Posts in the category “Hardware”
computers, accessories, printers, mp3 players, brains in vats, etc.
Chinese Instructions
Translating Chinese is fun.
iPod Your Car
If you’ve been suffering with a pathetic iTrip or getting by with the barely acceptable Belkin TuneCast II, then you will love the AirPlay FM transmitter for iPod from XtremeMac. I don’t know how they did it, but it packs a much more powerful transmitter into a device about a fifth the size of the
NEC SuperScript 870
I own an NEC SuperScript 870 laser printer. When I bought it – sometime towards the end of 2000 – I was incredibly thrilled. (I had actually bought one sometime in ’99, I think. Then I moved to California and couldn’t bring the world’s most-economical, feature-rich, best-performing printer with me. So I bought another one
Personal LAN
This Is a Call Can any of my beautiful readers recommend a good link for connecting PCs? I’m looking for some sort of PC-to-PC software. I have a USB cable designed for PC-to-PC communications, but the software provided is chunkus blowus. (That’s Latin for “blows chunks”, of course.) I’ve been searching Google and NoNags but
Oqo
A little tiny computer running Windows XP
Coffee Shop Photo
In which I discover digital photography
Strange Input
A crazy input device
Yes. My site was down for almost 13 hours. My web host has told me to make this my official reply to anyone that asks why they could not access my site: “You don’t want to know, but I’ll tell you one thing, never rent web space from Chileans.”
Heh. I was only kidding. Yes, I am a computer programmer. I wasn’t kidding about that. (Although “computer programmer” is not usually what people think when they think of me.) But I wasn’t really worried about getting this thing running with a sound card. Hello? How hard is that? I freakin’ built Bud from scratch, y’know? Fooling with HSND02 here is not that big a shmeal. So now we are ready to go. Woo. Hoo. Goodbye MiniDisc action, hello mp3s.
Hardware Sucks
Heh. Cool. I’m a computer programmer. I am not a hardware guy. I am using a server as a development machine. The hardware guy just gave me a sound card and a screwdriver. Let’s see if I can do this … <Dr. Nick>Good night, Everybody!</Dr. Nick>