Category Archives: Prylar

I recently discovered that my stock options actually had some value, (sic!) and sold all of them. This gave me some unexpected cash that I promptly invested in a new monitor. Its a 24″ Dell 2405fpw. Now I could get rid of a 21″ Dell and a 17″ Sony monitor sitting on my desk. As […]

Updated server with RAID-controller. I also removed unused DVB-cards, flat cables and hard disk mounting cages. The last, together with another fan and dust removal, helped improve cooling. The system is now down to 38 centigrades from ~50. It also makes more noise.

The perfect companion for the new TV; a new DVB-T receiver. This one is equipped with a hard drive. Its a revolution for our viewing habits. No more rushing through the evening meal so that the girls won’t miss the beginning of Bolibompa. Now we can press the pause button at 17:59:50 and then play […]

Sometime in the last week Ylva found that our Volvo didn’t start. In fact, it was totally dead. Even the dashboard clock was blank. Today we tried to start it by pushing the car bakwards from the garage and down the slope. No lifesign at all to my big surprise. (Note how irony fails when […]

Old TV died completely, so last thursday we bought a new, Samsung PS-42v6 plasma. Unfortunately, we’re not completely happy with it. According to this, signal quality might make a difference. So, if I had a DVD with progressive component output I might get excellent picture quality, when watching DVDs, and everything else would still suck… […]