Posted in Electronics, General rambling on Jun 28th, 2006 No Comments »
It just isn’t my week.. Two devices, three months out of warranty, both failing at roughly the same time. First there’s my Mitsubishi DiamondPlus 74SB CRT monitor. The antiglare coating’s peeling off the CRT. Called NEC-Mitsubishi, and as far as they were concerned “it’s impossible for the antiglare coating to come off in normal use”. [...]
Posted in Electronics on Jun 8th, 2006 No Comments »
I found a few interesting opamp-related application notes today: National Semiconductor’s “Op-amp Circuit Collection” (PDF). This is a 33-page appnote stuffed full of opamp circuits, ranging from the basics right up to function generators and filters. Well worth a look. Texas Instruments’ “A Single-Supply Op-Amp Circuit Collection” (PDF). A bit like the NSC appnote, but [...]
Posted in Computers, Politics, Rants on Jun 1st, 2006 No Comments »
I guess you’ve probably heard this by now, but here it is again just in case you haven’t… The Pirate Bay BitTorrent tracker servers have been seized by Swedish police, apparently under pressure from the Media Mafia (read: Hollywood and the MPAA). Seems that not only have TPB’s servers been taken, but also other servers [...]
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