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Pimp Your Phone: V90 Ringtone for Nokia Phones

Boost your nerd-factor with this ringtone of an authentic V.90 modem handshake! In .amr format, so suitable for Nokia phones, amongst others. Get it here: V90s7.amr

BMW E30: Factory Differential Combinations

Here’s an overview of the factory differential configurations delivered on German E30s. Factory Differential Configurations: 4,45 4,27 4,10 3,91 3,73 3,64 3,46 3,23 3,25 3,15 2,93 2,79 316 from 9/84 until 9/84 316i M10 X X 316i M40 X X 316i Touring X X 318i M10 X X 318i M40 X X 318i Touring X X 318i Cabrio X X 318is X 320is X 320i from 9/87 9/85 - 9/87 9/85 - 9/87 until 9/85 320i Touring X X 320i Cabrio X X 323i from 9/84 until 9/84 324d 324td 324td Touring X 325i X X from 9/86 until 9/86 325ix X X X 325ix Touring X X 325i Touring X 325i Cabrio X from 9/86 until 9/86 325eta until 12/86 from 12/86 9/85 -12/86 until 9/85 M3 X X M3 Cabrio X Combinations marked with an X [...]

BMW E30: How To Remove the Instrument Cluster

Wether it’s because your SI batteries have drained, your backlight is fried or you just want to fit those fancy chrome dials, sooner or later you’ll end up having to take out the instrument cluster. Here’s how you do it Removal Remove the lower dash panel by turning the three plastic screws 90 degrees and sliding it [...]

Essential Amiga Software

As the AmigaOS 3.x is basically 10 years old, there's quite some room for improvement. Ofcourse Haage & Partner released OS 3.9 some time ago, which includes a lot of useful new stuff, but still, there's room for improvement. Here's a writeup on the stuff that I like, note that all applies to OS 3.x on "classic" m68k hardware, as I don't have any other Amiga system running for now.

Replacing an iMac G3 harddrive

I've never minded much about the noise my various computers generated, but recently, listening to the whine of my PC's harddrive, something just "snapped" inside my head, and I declared war on noise - I just couldn't stand it anymore.

Guess everyone has it's limits when it comes to this, and well, I guess after 15 years I reached mine.

The PC was quickly quitened down that same day by replacing the old Maxtor bootdisk with a Seagate Barracuda and a new CPU fan, but then another sound started bugging me: the old Quantum Fireball SE HD from my Girlfriend's iMac DV made an 'unbearable' bearing noise when idle and loud knocking sounds when grinding. It also was too slow and too small, and okay, I just needed to finally rip open that iMac to poke around inside :)

BMW E30: 325i Motronic 1.0 Information

After I installed a rebuilt 325i engine in my (previously L-Jetronic) 320i I had a lot of “fun” getting it to idle correctly. It idled, but not very well and I had occasional troubles with stalling or hard starting every time I fixed some component of the system. In the end, I got so tired of it [...]

Digging up the roots: My (T)Rusty Amiga

From something like 1990 on, I’ve been an avid Amiga user (or believer, fanatic, activist, etc.). For years, the Amiga and the people and activities (largely demoscene-related around it were consuming a major part of my free time. Those were some great times, until it all went south with Commodore screwing up et al, [...]