Benchmarks, bottlenecks, and buyer’s remorse – revisiting AMD vs Intel
I’ve had the wonderful chance over the last couple months to interact with some very arrogant elitists and fanboys. The AMD vs Intel debate to those indiv...
Category: Technology
On or off?
It’s a reasonable question to be asking: should you leave your computer on or turn it off every night? Recently Simon Hill of Digital Trends tackled this ...
Open source “efficiency”
Jack Wallen is at it again, trying to talk about what he doesn’t know. For some reason, in trumpeting his support for open source software, he like to act...
IKEA RAST rack cabinet
Note: IKEA has discontinued the RAST nightstand. This article is kept for historical reasons only. As an alternative for lightweight equipment, consider this ar...
Ramble about rack mount and other project ideas
Projects are one thing that kind of keep me rolling — thank you to my father and grandfather for the genetic circuitry keeping that rolling. It’s wh...
Teach hackers to not hack!
We need to teach people to not hack instead of teaching people to not get hacked! — Said no computer security specialist, ever… Just as guys learn h...
Games for Windows Live (GfWL) and Windows 8.1
If you are: Running Windows 8.1 or 8.1 Pro Trying to log into Games for Windows Live Marketplace because you have a game that requires it (such as GTA IV), then...
Computer build tip: External enclosures, revisiting cable management
A lot of your time in building a computer is going to go into cable management. In October 2013, I upgraded the power supply in my wife’s computer from a ...
Computer build tip: Cable management
Walking through Wal-Mart one afternoon, I saw these and got a bright idea: And that bright idea was to use these for cable management in a computer case rather ...
Computer build tip: Front-panel connectors
Here’s a tip I saw recently on a video for Singularity Computers that I decided to implement myself. Recall from a previous post regarding my wife’s...
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