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Disassembling and reassembling the Sanwa JLF-TP-8Y-SK-W from the Mad Catz Tournament Edition – Photos and List of Parts

Removing the ball top, shaft cover and dustwasher @ 4m10s
Disconnecting the cable @ 5m50s


Remove the restrictor plate @ 5m53s
The PCB connector is pointed away from the buttons
Remove the Sanwa JLF-E “E-Clip”, Sanwa JLF-P-5 Actuator, Sanwa JLF-SP Spring

Reassemble

If you need to order the JFL parts from Lizard Lick, here is what’s used inside
Left column: Samwa LB-35 Ball Top, Sanwa JLF-CD Shaft Cover Kit. Center column: Sanwa JLF-P-4 Pivot Cylinder, Sanwa JL-PP1 Dustwasher. Right column: Sanwa JLF-MW Metal Washer, Sanwa JLF-P-6 Spring Cover, Sanwa JLF-SP Spring, Sanwa JLF-P-5 Actuator

Between the joystick and top panel

Between the joystick and top panel goes the pivot cilinder

Put another dustwasher between the joystick and top panel

Joystick

Joystick with Metal Washer

Joystick with Metal Washer and Spring Cover

Joystick with Metal Washer, Spring Cover, Spring and Actuator

When you connect the cable to the 5 pin connector, make sure that the rails are facing up (away from the top panel)

Disassemble a Mad Catz FightStick Tournament Edition

Here is some videos that shinjnSRK from shoryuken.com shows how to disassemble a Mad Catz FightStick Tournament Edition

How to open the case


Main Printed Circuit Board and Terminal Block

Control Module and USB cable compartment

Top control panel

Removing the Sanwa snap-in buttons and replacing with Seimitsu, Sanwa screw-in buttons

Semitsu LS-32-01 (Semitsu SS mounting plate) and Sanwa JLF-P1 flat mounting plate

How to fit a Happ/iL pushbutton and joystick

Summary

Mad Catz FightStick LockSwitch++ Mod

Solderless Tricks & Tips for QDs and Ribbon Connectors

Suse Linux SP2 hwinfo: braille.4.2: alva read data freezes

I ran the command hwinfo and waited a long time seeing this message

root@suselinux10sp2:~ # hwinfo
> braille.4.2: alva read data

I checked the hwinfo package

root@suselinux10sp2:~ # rpm -qi hwinfo
Name : hwinfo Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 12.55 Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany
Release : 0.3 Build Date: Wed 23 Apr 2008 08:10:20 PM BRT
Install Date: Fri 05 Sep 2008 08:11:38 AM BRT Build Host: janacek.suse.de
Group : Hardware/Other Source RPM: hwinfo-12.55-0.3.src.rpm
Size : 1828813 License: GPL v2 or later
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Wed 23 Apr 2008 08:13:01 PM BRT, Key ID a84edae89c800aca
Packager : http://bugs.opensuse.org
Summary : Hardware Library
Description :
A simple program that lists results from the hardware detection
library.
Distribution: SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 (X86-64)

And the distribution that I was using

root@suselinux10sp2:~ # cat /etc/*release
LSB_VERSION=”core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-noarch:core-2.0-x86_64:core-3.0-x86_64″
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (x86_64)
VERSION = 10
PATCHLEVEL = 2

Then I’ve updated the package hwinfo with the one on the Suse Linux 10 SP4 ISO – hwinfo-12.67-0.7.21.x86_64.rpm

root@suselinux10sp2 # rpm -U hwinfo-12.67-0.7.21.x86_64.rpm
root@suselinux10sp2 #

AIX errpt error message: 0315-180 logread: UNEXPECTED EOF

If you see this error message

root@aix:/ # errpt -a
0315-180 logread: UNEXPECTED EOF
0315-171 Unable to process the error log file /var/adm/ras/errlog.
0315-132 The supplied error log is not valid: /var/adm/ras/errlog.

And the log file is zeroed

root@aix:/ # ls -l /var/adm/ras/errlog
-rw-rw-r– 1 root system 0 Mar 14 09:38 /var/adm/ras/errlog

root@aix:/ # errclear 0
0315-180 logread: UNEXPECTED EOF
0315-171 Unable to process the error log file /var/adm/ras/errlog.
0315-132 The supplied error log is not valid: /var/adm/ras/errlog.

Stop the error logging, remove the file and then restart it again

root@aix:/ # /usr/lib/errstop
root@aix:/ # rm /var/adm/ras/errlog
root@aix:/ # /usr/lib/errdemon

root@aix:/ # ls -l /var/adm/ras/errlog
-rw-rw-r– 1 root system 123404 Jul 11 14:33 /var/adm/ras/errlog

Where is the platform message log on a Sun Fire E25K?

sms-svc@systemcontroller-sc0:~ $ setfailover force
Forcing failover. Do you want to continue (yes/no)? yes
setfailover: Unable to force a failover: Internal error – refer to the platform message log using the following code: 8622

To check the platform message log on a Sun Fire E25K, check the file $SMSVAR/adm/platform/messages

iPod Nano previously used on a Windows computer doesn’t work on a Mac

If your iPod previously used on a Windows computer isn’t syncing with a Mac, you need to check the Disk Format on your iPod.

On iTunes, go to Devices and click on the iPod. It will display the Name, Capacity, Software Version, Serial Number and Format. The format can be PC or Macintosh and needs to be equal to the computer you’re using.

To change the Disk Format on your iPod, click on the button Restore

Share videos from your Synology DiskStation and watch them on your Android phone

Once you checked the box “Enable DLNA/UPnP media server” on your Synology DiskStation’s Control Panel it will create three folders: music, photos and video

Put your videos on the folder called video (preferred videos encoded as MPEG4 – they have the extension ended in .mp4 or .m4v)

To watch your videos on your Android phone, you should use two programs (actually, you can use just one if you use MPEG4 videos)

To browse your DLNA server, install BubbleUPnP

You can also install the MX Player, a video player that opens almost all videos available.

Open BubbleUPnP and click on Library then select your DiskStation and browse the folders that are shared. Once you find an item that you would like to play, click on it and BubbleUPnP will ask you which video player do you want to use. You can choose MX Player.

What is a QR Code?

A QR code is the evolution of the barcode. It’s a 2D barcode that can represent an internet address, text or a phone number.

To read the QR code you need an app on your phone to scan the code.

You can install i-nigma Reader.

Open the app and scan the code.

Try scanning the QR code below:

Upgrading RAM on a Mac Mini late 2010 model – Memory beeping

On the manual of a Mac Mini late 2010 model, Apple recommends using a 1066MHz DDR3 SODIMM memory to upgrade the memory.

I’ve tried using a Kingston KVR KVR1333D3S9/4G but it ended up beeping whenever I tried to put the top memory stick.

I tried using Markvision BMD34096M1333C9-1121 and it worked perfectly as you can see below

hpacucli – Error: Another instance of ACU is already running (possibly a service)

If you receive this error message

root@linux:~ # /usr/sbin/hpacucli
HP Array Configuration Utility CLI 8.70-8.0
Detecting Controllers…

Error: Another instance of ACU is already running (possibly a service). Please
terminate the ACU application before running the ACU CLI. Press ENTER to
exit.

But there is no process running

root@linux:~ # ps -ef | grep -i acu
root 4805 32086 0 10:00 pts/0 00:00:00 grep -i acu

Delete all files on /opt/compaq/cpqacuxe/bld/locks to solve this problem

root@linux:/opt/compaq/cpqacuxe/bld/locks # ls
. .. CPQACU_MUTEX

In another occasion, solved this problem by deleting file /dev/shm/sem.hpacu.appLock on a RHEL 5

root@linux:~ # ls -l /dev/shm/sem.hpacu.appLock
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 32 Aug 16 05:21 /dev/shm/sem.hpacu.appLock

root@linux:~ # rm /dev/shm/sem.hpacu.appLock
rm: remove regular file `/dev/shm/sem.hpacu.appLock’? y