Another boring day in the life....

woke up again at 4am. What was supposed to be a quick nap at 8pm last night turned into an 8 hour snooze. Puttered about, had a smoke, then dropped back into bed and caught up on my reading for a bit. Then meandered down to the grog shop, picked up some pigsnacks (thank you shaun of the dead I shall never call them pork rinds again) s'more coke, and wandered back for faffage.

madscot, I so fucking love you right now. I'm watching the tape of the 2005 series of Doctor Who and loving every minute of it. Gotta remember to leave it out for CJ to watch :D (yah, I've downloaded and watched them already, but there's just something about seeing it off a VCR tape that gives me the fuzzies)

I said earlier I had the structural work done on Meshuggah, but that's not quite true. I ran into a slight problem whilst modifying the hard swap bays on the hard disks - I'm using a metal shim to hold the smaller IDE circuitry in place of the SCSI, but the metal I'm using is too thin to actually hold up to any pressure when connecting the PCB inside the actual caddy to the rack inside the case. I managed to get a test one up and holding in place - but to do so, I had to mount it upside down, which completely roots my plan of using the existing screwholes in the caddies to secure the hard disks.

So, being me, I'm ghetto rigging it :D

I've got an old cardboard whiteboard/calendar thingie I dug out of the garage yesterday - the cardboard is thicker than the metal, and easier to work with, so I reckon I could probably make up a secure brace for the circuit board with that, and then use the metal shim as an earth and to prevent the cardboard overheating and catching fire.

At least that's the theory. *wields stanley knife with glee*

Someone mentioned that I'm using the geek icon far too much on my LJ of late. What can I say? I'm a big fat nerd :D (and lovin' it)

More updates on how the rack modification shall eventuate...even if no one reads these but me :P



Oh, goody, it looks like it's gonna piss down today. Yay. And I'll bet it's waiting until I leave for torasin's place later on today before commencing. Bastard.

Another boring day in the life....

woke up again at 4am. What was supposed to be a quick nap at 8pm last night turned into an 8 hour snooze. Puttered about, had a smoke, then dropped back into bed and caught up on my reading for a bit. Then meandered down to the grog shop, picked up some pigsnacks (thank you shaun of the dead I shall never call them pork rinds again) s'more coke, and wandered back for faffage.

madscot, I so fucking love you right now. I'm watching the tape of the 2005 series of Doctor Who and loving every minute of it. Gotta remember to leave it out for CJ to watch :D (yah, I've downloaded and watched them already, but there's just something about seeing it off a VCR tape that gives me the fuzzies)

I said earlier I had the structural work done on Meshuggah, but that's not quite true. I ran into a slight problem whilst modifying the hard swap bays on the hard disks - I'm using a metal shim to hold the smaller IDE circuitry in place of the SCSI, but the metal I'm using is too thin to actually hold up to any pressure when connecting the PCB inside the actual caddy to the rack inside the case. I managed to get a test one up and holding in place - but to do so, I had to mount it upside down, which completely roots my plan of using the existing screwholes in the caddies to secure the hard disks.

So, being me, I'm ghetto rigging it :D

I've got an old cardboard whiteboard/calendar thingie I dug out of the garage yesterday - the cardboard is thicker than the metal, and easier to work with, so I reckon I could probably make up a secure brace for the circuit board with that, and then use the metal shim as an earth and to prevent the cardboard overheating and catching fire.

At least that's the theory. *wields stanley knife with glee*

Someone mentioned that I'm using the geek icon far too much on my LJ of late. What can I say? I'm a big fat nerd :D (and lovin' it)

More updates on how the rack modification shall eventuate...even if no one reads these but me :P



Oh, goody, it looks like it's gonna piss down today. Yay. And I'll bet it's waiting until I leave for torasin's place later on today before commencing. Bastard.

bugger

madscot, I won't be able to send those DVDs this week. I've started copying them (yeah, I'm slack) but the menu and the structure is a lot more complex than I had thought - it's taking me on average about 2 1/2 hours per DVD just to get a working structure I can burn.

Bugger.

bugger

madscot, I won't be able to send those DVDs this week. I've started copying them (yeah, I'm slack) but the menu and the structure is a lot more complex than I had thought - it's taking me on average about 2 1/2 hours per DVD just to get a working structure I can burn.

Bugger.