Sometimes you need to isolate your holographic lasers from vibration or perhaps just your AC transformers and tubes on your home audio equipment. In either case, these Norborene (“Norsorex“) Stabilizing Spheres, also known as the “Happy Unhappy Balls“, are a fantastic deal. For $35 you get a package of 15 and if you cut them [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Technology’
June 17, 2010
Automated Ripping Potential & that Vintage USB Typewriter
Went to Hive 76 for their open house night on Wednesday to check out the space. While I was there Jack Zylkin demoed his very cool Arduino based vintage typewriter > USB Keyboard hack, and it’s actually quite ingenious and cool. There are contact relays underneath the main typewriter carriage and he uses magnets for other registers and [...]
April 14, 2010
Zoe & Mark, Blingee!
Found this buried from last Winter on Zoe’s laptop. Somehow I don’t think she ever showed it to me. It’s amazing what you can put together these days on the web, for further examples see http://blingee.com.
April 5, 2010
Buffalo & DD-WRT still kicking ass
My Buffalo WHR-G54S is up and running at another friends’ home in NY. That’s two fresh routers (well one Tomato firmware update) and one used replacement for the utter rubbish Netgear WGR614 v3. The Netgear had an Atheros chipset from 2002 and the firmware prior to flashing an update was 2003. I [...]
November 15, 2009
OMG GRUB2 so doesn’t work with GRUB 1.5
I mentioned to both Aris and CC about not being able to get GRUB going, but as it turns out, OpenSUSE had overwritten my 1st 9.04 Xubuntu configuration’s GRUB with it’s own (I believe 1.5) but I’d installed OpenSUSE on a secondary 1.0 TB drive…. when I reformatted that 1.0 TB drive from within a [...]
September 24, 2009
Unetbootin, Vista 32bit hell and other stories
Zoe had a friend who was having some computer problems and I suppose to some extent I brought this upon myself. Thankfully, I now have a strategy. Of course this is probably like 10 hours where I am far too deep in to start strategizing, but I now have a strategy.
Lets pretend for a moment [...]
September 14, 2009
iPod Touch has 802.11n! But it’s not enabled! Zing!
I went to the Apple Store on 5th Ave before doing a little bouldering in Central Park. Chris sent the Polish Traverse and made it look effortless. At least someone is in shape. So, I stopped by Apple and asked what they knew about the 802.11n chipset on the latest model iPod Touch. Nothing. They [...]
September 10, 2009
Darwine you are a fine Wine.
For whatever reason I’d never played around with application compatibility layer software like Wine under OS X. Parallels and VMware are quite overkill for most people’s purposes. Usually the user may need to run one application in the guest OS and setting up an entire VM and giving 10GB or whatever over to that [...]
