Fedora 20 to Fedora 21 upgrade woes

This upgrade did not go nearly as smoothly as the last one, mostly because NVIDIA’s 343.22 driver no longer supports the 8200 integrated video on my Asus motherboard.  After several failed attempts to revert to the nouveau driver or the 340 NVIDIA driver, I decided to find a newer video card.  I picked up a […]

Primitive cabinet is now completed.

This cabinet is completed and ready to find a new home! $1400 or best offer. See post https://www.matts-workshop.com/wp_mds/2012/11/12/primitive-cabinet-restoration/ for more information. Top cabinet is 42-1/4″ wide, 12″ deep, and 49-1/2″ tall Base is 44″ wide, 30″ deep, and 33″ tall including the wheels. overall height is 82-1/2″ assembled

Whirligigs

Here are the latest versions of 2 whirligigs. The first was designed by C.J. Sale in the late 1980’s. He used pine, which didn’t last long outside despite a good paint job. I rebuilt it this winter using cedar. This one is from a plan in “Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts” summer 2007. I modified […]

Dell Studio 1440/14z power connector

Speaking as an engineer, sometimes you really have to wonder what another engineer was thinking when something simple breaks.  We have a 4 year old Dell Studio 14z that suddenly started shutting down randomly, usually within seconds of booting up.  The battery was showing a full charge.  Also, the DC power connector was strangely loose […]

Nook Color – Phiremod, now android 4.1.2

My father’s day gift (to myself) was a Barnes and Noble Nook Color, which I almost immediately rooted to run a href=”https://sites.google.com/site/phiremod/nook-color-roms” title=”Phiremod” target=”_blank”Phiremod/a 6.3. This worked very well after learning that it is necessary to use a USB adapter to write the special boot code to the micro-SDCard. This weekend I updated this to […]