01/19/10
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The junk pile of random posts
01/5/10
Nothing else going on, heres some crap from work
Its Tuesday, I’m bored. Heres a broken IBM Netvista to stare at.
Notice the two caps have decided to poo their inards out. It took me a bit to find these guys since IBM thought it a good idea to leave 50mm of legs left on the capacitors so when they blew, it didnt pop the top, just slid out the bottom. It may have been a refurb board or repaired in the past, but the solder points looked to be factory so who knows. Replaced them with a set of 10v 1000uf surface mount caps. The surface mount stuff was a little tricky to get on the board but we had a reel of them on hand. That fixed fixed the little IBM and stopped all the memory corruption errors it was getting. Back to work.
12/17/09
Desert Dingo Racing
Found a neat article on Wired.com today about a homegrown Baja 1000 racing team that runs a stock VW Bug, with a cage and other rally kit tacked on. The cars nothing crazy, but they really do a good job of documenting a large part of their experiences and keeping you in the know of what’s going on.
12/15/09
Sketchy Santas
You’ve all seen them. The mall Santas that look like they crawled out from under a Christmas dumpster. Some are skinny, some are fat, and the few good ones stand out above the rest. The following website is not dedicated to those good Santas, but the later. So click on the link and enjoy. Merry Christmas!
12/10/09
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