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Does anyone have a source for gold-plated USB sockets anywhere? (either type A or B) (The usual silver colour isn't a good match for the case mod, gold would be much better) I've tried GIS, Mouser, and Digikey, but haven't spent the necessary multitude of hours it will take to search them...

I was hoping this would go away with the new version, but it's no different - when I open pages in new windows (which is frequently), Firefox doesn't release the extra memory those pages used when I close them. After a while (a day or more), this means that Firefox could be using nearly a...

I'm working on a peltier-cooled external drive. The power-supply for the external drive says the output is 1.5A at 12V and 1.5A at 5V. My multimeter shows that the peltier, when connected, is drawing 12V 2A from that supply. (It will happily draw 3-4A on a larger supply). Furthermore, because of...

Mod-job on an old 2Gb drive, plenty of flaws, but most don't show up in the pic :D so I thought I'd post it: The colour changing based on HDD activity isn't as balanced as I want, so that part is still a work in progress, but hey, I have an animated pic of it, I figured I might as well...

In order to access some ancient files, I need to get a 5.25" floppy drive working on modern machines, and I want to build an external case for it so I can use it on any machine and keep it, but I really don't know much about these old drives and need help. Does anyone remember what you need to...