If you appreciate the content I write and create on this site, there is an easy way to help defray my costs for this web site. I pay about $20 USD a year for the domain name and about $4 in electricity a month out of my own pocket. If you buy something from Amazon… Continue reading Donations
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Go Team Red!
AMD had a special launch event to showcase their new APU offerings. I waited for 3 hours before the event then was put into a virtual line for over two hours. Reminds me of the 6800XT GPU launch. There’s an interesting problem on the description of the AMD web site for their new APUs. Both… Continue reading Go Team Red!
Intel releases new AX200 and USB 5.0 drivers
Intel released some new drivers for their AX200 series of Wifi adapters. They also released an updated driver for USB 5.0 devices. These definitely improve the performance of your Wifi adapter or did for me. The link to the Wifi driver is here:https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/30542/Windows-10-Wi-Fi-Drivers-for-Intel-Wireless-Adapters OR you may just want to run the Intel update tool.
AMD Stock
If you purchased AMD at 50-60 and are in it for the short gain, this is a great time to sell and take a profit.
Buy AMD stock before July 30th
The sooner the better. The current price is hovering in the $50 per share range. If you want to buy in at a lower price, there are sites that offer fractional sales with nominal fees. Stockpile allows you to buy and/or sell at what ever price point you would prefer for $0.99 per buy, $0.99… Continue reading Buy AMD stock before July 30th
Target COULD have paid attention
If you search through my posts from 2010 I responded on this site to a rash of misinformation in the news about man in the middle attacks related to HTTPS transactions over ANY connection type including wireless at your local Coffee shop or McDonalds. Then as now, if your browser is using HTTPS and the… Continue reading Target COULD have paid attention
Razer Death Adder Essential
One of my favorite mice thus far, it looks sharp in white or black and it tracks exceptionally well. Holds up to use and abuse even gaming hard for hundreds of hours. Comes in black or white models.
Userbench fails Sphere graphics test. Possible solution.
If you are experiencing an error running the userbench suite of tests, and the error indicates “ERROR: Sphere GPU benchmark failed, aborting further tests on this GPU” then this MAY solve your issue. I isolated this error on my system to the Nahimic service that is a part of the Realtek Audio driver package. To… Continue reading Userbench fails Sphere graphics test. Possible solution.
Install Windows and lose your GRUB menu?
Try this from an ADMIN command prompt bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi Note: This is from Windows, and this will work with any flavor of Ubuntu and with Mint, it may not work with other distributions.