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Malaysian Nokia 5320...

Dead__Man — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:26 +0800

Ok, so I got myself a new Nokia 5320 today. Nice phone, already like it a lot, same OS like my old N76 and the 3.5mm audio jacks is a beautiful addition (the reason I've always avoided Sony Ericsson like the plague).

Anyways, the problem with the phone, is that it's a Malaysian model, with T9 in English, Chinese, Malay, etc... Now this does not seem that bad, the only problem is, that I usually live in Germany and I kinda need a German T9 to cope by.

So, my question is, (yes, I did some searching first... to no avail) are there any language packs for T9 that can simply be installed or is it in someway possible to flash the firmware with a European version?

Appreciate any help you guys can offer me.

Best of regards

Strange IPs, Streamyx not working

Dead__Man — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:55:30 +0800

Ahoi, mateys. I have a problem with Streamyx and tried more or less everything till now and still can't find a solution.

The problem is as follows:
I reformatted my pc and created everything the same way it was before. I connect to Streamyx via bridge mode on my DLink 520B, which was left on and untouched during the reformat and reinstall of windows.

Streamyx worked fine, but after reformatting, I can connect to Streamyx (i.e. Windows tells me I'm connected), but I can't view anything on the web. Firefox says that the page cannot be displayed, same goes for IE. I checked my IPs, apparently the server IP is 1.1.1.1 (shouldn't it be 219.etc.etc.etc.?) and my client IP is 2.2.2.*, just as strange.

Since I suspected that it may have something to do with the reformat, I changed my modem to dial a connection. It too registered as a Gateway the IP 1.1.1.1, just like Windows does when in bridge mode. Thus I can narrow down, that it has nothing to do with Windows or the reformat.

Where is the problem? Have any of you had this, or do any of you know any solutions?

Any help, or even hint, is greatly appreciated!

Favorite Family Guy Character!

Dead__Man — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:21:46 +0800

My favorite has got to Brian. I love sharp wit. Plus he's an alcoholic, a smoker and purely a substance abuser, I can relate to that, whee!

Diatonic Scales - An Introduction

Dead__Man — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:11:39 +0800

A little introduction to diatonic Intervals and how to understand them

Some time ago, I still remember seeing things like the perfect fifth and wondered why it's

called 5th if it was actually 7 semitones apart from the root note. Or I wondered what a 3b

or minor third is. Stuff like that. If you've ever asked yourself these things, then this

might help you understand it more.

(One more thing, make sure you know how the notes work, there are 12 of them and how they

are called)

Let's get started. These naming conventions are all based on the C Major scale:

CODE

C C# D D# E F F# G G# A A# B C
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Observe for one that the C Major Scale only uses whole notes and not sharps or flats. The

notes 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 are fixed in intervals from the root note, in this case C. For

example, the third note is exactly four semitones away from the root note, thus it being an

E. This is universal no matter what the root note is. For example, in the root of E:

CODE

E F F# G G# etc...
1 2 3 etc...

Root D#:

CODE

D# E F F# G etc...
1 2 3 etc...

The same applies to all other notes, the 5th is always seven semitones away, no matter what

the root is:

Root A:

CODE

A A# B C C# D D# E F etc...
1 2 3 4 5 etc...

Root F#:

CODE

F# G G# A A# B C C# D etc...
1 2 3 4 5 etc...

Knowing this, we can now delve further. 3b means the note is a minor third or flattened

third, 4# is an augmented fourth. What does that all mean? Simple, a minor third is a

semitone lower than a major third, in other words 3b is a semitone lower than a 3. In the

key of C Major:

Major Third:

CODE

C C# D D# E F F# G G# A A# B C
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Minor Third:

CODE

C C# D D# E F F# G G# A A# B C
1 2 3b 4 5 6 7 8

This also applies to any other root note, which is the amazing thing:

CODE

E F F# G G# A A# B C C# D D# E
1 2 3b 4 5 6 7 8

CODE

D D# E F F# G G# A A# B C C# D
1 2 3b 4 5 6 7 8

An augmented fourth means that the fourth note is a semitone higher than a perfect fourth,

or 4# is a semitone higher than a 4.

Perfect fourth:

CODE

C C# D D# E F F# G G# A A# B C
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Augmented fourth:

CODE

C C# D D# E F F# G G# A A# B C
1 2 3 4# 5 6 7 8

As always, this applies to any other root note as well. With this knowledge you can now

understand what Phrygian scale is, if it's formula is 1, 2b, 3b, 4, 5, 6b, 7b, 8. In the key

of C Major:

C Major:

CODE

C C# D D# E F F# G G# A A# B C
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

C Phrygian:

CODE

C C# D D# E F F# G G# A A# B C
1 2b 3b 4 5 6b 7b 8

Interestingly, if you apply the Phrygian scale to E, all the whole notes are included, see:

E Major:

CODE

E F F# G G# A A# B C C# D D# E
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

E Phrygian:

CODE

E F F# G G# A A# B C C# D D# E
1 2b 3b 4 5 6b 7b 8

See, all the whole notes (C, D, E, F, G, A, B,no flats or sharps) are in a Phrygian scale if

the root is E. This then what people mean if an E Phrygian scale has the same notes as a C

Major Scale. It all depends on what note you start and it's the intervals, the "distances"

between the notes that do the magic.

Here are the seven modes or scales:
Ionian - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 (All the whole notes starting from C)
Lydian - 1, 2, 3, 4#, 5, 6, 7, 8 (All the whole notes starting from F)
Mixolydian - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7b, 8 (All the whole notes starting from G)
Dorian - 1, 2, 3b, 4, 5, 6, 7b, 8 (All the whole notes starting from D)
Aeolian - 1, 2, 3b, 4, 5, 6b, 7b, 8 (All the whole notes starting from A)
Phrygian - 1, 2b, 3b, 4, 5, 6b, 7b, 8 (All the whole notes starting from E)
Locrian - 1, 2b, 3b, 4, 5b, 6b, 7b, 8 (All the whole notes starting from B)

Due to the differences in intervals, the all have provoke different sounds when played, for

example, Mixolydian sounds very happy, while Aeolian sounds sad and Locrian sounds tense and

evil. Grab your guitar and play them, just start from C and play all the whole notes to

listen to Ionian, then play all the notes from E to listen to Phrygian. For guitar player, a

little tab:

CODE

C Major/ Ionian:
e|---------------------|
B|---------------------|
G|---------------------|
D|---------------------|
A|-3-5-7-8-10-12-14-15-|
E|---------------------|
C D E F G A B C

CODE

E Phrygian:
e|-------------------|
B|-------------------|
G|-------------------|
D|-------------------|
A|-------------------|
E|-0-1-3-5-7-8-10-12-|
E F G A B C D E

That's it to scales. Now to chords. These can be constructed in the same manner, if you know

how the chord formula is, the most common ones being Major and Minor.

Major: 1, 3, 5
Minor: 1, 3b, 5

Simple, no? Apply that to any Root, and you got it:

F Major:

CODE

F F# G G# A A# B C C# D D# E F
1 3 5

C# Minor:

CODE

C# D D# E F F# G G# A A# B C C#
1 3b 5

The rest applies to all other notes as usual. Oh, and btw, notes like 9 or 13 are basically

the same like a 2 and 6 respectively, only an octave higher than the 2 and 6. For example,

in C:

CODE

C C# D D# E F F# G G# A A# B C C# D D# E F F# G G# A A# B C
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 15 16

And that's basically it for now. Ask me to clarify anything, there are probably some errors

in my naming as well, some people call 7b a flattened seventh, some people call it a

diminished seventh and some more people call it a minor seventh. That's something that still

confuses me today, so I more or less stick to writing it in numbers, than naming them.

More info in the Wiki articles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_mode
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatonic_and_chromatic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heptatonic

This article also helps a lot:
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/lessons/the..._arpeggios.html

Have fun in music theory, it's amazing, it's an art that can provoke just the right feelings

in the listener if you know what you're playing.

Voltmodding Gecube 9550 Rev2.1

Dead__Man — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:05:08 +0800

DISCLAIMER: I will not take responsibility should you damage or burn out your card.

Many of you probably have the Gecube 9550XT Extreme Edition. For RM 390 it's quite a deal, because of it's near on par, if not, greater than the 9600 Pro performance. Since revision 1.0 all the way to 2.0, we have been hearing good oc results, especially for those with Hynix 2.5ns rams. But there have been only few that have succesfully overclocked the Rev 2.1. Why? I actually have no damn idea, but what i do know, is how to overlcok it succesfully. The biggest factor on the Rev 2.1 is the unoverclockability of the core, which defaults to 432 mhz. Most of whom i have heard can only oc this to 440max, with lockups anything over it. Initially I thought of a bios lock, because the 9550XT was so popular, it kept people from buying a 9600 Pro/XT. However after flashing the bios with many different versions of the 9600, I have noticed that the core remains unoverclockable, but the memory soars, so it may be a good idea to keep a 9600 Pro bios on it, more on that later.

Alas, with help of rx8, a relatively new member to this forum, we have found out where to volt mod the core and the memory.

The voltage regulator chip is an ON 1571. It's brand name was not written on it, so it took forever to find results on google and the datasheet, but after page 25 or so on google, I found it. The other problem was finding the memory voltage. It was easy to find the core voltage, which is the pin of the coil for the core. However, for the memory, the coil was rated at 1.92v. Pretty strange for DDR memory? Yes, I agree, and I personally doubt it's got gDDR3 on it, and unfortunately, I can't find out either, since I have ramsinks superglued to the mem chips. If one of you could write down the code, and post it here, I would very much appreciate it.

Alas, after simply appyling the same voltage mod on the memory as on the core (because they both have the same regulator chips, 1571), my memory was more overclockable, so I thought, what the heck, as long as it runs higher, I wasn't gonna complain. But be assured, I'm not 100% sure, that the memory mod below will actually increase mem speed, unless I know wether i got gDDR1 or gDDR3.

Ok, so I'm done talking pure, useless crap, here's the mod:
:::vGPU & vDDR Mod:::

Simply draw a pencil line at those two ] to increase coltage. Check the voltage after every pencil line though. You don't want to shoot up the volts to 2v or smth like that.

If you don't like Pencil Modding, you can simply solder a 10K Pot to Pin 7 and to the ground.

Initially my core voltage was at 1.32v and memory at 1.92 at the max OC of 435/306 to 1.71v/2.2v at 532/336. This is with stock 9550 bios, not with 9600 Pro bios, so if I flash sooner or later, my mem will fly even higher.

Happy Modding,
Regards,
Dead__Man with help of rx8