Monday, November 24, 2003

My power supply blew up on my old computer.

Sure, it had to happen. It WAS a dodgy power supply after all, and the fact that it lasted over it's estimated six month lifespan was good enough for me. Heck it lasted over two years, and it didn't worry me too much, as a matter of fact it was quite funny. Reasonably dramatic reinactment below.

I plugged in the computer
10 second pass, then a large explosion occurs in my computer
The computer decides to turn itself on???
Smoke pours out of the back of the power supply
Computer posts. WTF???
I dive for the power switch

After removing the power supply and hearing a rattling noise come from within, i decided to open it up and inspect. It turns out that it's blown a capacitor. So... yeah. I'm getting one of these now.
It should be enough to satisfy my blue led fetish for a while.

Posted by Tim @ 07:19 PM CST [Link]

Sunday, November 16, 2003

From Chris,

No worries. Didja see http://www.riverland.net.au/~psid/rivwl/?
:) See the guywire? I Was standing horizontal rungs below
that! :o Itsa long way up! My arms were wrapped around the
horizontal bar one below the wire. I Was aiming to go 4 ABOVE
the wire, but was starting to feel movement in the tower, so
called it a day :)

another pic here

Posted by Tim @ 10:39 PM CST [Link]

Wednesday, November 12, 2003

Will be purchasing an ipac keyboard encoder soon. Sick of playing around with the solering iron :P. Will definately be making an effort to construct my arcade cabinet over the next two months. Keep an eye on the site for pictures in the future.

Posted by Tim @ 07:20 AM CST [Link]

Tuesday, November 4, 2003

RiverLAN 11 was a success. You can have a look at some pics here. If you're looking at playing some games in the Riverland region, why not come to RiverLAN 12.

Posted by Tim @ 06:08 PM CST [Link]

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