I have been playing with my home office computer. I discovered a $60.00 (yes sixty) Seagate 500 Gig SATA internal drive when I went to the computer store (dangerous place) for some CD cases. It was the Saturday after black Friday. At first I passed it up thinking, “Wow! That’s a good price,” Especially when the standard price on the box was $119.95. On the way out, I passed the display and Mr. “T” (Temptation)...
Continue reading...Dusting & Cleaning
This is “Black Friday” but I am not out spending my meager salary on all those bargains! What I actually did was a little house keeping on my personal home office computer. Anyone reading this should heed this bit of advice. Computers need their guts blown out at least once a year. Sounds a bit drastic but what I am saying is nothing but a little dusting and cleaning. Computers get hot inside so there...
Continue reading...The THMS BLOG
The Hobbyist Machine Shop has its own blog. Here is a view of the static home page. From this page are links to the THMS web site and all the blog entries concerning the the machine and home workshop activities. The heading picture is a slightly stylized real picture of my original mini lath turning down a piece of cast iron with a little oil on it. The “smoke trails from the hot chips make a very...
Continue reading...A Wide Address is Good
I think the time is now for 64 Bit Processors and yes, even the 64 bit operating system. I have been running Vista 64 bit operating system (OS) for several weeks in testing with very little notable difference with Vista 32 bit OS. I did just load SP1 (Service Pack 1) for the 64 bit Vista. The truth is there is very little software that will use the full 64 bit addresses and other so...
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