Sandbox (my Linux computer) has been infused with a new PCI-E video card. It takes over the video chores that were being performed by the on-the-motherboard video. It is a VisionTek PCIE 1GB VT which of actually consists of a Radeon 5450 chipset. It’s an AMD product as is the main dual core CPU in Sandbox. The 1 GB memory on the video card card is now used rather than system memory of the on-board...
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My Sandbox
Dang! I am back on my Linux OS band wagon. I float between the Win and the Linux OS’s as the mood strikes me. Well, actually when I need a program that can only run with one or the other. I have a large investment in Win OS software, so that system can never be replaced without considerable loss of function. However, I have often given that single OS option some thought. There is a...
Continue reading...Back to Linux (Again)
It was all I could stand, I could stand no more. I just returned my ASUS EeePC net-book back to the Linux operating system. Actually I have installed XUBUNTU which is a special flavor of the standard UBUNTU distro. If you look back in this blog it can be determined I allowed this little net-book (I am using it now) to upgrade itself to WINDOWS 10 home edition. Sadly, Win 10 is not a good...
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I have a USB hard drive attached to my network router/switch. I use the drive for archiving and for sharing with other computers on my network. USB for a drive connection is not super fast but it is adequate for the intended purpose. I mostly use it to save drive space on my computer internal drives. It is a storage system. I do some backup storage on the drive too. They are usually compressed files...
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