Today I managed to get my Mazilli ZVS Oscillator running with a flyback out of a PC monitor which I scrapped. There are more photos in the gallery.

The new lab shelves are finished and the gear is all set up. They look great.

The sash clamps have arrived and work great. eBay specials of course. They were fun to walk home with - 12kgs. The picture shows one of the shelves with edge banding being glued up.

My Cisco 1231 access point arrived. This is going outside. Not bad for $30.

Runs off POE, does 802.11B and G, handles multiple SSIDs and VLANS. Fun =)

It will take a tiny bit of messing around because it doesn't have an autonomous IOS on it, the LWAP image will have to go.

Today I used a jig that I made aaages ago for trimming edge banding. The jig worked great, but the result wasn't that great. The banding was not being adequately clamped to the shelving - so there were gaps. I broke the edge banding off, sanded the glue off the shelf and the banding and I'm going to wait until I get some sash clamps.

The glue is now dry on the shelving supports and they are now bolted onto the desk. They look good so far.

Just finished installing two NetApp filers and 7 24 disk shelves at the data center. Approximately 300kg of gear. 150TB raw storage. It took us 3 car trips. Unfortunately I can't take photos at the DC. So here is a photo of the box =)

I started work today on a new set of shelves which will bolt to the back of my lab desk. I am using standard 70x35mm cheap construction pine with 18x90 finished pine for horizontals. The shelves themselves will be made from a big sheet of black melamine MDF that I salvaged from the store I used to work in.

Hot plugging RAM into a Debian VM (for shits and giggles). It actually works.

for a in `ls /sys/devices/system/memory/memory*/state`;
do
echo "online" > $a;
done 2>/dev/null;
grep offline /sys/devices/system/memory/memory*/state

Baby drills and taps have arrived (terrible photo). M3 and M4 drills. 2.5mm and 3.5mm drills. I can now drill and tap CPU heatsinks for MOSFET cooling.