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I got called to play with Casey Cizikas (NHL forward) and his junior buddies tonight, always fun making huge saves on pro players.

nice

TLDR - fixed the on/off button on my old rig.
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Just thought I'd share a recent success story.

My old desktop PC has had a good life but now enters retirement and as it was too good to sacrifice, my Wife inherited in place of her trusty laptop.

Recently it had booting problems with a long bios beep and no video on pressing that on/off button at times. So the power button was suspect. I emailed ANTEC for a spare but, yes you guessed, none are available. On a second email I suggested more recent models (appear) to have the exact same button and surely it fits. They came back saying my old case (circa 2008) the on/off button is simply not replaceable It is a molded and part of the case!

Looking for other possible sources of the problem I figured it might well be the video card. It could be hungry for a few more watts since I added those extra 2 HDDs. It had a 650 Watt PSU powering the video card, 5 HDDs, 1 x SSD and a DVD.

I set about the fix as you do. I removed those extra and surplus HDDs (4) and cabling to tidy up the case. I then checked the on/off switch when I just touched the wires to it and one fell off The copper connection on the back of the on/off button separated with no chance of repair. Seems the occasionally firm press made the connection.

So I was off to the local electronics/hobby shop for a new on/off push button and $1.65 (AUD) it was the simplest and cheapest fix' otherwise it could mean a new case.



All fine now after one small 5mm hole drilled, push button fitted, connections made and a little solder applied Now it's is a custom case

Just picked up one of these little guys.



I don't own a 7.62 x 39 variant. So this one was cheap and should prove to be lots of fun.

That's cool, with a little luck it might compensate for your other little guy.

Today is a good day; i just arrived at work and i'm fucking off in 3 hours time for a 'business lunch' with a friend, which is actually an cunning excuse to start drinking quality wine around noon. Then i'm heading home to supervise the cunts installing my curtains. Tomorrow dinner @ friends and a goa party afterwards - yay!

Ryoki wrote:That's cool, with a little luck it might compensate for your other little guy.

BAM

Ryoki wrote:That's cool, with a little luck it might compensate for your other little guy.

It will nicely compliment my AR SBR.

lead poisoning explains a lot about gwamps

Ryoki wrote:Today is a good day; i just arrived at work and i'm fucking off in 3 hours time for a 'business lunch' with a friend, which is actually an cunning excuse to start drinking quality wine around noon. Then i'm heading home to supervise the cunts installing my curtains. Tomorrow dinner @ friends and a goa party afterwards - yay!

Nice!!

What sort of psychedelic substances are you planning to consume at the goa party?

Got a Thrustmaster T300 wheel and Project CARS and it's a lot of fun, the force feedback feels so good. Haven't owned a wheel since the Sega Saturn when I was 12. It's certainly come a long way since then.

ALMighty wrote:Got a Thrustmaster... and it's a lot of fun, the force feedback feels so good.

I am organising a Birthday gathering for my Dad on his 81st Birthday

Some offset bushes to change the head angle

obsidian wrote:In rock climbing news, today was the second time that I've been able to redpoint (in lead climbing, completing the entire route from beginning to end without falling or resting) a 5.12- (the grade of difficulty of the route, in this case pretty darn hard).

It's all relative though. Currently, the world's hardest climb is a 5.15c (which only 2 people in the world have been able to complete), the Dawn Wall climb in Yosemite that was in the news last winter had a bunch of 5.14 pitches. Most of my climbing friends top out at 5.10 or 5.11.

That's very very respectable. I think I topped out at 5.11b's (out of a,b,c,d) for no falls or resting on the rope (top rope, not lead).

obsidian wrote:In rock climbing news, today was the second time that I've been able to redpoint (in lead climbing, completing the entire route from beginning to end without falling or resting) a 5.12- (the grade of difficulty of the route, in this case pretty darn hard).

It's all relative though. Currently, the world's hardest climb is a 5.15c (which only 2 people in the world have been able to complete), the Dawn Wall climb in Yosemite that was in the news last winter had a bunch of 5.14 pitches. Most of my climbing friends top out at 5.10 or 5.11.

Very nice man!

Went to the Toronto Autoshow. Found Krackus' GTI.



Some cool cars making an appearance:

• McLaren P1
• Pagani Huayra
• Ford GT
• Tesla Model X
• BMW i8

Just submitted my manuscript to a journal. Realized I'd been working on the paper for over a year. :/

That's a pretty cool looking car. honestly... I'd buy one.

Then post a photo taken 2cm away from an unidentifiable panel.

whilst confusing it with a guinea pig

With rust on

And other things...

obsidian wrote:Went to the Toronto Autoshow. Found Krackus' GTI.



Some cool cars making an appearance:

• McLaren P1
• Pagani Huayra
• Ford GT
• Tesla Model X
• BMW i8

I went 6 years ago and it was decent because they took us to test drive a bunch of new Mercs at a makeshift track near Ontario Place. I heard it's been shit every year since.

Yeah, the last time I went was a number of years ago too. It definitely used to be bigger, with the show extending throughout the Metro Convention Centre and even into the SkyDome. Lamborghini for instance, had a whole wall of cars lined up from vintage to modern, this year they didn't even have a showcase. I think the Lambos I saw were from private collections.

I remember getting a whole bag full of swag, this year I walked out with a $5 iTunes gift card. :/