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How-To Repair A Samsung Blu-ray Player

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:29:39 -0400

I purchased my Samsung BD-P1590/XAA from woot.com back in March or April I think, and like a few other things from woot it didn’t work. I’m usually pretty good about cashing in on the 90 day warranty, but I had an issue with samsung customer service and getting the shipping info. Anyhow I let the warranty slip. Being an avid do-it-yourselfer, I decided to dedicate some time to a repair attempt; here is the step by step.

1. Remove the cover. Start with the 5 screws on the metal cover and remove

2. Remove the face panel. Then pry the 8 or so plastic clips from the front cover and remove the front cover/display panel. (Two of the plastic clips are smaller and on opposite sides on the top of the disc drive, you shouldn’t have to remove the ribbon cable)

3. Lift the disc drive. Remove the 4 chrome screws from the bottom of the disc drive and pry the tape off the chassis. Lift the disc drive up and prop it up against the chassis face. You shouldn’t have to remove the ribbon cables. Lifting the drive out of the chassis is only so you can open the disc drive.

4. Open the disc drive. Remove the 4 black screws from the top cover of the disc drive and lift the cover off. Pry the blue magnet out of the top cover so you can easily test the drive.

5. Adjust the lasers! Im not really sure how much insight I can provide here as to the right way to accomplish this. I’ve done this before with my PS2 so I’m basically applying the same pricipal. You will see 3 tiny screw heads on the right side of the disc drive board. Fiddle with those. For me all I had to do was turn each of them 1/2 turn counter clockwise and everything worked! Be sure to test DVD’s, Blu-rays, and if you wish DVD-R(W) before you close everything back up.

6. Put it all back together and pat yourself on the back.

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Sun, 04 Jul 2010 09:40:23 -0400

I can’t believe it has taken me so long find out about ssh -X

Basically all this time that I have been using VNC to accomplish everything remote that would be nice to have a gui in.

Well now I just ssh -X dude@system

and run some pimp command like “VirtualBox &”

BLIGABLAM!

Sometimes it’s good to feel like a newb all over again.

Behold the dPad! So I got the chance to play with an iPad for a...

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:03:00 -0400

Behold the dPad!

So I got the chance to play with an iPad for a few minutes, nothing really exiting to speak of other than it made a hell of a good ebook reader. A $500 ebook reader is a little much so I thought maybe I can make something work for less. This is an old Dell D600 that I’ve had laying around without a purpose. I tore it apart this morning to see how difficult it would be to turn the screen around. As it turns out, it’s easy as pie! The hinges are mostly symmetric and the one and only cable connecting the panel to the board it long enough to be turned around. So about 10 minutes of screw turning and some screen rotation in software and I now have one damn good ebook reader. It it heavy and I don’t think I’ll ever take it out of the house but the price is definitely right.

UNIX f yes!

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 09:50:06 -0400

UNIX f yes!

Borg So my latest project is a low overhead command and control...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:17:01 -0500

Borg

So my latest project is a low overhead command and control bot for the masses. It’s not meant to be hidden or anything. More like open source remote administration framework. Anyway I’m excited.

Photo

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:46:05 -0500

"When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical"

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:41:56 -0500

“When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical”

- OMGF this is the best quote ever for apple products and for any product that people buy and don’t know why!!! “I am too stupid to understand computers so it’s magic!” HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA

Source

Im ready for the next LAN!

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:45:12 -0500

Im ready for the next LAN!

4chan downloader

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:36:17 -0500

4chan downloader:

I’m home sick today so I decided to do some scripting.

Directions:

Unzip into a directory and execute run.sh in a loop statement. 4chan/b/ will begin downloading in nicely organized folders with an active or 404 status.

Basha’s crazy!

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:17:00 -0500

Basha’s crazy!

Got one.. Sucks it’s on backorder won’t ship until...

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:11:08 -0500

Got one.. Sucks it’s on backorder won’t ship until the 23rd.

What a beautiful forecast. I say F’ the sun it causes...

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:05:29 -0500

What a beautiful forecast. I say F’ the sun it causes cancer.

Working on working

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:29:22 -0500

I’ve recently found out that Policy is hard to write. But ….. It’s done. Hooraay! Now I get to deal with all the other issues that have been backing up since. One thing is for sure I’m totally stoked about learning C. It’s one of my goals.

Im posting this so my brohers friend can see how screwed his...

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 10:04:27 -0400

Im posting this so my brohers friend can see how screwed his laptop is…

This looks promising … I think I’ll try it out and...

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:53:12 -0400

This looks promising … I think I’ll try it out and compare .. Im running nagios now and I have run zenoss.

I want my own DropBox server.

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:28:46 -0400

So im trying to make my own dropbox server. I love dropbox but it’s only 2gigs. So Im looking for some server software that can do file syncronizations. Right now using rsync with mapped smb and ssh folders is really .. not that great. I did read a svn server may do the trick .. but I think the main issue is going to be with client side software. Maybe Im just looking for a common sync location with different client options… Like rsync for mac or smb over openvpn for winders … This is going to take a while… I may end up writing something in php and store it all in mysql… I dont know.

Apparently Commander Chekov is an alumni of Mount Hebron High

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:23:40 -0400

Apparently Commander Chekov is an alumni of Mount Hebron High

I’ve been so damn busy! and this is all I have to show...

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:34:26 -0400

I’ve been so damn busy! and this is all I have to show for it.. I’ve got all my servers running through a reverse proxy using different directories for different servers. This uses ProxyPass and ProxyHTMLURLMap to fix some url’s on some non configurable applications.. this is great cause all servers go through the same public IP and only one cert is needed… This setup can also be used for load balancing. w00t!

Haven't posted in a while

Mon, 11 May 2009 18:11:09 -0400

Bohemian Rhapsody, performed by old school tech.

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:21:57 -0400

Bohemian Rhapsody, performed by old school tech.