“a how to on cleaning equipment that has water damage – …I noticed the white calcium rings on the box and on the transformer, something had been dripping into it. Apparently it had rained quiet hard a couple of days earlier and water had dropped in from the balcony through a crack in the concrete and dropped down on the Linksys.”Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
Tech Talk
- AMD may intro 5MB Z-RAM cache @ The Inquirer
- Keeping Windows Clean @ BTXFormFactor.com
- Crucial Technology & amdgamer.com Ballistix Memory Giveaway – less than 2 weeks left! @ AMDGamer
- Following the money: how Subway ads ended up in Counter-Strike @ Ars Technica
- Internet users judge Web sites in less than a blink @ CNET
- Interview with Martin F. Krafft, Author of “The Debian System” at XYZ Computin
- MythBusters: The Lost Experiments @ MAKE:Blog
- How To Prevent Laptop Computer Theft @ Laptop Gamers
- Windows Wi-Fi patch could be long time coming @ CNET
- 180s Tek Fleece by JVC Ear Buds Review @ Designtechnica
- ATI releases 6.1 driver @ The Inquirer
- Win32.VB worm spreading quickly @ CNET
- Macworld 2006 : The Expo @ Hardware Zone
- Is 3DMark Really the “Gamers Benchmark” ? @ NGOHQ.com
- 3dmark 2006 mirrors @ GamersHell
- 3DMark06 – Contest / Download / Article @ Guru3D
- Futuremark 3DMark06 @ UK Gamer
Fixing a soggy mistake
MAKE:Blog has posted a link to a very handy How To guide, one on fixing electronics after they’ve gotten soaked, and get to dry on their own, leaving all sorts of interesting mineral deposits everywhere. If this has happened to you, you will appreciate the info, and if it hasn’t … read up, it will happen eventually.