Today my boss put 3x Kingston Data Traveler 150 – 64GB Flash drives down on my desk and asked me to take a look at them and see if I could find out whats wrong with them. The drives came from a guy who works in the warehouse at one of our clients, supposedly all of a sudden he couldn’t write to them anymore.
Immediately I was suspicious these flash drives cost over R 1000 each, why did someone buy 3 flash drives instead of an external hard drive? why would 3 of them fail at the same time with the same problem? and who has R 3000 (or more) sitting around to blow on flash drives?
A few friends, my wife and I decided to go watch the cricket last night at Sahara Park Newlands in Cape Town. It was my first time watching a live cricket match, very different… you don’t realise how small the field actually is or how fast the ball travels. The best part about being there is hearing the comments from the crowd we spent most of the time laughing at the guys round us and there comments…
The game was the local (to Cape Town) Cape Corbra’s vs The Warriors, unfortunately the locals didn’t win… although we bowled ok.. our batting was more like we were batting in a Test Series and not 20/20.
This is a quick screen shot of the weather forecast for the next few days in Cape Town. It’s going to be 30 today, 32 tomorrow, 35 Wednesday and 34 on Thursday.
A client of mine had all their and all their neighbours phone lines fail in one go when a roadside Telkom Junction box became the casualty of a high speed chase.
I had to quickly come up with an alternative way to get them connected to the Internet, a quick solution was a Billion Router fitted with a MTN 3G Datacard with a SIM with the MTNVPN APN enabled so that incoming connections would work for there VPN and a Neotel NeoGo card for outgoing mail.
The only problem was that the NeoGo USB adapter couldn’t get a signal inside the building, after alot of walking around and waving it in the air I found the perfect position in between the burglar bars at the window. A few elastic bands tied to it got it suspended in the “sweet spot” and its working… with between 1-2 bars of signal, but at least it works.
I’ve done this kind of thing thousands of times before, using whatever I have at hand. I don’t think you can call it a true MacGyver solution unless it uses at least one commonly found household or office item.
This is awesome, they’ve created a weapon that can identify, track and fire lasers at Mosquito’s to kill them. Now I understand that there is safety problems with firing lasers around a room, but its such a cool idea.
Like someone said in the comments on Slashdot all they need to do is put it on the top of a Roomba and it clean up the carcasses left after shooting the mosquito’s down.
Supposedly the pedestrian buttons on robots (traffic lights for foreigners) in the US don’t do anything and neither do the “Close Doors” buttons in elevators/lifts. I guessed the closed door button didn’t do anything as the interval between pressing the button and the doors closing always appears to be random.
I have seen that giving people a control for an aircon, even if it doesn’t do anything, completely changes what they think the temperature is.
Who needs a Leatherman if you have a paper clip, I loved this show… its probably because of MacGyver that I have a habit of carrying paper clips and other weird things in my pockets.
Found this via MakeZine, its an awesome idea. The curtains are made out of slides that have been joined together with little aluminium chainmail rings.
I love this idea, although I would’ve perhaps made some kind of mosaic image using the slides. I’m guessing though that the slides will fade quickly in the sun.
Dale Nunns is a Naive Romantic, Computer Geek, Programmer, Techie and wannabe writer. This site documents the stuff He and his army of dustbunnies find as he grows up, works and generally tries to "Get a life".
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Today my boss put 3x Kingston Data Traveler 150 – 64GB Flash drives down on my desk and asked me to take a look at them and see if I could find out whats wrong with them. The drives came from a guy who works in the warehouse at one of our clients, supposedly all of a sudden he couldn’t write to them anymore.
