Mecworks

11/25/2005

Sonic Impact T-Amp Power Supply PCB design and mods

Filed under: Shop Work, Mecworks R&D, Tech — marc @ 9:27 am
The Sonic Impact T-amp
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I ordered 4 Sonic Impact T-Amps which arrived a week ago. I will be reboxing them. One for the office…one for home. Maybe some Christmas presents too.

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Thanksgiving!

Filed under: Family — marc @ 8:57 am

Well, I’m recovering from eating way too much food! For Thanksgiving, my older sister and I took some of out nices and nephews to see Chicken Little. It was really fun to be with them. The movie was pretty funny too. It had a lot of music and humor for the adults there.

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11/15/2005

SLLUG November 16th Meeting: Blackdog USB powered Linux Server - uber cool!

Filed under: Linux — marc @ 5:28 pm

Here’s a copy of the original announcement:

The Salt Lake Linux Users Group ( SLLUG ) All are invited to the October 2005 SLLUG meeting:

Date: Wednesday, November 16th, 2005 Time: 7:10 PM Cost: $0.00. Zip. Nada. Place: Engineering and Mines Classroom Building (EMCB) room 101 Directions: See directions and map URL at the bottom of this page

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Jeff Waugh Robbed in Montreal, Heads back to Australia!

Filed under: Linux — marc @ 8:56 am

Jeff Waugh was robbed in Montreal. As a result, he will be returning to Australia rather than complete his tour. For those who don’t know Jeff, here’s a bio from the O’Reilly European OpenSource Convention:

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11/11/2005

The Mecworks “server room”

Filed under: Linux, Mecworks R&D — marc @ 11:33 am

Here’s a picture of my “server room”. I couldn’t afford a rack at the moment but had an unused storage shelf in the basement. So, here you see the extremely expensive (ha!) Mecworks setup:

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Blogshares?

Filed under: General — marc @ 7:59 am

Apparently my blog is listed on blogshares. I have not heard of this site before…

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11/8/2005

Nikon(R) Unveils the New D200(TM) Digital SLR Camera

Filed under: Photography, Tech — marc @ 3:42 pm
Nikon

Nikon has officially announced it’s new Digial SLR camera: the D200. While a bit tardy the text of the official press release follows:

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Moved computers to the server room

Filed under: Linux — marc @ 12:06 am

I finally got tired of having all my noisy rack-mount computers in my bedroom. They sounded like a jet engine all night long. So, I’ve moved two out of the three into my second bedroom and set up a storage shelf for them. I’ll move the third one when I have time to replace it with my ShuttleX and turn the rack-mount Athlon64 into my MythTV box.

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