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And the new site is up! Thanks again, and enjoy more (and more varied) content at www.thepoorgeek.com! James

Alright, so I’m good friends with thepoorgeek.com, and we both tend to share a lot of the same kind of interests and content. This site was originally intended, as evidenced by the name, to be a lot more ham radio…
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Ok, so after some more testing the speakers sound not too bad, as long as they’re positioned with the rear port near a wall, like you’d optimally place a pair of Bose or other decent ported set. I’ll be printing…
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Welp, it kinda sounds like crap. Turns out there’s a reason you pay Bose the big bucks. I printed with 3 shells and 15% infill, else it would have used over half a 1kg spool of PLA filament per box….
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Playing with RetroPie/Retroarch on the Raspberry Pi 2, I found the glsl shader selection to be lacking somewhat, especially in the retro visual department. Specifically I wanted to play with the ntsc and crt filters from the main Retroarch common-shader…
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Some time ago, I acquired one of these bad boys: There are a few good resources on setting one of these up, namely: http://www.ductape.net/~brianm/xterm/ http://envizex.arganite.com/ http://lisas.de/~adrian/envizex/ The HP X Station reference is here. Now, why do I write an article…
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Well, I had intended to bottle my raspberry apple cider this evening, but it needed a bit more time. So I pulled out this little half-gallon of red wine I’ve had on oak for a few months to throw out…
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Anyhoo. Started a small batch of cider, this time using a yeast packet from the “Spike Your Juice” kit that a friend of mine bought me for the holiday. It recommends not letting it finish fermenting due to the fact…
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