Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2020-04-28, 19:43

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Wait, you mean, this isn't a stream-of-consciousness style monologue about the meals I had back when I used to IPL 3MHz IBM S390 Mainframes while working for the world's largest purveyor of nuclear fuel, floor polish and glow-in-the-dark dessert topping? Where else am I going to ramble on about …

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Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2020-04-28, 19:23

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I had biksemad for dinner/supper today. It is a mix of beef, bacon, ham, onions and potatoes. Roasten on a pan. With fried egg's and pickeled red beets on top. Soy sauce goes on top all over. Aften-Biks.jpg Heh, that sounds like hash or bubbles-n-squeak, just a bunch of leftovers with onions and …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-04-28, 04:44

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The replacement GeForce 6200 PCI board came in the mail today along with my OLED display boards (20 days via Speedpak...is not speedy whatsoever). Discovered that the standard/default soldering tip on the Weller soldering station is really too wide to work on small electronic boards. I had to solder …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-04-28, 04:25

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Does a 11-hour non stop working on code to get a Learning Management System (Moodle) custom theme to work on iOS 12.4 count as a retro activity? I never felt myself so angry. I tested even for iOS 10 and 11. Turns out a small patch was done but not without much research. I’m losing my magic. *oof …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-04-27, 17:18

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I just spent over an hour dismantling an older laptop with what felt like a thousand screws, litterally had to take apart every little thing and unplug every connector to actually get to the CPU... only to realize that merom != merom... the 7200 is a socket M cpu and I need a socket P cpu ._____. …

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Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2020-04-27, 16:43

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Oh yeah. I am familiar with a cut that's close to the tri-tip that's very popular in Brazilian/Portuguese areas in the NYC tristate region...it's called Picanha. Great stuff when sous-vided for 2 hours at 133F/56C in a bag with sea salt+pepper+clarified butter, and then seared with a torch or hot …

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Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2020-04-25, 17:56

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Well, I try to avoid Burger King and McDonalds unless I have no other option. Both offer a similar burger I like (Double Stacker vs Double Burger Bacon). I prefer the McDonalds variant because it's one I can finish. But I find the Burger King version more tasty. Ah, well... now I'm hungry. Wendy's …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-04-25, 06:40

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It's been a rather melancholy day. My Weller Digital soldering station arrived (performs great), but then my 10 year old (and rather poorly made) Radio Shack pushbutton solder sucker broke. Was supposed to desolder a blown cap on my t5720 board , and replace it with a new cap. Not sure if I really …

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Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2020-04-25, 05:51

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Did a tri-tip (German: "mayor's/parson's cut") the other day. Just a plain marinade of olive oil, garlic, salt and pepper. I grilled it on my Weber, seared it a couple of minutes per side on very high heat and then did about 15-20 minutes of indirect heat at 200-250 degrees. It came out really nice …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-04-23, 21:16

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Good news - the replacement t5720 motherboard arrived via UPS ground today, and it works. The thin client is back in operation. Oddly enough, the working board has the green Sanyo capacitor replaced by a Chemicon KY...which is the exact capacitor that failed on my almost kaput t5720 board. Bad news …

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Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2020-04-20, 04:34

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Oh, the fun of quarantine cuisine - trying to stretch for ingredients as much as possible. So the missus found a bottle of Jamaican wet jerk rub (the stuff you make jerked chicken out of) in the pantry, and the expiration date is...March 2020. Better kill it off but do it over 4+ meals. So, what to …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-04-19, 04:58

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Man, that has to hurt big time. I had a RadioShack soldering iron or might still have it and it takes forever to heat up. My parents got me one for Christmas and it works a lot better than the old irons I had that either took forever to heat up or the tips kept falling off all the time. I like this …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-04-18, 02:51

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Well, it has been a challenging day for me. My cheap, $8 Radio Shack dual mode (15/30w) soldering iron gave up the ghost - I was about to use it to desolder a leaking capacitor off my t5720 motherboard (one that, I might add, had RoHS solder which makes it a pain to work with) so I can replace it …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-04-14, 05:01

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Finally got some time to mess with the iSiS Imagestream TransPort router - had to finagle up a USB connector and connect a Geforce 6200 so I can have VGA output. Still, not too bad. The device has a 10 pin VGA header but I'll need to order a PC104 VGA cable from overseas to use the onboard …

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Re: My 300Mhz Pentium Box

Posted on 2020-04-09, 18:37

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Socket 7, someone already made the adapter, it was a surface mounted chip originally and if I recall the adapter is kinda permanently part of it now. There was apparently a period of time where people in China were taking unused SMC chips and converting them to desktop packages, or so I heard …

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Re: My 300Mhz Pentium Box

Posted on 2020-04-08, 23:25

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Yushatak wrote on 2020-04-08, 22:48: Nah it's good I always exist, I do still have this box. What'd you want to know about it? What socket is that Tilamook? I can't tell whether it's MMC1 or Socket 615, how did you manage to get a socket adapter for it?

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-04-08, 16:04

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Took a while, but it's finally done complete with an LCD screen (I'll likely need to add something on it to fix the faint display output) Yosoko Goteki.jpg How faint? It's pretty faint. Faint LCD.jpg Seems like you need to adjust voltage on the V0 pin of the LCD. It needs to be about 4-4.5V below …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-04-08, 04:17

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Finally finished the Gotek slimline drive project for the oldschool thinkpad (had to hack a Gotek SFR1M44-DU26 with the 26 pin FFC26 ribbon cable to replace the TEAC FD05 inside). There were some discrepancies between the standard 34 pin and the 26 pin version (FFC26) that had to be reconciled. …

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Re: Ibm thinkpad 770z questions

Posted on 2020-04-06, 14:19

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You can try -> https://www.impactcomputers.com/12j0426.html , but you'll need to make sure that the drive comes with the caddy, or else it's moot. AFAIK the hardaware maintenance manual does not list a model # just for the caddy itself. Thanks for the site i think i found the adaptor it's not cheap …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-04-06, 05:08

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Got a Teco TR3230F thin client working in Win98 - it's a fairly crapulent SiS550/D&MP Vortex86 based thin client with possibly the worst driver support ever. - the onboard 2D only GPU (SiS550) and the audio driver (SiS 7019 AC97) do not seem to be hosted by SiS, and its vendor seemed to have removed …

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