Posted in Computers, General rambling on Sep 30th, 2005 No Comments »
Those of you who know me will probably know that I’m helping a friend out with his webhosting company. We’ve been up and running for a few months now, and have had no end of trouble with our upstream provider who for the moment shall remain nameless (at least until I do a tar -zcf [...]
Posted in Electronics on Sep 27th, 2005 No Comments »
I just got my greasy mitts on a Tungsram DG7-32 oscilloscope CRT and matching socket. The tube looks brand new – no screen burns. The socket is used, but that doesn’t really matter. Now all I need is a power supply for it. Let’s see.. 6.3V at 300mA for the heater filament, +500V G2/G4, +120V [...]
Posted in Electronics on Sep 25th, 2005 No Comments »
Just ordered myself a DG7/32 CRT tube and matching socket from Crowthorne Tubes. I’m planning to build a scope clock, but I’m going to build it so I can split off the CRT assembly and use it as an X/Y display, then bolt on the scope clock when I’ve finished. The plus side is, that [...]
Posted in Computers on Sep 23rd, 2005 No Comments »
I’ve just found another programming language to learn – Lua. Looks pretty neat. Sort of a mini, extensible version of PHP.
Posted in General rambling on Sep 20th, 2005 No Comments »
Why is it that whenever I want to update my blog, w.bloggar breaks? Gah.
Posted in Computers on Sep 14th, 2005 No Comments »
I’ve just had to deal with a problem with PostgreSQL installing on Win32. Seems if a previous install fails, you can’t make another installation attempt without zapping the remnants of the old Postgres installation. So, here’s how you clean up after postgres: Tidying up Start button, Run. Enter “lusrmgr.msc” and click OK. Select “Users” on [...]
Posted in General rambling on Sep 9th, 2005 No Comments »
Thanks to those of you who visited my site after seeing it mentioned on Hack A Day. You guys have clocked up over 960MB in bandwidth and over 72,350 page hits. A fine Slashdotting, although perhaps not on as great a scale as a real Slashdotting I’m working on a welder controller now – the [...]
Posted in General rambling on Sep 7th, 2005 No Comments »
Forgot to link to the Hack A Day page – d’oh! Clicky-clicky!
Posted in Electronics on Sep 7th, 2005 1 Comment »
Woohoo! One of my projects made the front page of Hack A Day! I suppose this means my server’s going to get Slashdotted (um, HackADay’d?) into oblivion. Oh well, such is life I guess. A few folks wanted a parts list for the welder, so here goes: 5x 120,000uF 25V capacitors Sourced from Mainline Surplus, [...]
Posted in Electronics on Sep 6th, 2005 1 Comment »
The new AC inlet module for my Solartron 7150plus arrived this morning. I spent an hour or so cleaning up the last of the brown ick, then fitted the new power module. Great fun – not. I might put a pair of gloves on later and do a destructive failure analysis on the old power [...]
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