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In the process of building the kids’ new computer, I bought a new heatsink/fan for our P4 computer, along with a 320GB WD SE16 SATA hard drive. We were down to 1GB on the main drive, which amounts to 1% free space, which wasn’t enough to do anything, not even dump the latest set of [...]

Here’s the results after several hours of running Memtest86: DIMMA1/RAM1 + DIMMA2/RAM2 = ERRORS, 8 Passes, 20,000+ DIMMA1/RAM1 + DIMMA2/Empty = ERRORS, 3 Passes, 4,000+ DIMMA1/Empty + DIMMA2/RAM1 = ERRORS, 4 Passes, 793+ (2.7V) DIMMA1/RAM2 + DIMMA2/Empty = No Errors after 6 passes, 30 minutes DIMMA1/Empty + DIMMA2/RAM2 = No Errors after 75 passes, 6 [...]

Here’s the update on the PC upgrade: All the parts arrived on Thursday and everything arrived in great shape. The Biostar open-box was certainly just that, it didn’t come with anything other than the mobo in a static bag and the box. Which was fine, I’ve got a bunch of IDE/SATA cables and the drivers [...]

I got an email from Mike over at cheapbatterypacks last night saying he was doing a huge blowout on all PolyQuest li-po battery packs, and once they were gone, they were gone for good. I’ve been wanting to get a 3S 11.1V pack for my Super Cub for a few weeks now, but haven’t wanted [...]

I upgraded to WordPress 2.1 tonight and so far I like it a lot better. After loosing an entire post one night after hitting Publish only to have the server time out on dump everything I’d written into oblivion, I got into the habit of hitting ctrl A then C (select all and copy all). [...]

My kids have an old Compaq Evo desktop computer we got them that they use mostly for playing games. Oddly enough, they do more “gaming” than I do, so it makes sense that they need a semi-modern computer in order to play all the cool games that are available for kids. Right now their computer [...]