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Network problems - Static IP and DHCP

Latest ubuntu ball-ache started when I wanted my wireless network to use DHCP and the ethernet to use a static address.

Streaming to the XBox - Using Fuppes

I’ve now moved back to Kubuntu, and I am sure that I am going to stay.
Nearly top of the list is to get my XBox streaming back up and running. This post details my Fuppes installation process and thoughts. Initial thoughts is that this doesn’t look very mature. There is no GUI and it was [...]

ATI HD 4730 Ubuntu/Kubuntu on Karmic 9.10

I’ve had major problems getting the newest ATI drivers, both proprietary and open source. Black screens, freezes, everything.
The solution (so far) is to use an older ATI Catalyst driver. I have tested up to 9.12 to be working. Download, sudo sh -i ***.run, sudo aticonfig –initial -f, restart, sudo amdcccle, to setup. Done.

XBox Windows 7 Problems

Having problems where I couldn’t see the xbox on the network.
Turns out that all I had to do was disable the SSDP discovery service and the Upnp service that comes with it.  That

xBee ZNet 2.5 ongoing serial problem fixed

I have had an ongoing problem with the xBee’s for some time. It goes something like this:
Setup:
xBee ZNet 2.5 in API mode using sleep’s.
Problem:
Periodically (aren’t they always the worst!) the xBee would not perform some of the functions that I asked it to. For example, it did not like sending AT commands after [...]

PC Build

My first post on my new PC!
So my power supply on the old PC blew, zapped and caused a noise, and I decided that it was about time I got a new one.  It had lasted me 7 years, overclocked for all of that and had about 14000 hours on it.  She had a good [...]

PhD Progress Update

Long time no post!
After a period of about 3-4 months which was spent on the bubble forcing idea, it was decided that it wasn’t going anywhere and it was cancelled.  This meant that I had lost a great deal of time and needed to make it up.  So, whats been going on recently:

Euronoise paper on [...]

Impact Detection and More Anechoic Testing

Update on what I have been doing over the Christmas period, including impact detection, more anechoic testing and more 25m drop testing!

Initial Total Sound Field Testing

I have bought the final tank! Another milestone passed!
I now have two tanks, the small box that was used for the stairway experiments and the new 0.8m diameter circular tank, on the roof collecting data.  The small box is still lined in the anechoic, but the large is not.  Because of this, we get lots [...]

Final Acoustic Absorption Results: Part Duex

I have just computed the absorption coefficients for the drop impacts, instead of a pulse generation.
To do this, I imported the raw drop data into Matlab and manually set all of the areas that had any bubble noise to zero.  Then I went back to my software and averaged the pulses like before.  Back in [...]