Compiling mame 170 on ubuntu 14.04

After a little break I thought I'd download mame 170 and compile it. I was able to get 168 to compile fine, but 170 now wants gcc 4.9 or better. So I found a couple of webpages to help.

http://maxolasersquad.blogspot.com/2015/12/compiling-mame-on-ubuntu-1404-trusty.html

After getting gcc 4.9 installed, I was getting some error with some QT "moc" thing.

http://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=103366

It appears that switching to QT5 was necessary. After doing a "export QT_SELECT=5" and "make clean" everything was wonderful.

Sometimes it's easier to just install a bunch of stuff with "sudo apt-get install libqt5-*" to get things rolling along.

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/7.4/general/qtchooser.html

LG Smart TV - can't get my pictures out

A family member's got an LG Smart TV, one of the LA8600 models that has a built-in camera on top. They've taken a lot of pictures using the camera at family get-togethers and now they want to copy the pictures out. Only you can't copy the pictures out. There just isn't any easy way. In fact, there isn't any way that I can see. I even asked LG's technical support and they said no, you can't.

I don't think I've ever seen a camera where you can view the pictures, but you can't get them out of the internal memory.

It'd be an easy thing to add if they were interested...

Flexible Glasses and TurboFlex Hinges

I'd really like some memory metal glasses.





They also have these 360 swiveling hinges called TurboFlex.

Laser Welding for Eyeglasses

I managed to break my eyeglasses *again*. I've got to stop doing things like falling asleep with my glasses on and waking up with them broken after I've rolled over on them a couple of times.

Apparently you can have eyeglasses laser welded. I thought this was a cool idea. You mail your glasses to them and get them back in a week.

I didn't have time to wait so I had them repaired locally with solder.


http://www.eyeglassrepairusa.com/lasereyeglassrepair

They might want to change the stock picture of the guy on this page though.


http://www.eyeglassrepairusa.com/serviceareas

My favorite plate - corelle pie plates

I love these corelle pie plates. They're great for soups or juicy stuff because they keep the juice from rolling off your plate. It's not a bowl, or a flat plate, but a fusion of the two.

I got a bunch of these at the corelle factory store. Who says you have to use them for pies?



http://www.walmart.com/ip/Deep-Dish-Plate-Winter-Frost-White/15065033

Kill a watt KWH display bug

I put one of those P3 kill a watt meters on my new refrigerator to see how much power it uses. I leave it in the KWH display mode because that's all I'm really interested in. What I notice is that when the KWH goes over 99.99 that it displays 1.00 instead of 100 and doesn't update the decimal point. I've got one of the newer kill a watts that computes the cost per year and it does the same thing in the KWH display mode.

Cycling through the display mode resets the decimal.

I know it's minor but just one of those things the designer overlooks.

ptouch pt-d200 7v or 9v

So I got a pt-d200 and was trying it with a 9v brother adapter and it doesn't light up. The plug is labeled 9v, it uses 6 AAA batteries (for 9v) but if I plug in a 9v power supply it plays dead.

Now if I plug in a 7V brother power supply, no problem. It's happy with 7V.

I see the same thing with the PT-1880. It's labeled 7-9V but it only lights up with the 7V power supply.

Go figure.

One day I plugged a 9v supply into a PT-1750 (which requires 7V) and it displayed "CHANGE ADAPTER" and shut itself off.