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    A Buddy Has A Windows 10 Problem: Automatic Update Deleted Some Things...

    Just call up Microsoft. Surely they would send you an unlimited windows 11 license for the inconvenience. . . April Fools :D Could he restore to a back up before the update where his stuff is intact? Or perhaps rollback the update (although I'm unsure if that would return the win apps or...
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    When Was The Last Time You Dumpster Dove? :)

    Yanno, I lie. I did find a little AT case and (if rough memory serves me) C2Duo or maybe it was an AMD Phenom Compaq at the dumpster of my condo before I moved so this was probably around 2016. I cleaned it up, repasted the guts, slapped a decent silent no-fan GPU in there along with pci...
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    Anyone else a huge fan of the Alien franchise?

    I recall that actual TNG episode. IIRC Dr.Crusher is getting the business end of that disruptor in this scene.
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    When Was The Last Time You Dumpster Dove? :)

    This recycler mentality never made sense to me although the recyclers I know around here are nice people and would find a solution vs being a jerkus about it. I wonder if something like Free Geek could exist in the UK diverting good, useable hardware back into the community. That as a...
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    Anyone else a huge fan of the Alien franchise?

    That sounds like StarCraft Terran farming zerg armies and unleashing them on their enemies.
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    When Was The Last Time You Dumpster Dove? :)

    I get alot of wood this way as well. Saved from projects and stuff that sometimes just gets left out for pickup. Im no wood worker per se but I have a nice stash of quality wood in my garage overhead from this. If you were to go buy quality high grade wood these days, man its SO expensive.
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    Anyone else a huge fan of the Alien franchise?

    My fav Aliens game was the late 80s side scroller arcade box. https://images.app.goo.gl/vBr7pkzMV5mAiKTL6 Burned through a lot of quarters at the local ice rink playing this gem. :)
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    XServe without a rack?

    I would 110% do the lack rack if I wanted to be single. It *would* make for an awesome conversation piece in the living room and reminds me of right before I met my wife I had a BB iMac g3 slot loader pointed straight up through a glass top end table which I used as a juke box because iMacs are...
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    Anyone else a huge fan of the Alien franchise?

    Me neither! Thanks for sharing @Daxeria :)
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    Radeon 7000 Flashing Woes

    I used graphiccelerator to flash my radeon7000 + a reduced rom in my B&W.
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    Anyone else a huge fan of the Alien franchise?

    Well, I guess we'll get to see what this most recent offering will bring to the story Besides a healthy dose of scifi horror, acid blood and face huggers :D
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    Anyone else a huge fan of the Alien franchise?

    I do like the franchise. I dont follow the story too closely so have managed to enjoy all the films w/o noticing any terrible timeline or plot holes. I always thought the human/xenomorph looked bad/wrong to me in Resurrection & despite the obvious flaws in 3, the over arching theme of lifetime...
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    The Windows 98 Tualatin Build...with SATA, of course (and how I did it)

    An AGP Voodoo5500 would be great :) Looking at the prices of these nowadays, I cant believe I gave mine away for free around the TOTC LOL. Who woulda known. Oh well, dems da breaks. :D Nice build. Do you have any pics? We all know nothing really occurred unless there are pics.
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    XServe without a rack?

    This guy over on MRF used an Ikea LACK side table as a rack for his Xserves. Looks pretty sharp. I’ve been told they’re kinda loud to have in your room next to your bed.
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    Stair upgrade from carpet to hardwood

    Man, I’m glad to see that there is no gap between the tread and the riser attached to the stringer on yours stairs. When I pulled the carpet off my stairs, I found 1/2 to 3/4 gap there lol - like seriously? You couldn’t have spent the extra penny to not have a gap? Lol My plan was to just...
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    Stair upgrade from carpet to hardwood

    Well, it has paid off already as I spilled/dripped coffee going downstairs to my office to get my day started LOL. Easy clean up now :D I still am so impressed with baby wipes. I have another project that is going on that requires caulking to fill gaps from my noodle-y, non-square walls and...
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    Put in some new carpet & baseboard

    In my infinite wisdom, I forgot to take a before picture. With that being said, we finally got around to the gold shag carpet a’la 1985 in the down stairs play/TV room. I also chose a bigger baseboard which I like. The stuff that was in there was tiny. I’m in the process of caulking the joint...
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    Stair upgrade from carpet to hardwood

    I finally got the majority of finish work done. I could not find finished hickory quarter round in my area so I settled on this composite stuff that matched reasonably well. I have only secured with the *tiniest* amount of calling on each end with the hopes that so run into some actual finished...
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    When Was The Last Time You Dumpster Dove? :)

    Truthfully I have not ever found or run into any cool computer find from an actual dumpster. Lots of cool free and low $$ CL scores over the years but I never was lucky enough to drive by a dumpster, look over and find something cool. I think the closest was next to a goodwill drop-off. I...