Passwords and the Constitution
Which Amendment to the Constitution covers your passwords and the PIN lock on your phone? If you’re the numerous journalists I’ve seen attempt to ta...
Category: Technology
Searching for an accounting system
Over the last couple years, I’ve massaged my financial management into a very, very effective system that uses GnuCash. I’ve managed to take wide ad...
Patreon feature request
I’m a Patron through Patreon, currently supporting three creators. Recently I put in this feature request with Patreon: Good day, There is a Creator for w...
Corsair AX860: A retraction
Last year I wrote a negative review of the Corsair AX860 power supply in which I said that I had two units on me fail in a short period of time: When an 800W po...
No, you won’t face Federal charges for sharing your Netflix password
I really wish that people would read an appellate decision along with the applied statutes before making asinine statements. In this instance the decision by th...
Building a PC isn’t that difficult
It’s rather odd how a site named “Motherboard” would write an article called “PC Gaming is Still Way Too Hard“. To quote Total Bis...
How to screw up your computer
I’m not a computer support expert. Or at least I don’t assert that I am. I do have experience with computer support. I was the go-to guy for compute...
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...
Revisiting still and video cameras
I’ve said numerous times on this blog that digital cameras and video cameras aren’t going anywhere because of the quality they have over smart phone...
When the bell tolls One
One common feature of a clock is that it isn’t built into a briefcase or anything resembling one. So in building a clock, the one question that needs to b...