Revisiting bottlenecking, or why most don’t use the term correctly
Previously I wrote a long rant-ish article about the term bottlenecks, particularly with regard to AMD vs Intel. In that article I tried to demonstrate, among o...
Category: Projects
Beta Orionis – Part XXV
How to begin on this… Beta Orionis (β Ori.) was reduced to little more than parts due to the work on Desert Sapphire. The reason was to move β Ori. into a...
Radiator box for PC water cooling
I’ve demonstrated in two projects how you can build an external water cooling solution, first with a cabinet with mounted radiators, and second with radia...
Nasira – Part III
This phase of the project starts with bumping the storage from 8TB to 16TB raw storage space, making it 8TB effective space. Given how much space is currently b...
Nasira – Part II
Responses to my previous iteration in this build log led to me digging up some information that could prove useful to those who want to build a NAS. As I said i...
Nasira – A FreeNAS build
Ever since first reading about them, I’ve wanted to set up a NAS in my home. They are a great resource for mass storage — pictures, videos, and back...
Distilling Absinthe — Part III
The United States Postal Service certainly had a weird way of delivering a package. I live in an apartment complex, meaning that packages that cannot be put in ...
Distilling Absinthe – Part II
Now that we’re past the introduction, let’s actually get down to work, starting with a small aside on the table. I said in the previous section that...
Distilling another batch of Absinthe
It has been about a year since I last wrote about my wife’s computer, Absinthe. In that time the system has been running smoothly without any complaints. ...
Desert Sapphire – Delivered
The project is now in the client’s hands. Let’s go over the last steps and the final details. First, the PMP-420 was a no-go. I replaced it with a D...
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