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Jul. 15th, 2008 09:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theducksMmm got bitten by a march fly today. It was painful. Ouchies.
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This series of three slashdot comments is awesome - http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=613723&cid=24187395
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Amazingly, Project Kuta as it was originally called, by me, is going well. I started bugging people about providing Central Email and Calendaring last year, and with the departures earlier this year of most of the troublemakers in ITS, it's got off the ground, and looks like it will be available by the end of the year. Yay!
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The MacBook Necromancy project is going well. I'm waiting on some parts, such as two USB hubs and a SATA extension cable. The USB hubs will be canibalised and spliced into the two internal USB buses, so I can plug in stuff like front panel card readers, etc. For one, I will cut the cable to the Bluetooth adaptor in half and use that connector, and for the other, I will be using an old LVDS cable from an iBook (which thankfully uses the same .5mm pitch 20 connector as the MacBook) to pull out the USB that usually goes to the iSight in the bezel, without destroying the MacBook LVDS/USB cable. I also need to confirm my theory on exactly how transistors work, before I start modifying an ATX power supply for it.
The one part I'm still debating on is the MCE Optibay.. at $90 for a converter worth $10 and some plastic worth 50c. Unfortunately, the ODM's I've contacted to make a clone, wanted minimum order quantities of about 5000, at about $3 each. Erm, yeah. Maybe 250, I could accept as a risk, but not 5000. In fact, I don't think there's that much market for them. Oh well, I think I'll just buy an OptiBay if I need it.
I also need to get some fine enamel insulated wire and practice my fine soldering on the dead PC motherboard I have, before soldering in wires for a power switch for the MacBook logic board.
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This series of three slashdot comments is awesome - http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=613723&cid=24187395
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Amazingly, Project Kuta as it was originally called, by me, is going well. I started bugging people about providing Central Email and Calendaring last year, and with the departures earlier this year of most of the troublemakers in ITS, it's got off the ground, and looks like it will be available by the end of the year. Yay!
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The MacBook Necromancy project is going well. I'm waiting on some parts, such as two USB hubs and a SATA extension cable. The USB hubs will be canibalised and spliced into the two internal USB buses, so I can plug in stuff like front panel card readers, etc. For one, I will cut the cable to the Bluetooth adaptor in half and use that connector, and for the other, I will be using an old LVDS cable from an iBook (which thankfully uses the same .5mm pitch 20 connector as the MacBook) to pull out the USB that usually goes to the iSight in the bezel, without destroying the MacBook LVDS/USB cable. I also need to confirm my theory on exactly how transistors work, before I start modifying an ATX power supply for it.
The one part I'm still debating on is the MCE Optibay.. at $90 for a converter worth $10 and some plastic worth 50c. Unfortunately, the ODM's I've contacted to make a clone, wanted minimum order quantities of about 5000, at about $3 each. Erm, yeah. Maybe 250, I could accept as a risk, but not 5000. In fact, I don't think there's that much market for them. Oh well, I think I'll just buy an OptiBay if I need it.
I also need to get some fine enamel insulated wire and practice my fine soldering on the dead PC motherboard I have, before soldering in wires for a power switch for the MacBook logic board.
