I’ve had this in the past with other computers and now it happens with my (private) IBM / Lenovo T60 Thinkpad. As of yesterday it goes like BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. I’m going crazy from the noise

Via a forum I found the service manual of the T60 0/1. (really good manual, 151 pages). On page 81 I find what to do. But it seems I need quite some stuff.

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So now:

a. I need a new fan
b. I need thermal glue
c. I need to know “what is not too much and not too little (0.2 gram) to apply.

The way to order the correct part (FRU) is described on page 4,5,6. nice. Starting from page 113 is the complete Parts list.

CRU are customer replaceable units, One star indicates easy to replace and two stars means difficult to replace. And “N” is not customer replaceable… and THAT IS UNFORTUNATE because… the thermal device and fan in this case is a “N”…

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This probably means I should not replace it myself… ok… and now? First I can look the part numbers here: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/product.do?template=/warranty/warranty.vm&sitestyle=lenovo Submit .

(I found http://forum.notebookreview.com/hardware-components-aftermarket-upgrades/224182-remove-replace-thinkpad-t60-fan-2.html Submit discussing the Lenovo Fan)

update

problem 1
I’ve got a T60 op type 2007-CTO and model V7C. The confusing thing is that http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-62741 Submit lists me 3 different model parts for the thermal device and fan and I dont know what is the difference between them:

1. 41W6407 (for the 2007-CTO)
   
2. 41V9932 (for the 2007-CTO)
   
3. 41V9931 (for the 2007-CTO)
   

problem 2:

I’m not exactly clear on warranty. I think this is way past warranty but when I try the warranty finder it gives me that it can not find this type based on its serial number.

problem 3:

since it is “N” i need to find a company to put this thing in there for me (could do it myself but it is a “N” …) that company should be able to tell if it is 41W6407, 41V9932 or 41V9931 that is needed for my T60. But maybe I can try e-mailing them first.

This however : http://forum.lenovo.com/t5/T400-T500-and-newer-T-series/bd-p/T400_series_ThinkPads;jsessionid=7A0E77CC5E83517E9666C93DAD07A602 Submit seems to be an interesting forum to ask my questions and If find exactly me problem here: http://forum.lenovo.com/t5/T61-and-prior-T-series-ThinkPad/T60-Fan-replacing-Question/m-p/198497#M44387 Submit

This is my second post on my magnetron selection after I broke our previous Whirlpool Futura (2002). Submit

We called around for the availability of the JT 379 on various internetshops but it seems they all have to order it. And since I wanted it uhm… now… :

This afternoon I went to the Mediamarkt in Utrecht, to look for the Whirlpool 379/ix. Unfortunately they only had the JT 369… the salesman told me that this was the only model they had because it was the best selling model of Whirlpool. He could order the JT 379 for me though….

I COULD have bought it but it was € 360. And that is € 40 MORE than the price of the 379… which is even a more expensive model… (besides that on the Internet I can get the JT 369 for at least € 100 less, ik ben toch niet gek!)

But it made me doubt… what is actually the difference between the two?

So I went to the official Whirlpool site to find that they have a not really good comparison site. Features that are named with the JT 379 appear not with the JT 369 and the other way around. No way to compare them. I think the editors of that piece of the content should maybe do some re-editing. Just look at the overview in the product selector:

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NORMALLY I would expect some kind of database behind it which adds comparison functionality. But uhm.. while they both have the same options from the product selector it seems they are totally different. The 379 mentions Jet Stream, Jet Defrost, Jet start  whlile the 369 mentions steam, grill, jetchef 5 in 1? (they both have these items, but of course in a selector I want to see the differences between the two not random parts of the functionality that are not on a comparison level with the other products).

When you then click on "more information" it even gets more weirder, just look at the lines in red and try to compare the following two products (notice "Neerklapbaar" and "Neerklapbare deur"…)

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So what I understand until now is that:

- they both have a capacity of 31 liter but the JT 379 is wider and the JT 369 is higher (unless there is a mistake in the specifications and height and width should be the other way around……)

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- the JT 379 is from RVS / inox, no idea about the JT 369
- the JT 379 has a neat LCD "gui" while the JT 369 has "buttons"
- the JT 379 is much more expensive

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JT 379 / inox (RVS, roestvrij staal) (sept. 2009)	JT 369 / various colors (may 2008)
height: 377	height: 490 (official website specs)
width: 487	width: 380 (official website specs)
depth: 515	depth: 541
material: inox	material: mentioned nowhere?
no information if the rotating platform can be turned off	rotating platform can NOT be turned off
3D system	no idea
LCD screen with multi langual display	electronic
Memory (although I don’t know exactly what this means / how that works)	no Memory
7 different power levels	8 different power levels
ovenspace ( HxBxD) 210x395x370	not mentioned
31 KG	29,72 KG
34KG incl packaging	32,56 KG incl. packaging
220-230 V	220-237 V
11 A	6A
baby bottle holder: no idea, not mentioned	babybottleholder : no
recipes included	recipes: no idea not mentioned

They both are free standing, combi magnetron, have 6th sense technology, 31 liter oven space, 360mm turning plateau, closing door, electronic timer, child lock, 1000 W Magnetron, 1200 W grill, defrost, jet start, steam functionality, grill, crisp, quick heat, warm-up, jet stream hot air 50/225, 2200 W, accessoires: crisp schaal, steam schaal,

Now … let’s try to fill in the missing gaps:

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JT 379/ ix	JT 369 / color
kieskeurig.nl Submit Cheapest price here is € 335 Submit This site is nice because people give a lot of reviews here. I read problems mostly problems with the noise for both models although not everyone agrees. Most reviews are very positive. from 333 magnetrons the JT 379 comes out as #1 (!)	kieskeurig.nl Submit (has an error on the crisp functionality and has taken the specs from above …. so the same list of not comparable things but it adds that the oven is 1600 watt. It also adds that the 369 is RVS too (while it mentions nothing for the JT 379… the other around as on the WhirlPool site) Submit  But uhm…. if they are BOTH RVS…. why is the 379 then specially named "ix" ? (sigh) The kieskeurig site seems to have the most reviews on both products. On there I read "Oven Tot 225 graden en magnetron 950 watt" Cheapest price here is € 276 Submit Afmetingen (H x B x D) 38 x 49 x 54,1 cm  (…. !!)
ciao Submit has no reviews and a mistake in the specifications on the "Vochtigheidssensor" it says no but I think that is the 6th sense…….. It also says there are 8 powerlevels while the Whirlpool site says there are 7……. It finds 1 cheaper price for € 322 at electrokoopjes Submit	ciao Submit has 1 review and 1 cheaper price:  € 264 bij electrokoopjes (but… this is the white one and the white one is cheaper) Submit the width/height this site gives: Hoogte in cm: 38, 37.7 cm Breedte in cm: 48, 48.7 cm (…. !!)
vergelijk.nl Submit ALSO says it has 8 power levels contrary to the official website and kieskeurig.nl but…. : It also says: Vochtigheidssensor : Nee, but I think that is the 6th sense functionality so I think that is a mistake. There is 1 review/question of someone who got the magnetron and expected a cooking book. He does not know if he can get it / should get it. It seems to be the same site as elcheapo Submit.	vergelijk.nl finds a white one for € 249 with veiligkopen.nl Submit and the silver again for € 276 bij internetshop: Submit
Twenga Submit  shows me it is also for sale at internetshop.nl Submit for € 322 but… Submit	Via Twenga i find that the internetshop.nl Submit also has the wrong information on the Crisp and the weird "turn off turning plateau": Submit
I liked the review on megakeuze Submit ! I found more information than on the official whirlpool site here. "Bediening van de Whirlpool JT 379 IX is erg simpel met gebruik van 2 draaiknoppen, een stopknop en een Jet Start knop. Door een menugestuurde timer vormt het een overzichtelijk en duidelijk geheel. Maar liefst 84 programma’s en 11 voedselcategorieën kunnen daarmee ingesteld worden"  They have some extra information on the JT 379 / ix: Submit This was missing in my list above. And I think that is weird. Since I would expect every (WhirlPool) magnetron to have the ability to warm the food in all spots equally (well.. no magnetron does this but the illusion is good enough). This site has more additional info: Submit	Submit I discovered what the babybottle holder is… it is probably only available with the smaller models (see above). Pretty neat actually.
Some other comparion sites: http://www.selectivo.nl/huishoudelijk/koken/magnetron/whirlpool-jt-379-ix-jetchef/prijzen Submit http://www.productervaring.nl/huishoudelijk/vrijstaande-toestellen/magnetron/whirlpool/jt-379-46448/ Submit http://www.youtellme.nl/magnetrons/1631645_whirlpool-jt-379-ix/ Submit € 322 (good! but it says also that electrokoopjes has it in stock… which is NOT the case…. ) bolle.nl Submit: € 385 (…. not really well….) http://shopping.kelkoo.nl/ssc-146201-jt-379-ix.html Submit (€335 at internetshop) (not good) onestopshop Submit:  this specifies specifically a "NL" version? It also has 3 different versions although I think they are all the same ??? (or not?) http://www.vergelijkenvanprijzen.nl/product/JT-379IX-JetChef-Combi-Magnetron.html Submit: € 322
Shops: redcoon Submit € 365 coolsound Submit: it takes 1 to 2 weeks : € 385 nuaanbieding Submit: …. links to coolsound…..and other more expensive places, hmmmmm electrowarenhuis Submit: € 343 zercom Submit: € 412 scheerenfoppen Submit: € 364
On correct.nl Submit I now notice that there is both a JT 379 IX AND a JT 379 SL. So its both available in silver as in inux. They also have a different description for both: Submit I doublechecked the WhirlPool site and I only find the JT 379 IX … so … apparently there are 2 versions of the JT 379 and although the advice price of the IX is more expensive on the market the IX is cheaper.

update: i ordered it for 322 euro

SubmitI read on the Facebook community of StumbleUpon Submit that they added the option to change your name (once) so… I’m thinking about that.

If you want to select an original StumbleUpon name make sure to read: http://edward.de.leau.net/i-collected-150000-stumblers-20080401.html 9/7,468 !!!

There is a selection of 150.000 nicknames used there and you can download the complete file to find an original name.

This night our son was cying for his bottle of milk.

So I went downstairs to make some. Yes I was tired and sleepy.

In our kitchen we have a kind of shelve of which the door opens up to the top. Lately that door didn’t remain up… I think it lost some of it stiffness so you really had to hold it up for some time to “keep it there”. I had it on my to do list to look at that although I didn’t really know what to do about it.

This night, somewhere at 5, I pulled the door up, then opened the magnetron door Submit, took the milk… and BAM. the drawer door slammed on the magnetron door. Not a problem in itself but it actually hit EXCACTLY on the little pins in the magnetron door that fit in the openings of the magnetron itself (yes Murphy, one centimeter difference would be no problem but of course for me it hits exactly on that spot) (so the magnetron knows when it is safe to be on or off) and one of the pins broke off, well.. not really, it was bend inwards and a little later broke off inside the opening in the magnetron because I tried to fiddle with it.

So there I was at 5 o’clock in the morning with a bottle of milk and a crying son upstairs.So I heated some water and prepared the bottle au bain-marie which really took a long while.

Now I have to decide what todo with the magnetron Submit. The only thing that is wrong with it is that one of the little pins that broke off on the right side is now stuck in the opening on the right side. Just one little pin… but the whole machine is now useless. It feel silly to replace the complete machine just because of that single pin, especially if I feel how much it weights… Unfortunately that little pin is “part of the door” and the door itself is attached via 2 metallic pins to the rest of the magnetron.

I don’t know what todo. The magnetron Submit is pretty essential at the moment and I really need it quick. Then again… do I need to spend 400 euro for a replacement for our WhirlPool Futura Submit (from 2002) ?
Submit I very much liked the Crisp function of the magnetron, ideal for making perfect pizza’s, the come out perfect. (the appliance giant’s CEO, Jeff Fettig, has a favorite word: innovation. His company has used it to set earnings records and build a cutting-edge brand Submit) so I just want the same model or maybe just the new model with the new functions (Whirlpool has now something that is called sixth sense, might be handy). I read about the JetChef Submit, nice (if I read this, I want to buy it, completely in line with Whirlpool’s strategy. What a sucker am I. The Whirlpool JetChef JT359 seems to be the nicest model and sells for € 549, it is the complete inox edition. But they also have:

- Whirlpool JetChef JT358 – € 399
- Whirlpool JetChef JT357 – € 349
- Whirlpool JetChef JT355 – € 299

this part: http://www.whirlpool.nl/app.cnt/whr/nl_NL/pageid/pgcbtechfire001 Submit on the 6th sense technology is also nicely written:

Van het bewaren tot het koken van het voedsel, van luchtzuivering tot de afwas: alle activiteiten die in de keuken plaatsvinden, zijn gelinkt aan vier elementen: vuur, stoom, water, ijs. Om die elementen perfect te beheren heeft Whirlpool de 6th Sense® technologie ontwikkeld die alle parameters voelt, aanpast en controleert om perfecte kook- en bakresultaten te garanderen met besparing van energie en tijd.

I have to find out what the difference is, the problem is that I don’t have any time todo it.

So…let’s check the repair function first. On the WhirlPool site I find:

Wilt u telefonisch een serviceafspraak maken, dan kunt u onze medewerkers van de Whirlpool Consumenten Servicelijn op werkdagen tussen 08:00 en 18:00 uur bereiken op telefoonnummer 076 – 530 64 0

Let’s call them tomorrow or else order the JetChef.

update: when I searched for “magnetron repair Submit” I also got a gazillion listings. Maybe this is also interesting to check. e.g. http://kopen.marktplaats.nl/diensten-en-vakmensen/reparatie-en-onderhoud-witgoed-en-apparatuur/c1397.html Submit

another choice is to buy a second hand one since many people seem to sell those when moving in with other people I need one with these sizes:

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I also found our model on marktplaats, though I dont know what she asks for price

(but sold shortly after I made a bid. tip: On marktplaats you always have to call by telephone if you want to buy something since bidding is most of the time no use)

update: found the JT 379 IX as the new model but also began looking at other magnetrons. Lots of choice nowhere a complete comparison of all the functions on the LG, Sharp etcera unfortunately only millions of affiliate comparison sites showing the latest prices.
I began reading somewhat more on magnetrons, this story: http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/2005/4/2005_4_48.shtml is a great story on how this device took a long road to enter the world as a meme. Really a recommendation to read.

update: the repair will cost at minimum € 100 this is without extra components and other extra costs. So we think that probably will turn out to be € 200 IF they can get a new door… It is actually silly, just one little pin and I need to buy a new magnetron. But whatever what is is, so let’s get a new one and ditch the old one.

update: The JT 379 IX for sale for € 322 at electrokoopjes Submit AND it is the #1 magnetron on: http://www.kieskeurig.nl/magnetron/beste ( out of 333 magnetrons). The only problem is that the display is now at the top and we are only short people… (and it will be placed fairly high GRIN).

On the morning of the 5th of May we heard that our cat, Scotty, had cancer, and a pretty aggressive one too. I think I am still in shock.

The vet told us that there is probably not much we can do anymore. We could pursue chemo therapy but that will costs thousands of euro’s and it is probably not worth it.

Scotty (http://scotty.de.leau.net/ Submit) has really been part of our family for the past years. It’s really strange that something you take for granted can be taken away so suddenly. He behaves differently the last days. He comes lying with us on the couch and is behaving weak. We have now some pills against the pain that we give him but during the night he makes this noises that show that he really has pain.

It really touches me of course. While for others it is “just a cat”,  when it is “someone” that has been so around you for years it feels well… a sort of mixture of unbelief and the feeling that you want to do something but you are not able to do something about it and that more or less makes you sad. It’s driving me crazy. It feels like losing a child though of course I should not type that.

It’s the sweetest cat you can think of.

This evening he came lying next to me and I was caressing him and well… we looked at each other and could only say how really *** this is, against him.

I blogged of course many times about Scotty. On http://edward.de.leau.net/2002/09/page/4 Submit I find that we first got him and were thinking about a nice name.  I found that he was born on 15 july 2002 which makes him almost 8 years old.

I now have to decide if and when what to do and probably a date to do that. I’m still having trouble to believe that he can not get better and I think some day next week will be a bad day.

Submit On this poster     332 I see that the Netherlands is #5 in the world of having the most hosting companies, pretty amazing for such a small country.

The StumbleUpon WordPress plugin shows some SEO information about the links published on a webpage.

Download it here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stumbleupon-wordpress-plugin/ 1/404

The biggest change I made for 2.0 was rewriting the code to make use of classes instead of uh … non oo PHP. That was an interesting exercise since I never did that before in PHP. It made me think of futilities like naming conventions and such again. I feel like 15 years ago studying how to program in C++ .   I even made two abstract classes which I can reuse again, I am proud!  The whole reason I actually maintain the plugin is to keep up a very little bit with WordPress coding and learn how it works and well.. it sort of clears my mind of other things when I’m doing some coding. I should of course improve the code much and much more but each time I only have a little time. I did notice that there are many naming conventions for php on the Internet and I also noticed they all claim things the other way around.
 
I found out most things in the end on how to do things except for the callback functions inside a class, but thankfully http://lists.automattic.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2010-May/031802.html / http://www.andrewnacin.com/ Submit helped me to inform me that $this->, self::, &$this is all useless and it should be array($this,”methodname”). I could have looked for that for ages but I quickly realized http://php.net/manual/en/language.pseudo-types.php Submit. 

You can view the code in the trunk: http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/stumbleupon-wordpress-plugin/ Submit

I have some issues though (which will ofcourse be fixed in 2.1):

Bugs:

- The Widget class somehow booms out of memory even though I have a pretty empty WP_Widget extend of the class. I really don’t know why. I really hope someone can help me with this.
- When a site has 0 reviews but it has had stumbles I still link to it to submit it of course that should become a view
- The buttons in general are too wide, I need need to find a way to shrink them.
- Sometimes a link has 0 pageviews but it DOES have reviews (possibly because the sites were thrown out), maybe it’s handy to make a summary of these and decide what to do about these types.
- it takes images also, probably i left that out while transitioning to the class based code

RFC’s:

- Add the button to the content of a post (like one of the 6 official buttons but then including reviews)
- Cache all links in a database so that they don’t need to call SU that often. Later on that database could provide some nice listings but with my time schedule that probably will happen in 2011
- Make standalone button styles for the standalone / widget button
- Add localization
- Add delete plugin option
- Make all comments in the code php-helpable.

As a continuation on my quest to find out what to do with my old magazines…

The Magazine Archive at World of Spectrum

One idea I had was to scan in all old magazines and after that either throw them away, sell them or store them in a far away place (a future post might show the final decision). Of course the Internet already has digital archives of computer magazines. One location that archives old computer magazine scans specifically around the ZX Spectrum is World of Spectrum. You can find a list here: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/magazines/ Submit (it points to the FTP site which is heaven on earth for retro gamers).

And although I don’t know exactly what to do with the old magazines I do realize that there are a lot of people out there who either share a passion for retro gaming or are working in the game industry and just like to read these old magazines for inspiration or to get a detailed view on the history of computer (gaming). For instance, if you scroll through the list of companies at the right hand side of http://populair.eu/games/ Submit you will see that the game industry is booming. Almost any company is hiring like mad and thus the history is becoming more and more interesting.

Missing entries in the Magazine Archive of World of Spectrum

The digital archives at World of Spectrum is almost complete but misses some issues. As a giveback to their archive I decided to do a search in my own collection, and the first magazine I found (that was in their list of missing issues) was "Your Computer" from may 1986. This specific issue is actually a really interesting issue. I found company profiles in there and some awesome reviews of older software (check out my scans once they are in the archive).

However… it is not only a giveback action but I also want to try to learn some best practices in scanning in my magazines so that I can get some experience and get some idea on how to scan in ALL my magazines…

To start, they list the requirements for adding them to archive, which is interesting because I can learn something here to determine my own requirements for digitalizing my magazines. Their requirements are:

- scan each page at 970 pixels wide
- in JPG format
- upload them to the incoming archive at their FTP site

CHOICE 1: Scanning Single pages of old magazines versus spreads: I want spreads!

The archive wants to have single A4′s of magazines. However, I really really don’t like that. I will give you an example of a scan I made of one of the pages out of this magazine:

Above you see a company review of Ariolasoft Submit) (I think their most famous game was they stole a million 0/1) (later taken over by MicroProse).

I don’t know if you agree with me but if I would scan in 2 separate A4′s instead of the page spread it would definitely (1) miss some of the feeling of the total spread. It’s not only the elements that are spread over 2 pages but while reading through a magazine in total (2) you would also miss what is supposed to be on the left and what is supposed to be on the right and (3) you might miss information that is needed in the middle e.g. not handy with maps.

Furthermore (4) scanning in spreads takes half the time of scanning in page by page… so that is a functional reason to do so.

So I will not scan it in on A4 because of these 4 reasons. I would like my total digital archives to consist of A3 pages not separate A4′s. So I hope that this archive will some day convert also to full spreads instead of their current archive, which would help me with my own collection.

CHOICE 2: Resolution of scans of older magazines: 1 magazine equals 1 cd in diskspace!

The archive requests scans of 970 pixels wide. I think that is too low for quality scans. Look at the example below:

this was scanned in with a size of 4890×3424 … so if they want it at 970 pixels wide, that means it is 1940 pixels for a full size scan. This has a direct impact on the DPI requested. To give you a feeling on what the quality is for different DPI’s:

100x100dpi (559 kilobytes)	300×300 dpi (3 megabytes)
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150x150dpi (1 megabytes)
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It basically means a trade-off between quality of scans versus disk space. A complete scan of this magazine is 48 page spreads. Which means at 150x150dpi about 50MB. I think this is, nowadays, acceptable. 100 magazine scans would cost you 5000MB (5 gigabytes). 100.000 magazine scans would cost 5 terabyte. Since nowadays a terabyte is cheap (70 euro) you could have 100.000 magazines for 350 euro. This is possible without a problem nowadays.

I even think that 300×300 dpi is possible, it would mean you would need 15 terabyte for 100.000 magazines. Nowadays that is probably on the border of "possible for everyone" (and soon that amount of space will fit on a usb stick).

However, since 150x150dpi is readable enough (as seen in the example) I will go for 150x150dpi.

Another reason is that 1 magazine then equals the size of 1 cd in mp3 format. So 1 CD is 50MB and 1 Magazine if 50MB. I think that is reasonable and pretty much a nice thing to state.

CHOICE 3: JPG instead of other formats??

For now I have choosen JPG, but I have todo some reading here to see IF I will in the end choose JPG as format to digitize my archive. One format I’m thinking about is an open image format (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_format 0/36), since in the long run that might be handier. Maybe PNG, maybe DjVu, maybe mkv. This specific magazine archive however requires JPG. I think that is a bad choice.

Time to scan 1 magazine

On my Brother MFC A3 scanner Submit it took me about 1/2 hour to scan the magazine. But this was with some fiddling because it was the first time I scanned a magazine AND it included making this blogposting Just scanning one spread takes a few seconds. So I think you can count on 10 minutes per magazine or even less including some the after processing. Time will tell if this is a correct assumption.

After processing!

step 1: turn to the right!

All my scans are scanned in uhm… in a way that I have to turn them to the right to make it easier readable. It’s not completely required but it makes it much handier afterwards. So:

Maybe… my scanning software can do this automatically… but… for now I used Irfanview 8/205K ‘s batch conversion capabilities. As you can see, it allows for MANY batch conversion options and I only need "Rotate to the right":

I also choose as output "JPG" (with compression level 0) and set a default output directory. Later on, I might try to use Irfanview’s command line interface so that I could do these batch operations on a large amount of images. That really might save some time. Converting these 50 pages takes about 4 seconds per page on my laptop. So that is 200 seconds in total per magazine. So the total manual action including selection is about 5 minutes.

What I noticed is that the outputted files are all 3MB while the original ones are 1MB ? Uhm… probably that is because I have to add some parameters with the JPG conversion. For now I set the converter to 90% quality of the JPG. That produces again files of 1 Mb. (Something I will have to find out in a later stage).

step 2: rename!

In my case all scans are place on a directory in the following format (so I have to rename them).

step 1 renaming – So the first thing todo is to replace "CCF01052010_"  with "YourComputer8605" (I already configured my scanner to use 5 digits for the numbering, which is handy because that is what WorldOfSpectrum also uses). Total Commander, my trusty tool, has an incredibly handy multi rename tool which let’s me do this very fast:

So now I create /magazines/YourComputer/Issue8605/Pages and put all the pages in there. But wait… I also scanned in a 2 page survery So I will also create a directory /magazines/YourComputer/Issue8605/Survery to put the survey in there. I don’t know if I should place the frontpage in the root of this directory. In my own collection i might decide to do so. Ah well… let’s do this also here.

This directory structure they use is handy enough for me to follow.

step 3: submit it!

Well… I just zipped the lot… (I was thinking to put it in a .cbz 1/119 (this is a zip file but the extension makes it possible for comic book readers to read it as 1 magazine, which I might use for my own scans) (it’s probably also possible to make an online reader for this format) (probably exists somewhere).

… and ftp-ed it to the incoming directory of World of Spectrum. They probably don’t like it that it is in the form of spreads of seperate A4′s but … if they really want to they can just cut all images in half and place them as A4′s.

Want to see it?

I also uploaded it to my "ijskast" (the place where I store all kinds of things to go into the refrigerator), download it here:

http://ijskast.com/yourcomputermay1986/yourcomputer0586.zip Submit

and travel back to these old days when everything was nice… :

I had some comments on my StumbleUpon WordPress plugin 6/780. For some time I had not updated the plugin but I finally did the pretty little change to make it compatible again with the new demands around the registering of settings.

According to the stats Submit there are 1552 people who downloaded the plugin so that is some motivation for keeping it updated.

Version 1.6 fixes the settings part. You can auto update using the WordPress auto updater for plugins.

For version 1.7 I will add the official new SU buttons as an option also since they are of course also pretty cool. I need to add also an option to uninstall and localizing, that will follow also. I might try to mix both reviews and views in one button, seems handier. I think it is only interesting to click through to see the reviews other wrote and/or add interesting urls that are not in the system yet (the grey ones). On the thing that IS interesting is the ratio between reviews and pageviews. It somehow will probably tell us something about the content of that link. Don’t worry about the time scale, I will see if I have time this weekend to fiddle this together and apply it to the thousands of links on my blog. Let’s see if we can find patterns in those ratios. My hypothesis is that both controversial and funny easy pictures create the highest ratios.

The pageviews button solely looks like this:

download it here : http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stumbleupon-wordpress-plugin/ 1/404

p.s. nice to see that it appears on the must have wordpress social media plugins 1/4.

A good example on how the plugin works shows in this post Submit.

Submit As a continuation from my last post Submit to start somewhere… let’s focus on the Sinclair User Submit. I grabbed an issue of September 1986 ( No. 54) out of the pile. Really cool: Dark Sceptre on the front. We were already in the era of pretty advanced games of the ZX. And each page keeps me busy up until the description of something new to play with: fractals

Here I find: http://www.sincuser.f9.co.uk/ 1/4 a list of the magazines already scanned in. I see it was probably not updated after 22nd 2004. And not all versions have been scanned in completely, I could do that.

Probably I find a lot of other scans here:
ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/magazines/SinclairUser/SinclairUserViewer.html Submit

SubmitIt would be an idea to collect all scans and only then sell them on e-bay per title. So I could start with the pile of Sinclair Users

And now that I am diving into this… this ftp site is absolutely WOW WOW WOW. Just ftp to ftp.worldofspectrum.org 0/3 and if you are someone who was into Spectrum back then… it’s unbelievable how much there is here. Hmmm.. I just wanted to clean up my old magazines but it leads to finding more things and more things and will probably lead to a lot of time I am spending here and there while I was trying to do the opposite.

Now I probably have to join that community and see if they still need some additional scans… and i need extra storage for everything that is on the ftp site… hmmm this going to cost me some extra time and money…

Let me start here: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ 6/174K …