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Continue reading →: Epson 3200 35mm scanning
Using my Dad’s new Epson 3200 scanner. Man, there are a lot of software settings, here are some guides to getting the scanning right: * Epson Perfection 3200 scanner: Impressions by Norman Koren, Benjamin Kanarek, and Guido Bruck
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Continue reading →: Plasma Balls
Alex and Calvin are working on understanding those strange plasma balls you see in science experiments. Here are some links: PLASMA BALLS. You can buy one. “History”:http://www.eng.utah.edu/~kier/history.html. History of the plasma ball. It’s actually a kind of Tesla Coil. Didn’t know that. So on to this fellow Nikola Tesla. Amongst…
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Continue reading →: The file comparisons
Since I’ve been overclocking, I’ve seen two cases where the file systems have gotten corrupted, so caveat emptor. Seems pretty serious on NTFS since it scrambles everything. For instance on one machine, I lost a big part of the file tables. On another, it corrupted the Windows installation. In order…
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Continue reading →: Shuttle ST61G4
Shuttle ST61G4. This could very well be the perfect Intel-based small form factor machine. Has a very fast ATI Radeon integrated graphics chipset (about half the speed of their top of the line card, which costs more than the entire Shuttle box!) Also has silencing technology to be quiet as…
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Continue reading →: Video Cards
Tom’s Hardware Guide Graphics Cards: VGA Charts Part III – . _Tom’s Hardware latest reviews now takes price into account, basically you can buy a $400 card (!!!) and it is 50% faster than a $150 card, so the sweetspot in the market is nVidia and ATI’s mid range card_…
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Continue reading →: ACL Website
Diary of an ACL Reconstruction. Had to happen, here is an entire site just devoted to getting your ACL back! “ACL links”:http://janet.braystudio.com/acl/links.htm. Her list of ACL related sites is great too. I like “Knee1”:http://knee1.com
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Continue reading →: Woo Hoo! John Ludwig using a SATA 10rpm drive
a little ludwig goes a long way: 10,000 RPM WD drive. Now that’s a fast drive. Smaller than what I normally use, but amazingly fast. Great tips on getting this right. I’ve only done standard EIDE so knowing the SATA trick is good.
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Continue reading →: XP Defragmenting
The Windows XP defragger – is it good enough for the enterprise?. I’ve been running the XP defragmenter quite a bit on the video machine. Man, is it slow. Also doesn’t seem to speed things up much. So I’m off to try some commercial defragmenters. Here’s a quick review: *…
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Continue reading →: Torn ACL on an MRI
Well, got the MRI’s of my knee and it looks like blobs of grey and black, but thanks to websites here’s a view of what it should look like and what it looks like torn. Yuck, lots of blood too. ACL MRI Pictures Normal and Torn Jennie thinks I’ve got…
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Continue reading →: Network Boot Disks
AppDeploy.com > The Network Boot Disk Creation Home Page. A place to figure out how to boot up from the network. I tried using Bart’s, but he’s exceeded his network bandwidth for the month 🙂 “Tech Republic”:http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-6268-1054824.html. Ther e is an old Netowrk Client Administrator utility on the old Windows…
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