Recent content by bofhemeritus

/facepalm Thanks! I should try reading yes? It is fun!

I once got scammed on Fleabay for $700 for a Yaesu HAM transceiver. It was most likely stupidity on my part - all of the hallmarks of scammer were on the ad, and I was too interested in a shiny, new gadget... I like the idea of a thread/post for scammers, showing their addresses and such -...

After replacing the drive with the SSD and letting it redownload everything, the performance actually seems quite zippy. I've done a few comparison runs (having timed the old ones before), and - for your interest, here they are: Fallout New Vegas: Initial Game Load (to "Press Start" screen)...

6, 13 and 15. The six year old has a bright green LED that she's quite proud of. ;)

Hello from Atlanta, GA - welcome to the forums. Your username sorta looks like you banged your hands on the keyboard - does it have any particular meaning? Have fun and be safe!

Vive la France! Hello and welcome to LPF! Now that I've seen a gourmand saying that they're addicted to Nutella, I'm going to try some out. :D

The last one was totally stock until today, when I put an Intel SSD into it on my rebuild. Before, I'm pretty sure they were only stock, 5400 (or maybe even 4200) RPM drives. The stock hard disk in the latest one is a Toshiba MK1676GSX, which according to Toshiba is a 5400 RPM drive "built for...

A seriously modified copy of Android 4.3, directly from GIT.

Hello Phryan, Welcome to LPF! (sounds funny, me saying welcome to someone when I've been here about two weeks myself) I have family in Findlay, OH - guess that's sorta NW Ohio. It seems like I learn something new here every single day myself. Have fun with it, and be safe!

Greetings - I too am starting to acquire bits for my first "solo" build - it's been a lot of fun so far. I hope that you enjoy yourself at it - I've even got my three kids involved, lots of precautions, of course - but they're having fun. Thanks for the great intro!

I've replaced several zeners on my TI AM335X starter kit, a varistor in an elderly Onkyo amplifier and fixed more VCRs than I would like to admit to. It's far cheaper to repair most things than just bin them, though - I'm in total agreement. (Don't ask how I popped the zeners, it's embarrassing.)

Wow, that's amazing - it's either been a bad batch, or I'm hard on electronics. I have an old Onkyo Integra receiver next to it that's been in operation for about 10 years, so - who knows?

Nikon D7000, 105mm/2.0 macro, 200mm/4.0 macro, 75-200mm zoom, fisheye that I don't remember - and a big handful of filters.

Far too much, too often. I need to saaaaave - or I'm never going to get a house built.

Rock, Metal, SKA, Punk, Irish Punk. Pink Floyd........ :D