Hobbies

The Sacred Keyboard

I ran across this again last night as I was searching for a small keyboard for use with the computer I will be using for my amateur radio operations. There are two distinct camps. The largest is the “Windows” keyboard and the smaller group is the Apple Keyboard. If you want neither the selection becomes very small. I am looking for a UNIX keyboard! I am not talking about anything critical here. Any style keyboard...

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TEDEX Update

I updated TEDEX with the newest version of its operating system. Not that a user can see any difference. But I also changed the scope of the forum. It stated out to be for nothing but metal working. Then a year ago or so I added a section about making wood chips (woodworking). Now I added a new section for another of my interests and that is Amateur Radio. The TEDEX is like an open...

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A Half Terabyte More

The last 500 Gig drive, a Seagate seems to be doing very well. No clicks of death and very quite. The format was faster and in fact everything about it is faster. I’m glad because the drive that I spent more than a week in moving my 64 bit Vista install to, started to wither and die. I don’t know if it was a victim of the lighting shock but it could be as it...

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A Dead Terabyte

I never dreamed 20 years ago I would be talking in terabytes of memory storage. It won’t be long before we start talking about RAM in that amount. What you see here is two dead 500 GB hard drives. The one on the left is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 and on the right is the just replaced (#2) Western Digital Caviar Blue. Both are a little fishy. Yes, the SECOND WD  drive has just failed. It...

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