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We’ve had good luck with the Haswell-E Xeon 1650 v3 with the ASUS X99-WS motherboard. We get a full 16 lanes of PCIe to four slots and it is very fast. Plus it has ECC for all the memory we have added. These have been great for machine learning, for computer simulation of cars and…

Well we’ve finally run out of our stock from Europe, so off to the internet to find more. I don’t know if nyoliveoil.com is a scam, but they do have a list of top brands and things that are best in category. Ordered some and we shall see!

OK, I had a whole bunch of spurious network adapters stuck in my macOS Sierra network preferences, so I deleted them expected that USB discover would bring them back. Well, I then got a strange error message: Would you like <Insert name of adapter> to return next time it is connected to your Mac? Not…

It used to be really complicated to mount a television on the wall, now that televisions are so small and light, it’s pretty easy you just need: Television mount. The best are tilting stands. If you have the little bit of space, this $85 unit also swivels a little which is useful if you get…

Wow there are lots of things to think about for hard disks, the main one is the warranty and performance. Paying a little more for an enterprise drive makes some sense for a consumer because you are not BackBlaze. A failure takes time to resolve and with RAID arrays too many of them and you…

Ok with 10TB hard disks and 10^16 UBER, you really can’t build raid arrays anymore, because a complete read of a 10TB disk is very likely to have an unrecoverable bit error. So what’s a person to do? Well two strategies for a 12 disk array (like the Synology DS-1512): Install RAID-1 SSDs, this is…

OK this must be the adventures of dining weekend, but if you are making fresh (vs farmed salmon), you should use a slightly lower temperature for doneness. Cook’s Illustrated recommends 120 degree F for wild salmon and 125 for farmed (blech! don’t get farmed, not good for the environment, Alaska wild caught is best).

We use these rescue traps and there are two flavors of traps for the Rescue: A water trap that uses an attractant and then a vial that you put into water. Then below another vial where you can buy a 10 week supply that is $5 from Amazon. Or a 2 week supply where you…

We have seven Samsung televisions masquerading as computer monitors in the office, so getting them to work is a challenge. Here are some cool things to do: The remote does not like having lots of televisions in the same room. Something as simple as scrolling doesn’t seem to work. You can power it on and…