… and yet, I managed to get my USB stick to half-working condition again. Not great, but good enough to get my data off of it. Oh yeah, this one also broke during my year long 2008 – Year of the Dead Hardware ‘event’, even before my headset died. Actually, it wasn’t really a hardware …
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I can’t hear you!
Continuing 2008 – Year of the Dead Hardware, my trusty old SENNHEISER PC-150 headset kicked the bucket today. Cause of death: Broken Cable. I guess that’s the ultimate fate for pretty much any headset or headphones, but I’m glad it took this one a good few years to actually meet it. (As opposed to the …
Microsoft’s horrible keyboards, part 2
A few of you may remember my rant about Microsoft’s very un-ultimate keyboard. Well, I recently had to install a bunch of new machines and couldn’t believe my eyes as I started unpacking their keyboards. I mean, I’ve become used to the unnecessary reordering of the Insert/Home/PgUp block like this:
New theme / lost my USB key cap
All right, the good news is that I finally switched my wordpress theme from old: to new: Yeah, yeah, everybody and their brother uses it, so why should I be different and innovative? OK, I hacked mine to work in resolutions up to 1600 (the original one has issues with the background when reaching 1280×1024) …
My dead navigations system
OK, I finally dissected the cradle and found out the following: – On the back of th cradle, there are 4 metal pieces that hold the thread for the screws that attach the cradle to the car-windshield-holder. One of the screws was loose (probably due to the constant rattling the craddle takes when attached to …