Recent content by cbsboyer

I mean it's always BBQ season, but today was extra nice. The weather was finally really good, so I spent some quality time with my charcoal grill and some chunks of hickory. I smoked a whole turkey (well, an entire turkey broken down so I could remove pieces as they were done), some sausage...

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My condolences to both of you, Omega and .nox. Cancer is a hard way to go, and like others here I've lost my share of family to it too. Just hang in there the both of you. It doesn't ever really get "easier", but it does get better.

My father came to visit recently and among the many things we talked about, he expressed concern with the way things in the world are going (Israel, Ukraine, etc.). His solution: Get his guns out of storage to have them on hand in case the s**t hits the fan. He lives in a small, southern...

Heyyy, the forum is working again! The plan is still in progress. A lot of things still have to line up, but it's pretty much inevitable sometime in the next 6-12 months. I'm not in a hurry, but definitely sooner would be better.

Well, I'm getting tired of treading water where I'm at in Ontario. I've had raises every year (sometimes more than one), but every time I start to get ahead, taxes and the cost of everything just swallow it up plus some more. I might have a solution, 'tho. Moving. In the relatively near...

Public Service Announcement: Do not use a $20 China brand cordless trimmer to shave...sensitive...areas. The bleeding will stop quickly, but the itch is interminable. That is all.

Drifted off for a while and wandered my way back here again. How you guys doing? Been a minute for sure...

I picked up a raft of Russian tubes (mostly 6N1P and 6N3P types) in a couple batches for my Vali 2+. They really work quite well in that amp. FYI the 6Н3П needs a 6922 to 5670 adapter, otherwise it's instaboom. In the lot, I found a "B82П" tube with a 2 underneath, so I was very puzzled and...

I was digging through some more of the assorted stuff from my brother's old stash and dug up two socket 1155 motherboards, one populated with an I7 3770K. One is an Asus P8Z77-V Pro, the other is a Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UDH4. They seem to have pretty similar specs, so suggestions as to which I...

For me, so far it's been my $16 (tax and delivery in) rice cooker. It's a cheapo Salton and was literally the cheapest 6 cup rice cooker on Amazon the day I bought it. It went from "I might have a use for that" to something I use at least 4 times a week. Soups, steamed foods, cooked breakfast...

Since support for this seems to be the Next Big Thing™ in the industry, I thought I'd do some reading...and I was struck how old concepts just keep coming back. The way VRAM memory access is currently structured seems a lot like EMS or VGA memory paging back in the day, where you have a pool of...

While going through a pile of random hardware, I stumbled across a Radeon HD 7970 based card. Currently I'm using an old GTX 960 as a secondary card for PhysX and folding (these days pretty much just folding). Would I just be asking for a cornucopia of problems if I swapped out the GTX 960 for...

Seriously, people actually fall for this? For real?

Well, I somehow managed to get my left arm trapped between a leaning pallet of product and the steering control of my high reach forklift. Basically, I didn't spot that a pallet was kind of leaning out into the aisle, started making a counter-clockwise turn, and crunch. The problem is that...