Electronic failures and triumphs

posted by Jeff | Wednesday, January 3, 2007, 9:55 PM | comments: 0

My nine-year-old Sony receiver has been cutting out one or both sides as of late. Actually I think I blogged about this months ago. Well, it's getting worse and more annoying. It's really strange that it would fail, because people run receivers from the 70's to this day, perhaps with replaced tubes.

I found one on Amazon for about $230 that goes for $300 at Best Buy, but I hate that I had to spend money on something so not interesting.

On the other hand, I found a work around to install the service pack for Visual Studio over the error I spent half a day screwing around with before Christmas. I needed a break from debugging so I figured I'd give it a whirl, and it worked.

I plugged in my DDR pad to my DVR computer and fired up StepMania. I copied it from Kara almost a year ago but never got it to work (because of busted pads). It seems to work, I think but either it's more precise than the PS2 DDR games, or it's not reading the button triggers in sync with the errors.

Today, I have beat the machines.


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