Recent content by slashbinslashbash

I don't know what standards we're up to, but IMO this is a perfectly livable house for 2 retirees: https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Arlington-TX/29211449_zpid/50763_rid/globalrelevanceex_sort/32.729314,-97.084551,32.618918,-97.223425_rect/12_zm/ 2 bd, 2 ba, 2 car garage, $140k, 1000sf...

Having lived there (not Asian myself) the Dallas/Fort Worth area seems like it would be a pretty good fit. Yes it gets hot and humid, but there are plenty of good houses for $200k or less, and pockets of Asians throughout (look particularly in the Arlington area IMO). Snow/cold does happen...

Get 2 2x4's. Slide them behind the back of the countertop, oriented in an upright position... hopefully there is enough depth there? What would the 2x4 rest on top of? It's hard to tell.... looks like maybe the window frame? But if you can get 2 2x4's upright, resting on the window frame...

So the engine installed is probably more like $3k then (or $4k if you replace more parts at the same time, like water pump, oil pump, hoses, etc.). No-brainer IMO, when you have a major problem forget about the head, just go for the rebuilt engine. The single spark plug could have just been a...

Yeah I don't see any reason not to just run it as-is until you have more issues. Buying a replacement engine and getting it installed shouldn't be unreasonably expensive, and I'd probably do that before I'd replace a head on a 160k V-engine. Those 5.3's are some of the most common engines on...

This. Put it in 2.0 stereo mode. There are a lot of ways to extract 5.1 channels from a 2.0 signal, but most of them involve playing around phases, which can cause weird artifacts like that. You'll never get a great stereo soundstage when listening to 2.0 music through a 5.1 system. Most...

Yeah, I'm debating it. Never opened up an iMac before. For now it's fine. I rarely do much with the HDD. The 24GB keeps me from swapping, so the HDD doesn't feel super limiting... yet. If I can find a good deal on a 500GB SSD then I'll probably go for it.

My 2011 MBP is still my primary personal machine. (Quad core i7.) It's had 16GB since 2011, and I upgraded to an SSD about a year ago. It's on High Sierra. I recently picked up a 2010 27" iMac for work purposes. (Quad core i5.) I was feeling pretty limited until I put an extra 16GB in it...

I've seen some Pontiac Solstice / Saturn Sky examples pretty cheap on CL lately.... like $6k for under 100k miles... 9-10k for a Redline/GXP (supercharged) version under 100k miles. Pretty much a GM version of the Miata. Not as easily modded, but doesn't really need much anyway.

Ha, I found a HD thread I posted about it in 2009: https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/nice-bag-for-photographers-crumpler-7mdh-clone-for-30-shipped.327686/ Sadly I don't think they are available any more.

I've got a bunch... different purposes/uses. I've tried/owned a lot more. 1) Pelican PCS-283. Big rolling suitcase/carryon style bag with a lot of room and dividers. This is for carrying ALL of my gear; 2 bodies, lenses, flashes, laptop, etc. in one bag. It is heavy, it is big. But easily...

Yeah, the receiver upgrade carousel isn't fun to be on.... the silicon keeps improving (which mostly affects the video side), the amps stay the same or even get worse. "Ooh! Progressive scan! I'mna buy a receiver with component video switching!" "Ooh! HDMI!" "Ooh! HDMI upscaling!" "Ooh...

IMO once you get above around the $5k range for a system, spending money on expertise matters as much or more than spending money on equipment. A $10k pair of speakers in a bad room can sound worse than a $1000 pair of speakers in a well-designed and treated room. Better to spend the $9k on a...

A friend of mine set me up with an emulator that runs in the Homebrew channel on the original Wii (which of course can be picked up very cheaply). 32GB SD card has all NES, all SNES, all Genesis, a majority of the N64 library, and some others -- I think TurboGrafx and some other oddities with...

Usually maximized on one monitor (so about 200) or sometimes split (as when I need to have two files open at once, to refer to say the functions in a library file while I'm programming in another file) so about 100 each. I do try to keep my lines fairly short. I use vim in a Terminal window.