My first computer in mid/late ‘87 was a PC XT 4.77/10 mhz machine with a 30 MB hard drive, 640k RAM, CGA graphics, and a US Robotics 2400 baud modem. And two 5.25" floppy drives. The hard drive was a half height 5.25" drive, not the full size ones like in the picture above. The total cost was under $1500. Gives you a…

I witnessed one unfortunate incident while at Radwood. I can’t say with complete certainty but it looked like some guy just took liberties of someone else’s car and just sat in the passenger seat of their Ferrari Testarossa. When the owner, quite irately, told the guy to get out and get away, the guy tried to make…

That area doesn’t look like it’s visitor parking friendly... Any ideas, people already there?

Intrigued by your suggestion I did a quick search. Sadly, air/oil separators are not a thing for the MZR 2.3 motor. Apparently Grimmspeed ruled out the possibility back in 2011. Definitely sounds like it’s the way to go though whenever possible.

Back in May of 2015 at 133k I had the head pulled and all major associated work done (valves, Timing chain, etc etc etc). As expected there was a lot of carbon fouling but immediately following the work I added a catch can which I’ve been draining every 2500 or so miles. I get about a good 4-5 ounces of oil when I let…

11 years and 157k miles later, I’m still driving my Mazdaspeed 6...

Wrong answer. If someone gives you 1 BTC, you immediately cash it and turn it into US dollars and then invest it. Or you avoid taxes altogether by blowing it on one night in a luxury hotel with a bag of pure china white and the best escort money can buy. That’s the American Way(tm), baby.

The nail polish was for the CPU contacts. The worn pantyhose were for... Never mind, I gotcha.

Two weekends ago I was in the New Orleans area on a short weekend trip with friends. I actually ended up flying in two days before anybody else and had a full day to do whatever I wanted. My first priority was getting a tour of the LIGO Livingston and after a few emails back and forth a couple of weeks before the trip…

So Taylor Hawkins still drives his high school car, a 1986 Toyota 4x4.

I like seeing stories like this, stars still retaining their humble beginnings. Ludacris and his Legend is along the same lines. And maybe not quite the same but Lionel Richie still has the first car he ever bought, a late 70's Datsun 280Z.

If it’s a place where you eat with your hands, then I’ll use my right. If utensils are the norm, then you better believe I’ll be using my left hand to use chopsticks.

Some hardware/firmware/software can’t support newer encryption levels for one reason or another, and the old standard can’t just be renewed anymore. They may have realized that the hardware spec was not powerful enough for a newer standard or would have resulted in unacceptable performance loss, so they decided to…

Video has been pulled now... Had I been a minute slower, I would have missed this.

The way you describe it, you’re probably right. I’ll cross my fingers though hoping the devs get some sense into their damn heads and put back great functionality that they took out.

The ability to block any application, as in picking and choosing what apps to allow. For example I would block streaming apps from using mobile, but I would not block a web browser or GPS because I still need to look up stuff while on cellular. Such a toggle could be right next to the slider to block background data…

A marketing scam, kind of like how dual clutch gearbox people don’t like it when you call it an automatic transmission? “It’s a manual! But no manual clutch!”

Depends on your router’s capability. Maybe the default firmware may not accomplish what you want, but perhaps a custom firmware like Tomato might get you there.

I read a document somewhere that seems to imply that the feature appears to be coming back in a way in 8.1. By long pressing the window that appears it might be possible to make the window go away with a toggle. I’ll hold out until then.

I’m really hoping 8.1 fixes those pop-up notifications. Android 7.1.x was exactly what I needed to be, minus one feature. The one missing feature (and it still boggles me why it isn’t an OS level feature) is simply the ability to disable Cell data usage for any application. They have “disable background” usage but no…