Finally slapped together a stand for my thickness planer today. I haven't been using the planer as much since it has been on the floor and it is so heavy I haven't wanted to move it where I can actually use it. I've been putting off making the stand for a little while after making my "fancy" utility cart. I kept thinking I would make the planer stand the same way, and the utility cart had a lot of half-lap joints and dados so it took a while to get it all cut and...

Right now in my entertainment center I've got a Sony Vega TV, Yamaha RXV-1000 receiver, GoVideo VCR, TiVo, Slink-e, and an HP Vectra VL400 computer with KnoppMyth installed. The receiver and the VCR both have serial ports and are hooked into the Linux computer, along with the Slink-e. The TiVo has an ethernet card in it, but currently does not run the web server since it tends to cause the TiVo to lock up and reboot. I wrote a daemon about 5 years ago to manage my entertainment center...

Ok, this is just a rant more than anything. I've been using VNC for years, and I just don't understand why over anything less than a 100baseT link it's so unusable. And even over 100baseT it's marginal. I connect via any client to a remote X11 VNC server, and bring up a terminal and start typing, and it LAGS by minutes! Why is it so hard to send the 10x10 pixel block of the last character I typed? What the heck is it sending back and forth during that entire time before it does...

Finally moved and in our new place and getting back to work. Got in a Depthcharge that was supposed to be working and only have power supply issues. Hooked up the game board on the bench and guess what? It doesn't work, it's got a short from +5 to GND. Nice! Started looking all over to see if something got bent or there's a lump of something where there shouldn't be. Looking at the back I see someone had to make a huge modification to the original design. The ground trace...

I ordered the test procedures from Marco. I got a cheaply assembled photocopy manual. The schematics in it are incomplete and have been copied so many times that they are close to impossible to read. First thing I did was check out the power board. Opening it up I found a board that looks very similar to a Midway 8080 style power board. I found the input voltages were fine, but the 5V and 18V out were very low. After checking voltages around the board I found that nothing was getting across the...