This is a great article about the classic Macintosh CRT and analog board. It’s also a good reference for CRTs in general. They call it the “repair guide,” but yes it is really specific to those kinds of areas.
20201017/https://web.archive.org/web/20200107140520/http://www.ccadams.org/se/classicmac2.pdf
How are bonds an effective investment tool? Okay, here’s the lowdown on how bonds work. The best thing to start first is to compare bonds with loans. Yes, they have similarities, but the key difference is that a bond need not be held to maturity by the same party, it can be traded before then. A loan, however, is strictly held between two parties.
So, this answers a key question I had about bonds. Must you be limited to receiving the payments on the coupon schedule until the maturity date? No, unless the bond is of the investment type that must be held to maturity. If you’d otherwise feel inclined to get the value out of the bond faster, you can trade the bond for other instruments. So, you need not worry about needing to create a loan and then use a bond to pay back the loan. You can just go straight away with bonds.
Other good info about bonds. Bonds are dependent on the interest rates, but if they are held to maturity, they should pay back their full principal value even in the face of fluctuating interest rates. The disadvantage mainly comes from trading before maturity. Bonds are pretty good means of diversification. And finally, bonds, like loans, have the risk of defaulting, though some bonds are inherently less risky than others.
20201016/DuckDuckGo how are bonds useful as an investment tool
20201016/https://www.investopedia.com/articles/bonds/09/top-uses-bonds-investments.asp
20201016/DuckDuckGo bonds and loans
20201016/https://www.wallstreetmojo.com/bond-vs-loan/
Interesting, folk here agreeing that Apple needs to make a new and different design, rather than carry on the same aluminum design for decades. But this time, they wrote an article of their own.
20201013/https://www.cultofmac.com/546941/imac-design/
Interesting articles about Apple product leaks. Apple really wants secrecy regarding their products until the official unveiling. But, in recent years, many products had info leaked before their official unveiling.
20201013/https://www.cultofmac.com/725357/apple-leaks-must-make-things-completely-crazy-in-cupertino/
20201013/https://www.cultofmac.com/722873/jon-prosser-time-flies-event-predictions/
This is interesting. Accidentally butt-dialing a purchase for expensive Tesla upgrades, and Elon Musk joking that it was a good thing? Yes.
20201013/https://www.cultofmac.com/724915/tesla-owner-accidentally-butt-dialed-a-4280-in-app-purchase-on-his-iphone/
Elon Musk comments on Steve Jobs and Apple electric vehicle initiative.
20201013/https://www.cultofmac.com/401950/elon-musk-i-met-steve-jobs-and-he-was-a-jerk/
Wow, now this is really interesting, a story seldom told. The Macintosh actually did get cloned, just like the Apple II. But, despite Steve Jobs best efforts to put the “stolen by Apple!” code inside the ROM, the cloned Macintosh computer used its own reverse-engineered ROM without that code. Also, the story behind the cloning is very interesting, it was Brazilian military-run government import restrictions on computers under the guise that they could be spy devices that motivated the extralegal cloning outside of Apple’s primary jurisdiction.
In the aftermath, the Brazilian government got concerned that the consortium of U.S. computer manufacturers banding together to propose trade sanctions on imports of Brazilian shoes, orange juice, and steel would send Brazil into a total economic disaster, so they counter-appraised their previous decision and banned the sale of the Macintosh clones. The designs were sold off to a Taiwanese company as a meager effort to keep the company afloat from the tremendous economic hit this entailed, and Apple’s lawyers followed the trail to ban the Taiwanese company from ever manufacturing those designs. That was the last we heard of the Macintosh clones.
20201013/https://www.cultofmac.com/266710/meet-unitron-mac-512-worlds-first-macintosh-clone/
Minor notes about the Macintosh 512K. Before MultiFinder, Switcher just partitioned up Macintosh 512K RAM into 4 sections.
20201013/https://www.cultofmac.com/500730/apple-history-fat-mac-quadruples-memory/
Interesting article about steady decline of manufacturing jobs in the United States. Politicians promising to increase manufacturing jobs? Nope, it’s part of a general trend of decline independent of particular politicians. The trend is toward increasing automation, which results in greater productivity: more product output with less labor input. This is a good thing in general.
20201013/https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/16/trump-manufacturing-jobs-record-415588
This is interesting. A geek wanted to make an 8-bit version of a music album, Kind of Blue. They then wanted to complete it with a pixelated low-def version of the original cover art. Any questions of the album rights were negotiated proper with the original artist, but the cover art was not negotiated as it was believed to be fair use. The professional photographer thought otherwise and threatened to sue. The main intent? It wasn’t concern over copyright infringement per se, it was that the original artist was a photography purist and couldn’t stand seeing a pixelated low-def version of his work circulated on the Internet. The case was settled out of court with an expensive one-time payment of a couple tens of thousands of dollars and a promise never to redistribute and reuse the artwork in the future for that purpose.
20201012/https://waxy.org/2011/06/kind_of_screwed/
Can you replace a burnt out CCFL bulb inside an old laptop LCD screen with an LED bulb? Theoretically, yes, but the practical technical considerations to achieve this make it a great challenge.
Let’s consider one case example. I’ve bought a new LCD screen and inverter for a Dell Inspiron e1505 laptop because the CCFL bulb inside the old screen failed from the previous owner disliking display mode power save timeout after running a screen saver for so long. They wanted the screen to stay powered on and show the screen saver running all the time. As a consequence, the CCFL bulb failed well before its expected failure date based off of the intensity of use of the machine. But anyways, if I eventually replace the CCFL bulb inside with a new one, I’ll have a spare LCD screen at my disposal.
So, let’s get the rundown of the actual parts inside the LCD display. First of all, the part number of the inverter is LJ97-00680A. This is a part that is apparently manufactured by Dell. But, more interesting are the parts on the board itself. There are really only two integrated circuit packages on the board, the big rectangular one is a housing for the high-voltage inverter. The small square one, that is clearly an integrated circuit package of some sort. Reading the label that is visible from my up-close photos, it is pretty similar to the Maxim MAX8759ETI+, and I was able to find this datasheet online! The part itself, however, is obsolete and no longer in production.
My read of the IC package label:
Okay, here is my attempt at creating inventory categories for household objects. Like, almost all of what we have.
COLLECTIONS:
Published books
Tools, home maintenance materials
Shipping: Cardboard boxes, padding (foam, air, etc.)
Electronics batteries
This is a good article about a list of things that women think are extremely creepy that a man might do.
20201009/https://thoughtcatalog.com/january-nelson/2019/10/30-creepy-things-most-men-dont-realize-women-want-them-to-stop-doing/
Okay, so I just had to make a quick note about this. The problems I’ve been having with the Windows XP video drivers and 8-bit modes? Try using this driver and see if you can get 8-bit video modes back on Windows XP. Same author, if it works well on Windows 98, it should work well on Windows XP.
20201006/DuckDuckGo windows xp universal vbe drivers
20201006/https://bearwindows.zcm.com.au/vbemp.htm