…Looks like my main machine (here, not a server) may be toast (that's the main reason I haven't been around today). This isn't the first time I've thought that though, so at least until Monday when I can go get a replacement on the reserve (no taxes!) I'll keep my fingers crossed.
I've got some good videos edited, but they're still all in DV format so I can't post them until I get that machine cobbled back together I suppose — or at least move its drives to a new machine.
I am almost 100% sure that the solution involves something blue and vodkariffic with a lot of lime in it. Then maybe I'll go outside and get in a fight with a snowman or something or use a slingshot to whip paintballs at the barn (I'm out of CO2).
Note: I'm pretty sure I've told this story here before…
The strange thing is that it's Premiere related. Whatever it is, a software glitch in Premiere starts the process. Usually I can just let the machine go through a ten minute cooldown and it boots, but not this time. All memory tests and so on show nothing, and none of my tests indicate that it's overheating or anything like that.
As I think I've mentioned before, I've always found the concept of using software to destroy the hardware its running on fascinating. I wish I knew exactly what this was, it would make a fun proof-of-concept trojan to throw together… I'm still very proud of my old “soundblaster blaster” which created a feedback loop in first-gen SB cards and destroyed the ADAC.
I've mentioned it before, but since people always ask, here's how it works. My version was written in assembler, but you could write it in anything:
- Determine SB input and output port locations.
- Read value from SB input (ADC).
- Write that same value to SB output (DAC).
- Go to #2
A usenet search might actually find the source code, I did post it back in I think '94.
I don't believe this will harm a newer card, but if you run that on an earlier card you'll hear a static pop, and from that point on the card is just an Adlib. Nothing more. I found it out by accident trying to convert an old sound card into a live effects processing unit (which I know you can do on new cards).
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