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Video: Quick Start Ep 6: Assuming Direct Control

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSoKyMMIxsoIt took me like six tries to come up with some good alien brain control pop culture refs but I think I pulled it off. Sorry for not releasing this one Early at all, I got it done right at the edge of a two week period and I wanted to release exactly 14 days...

Video: Quick Start Gaiden, Ep. 1: Alienware's combo laptop/monitor

Hey how about that, I got a video done in less than two weeks. This is exactly what it looks like. Probably won't release it publicly for a while, so - enjoy!

Video: The only CDROM with a Turbo button!

Didn't have time for early access at all on this one because my life has just been an absolute whirlwind lately, it's been over three weeks since my last video so I just put it out publicly already. At least my sewer is getting replaced on Monday!

Video: Quick Start Episode 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkMwLbIQlOgI'm still dealing with the sewer situation, and boy howdy is *that* getting much simpler and easier to handle by the day (this is my thickest possible sarcasm) but I managed to get Quick Start #5 out the door. I'll figure out a proper name tomorrow,...

Sewer problems... again.

Remember my sewer disaster a year and a half ago? It's back. Long story short, the fix didn't go the way we hoped. I thought I'd bought myself a couple years, but I hadn't, and now we have to get it done right.I'm only posting this here so you're aware; you're all already...

Video: A Jukebox For Your PC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVgK5NfVMP0Phew. Well, I finally did the followup on the SCSI tower video. This was a slog.It's probably pretty clear that I don't really love working without physical specimens. A lot of people on youtube will make whole videos without a single object to actu...

Streaming from studio

https://youtube.com/live/8Rep0f0eLTM?feature=shareI did a stream last week from my studio and had a good time. If you're free this early (or settling in for the evening, if you're in europe) I'm doing another one right now.

Video: Before Sonus, there was... Dell???

Oh boy! A video!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNEulcJrJ2IIt is amazing how quickly plans fall apart on contact with reality. I know I don't need to explain myself, but I'm kind of astonished at how much has gone wrong the last few weeks and I figured I'd just let you all know What'...

Side channel & streams

Hey everyone, just wanted to remind you all that if you'd like to see more of me, I stream every week or two on my side channel, https://youtube.com/@CathodeRayDudeGaidenI'll probably start a stream in the next couple hours, so subscribe if you want to maybe, possibly get notified when I go ...

Patron video: Avid Media Composers

https://youtu.be/5e-J59gzaQYI recently got a whole pile of Avid equipment from a friend, and while I haven't had a chance to fully explore it yet, I thought you'd all like a sneak peek at what it is and does.

Video: The Unholy Saga of Phoenix Hyperspace

https://youtu.be/q5M0TwnkWUMWell, this is it. This is not the last episode of Quick Start (oh man, not by far; we aren't even at the halfway point) but it is the reason I started the series.I began investigating instant-on OSes because of Asus Expressgate, but I'm not sure I actually would h...

Video: I quit my job

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z524I1cy2kYou've already read about this if you're a patron, I just made a public video about it.

Video: Dell's Pointless Media Center Clone!

https://youtu.be/Lr-cjf5AX-cQuick Start episode 3 is done! Or episode 4, if you believe the doofus talking over the credits roll. This is the second most boring ep in the series (the vaio p will probably exceed it; yes, I have one now)

Thank you, everyone.

GUESS WHO WROTE THIS POST YESTERDAY, THEN ACCIDENTALLY LEFT IT IN DRAFT STATE. ANYWAY, I QUITI might write a more detailed post at some point, and I haven't decided if I'm gonna make an announcement video or w/e until things are actually wrapped up, but: I did it, I told my boss I'm out,...

Well, It's About That Time

Hi everyone. Things may be changing here, probably for the better. Possibly for the worse, but I doubt that.I doubt it because of the enormous support I've received from all of you, and my audience in general, over the last few years. When I started this I did not expect to have more than a few ...

Video: Quick Start Episode 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0h8wWlBxY0Against all imaginable probabilities, I am actually continuing this series, and I expect to have episode 3 out this time next week. How I'm accomplishing this is anyone's guess.

Video: The Slowest Computer I Own (Quick Start: Ep 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za_Ul08dtj8Well geez louise is this ever a video. I am trying to make an actual Series that I will actually Commit to instead of trying to cram everything about a topic that deserves multiple presentations into a single 1.5 hour video. I would say "let's see w...

Video: Voice chat in the modem era?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mqkTFq7EkgThis one was a real slog to produce. Took me three years! I'm pretty sure this is the finished version - first two RCs had some serious errors. I also suspect that some people will find the telephone audio portions unlistenable, but I'm not sure wha...

Patron video: VT3 startup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPlwxvbZIzIHere's part two, in which I drunkenly fumble my way through inventorying the VT3 machine and then reassembling it and firing up the software, which... works exactly like the VT5 software from the previous video, so there wasn't much point in demonst...

Patron video: Mail call (VT3)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-k4JsxLpqIFinally received a package I've been waiting on for a while: the missing puzzle piece from my Newtek menagerie, a VT[3] system. The generous fellow who sent it to me was nice enough to send the entire machine, and the cables, and the control surface, so...

Video: The Last Wedge Computer

https://youtu.be/TH4EtRm-XvsPhew. It's always rough when it's been a long time since my last video, I worry that I'm in too much of a rush to do a really good job. But on this one, well, A) I'm positive I didn't leave anything out about the PC, and B) I put in the effort (it was ...

Patron vid: VT5 demo rig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCLF15PNkKQI just finished rebuilding this machine for the fifth or sixth time and figured I'd share a little video illustrating the project.

Video: [Reupload] What the heck is a video mixer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO4zQM7nzEQUhhhhhh whoops! Several errors!First: The bit about the relays in the mixer? Completely false, and I don't know what i was thinking. Really old mixers DID use relays for switching, but by the 2000s, everything had framesynced inputs, and cut-through swi...

Video: What the heck is a video mixer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBeTiu2juUwOkay! Alright! Okay! A new video!I made that post a day or two ago because I looked at the calendar, looked at my release history, and thought "oh my god I haven't had a normal video since December." I had two that I shot in my basement and one ...

Status update

Hey everyone, I know it's been a while, and I just wanted to let you all know that I am working on a new video that I hope to have out by the end of the week, which is more or less a return to form. I know everything I've released this year so far has been kinda weird (I've been kinda we...

Video: Building a Video Toaster. No, not that one.

(Uploaded a new version with a few tweaks before release; if you left comments you might wanna leave em again!)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5Sf2q2SLlAAs I explain at the beginning, I was originally just shooting a patron video, and then enough Events occurred that I felt like I should just share...

Patron vid: midi switcher, video toaster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjlvwFSh32wWas in the office a couple days ago testing something for my next video, wanted to record it for you since I figured I wouldn't get to really demo it in the video properly, and then decided to ramble on about videos and collecting and mess around with a...

Help me toast some video!

This isn't a patron-exclusive thing, but I've made some progress on a long-delayed project and I thought you might want to hear about it - and maybe someone out there will be able to help me move forward on it, since there's hardware I absolutely need before I can proceed, and it's i...

Video: Who made the first optical mouse? And who cares?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PRpzAIbhtYAs always, I want to thank you all for your patience. It's been a month since my last video, and the longer I go without putting something out, the more frantic I feel. But fortunately, my desire to only release things I'm satisfied with takes prece...

Video: My Weirdest Digital Cameras

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHqiYQqclHkI've been collecting digital cameras for years, and my usual criteria is "is this thing weird?" So far, I've collected a fair number of weird ones, but never really decided "hey, these are weird enough for a video" until these funky ...