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SB Live! Vista/7/8 drivers
Logging this for posterity, since it took me four hours to figure out:
If you have a Sound Blaster Live! or Audigy card, and want to make it work with Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8, this is the driver to get:
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Pronouns and Passwords
I recently wrote a couple of TinyMUSH patches, and I thought they might be of interest to other people ( Read more... ) -
Mechanic tips: Crush washers
Crush washers are maybe the most misused kind of seal in automotive work. They're commonly found any time a threaded fastener has to seal in a liquid; the most common example is the crush washer under the oil drain plug of most cars. Tighten the plug, the soft copper washer deforms to fill any gaps, making a liquid-tight seal ( Read more... ) -
Car stuff!
Today I replaced the rear sway bar* end links on the Mercedes. These are well-known among Mercedes owners for making a distinctive and really irritating rattle going over bumps when they get play in them, and these had a lot of play. The right one was, I think, original to the car; the left one was a replacement. Why someone chose to only ( Read more... ) -
Basic care of long hair
I've noticed a lot of people who have long hair don't really know how to take care of it. Guys, in particular, generally aren't taught anything about it when they're kids. I thought it might be helpful to give a few very basic tips.
- Wash the roots, condition the tips.
Consider how hair works. The actual strand of hair is dead. If you have oily ( Read more... )
- Wash the roots, condition the tips.
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Fixed the parking brake on the Mercedes today. It wasn't so much broken as it was massively out of adjustment -- the pedal would go straight to the floor without affecting the rear wheels at all ( Read more... ) -
Automotive misc.
Took on a couple minor things on the Mercedes that were non-critical, but had been annoying me ( Read more... ) -
I smell like 90-weight
Hm, never did post about the automotive work I did this weekend, although I did tweet about it ( Read more... ) -
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The timing belt change on the Honda is done (along with all the other stuff I decided to do while I was at it.) This is the first modern car I've done a job this extensive on -- modern, that is, in that it's not a chassis designed in the 1970s. Some of the changes are interesting. For example, there seem to be very few flat gaskets; the water ( Read more... )