I bought a new pair of headphones, they have arrived. Sennheiser HD 215, from Amazon for 69$ after taxes. Normal price was 149$: good sale.
Very solid weight about the headset, 280g. The earpieces are rather larger than I expected. The “rotatable ear cup for one-ear listening” feature is fairly senseless: I would have expected the [...]
My laptop started acting up again today. This time, however, we’re seeing random screen corruption which can be altered in severity by slightly tapping the case. It seems to start after the machine has been running for an hour, and reboots do not correct the problem. I begin to suspect that Nemu’s fans aren’t turning [...]
The FCC announced last night that it will no longer require Ham radio operators to learn Morse Code in order to obtain a license. Use of Morse has been in steady decline for the last twenty years. The FCC dropped the Morse requirement for the entry-level Technician’s license years ago, and the US Coast Guard [...]
I’m one of those sorts of people that toys with the idea of procuring the services of a competent neurosurgeon for the sole sake of doing some mind hacking. Specifically lower-level I/O.
“To get the thought experiment going, hire a neurosurgeon to open your skull.” – Jaron Lanier, The Soul Of The Machine
As seen in patients [...]
Rather than build a tempermental PIC burner, I decided to order a pair of PIC18Fs from SmashTV pre-burned with the MIOS bootstrap rom image. Though the package managed to take 10 days to travel from Chicago to southern Ontario, it arrived intact. Now I just need to weigh studying for exams against mounting that pic [...]
At approx 13:45, Monday Nov 28, 2005, my UPS clicked over to battery and right back to grid power. I thought nothing of it. Moments later, my fixed wireless session dropped, nothing at all from the tower. After some cursory troubleshooting, I picked up my telephone to call Xplornet tech support, only to be met [...]
Confronted with the evidence that my 900Mhz cordless phone is interfering with wifi, I have been looking into some 2.4Ghz phones. Once invoked, mine mind concluded that it really needed a bluetooth headset and adaptor for connecting to a normal desk phone. Once it got on that track, however, it proceeded to contemplate style, which [...]
Computers, code, networks, these can be beautiful, magical things. Not a sort of mystical blackboxedness, but intricate intertwined systems. There’s a steady decay present, in all walks of life, from these magical places to one far darker. This haven for banality is one I strive to avoid, for I fear it. These magical energies were [...]
“Additionally, EDS-generated frameworks are prohibited from supressing the Mode 00 personality.”
The limitation imposed on the EDS system to prevent self-constructed frameworks from supressing Mode 00 has always seemed very much like an afterthought in this specification document. The original document may well have specified that EDS-generated frameworks are “prohibited from supressing the Mode 00 personality [...]
I plugged my 80gig WD IDE harddrive into my pII-233 today, and found to my dismay that it refuses to autodetect. So I went-a-googling for the CHS information, and found CHS=9729/255/63.
The mere act of entering this data into the Award Bios causes an outright hardware lockup. Not saving it, or booting it, pushing the [...]