Slow Fourier Transform

I came home and quickly found that my Zaurus’ power supply doesn’t work.

It’s not an original Sharp power supply, these things are 100-volt only and don’t work in most countries other than Japan anymore, so the machine came with a local-made one. Closer inspection revealed a short inside, probably due to a jolt, but removing the short did not improve things.

So I swore and wired the jack directly into a computer’s power supply’s 5 volt line. Thankfully these things are easy to acquire, unlike Zaurii themselves, so I’ll just be getting a new one tomorrow, and a computer’s power supply is better in the long run.

But then I thought it’s time to set up my switch, modem, and the new wifi access point to feed off the UPS, which I’ve meant to do for quite a while. And while I’m making a socket to do that… my soldering iron dies. :shock:

That’s novel all by itself, soldering irons don’t die easily. I try the tiny soldering iron for electronics, but it obviously is too puny for the task. I ask the neigbours to borrow one… One turns out to be having a birthday I had no knowledge about whatsoever and I feel silly. The other one just doesn’t have a soldering iron at all.

I just tied the wires together, which is good enough for most practical purposes but isn’t particularily stellar, but I don’t like the direction this is heading in.