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Category: Technology
Softstarter (ballast start) relay charred after years of use
This is an interesting case. I made a sound system for a friend in 2012. In it is a soft-starter, that engages the heavy transformer through a ballast, so that the fuse doesn't trip. This is it:
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Digital audio passthrough on TVs
I was researching how TVs pass through audio coming in from HDMI, and I found this. Just dumping it here as memory. Read More »
Spectre and Meltdown Status
Just some quick links with the status of Spectre and Meltdown:
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Writing bootable disk images (.iso, .img, etc.) to a USB stick from Windows
Because Windows doesn't have dd, and I want to write the latest Mint LTS release to a USB task, I had to face the unpleasant task of finding a Windows tool to perform what's a basic Unix operation. The good news is that I found one, and it's open source: Win32 Disk Imager. It even has a version ≥ 1, titled: “Holy cow, we made a 1.0 Release”.
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Low noise linear power supply
Just as a note to self mostly: this is an interesting article about the noise in a LM317/LM337 based power supply.
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Web print is still shit, even for CSS2 print features
Having spent ten yours out of the loop, I had somehow expected browser makers to take some time out of their favorite hobby—moving knobs and settings around—to implement CSS printing support. I'm all for saving paper and all, but requiring me to pipe my HTML through LaTeX to produce halfway decent documents doesn't feel very 2017ish to me. In 2007, it already didn't even feel very 2007is to me.
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Termination of High-Speed Converter Clock Distribution Devices
Clearing up something from my inbox:
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Hike for Pie – clear lakes
There has been much talk of the "Hike for Pie" in my family-in-law, and we finally figured our for sure where it is. It's the trail to clear lake, trail head parking lot at GPS coordinates:
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Angel/BULL logo doodle
Earlier this week, I was doodling a BULL, then gave it a dress, and suddenly it seemed like a good idea to base a logo on for Angel/BULL.
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