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Continue reading â: AppleTV Activates stink!
Argh. With everything so integrated in Apple, it really is amazing the media companies have managed to make the user experience so awful. Even though we are a Comcast subscriber, every channel on AppleTv requires its own randomly different activation code and it require no less than two logons. First…
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Continue reading â: Haswell everywhereâĻwhat to build by form factor
I seem to be on a roll here on DIY computer recommendations, so to fill the line out, Iâll add the final two desktop computers to posts and everyone should be ready for Black Friday. One good thing about these comparisons is that Haswell is the same across desktop and…
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File systems ZFS or btrfs
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Continue reading â: File systems ZFS or btrfsWell Iâve been meaning to do this for a while, but using desktop Windows and then the Mac, there really were no choices other than NTFS and HFS. But since we are building our own file server, we can now choose the operating system and the file system. The easiest…
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Continue reading â: Wow real reliability data and hard disk purchase analysis
I was a little surprised to see this, but Backblaze (hat tip to Anandtech) is publishing detailed information on drive failures. Up to 15% annual failure rate(?!!) on Seagates and they provide model numbers too. Interesting to see a desktop drive do very well (HGST 7K4000, $185 Amazon) at 1.4%…
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Black Friday for Geeks
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Continue reading â: Black Friday for GeeksSo whatâs a geek to do but drool over the Black Friday discounts and beyond. But as with all things technical, it pays a little to wonder if it is time to buy or whether you should wait for the next product cycle. Hereâs a quick low down on popular…
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Cooler Gotchas
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Continue reading â: Cooler GotchasWeâve been building lots of machines lately and it seems like we have struck out twice. Both times with cooler issues and once with a lack of an SSD: We got the nice case and it says there is 65mm of clearance, the problem is the (??!!) people who designed…
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Regin: Top tier espionage
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Continue reading â: Regin: Top tier espionageVlad told me about this and it is indeed scary what Symantec has discovered. A super sophisticated hacking tool with five layers and great ability to hide itself when it detects anti-virus programs: Â An advanced piece of malware, known as Regin, has been used in systematic spying campaigns against a…
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Continue reading â: Grokking Snowmix
This is another amazing tool that complements gstreamer. It lets you mix audio and video feeds quickly and easily and most importantly dynamically without having to write programs. Here are some notes from the wiki, the discussion group there, Â but mainly by looking at the sample snowmix ini files in…
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Continue reading â: Grilled Opah
Well itâs also called Hawaiian moon fish, but itâs apparently more sustainably caught than tuna. We tried this Food & Wine recipe and was really surprised how tasty the fish is. The main thing is not the sauce but  a little salt and quite a bit of oil to keep…
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Continue reading â: too cool f15 strike eagle low levelWow, Jalopnik found a GoPro dream. A low level flight through the mountains of Washington in an F15E Strike Eagle. I can remember spending hours in a simulator of that jet flying around looking for targets.
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