VOGONS

Common searches


The Weekend Thread (Fri-Sun)

Topic actions

Reply 80 of 146, by bjwil1991

User metadata
Rank l33t
Rank
l33t

Friday: salting the sidewalks and driveway with pet friendly salt
Saturday: bowling, thrifting, filling up the cars, and laundry day
Sunday: nothing in particular

Discord: https://discord.gg/U5dJw7x
Systems from the Compaq Portable 1 to Ryzen 9 5950X
Twitch: https://twitch.tv/retropcuser

Reply 81 of 146, by oeuvre

User metadata
Rank l33t
Rank
l33t

Hoping the rest of the upgrades for the DTK come today... RAM, network card, and CD-ROM audio cable.

HP Z420 Workstation Intel Xeon E5-1620, 32GB, RADEON HD7850 2GB, SSD + HD, XP/7
ws90Ts2.gif

Reply 82 of 146, by bjwil1991

User metadata
Rank l33t
Rank
l33t

Friday: going to Autozone to buy floor jacks for my car
Saturday: bowling, thrifting, laundry day, and working on the cooling system on my car again
Sunday: soup or bowl Sunday.

Discord: https://discord.gg/U5dJw7x
Systems from the Compaq Portable 1 to Ryzen 9 5950X
Twitch: https://twitch.tv/retropcuser

Reply 83 of 146, by DaveJustDave

User metadata
Rank Member
Rank
Member

Tonight: button up the osborne 1 i took apart earlier this week
Saturday: finish my 233MMX build
Sunday: get my new KVM setup

I have no clue what I'm doing! If you want to watch me fumble through all my retro projects, you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrDavejustdave

Reply 84 of 146, by bjwil1991

User metadata
Rank l33t
Rank
l33t

Day early, dollar earned:

Friday: nothing really, except for formatting some 1.2MB HD diskettes I bought last week and watching Perry Mason on the DVR.
Saturday: bowling, thrifting, getting new pads and rotors, and ordering a new ABS sensor for my car before the next snow fall.
Sunday: laundry day

Discord: https://discord.gg/U5dJw7x
Systems from the Compaq Portable 1 to Ryzen 9 5950X
Twitch: https://twitch.tv/retropcuser

Reply 85 of 146, by bjwil1991

User metadata
Rank l33t
Rank
l33t

Friday: installing L2 cache in my 486 and watching Perry Mason.
Saturday: bowling, lunch with the family (birthday for both my mom and myself), and going to the junkyard to buy a couple of power steering pulleys for my car.
Sunday: working on the car and laundry day.

Discord: https://discord.gg/U5dJw7x
Systems from the Compaq Portable 1 to Ryzen 9 5950X
Twitch: https://twitch.tv/retropcuser

Reply 86 of 146, by bjwil1991

User metadata
Rank l33t
Rank
l33t

Friday: upgrading the L2 cache from 128K to 512K and video RAM from 1MB to 2MB on my Packard Bell PB450 board (successfully installed and working), video and photo shoot of the IBM ThinkPad 380D in action (YouTube video to follow), and watching Perry Mason on the DVR.
Saturday: bowling, thrifting, changing the pulleys (squeaks), fixing the ABS, and testing and cleaning the contacts for the EVAP Vent Solenoid.
Sunday: laundry day.

Discord: https://discord.gg/U5dJw7x
Systems from the Compaq Portable 1 to Ryzen 9 5950X
Twitch: https://twitch.tv/retropcuser

Reply 87 of 146, by vladstamate

User metadata
Rank Oldbie
Rank
Oldbie

This weekend I am trying to set up an OpenStack environment on some Linux machines I have running around. I aim for 1-2 compute nodes and a controller computer. Should be fun !

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7HbC_nq8t1S9l7qGYL0mTA
Collection: http://www.digiloguemuseum.com/index.html
Emulator: https://sites.google.com/site/capex86/
Raytracer: https://sites.google.com/site/opaqueraytracer/

Reply 89 of 146, by bjwil1991

User metadata
Rank l33t
Rank
l33t

Friday: nothing interesting, except for watching Perry Mason
Saturday: bowling, thrifting, watching hockey and Perry Mason, and changing the clocks in my house an hour ahead
Sunday (DST in effect, except for Arizona and Hawaii): turning on my Windows 9x machines to get the times changed to the correct time about 5 minutes prior to the time change to get placed in effect, laundry day.

Discord: https://discord.gg/U5dJw7x
Systems from the Compaq Portable 1 to Ryzen 9 5950X
Twitch: https://twitch.tv/retropcuser

Reply 91 of 146, by gdjacobs

User metadata
Rank l33t++
Rank
l33t++
oeuvre wrote:

you watch hockey also? NICE

dem bolts doe

Hockey shouldn't be played in places that never naturally have their own ice. 😠

In other words, if you can't shinny on a pond at some point during the year, you shouldn't play hockey.

All hail the Great Capacitor Brand Finder

Reply 92 of 146, by oeuvre

User metadata
Rank l33t
Rank
l33t
gdjacobs wrote:
oeuvre wrote:

you watch hockey also? NICE

dem bolts doe

Hockey shouldn't be played in places that never naturally have their own ice. 😠

In other words, if you can't shinny on a pond at some point during the year, you shouldn't play hockey.

giphy.gif

HP Z420 Workstation Intel Xeon E5-1620, 32GB, RADEON HD7850 2GB, SSD + HD, XP/7
ws90Ts2.gif

Reply 94 of 146, by gdjacobs

User metadata
Rank l33t++
Rank
l33t++
oeuvre wrote:
https://media.giphy.com/media/26BRrSvJUa0crqw4E/giphy.gif […]
Show full quote

giphy.gif

Indeed. Floridans can wrangle alligators instead. Imagine trying to keep alligators where we have real winter.

All hail the Great Capacitor Brand Finder

Reply 95 of 146, by AlaricD

User metadata
Rank Oldbie
Rank
Oldbie

Friend has an RX300 that I've spent enough time working on auxiliary lighting-- now he needs help (or at least moral support) changing its transmission filter. I might end up doing it this weekend. If not that, I help him do the engine and transmission mounts on his '01 Corolla.

Surely there's some beer in it for me...

Reply 96 of 146, by bjwil1991

User metadata
Rank l33t
Rank
l33t

Friday: brother has a dance tonight, some thrifting
Saturday: bowling, thrifting, might diagnose my mom's minivan's ABS and Stability Control, and work on my car.
Sunday: laundry day

Discord: https://discord.gg/U5dJw7x
Systems from the Compaq Portable 1 to Ryzen 9 5950X
Twitch: https://twitch.tv/retropcuser

Reply 97 of 146, by bjwil1991

User metadata
Rank l33t
Rank
l33t

Friday: movie night
Saturday: bowling, thrifting, and other things.
Sunday: laundry day

Discord: https://discord.gg/U5dJw7x
Systems from the Compaq Portable 1 to Ryzen 9 5950X
Twitch: https://twitch.tv/retropcuser

Reply 98 of 146, by brostenen

User metadata
Rank l33t++
Rank
l33t++

Friday: My children came for the weekend. Cooking dinner, watching BBC's Planet Earth.

Saturday: Watching a movie with my children, buying cake and cookies, having my parents for a visit for coffee, cake and cookies. Dinner was take away fast food. My daughter and I had burgers, my son had nuggets and fries and my girlfriend had a pizza. Helped my son assemble a Lego Technics building kit. Buying a Commodore64 with extras.

Sunday: Watching doku about Europe with my children and I am going to drop them off at their mothers place later on.

Don't eat stuff off a 15 year old never cleaned cpu cooler.
Those cakes make you sick....

My blog: http://to9xct.blogspot.dk
My YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/brostenen

001100 010010 011110 100001 101101 110011

Reply 99 of 146, by SirNickity

User metadata
Rank Oldbie
Rank
Oldbie

Friday: Cleaned and reassembled a newly-acquired clone of the AST 486SX/25 I had as a kid. Woohoo! It works! PSU re-cap in progress...

Saturday: Made a new IDC cable to interconnect a Creative PC-DVD card with the VGA feature connector on a Voodoo 5, and another one to connect the Goldfinch AWE32 Upgrade card audio output to the Wave Blaster interface on an SB16. Upgraded the RAM in the 486 to 24MB, ran diagnostics, installed DOS. Went out with friends to try pottery -- made the world's worst bowl -- and a new Korean restaurant. Love some stir-fried squid!

Sunday: Installed Win 3.1 and MSVC 1.5 on the 486. Band practice.