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Follow-up on my “Linux challenge”

Posted on April 11, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I’ll preface this by saying that I’m no longer using OpenMandriva. I switched to openSUSE Tumbleweed after dealing with some rather interesting inst...

Mira/Open source

My own Linux challenge

Posted on February 27, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Plenty of tech YouTube channels have taken a plunge into daily-driving Linux. And I’d actually been wanting to do so for the longest time. The holdup hasn...

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Upgrading the chassis

Posted on June 19, 2022 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I realize this will sound hypocritical in the wake of what I said with the latest update on Amethyst. But I did say to only swap out the chassis and power suppl...

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A more intelligent radiator box

Posted on July 1, 2020 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Last I left this series, I mentioned a next step was making the radiator box smarter. The current iteration of the radiator box now includes intelligent control...

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Back to AMD

Posted on March 13, 2020 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Mira started life back in late 2016 as my first foray back to Intel in… 17 years. Here’s a rough timeline: 1998: 486 DX2 (used Gateway machine) 1999...

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Some changes to the radiator box

Posted on March 17, 2019 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Back almost three years ago in 2016, I set out to do something rather unique with regard to water cooling: building an external, self-contained radiator box. An...

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Another pass by Mira – V

Posted on February 26, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

In looking at the article hits, I’m now leaning toward creating a couple project summary articles, basically TL;DR versions of the build logs I have. Firs...

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Another pass by Mira – IV

Posted on February 11, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Last we left off, I said I was going to change out the pump and make some other modifications to the radiator box. One of the modifications includes a more stab...

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Another pass by Mira – III

Posted on January 24, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

In the previous iteration, I noted the pump got quieter with regard to vibration within the first 24 hours. I think this was merely due to the rubber needing to...

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Another pass by Mira – II

Posted on January 1, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Not long after posting the last part of this build log, I discovered that AlphaCool distributed their own decoupling fastener kit. Four fasteners, screws, washe...

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