Monthly Archives: September 2009

Starry Night ISO Spread Animation

So I went out tonight and took a series of shots with my Nikon D60 at f3.5 @ 18mm for 30 seconds with ISO varying from 100 to 1600 and Hi1. What all that means is I took progressively more sensitive shots of the stars and it ended up being a cool animation. [Starry Night …

September 18th, 2009 – 2:15 am | By Ean | Posted in Daily Musings | Comments (0)

Are you kidding me Dell?

Are you? How do you explain this? It has been a full three (3) months since I first told you that you had sent me a laptop with a broken Ethernet port. Normally I’d be patient but after this long and the fact that you sent it to the other side of the country before …

September 9th, 2009 – 6:07 pm | By Ean | Posted in Daily Musings | Tagged | Comments (0)

Western Digital can DieInAFire

Are you fucking kidding me? 6 days to send me a hard drive I had to PAY NEARLY FULL PRICE FOR (probably more by now) in replacement for my dead, supposedly in-warranty hard drive? That’s actually 6 days after they acknowledged my order and submitted the billing information to UPS for my order. It took …

September 9th, 2009 – 10:39 am | By Ean | Posted in Daily Musings | Tagged | Comments (0)

The medium is the what now?

The medium is the message. I like many others, didn’t really understand what this now-common phrase meant. I went about my daily life in blissful ignorance as I wrote it off as nonsense or the ramblings of some marketing guy. It wasn’t until one of those Canadian Heritage advertisements came on during the news this …

September 4th, 2009 – 8:29 am | By Ean | Posted in Daily Musings | Comments (0)

Linksys BEFSR81 v2 Disassembly to find Hardware Specifications

So I have two of these things at work and they go unused as the default firmware is somewhat lacking in features. This made me wonder what the hardware looks like inside them. This is quite possibly one of the hardest pieces of hardware I’ve ever tried to open. The case isn’t sensible at all, …

September 3rd, 2009 – 2:33 pm | By Ean | Posted in Daily Musings | Comments (0)