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June 24, 2003

Oh, one other thing. I’m looking at selling my PC. Yes, it works perfectly fine. I’m just thinking I want a PowerMac, and I won’t have a use for a PC if I get that. Here’s what it’s got:

Pentium 4 2.26 Ghz
512MB RAMBUS Memory
Intel i850e Chipset
Gainward nVidia GeForce 4 4200 Video Card
8x SCSI CD Writer
Plextor UltraPlex (32x) CD-ROM Drive
Adaptec 2940UW SCSI Card
Creative Labs Soundblaster Audigy (w/ Firewire)
IBM 10/100 PCI Server-type NIC
Ultra-cute Doggie Case
Especially quiet power supply.

The only thing missing from making this a complete computer is a hard drive, which I don’t have because I was using an external Fibre Channel array.

Anyone interested? I’m thinking $850 for this…

UPDATE: Make it $1000 and it’ll have a 120GB hard drive in it and XP installed and tweaked for it.

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June 24, 2003

Does anyone have any experience with epoxy-based floor coatings? I want to seal/finish the floor of my garage so it’s no longer just dusty concrete, but I’m not sure which products to be looking at. I seem to find either home-grade paint bucket-type stuff, or professional troweled floors. I’m looking for something in the middle… Any suggestions?

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:)

June 12, 2003

Well, I got some more tubes and another oscilloscope today. If you’d like to see pictures, take a look here. The pictures of things in my basement, which I guess are a new-found collection of tubes, starts here. Yes, there are nixies. Mmm….glow.

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Wow.

June 9, 2003

Reading through these lab notes, it seems that Mr. Jan [CENSORED] once read about a home-made mini-computer called the HAL-4096 and wanted to build one himself. Enclosed in these notes are letters passed back and forth between Mr. [CENSORED] and Mr. Hal Chamberlin. Thanks to Google, I’ve learned that the HAL-4096 was built by Mr. Chamberlin and a Mr. David Cox back in 1966. Mr. Chamberlin was also the first person to demonstrate music synthesis on a computer, the old classic recording of ‘Daisy, Daisy’ that I’m sure everyone remembers hearing at one point or another.

I’m just amazed… Continue reading: Read on for more…

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GPS

June 4, 2003

Yay, I finally got a real GPS. I should be getting a Magellian Meridian XL with serial cable and mounting hardware sometime soon. I guess I’ll have to give some geocaching a try, too. Per Geocaching.com there are a number of sites right around Shelby Township. Woo! It might even be fun to add a new cache somewhere random.

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:D

May 30, 2003


Amazingly styled packaging,
down to the last detail!
(Click image for more…)

Yep, I actually did it… I got one. While the iPod is charging I’m going to tear my dashboard apart so that I can build a shelf for the iPod in place of the OEM cassette deck. We’ll see how that goes… I’m all excited, though.

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iPod

May 30, 2003

Well, I think I’ve decided what I’m going to do for music playing in the car and the living room. I think an Apple iPod will be the best solution. Now, which one to get… The 15GB is $399, but the 30GB, twice the size, is only $100 more. I’m thinking that if I don’t get the 30GB, I’ll be kicking myself in a few months wanting the larger one. Now, where to get it… And when… It’d be nice to have it engraved, just in case there was any confusion, it’d have my info on it. It’s also be nice to have AAC compression, but I can wait either until I get a Apple or iTunes for Windows comes out. We’ll have to see… Maybe I’ll hook up the RCA <-> 3.5mm cable today and see if this project is really something I want to do.

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May 29, 2003

Hmm. Does anyone know where to get custom car parts made? What I’m looking for specifically is a replacement center console cover for a 2000 Grand Am. There’s lots of room in the center console, and I want to move the fan controls down a bunch and have room for an 8″ or so touch screen LCD. There would be plenty of room behind the console to add a PC/104-based computer, which would be booted from CompactFlash, and the music could be stored on a FireWire or USB 2.0 hard drive in the trunk. I think the whole thing could be put together for under $500, and it’d be really nice to have a completely custom system like this. It might even be possible to add a radio tuner.

Or, I could just rerip all my music to MP3 and get either an mp3-enabled stereo or an iPod. I think the iPod might be cheaper at this point, as my stereo already has line level ins.

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April 22, 2003

I’m thinking of moving nuxx.net to being hosted straight out of my house. All I’ll be doing is mail and the current amount of web hosting that I am now, namely /gallery and random stuff in /images and /pdf. The only thing I could think is that it might be good not to do my own primary DNS, that way if my IP changes it’ll be real easy to point things to the right place. We’ll have to see… If I have time after the blind install I’m going to watch Powaqqatsi while working on getting exim or sendmail, apache, php4, random imap or pop3 server, and bind running on golgotha (the file server). Or maybe bind should go on the firewall itself… Or maybe djbdns… I’m so confused! heh.

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