From the monthly archives:
A friend sent me an e-mail, in it he asked:
How does one defrag their computer?
My reply back:
Well…
You remove the hard drive from the system and using an electron microscope you need to examine each individual hard drive cluster (there are 180,000 of them) and using a special de-fragment tool (looks like a kitchen knife but [...]
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Jim Blumenfeld sent me an e-mail detailing his customized Denkimono Alarm Clock/Timer kit.
from the e-mail:
Thought you would enjoy the attached pictures of the Denkimono clock kit. I’ve been working with them on custom programming for my specific application. The next spin of the PCB board will have more mounting holes and provisions to [...]
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Because people don’t already know I’m a Geek - this is what I went as this past Halloween.
The Geiger counter, which I found while browsing The Electronic Goldmine inspired the costume. I started with the Geiger Counter which (as disclosed by EG) was broke to begin with. I added blue LEDs on the gauge in [...]
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