I picked up a replacement Samsung Powerbook LCD screen on eBay for AU$61. Fitting it was a simple matter of swapping out the old one. I left the existing cables in place, plugged them into the new screen and reassembled the screen surround. Everything is now working fine (except the battery wont hold a charge, […]
Monthly Archives: August 2004
Death by Coca-Cola
Well my Powerbook has arrived but unfortunately no amount of “shift-fn-ctrl-pwr” key combinations would bring it back to life. I decided to open it up and stare blankly at it’s insides for a while (I have a long history of looking at the inner workings of things I don’t understand, for some reason it makes […]
FIX update
FIX team member Marcus Keating manning the FIX counter at CLUBSproject inc. The There’s a Hole in the Bucket exhibition has finished and the FIX counter is now closed. A total of 30 fix requests were submitted and FIX (myself and the team) has completed most of the requests (with the exception of one or […]
Choosing a computer to mod
To begin the B&O MP3 Mod. I have to decide what computer to mod. First off it needs to be quiet, preferably fan-less, it needs to start up quickly or have the ability to go into low power sleep (so that it is never really off), it needs to take large, cheap IDE hard drives […]
Comments Off on Choosing a computer to mod
B&O MP3 Mod
I have a facination for Bang and Olufsen stereo equipment, possibly bordering on an obsession. I’m talking about the old stuff by Jacob Jensen, I think B&O have kind of lost the plot lately but the stuff from the 70’s and 80’s is great. I recently bought a non-working Beocenter 4600 on eBay for AU$51. […]