Red Tiger

Leaving puddles everywhere!

2010-01-07T06:35:10Z

I've got 5 inches here, how much have you got?

Dear Furries,

2010-01-05T09:29:49Z

Want to know something that pisses me off even more than furs who call babyfurs paedophiles? Well...

You all remember way back when the MTV special came out that portrayed furry as just a sexual fetish, and everyone in the community got so upset about it? How about the CSI episode? Remember that? All that bad press? All that whining because "(bawwww!) it's not (just) a fetish"?

With that in mind, why the fuck are we letting furs go around telling everyone that it is just a fetish?
UKFur seems to be very guilty of this lately, as do several other "furry" websites including (rather unsurprisingly) Fchan and FurAffinity. I'm getting quite sick of references to "our fetish". No, shit-for-brains, you mean YOUR fetish. You don't dictate what everyone who calls themselves a furry gets turned on by, okay? You don't dictate what an entire community feels and believes, okay?

If you're only in it for the porn, fine, I don't give a shit, just stop telling everyone that porn is the sole reason furry exists.
Not everyone who happens to belong to the same subculture as you thinks with the same perverse mind you were born with.

I used to look upon the "burnt furs" and those calling themselves "anthro fans" and refusing to associate with furries as elitists, but you know what... Now, I just think they're sane.

I am a fan and lover of anthropomorphic and real animals.
Never before have I been more ashamed to call myself a "furry".

aydin_e @ 2009-12-10T05:39:00

2009-12-10T05:39:18Z

Is it just me or are the MSN chat servers acting v-e-r-y strangely of late?

People keep signing in with screen names they used back in 2003/2004, then their name immediately updates to what it should be now. On top of that Pidgin keeps telling me peoples names have changed, but the old and new names are the same.

Yahoo has also been getting slow and buggy... Ever since they integrated cross-network support with MSN.

What does that tell you?

aydin_e @ 2009-12-09T06:54:00

2009-12-09T06:54:50Z

It's so very nice to have a laptop with more than six minutes of battery life again, but at an average of four hours on this thing? Well I just feel greedy now... <3

Subject Filler

2009-11-26T06:24:57Z

I have a pink vacuum cleaner.

Sort of win?

<\3

2009-11-17T04:27:03Z

When I'm a bit sad, I play some BANGIN' TOONZ far too loud, then I don't feel so down any more :3

It's a shame my laptop only puts out about 200mW/ch for headphones. I make it clip so hard :(

Friends & Interests!

2009-11-14T06:33:40Z

Chopped around and updated! All good fun, eh?

***

In unrelated news, my main laptop no longer has an H key, but since it's a triple-layer membrane keyboard, it doesn't matter so much. I'm rather glad this "Genuine Dell" keyboard wasn't genuine! It's much nicer to type on than the original one, too...

FOR SALE

2009-11-10T00:14:15Z

One laptop, a repair job abandoned by the owner.
I'm sick of the sight of it: £65

1.5GHz P4m, 512MB RAM, 12GB HDD w/XP Pro VLK installed (laptop does have a legit XP Home OEM key, but I don't have a Home install disc). Onboard SiS graphics, I believe.

The cost may seem steep for a low-spec machine, but this is to cover my time and the parts used in repairing it - the motherboard caught fire after the original owner left the dc lead connected, knowing the socket was faulty.
This machine now has a very unique dc input connector.

Reply here or by IM/email if you're interested. Comes with a laptop bag and a spare battery, but I think both batteries are a bit knackered.

SOLD.

EVP

2009-11-09T03:22:04Z

EVP.

If (with no input signal) I turn the volume and treble controls on my Rogers Ravensbourne Stereo amplifier to maximum, then get up close and personal with the right speaker, I can clearly hear the words "It's a prison!" being repeatedly uttered by a worried female voice.

I really need to service this amp.

Did you click all of those?
You wouldn't like to hear what the phono stage says!

I have this on repeat most days

2009-10-23T06:14:48Z

Truth hurts.

2009-10-19T03:13:50Z

"People who are into cub art and vore calling other people freaks of nature for admitting they had fursuit sex. Really now?".

You know, if it wasn't for the community on FurAffinity, including all the good artists who call it home... I'd be DDoS'ing it to hell and back 24/7/365, just because of the fuckwits that are in charge.

Dragoneer in particular just doesn't deserve to be in charge of a site like FA, he and many of the other admins are just power-tripping idiots.

I'll have a hearty LOL if I get banned for saying this.

As much as I love Linux...

2009-10-11T01:54:24Z

... It's still not ready for "normal" people's day to day use.

Too many hardware support bugs, system-specific workarounds, confusing application dependencies and complicated configuration files.

It took me three re-installs to get 3D graphics working on this laptop, and after ~6 months I've only just found a solution/workaround for my "suspend" problem.
My gran's laptop can't suspend either, also suffering memory corruption, and can't use video overlays without the desktop background becoming corrupted for the duration the overlaid video is playing.
The main "downstairs" PC boots into XP in <30 seconds, suspends and resumes instantly, etc.. Yet Ubuntu takes >2 minutes to boot, cannot suspend and cannot use 3D graphics without risk of the system freezing. That's on its fourth or fifth reinstall now, owing to completely losing the ability to display graphics after updating. That is, I install, it works perfectly, I update, it no longer boots. I've found some workarounds, but the point is I shouldn't have to.

This is all old hardware with excellent drivers for Windows.

If all you hardcore Linux fans out there want to convert Windows users, stop making excuses and try making an OS that actually works flawlessly for everyone first.

More nonsense...

2009-10-09T02:50:50Z

I do hope the government isn't planning on banning these, considering their rated life is considerably longer than the useful life of most CFLs... http://www.bltdirect.com/product.php?pid=10587&cat=1595&nm=GLS+Extended+Life+16000+Hours+100w+Pearl+BC

Also, want:
http://www.lightbulbs-direct.com/product/2057/squirrel-cage-lamp-60w-bc/ &
http://www.bltdirect.com/product.php?pid=1253&cat=84&nm=GLS+240+volt+1000+watt+GES+Clear

Yagfox, click the cut, you might at least get a laugh out of this...

Teh latest Furry Meme with grammar corrections and formatting.

*Are you a furry?
Indeed.

*If you have a Spouse/SO, is he/she a furry too?
Indeeeeed.

*How long have you been in the community?
Indeeeeeeee-- Since early 2003.

*How did you find furry?
ON THE LOLLERNETS. Honestly can't remember now, I think it was the Furry Music Foundation.

*What's your reason for being furry (what interested you to get into the community)?
I like animals and anthros, at the time the people seemed pretty cool.

*What's Furry to you?
Fun.

*What are your favourite aspects of our community?
The (good) art and the (nice) people.

*Do you use any furry terms? (i.e. yiff, paws, murr?)
MURRY PURRY YIFF YIFF HURRRRRR. I use "paws", but so does my mum so, meh.

*What do you wish furry was NOT associated with?
Bestiality, paedophilia/child molestation, MTV, etc.

*How strongly do you feel about someone bashing the community as a whole?
As a whole, the community deserves it.

*How strongly do you feel about anyone bashing you yourself for your interest based on the media's aspect of what furry is?
I laugh.

*We all know furries have a lot of sexual aspects in this fandom, what's your opinion on it?
Humans tend to make everything sexual. I don't mind it, I like some of it, but I wish furries would stop trying to better gay pride for making the public aware of every single kink they have.

Personal

*What is/are your fursona(s)?
Red or red-orange Sumatran Tiger, several forms depending on my mood.

*Do you have any fetishes that pertain to the fandom?
...

*If you could magically morph into your fursona would you?
Fuck yeah!

*Do you believe you have a spirit animal?
To a degree.

*What other fanbases/groups are you a part of?
General audiophilia.

*Anthro/Feral, Therian or Kemonomimi (Not a furry, just a human with animal ears and a tail)?
Kemonowhatnow? Stop with the wapanese BS plzthx. Anthro + Feral.

*Are you a fursuiter? If yes, how many do you own? If no, do you ever plan on being a 'suiter?
Eventually, possibly.

*How many of your friends are furry?
Quite a few.

*How many pets do you own, if any?
We have trouble defining ownership of pets here.

*Aside from furry what other interests do you have?
Electronics, vintage audio equipment, music, gardening, DIY...

*Are you confident enough in yourself to say that you're a fur, no matter what the media says?
Like many things, I won't deny it if someone asks, but I don't go out of my way to tell people.

Meet-ups

*Do you attend any cons? If no, would you attend any cons? If yes, which cons have you been to?
Nope, no.

*Do you go to local meet-ups (bowling, public outings, etc.)?
I used to, but I fell out of favour with the local community and consequently lost touch with many of them.

*Have you ever attended a furry party?
Yup.

Online

*Have you ever met up with a fur you talked to online?
Yes, quite a few.

*What furry websites do you frequent?
FurAffinity, E621, Fchan (until it turned into 4chan with furry porn, anyway)...

*What non furry websites do you frequent?
AudioKarma, Elliot Sound Products, LiveJournal, eBay...

*Has the fandom done anything for you that you're thankful for? Has it taught you anything or brought you anything you treasure greatly?
It's given me a place to waste epic amounts of time typing lengthy, well-structured retorts to the moronic statements uttered by many individuals within the community.
It's taught me not to bother responding to the inevitable barrage of idiotic replies to my well-structured criticisms, since some people are just too thick to grasp reality no matter how hard you try to explain things.
I do treasure the friendships I've forged, there are some stellar people in the community if you look hard enough.

BTW, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUO6kYLb6As ;)

aydin_e @ 2009-10-05T03:34:00

2009-10-05T02:35:05Z

http://www.lightbulbs-direct.com/product/3318/envirolight-led-golfball-2w-bc-matt-warm-white/

This is the future of lighting, people.

Government, in a nutshell:

2009-09-19T22:38:07Z

Government response to a problem caused by the government and only affecting the general public:
"We don't see this as a problem, there's no need to take action."

Government response to a problem caused by outside influence and only affecting the general public:
"We're looking at ways to tackle this situation, and will choose whichever one works in our favour."

Government response to a problem from any source and affecting the government in any way:
"The best solution, as we see it, is to create a new department to deal with this situation as quickly as possible, then introduce a new stealth tax to cover the cost of running said department. In the process we'll be introducing new legislation to make everyone's life harder except ours. If you don't like it, tough."

Our policies on "Anti-Terror" and "Climate Change" are certainly the worst. Next to America's, anyway. But at least Obama is FIXING that.

* CFLs produce greater carbon emissions over their short lifespan than GLS tungsten lamps.* Cheap CFLs last for less time and require more power to run.** (see major rant #37569 in footnotes).
* Electric cars are no cleaner than internal combustion engines for as long as we use lithium cells to power them and recharge said cells from coal and gas fuelled generating stations.
* Electric trains? LOL. Same applies. Would be nice to see regenerative braking being used to charge storage caps/cells instead of dumping the energy into resistors to waste as heat.
* "Green" stealth taxes to pay for noisy, ugly, inefficient, unreliable and potentially dangerous wind turbines***? No thanks. There are better "green" energy sources. Tidal energy ranks highest in my book, just above solar.

* Not allowed to film or photograph police? As well as potentially landing thousands of journalists in the shit for doing their jobs, that's like handing The Po' a "get out of jail free" card, as if they needed it! What's a civilian's word against that of any law enforcement worker (or any other government official, for that matter) in court?
* Not allowed to protest unless the government and local police deem your views fit for display? Now that's going to end badly. For us.
* Using anti-terror surveillance laws to stop people putting their rubbish out early? Because bin-bags incite terrorism! (This is after we were "promised" that such laws would only ever be used to prevent terror attacks).

And finally:

* Yes! SCRAP THE IDENTITY CARD SCHEME. Talk about making identity theft easier (we all know what our government can be like for losing computers and data, and not using encryption!). Not to mention, on top of the obvious increase in taxes to pay for the "central data storage", they expect us to pay for the cards!

Now, please, GET THAT ONE EYED SCOTTISH WANKER OUT OF PARLIAMENT. That'll be a good start.

* If we include the energy used to produce all the electronic components inside these lamps, as well as the manufacturing of the lamps themselves, the shorter average lifespan than claimed by manufacturers and the poor power factor (see below) of those that are remotely affordable... The "carbon footprint" of these "clean" lights is actually much worse than tungsten lamps.

** It's called Power Factor, and technically the average wattage isn't a lie.
The rating on the lamp in Watts is an average, the total power required to run the lamp is generally much greater without using complex and expensive boost circuits to improve the power factor.
A good example is the General Electric FLE20TBXT3, a very common 20W lamp also sold under several other brand names for around £2 each. The rating label on the GE branded version states "20W 240V 192mA".

192mA*240V = 46.08 Watts

... Which is the peak power required, and therefore the amount of power which a generator has to produce in order to supply the lamp. The wiring to lights with such poor power factor also has to be heavier in order not to be excessively heated by the larger peak current flowing through it.
I suspect that we will soon be seeing houses fitted with meters capable of reading peak power and kVAr/h as well as the more familiar kW/h, which will allow electricity supply companies to charge the correct amount (considerably more than now!). Large industrial units already have these meters.

*** Have you ever seen what happens in high winds when the turbine brakes fail? I wouldn't want to live anywhere near THAT!

Lord and Neighbours forgive me.

2009-08-31T07:09:50Z

MY PPMS ARE BOUNCING OFF THE RED AGAIN :O

Silly Scope!

2009-08-27T03:31:22Z

As some of you may know, my oscilloscope went bang in a very big way a few months ago.
I took the covers off today and had a look at it.
Oh, dear.

I need to replace every single electrolytic capacitor in there, as well as a large resistor which had been rather badly burned... So it's going to live in the loft for a while until I can afford to order all those weird values required. 6.4V 320uF, anyone?

I did discover that it has no fewer than seven supply rails, ranging from 12.6V (for the valve heaters) to 2kV (for the main HT), with all kinds in-between for grid bias and the transistor sections. Speaking of which, I also found 8 SGS Germanium transistors, 8 Brimar ECF82s and 1 Brimar ECF80, making a total of 10 valves. All look original and perfect. The valves are all in the front-end and timing circuits, by the look of things, with the transistors being used as regulators and amplifiers for the CRT drive. Presumably noise, speed and gain were all mutually exclusive among transistors when this was built.
The rectifiers are all solid-state, and the HT rectifiers look like big brown sticks, about 2 1/2" long & 1/4" wide ... Never seen HV diodes this old before.

By the looks of things, it's already had two film caps, one electrolytic and four resistors replaced. I herd a rumor on the Internets that this thing went up in smoke once before, indeed, long before it came into my posession.

Anyone got the schematic for an Advance Instruments OS 25A?
Is it really a 15MHz scope?
Can anyone offer assistance calibrating it again once I've got it running?

My life according to Add N to (X).

2009-08-22T04:30:34Z

Stolen from sirius_moonshdw
May not be taking this seriously. Or maybe I am.

Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions. You can't use the band I used. Try not to repeat a song title. It's a lot harder than you think! Repost as "my life according to (band name)"

Pick Your Artist:
Add N to (X)

Are you male or female?
Sir Ape

Describe Yourself:
A Silhouette of a Man and a Wasp

How do you feel:
Machine Is Bored With Love

Describe where you currently live:
Incinerator No. 1

If you could go anywhere, where would you go:
Orgy of Bubastus

Your favourite form of transportation:
Total All Out Water

Your best friend is:
The Black Regent

What is life to you:
A Very Uncomfortable Status

Your fear:
The March of Pure Mathematical Evil That Ends and Results in War

What is the best advice you have to give:
Lick a Battery (Tongues Across the Terminals)

How would you like to die:
Plug Me In

My Motto:
You Must Create

Because you need to

2009-08-21T23:40:31Z

... There, I bet you feel much better after that!

aydin_e @ 2009-08-13T22:49:00

2009-08-13T21:51:09Z

My iAudio 7 is now a functional 8GB external drive.
The main CPU, DSP CPU and output buffer ICs get rather hot, but the memory is fine. I think that's just because they're running from 3.5V, though, rather then 2.9 ... Datasheet says that's fine... *shrug*

I have portable storage, woo!

Also I'm now working on the AU-505 again, putting a few relays in around the place... It'll look a bit mad, but I guarantee it's going to sound awesome. 25W, 30Hz-20kHz +/-0dB, <0.5%THD, both channels driven, continuous. Intentionally smaller output caps to limit low frequency output, it never gets fed anything below 50Hz with any appreciable power anyway. Helps keep it cool too.

*glee*

Posted via Opera 10

2009-08-09T02:24:26Z

Obligatory yearly meme, this time stolen from androgynism

A - Age: 21

B - Bed size: Single

C - Chore you hate: Cleaning grease out of the kitchen extractor

D - Dog's name: Dylan

E - Essential "Start Your Day" item: Apple

F - Favourite colour(s): Red, Gold, Green

G - Gold or Silver: Gold

H - Height: 5' 11"

I - Instruments you play: Keyboard, modular synth (rusty as hell now)

J - Job title: n/a

K - Kids: No.

L - Liquor, Beer or Wine: I don't think Absinthe accurately fits any of these classifications

M - Mom's name: ...

N - Nicknames: Aydin, Kitten

O - Outie or Innie: Half way

P - Pet Peeve: Idiots

Q - Quote from a movie: MATT DAMON!

R - Right or left handed: Right

S - Sibling(s): None

T- Time to get up: 13:72

U - Underwear: Boxers

V - Vegetable you dislike: Very specifically, boiled new potatoes

W - What makes you run late: My timekeeping skills

X - X-rays you've had: FACE

Y - Yummy food you make: Pizza-style firecrackers

Z - Zoo favourite: Cats

aydin_e @ 2009-08-06T04:08:00

2009-08-06T03:09:33Z

*listening to the current electrical storm on longwave*

Valve radios are awesome.

aydin_e @ 2009-08-01T23:17:00

2009-08-01T22:18:08Z

okay, I do actually have flu :(

The funeral is about to begin!

2009-07-31T22:28:59Z

I am coughing, sneezing, and feeling generally quite drained.

Don't inhale pink grapefruit juice, people, it gives you Swine Flu.

aydin_e @ 2009-07-29T01:08:00

2009-07-29T00:08:28Z

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4606475.stm