I had a chance to work in my machine shop most of the weekend. Feels good to again get back to all the metal chips flying. I finished off my A3 locomotive driver wheels. There is a quick link to them under |Site Tools | What’s New | in the main menu at the THMS site. The weather in Texas is perfect too. The temperature was hitting the 80’s. All the flowering trees are in...
Continue reading...Apology
Geez… I re-read my own posts and I realize I sure do a lot of rants about computers and operating systems. I have my nose burried too deep in these one eyed monsters. I need to go back into my workshop for awhile and work on the good stuff! 🙂 – Dan’l
Continue reading...PC Security
The new (what I call) “built for the unwashed masses of computer users” operating system (Vista) is driving me nuts. That’s because XP has now started double checking everything I want to do with my system. MS just forced me to install a sofware verificaion tool in XP before I can get any more upgrades. I think the update also added a few more security measures. Times must be tough at MS. Their view just has to...
Continue reading...New URL for THMS
The Hobbyist’s Machine Shop has been assigned (by me) a new additional URL. You can reach it with http://TheHobbyistMachineShop.com. Note there is no apostrophy s after the inline word “hobbyist”. URL’s do not like apostrophies. The capital letters are also not necessary. This is an additional URL so you do not need to change your existing link if you have it bookmarked. Dan’l
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