Recent content by Peale

I find a lot of cool stuff, but that's pretty damn cool.

I found a couple of DVD players the other night. One was a DVD/VHS combo, the other just a regular player. The regular didn't work, until I opened it up and found the disc jammed inside. Removed it, it works just fine.

I'm a mod over there. Even without that, it's a good site.

Open it up, pull the circuit board, and replace the capacitors. WARNING!!!! IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING INSIDE A TV, DO NOT DO THIS! There are lethal voltages inside, especially around the anode (the cable that connects to the tube)

I found a DVD burner the other day. Works just fine.

It all depends on the food found, and when. Candy, wrapped? Score! Bags of chips? Score! During the winter months I literally didn't have to buy any food. I got it all from one grocery store. Nature's fridge. You can poo it all you want (and I know you will) but really, it's not all bad.

First, PC parts have to be in the weather for a while to ruin. Second, not everyone goes DDing for just PC parts. Third, you *never* know what you're going to find, so it pays to dive often.

When it's raining is a great time (depending on how hard it's raining) because you're less likely to run into other people, and there is a better chance that someone else hasn't gotten to a find before you.

Found some really great "old" demo phones on Tuesday. They weren't in the box, but the accessories were with them in a manilla envelope. Certainly a lot better than my old phones! Retail on one was like $150 (according to what was written on the envelope) and the other about $120.

That's what return trips with a car are for!

The technology for putting an image on the unused portion, IIRC, is T@2. Here's a site: http://www.yamaha.ca/computer/cp_disct2.asp There was another technology mentioned in Maximum PC recently that allows you to burn an image to the TOP of the disc, in a manner very similar to this...

Clean the contacts on the cart with alcohol and a q-tip

I find floormats all the time. They're usually either folded or have a hole in it. Not worth the hassle when you can get a new one for $15

Hey, check and see if those monitors will take a 15KHz signal. If they do, they'd make great MAME cabinet monitors.

Not really...BYOAC isn't that far a cry from hardware hacking.