A couple of weeks ago, I bought a Neuros OSD media player off eBay. The auction showed a “Developer Beta” unit. It showed up about a week ago, but I didn’t have time to play with it till tonight. After much pulling out of hair, I finally realized that what I had been sent was… Read more »
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AKAI PDP4206EM Service Manual
If anyone else is looking for an AKAI PDP4206EM Service Manual, here you go. I’m still looking for a PDF of the user manual.
Building the Perfect Router/Firewall for $45
I recently replaced my Linksys WRT54GL routers (running DD-WRT of course) with an ALIX 2c3 running pfSense. Not only is it faster, better-built, and has more features, it looks cool. Unfortunately, the cost for a refurbished 2c3, enclosure, and power supply was around $150. For those of you wanting to build your own tiny pfSense… Read more »
Dell Mini 9 Hackintosh
Thanks to a kind soul, I’ve been fiddling around with this since earlier this week: A Dell Mini 9, refurb from the Dell Outlet. 1024×600 screen, 16G solid-state disk, and an Atom N270 CPU. I’ve upgraded it to 2G of RAM, and just today installed the “US-International” keyboard to have a more “standard” layout. I… Read more »
Virtualization Madness
Mark Williams Coherent 4.1 running on QEMU 0.10.0 w/KQEMU 1.4 running on Ubuntu 9.04 running on VMWare Fusion running on OSX 10.5.7 I think I need professional help.
“Build Your Own Z80 Computer” now available online
This book was published in 1981 and has been out of print for a long time. Used prices are anywhere from $29 (what I paid, luckily) to $215! In 2007, I scanned one of my copies and created a nicely-formatted PDF version. Andrew Lynch and I were in the process of obtaining permission from Mr…. Read more »
Garand M2 Ball Ammo Arrived
The can of ammo I ordered from the CMP along with the Garand arrived yesterday. It’s older than I am (the -70 on the can and boxes is the year of production). Now I just need to find an outdoor range here in Houston that will let me shoot it. Looks like American Shooting Centers… Read more »
M1 Garand arrived
After a long (83 days) wait, my M1 Garand finally arrived this morning from the CMP. I ordered a “Field Grade” Springfield Armory rifle, and requested a WW2-vintage serial number if possible. What I received this morning exceeded my expectations. First, the serial number is 3,477,7xx. This puts the date of manufacture in February of… Read more »
Camera Experiments with New Lighting
Did some experiments with the new DIY clamp light / diffuser setup today and was pretty happy with the results. Will have a nicer arrangement on the dining room table sometime this week and can do more testing then.
Disk Upgrade Done, More Projects Ahead
Upgraded the disks on my home setup today. Went from a pair of Hitachi 500G Deskstar drives to a pair of Western Digital WD10EADS “Green” (power-saving, cooler-running) disks. One disk is primary external storage, while the other is the Time Machine backup disk for both my internal hard drive on the Mac Mini and the… Read more »