We have these strands of Christmas lights where you have the option of making the strand flash by replacing one of the regular bulbs with a “flasher” bulb. The flasher bulb is a clear bulb with a red tip, and after it’s been plugged in for 10 or 20 seconds, it makes the rest of [...]
Ok, so you get rediculous traffic and lines and congestion because you can’t ride the subway, but there’s always a positive side (as seen on Craigslist):
I use an IDE-to-USB adapter to connect loose hard drives to my desktop using USB. I think it’s one of the coolest things ever invented, which is a little bit sad when you think about it. But it’s very handy. It works great, but I ran into one annoying problem. Often when I try to [...]
I have a few USB things plugged into my Windows XP box. The important ones for this story are the Compact Flash card reader and a hard drive on an IDE-to-USB adapter. For months and months, ever since having that setup, the card reader was the H: drive and the hard drive plugged into the [...]
The important bit in choosing a power supply for a PVR type box is that it has to be as quiet as possible. A few quick searches showed that there were a handful of companies that were highly regarded and made some very quiet power supplies. I wound up getting a Seasonic S12 330 watt [...]
I rented King Crimson’s Deja Vroom DVD from Blockbuster Online a little while back. So far so good. Then I tried to return it. That was a little bit tougher.