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Month: June 2015

Colony West

Follow-up on ASRock BTC Pro and other options

Posted on June 29, 2015 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I’ll just say this up front: the ASRock PCI-E extender can be a little finnicky. For some reason, the GT 620 would stop being recognized by the BOINC clie...

Capitalism/Law/Rights

Let businesses discriminate

Posted on June 28, 2015 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Here’s an idea… given how much “social progress” is supposed to have been made over the last 50+ years, let’s do this: repeal all ...

Law Enforcement/Police/Supreme Court

Concluding the Supreme Court’s 2014 term

Posted on June 27, 2015 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

One thing that continually amazes me and pisses me off is how seemingly intelligent people can argue that more freedom is somehow a *bad* thing… And IR...

Colony West

Adding the GT 620

Posted on June 25, 2015 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

In the previous article in the series on this project, I mentioned I had a spare GT 620. The card specifically is the Zotac GT 620 2GB. Unfortunately I couldn&#...

Colony West

Colony West Project

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

In an earlier post I wrote about my plan to put a bunch of older hardware I have just laying around back to work. As I intend this to be an ongoing, evolving th...

Politics

On the Confederate flag

Posted on June 21, 2015 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Following the recent mass homicide in South Carolina, attention has turned once again to guns. But it’s also turned to the Confederate flag. Mass calls ar...

Colony West

Putting older hardware to work

Posted on June 20, 2015 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

If you’re like me, you’ve probably collected a bunch of older hardware that is left over from previous upgrades. And it’s probably sitting aro...

Beta Orionis

Beta Orionis – Part XX: New loop

Posted on June 18, 2015 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

First a recap on the current parts of the system, starting with the base parts. CPU, mainboard, RAM: AMD FX-8350, ASRock 990FX Extreme6, 8 GB Graphics: PNY GTX ...

Beta Orionis

Beta Orionis – Part XIX: Taking it outside

Posted on June 12, 2015 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

The fan experiment is going fairly well so far. I’ve been keeping an eye on temperatures and basically looking for a sweet spot for dialing everything in....

Driving/Law/Solicitations

Solicitation

Posted on June 12, 2015 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

As much as I advocate for free market capitalism — you know, the ability to enter into whatever transactions you want, so long you’re not… say...

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