Follow-up on ASRock BTC Pro and other options
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...
Month: June 2015
Let businesses discriminate
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 ...
Concluding the Supreme Court’s 2014 term
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...
Adding the GT 620
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 Project
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...
On the Confederate flag
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...
Putting older hardware to work
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 – Part XX: New loop
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 – Part XIX: Taking it outside
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....
Solicitation
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...