Lee DeRaud
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"Cross-cut"...wait, aluminum has grain?!? :)

Huh. Haven't seen that one before...then again it's been a (very) long time since I felt the need to anything meaningful from a Win/DOS command...

Can't hurt to try the command-line thing next time. Thanks for the suggestions.

In decreasing frequency... Level 1: all three computers do image backups to the NAS. Level 2: the entire NAS backs up to a 8TB USB harddrive on the...

In order... 1. Unlikely, but I'll try whitelisting the file type, Don't need the computer wasting time scanning it in any case. 2. They're just...

Possibly a pause to cooldown one or both of the USB drives, but nothing relevant shows in the logs and no error messages showing anywhere. Anybody...

I'd blanked that instance out of my mind. :) A friend had her kitchen remodeled a few years back, and insisted on that "feature. It was not a...

Sounds like both cases involve climates that get freezing air temps but not deep frostlines...come to think of it, my living places have tended to...

Ok, maybe I've lived in SoCal too long, but I'm having problems visualizing why there would be hot water lines under a slab foundation in the first...

Might be different where you guys are, but the Habitat place near me is incredibly fussy about what they'll take as donations. It might just be a...

Heh. That reminded me of this, from the early days of the pandemic:

Well, that worked last night. Thanks. :) You'd think, looking at that setting, that the map cues would come over the car stereo just as calls do,...

Not sure how the car can lock out the phone, short of jamming the signal. I always assumed the phone detected motion above a certain speed and/or the...

We'll try that, but it's kind of a last-resort option: Murphy's Law says that the situations where she's going somewhere she needs directions, she'll...

I always thought the best example of that was cruise control. At some point (late-1980s?), the emission-control systems pretty much required...

That's Reggie: Corgi-Cocker mix, coming up on 10 years old in June. He somehow manages to crawl into my lap from very odd angles. :)

I type too damn slow, but I have an excuse:

I don't know how common it is, but Honda, and at least one other mentioned in this thread, has a mechanical key embedded in the fob. Besides working...