Ospreys rugby team escape with a fine – Leicester out !

Thank goodness for that.

ERC decide that Ospreys 16th man was not deliberate – ban Lee Byrne for two weeks, fine Ospreys but they continue in the Heineken Cup and Leicester are out !

http://www.ercrugby.com/eng/5019_15218.php

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Warwick rockstand guitar rack leftovers

Bought a Warwick Rockstand five (5) guitar rack from Andertons in Guildford this morning.
Seems to do the job ok – holds a variety of different size and shape guitars quite effectively.

Odd thing is that there are an awful lot of parts left over – almost a complete new stands worth in fact.

I bet some poor sod has bought the same product and is scratching his head over missing parts.

The stand – fully populated
Warwick rockstand

The left over parts
Warwick rockstand

The stand and the leftover parts in all their glory
17/01/2010

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Do I have any droid09 applications on my Android HTC Hero ?

Simple way to find out is to:
1. enter the Android marketplace on your phone
2. select the MENU key
3. select My Downloads

You’ll get a (perhaps long) list of applications and their publishers.

If you find a rogue application you can touch and hold the application in question from the list and then select ‘uninstall’

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Akai S3200XL sampler operating system upgrade

Just reposting the link to an old set of instructions I wrote for upgrading the Operating system on the Akai S3200XL sampler.

Available here

I still have some version 2.0 EPROMs availble – if anyone is interested, drop me a line.

The process allows you to upgrade your Akai sampler from 1.* versions to version 2.0. This emables better SCSI control and interfacting with application slike Mesa, Wavelab etc.

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Inside the 2TB Western Digital My Book Essential

Bought a couple of these from PCWorld for £139.97 each – pretty cheap for a 2TB unit – in fact, its cheaper than buying the bare internal drive unit alone.

Bit of a job to open the unit up but inside its fitted with the WD20EADS model. This is a single 2TB unit with 32MB cache, ‘green power’ and spins up to 5400RPM.

I’m pretty impressed with the unit as a whole – VERY quiet and good power saving mode where the unit seems to shut itself down completely when not in use.

Toms Hardware has a reasonable review of the unit HERE – although I disagree with their noise figures – my unit is almost silent.

The drive:
WD 2TB My Book Essential internals

Case opened:
WD 2TB My Book Essential internals

USB to SATA interface PCB:
WD 2TB My Book Essential internals

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