Back in the day (many days ago) a friend of mine was working for a small outfit and inserted an 8087 math coprocessor backwards into a PC motherboard. I think the ‘87 cost about $100 then, which would be more like $300 now. Anyway, he turned on the machine and let out the Magic Blue Smoke. Fortunately, I believe the…

I haven’t owned a notebook with a hard drive in six or seven years. For a long time, I bought whatever cost $125—and that went from 64GB to 128 GB to 256 GB pretty fast. I just doubled the storage in my current notebook from 256 -> 512 a few months ago through addition of an M.2 256 GB drive, for the grand price of…

Yet.

OK, it’ll probably be a little while, but prices are dropping like crazy on these things.

When I left home, I moved into an apartment, and suddenly, I had to learn to cook!

Someone didn’t notice the max höjd sign.

These are of limited use (as lots of people are saying), but when you need one, you need one. 16 years or so ago our built-in microwave oven failed. There are only a few parts in microwave ovens, and I was able to quickly identify and order the part (the magnetron), but replacing it mean either (a) taking down the…

These are of limited use (as lots of people are saying), but when you need one, you need one. 16 years or so ago our…

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! I work at a food pantry/closet most weekends. WE NEED CLOTHING, particularly for men. And as long as you’re donating to your local closet, pick up some clean socks and underwear and donate those, too.  Reuse is the key!

Ah, that would explain that. Pity, though. it would have been lovely. But I suppose capsules are (for SpaceX) short-term territory. They have larger reentry vehicles in mind...

Could be. However, I think that the Boeing ship also uses hydrazine thrusters, and it’s spec’d for dry landings. The shuttle didn’t use its thrusters on the way down, AFAIK, but on orbit it used hydrazine, and had to be handled carefully after landing.

I was under the impression from some reading that the Crew Dragon was designed to make a land touchdown using its thrusters (the parachutes were supposed to back up the thrusters), but that NASA required water landings. Does anyone know what the true story is here?  Given that SpaceX has focused on dry landings and…

I think the first machine I upgraded to SSD was an Acer netbook, c. 2012.  I haven’t owned a machine with a physical drive since.  FWIW, the machine that replaced that was on my back in a bike crash that broke my hip.  It didn’t even blink and booted right up in the hospital.

Way, way back, there was Simtel-20.

Mine’s in use at least 12 hours/day...

Used to do that all the time before I started using notebooks.  And I hack those, so..,

I used to write installation software for a couple of companies, and it is true that not everyone else followed best practices...

I suppose. I go back to the freeware DOS (and CP/M) days, though. Tucows.  No problems

Most of this strikes me as reasonable advice, but—really?

I like Civics. A lot. But this particular generation somehow looked generic and never really appealed to me. Even in that shape, which is not bad, that kind of money for its age? Nope. It’s CP.

My dad bought one of the Euro/Merc versions when he got tired of the electrical problems in his ‘67 MGB.  I learned to drive stick in that Capri, and it was loads of fun to drive!

When I owned a New Beetle, I found the vase was a nice place to keep a ballpoint.  But I agree on fake vents (I’m looking at you, Honda) and plastic engine covers.