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[17 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]
Low-pressure Spyder with Pure Energy Regulator

When I bought this el-cheapo regulator from a paintball shop, they said it wouldn’t really be suitable for low-pressure. Well, it turns out they’re wrong! According to the Pure Energy Vertical Inline Regulator manual, the default configuration is good from 550 to 900 PSI. Removal of a shim from inside the regulator body drops the adjustable range from 275 to 500 PSI – about the working range I’m thinking to be optimal for my low-pressure marker.
Removing the shim couldn’t be easier – shown in the picture to the left is …

Operating Systems »

[7 Apr 2010 | One Comment | ]
UPnP-IGD on FreeBSD with PF

I used to always run either OpenBSD or FreeBSD powered routers – basically since around 2000 (before that it was Linux, but we don’t speak of those days anymore). In recent years, starting with my Cayman 3546 router I just started enjoying the simplicity that appliance-type devices offered.
Our most recent setup has been a Linksys WRT54G, which has been rather crap in it’s duties really. For some reason it’s consistently dropping packets and possibly rebooting (but with the garbage default firmware, there’s absolutely no way to tell if it’s rebooted …

Featured, Hardware »

[7 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
S/PDIF Output on Asus K8S-LA “Salmon”

Ever since I got a PlayStation 2 and found the joy of games that support Pro Logic II, I’ve had a thing for surround sound. It’s like this perverse fixation that gives me a boner every time – you haven’t played games like Need for Speed: Underground 2 or Ace Combat 5 until you’ve played them with Pro Logic II. Seriously, the effect is that dramatic.
The PS3 is even better because most games support Dolby Digital 5.1 native – the PS2 lacked the processing power to generate this signal dynamically, …

Meta »

[27 Feb 2010 | 2 Comments | ]
RedStar v2 WordPress Theme

So I thought since we’re gearing up to re-release the site I’d spend a little time talking about our lovely WP theme. Our goal was to create a throwback to one of the earliest themes on our website, “RedStar”, which as you might guess featured a rather prominent red star.
It also, much to the dismay of others, featured some rather politically motivated photography… in fact many of our themes did. We decided that, in the interests of a wider audience, we’d do away with that – plus we couldn’t find …

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[27 Feb 2010 | One Comment | ]

Hello world, OrganizedChaos here.
Welcome to the new Hungry Hacker.  I will add more to this later.