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Re: Ring Alarm System Owners - 1 year ago

Yep, bought a system from Costco last holiday season. Love it, retrofitted a 2000s alarm system with it, all windows have sensors now, added some extras, and even hard wired the main panel into the existing spot where the old system had it on the wall (normally it's set up to plug into an outlet, and sit on a table). Well worth it. Great product.

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Re: Anybody had their roof cleaned? - 1 year ago

Yep. House Shampoo done last spring. Our house sits next to a wetland / nature preserve, and all the houses in the area gets algae / lichens / moss on the roof from the humidity in the area and it starts to look really bad after about 5 years. The roof is 18 years old and went from looking like it needed to be replaced, to absolutely perfect looking and has stayed that way for 18 months now.

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Re: Hey Red Sox fans, send some good karma - 1 year ago

Nice ending in Fenway

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Re: Hey Red Sox fans, send some good karma - 1 year ago

Go Red Sox! I'm a Cubs fan but am rooting for Kyle Schwarber for you

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Re: What's Your Take On Natural Gas Prices? - 1 year ago

Our area is being told we can expect a 48% higher rate this year in Northern IL. Local paper is running this story today about it. Gas bills will increase 48% Suburban households could be facing a tough winter According to Nicor’s estimates, the typical household will pay about $674 on heating bills from November through March. Nicor customers should expect the cost of heating their

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Re: tree/berry ID please - 1 year ago

Flowering Dogwood.

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Re: Home electric cost to charge EV? - 1 year ago

Lots of variables in there so what somebody in California pays vs somebody in Texas isn't going to compare... Start there?

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Re: Up your date(s)?!....Apple releases 'iOS 15 and iPadOS 15'....watchOS 8.....HomePod 15 .....tvOS 15..... - 1 year ago

Nothing caught fire here. iPhone 11 Pro, iPad Pro 10.5" working fine so far.

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Re: sear'd into your memory?!....last 'Sears' store in company's home state of Illinois closing...... - 1 year ago

They did so many things wrong it was just ridiculous. Friend of mine worked there in corporate for 20 years, she was a manager in their POS system division. She told me it was 20 years old at one point and they were not able to keep it modernized because it would cost so much to do, and it was a terrible security hole and went down constantly, causing tons of lost sales in stores because they

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Re: lil help? Need to grab a video from a site... but cant seem to - 1 year ago

FYI, Downie got it.

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Re: MacInTouch scaling back - 1 year ago

QuoteDeusxMac Aha, that was on the political side. No wonder I didn't see it. I rarely ever go there, it should have been moved / reported as being on the wrong side it did not deserve to be missed

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MacInTouch scaling back - 1 year ago

One of the web pages that was a daily read of mine for many, many years is scaling their posting back. Always sad to see. Mon. Sep. 13, 2021 10:00 EDT MacInTouch reduction Following up on recent notes and a history of challenges and changes, I need to painfully acknowledge with great difficulty that – for a lot of reasons – I can no longer personally or professionally maintain the s

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Re: Let the Sun Shine ! Solar Power roof ? Anyone have any recommendations ? - 1 year ago

I do think if I were in your shoes, I'd first look at every other energy consuming aspect of the house and modernize it. Windows #1. Furnace / A/C #2. Appliances #3. Solar sounds great. So does wind. We have both at OWC - and we benefit from both substantially - but the ROI and up front cost are a severe detractor to most. It's expensive being green

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Re: Let the Sun Shine ! Solar Power roof ? Anyone have any recommendations ? - 1 year ago

I think the companies you're seeing adding are probably using articulating panels that follow the sun in your area. A large solar farm just went in near our OWC office and the panels all track the sun, Our array(s) are stationary and definitely show less generation as they are fixed position. I'd call your local solar companies and ask for them to show you similar sized arrays they've installe

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Re: rebuilding a battery pack - how annoying is it to solder to steel? - 1 year ago

cbelt beat me to it. What I've done a long time ago was to drill holes, wrap copper wire through the items to be soldered, and use that as a really good conductor and a solderable bond to augment the lack of a spot weld. It held, really well. Quotecbelt3 I have done this by drilling a small hole in the bus strip to give a mechanical advantage. But I second the Batteries Plus guys... spot weld

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Re: So Long: 'Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dies aged 80' - 1 year ago

RIP Charlie, one of the best. This pic that Ringo posted on Twitter. Wow.. Ringo

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Re: today's edition of 'name this bird' - 1 year ago

Green Barred Woodpecker.

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Re: Apple Diagnostics Tool Info - 1 year ago

Grab Coconut Battery and run that. Older OS versions are at the bottom of the page.

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Re: New design for Taco Bell outlets - 1 year ago

So I guess all we need now are the 3 seashells.

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Re: Any robot mower owners here? - 1 year ago

Yep. I have a Husqvarna Automower 430X (link) for 2-1/2 years now. Love it. "Snippy" does a fantastic job. You still have to trim, which I do with an electric 40V Ryobi every 2 weeks basically. The automower wont get right to the edge of landscaped beds, trees, etc. - it gets about 2" or so away. Literally being done with yard work in 15-20 minutes is awesome. This is on a 1/2

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Re: Remember the mystery bird I was asking about? Here are some photos - 1 year ago

That's a juvenile Northern Cardinal. it'll look all pretty once it molts.

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Re: Ughhhh... dead MBP, any way to get my data off? - 1 year ago

The lifeboat connector which I mentioned, was removed in 2018 with the T2 chip change unfortunately. Good article outlining it for a 2016-2017 here. Been there, done that, and have the tools to do so. How to recover data from a dead A1707 QuoteSarcany QuotePeterB QuoteOmbligo Do you have any friends or family that you can pay to take it to the Apple Store for you? It's summer, some

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Re: Ughhhh... dead MBP, any way to get my data off? - 1 year ago

You're stuck. Soldered on SSD, and no lifeboat connector Apple removed that in 2017. 2018 = have a live backup. Apple store time - sorry!

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Re: Anyone Subscribing to Sirius XM On Your Vehicle? - 1 year ago

When the trial end comes, call them. Tell them it's too expensive (which, it is). They will offer a $4.99/month 12 month subscription when you push.

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Re: It’s this popular Mac’s 21st.... - 1 year ago

I'm going to have to seek some of this out and see what's going on with the modding community on those then for sure. Mine is probably not as quick as that anymore. It held the title for a while at least ;) Quotep8712 QuoteOWC Jamie Quotep8712 A TAM....one day.... A guy on eBay hacks dual processor cards for the Cube. May not be the fastest on the Block much longer. Who says that's no

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Re: It’s this popular Mac’s 21st.... - 1 year ago

We have a Del Webb retirement community about 15 minutes away from the OWC headquarters, and they had an active computer group of retirees there a few years ago and a couple of them have donated their vintage collection to our vintage collection that needs to become a museum at some point here at OWC. One of them that came in about 6 months ago had tons of old 5-1/4 floppies in it, lots and lots

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Re: It’s this popular Mac’s 21st.... - 1 year ago

Quotep8712 A TAM....one day.... A guy on eBay hacks dual processor cards for the Cube. May not be the fastest on the Block much longer. Who says that's not the same kind as I have one of the originals of? Hand made heatsink and all.

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Re: It’s this popular Mac’s 21st.... - 1 year ago

QuoteBuzz Jamie- any unused 400k floppies in that box?.... == Exactly ONE. But a full pack of labels too.

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Re: It’s this popular Mac’s 21st.... - 1 year ago

You are making me feel REAL old. The Cubes have all aged gracefully here Still probably the owner of the fastest Cube ever, prototype dual processor card & a NVidia GeForce3 shoehorned into one of mine.

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Re: John McAfee found dead in jail cell - 1 year ago

You've got that right LOL. Wired article from 2012 Quotehal In case you haven't been following... McAfee was batshit crazy

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