Year: 2023
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Teach a new dog old tricks
My HR director at work has been using the same HP Envy 700-527c desktop since the company purchased them ten years ago, and earlier this week the drive started showing…
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All my bags are packed I’m ready to go
Apple has apparently caught wind that I’m using other systems and decided that I’m a heretic, because starting this morning nothing has worked right. My roommate likes to use iMessage…
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It’s a windows world
And I just live in it… So, it’s been a few days with Windows now, and I’m adjusting well, I think. I know I make it sound worse than it…
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I don’t do Windows
Or maybe I do… I got a bit fed up with the complexities of my Hackintosh this morning, specifically the flaky network kexts I’m using to make an unsupported NIC…
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It’s complicated…
Last week my boss / CFO / landlord had to take off to Taiwan for a while to deal with family issues, and since then things have been pretty complicated…
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Azure
In my last post I mentioned that Microsoft was in something of a panic and gave me an inordinately short period of time to ‘fix’ my end of my AD-to-Azure…
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Hackintosh + Update
All of the parts I ordered came in this afternoon, so I took the XPS apart again and upgraded pretty much everything in it… It’s now got the fans out…
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OpenCore
I spent the last couple of weeks fiddling around with OpenCore, and overall I’m pretty pleased. This all started because I found this old, disused Dell XPS PC at work…
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Mileage update
Just passed 4000 miles. I bought the car on August 10th, 2022 – 404 days ago – so I’m up to about 10 miles a day on average. The up-tick…
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Newer typically isn’t better
Occasionally I’ll be doing something here in the bright and shiny future, and suddenly realize everything is incredibly overcomplicated in the name of technology… For example, this morning I was…
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Update
Not only does the bag contain a half an ounce less, but it’s also six bucks now… And that’s pretty much how everything is these days. Listening to “Dark Days”…
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Change of plan
A couple of years ago I early-adopted a cloud-based computing platform called “Shadow“. Shadow is interesting because it’s not really a cloud-based gaming platform, it just pretends to be one…
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Update
It’s been about a week now of using a 2011 computer in 2023, and things are still going well. The only real noticeable difference between decades is that the Mac…
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And scene…
It’s been quite the journey to get to this point; sketchy mining cards, shipping complications, undocumented third-party utilities, and a distinct lack of modern-ish Windows hardware at my disposal. That…
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Life in the crypto-mines
The RX 6600 XT I ordered off of Amazon for the 2012 Mac Pro arrived last night, and a few minutes later I had it installed in the PC I…
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20 years…
Back on the 5th I quietly celebrated twenty years of this journal. I started this ongoing chronicle of my so called life on August 5th 2003 over on LiveJournal, and…
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MacPro 5,1 – round two
I got a chance to mess with the cheese grater a bit last night in my ongoing attempts to make it a daily driver. See, here at work I have…
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There is no saving throw versus the plot device
Ever get the feeling there is some sort of diabolical Wizard of Oz chuckling quietly to himself as he says “watch this!” and presses a button to make your day…
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Cheese Grater…
You know how I mentioned that I was pondering picking up a 2012 Mac Pro when I tripped over the 2013 Trashcan Mac Pro – but for various reasons decided…
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Vidya Games
I’ve kinda orbited around the video games industry since video games were a thing, and accordingly I have quite a few interesting tidbits of hardware laying around – and stories…