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Welcome to my constant battle with hardware
and software to eventually create some great music, tell me about
it by
mail...
My first instant impression from listening at Dream Theaters new album
"Scenes from a memory" is at my
"Dream"page
Older news can be found at my "backup" page
here
My site is dedicated to several things:
1.
Give you a chance to listen at my guitarplaying in
"Real Media"
, this is cool...
2.
I write stuff about how I did when I made my music, the
technology behind
3.
General
Computer Geekness
, very fun to be that way
4.
Get
in contact
, my prime motive as I´m quite isolated with these crazy guitar/PC
ideas in my current environment
5.
Promoting
Progressive Rock Music
6.
Make this a very, very good site,
suggest improvements
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2001-12-29
Ok, I was lucky :-)My
local computer store did have the expertise to recover a damaged bios,
they had a machine, sort of a "bios burner". So they burned in the
latest bios into my machine. For a mere 20$. That was a good thing,
apart from everything working again so did my machine become much
more stable. Rock solid in fact. It also added the ability to use
asynchronous memory settings, which was a very good thing as I have
a Duron with a 200MHz bus and using normal bus speed would mean limited
bandwith from my PC2100 memory running only at 200MHz. Now I was able
to run the memory at a full 266MHz, despite using only a Duron, resulting
in noticeably faster system handling especially under Linux. Another
good thing was that my mainboard now became certified for Athlon 2000+
processors, resulting in an extremely easy upgrading path. Soon I'll
buy a Athlon 1900-2000+(when they come down in price), and shortly
after that I guess the Geforce 4 videocards will be due, with the
Athlon and a GF4 Ti I will have a completely new and extremely fast
system for very little money, meaning it will be reasonably fast for
some years to come :-) Using "normal" apps, it is fast now as it is
though. One performance breakthrough was that I also have bought me
an state of the art IDE HDD completing my current system, a Western
Digital WD800 80GB 7.200rpm ATA100 disk. Extremely fast and with massive
storage capacity. It sits as Windows XP Professional system disk and
holding almost limitless storage space. But also Linux benefited from
this HDD upgrade, I took my old Linux disk(a old IBM 11.1GB 5.400rpm)
and used it in my "emergency computer" described earlier. The kids
have it now, sporting Windows Me for maximum backwards compability
with childrens games. And Linux in it's turn, got the honor to move
to my old system disk, an Maxtor 20,5GB 7.200rpm ATA66 disk which
still is very fast and did much improvement in running Linux. In fact,
I run Linux right now when I write this, I use the newest version
of KDE:s webeditor Quanta+ to edit my site. It is a shameless Homesite
clone, but does in fact work quite ok for site editing/building. Luckily,
Linux at large is now better than ever, I run a snapshot from Christmas
Eve of Mandrake Linux:s so called "Cooker" development version. It
is the best Linux I ever saw, and it is only in "pre alpha" stage
foreboding Mandrake 8.2 this spring. I strongly think Mandrake 8.2
will be the first real "Windows killer" amongst Linux:s, considering
the high standard of this development snapshot I now use things look
really good. Mabe Mandrake will finally be through with the "bug squeshing"
in time ? Noteworthy of this snapshot is: Kernel 2.4.16-11mdk, XFree
4.1.0(with 3D hardware acceleration on Geforce added by myself; custom
compiled Nvidia videokernel 2314), KDE2.2.2, Gnome 1.4.1, Evolution
1.0, Nautilus 1.0.6, Galeon 1.0.1,Mozilla 0.9.6(I run 0.9.7+). I also
run Staroffice 6 beta 1 and KOffice 1.1.1 for productivity. Everything
is really smooth, no prob using the box as gateway/router/firewall
for mu HomeLAN. Of course there's still bugs, but no worse than that
I managed to correct all that was annoying in one evening :-). There's
bad thing editing this site in Linux too, of course. I.e. I have no
"swf" editor under Linux, but despite that I will try to be more and
more productive in my Linux environment as I go along. Music creation
is still a windows only affair though, but hopefully that will change
too in not a very far distant future. Anyway, Happy New Year all !,
now I have to run.../Per
2001-12-09
Hehe ;) So I killed my brand new mainboard,
that is my ECS K7S5A, when trying to flash it. All seemed to work
well enough, the progress bar under real dos moved to the fartest
right and there definetely was a "flash". But then my floppy
locked up, and stayed that way forever. I rebooted, and there was
where it stuck every damned time, no bios screen, just fans making
noise and the damned floppy annd HDD lights stuck at full green. Of
course I used the exact bios and flash utility that was at the ECS
Taiwan site. Possibly it went corrupt somewhere. Sad, I was hoping
to take full advantage of the new bios released 2001-12-03 which would
permit using Athlon XP processors of 2GHz and over. Would have been
nice. Additionally, so had I just bought myself a new system HDD which
I never got the chance to test, a Western Digital Digital Caviar WD800
80GB ATA100 7.200rpm IDE disk. My only hope now is that my local computer
store is competent enough to reflash the bios by some miraculous method
I do not know about. I delivered my box to them yesterday, so it will
be exciting to see what happens. Otherwise I will have to buy me a
new mainboard. Possibly a VIA KT266A based board, as this SIS735 board,
while fast and generally well performing, also seem to lack a lot
in terms of stability and good support. If they don't fix my bios
I'll probably buy an MSI K7T-Pro2 instead, as it is widely available,
while I most dearly pine for an Soyo Dragon instead. Don't know where
to get it though.
Meanwhile,
I had to build myself an replacement computer from all the computer
junk I had laying in my wardrobe at home. And as you can see; at least
that part went well as I'm able to write this. My "replacement
computer"(good that I built it, could be fun playing with in
different server configurations when I get my main PC back) became
a PII-300MHz/320MB RAM wa. 11,01GB IBM 5.400rpm HDD and my old Voodoo
Banshee 3D card up again using onboard Crystal(cirrus logic)sound,
a new Cnet PRO200 10/100 ethernet adapter and running a fresh install
of Windows 2000 SP2 w. IE6 and DX8.1 using NTFS. It obviously runs
fine as I have no problem updating this page using Dreamweaver 4.01.
The onboard sound is crappy, while the old Voodoo card have quite
good image quality in 2D even if it's slow in 3D. The old IBM HDD
proves itself to be quite fast when runnig Windows 2000(I never thought
of using XP on this PC as it would slow it down to much, Win2k actually
runs very rapidly on it). Nevertheless, it's much, much slower than
my "normal" Duron 1GHz/512 MB PC2100 DDR RAM@200MHz and
it's Maxtor 7.200rpm ATA66 HDD. At least I can keep working. The Maxtor
disk, being the old system disk with all my docs on it and it's full
Windows XP install is carefully packaged and hidden in the dept of
my wardrobe while the new Western Digital got the pleasure to make
the trip with the rest of the PC for bios recovery. When I get it
back(w. or wo. a new mainboard), I will naturally use the Western
Digital drive as a new system disk, and just backup evrything vital
from the Maxtor to it and then; the Maxtor will become my new Linux
disk. So far I've been running Mandrake on the old IBM 11.01GB disk,
which I had to use for Win2k in this "emergency computer"
I use right now. All n' all, everything will get spiffier and I now
have an additional fully functional PC for "whatever" use.
The only dark cloud is the looming expence of a new mainboard, which
I hopefully can escape from with a little luck(I'm not a very good
romancer, so hopefully I will have luck in this area instead). Otherwise,
thing's in life are Ok, at least today as I've been on the ice doing
some help coaching on my sons icehockey training. It's fun to see
the kids learn to play the game, but for myself it was even fun to
be on the ice some. I relaly like the art of good skating, and this
year I've had many occasions to get my skating in shape and now it
flows quite nicely. Especially with a hockey stick and a puck. My
son has done good progress too, but he has many, many more years to
improve his skills. I don't know, but I guess myself I'm on the downhill
of life so let the kids grow and improve is mostly the most fun. Hmm,
I became a bit dark there, mabe things aren't so ok ? But then, where
there's life theres hope, and it's only about 6-7 months to next summer(and
one month and a half to Dream Theater's next visit here in Stockholm)...
SeeYa/Per
(sorry for spelling errors, I'm too tired to correct
them right now)
The
"emergency pc" running when my machine was in for bios recovery:
See Ya//Per
take a look at the
old mainpage
, as I have saved it for future laughs...
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2001-11-07
Wow ! I'm still so lazy ;-) That
means, I almost never update this site. Not so this time neither,
I'll just write a few lines. First, I've finally built myself a new
computer as my old can was getting annoyingly slow
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more
2001-04-15
Last time
I was in Mandrake 8.0 RC1 writing stuff, now I'm in Windows XP Personal
(build 2462) again. I just installed Macromedia:s Dreamweaver UltraDev
4.0 in XP.
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more
2001-02-25
Sound Forge 5.0 has finally crossed my way, I installed it this morning
but just had a chance for a brief look. Seems like the perfect match
for Cubase 5.0(which is solidly installed, of course),
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2000-12-02
Congratulations Yugoslavia !
It´s really great to witness(at distance) another addition to
the free world =). In case you haven´t heard; in the european
country of Yugoslavia there used to be a weird dictator named Slobodan
Milosevic. He did all the bad one can imagine, and a lot one can´t
even imagine.
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2000-07-31
Today i uploaded
my good old site to my cable-operators homepage account...
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2000-04-08
So why
am I mentioning my new car at a site supposed to concern music and
computing ? For one
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2000-03-05
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