Horusdy 39-drawer component drawers

Posted on 2024-07-18 [Thursday] by Jay Jay

This evening I installed my new Horusdy 39-drawer component drawers. I am gonna make a video of the unboxing and installation, that should come out later today.

Preparing for new component drawers

Posted on 2024-07-13 [Saturday] by Jay Jay

I have ordered these component drawers and I have cleared a space on the pegboard for them to be installed. Interestingly I found what looks to be the same product selling on Amazon for AU$128 which is AU$86 more than I paid.

Maxitronix 200in1 unboxing

Posted on 2024-06-21 [Friday] by Jay Jay

You might already know that I have the full set of Maxitronix Xin1 kits, but here are some photos of me unboxing my 200in1 so I could send some pics to my mate Dave Jones:

Announcing new website for In The Lab With Jay Jay

Posted on 2024-06-16 [Sunday] by Jay Jay

Good news everyone!

The In The Lab With Jay Jay website has been freeloading off jj5.net for a while now, over here: https://www.inthelabwithjayjay.com/in-the-lab/

But I am pleased to announce that it has now been moved into its new and permanent home, over here: InTheLabWithJayJay.com

There is also a short-link domain which will redirect you to the new site which I put into production to keep the links on my business cards short: jjlab.net

Speaking of business cards I had some made to take with me to ElectroneX on Wednesday:

I’m planning to show up in costume and hand out business cards, because I am a *genuine* nerd.

As part of the migration to the new domain I improved the content of the site a bit. There is now an about page with contact info and such and also a support the show page with some ideas about how people can support the show!

Props to Corsair

Posted on 2024-04-17 [Wednesday] by Jay Jay

Just wanted to say thank you publicly to Corsair. The case for my computer ‘charisma‘ is a Corsair Carbide 100R Silent Edition Mid-Tower ATX Case. I really love this case and in fact I have two of them.

Anyway I had a problem where one of the feet snapped off and I couldn’t find spares for sale anywhere on the internet. I applied for a replacement of the feet through the Corsair warranty process, which was comprehensive but relatively painless, and I am pleased to report that my new replacement feet arrived today.

I am a happy customer!

Dear Diary

Posted on 2024-04-11 [Thursday] by Jay Jay

Just wanted to take a happy snap of the lab today. All is flux. All is temporary.

Triple 4k monitors

Posted on 2024-04-06 [Saturday] by Jay Jay

Well, shit kinda got out of hand, and now I have three 4k monitors on my desk.

I didn’t intend for this to happen. What happened was I thought that one of the monitors that I use for my computers on the bench and in the booth was broken. So I hastily ordered a replacement. Then it turned out that that monitor wasn’t broken — the power cord had fallen out — but by the time I had discovered that eBay was telling me it was too late to cancel my order.

So for a lousy AU$250 I now have a third monitor attached to my primary workstation. Since I have pretty much no need or use for a third monitor what I have done is create a desktop background image for it with a bunch of reference material.

Extra Content #7: The SCSI Bus and IDE Interface: Protocols, Applications and Programming

Posted on 2024-04-03 [Wednesday] by Jay Jay

This post is part of my video blog: In The Lab With Jay Jay.

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In this video I pull the floppy disk out of the cover of my copy of The SCSI Bus and IDE Interface: Protocols, Applications and Programming (2nd Edition).

I have this wonderful old book The SCSI Bus and IDE Interface: Protocols, Applications and Programming (2nd Edition). It was published in 1997 but is still available for purchase through Amazon.

The book comes with a floppy disk (that’s right: a floppy disk!). I had to buy a USB floppy disk drive to read it. I have made the content from the disk available in a tarball, here: scsi.tgz.

If you just want to read the files, those are here:

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