I finally have my laser engraver in, after two months at port due to insane fucking importer fees. Nice piece of equipment. I thought I was about to get ripped off for $330. Noooooope. This beast is a straight industrial-class machine.

Let's say I'm running a servo off PoE, 48V. The servo at maximum can handle 30V. Assuming that, could I toss 18V worth of LED drop in there, and still have PWM control signals pass through cleanly from LED to the servo motor, since the LED is a passive component? I'm thinking that this would serve also as an indicator for operation, as if it is on obviously the signal/current/voltage is passing and the circuit is complete.

RIP Sweet Jupiter kitty. 23-24 years is an awesome life for a kitty. I'm so sorry I had to end your life in a sterile and noisy environment instead of letting you die in peace at home, you were suffering too much. Have a good journey, little one.

Anyone that wants his contact info, or that of any of his relatives, let me know. My info fees are very cheap (on the order of cents versus nearly hundreds of dollars which any other site generally tries to charge/nickel-dime you out of.)

I have to suspect that my CFO knows about my inherent ability to either make things right or seriously fuck things up by simply being present or part of something. Go figure as soon as he tosses me into the cryptocurrency ring, everything drops like a fucking rock. Bitcoin almost below 13K, ETH was at 800 and now in the 600 range, Ripple rose and fell with only the tiniest overall gain since I looked at it the first time, but of course those bastards can't send me the e-mail to finish making a Ripple wallet. I'd be willing to bet once I get out of this, the market will go back up, and until then, it's downhill from here. But that'd be the good thing, as the CFO would then be able to get all of this for cheap, and wait for the next inevitable irrational rise after he pulls me out of the game.

Only good thing I've pulled so far is figuring out how to get this GTX 970 to pull 12Mh/s when unconfigured it only does ~3Mh/s, and that took some risky driver fiddling and overclocking after telling the card to optimize for compute, and then doing what I could to eke out additional memory bandwidth.

See Have Bruce Perens Keynote Your Confference at perens.com

Just sitting here, fiance has gotten home, moved his mouse to bring Windows 10 computer back out of idle/monitor/disk off state. Apple iTunes kicks up the UAC prompt asking for permission to upgrade. Fiance is on the toilet, I'm sitting in my chair playing a PSP game. Suddenly the monitors light up brightly - the UAC prompt, without any user interaction, has been dismissed and the iTunes upgrade window is showing. What the fuck? Which asshole is at fault, here? Apple, or Microsoft?

Just cruising the internet, and happen upon this - https://youtu.be/a0KloWxffpc

Trying to fake a subwoofer in your laptop, Lenovo?

I was breaking away some calcite when an unusual glimmer caught my attention.

I've run a few tests. It tarnishes black under oxidizing flame and does not emit a color. I cannot hold a sample well enough with any of my tools to get a scratch or streak test done.

http://imgur.com/a/PAHgz - a couple of pictures of the material, freed from the calcite matrix in which it was found.

It's dense. Water puffing easily moved dense garnet sand away from it while it remained relatively still.

The measurements taken on one sample grain were as follows: ~0.7mm length, ~0.7mm width, ~0.5mm thickness. Multimeter resistance measured at 35 Ohms. This gives me an electrical resistivity of 0.025 ohm meter, or 2.5 x 10^-2. I cannot find any metal with such listed electrical resistivity. My best bet would be that this is a semiconductor, given the relatively high resistivity, as pretty much every metal starts at 10^-6 to 10^-8.

I'm stumped!

Just got one in, damaged thanks to UPS. It was my father's amp, too.

http://i.imgur.com/2ra4xKC.jpg

Time to figure out this whole tangled mess.

Texas republican senator Ted Cruz is leading the fight to do the right thing regarding (non)renewal of the Patriot Act, to protect our Constitutional rights. Our other senator, John Cornyn, wants to renew the Patriot Act in full. Here is my letter to Cornyn.

As a career security professional, I implore you to reconsider your position regarding the Patriot Act, the USA Freedom Act, and the Fourth Amendment.

  For twenty years I have worked to keep protect American citizens, interests, and our way of life. Currently, I am employed at TEEX, where I work with our National Emergency Response And Rescue Training Center, assist in homeland security training, and support our role as a founding member of the National Cybersecurity Preparedness Consortium. I do this work in order to protect the American way of life, that we might be the beacon of freedom that the founders envisioned. The antithesis of this would be that the United States would be taken over by those who would subjugate the citizens. Our role, sir, is to protect Americans from not one specific foreign threat, but from any and all who would threaten our Constitutional liberties. Your current position, senator, places you on the wrong side of this fight. Please reconsider whether you wish to be the force fighting against the Constitution, against the fourth amendment, and against the American way of life. We work today, and will work at election time, to realize the vision of America as the brightest beacon of freedom and liberty in the world.

The above is my personal opinion only and does not reflect any opinion held by my employer.

So I was given an Intel DG41TY motherboard with a Core 2 Duo E7500, 2.9 GHz.

I wanted to OC the board a bit. Looking around, none of the direct FSB mod programs supported my clock generator.

Fuck it - we're bit-banging this motherfucker MANUALLY WITH A PIEZOELECTRIC LIGHTER IGNITOR.

Grab datasheets, start checking for how this thing interprets signals. Cool, now I know how this clock generator works, and how I need to feed electricity to it to generate my desired clock speed for the FSB. Solder on a couple of diodes for the voltage drop, add on a resistor. Attach to the appropriate pin. CLICK THE PIEZO. Watch the FSB ramp up 300 MHz and immediately lock the computer. Okay, math was off, let's re-figure what I... OH! Read the resistor value wrong! Derp. Okay proper resistor is on. Try again. Oooh! 1 MHz incrementation, PERFECT! Test... Test... Test....

https://media.8ch.net/g/src/1432181612589.png

Okay, CPU-Z is smoking crack. 15 GHz? I FUCKING WISH!

In the end, I got CPU-Z to report the real OC - 3.3GHz stable, zero voltage adjustments.

Just because the software to do it doesn't exist doesn't mean it can't be done another way.

I dreamed I bought a REALLY big computer monitor, but I didn't notice the brand until I opened the box and saw "Arrivals" printed on the bezel.

While trying to debug a site today (thanks to CloudFlare's Anti-DDoS blocking my customers from using anonymous/private mode browsing,) I discovered that CloudFlare's anti-DDoS measures will actively kill any instance of Firebug running in your browser. As a web developer, I find this pretty annoying. As a site administrator, I find their lack of respect for my customer's privacy appalling. But what I find even worse, is that CloudFlare is actively modifying my computer programs and how they operate, without any expressed permission or knowledge. Is this by any chance a potential CFAA violation?

The very man that taught me healthy cooking, my father, is now having to take healthy cooking advice from me in order to manage Type-II diabetes.

It hurts, and the irony is straight shitty. You'd think the old man would know better.

Guess alcohol affects us all in various ways. I know I'm a shit drunk.