I’ve had this 4 port PS/2 KVM for quite a while now and while I never really noticed it until we had kids, the damn thing is quite loud.
I finally reached my breaking point with it today when I couldn’t change over to my Ubuntu machine for fear of waking my sleeping daughter up (yes putting my office next to her room was dumb). So once I was actually able to switch over and shut it down I disconnected it and set off with the goal of making it mute.
Now some models from Belkin have a firmware update that allows you to disable the beep, but of course mine is so old there’s just no way. So I did a little exploratory surgery and discovered they hid the single screw that holds this thing togther under the black and silver “Belkin” badge on the top of it. Once I had that undone the thing pretty much fell apart in my hands.
I had to unplug a single wire harness on the left front side of the circuit board, and the select button wiggled away from me and fell out of the chassis. But never mind all that…my prey now lay naked and helpless before the might of my #2 phillips screwdriver and screamin’ hot soldering iron.
I simply unscrewed two black screws, and then heated up a solder joint enough to pop it out and give it a good twist away to the side. You could have just cut it off, smashed it, covered it with tape, whatever deviant method the voices tell you in your head. It doesn’t matter.
Pure utter bliss now awaits me the next time I need to boot to Vista or Ubuntu. Well….at least in the sense of the KVM that is.
Telling your Belkin Omniview F1DB104P to shut up
How many.....packets of Taco Bell Fire Sauce does it take to refill a bottle of it?
While this seems like something my grandmother would have done, while talking about how bad the great depression was, the truth is simply that we have amassed a drawer full of these packets over the years. With nothing else to do except throw them out, Jen set off on a journey of scientific discovery to answer the burning question. How many packets would it take to refill the bottle?
The final answer is …..35. It takes 35 Taco Bell Fires Sauce packets to refill a store purchased bottle.
Now we can all rest easy at night….at least until we finish gathering up a drawer full of those little salt and pepper packets.
oh hell no
A hula chair?!?! Half those people look like they’re going to shoot out of the stupid thing.
Having kids is great
As the time passes and they become more independant, I find myself having to adjust to the idea that there is another “person” in this house other than Jen and I. As such things occur that I have no control over. For example:
1. There is an unopened plastic jar of Garlic Salt in Amelia’s room.
2. There is a can of Fancy Feast Ocean whitefish grill next to my pillow.
3. There is a shredded kleenex on the ground next to my night stand.
