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Thanks! It's got way better now, I think I only got one explorer crash within a week, and that pointed to NetFramework this time. if it stays this rare I think I can live with it. I would like to upgrade sometime, but I can't possibly justify it at the moment (not that that would stop me...). Speaking of mobo components: Funnily enough I get coilwhine from the mobo as soon as I start up Trackmania United. Always has done that as soon as the .exe is running. I never figured out why that happens. I don't get it with any other games or programs either. Powerline adapters can be a pain, but when sorted they work great. Depending on how your house is wired you might also get issues though.

I (re-)found/finally tried Bricklinks "Lego Studio" last night. Today I realised that you can load all parts of a selected set into it and start building. It's not what I actually had planned on doing, I actually wanted to build a little landscape for a tensegrity thingy, but now I've spent about three hours assembling some sets I always wanted as a kid and it's made me very happy. Also made me realise how dumbed down the instructions are now a days...

Amusingly owned by a Barry.

I think most people enjoy getting and also giving presents. However, I don't quite get* the "what do you want" question above a certain age. I understand it by children since you don't want to get onto the wrong side of them. But by grown ups? Either you know the person well enough to know what they'll appreciate or you don't need to be giving them anything at all. Unless you feel like it's a way of making up the lack of knowing them well? I started making presents myself again, mainly for Christmas though, only a select few people get something for birthday from me. They're appreciated if they're somewhat useful, are fun to make for me and saves any kind of "what do you want" question. And if it's not appreciated the person won't be getting another next year. *wrong thread, I know.

Finally ran Memtest. No errors after two passes so I doubt that's the immediate problem (but what do I know?). Started uninstalling lots of stuff to see if it magically fixes itself.

After close to 6 years I think I finally may have learnt how to do this without too much hassle! Just need to get the brake in line with my disc again some day.

SSD: Yes, OC: No. Fresh install: Yes. Memtest: Should finally do it, but simply ignoring the PC was easier. Ought to start that tomorrow incase my school does need to switch to homeschooling again after all and I'll one more be dependent on the computer. Thing is, I seem to be a magnet for pretty rare computer issues. When I built it it didn't boot x times out of 10. Turned out the RAM was incompatible with the specific MoBo. But yes, I did get the regular picture viewer crashinfg on win 7, but no other issues. I'm was hoping it'd disappear entirely and not get worse by switching to win10! At the start I was getting explorer crashes every few minutes, but that was something to do with "Stardock (?) Fences" that I used to organise my desktop. So I got rid of that. Then the event viewer started pointing to a .dll to do with the GPU driver, so I did a fresh install of that. Didn't help though. On win7 it used to point to a ram error. Not sure what to believe now but it's tedious.

You guys are making me want to upgrade my mobo-cou-ram. Currently on an i5 4670k, 16gb ddr3 ram and a 1070. Only just upgraded to win10 (yeah.. 7 just worked well for me..) last autumn and have been having a ton of grief with it since, mainly explorer crashes when facing a folder with RAWs or TIFF files in it, or alt-tabbing. Notsure if there's a memory issue somewhere. I was getting memory errors in the event viewer with win7 but never anything definite and never any issues with things that actually relied on the memory heavily. Fancy a fresh start but can't really justify the cost.

Nice work! Gave you a follow. Only leather thing I made was a new cover for a camera, and getting the radii right and cutting it decently drove me absolutely crazy.

Does anyone here by any chance happen to have experience with MGAs? Might be having a look at one next week because it seems that I'm a bit of a plonker with an old vehicle itch.

It was a flat about 1.5cm across. I suppose it could have been repaired with a hammer, but I had assumed I could get a replacement. (admittedly, half of me was hoping that I would need to send it back) Since I didn't buy it directly off DMR I doubt it made it all the way back to them.. I also don't know how it looks now - I had to send it back in the same packaging so that the post could inspect it too.

They did however post a trials bike on May 12th. But seeing how active they are on instagram that might be anything from outdated to the latest news.

At least they don't get scrapped. I was looking at the Bolt, not many places had them to start with, so it's safe to assume that they had been selling them off for a while already. Though I did still have the full choice of colours when i ordered mine late November, but that doesn't mean a thing.

So... About that... Frame had arrived with a dent where the top headset bearing should fit. Not quite sure how the post managed that, but they did. So I had the post return it, which took so long (I guess new virus variant + brexit + not express) that DMR now have discontinued the bloody thing and it's impossible to get hold of a replacement. While I had the frame here I checked and I could have used every single part bar the seat post off of my old mtb. With literally every standard having changed over the years I doubt I'll find another frame that lets me build up a bike in my budget so that's on hold now. :/ Quite bummed. Also had writteb to DMR to ask if they have any lying in a corner that they need to get rid of and they said that they can't help me (on the plus side, they didn't try to sell me anything else). I'm sure some distributor still has one or two, or do discontinued frames get scrapped?

We don't exactly. It's a different slightly different flu each year, they eyeball it and change the vaccine in the way they expect it'll appear. That's why you sometimes get a year or two when the vaccine is not much use at all.

I enjoyed that a lot! However, I now would like summer to be able to go riding again.. The spots look sweet and the tune was really nice too. The one right after wasn't too shabby either!

A way more in-depth answer than I ever would have expected!

However, if the treadmill itself is going at takeoff speed and there's a glider on it pointing into the wind... It'd be possible that the glider would stay in the air indefinitely depending on where the treadmill is situated?

I feel like I must confess that it's probably not really high-tech. Though I'd love to let people believe that it is! The plate is put together out of 5 layers. - The first is the glass, which is pretty straight forward. - The second is rubber cement. To apply this as a thin layer it's diluted in xylene, poured onto the glassplate and moved about by tilting the plate. - The third layer is a layer of coloured starch grains, red, purple and green. These are mixed together to give a pretty random pattern and pressed flat onto the glue. - The fourth is a varnish, I lucked out on this - I had a boat varnish called "Le Tonkinois" lying around. I knew that it stands up well to alcohols and is watertight. I went ahead and used this (applied like the glue) and, although it's slightly hydrophobic it seems to work. - The fifth is the photographic emulsion itself. I'd have loved to have made this myself but with covid and school closures it got a bit complicated. I bought a finished one from Rollei (RBM 3). this however needed to be modified as standard emulsions only "see" blue light (which is why one could handle films under a safelight with no issues years ago). I needed to extend it's sensitivity range into the red with dyes. In my case erythrosine (E127) and pinacyanol. The plates are coated with the emulsion and then the lights get switched off and they get bathed in a water bath containing the dyes. Dry in the dark. You then take a photo, and develop it in regular black & white developer. At this stage I should be bleaching the plates to receive a positive image, but again, covid.. So right now I end up with a negative that I need to scan and invert. The biggest challenge honestly seems to be to actually dye the starch properly. I substituted potato starch with rice starch due to it's grain size. the average potato starch grain is way larger than the average rice starch grain and would need to be sorted by size, so I thought I'd give rice starch a go, knowing that for some reason they're harder to dye. Will need to dry with potato too and compare them sometime. I also have been in contact with a chap that has had way better results, he wrote a guide this year and helped me with seemingly eternal patience. If anyone interested his guide can be found here. I can sort of understand that.. I see them every day and knew what I was looking at.

Been working on this school project for a while now, had a 6 month extension due to school closures last year and have still managed to be running a bit late.. I know this probably won't look very impressive to most of you, but here's my first home made colour photo: You can make out what the colours of the books on the top shelf are fairly well. It's based on the autochrome process and not yet exactly how it should be, but I'm quite chuffed! The idea would be that I now should be able to hold the glass plate up against a light source and see a colour photo. Right now though I can't see a thing by eye but by scanning it and bumping the saturation up to 80 that shows up. I know what I'd need to do from here in order to get to that point but I won't have time before I need to hand my paper in. Should do for the project though considering opting for creating and evaluating a questionnaire would have been fine too. But this was my only chance to use whatever machine I fancied in a chemistry lab I had to pounce on the opportunity. Edit: here's a colour photo of the top row for comparision:

Alternatively: "Water vapour that was used extensively during the industrial revolution to keep things going." Alternatively n°2: Something being "on Steam" is neither something on drugs nor something getting very hot.

Was gifted "Return of the Obra Dinn" on Steam for my birthday. It had been on my wishlist for a long time, but I never expected that I'd be having that much fun with it. There's not much action really, at least none you can see (you can hear it though). If anyone is interested, it's based around a ship that returned to it's port without any crew aboard/alive and is mainly based around deducting the fate of the separate members of the crew. Really, really well made though and the artstyle is quite unique and the music spot on. Just try to avoid spoilers since I doubt it's fun to play a second time round. (and please none for me - I'm not finished yet. )

Just make sure it's not the handlebars that move. If anything, bunnyhopping increases the height you can jump without a bike. After you have the technique down I'm sure practising jumping without a bike would help, but I feel like that would be pretty boring when your other option is doing it with a bicycle!

I feel like that used not to count? Any particular instance of that that made you angry? Kinda glad I can't do them at all now

They do rollover allowances by you? Friend of mine just looked into that after buying a new printer and it's clearly stated that there's no rollover allowance, so doesn't make half as much sense. I just wish they'd simply stop cheating the the ink..