Chris’ Miscellanea

 

I migrated this blog to new blogger, that's why the link to my friends' blogs are missing. Will be repaired soon.

(you have to crank up the gain to the maximum to hear anything, but it works...)

Since last thursday, train station from where I live is less than perfect, at least I can admire the romantic landscape while waiting.

Improvements made to our ticket-machine on the train station. It's amazing how many idiots there are in the upper palatinate.

Destroyed glass-wall of a refuge at my local bus stop.

If you want to register at the Student's Registry (which was sold for €85M to Holtzbrinck recently!) you are presented with this regis...

We ordered samples from Analog Devices before christmas, today they arrived. We are happy about that, of course, but they arrived with a ...

After a lovely breakfast I started doing shift in the bunker.

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.