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Can you mix Lionel and Marx track? Yes, pretty much.

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 11:00:03 +0000

Here’s a question from the search engines: Can you mix Lionel and Marx track? Generally speaking, yes you can. Just stick with O27 track, and you can mix Lionel, Marx, and K-Line as needed. Dad had a mixture of Lionel

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Installing trucks on junker train cars

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:27:14 +0000

Sometimes a train car breaks, and sometimes you get a good deal on a train car that’s missing its running gear. Whatever the reason, sooner or later most hobbyists find themselves needing to attach trucks to the underside of their

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Playing around with LyX

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 17:12:45 +0000

In what little free time I've had the past few days (we have a project that has us in the midst of a death march at work), I've been messing around with LyX, a typesetting program for Windows, Unix, and most other operating sytems. I remember messing with it about six years ago, when there wasn't much else resembling a word processor available for Linux, but this time, I'm more impressed with what I see.

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Keeping a Lionel 1122 switch from buzzing

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 14:49:38 +0000

The other day I helped someone troubleshoot a Lionel 1122 switch that was buzzing and not operating. I don't have time to take pictures or anything but hopefully this brief rundown will be helpful for someone.

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A remote administration Unix trick

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 21 Jul 2001 17:18:05 +0000

OK, here's the situation. I had a Linux box running Squid, chugging away, saving us lots of bandwidth and speeding things up and making everything wonderful, but we wanted numbers to prove it, and we liked being able to just check up on it periodically. Minimalist that I am, though, I never installed Telnet or SSH on it. And besides, I haven't found an SSH client for Windows I really like, and Telnet is horribly insecure.

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How I set up Greymatter for Weblogging

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 30 Apr 2001 17:03:39 +0000

How I set up Greymatter for Weblogging. First things first: I'm sure everyone's asking how much hardware you need. I'm using a Pentium-120 with 64 megs of RAM, and it's plenty fast most of the time. It takes a little while to regenerate all the templates, but other than that it's mostly sitting idle. Any Pentium-class machine should be plenty. I'd be hesitant about using a 486 because the templates will take an awfully long time to rebuild. Remember, Greymatter's written in Perl, and Perl's an interpreted language. Interpreters are slow for the same reason emulators are slow--the translation is real-time.

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