Author: rihahn
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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…
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Adobe
I finally got my copy of CS6 Master Collection to run on something – and have just cancelled my Creative Cloud subscription – saving me $600! Which I’ve already spent…
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And done
The parts I ordered for the trashcan arrived right after I got home from work, so instead of eating dinner like a sane person – I tore down a 2013…
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Progress Report
The BlueSCSI hardware I ordered back on the 17th arrived last night, so the evening was spent futzing with the 8100… The BlueSCSI device itself is pretty interesting. It’s entirely…
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MacPro6,1
Being an ‘old fart’ I’m not super enthusiastic about SaaS models. I mean, I’ve done things like buy a magazine to get a game I had to type into the…
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Shrinkflation
Not only is the box really small, but when you open it you realize you just spent $3 for a literal handful of crackers. I’d have to say a full…