Archive for January, 2010

The Powerful Playstation 2 Repair Guide

The remaining checks will require that the PS2 cover be removed. Follow these steps to safely and easily remove it.

Remove all the screw covers. (There should be 6 screw covers, 4 made of rubber (outer edges) and 2 made of plastic (in the middle), that need to be removed. You can use a small flat blade screwdriver for this. There should be 2-4 more screw covers on the outer side of the base, underneath the controller ports. The older model PS2’s have 4 screw covers, while the newer ones have only 2. Remove them all, and you should now have a total of 8-10 screws unveiled. Set the screw covers aside.

Use your knife to cut the warranty tape that is covering the seam between the back and the top cover. (By the power switch). Just trace the seam through the tape with the knife so that it will not be holding you back when you go to remove the top later. You can also just remove the tape completely if you want.

Fun Dessert Recipes

Microwave S’Mores
Ingredients:

  • Graham crackers
  • Hershey chocolate bar
  • Large marshmallows

Instructions:

  1. Break graham crackers in half.
  2. Cut chocolate bar into squares.
  3. Place 2 squares of chocolate onto half of a graham cracker.
  4. Put marshmallow on top of the chocolate.
  5. Heat in microwave on high for 20 seconds.
  6. When marshmallows puff up, take the s’more out of the microwave and top with another half of graham cracker.
  7. Enjoy!

Chocolate Sauce
Ingredients:

  • 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate chips
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • Pinch of salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions:

  1. Mix chocolate chips and milk together in a small microwavable bowl.
  2. Microwave at medium heat (50%) for one minute. Remove the bowl and stir.
  3. Microwave at medium heat again for one more minute until the chocolate is fully melted.

Dessert Recipes

Citrus or Ginger Syrups on Ice Cream or Sorbet
Top ice cream or sorbet with any of my citrus or ginger syrups and serve with an array of legant premade cookies for a simple dessert that’s sure to impress. Try: Seville Orange on chocolate ice cream, Blood Orange on vanilla ice cream, Rangpur Lime or Meyer Lemon on citrus sorbet, Thai Ginger on vanilla ice cream, White Ginger on vanilla ice cream or lemon sorbet.

Citrus or Ginger Custard Mousse Parfait with Fruit
This recipe was developed for an article about my products in the Marin Independent Journal.
3 tbsp. sugar
3 tbsp. cake flour
1 cup milk
3 egg yolks
1/4 cup Citrus or Ginger Syrup
3 cups assorted fresh, canned or frozen fruits
3 tbsp. Citrus or Ginger Syrup, other than above
1 cup (1 half pint) whipping cream

Tips for Good Gardening

Tips for Good Gardening

You’ll find this guide is packed with good advice about allotment gardening, from digging the plot to planning year-round use. Adopt the good practice set out here and you should find the experience of managing a plot both enjoyable and rewarding.

This guide isn’t a comprehensive manual, and can’t answer all your gardening queries. But there’s plenty of help available: the borough’s libraries have a great selection of gardening books; the internet is host to gardening clubs, allotment societies (try www.allotments.org for local information) and commercial information; local gardening societies provide advice and your fellow plot-holders will often be able to help.

Don’t rush – if you try do too much too quickly, your tasks will become burdens. Instead, do a little and often. See Preparing the Plot for some ideas on getting your allotment into shape.

Guide to Flower Gardening

Planting Your Flower Garden
You can start your flower garden with live plant or from seeds. In either case, it’s important to prepare the soil, even if you’re planting in an existing flowerbed. Using SoilSyrup is one of the easiest ways to prepare your soil and a flower gardening activity you can do well before the last frost. Before planting any flowers, it’s important to know your regions frosts date. Planting times are calculated from this date.

Planting flowers from seeds can help you get a jump of the growing season in late winter. Try SpeedSprout or MegaGro for starting your seeds for better results and healthier seedlings. Adding AquaRocks to the soil of your flower seedlings will help keep them moist, as the small pots have a tendency to dry out quickly. If you don’t want to start early you can simply plant seeds in the prepared soil. Many varieties are vigorous growing and require very little effort to grow from seed. You can plant several packages in the same area, mixing heights and varieties. This type of flower gardening, sometimes called wildflower style can be very appealing.

Fortran Programming Guide

This guide presents the essential information programmers need to develop efficient applications using the Sun WorkShop™ Fortran compilers, f77 (Fortran 77) and f95 (Fortran 95). It presents issues relating to input/output, program development, use and creation of software libraries, program analysis and debugging, numerical accuracy, porting, performance, optimization, parallelization, and the C/Fortran interface.

This guide is intended for scientists, engineers, and programmers who have a working knowledge of the Fortran language and wish to learn how to use the Sun Fortran compilers effectively. Familiarity with the Solaris operating environment or UNIX® in general is also assumed.

The companion Fortran User’s Guide describes the compile-time environment and command-line options for the Sun WorkShop™ 6 Fortran compilers: f77 (FORTRAN 77) and f95 (Fortran 95).

Other Fortran manuals in this collection include the Fortran Library Reference, and the FORTRAN 77 Language Reference. See “Accessing Related Documentation” on page 6.