I didn’t know that methylated spirits (AKA “metho”) were made from ethanol. The ethanol that I have is 99% Bio-Ethanol Alcohol:
John’s ethanol
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How to mount an Xbox formatted drive on Ubuntu
When I finally get a PCIe IDE adapter that works, this is gonna come in handy: How to mount an Xbox formatted drive on Ubuntu.
The IDE adapter that I have is this one, but it reports all disks as damaged (and they’re not). I think maybe it’s too new for the drives maybe? Speaking a newer version of the ATA protocol? I have no idea really.
Now with ethanol!
So thanks to my *subscriber* Craig I now also have ethanol:
I’m not sure when you’d use ethanol rather than isopropyl. Maybe Craig can tell us in the comments section? :)
Cleaning fluid
What am I missing?
I made a thing!
My new AV switch arrived today, and I set it up on my bench. But I had it laid out horizontally and it was taking up a lot of bench space and I decided I’d rather have it mounted vertically.
So I got an old component box like this one
from my drawer
and cut it up so I could mount my AV switch vertically, like this:
Bug fixed!
OGXbox Australia
So I’m gonna try my hand at refurbishing and trading original Xbox games and hardware at: OGXbox Australia. Wish me luck? :)
Inventory
I have more Xboxes than you do.
Chumby
Look what I got. :)
A new one on me…
Never seen a problem like this before!
In the best Homo sapien tradition…
I was cleaning some old Xbox controllers. Dead skin had compacted into the grooves along the edges, and I needed something to scrape it out. I tried some of my tools, but everything was too big and wouldn’t fit in the groove. So I grabbed a big paperclip and busted out my file to hone my own tool. Works great! :)
