DIY Techno-hacksOld hard drive platters make wonderfully good drinks coasters - they look dead smart and expensive and you've stopped people reading your old data into the bargain.
Have you taped all your remotes together, peep-show-style? Have you wired your doorbell to the toilet? What enterprising DIY have you done with technology?
Extra points for using sellotape rather than solder.
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chthonic, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 12:30)
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I reckon it is a hackI'm not using the headphones to listen to the start up noise - it's so that that speaker cuts out, as you can't control the volume until the computer has actually booted up.
the important bit is the jack, not the headphones at the other end of it.
yes I know I could just turn the system sounds off for boot up.
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rob, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:01,
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that would require thinking about it another time thoughit's one of those things where as soon as it has happened it is forgotten.
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:11,
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I hate the Windows noisesThe first thing I do on a new XP installation is set sounds to 'none'
The interminable click whenever you do something in Explorer drives me up the wall.
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scoshi pretending to diet since, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:17,
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I'm the samenot just computers either. anything that makes a noise gets turned off. mobile phones in particular. Even to the point where my phone is never off silent.
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:19,
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I don't need to turn off my phone noises......because no one ever calls me.
/misanthrope
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scoshi pretending to diet since, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:30,
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