to work with the latest snapshot.

The whole world was like this, every way I walked I was greeted with this kind of cut off and what seemed like unlimited ocean.

Here is a cave that was cut off.

This cave is cut off

Everything else seemed to work, including my underground spawning pads.

I really have no desire to create another new world, this happened when I went to 1.8 as I have done so much work and put hundreds of hours into my current world that it would be a total waste just to start again (if I could bring my loot with me then that would be a little more acceptable) it is the things I have built, the massive XP traps for blaze etc.

Thankfully I backup my world every day so I could revert back to 1.10 and all was good.

Installing Ubuntu 11.10 x64

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Jason Saggers

Well I did have a full time Ubuntu install on it’s own 500gb HDD but I wiped it because at the time fraps was more important. Now I have deleted around 1.0tb of raw fraps game captures, I got ruthless with it all as it was going to take an insane amount of time to edit and convert it all.

Actually I have 4 x 500gb HDD’s and a nice SATA bay that houses 4 x SATA HDD’s which I should combine together, sell and buy a 120gb SSD and use my 320gb 2.5″ sata drive for storage since I don’t actually need insane amounts of storage, anyway that is getting off track a little.

: ubuntu-install-1

: ubuntu-install-2

: ubuntu-install-3

: ubuntu-install-4

: ubuntu-install-5

: ubuntu-install-6

: ubuntu-install-7

: ubuntu-install-8

: ubuntu-install-11

: personal account picture

: flickering screen

: x errors

General install went perfectly, choose the 500gb HDD I had just wiped back in windows.

A feature I love is that when you are installing the OS it also sets up your user name, password and account picture and gives the option to use your webcam and take an actual photo of you and use that as your account picture.

personal account picture

Now upon first boot is when I had a few issues.

flickering screen

This is the main problem with Ubuntu and my ATI 6850, I think it is more to do with ATI and to me seems like Ubuntu can’t decide which of the 4 x outputs on the video card to use and the ATI card not having enough information for Ubuntu on which output to use (if all that made sense?)

x errors

I don’t think it was my monitor because Ubuntu and Windows both automatically detect it as the correct screen (model, capable resolutions and all that) all though the error above begs to differ

What I actually did to get into the OS for the first time and every time after that was to jump into the BIOS and set the onboard IGP as the default, I plugged my monitor into the motherboards VGA port and I log into Ubuntu perfectly so I am 100% certain that it was my video card, I then reverted back to the 6850 dedicated card after disabling the motherboards IGP and all went smoothly from there, I installed the latest ATI drivers for Linux and all was good

I booted Ubuntu into recovery mode and accessed the terminal, first I just typed “X” and the above image was displayed, I then hunted around for the xorg.conf files and they didn’t seem to be anywhere so I then run “X -configure”) and I got a similar result.

What I Don’t Want To Part With

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Jason Saggers

I would love to use this product in a media server to house my itunes library and the digital photos I have so people can access them (myself and my wife mainly)