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Benchmarks, bottlenecks, and buyer’s remorse – revisiting AMD vs Intel

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

Technology

On or off?

Posted on February 22, 2015 by Kenneth Ballard / 2 Comments

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 ...

Technology

Open source “efficiency”

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

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...

Projects/Technology

IKEA RAST rack cabinet

Posted on December 21, 2014 by Kenneth Ballard / 1 Comment

Note: IKEA has discontinued the RAST nightstand. This article is kept for historical reasons only. As an alternative for lightweight equipment, consider this ar...

Projects/Technology

Ramble about rack mount and other project ideas

Posted on December 14, 2014 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

Feminism/Technology

Teach hackers to not hack!

Posted on September 1, 2014 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

Technology

Games for Windows Live (GfWL) and Windows 8.1

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

Technology

Computer build tip: External enclosures, revisiting cable management

Posted on August 23, 2014 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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 ...

Technology

Computer build tip: Cable management

Posted on July 6, 2014 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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 ...

Technology

Computer build tip: Front-panel connectors

Posted on June 14, 2014 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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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