I find myself in possession of two dead Irobot Scooba Battery Packs and no working robotic floor mops. I decided it was worth doing the tear down on one just to see how tough it could be to rebuild it myself. It took about 30 minutes only because I tried to be careful not to [...]
For a couple of months, I’ve been plagued with errors trying to update Quickbooks. I’m greeted with various errors during the installation that point me back to pages on the Intuit website that describe lengthy procedures for modifying registry permissions. Naturally, these are “last resort” options after trying to repair my Quickbooks installation, reinstalling Quickbooks, [...]
According to RJMcMamara.com, if you are in possession of an NXT Intelligent Brick with a faulty display, LEGO Customer Service will now replace them at no charge. Do you own an NXT ‘Intelligent Brick’ with a flickery or non-working display? Steven Canvin, LEGO’s Community Manager for LEGO MINDSTORMS, has asked us to pass on this [...]
I just came back from a short trip this past Saturday and learned that my newly minted PO Box had been previously rented to someone else just days before I signed up for it. Consequently, a small number of camp registrations may have been returned to sender. Fortunately, the lady who runs our post office [...]
We added a particularly interesting aluminum liftarm today. This beam has one flat end and is threaded on this end. This lets you attach it to any standard Technic-compatible part at a perpendicular direction to the existing beam. Using this new part, we can now build L and T beams of varying lengths. The other [...]
I’ve decided it would be fun to build a homebrew weather station. I purchased a Lantronix Matchport Kit a few months ago from GridConnect. My original idea for an entry in the Lantronix Wireless Design Contest was a robotic watchdog that would wander around the house and record suspicious activity to a PC connected through [...]
Sounds like spam from a software pirate or some other flighty come-on, doesn’t it? I’ve been looking at Novell’s new SuSE Linux Enterprise software and thought I would do a little cost comparison between Novell’s Open Workgroup Server and Microsoft’s latest Small Business Server. Check the how to buy page for yourself for pricing. Now, [...]
Most of the phishing emails I get for eBay are pretty obvious. Besides the typos and poor english, they usually link directly to arcane websites. Today I got one that took me to a listing on eBay which contained a login intercept. The script presents a reasonable looking signin form, obfuscates your login and the [...]
A year ago, I finally got a new laptop to replace my aging Fujitsu LifeBook 420D. By aging I mean decrepid. By decrepid, I mean Pentium 120 with no USB, a broken CD-ROM and a misaligned floppy drive. The kind of laptop that makes me cringe when I show up at a customer’s site and [...]
The other day, one of my websites was defaced by a scripted hack. I’m still not sure exactly how they got in, but I assume I can thank the recently identified SQL Injection exploits such as this one since the hack was accomplished by replacing the footer values in my PHP-Nuke configuration database. During the [...]
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