Archive for November, 2010

I was searching for the ultimate registrar a while ago.  My needs were the following:

1. Crystal clean web interface
2. The more top level domain is supported, the happier I am
3. Decent prices

It's not a long list, but still it was amazingly difficult to find Dynadot.  Option 1 was the hardest one to find, believe it or not.  Have you ever looked how badly marketing people overloaded GoDaddy with loads of ads and how crowded their user interface is?  Then you understand why this option was so important to me.  I'm also 100% satisfied regarding all the other aspects of their service.

This is not a long post but whenever I find a service that makes my life easier I feel it worths pure gold to me because it saves me time in the long run.

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Damn, it's been a long time since I've used this router, but I'm sure many average Joes like it who don't care about running on a supercharged OpenWrt router.

This is my HDD case which I bought recently. I especially like the design of the case, I think it's very nice. Chances are that manufacturers use the same SATA to USB ASIC in most cases.

Well, it's not particularly an IT device, neither it is contemporary. What's going on then?

I had to fix this VCR of ours because its image quality sometimes got fuzzy. Turned out that a solder joint was broken that connected the tuner plug. The broken joint is easy to see on the relevant picture.

This is one of my ADSL modems, currently unused. Being a modem, this device is not particularly interesting to me despite it can be manipulated through Telnet according to its manual. I've never tried this feature.

This is a typical poor man's wireless router. There is nothing much to say about it but I truly liked how the light of the SMD LEDs are routed to the front side.

This is the home gateway given by my ISP, T-Home Hungary. Despite of this, I was determined enough to disassemble this device and hopefully they won't know about it or else I'll be screwed.

As you can see it's loaded with stuff. As for its purpose, it's supposed to be a router plus a voice-over-IP gateway. Bonus points for the wifi chip being featured on a Mini PCI card. I have only used this beast for a short while before switching to my beloved ASUS WL500GPV2 loaded with OpenWrt.

It's my pretty switch that I use in our family house at Harta. Unfortunately, I couldn't remove the heat sink from the main IC to see its type without destroying it so I didn't. Apart from that, the amount of the power supply and EMI circuitry is rather surprising to me.

This is an ordinary low-end PS/2 mouse. Nothing new under the sun. It's probably a textbook example of a standard PS/2 mouse design.

This is my sister's mouse. Its killer feature is the apparent cable retraction mechanism which I've successfully destroyed during the disassembly. If you disassemble the retraction mechanism and aren't careful enough and apply to much force then you'll also break it so be gentle. Apart from that, this is a pretty ordinary mouse. The rather long distance in which the sensor detects motion is a bit disturbing me. The microswitches are not made by Omron and I don't really think they are top-notch quality. The one-sided PCB is a good cost saving option.

I'm sorry Eszter. I will make it up, I promise.