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The Verdict Is In

The “dream system” I’ve been building (or trying to build) in on at least a temporary hold. I did some more testing today, trying various configurations as well as clearing the CMOS memory.  The result is that either the job I did of replacing those capacitors was borked or (this is most likely) the board […]

Dream System Still A Dream

Well tonight now that the heatsink compound had arrived and started the build of my new system. I got the whole thing put together.  (I even recorded a video of the build which is rendering as I write this). As I’ve said before it’s a really good system. A good ASUS motherboard, Nvidea graphics, a […]

Five Easy Steps To Installing Freenet Classic Opennet (FCon)

Having recently announced the release of build 5110, the first new build of Freenet Classic Opennet (FCon) in well over two years it has occurred to me that it would be a good idea to put together a brief walkthrough of the installation process. Because I’m a windows user and have never installed it on […]

Redstone On (powered) Rails

In a recent post I was talking about some of the stuff I was trying to do with Redstone logic circuits in Minecraft. One of those things was to address a problem with the new powered rails.  You have one or more powered rails at the end of a track and the way you launch […]

I Think My Camcorder Might Be Dying

Why do I think that?  Because it is not only showing various signs of wear, which I’ll get to in a minute, but it has also been doing something occasionally that convinces me it is not long for this world.  Take a look at the picture below and you’ll see what I mean. What’s wrong […]