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Trigg County Country Ham Festival
The Trigg County HamFest is almost over, last day will be tomorrow. I paid a visit and took pictures while I was there. WKDZ Radio was there in a big way. Broadcasting live remotes from inside the festival.
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Sitting Duck
Nomen posts a link on HoptownHall to thirty pictures of soldiers in Afghanistan. OODA Ok, men, here is a question to test your knowledge of military vehicles. This question is worth….uh…well, just answer the question. What is the name and function of the vertical member mounted on the hood of the vehicle in photo #5?…
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Hardware haters
I’m not the only one with no luck handling hardware. Even Gentoo developers don’t like working with hardware. Oh, how the hardware hates me. My poor Gentoo development box and primary desktop workstation has been suffering a long string of random lockups lately.[…] Today I cleaned out the machine, getting rid of a fair amount…
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Hardware is Fragile
I’m gonna give up on working with computer hardware. Certainly there are more ways to destroy a circuit board than there are grains of sand in the ocean. After buying my brand new Shuttle PC; I had the bright idea that I was going to install a second hard drive. After several minutes working on…
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lm_sensors for the Shuttle K4500
Moving right along, I installed lm_sensors and put the effort in to correct the readings I was getting. I wrote down the readings from my BIOS and matched up those with identical readings from lm_sensors. Then I stole the equations from the it8716 section of sensors.conf. In the end, I only have one sensor which…
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Booting from USB
The Shuttle PC arrived today! At this moment, I’m doing the Gentoo install. The first issue I had to figure out was the exact sequence to make the machine boot from my usb key. Pressing Escape during post brings up a screen to change the first boot device. LS120 Hard Disk CD-ROM ZIP100 USB-FDD USB-ZIP…
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A New Toy for Me
Today, I ordered a new toy for me. It’s a Shuttle PC model K4500 from Newegg. Actually, I want it to have a dual purpose. It’s primary purpose will be to operate the flatbed scanner when Mom wants to copy something. Right now, she depends on me to operate it for her but I plan…
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Old First City Bank Open House
Renovations on the old First City Bank are now complete. The building was made open to the public before the building became occupied. Seeing that this was going to be a unique opportunity I brought my camera. The first floor will be occupied by Probation and Parole. While the second floor was converted into apartments.…