Chris’ Miscellanea

Just for reference: Booting up a CS407, this is what you can see on the serial port (jumper block near the SATA connectors, 2=GND, 4=Tx, 6=R...

Years after I got my thunderbolt GPS controlled clock I finally managed to connect the precise pulse-per-second signal to my linux-based ...

Getting rid of the remaining (small, not really useable for anything) pieces of wood left over from the garden-shed project. (Update: Last...

After a looooooooooong time, my garden-shed project is nearing its completion. From chris' blog From chris' blog Previously

Illumination by thunderstorms, and the transmitter’s beacon lights

I have a small UB1002 mixer from Behringer connected to my computer, but one of the annoying things about this (otherwise very cost-effecti...

I have problems with a Promise NS4600 which seems to suffer from corruptions of its flash memory. For debugging, it's useful to be able...

I'm currently debugging a problem with SATA harddrives in a NAS and there is a certain series of SAMSUNG drives that have a nasty data c...

These are old pictures from when we visited the AKR2 reactor at the university of Dresden in March 2009.

tl;dr: Today I tried to pay via PayPal for the first time in my life, it’s broken and sucks really hard. In principle there should be the p...

Seen on the packaging of a IKEA cupboard.

This thing *really* needs some more colourful illumination…

This photo has been taken in August! From chris' blog From chris' blog

Update to enable future updates… You just can’t make that up.

  There’s a battle going on between two musicians over on youtube: KurtHugoSchneider: "Baby" ... on RECORDER?!?! JakeBruene: T...

dvblast is kind of neat… :-) Streaming 4 programmes (one DVB-T transponder/frequency) to a windows machine running 4 vlc decoders.   $ d...

  I was looking for the cause of a erratic jumping mouse cursor (about once every minute moving, clicking, …) when I suddenly realized that ...