• It's going to be an electric Fourth

    01 Jul | 07
    • in Fireworks • 
    • by FozzTexx

    Ok, I'm a little late getting the flyers scanned and posted. I think it's because this year I already had a plan for what I was going to purchase, and I already knew I would be purchasing on everyone's behalf. Anyways, here's the flyers and links to the SacBee video and reviews: Phantom Fireworks (1M) TNT Fireworks (4M) SacBee reviews SacBee video I got a slightly early start testing out some stuff I had read about on the internet. I don't remember what I was...

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  • Torch Light

    24 Jun | 07
    • in Electronics • 
    • by FozzTexx

    With the 4th of July coming up very quickly, I remembered I still needed to modify my mini-butane torch to include a flashlight of some kind. While the torch makes lighting a fuse quick and easy, finding the fuse in the dark was a bit of a problem. I grabbed one of those mini touch-lights from the dollar store which had 3 white LEDs in it. I gutted it for one of the LEDs and hooked it to a CR2032 battery (the kind that motherboards use). The LED lit up nice and bright! The next step was to...

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  • Bologna and Cereal

    06 Jun | 07
    • in Misc • 
    • by FozzTexx

    Last week I decided I absolutely could not go another summer driving in the heat. After a quick trip down to the dealer at the end of the street to check out the Magnums, I started searching the internet for everything I needed to know before I bought a car. I found a really good site that talked about the whole process, suggested alternatives, and included some spreadsheets so you could do lots of calculations and comparisons. I quickly discovered that a nice car wasn't out of reach like...

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  • Watch out for that dog in the road!

    26 Apr | 07
    • in Woodworking • 
    • in Coin-op • 
    • by FozzTexx
  • Dumber than advertised

    20 Apr | 07
    • in Computers • 
    • by FozzTexx

    For the last week and a half I've been working on doing a complete network rebuild for a client, including all the servers and desktops. They are very heavily Exchange based, so the new servers had to be running Windoze. In their old environment the users were storing all their files on their local computer. This created obvious problems whenever they changed offices or when there was a hardware failure on their computer. When the time came to setup the new Windoze servers the first thing...

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