Sep 01
The best hardware for a mythtv frontend by far. It runs is NVIDIA ion chipset, so its Linux compatible almost straight out of the box. I managed to purchase Linux versions so I didn’t need to pay for Windows.
I wouldn’t doubt them to be awesome backends as well, as they have 6 usb’s and an esata port.
Aug 31
Here is a awesome little cable I’ve made. I changed computers as I was having troubles with the old one. When I was browsing for what I wanted the last thing I thought about was a fan jumper to plug my cupboard mounted 12 volt fan into. But fortunately I’ve been lucky my fan will run (slowly – yet perfectly) on the usb 5 volt rail.
I did do some tests once it was running. These included running and stall current draw. I found running draw was around 150ma and when I stopped the fan it registered 300ma. So all within usb’s 500ma abilities.
I used the pointy end of the usb cable that I had spare. I made the red and black wires longer than the others and soldered them onto 3x PCB pins. Check your fans wiring but mine was black center and red left. Now before I shunk the heatshrink I applied a small amount of hot glue on and round my work. This way when I applied heat to the heatshrink it made a tight join. I continued heating until I got it to the right size and some excess glue was expelled from the pins end.
I have heard not all fans turn on 5 volts. This one is a 90mm fan just in case you want to duplicate my results. Being that my fan is center negative if I do get the plug the wrong way around, it’s no problem. But you may need to mark yours.
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Aug 30
Yep, once again lanchbury.id.au is changing, but boy, wordpress is easy and simple to use. This change will mean I update this a lot more often. So Start Tuned . . . (I have archived the old website entries to new site.)
I am a system administrator for a perth, western australia company. I always tend to over exceed my job requirements and therefore you will benefit with support documents that will range from complex to easy, but it will be with images and the like that makes following me easy.
I will hopefully blog up, posting stuff that’s been going on in the life of me. This is just an idea as I don’t do facebook or twitter gotta put it somewhere.
I will hopefully take some photos on the hardware I’ve got running this website and the rest of my system. I always find that stuff interesting.
Apr 20
Thought I’d post this in case google picks it up before it finds it on a news website.
I walked into a [T]life Telstra shop this afternoon. I’ve been their favorite customer the past couple of weeks. Speaking to the guys there, they’ve mentioned that they are going for early release.
There are stock in every CBD store in Australia. So the pre release day this tomorrow (21st April, 21/4/2010). So basically get yourself to one of these stores as soon as you read this if you want one.
Now as for what plans it’s available on. The guy told me the only “codes” available we’re for a MRO (Mobile Repayment Option), I’m figuring like in my DSE days, the “codes” will be downloaded overnight so that it may go on plans for tomorrow.
My assumption seems correct as the Telstra website is showing it’s now (after today’s trading) available free on a customer $60 up plans. I’ve not yet found it on the business $65, which is what I’m planning on getting it on.
Hopefully in a few hours the website changes, otherwise I know where I’ll be 9am tomorrow.
PS, I’ve heard the Perth CBD [T]life have 100 units 🙂