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New studio computer coming
With the recent rearrangement of computer roles in my place, I’ve been left without a dedicated studio workstation. I made an attempt at running my home photo gallery on my old home office P2, but that was a failure. The computer was just too slow to handle Apache, MySQL, PHP and Gallery2 with a reasonably…
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DLO HomeDock for iPod is crap!
The DLO HomeDock has a great set of features at a great price, but goddamn it sounds awful! But maybe it can be fixed.
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Leviton HCS10 X-10 switch repair
My front porch lights stopped working some time ago. Today I was able to narrow down the fault to the Leviton HCS10 X-10-controlled wall-switch. The relay in the switch was clicking, but no power was coming out on the blue lead. Figuring I had nothing to lose, I decided to attempt to repair the module.…
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Harmony 628 remote limitations
Certain aspects of the Harmony 628 (and, I suspect, other Harmony remotes) are starting to irritate me. What’s really stupid is how easily they could be fixed. On the “Customize Buttons” pages, you can assign certain functions to the six buttons beside the LCD (three on each side). The functions can then (in theory) vary…
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Bad Linksys WRT54GS failure mode
I have set up the nested wireless network scheme I wrote about here. The “inner” network is maintained by a new LinkSys WRT54GS wireless router. But I’m seeing an occasional failure on the WRT54GS that displeases me mightily. Sometimes, it gets into a state where the power LED blinks, and the wireless features become unavailable.…