Recent content by xrocketengineer

Apparently the situation in the neighborhood has been much worse than initially appeared. It seems that at least three houses had been flooded since this is the worst flooding ever. The ongoing story is that when the county fixed the drainage for the neighborhood last time, they increased the...

Make sure to run it every two months to maintain the warranty. Also, drain the carb every time for storage and use Sta-bil to prevent corrosion in the carb. Seafoam did not do anything to protect my carb from corrosion. Here is the direct replacement carb that I bought for mine since HF did not...

It's a good thing that we are in the dry season. This was Sunday night: Driveway with low voltage light Front yard and the street. My drowning truck. Backyard. Backyard. We had over 10 inches of rain and most of it in about 2 hours. A neighbor had her house flooded for the third...

I have the HF 8750 Watt Inverter Generator and I bought it in October 2022. I just replaced the carburetor a couple of months ago because it was running really rough, needing some choke at high RPM's. HF does not offer a replacement carb, only some very expensive gaskets and not even a repair...

Well, I am not trying to get away from Windows but I want to be able to have other choices. Particularly with all the continuing issues with Windows 11 like this latest issue. I have played with Linux on and off over the years starting with the Mandrake distribution years ago that at the time...

On this Asus T100 laptop, I wiped out Windows 10 32 bit since the SSD is only 64 GB and installed MX Linux. On another Acer laptop, I split the 520 GB drive for dual boot with MX Linux and Windows 10 64 bit.

Well, I am very impressed with MX Linux so far on this little under powered computer. Not only it works better than with Windows 10 but I have found some interesting User Interfaces under KDE that make things more familiar:

This reminds me of the good old days in college during a summer session. A group of about six of us were working on mechanical design team project (of a beach sweeper) and being a summer course, the class met everyday and we had almost every day progress reports. Our team had to meet daily and...

A must have in your tool box: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3IbMu2Fi6LE

That was wonderful! The AI must have been there as a witness, it wouldn't make all of this up! 😁

I have not found any memory tests in the new fangled UEFI unlike in the old BIOS. But this is what I learned and the order of actions that will fix most Windows 11 issues: Assuming that you have already done a Disk Check, Check the memory within Windows: In the Windows Search Box, type in...

I am partial to this Michael Caine movie, The Italian Job (1969), since I have an original Mini Cooper.

My brain.... My brain after spending all of Tuesday troubleshooting and trying to repair Windows 11 on my Wife's desktop and finding out at the end that one of the memory modules was shot....

Any drugs or alcohol used in the process?

The particular computer that I have been trying to revive is an Asus TA100, convertible laptop/tablet with detachable keyboard. It originally came with Windows 8 32 bits (even though it has a 64 bit processor), 2GB of RAM and 64GB SSD. When I started trying to run Linux on it several weeks ago...