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How Not To Ship Computers
jutus writes: "I recently relocated for work from Canada to Florida, and on a suggestion, shipped my equipment (well-packed), with UPS Ground. I've posted some images of the destruction my shipment was subjected to by UPS. UPS Ground does not insure international shipments, so basically I'm up shit creek, no paddle. They have been giving me the textbook run-around for the past week. UPS Canada blames UPS in the U.S., and you can imagine who UPS down here in the States blames. As of yet, UPS has not even attempted to negotiate any compensation for my loss due to their severe negligence ... For Gods sake, use FedEX." My luck has gone the other direction -- I've mostly had good luck with UPS and some misdeliveries with FedEx. Would be nice to hear from any UPS employees reading this about what could have led to the damage jutus illustrates.
Jesus fucking Christ!
I am not an expert at this. If you mess with your own monitor I am not responsible. In fact, one monitor that I messed with started smoking.
Also, this could damage your stereo.
I have only had success with monochrome monitors. The color one is the one that started to smoke.
Ok, so I opened up the Mac and found the wires running to the back of the CRT. There is a pair for horizontal deflection of the beam and a pair for vertical.
If you clip them both, then the beam just hits the center of the screen.
After clipping them, run your speaker wires through them, left to the vetical and right to the horizontal.
When I say through, I mean through the coil on the back of the CRT. I don't mean the stubs of wire connected to the board.
Anyhow, if you splice your speaker wires so you can run the speaker in SERIES with the coil.
If you run them in parallel there might be very little resistance and that could mess with your stereo. However you might get better results that way. Mix and match and maybe put in a POT so you can adjust the amount of deflection and prevent the destruction of your stereo if yo choose to run it in parallel. Parallel seemed to give more deflection. Also, the horizontal and vertical will not deflect the same amount for the same input. You will need to mess with it to get it to look just right. Each monitor is different. You can make a traditional oscilliscope effect if you leave the horizontal wires hooked up to the monitor's board and just hook the vertical wires to the stereo. Some people prefer this.
Anyhow if you have the left side controlling the vertical deflection and the right side controlling the horizontal the beam draws funky roundish patterns.
Put in "Dark Side of the Moon" and enjoy! "Money" looks awesome since the clean stereo separation is clearly visible if you understand how the monitor works.
Ben Harper stuff also looks cool.
My email address is on the Anirak webpage that is linked to. If anyone sends me an e-mail I'll them the winamp pluggin.
Lasers Controlled Games!
Eorst eorst eorst.
tracking saying that it was signed for by "Dr. Porch,"
Love a good pun.