sharpcraft

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  • Pulling old pics from Flickr

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    I have a few photos on Flickr that I am moving to this site. One of them is this aluminum pinewood derby car. I rough-cut the body on a table saw and then finished it on a belt grinder. This photo is a rolling mock-up for laying out the fender and roof contours. I made…

  • The not-quite-early days of Linux

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    Hackaday ran a good-ol’-days story on Linux in the 1990s. So here’s my recollection, all IIRC. I built a PC for Windows 95, with two 4MB sticks of RAM and an Asus motherboard from Egghead (reborn as newegg). It was very unstable and eventually I figured out the motherboard had something funky going on with…

  • oops, stuck

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    I pulled some photos from Facebook for quick content to publish. This was one of those times where you have to try just to see what happens. I think I got hung up on a log & the water was around 30 inches deep. Not quite over the tires but the floor was wet. I…

  • Comment spam

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    Here is a slice of the comment spam that comes with running a site. I will just ignore it for now and if I ever get legitimate comments I will hopefully find them in all this chaff.

  • New workstation setup

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    I bought a new workstation this month (Dell Precision 7730 notebook) and in the course of setting it up I kept banging my head against Windows security. I was just trying to map drives and set up Remote Desktop between the new Windows 11 machine and my old Windows 10 notebook. I started to suspect…