Flash… Memory?
December 13, 2007
Special Edition Alzheimer’s Memory Cards(Click for more moblog photos…)
I came across this the other day in Best Buy.
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Special Edition Alzheimer’s Memory Cards(Click for more moblog photos…)
IC Sorting
December 11, 2007
Sorted ICs(Click for higher resolution image…)
Remember the SOVTEK ICs and random other electronics I received as part of an ITT toolbox from a coworker?
Well, tonight I decided to go through and sort through the ICs, tossing out the noticeably physically damaged ones, and cataloging the rest. That scan up above shows all of the ICs, about half 74xx series, on foam. If you’d like to see a list of what is there, I put it all in Google Documents and shared it here. (And yes, Google Documents works pretty darn well.)
The yellow things are resistor arrays / networks, and those aren’t in the catalog.
Maybe now I can get to putting together that synth-like thing, or something else nifty. (Perhaps a LED clock or something…)
AWS?!?
December 11, 2007
Wow, I just received this piece of email:
Added the following hosts to /etc/hosts.deniedssh:
72.44.44.9 (ec2-72-44-44-9.z-2.compute-1.amazonaws.com)
Looking through auth.log shows 18 attempts before things were blocked. Looks like people have taken to using AWS for scanning. Great.
Google Maps Street View: Detroit
December 11, 2007
So, Google Maps Street View has gone live for Detroit and a bit of the west side.
Unsurprisingly, at the second random place I decided to look, the intersection of Gratiot and Iroquois, found random people riding bikes in the middle of Gratiot in the middle of the day.
Welcome to Detroit, eh?
Unfortunately it looks like The Heidelberg Project hasn’t been driven yet.
Bell’s Two Hearted Mini Keg
December 10, 2007
[Cross posted to
Bell’s Two Hearted Mini KegThis should make NYE a bit more interesting. That right there is 1.32 gallons, or 5 lites of Bell’s Two Hearted Ale (sorry, no direct link available).
At 7% ABV the numbers work out to just under 12oz (or 350mL) of pure alcohol, or about the same amount of alcohol as in a fifth of vodka. It’s a good thing that this is much tastier than vodka.
Oh, and the cost was US$19.99, plus Michigan sales tax (6%), but without deposit. Not bad, when you consider that this is just about as much beer as 14 bottles, and a six pack normally runs right around US$8 – US$9 each.
U2 Can Celebrate Christmas
December 9, 2007
U2 Themed Flyer from Heritage Church(Click to embiggen to full res 300 dpi scan.)
A couple weeks ago I received this flyer for Heritage Church, one of the local churches which meets in a rented high school facility.
To quote from the flyer:
Just what does the biggest band in the world have to say about things like faith, hope, joy and peace on earth? I think if you look closer you’d be surprised…
Join us this Christmas season for four weeks as we investigate and unpack the music of U2. We’ll explore the themes, lyrics and Biblical messages found in some of their most popular and enduring songs. You will come away inspired this Christmas… possibly with a new appreciation for U2, but more importantly, for the amazing story and meaning of Christmas. Come check us out, if you’re ready to really rock around the Christmas tree!
[…]
Please note that the band U2 will not be appearing at Heritage Church, but their music will be there.
Looking a bit further, it seems that MTV has picked up on this, and it is being called U2Charist. Per Wikipedia:
A U2Charist (also spelled eU2charist) is a communion service, or Eucharist, accompanied by U2 songs in lieu of traditional hymns and sometimes as part or all of the service music.
Ginger Beer / Ale / Soda
December 9, 2007
3L of Ginger Beer(Click to embiggen.)
Yesterday Danielle and I stopped by Cap N Cork so I could check out prices of the champange bottles for when I finally get around to bottling the cider. While there we picked up stuff to make soda (basically, a small funnel, yeast, and some soda flavor).
Today we made it. 383g of cane sugar, a bit of honey, 2.5 tsp of ginger flavor, yeast, and 3L of water went into the three bottles. That’s it sitting right there. The rightmost bottle also has minced ginger in it, to boost the flavor. Hopefully it’ll be good.
HELO
December 5, 2007
After not receiving the shipping notification for something I received last night, I have decided to try disabling Postfix’s HELO validations on my server. This will likely lead to far more spam being delivered, but it should eliminate odd rejections from non-compliant servers.
I had smtpd_helo_restrictions = reject_invalid_hostname, reject_non_fqdn_hostname set, which can be referenced here. The problem was some sites wouldn’t send a proper HELO, leading to mail not being delivered as it should have been. Maybe it’d be best to have a SA rule which marks down improper HELOs instead of simply blocking them.
If spam levels get too high again, maybe I’ll go back to the old restrictions. They generally work fine.
Motherboard + RAM
December 5, 2007
Do any of you happen to have an old motherboard + RAM + CPU which you don’t need any more?
I need something reasonably fast, Intel or AMD, with PCI slots. It is going to go in my MAME Cabinet and hold an AudioPCI running the fabulous DOS driver (thanks,
Really, I’m not too picky as to what it all is, so long as its reasonably quick and free. :D
Xbox 360 Failure
December 2, 2007
Before I shipped off my 360, I decided to make up a video of it having the problem it has.
The first video shows the problem occuring once. The second shows me unable to turn on my 360, but the Wii’s video cable just happens to hang in front of the power light, so it’s hard to see things:
· c0nsumer_xbox360_failure.mp4 (2.3 MB)
· c0nsumer_xbox360_failure_2.mp4 (5.5 MB)