Author Archives: larry

Surprising Performance on Bargain Rig

Posted on December 6, 2017 by larry

I thought adding a discrete GeForce 8800 GTS would improve performance on the gamer rig. Here are the settings with the descrete card Here it is without it, using the integrated graphics card. Across the board everything is better by … Continue reading →

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Kingwin Power Supply Tester

Posted on December 5, 2017 by larry

Wasted enough time trying to find my power supply tester so I ended up buying one. I got the Kingwin KPST-01 power supply tester Not much documentation, but I will try to add some. Normally you would plug this in … Continue reading →

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Weather Getting Colder

Posted on December 4, 2017 by larry

Fog and a little  frost covered our cars this morning.  Winter is here. But I need to start training.  Kind of lazy though. We will see how it goes next week,

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Bargain Rig is Up

Posted on December 3, 2017 by larry

I enjoyed putting together my a bargain rig up. It is OK, didn’t cost much, included a power supply with the case, although I had one ready. I want to do more of these with my son.  I think he … Continue reading →

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Benchmarking Computers at home

Posted on December 2, 2017 by larry

I started tracking a bunch of passmark settings on my computers as home. Of course my personal rig is the fastest, but I was surprised which machines were second. Also my machine was a clear #1 in all categories, over … Continue reading →

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Bad Hard Drive

Posted on December 1, 2017 by larry

Didn’t know a bad hard drive could slow down a computer so much. I finally figured it out on one of my rigs, now it is going to get repurposed for my son. Kind of sad, but needed to be … Continue reading →

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Meeting After Meeting

Posted on November 30, 2017 by larry

One of those days, just constantly going and going. I am tired, but can’t sleep. Hoping to wake up later and get a deep sleep.  

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Fixing Domain Irks

Posted on November 29, 2017 by larry

Went to mxtoolbox.com to check out my main domains, apolonio.com and lunakoa.com, found out there were some minor warnings.  Not huge, but got them fixed. Was kind of bugging me.  At least it is all good now

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Backup Server In Production

Posted on November 28, 2017 by larry

Alrighty, my backup server is finally in production warts and all.  So I am committed, but I think I did a good job. I actually shutdown the original backup server and am have stopped the file server for now. After … Continue reading →

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XMas Lights and ESP8266

Posted on November 27, 2017 by larry

Cool, I am able to turn on and off the Christmas lights using and ESP8266 and a 433Mhz Transmitter. I wish the light setup I had used different code to turn them off and on, it basically toggles the on … Continue reading →

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