I have been a bit frustrated on the performance of my super bad, 64 bit quad processor, 3.2 GHz, 8 GIG RAM, and 4 Terabytes of Storage, WIN 7 Ultimate. Pretty hot hardware specs and better than almost everything else made today. Re-built about 3 or 4 years ago after a lighting strike, I can’t make her any better today except add more processor cores and maybe a bit faster GPU video card. But almost...
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Wake Up! Dang-it!
I usually leave my desktop computers at home in the standby (sleep) mode when I am not using them. It is an extremely low power level but provides for a nearly instant on when I want to use the machine. The screens go into a sleep mode as well. I don’t have them set to go into that mode automatically as there are times when I have a very lengthy processing job running that may...
Continue reading...Just Fix IT!
I just spent 15 working days in solving a problem at work that had to do with email routing. That’s about 24 calendar days. Something that had been working perfectly for years suddenly stopped delivering email. It was all caused by human intervention into a system that has become highly fragmented when we became a part of a global business giant and having to work with their old but dominate email systems. These email systems...
Continue reading...Fedora’s Out To Pasture
I had to let the Fedora 18 spherical cow out to pasture. She just wouldn’t give me any milk. Nothing is more wasteful in a sandbox than a dry cow, except maybe a cat with well, you know, ha! Now I am running Ubuntu 12.10 in the sandbox. That’s what the sandbox is, a place to try things you wouldn’t do to a critical computer. I also took out the dual boot I had into...
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