A couple of days ago WTFMoogle had an excellent post about how he opened his Seagate Dockstar and found its copper ground plane corroding. This led me to open up my new Dockstar and I found it also had some corroding on the ground plane. I tried his fix of tinning the copper pads and [...]
Here’s a simple and cost effective way to keep your Bus Pirate safe from those evil solder blobs that sometimes live on your desk. What?–You don’t know what a Bus Pirate is! The Bus Pirate is one of my favorite tools and has been money well spent. Head on over to dangerousprototypes.com and read all [...]
I hate you ^M! You suck monkey balls. Every once in a while I have to remove the ^M’s from source code files that I download. I always forget how to do it so here it is for future reference: :%s/^M/\r/g (^M is entered as Control-V Control-M)