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I don’t want/need any of it, just wanted to say how cool I think it is that you’re giving it all away, Curious!

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Thanks, Zero_Exponent, I’m glad you enjoyed it!

And welcome to the forums, ELO! (Hope you don’t mind, but I’m gonna have to go with U-Man on this one and abbreviate your username.)

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On a personal note, two of my photos this week set personal bests for place and vote totals. I’ve very happy with my results.

Congrats on your success!

I’m really pleased with my results, too. Set a new total contest votes record for me and all three finished in the top 20 for the first time ever. And the fact that all three were taken just for this contest is icing on the cake!

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CauseISaidSo: Your stat tracker intrigues me because the Photoshoppers are kind of desperate for a stat tracker slash/monitor for photoshop contest. We’ve lost all of our ability to track our stuff since the Mr. Squirrels went down this year. I even know a place that I think could host the tracker if it is something you would be interested in pursuing. If this is relevant to your interests, let me know.

I’d actually considered asking if you PS’ers would be interested in something like that since the contest pages are identical and it wouldn’t be a lot more work to differentiate the two types.

I am interested, but I should let you know that I’m pretty early in development. Right now, I’ve mostly just got the monitoring/parsing component. As I’m only able to work on it in my “free” time, it’ll likely be close to the end of the year before I’m ready for public release with full reporting, so if the PS’ers can wait that long, I can probably help you out. Let me know if you’re still interested so I can be thinking along those lines while developing. If so, feel free to suggest any particular stats or features you’d like to see.

I think I’m OK on hosting, at least for now. I’ve got a GoDaddy unlimited account that’s held up OK so far. I’m a Microsoft developer and so have to have an IIS with ASP.NET host (nothing against Linux, but my expertise is in MS and it’s been pretty good to me so far).

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Almost fun even.

Doesn’t sound like fun in any definition of the word.

Sorry, lokisbong, I really wasn’t commenting on your remarks. I wrote that before seeing that you had posted!

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Doesn’t sound like fun in any definition of the word.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery!

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sleeping, forgot that you’re on the forums, so congrats on your top entry, too. Yours was specifically mentioned by a couple of friends after viewing the contest.

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Congrats to both U-Man and EdenLiesObscured. Mopsy, really liked your phone entry also.

I’m sure this will come as no big surprise to most here as I’ve mentioned wanting to do it several times, but I’ve been working on my own stats tracker. I only mention this now because the subject of vote distribution has been brought up and I can show you exactly what it looks like for the most recent contest:

The Total vote count is in 10’s of votes (2009 total for this contest). Each tick along the timeline is 15 minutes. Not being a TFer, I can only show what happens after it goes green on the main page. All times are US central time.

This should give you an idea of how many potential votes you miss out on depending on when you post. The graph pops to a much much larger version for viewing finer detail if you’re interested.

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Speaking of voters, what a close contest, eh? I know it’s still relatively early, but there’s usually just one or two contenders by now for the top couple of spots. But this week there’s only 5 votes separating 10th from 1st!

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*shrugs* it pays the bills and whatnot. I’m a CAD monkey, so I don’t really get to play with the toys unless I bring stuff home to mess around with in my copious free time. For the most part, it’s trying to shove 15lbs of stuff in 5lb boxes all day.

I hear ya. The code I write for pay is not the kinda code that I like to play with or even necessarily enjoy much. And I’m assuming your use of “copious” is dripping with sarcasm 🙂 (it’s certainly not a word I could use to describe my free time).

you would be surprised how often “blah, that’s crap” ends up getting more votes than “I love this picture”.

I’ve really only been surprised once in that way. Now the other way, THAT happens just about every week! “I really like this picture.” … “Hmm, evidently that’s an opinion that I share with very few others.”

Bottom line – forget the voters. It’s nice when they like you, but you can’t necessarily tie your happiness as a photographer to their votes.

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I could just see [my mental image of] you chilling outside an Ames or K-mart in a black hoodie: “Pssst… You want Atari? I got games half off.”

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Nah, the alleged acts described were never done for profit, just personal use. Buy, copy, return, play copies. (Of course, back then copying cartridges wasn’t a consideration so returns were allowed.)

Good times, until the ROM size limitations (4KB) forced game writers to come up with complicated bank switching schemes that prevented a simple one-to-one copy.

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… the motion control company I work at now.

Cool! Is that as fun as it sounds?

Your newsletter, etc….

Hah! If you’re interested in the 2600, you should check out the Stella project. It’s a 2600 emulator for Windows/Linux. Doesn’t come with ROMs, though (although I may know where you could find some :wink:).

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4108/4997090279_426a12a7c5.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4152/4997682880_c612bd2e49.jpg

I really like both of these.

I hope you don’t mind me offering unsolicited advice on one of your contest entries, but I think your zip drive photo could’ve been enhanced with a solid background. You’ve got a nice selection of color there and I think it would’ve popped more against a white backdrop.

I took U-Man‘s advice from a few threads ago and bought some white and black poster board from WalMart (I splurged and got the deluxe glossy for 97 cents). That’s what my photo of the Atari is sitting on (and what I used for my sliced mushrooms last week).

Participation helps you grow.

Agreed. Plus, once you get a taste of “victory” (however you define that), it’ll spur you on to try to take it to the next level for your next entries.

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Almost forgot to add, olavf: If you do have one and ever decide to part with it, I would probably be interested. I saw one on eBay a couple of months ago go for $99.

On a more thread-relative topic, here are my bees. They’re all alts from my A’s, but I do really like the alt for the gold record, it just didn’t have the label properly aligned for the caption I wanted.

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Mounted on an original in-the-box circa 1977 Intel Development board.

You have an MCS-85 SDK board? One of these?

I worked on one of those while interning in college for the electric company here. By the time I left, the prototype area on the left side was completely filled with an RS-232 serial port, double the RAM (a whopping 4K, IIRC), and a 2716 EPROM reader/burner. I wrote a monitor program to talk to a dumb terminal through the serial port (which I had to hand assemble and then type in the opcodes using the hex keypad) to control the EPROM functions and the shop used it to duplicate firmware ROMS used in some kind of power monitoring device.

I also discovered that the ROMs used in Atari 2600 game cartridges then were just an inverter away from being a 2716. Using that information, one could have hacked a cartridge to hold a wire-wrap board where EPROMs could be inserted and then used the SDK to duplicate cartridges onto EPROMs. But I can neither confirm nor deny that that happened. 😯

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This contest is going to be a first for me – no archive diving, I took all my entries within the past week. And I gotta say, I’m fairly pleased with them. Of course, that usually lasts right up until I finish posting and then take a look at some of y’alls. 🙂

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