Silly Job TitlesSilly Job Titles
Many years ago I was on a programming project porting code from OS/2 1.x to NT. When I was there they suddenly decided to make a database of all people[...]
Author: etbe
Links April 2025Links April 2025
Asianometry has an interesting YouTube video about elecrolytic capacitors degrading and how they affect computers [1]. Keep your computers cool people! Biella Coleman (famous for studying the Anthropology of Debian)[...]
Last Post About the Yoga Gen3Last Post About the Yoga Gen3
Just over a year ago I bought myself a Thinkpad Yoga Gen 3 [1]. That is a nice machine and I really enjoyed using it. But a few months ago[...]
What Desktop PCs NeedWhat Desktop PCs Need
It seems to me that we haven’t had much change in the overall design of desktop PCs since floppy drives were removed, and modern PCs still have bays the size[...]
Storage Trends 2025Storage Trends 2025
It’s been almost 15 months since I blogged about Storage Trends 2024 [1]. There hasn’t been much change in this time (in Australia at least – I’m not tracking prices[...]
HP z840HP z840
Many PCs with DDR4 RAM have started going cheap on ebay recently. I don’t know how much of that is due to Windows 11 hardware requirements and how much is[...]
More About the HP ML110 Gen9 and z640More About the HP ML110 Gen9 and z640
In May 2021 I bought a ML110 Gen9 to use as a deskside workstation [1]. I started writing this post in April 2022 when it had been my main workstation[...]
Links March 2025Links March 2025
Anarcat’s review of Fish is interesting and shows some benefits I hadn’t previously realised, I’ll have to try it out [1]. Longnow has an insightful article about religion and magic[...]
Article Recommendations via FOSSArticle Recommendations via FOSS
Google tracking everything we read is bad, particularly since Google abandoned the “don’t be evil” plan and are presumably open to being somewhat evil. The article recommendations on Chrome on[...]
8k Video Cards8k Video Cards
I previously blogged about getting an 8K TV [1]. Now I’m working on getting 8K video out for a computer that talks to it. I borrowed an NVidia RTX A2000[...]