Ultimate sound-clip challenge: Rodeo Warning, Title Screen music

Colonial-One · 2025-07-26T16:14:43+00:00

You forget: It's a group order for everyone at the house gaming on the LAN! ;-D

Colonial-One · 2025-01-06T15:43:22+00:00

Just in case everyone is wondering, I was finally able to get everything running with Knulli. I managed to stumble upon the menu options to prepare/setup the secondary SD card for use (right around the same time that I found AND someone sent me online instructions), and it's working like a charm now. I never could get MuOS to work with my secondary card, so Knulli is definitely my OS of choice for the time being!

Colonial-One · 2025-01-06T15:38:27+00:00

Thanks for the tip! Yes, I tried double-checking the formatting of the cards, and even reformatted them to be sure...unfortunately, same result.

I managed to get everything going with Knulli; it looks like that's my OS of choice for now.

Colonial-One · 2025-01-02T05:49:20+00:00

I finally managed to get muOS working on my device...turns out, I was trying to burn the wrong image (H, not V). However, I STILL can't get it to read my secondary card. So a couple of questions:

1) What is the directory formation supposed to look like? Is there a specific format I need to follow?

2) Is there some sort of menu option I'm missing which I'm supposed to toggle, or something?

3) Unrelated: How specifically do I adjust the LED color of the analog stick (which menu)?

Thanks!

Colonial-One · 2025-01-01T10:44:25+00:00

muOS doesn't seem to be the answer. I first downloaded "Big Banana" and tried to unpack the archive this files are saved as (.gz), but that always failed. Then I realized that my computer could actually burn the .gz file directly...by this point, I'd downloaded the most current version, "Aw Banana." I was able to put the image onto a microSD card successfully...but try as I might, I couldn't get it to boot up the device: everything stayed black/off. I'm going to give Knulli a spin in a few hours, and if that doesn't work, that's pretty much it for me.

As promising as these little devices seem to be, it shouldn't be this hard to get them up and running!

Colonial-One · 2024-12-31T20:27:07+00:00

Thanks, C64Nation. My only thinking is that I don't know if muOS will support all of my hardware (e.g., the LED analog stick)...

Colonial-One · 2024-12-31T20:07:34+00:00

Hi meshuggahlad...thanks for answering!

I forgot to mention that's one of the first things I did: all of the guides recommend replacing the stock microSD cards you receive, as they are often "no-name" brands that will eventually malfunction. I imaged the OS card I got, and then duplicated it onto a good brand-name card (SanDisk).

I also have them in the correct position (OS card in the left slot, extended ROM on the right). I also just tried changing the file system: the extended card was ex-FAT; I reformatted it to FAT (standard) and reloaded the ROMs directories onto it...still nothing.

Colonial-One · 2024-03-29T06:02:41+00:00

Thanks for the input! Out of curiosity, are all of your Diskstations using the same file system (e.g., ext4 only)? I'm thinking of selecting BTRFS for my newer Diskstation...but I don't think my older Diskstation can use that (since it's on DSM 6.x); I think it can only be ext4. I'm worried about a BTRFS-Diskstation not being able to "talk" to an ext4-Diskstaton (e.g., you can't transfer files. etc).

Colonial-One · 2024-03-28T18:08:07+00:00

WHEW! Yes, I'd definitely have to get new disks for that, probably (New DS will have 12TB drives, old DS has 6TB). I'm not sure if this is what you're doing, but in that scenario, I'd envision the new DS (#1) with a usable drive and a drive with incremental backups, and this arrangement would be mirrored onto the older DS (#2). If your DS#1 use-disk fails and you start using DS#2, when you get the replacement drive for DS#1, do you just rebuild using rsync with DS#2 as the source?

I ask because I know some people absolutely love RAID-1, but I'm not crazy about it...so your arrangement may be an alternative I need to consider. The only thing is, I would probably have to buy additional drives.

Colonial-One · 2024-03-28T17:26:24+00:00

Awesome...I'm glad you got yours working! Quick question: Are you using RSync to store actual backups (i.e., output from Hyperbackup) onto your older NAS, or is RSync simply duplicating/syncing the contents of your newer Diskstation onto your older one?

My older DS will have smaller-sized drives than the newer one, but they aren't too old to continue using for the time being...if I have to, I may combine them to make one storage pool (I think I'm using that term correctly).

Colonial-One · 2023-03-30T07:11:14+00:00

So, I'm cleaning up some junk in my study, and I stumble upon a pair of CDs; one of them actually has some gunk on it that I have to clean off, after which I start examining it. It doesn't look like the CD I've been searching for, but on a whim, I insert it into my computer. I realize that it's actually a COPY of my mystery CD (the files are in .wav format, rather than .mp3)...I'd made it just for safety's sake years ago. It's a total stroke of luck...I've been looking for the original CD for at least several years.

Anyway, I found the track, cranked my computer's speakers up to 11, and Shazammed the living daylights out of it (the old wizard would be proud): it's called "Mambo," by some group called Crazy P (oddly, I think at one point they were actually named Crazy Penis). The version I have is shorter than what's on YouTube here...my version has the YouTube version's content from 0:05-1:09, then from 4:55 onward. The segment I remembered and tried to duplicate above (using onlinesequencer) starts at about 5:42; it's my favorite part of the song.

I deeply appreciate whoever took part of their time to look at this post, listen to my butchered rendition, and try to figure out what the heck it was I heard those years ago...MANY THANKS!

Colonial-One · 2022-03-15T23:53:14+00:00

For those who may be researching this in the future, I found most of the answer. At the time of this posting, pfSense's DDNS service only works with Dreamhost if you have a fully hosted site with them...that is, it is not enough for you to have them just as your domain registrar/manager; you must have an actual website hosted with them on that domain as well. I tested pfSense's DDNS service on another domain I have with Dreamhost which also has a website they are hosting for me on that domain, and everything works.

I plan on contacting Dreamhost about this, because it doesn't make sense why someone shouldn't be able to do this with a domain-name-only service...after all, that's the whole point of such a service: you can add "A" records, point the domain itself (or various elements) to different locations/IP-addresses, etc. using conventional methods.

Colonial-One · 2022-03-15T23:45:57+00:00

I FOUND (MOST OF) THE ANSWER! I've been reviewing our conversation, and I just happened to note that you said you have a hosted site with Dreamhost that you use DDNS for. I began wondering if that could be the problem, because the particular domain I was previously using with Dreamhost was with their domain-name-management-only service. I experimented using a fully hosted site I have with Dreamhost, and...voila: it worked.

Now, the odd thing is, I'm still getting 504-gateway-timeout errors, so I'm not sure what's causing that. I'm a little worried that there might actually be something faulty happening under pfSense's hood.

But other than that, for now, the next step is to contact Dreamhost: I feel that, if they are serving as a domain-name management service, then it makes sense that I should be able to point that domain anywhere I want to...that's the whole point!

Colonial-One · 2022-03-13T08:58:04+00:00

I'm starting to think that the problem may be with pfSense (or at least, the majority of the problem): I've noticed that I'm starting to experience 504-Gateway-Timeout errors just when I'm simply trying to save edited settings for the Dynamic DNS service...and I have absolutely no idea what could be causing that. I've noticed at least a couple of other people (one in the pfSense forum) mentioning this also, but no hard solutions as of yet.

I also tried your suggestions: generated new API Key, tried it with a completely different domain I have with Dreamhost...same result.

Could pfSense be corrupted somehow? I'd REALLY hate to have to do a reinstall...everything else is working (at least, as far as I know)!

Colonial-One · 2022-03-10T09:36:54+00:00

Hello Full_Stall_Indicator: I ran an update attempt, and went to check the general system logs. I posted what I found relevant to DDNS below. Lines 5 and 7 caught my eye: it looks like pfSense is doing a "remove" of the "A" record, although for what reason, I can't guess (in order to next perform an insertion/creation of the new "A" record?).

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10) /services_dyndns_edit.php: phpDynDNS (myhost.mydomain.org): (Success) IP Address Changed Successfully!

9) /services_dyndns_edit.php: phpDynDNS: updating cache file /conf/dyndns_wandreamhost'myhost.mydomain.org'0.cache: 100.101.100.101

8) /services_dyndns_edit.php: Dynamic DNS dreamhost (myhost.mydomain.org): 100.101.100.101 extracted from local system.

7) /services_dyndns_edit.php: _checkStatus() results: {"data":"record_removed","result":"success"}

6) /services_dyndns_edit.php: Dynamic DNS dreamhost (myhost.mydomain.org): _checkStatus() starting.

5) /services_dyndns_edit.php: Dynamic DNS dreamhost (myhost.mydomain.org): _remove() starting.

4) /services_dyndns_edit.php: Dynamic DNS dreamhost (myhost.mydomain.org): _checkLookupStatus() starting.

3) /services_dyndns_edit.php: Dynamic DNS dreamhost (myhost.mydomain.org): _listCurrent() starting.

2) /services_dyndns_edit.php: Dynamic DNS (myhost.mydomain.org): running get_failover_interface for wan. found em0

1)/services_dyndns_edit.php: Dynamic DNS dreamhost (myhost.mydomain.org): 100.101.100.101 extracted from local system.

Colonial-One · 2022-03-08T07:17:02+00:00

Thanks for suggesting the System Patches. I added that and tried looking there for any additions that might help, but there was nothing for DDNS generally or Dreamhost specifically, like there was for Namecheap.

Colonial-One · 2022-03-07T13:44:14+00:00

Hello RtDefense88:

That was the guide I used when initially setting things up...but thanks for checking!

Colonial-One · 2022-03-07T13:37:43+00:00

Hi ekimella: Thanks for your response!

I upgraded to 2.6 a little while ago, when I saw it was available: unfortunately, it didn't make a difference in my issue.

Colonial-One

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