OK, now that we have our disk arrays in order, I was curious to see what performance is like. First some basics, with hard disks, performance is a little hard to understand. The short answer is that two things are going on, The first is, that you have the data under the disk head and […]

OK, since my Anne Pro keyboards are all in some sort of Bluetooth hell, I realized that I only have one wireless keyboard, a Keychron K6 with U4T and YMDK Shinethrough Pudding Keys. This has been a great keyboard and I really like the thocky sound somewhere between a click and a silent linear. So […]

OK, I've already documented a bunch of issues with the graphics support in my slightly strange Crystal Well MacBook Pro 2014 with an Iris Pro and discrete NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M processor, but as we found out the graphics display doesn't work for things like Safari, Apple Maps and things that I think are using […]

If you are unlucky like me and you have 2FA on and then you swap disks, suddenly you are unable to use 2FA. So the solution is to do a Mode 1 reset. That means you find the reset at the back of the NAS and then press it for four seconds, it will beep. […]

Well, I have three of these Anne Pro keyboards and they are inexpensive keyboards with Jade Box White, Gateron Blue, and Gateron Brown keys. I've liked how small they are as 60% keyboards, but recently on my M1 Mac, they are having Bluetooth trouble. They are greyed out on the Mac Bluetooth menu which I've […]

OK, as I've been moving terabytes of data around with the NAS rearrangement, I remembered that I haven't optimized the network itself. We have a nice UniFi network switch and the NASes are on either dual 1GBe with LACP or 10GBe. So with these things, one of the things you can do is to move […]

Ok, it's fix things Sunday, so here are the small things that I've been trying to fix and their status: Programming Bash Tip While no one in the next decade will ever write a program again, here are some tips if you still are in the last decade Bash Associative Arrays. They are a […]

Weve made about 5 hours of YouTube videos this week and I discovered a few glitches: Overdriving the Scarlett i2I The audio is great except for the last one. I was trying to get the levels louder and instead, I got dropouts and clicks. The Scarlett focus was turned very high to 3 oclock and […]

This is another sort of nerdy side note. If anyone is still watching, this section is just to give intuition on the basics of the hardware. There are lots of assumptions about GPUs and CPUs that I wanted to make sure people understood. But the basics are that CPUs are tuned for lots of branches […]

OK, we are not experts nor PhDs so most of this is probably not technically correct, but the math is so complicated and the concepts so complicated, that we thought it would be good to just get some intuition on what is happening. So this is a quick talk that summarizes readings from so many […]

Argh this one is driving me crazy. The latest version of WordPress 5.2.1 deprecates PHP 5.2 and when […]

Well different folks will have different opinions, but one issue with the Mac line has been a lack […]

Some good advice for new grad students and anyone who wants to read research papers. Some great advice […]

Well with tariffs coming, not a bad time to take a look and see what to get. Buying […]

Wow, what a great resource, Andrew Ng's CS229A is available for free on Coursera. It reminds me that […]

OK have had the camera for a bit now and of course various things have broken so some […]

Well if you have a project, you are inevitably going to have some external software. Whereas most folks […]

Wow what a strange application SONY has written. I'm not sure why they did it this way but […]

I had not realized it, but while pathogen is pretty awesome for managing bundles, it doesn't have any […]

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