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OK, some folks have asked me questions and while free advice is worth exactly what it costs, I thought I’d post some rules that at least have helped me. This is tuned for someone just starting out in the world and wondering what their career path should be… I have…

OK I’ve tried most of them and the latest was Avira. It really used a lot of CPU. My old favorite was ClamAVX but it became paid and was slow. Macworld UK suggest Sophos, so I’m back to that 🙂

Errata and Fixes Well these guys have a really useful tutorial, unfortunately, it has bugs in it and apparently my disqus comments keep getting rejected, so here is an errata sheet for the Fullstack React Tutorial. They are focused on their book and other content so not surprising, still if…

Ok there has been lots of confusion on this topic, but it looks like the E5-1620 V3, the older Haswell-E, chip is locked. So it is stuck at 3.5GHz. This is confusing as some folks have multiplier unlocked 1620s. Strange. This processors have 4 cores and 8 threads. The 1630…

OK, if you type all day (like I do), you get quite opinionated about keyboards, here’s a list of my favorites: Corsair K70 Cherry Blue. $119. This is super noisy, but so much like the IBM Selectric or original IBM PC keyboard. All mechanical. We have a Cherry Red and…

Gave my escort 9500i away. It’s the third one. The other two were stolen out of the car. Remember to keep the glove compartment locked! Anyway time to look for a new one.  Wirecutter recommends the Valentine V1 for $400 direct. The patent on their directional lights expired but the…

Ok Apple may be past its prime but i am still amazed by its customer service. I hope someone else takes up the mantle.  We had a bad Thunderbolt connector on the motherboard and it was fixed in four days. Plus the screen was delaminating so that got repaired too. …

Well, this has been fun, I really love the Corsair 70 mechanical keyboard, but getting ti to work with a Mac is quite a trick, here are the two big things you need to do: The Windows and the Alt key are reversed on a PC Keyboard, so the Command…

Well it took some research but here’s the guide to watching the Olympics. Get an over the air antenna and hope you can see an antenna. If you can, then OTA is still free and it comes out on NBC. If you get a box then you can even make it…

If you go to China these days, you want to make sure that you have the right kind of masks. N95 is the designation for pollution masks that are good at filtering. Mybeijinghealth.com has some good recommendations: 3M N95 8210 Plus. These filter out 95% of particulate 2.5 microns or…