See ya!

My monitor finally took a crap. It was inevitable as the thing got some serious hours on it since I got it. The monitor was an I-INC iF281D manufactured on the first week of 2009 and has seen heavy use since then. Now, the hunt is on for a replacement.

Success!

I have found a way to decapsulate integrated circuits, chip-on-board ICs can be decapped. I borrowed ~15 mL of paint stripper from work and left a COB package out of a dollar store universal remote to soak in the solution and worked admirably. I suspect it's due to dichloromethane, as the other solvents in the solution have negligible effect. The die size is freaking tiny, 1mm by 2mm. I could not take a picture of what the die looks like, sorry! Now, I just need to find a source of DCM, and I should be able to decap all of my ICs and clean out that part drawer.

About time...

I finally got XMPlay to encode MP3s. It took about 2 years to get encoding to work. The reason I'm encoding my massive collection of modules is so I can play them on my PlayStation 3 when I get it. Now let the process commence!

This was interesting!

I was playing around with my keyboard this was the result.

It lives!

My power supply came in today and my desktop is now among the living! Just installing 4 months of updates, reinstall all of my Steam games, and a whole bunch of stuff.

That's bullshit!

As noted in a previous post, I acquired a Dreamcast, it turns out that the system needed a new clock battery. I replaced that. The VMU needs new batteries after just 3 months. I have an ancient infant toy from when I was just a wee one whose battery(ies) are still good after 27 years! Seriously, What the flying flimp is going on when modern batteries die after barely being used for just 3 months, whereas older manufacturing methods could create better stuff!

WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION?!

SLAY Radio is a little odd. This internet streaming audio service seems to have a bias towards anything from International Karate, The Last Ninja, and Comic Bakery. Over a period of about 15 6-7 hour listening sessions I noticed the aforementioned slant. These 3 games are well represented, and I think that their system needs a good SYS64738 and a good rebuild. Sorry for being pedantic, "radio" involved actual radio waves like WiFi and Bluetooth, not sending audio down fiber connections 1000s of kilometres away to a location. That was a joke, deal with it!