Affiliate disclosure CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 Digital 88.89 CFM CPU Cooler GPU: Gigabyte Radeon RX 9070 XT GAMING OC MB: Gigabyte x870e Aorus Pro Ice Case: Lian Li Lancool 216RW RGB PSU: MSI MEG Ai1300P 1300W 80+ Platinum RAM: G.Skill Flare X5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000… Continue reading Primary System Specifications
Secondary System Specifications
Affiliate disclosure CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9900X Cooler: ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III 280 A-RGB 69.9 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler GPU: Powercolor Hellhound Spectral 9070 XT MB: Gigabyte x670e Aorus Pro X Case: Lian Li Lancool 216RW RGB PSU: Thermaltake Toughpower GF3 TT Premium 1000 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply RAM:… Continue reading Secondary System Specifications
Vivox is no longer in Second Life Huzzah!
Vivox has finally been replaced by WebRTC in Second Life! No more need to do any crazy adaptations for Vivox in Windows or Linux. If you are having trouble using Voice in SL upgrade to a Firestorm release 7.1.1 or newer.
A long walk down trouble shooting lane…
Several hours trouble shooting a series of problems related to a UEFI “bios” update for a Gigabyte AORUS 870E ICE PRO Motherboard. The Update is for the motherboard REV 1.1 (hardware). The file is to update the UEFI to do the following changes and improvements to the motherboard. Checksum : 78E1 Update AMD AGESA 1.2.0.3g… Continue reading A long walk down trouble shooting lane…
GRUB2 Background Image the simple way without installing anything.
The following is written to add a background image to GRUB2 in Linux Mint. This will work with Mint 22.1, it will also work with Ubuntu, and Debian. Your mileage may vary with other distros. Make a copy of your GRUB. sudo cp /etc/default/grub /etc/default/grub.bak Edit your GRUB as sudo. sudo gedit /etc/default/grub
Firestorm Viewer install for linux Mint
First update your environment: Open a terminal and type the following:sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade; sudo apt autoremove Then Download Firestorm from their web site. https://www.firestormviewer.org/choose-your-platform/ Pick the Penguin, and the 64 bit download. Extract the file by either tar -xvf Phoenix-Firestorm-Releasex64-6-6-8-68380.tar.xzor with the file viewer using Archive Manager. Now install. I install to … Continue reading Firestorm Viewer install for linux Mint
Sometimes it’s nice to disable EXT4’s journaling.
I find that when I run Linux natively on a USB drive, disabling the journaling of the EXT4 filesystem improves performance significantly. tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/sdf1
A couple of my favorite Motherboards
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