Category: Random
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8 Suits – eight suited playing cards
8 Suits, as you guessed is a deck of playing cards with an additional 4 suits, the clover, tear, crescent and star for a total of 104 cards plus a number of jokers. Priced at $12 USD per deck plus $5 per postage ($13 per postage internationally), it is a little steeper than The Fat…
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Poker hands probability calculator for any number of suits and ranks (denominations)
After purchasing a 5 suited deck of cards and an 8 suited deck of cards, I decided to work out how the numbers of suits affect the probabilities of each poker hand. Further, the following can calculate combinations and probabilities for any number of suits and any number of ranks (number of denominations). You will…
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Complete list of Foundation Fieldbus devices and search tool
Currently it is quite difficult to search for a particular device by either device model, Vendor ID or Model ID on the Fieldbus Foundation website. The following provides a means to easily search this data, via the offline tool ‘Foundation Fieldbus device search’. The tool enables searching via Vendor, Model, Type and even Vendor and…
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Cheap SSD from Compact Flash card for older laptops
Okay, so this post is about 3 years too late, but I thought I would post it anyway. I have a number of old laptops which I use as digital photo frames, we are talking original Pentiums II here. The problem is given the age of these, the hard drives are either extremely noisy and…
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RSS feed aggregator/combiner in PHP with Magpie RSS (v2)
I have recently upgraded the code to combine multiple RSS feeds, for the original version see this post. To install, extract the following zip file to a directory where you want your combined feeds to be displayed, I use t.com/combinedfeed as xxxxx.com/feed is already used by WordPress. Edit index.php for your site, and make sure…
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Heat problems with iStar BPN-350SAS 3×5.25″ to 5×3.5″ SATA Trayless Backplane
Recently I posted about the use of an iStar BPN-350SAS in my RAID 6 array, well due to Australia’s extreme summer temperatures I have had a number of drives in the enclosure fail due to overheating. Whilst I like the design and build of the BPN-350SAS there are some extreme flaws in the cooling design…
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Do not buy from GEEKHELP4U, they are a scam
I recently purchased a few Windows XP disks from GEEKHELP4U, LLC, via their online checkout and paid via PayPal. After over 3 weeks of waiting, I hadn’t heard any information of my order and whether the disks were shipped. I created a PayPal dispute and escalated this to a claim. After another 6 days waiting…
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Dell PowerEdge SC430 with 8x WesternDigital 1TB drives in RAID-6
Sometimes a man just wants to show of; this is one of those times. My latest project was upgrading my full 2TB server (Adaptec 2410SA with 4x Seagate 750gb drives in RAID-5) to a 6TB server (Adaptec 3805 with 8x Western Digital 1TB drives in RAID-6). Obviously, the Dell PowerEdge SC430 wasn’t designed for 9…
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How to repair High Heel Shoes for a few dollars
A very easy guide on repairing high heel shoes for a few dollars. The damaged high heel shoe culprit, notice the lack of any heel and the exposed dangerous metal pin. The first task is to remove the old metal pin, depending on how worn the heel is depends on the ease of doing so.…
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Copyright Infringement – Pimsleur transcripts (Simon & Schuster)
Download transcripts from here; Pimsleur Chinese I – A Pronunciation And Character Guide Pimsleur Mandarin Chinese I notes Pimsleur Mandarin words Seems that Pimsleur doesn’t like me providing transcripts for their Mandarin Chinese 1 Units and have asked for their removal. Find the Notice of Copyright Infringement below. Notice of Copyright Infringement – Pimsleur t.com.pdf…