If you are an IT consultant with any skills, especially in the embedded systems world, you are going to encounter ALKU. They are almost as bad as Zoom Technical. You will find yourself blocking their domains on your email server, not just your email client. You will also find yourself blocking all their phone numbers. With Zoom they badger you a few days per week trying to find “one skill” for a client that needs … Avoid ALKU like AIDSRead more
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Getting Samba Share to Work on MX Linux
I really like MX Linux, but with Samba Shares they shot themselves in the foot. The GUI tool is nice, but they made some bad decisions. Yes, I’ve written about Samba Shares and NAS before on this blog. If developers would just quit dicking with it, adopt a single standard, and live with that, you wouldn’t need so many blog posts. Gotta admit, the GUI tool is straight forward. You have a nice dialog for … Getting Samba Share to Work on MX LinuxRead more
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Review – SilverStone PS13 ATX Tower Chassis
★★☆☆☆ The SilverStone PS13 ATX tower chassis is a really sad product. I had decided to give my old AMD Phenom II system to a new home but wanted an AMD system in the office. After my i-9 gen13 experience, I am never buying Intel again. Initially I was just going to give away all of the guts. Why? Newegg had this combo Even when I added a 1TB M.2 drive it was under $300. … Review – SilverStone PS13 ATX Tower ChassisRead more
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Avoid MSI Graphics Like the Plague
As an IT professional I get really pissed off when it comes to North Korean knock-off quality products, and worse, North Korean knock-off quality customer service like MSI Graphics has. Long time ago Newegg or someplace had a sale and I picked up an MSI Ventus XS OCV3 Edition GeForce GTX 1650 for not a lot of money. Don’t remember how much, just remember I was going to install it in my HP Z820 but … Avoid MSI Graphics Like the PlagueRead more
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Updating CachyOS – and others
CachyOS uses pacman and paru under the hood so this will work for any linux distro using those. Too many Linux distros don’t include an obvious update method that updates both repo and “other” installed software in one shot. By default CachyOS does not install flatpak. They discourage it. (You really want to avoid any distro supporting snaps!) Yes, I’ve written about CachyOS before on this blog. Personally, I prefer flatpak over docker type containers … Updating CachyOS – and othersRead more