So I was playing a video game on one monitor while watching a video on the other. And I noted that the video was stuttering in spots. And generally when the screen action got busy in the game. I have 2 1070ti GPUs in my system, this shouldn’t really be happening… Complete stats of the… Continue reading Activate dual displays in Nvidia control panel SLI area doesn’t seem to use both GPUs as advertised.
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How to solomine Trezarcoin
This is a guide on how to solomine Trezarcoin, a relatively new cryptocurrency that I believe has some legs behind it. So on to the instructions on Windows. Sorry I don’t have a Linux box handy to doc this with. What you need Trezarcoin wallet. You can download that here. ccminer. I am using an… Continue reading How to solomine Trezarcoin
Edited Why I shouldn’t write while dealing with a fever… under discussion.
I fix my CPU miner to produce 1740 kH/s instead of 990 kH/s with a few check boxes.
If you run Plex Media Server, delete your old installers, it doesn’t (yet).
So I noted the other day my Plex server, which I adore BTW, was running a tad shy on disk space. That’s cool, but why. So just a little poking around revealed that Plex Media Server has been hoarding disk space by keeping all previous downloads of the installer/updater on disk. Not really sure why.… Continue reading If you run Plex Media Server, delete your old installers, it doesn’t (yet).
How to mine Vertcoin (VTC)
So another Cryptocurrency has piqued my interest. Vertcoin Vertcoin is very similar to Bitcoin and Litecoin but is ASIC resistant. I looked at the miner Vertcoin provides on GitHub and found it to have requirements that a normal Windows user could consider to be complicated. So I wrote this guide cause it’s what I did… Continue reading How to mine Vertcoin (VTC)
Outlook.com BETA kicks tail!
Dude here. I give credit where credit is due. Today I was offered a preview/beta version of Outlook.com to use. And. It’s awesome.
The crucible – My first training week as a Senior Support Escalation Engineer at Microsoft Charlotte.
Anyway I wrote this partly for me to remember. More than anything really. The mind, has a way of filing things off in those weak brain cells that slip and falls destroy it seems. So this is sort of a log. Week 1 at Microsoft. In my face-to-face interview with Microsoft, I had a great… Continue reading The crucible – My first training week as a Senior Support Escalation Engineer at Microsoft Charlotte.
Dude, where’s my RAM? (aka ShellExperienceHost steals my stuff)
So, there I was at my computer one night and I realized “wow, this thing is slow, wth”. No really, that’s what happened, scouts honor. So I fired up TaskManager, my favorite level 1 triage tool. And ZOINKS yo! (as Jay from Jay and Silent Bob fame is wont to say) 1.8GB of RAM. Not,… Continue reading Dude, where’s my RAM? (aka ShellExperienceHost steals my stuff)
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe SSD speeds are crazy
Update: post second rebuild on 10…the issue is gone. Beta bits to blame? I’m trying to reproduce to get to the bottom of it. No one should have a drive like this and be down 1GB/s in read speed… So I installed a new Samsung 960 Pro NVMe SSD in my Asus Prime x370… Continue reading Samsung 960 Pro NVMe SSD speeds are crazy
Server 2012 and balanced power plan, part deux – processor queue length
Ok in our last installment on Windows Server 2012 R1 and the balanced power plan, we saw core parking. But was that ‘bad’? I think so. It depends, naturally, on a variety of factors, but generally speaking in server land, we want stuff done quickly, not don’t slower to save power. Generally. So here’s what… Continue reading Server 2012 and balanced power plan, part deux – processor queue length