I've got one of the old aluminium G5 PowerMacs and two Xeon based ones. I had been vaguely considering using two (probably the Xeons) as combined coffee table legs/blow heaters. The Xeons still have enough grunt (and memory) to be still useful, if power inefficient in current day terms. One of the Xeons still serves as an occasional desktop machine for when I need to run old 32 bit code, such as the perpetual, non-cloud versions of Photoshop and Illustrator, the other currently has VMWare on it but is kept powered off.
For the 519?
Umm....no. I don't have a 519. Oculus has the 519.Ok then, how about the 7603N?
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I've got one of the old aluminium G5 PowerMacs and two Xeon based ones. I had been vaguely considering using two (probably the Xeons) as combined coffee table legs/blow heaters. The Xeons still have enough grunt (and memory) to be still useful, if power inefficient in current day terms. One of the Xeons still serves as an occasional desktop machine for when I need to run old 32 bit code, such as the perpetual, non-cloud versions of Photoshop and Illustrator, the other currently has VMWare on it but is kept powered off.
That's the real killer these days on old kit. Unlike a lot of EE kit where physics hasn't changed much, computing is completely different. As much as I'd love to have a 42U rack full of old whirring kit, I can get ALL of it inside a single Ryzen box with a 105W TDP that is silent and much faster
Earlier when I was playing with Collapse OS, I was sitting on the sofa on my laptop with PuTTY open to a VM on the desktop. The same desktop has a 4 node kubernetes cluster with about 50 pods deployed on it and a fairly hefty SQL Server instance with 1000 or so tables in it. I dread to imagine the noise and electricity bill this would have generated even 10 years ago.
All righty then... Today was a crappy day for the ol' TinkerDwagon; I've murdered my 54645A. Well, my clumsy fat ass did, anyways... ...I had pulled out the cart it was sitting on to get a tool that fell off my bench behind it and just backed right into it, knocking it off onto the floor...
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Well isn't that a pain in the scaly dwagon @ss. When I made my scrap wood scope cart, I had a flexible rubber band with hooks on it similar to a bungee cord. Had 2 scopes stacked for fun and they wouldn't move for anything. Glad I found that in the garage whilst prowling for the scrap wood.
Yeah, I have nobody to blame but myself for that one.
If I'd stopped to flip the bail up so it rests on all 4 rubber feet, never woulda happened. Sitting flat the thing is like it's glued to the top of my cart, which is actually a Ikea Alex rolly drawer unit. Yeah, I know... not the BEST choice but in my defense, it works well with my usual workflow as all the leads & accessories are in the drawers right there.
So now, a change in SOP... I leave it lying flat UNLESS I'm using it. When I'm done using it, I lay it flat again, no exceptions. I got used to leaving a probe coiled up in the space under the bail; now I'm paying the price for my laziness.
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Not with my Fusion-Fu it wouldn't; even if my 3DP were big enough.
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On a happier note, I do have a new score in the back of the truck hidden beneath one of my football uniforms as is my customary practice to prevent anyone looking for a smash and grab opportunity from seeing anything that might look interesting.
And an open box item that I ordered has arrived (not an Amazon purchase, the person packaged it up for shipment in a reused Amazon box).
I’ll be unpacking that later and checking it out when work quiet end down a bit.
Personally I'd have thought that the football kit might be more an attraction to the average John Doe, no?
they stole my down jacket (pre year 2000) out of the rental car I had in Ontario (Burlington) something like 4 years ago.
Which indeed was a smash and grab job.
When I went to the police (had to for the insurance and the damage to the rental car) those Mounties charged me another 55 bucks for the police report.
That's one of the few places where police will rip off a crime victim ...
That surprises me, wouldn't have thought that many people would even be aware what it is.
Dude to you too, its simples, stack it up on top then and not in front, after all with the thing laying flat, stuff is not likely to slide/roll off is it?
Also, wouldn't help a damned bit. I'd then have that meter, that mug, my drill-driver, a pile of assorted capacitors, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir playing "chess" with the Dallas Cheerleaders, a dismantled Volkswagen and half a bong stacked all on top AND in front of my 54645A.
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Self-restraint sometimes requires physical restraints.
Not with my Fusion-Fu it wouldn't; even if my 3DP were big enough.
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Now that is where and when 3DP would really come of age, especially if the actual finish quality could match that of the original panel.