C7 GPU
I’m just about to buy another car so I thought I’d write about it a bit .
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Framework Desktop
I like to collect at least one manifestation of the physical products that I’ve worked on in my career, but having worked on AMD’s Strix Halo high-performance consumer APU as the incumbent lead architect for its GPU, it’s been a potentially expensive quest to collect one of those given the comparative performance level and types of products it tends to find itself in. I…
Deciso DEC3862 fan swap
My home router is a rack-mountable Deciso DEC3862 and, as is common with rack mount hardware at 1U height, it’s got a reliable yet noisy fan. The biggest issue isn’t the noise of the airflow, but rather the sound the bearing makes. It’s annoying enough when the fan is spinning at constant speed, but becomes very noticeable and irritating if the fan speed changes. There’s…
HDMI considered harmful
One of my lifelong loves is great film and television, and one of my favourite hobbies in the last few years has been putting together the best environment I can for enjoying them at home at the highest quality. I have a setup that I love that includes a very big MLA-toting OLED that can do 4K144 and supports all major HDR standards, along with a Panasonic UB820 4K Blu-Ray player for getting the…
Liara
According to the git commit logs, I moved over to Hugo as the static site generator behind my blog here on December 29th 2016. At the blog’s rebirth in 2011 I originally chose Jekyll, which is similar in philosophy to Hugo but is written in Ruby. It used to be a whole ordeal to get and maintain a functioning Ruby on a FreeBSD system, which is what I’ve used as the server OS for my…
Rocket
My move away from the Mac after almost 20 years didn’t happen by me installing Arch btw on the last Mac I was using at the time. I got going on a new PC instead, leaving the Mac behind completely. That new PC was initially a gaming system I built back in late 2022, but I wasn’t using it for that—or indeed using it at all—at the time. So when I made the decision that I was done with the…
Year of the Linux desktop
While writing about my move away from the Mac in 2025, I wanted to stick to what was wrong with the Mac rather than write extensively about what is better for me about what I replaced it with. I’ll do that, but to get started I wanted to talk about the momentum behind Linux to frame why I’ve switched to it, to make it easier to talk about those details in future posts. In that article…
Faustian bargains for rotten apples
If I don’t publish at least one thing here in 2025 then I’ll break a tradition I started back in 2011 when I restarted writing. Every year since then I’ve put fingers to keyboard for at least one post, and I don’t quite feel like mothballing or putting it out to pasture just yet, despite the morass and chilling effect of putting decent written content online these days.…
Resurrecting an HPE ProLiant Microserver Gen10 Plus
While preparing my HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus for sale to its new owner, I thought I’d be helpful and upgrade the various UEFI, remote management and platform firmwares to their latest versions, since I was in the remote management system anyway returning the system back to factory settings. For some reason which I haven’t quite figured out, a set of platform firmwares for the Gen10 Plus…
DDRM
Merry Christmas! In my part of the world it’s a time of year that brings people together to reinvigorate the spirit of friendship and family, hopefully regardless of religious proclivities or beliefs. It’s also traditional where I’m from to celebrate it with the giving and receiving of gifts. My gift to you this year is DDRM, a DNS record monitoring application written in golang…