We got a new microwave about 10 years ago, and it crapped out within a month. Still under warranty so they came and switched out the keypad. Didn’t take too long. Been OK since.
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Well you might enjoy this tear-down. This one is from the Navy.
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Maybe try a local electronics recycler and see if they can help? Depending on how old your model is you may not be able to find a new one but used may not be that difficult. Many parts are shared across brands and models. You could also try eBay or even Amazon.
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“I don’t throw them away because some day there won’t be any.”
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Today, I received a CD/SACD album of some chamber music-
I inserted into my computer to rip the CD layer into iTunes-- and my CDROM drive just spits the thing out.
I know it has a CD layer because it plays in my old SACD changer as a CD-- the damn thing has a broken laser assembly, and refocusing it requires me to change out a few resistors-- which I haven’t yet done because my soldering skills are crap.
It plays fine in my bluray player-- as an SACD.
So maybe there was some sort of anti rip scheme deployed by a small boutique label in 2012?
I should scour ebay for one of those cracked SACD players…
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All fixed, and it’s beautiful.
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Telephones!
And this guy Marc is also playing the piano accompaniment.
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That bit about the carriage return and line feed is just so funny. I seek to be the only person who understands the tab ruler in Word because it’s based on the IBM Selectric which is a reference few people understood at the time even.
What a sophisticated machine.
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Making a movie prop on the authentic equipment.
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It’s great-- insert the flash drive with the trojan. tray opens. insert disk. press off. Tray closes. Telnet in, and the high-def files are copied onto your computer.
Not that my ears are good enough to hear the difference, but sometimes the mixes are left uncompressed, and of course, there are a few discs that don’t have corresponding CD tracks.
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I wonder how long it would have taken if a better hashing algorithm like SHA1 or SHA256 had been used.
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cross reference the email with the source
Brian W. Kernighan must have thought he was being terribly clever with:
/.,/.,
The same could not be said of Steve Bourne’s instincts
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Or lazy. /.,/., can be entered in a fraction of a second if you have your fingers in the right place.
Heh.
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At a former job I worked heavily with certain set top box devices that had a miniature IR keyboard for text entry. Because they were kind of a pain to type on, access codes for some special internal diagnostic menus had a requirement that the code could be typed solely with one hand. It wasn’t super secure or anything because if you misused these menus you were just shooting yourself in the foot anyway.
Every so often these passwords would leak and the product enthusiasts would go crazy trying to understand what they all meant. (As if there was some sort of hidden meaning.) It took a lot of willpower to not just destroy the mystique by explaining the real methods behind the madness.
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Well you killed the magic now.
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Non-compact discs.
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very compact discs
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