Anyone have any tips on how to keep a workbench organized and clean in a small space? Right now I have a sprawling desk disaster of a work area, but I'll be moving into a small apartment soon and I'll have to be a lot more economical. Suggestions for nice parts bins or storage units? Thanks!

I searched the site, and amazingly enough I could only find one post about The Reign of Kindo. They're an awesome rock/jazz/something band and I've been listening to them nonstop for quite some time now.   Just thought it would be good to share one of my favorite bands, so here are a couple...

I've been having a massive Win7 headache lately, and I cannot figure out what to do for the life of me. I've been trying to install Home Premium on my Dell Mini 9 (I have a legit copy). I installed it once, and it seemed to run smoothly until I tried to use Windows Update. It stalled on start...

I've been trying to build a dynamic headphone setup (thinking ahead to dorm life next year*). I have a DacMagic along the way, and I'm planning on building a Millet MiniMAX in the upcoming weeks. However, a DAC + amp does me no good if I don't have any decent dynamic 'phones The headphones...

As is probably common knowledge here, Creative has been excessively lazy with releasing Windows 7 drivers for the Emu 0404 PCI card, so its performance is pretty spotty. I think, alas, it's time for an upgrade (my Stax deserve better, anyway). Here's my dilemma! 1) I haven't been a...

I just got back from a school trip overseas where our main form of downtime entertainment was card games; we played a whole assortment: Hearts, Spades, President, Ladder, Palace, Canasta, Stress, Spoons and others. I'm always amazed at how much fun those games can be, yet they remain rather...

So I was rummaging around my desk today, when I uncovered a bunch of mini-to-mini cables I made back in the day. Well, I have no use for so many interconnects, so I'm giving away four! There will be three winners decided upon next Saturday (3/14). The first place winner gets two interconnects...

I'm starting a photography class this next semester at school. Because of this, I think it would be a good idea for me to get a decent film camera, preferably Nikon (because I have a 50mm f/1.8 lens already). I've done some research, but it's hard for me to grasp the relative merits of so...

So I've decided that rather than buying frivolous stuff, I'd rather put my money into an account that'll get me more money than what I have now! Wow! Neat! Here's my current situation: I have $1,500 in a CD making a mediocre 2.80%, and I have about $900 in an epic 0.00% interest checking...

So one of my writing class assignments for the next week is to gather a variety of responses to this question, and I hope some of you guys can help me out. For example, here are two answers Robert Frost has in his poem The Death of the Hired Man... "Home is the place where, when you have...

(I did a quick search and amazingly enough, no one has mentioned this site yet. (probably due to the outages)) FreeRice.com is a vocab-building site that donates 20 grains of rice for every word you define correctly. Frankly, I'm fairly doubtful as to how far all of the donated rice goes...

Just thought I'd share one of the best Flash games I've ever come across. http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g3/bells.htm While the gameplay is very simple, the fluidity of the game is incredible. All of the Orisinal games are fairly cutesy, and while not all of them are truly...

I'm posting this on behalf of one of my teachers, and I was hoping someone here could help me. Here is the problem: One of the new teachers has a laptop loaded with XP SP2. He says he gets a perfectly good internet connection at home and at his former work via wireless and hardwired...

Far too many cable manufacturers charge far too much for their work. So I've decided to give away one of my cables for a price that everyone can afford: free! The winner will get a choice between either the silver or copper cable below. Hooray! Requirements: 1) Must have been a...

I have a few friends who are capable of memorizing every last word to a song after hearing it just once or twice. I on the otherhand, do not know the lyrics to tracks that I've listened to over twenty times. In songs where lyrics are vital (musicals, for example), I'll pay attention to them, but...

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Alright, I'm working on Shockflash v2.0, and I simply cannot think of a good color scheme for the life of me. Here's the link: http://shockflash.net/nd/4/index.html I prefer lighter colors, but that can stand to change if I find any decent dark color scheme. I've been trying out different...

Since my SRM 1 mk2 has only one RCA input, and I have more than one source, I was wondering if this would work. Could I make a cable with 6 female RCA jacks -> 2 male RCA, and then plug the various sources I have into the female ones. Then, if I needed to switch sources, I would just turn off...

And donated the money to Head-Fi instead! Ooh, bold and italic name... so shiny... Coincidentally this is also my 500th post as well.

My mom just forwarded me this email... 20 WAYS TO MAINTAIN A HEALTHY LEVEL OF INSANITY 1. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With sunglasses on and point a Hair Dryer At Passing Cars. See If They Slow Down. 2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don't Disguise Your Voice. 3. Every...

Right now I'm trying to expand my music library, and I've realized something. I have no country! Now, some may see this is a good thing. I, never having given it a try, do want to see if I can like some of the more accessible songs. It always gets the bad rap of, "I listen to everything...

I've been pretty bored lately, and I'm looking for a couple songs to learn on the piano. Nothing too hard, for example, playing 100 Years by Five for Fighting is about the extent of my abilities when I'm trying to learn the piece on my own. Any suggestions?

Just wondering, do you need to use digital cable to make a MIDI cable? If so, what would you recommened using. I've looked through the cable gallery, and it doesn't look like anyone's made one so far, though. :/ Thanks

I'm looking for a very easy to understand electronics book, that would hopefully give me a good overview and general idea of how things work. Currently, whenever I see a schematic, most of the time when I see a symbol, I don't know what it means. The few cases where I do know what it means, I...