Chris’ Miscellanea

I really love vmware. Expect more posting next week when I'll be on shift.

For testing a external USB DVD-burner I needed "something" to test it with. That brought me to 2 packs of CDR-blanks that have b...

I found a nice a old HP 82240 thermal printer in the cellar once. You can use it to print stuff from those pretty HP reverse-polish calc...

The scope is set to 0.2us/DIV x 10 on the horizontal axis. Power consumption is after about 10 minutes of warmup.

Here are our tax-euros hard at work. I just had a visit from a guy of the german TÜV here checking the portable electrical equipment. Note t...

I think, I got it...

We are ordering lot of things (clothes, books, kids' toys) online. Which leaves me with the task of paying the bills found in the parce...

The RAM died.

A transformer died.

I inherited a interesting looking old ISA card. After closer inspection it appears, that it houses a INMOS T400 , a Transputer CPU ! Absolu...

Three things found next to eachother in the hospital. Bell, No Bell, Bell.

10 m 3 garbage container

Wij vertrouwen stemcomputers niet have analysed the election computers that are used in the netherlands and found out that they have a hu...

After the attempted train-bombings here in germany, our minister of the interior promptly declared that he had already spoken to the repre...

Words cannot describe the amount of lint deposited in and onto the keyboards I am forced to use.