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New Toy – 19xx Yamaha Chappy
This is an original ad for my new (old) toy, a Yamaha Chappy most probably made in the seventies, imported from Japan into Thailand. Actually, it has all the signs…
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A couple tech links
These are really good: Our Electric Future by Andy Grove (of Intel fame) A Trio of Videos of Neal Stephenson Talking About SF
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Crude/Elegant S-Video connector hack for solving B&W output on Nvidia graphic cards
The title basically sums it up. I think it’s really stupid that Nvidia hasn’t fixed the TV output issues for several years, through tens of driver upgrades. Anyway, I tore…
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Hiropro Gear Update
This is a quick update to my post from a few years ago, entitled, Stephenson as Prophet. A company called Dainese (apparently not Italian for “Die Chinese”) has developed a…
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Goodbye PHS
It seems that DoCoMo killed off the Personal Handyphone System service last week (Slashdot JP link). The PHS phones were attractive when we were students (specifically around 1995) because of…
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15 Months no BT
Bittorrent, I’m back. I know you missed me. But Demonoid’s gone! NOOOOOO! I was one of the few users to upload half a terabyte; I was going to use that…
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RE: MT4 Captcha System
It sucks.
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I love PuTTY.
Just testing out the new software, yo.
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I traded my 100Mbps FTTH for mangosteens and monkeys…
…And I think I made the right decision. This article by Robert Cringely hits home, though. My theoretical download speed is now 1/50 of what it was last year in…
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Apple Form Factor Graphic
This chart is pretty cool because every model I’ve ever owned is on it (including the Apple //c our dad bought for us), except for my trusty old Powerbook 190.…
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odo trick – I [heart] OCD
One of my “borderline” traits is my fascination with numbers, especially numerical readouts (this also partially explains my fascination with pachinko and the like). Some numbers and patterns just mean…
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TF-DVD7100 Region Free hack
The TF-DVD7100 (or TFDVD7100) was marketed under different brands in different countries, including the PRISM and COBY brands. Depending on the firmware, the following region hack can be performed by…
