The new Omni VII ham radio transceiver is on order. Should arrive Friday (tomorrow). I am excited to have a new toy but still sad that the VI has passed to the land of memories. I have snapped to my senses though and realize it is and was just a box of electronics. There was a problem of sorts in placing the order. My credit card company put a lock on my card when they saw...
Continue reading...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...
Continue reading...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...
Continue reading...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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