Product reviews and ther technologies like firewalls, VoIP, Skype, Hardware Comparisons and other how-tos
In these videos we unbox, setup, configure and review the Hisense R6 TV line which includes a 65″ 58″ 55″ 49″ and 43″ version, most of which are available at Costco. We demonstrate: how to easily remove a large TV from its shipping box what the inputs are what ARC Read more…
Even if you don’t think you know what a Captcha is, I will guarantee you have used them before. A Captcha is a program or system intended to distinguish human from machine input, typically as a way of thwarting spam and automated extraction of data from websites. Let’s quickly go Read more…
We explain and demonstrate how to change a standard full height card to a low profile / half height card for a PCI expansion slot. In particular we swap EVGA GT1030 2GB card brackets
TensorFlow is an open-source, free software library that runs in Python. It provides dataflow and differentiable programming that is useful in Machine Learning and Google is major proponent of it. However, the installation instructions for Windows are not fully accurate and took me several hours to grind through line by Read more…
We explain, configure and install the Dell Ultra Speed Drive Quad NVMe M2 Disk PCIe Adapter using Windows Storage Spaces with Resiliant File System (ReFS). This Dell PCIe x16 NVMe adapter can host up to 4x NVMe M.2 solid state drives, providing super fast I/O of up to 9GB/s sequential Read more…
In this video we unbox Dell’s impressive 49″ 4K U4919DW (actually 5K), assemble it and connect it to a very old Dell OptiPlex 9020. We were surprised to find the integrated Intel HD4600 video handled this monitor with ease. We then loaded the Dell Display Manager and demonstrate its use Read more…
In this short video we unbox Dell’s least expensive 4K 27″ screen and connect it to a 6 year old OptiPlex 9020 with an Intel i5-4570 CPU and integrated HD4600 video. We also have a DOA unit which Dell warrantied for us.
If you need to move large numbers of files through FTP (File Transfer Protocol) software you can dramatically change the time it takes to complete by increasing the number of simultaneous transfers. FileZilla defaults to 1 but can be set to 10: Launch FileZilla Click EDIT (menu bar) Click SETTINGS Read more…
If you have tried to buy a 12TB or 14TB hard drive in recent months you will find that it is difficult to locate comparisons of the Seagate and Western Digital Options. Because we needed to source a pile of these we developed the simple spec comparisons below and highlighted Read more…
If you install an M.2 drive into a PC there is a good chance that Windows and the BIOS will not see that disk. Most BIOS’ are configured for RAID even if there is only one disk. Because M.2 disks are not SATA it would be logical to set SATA Read more…
If you use CloudFlare for DNS and you need to create a SRV record using the TLS protocol you will find that their interface does not support it. The GUI only shows _TCP and _UDP in the protocol drop down. Fortunately there is an easy way around this problem. You can Read more…
If you have a Dell 7400 (including the 2 in 1 model) you may find PXE book is not an option in the BIOS / UEFI. Fortunately this can be resolved: Boot into the BIOS /UEFI by pressing F12 repeatedly at boot up and then click BIOS SETUP Enable General Read more…
In this video we explain the components and ports on the new Dell Optiplex 5070 SFF . We benchmark the 5070 with the Dell factory SK Hynix 256GB Class 35 NVMe SSD and then benchmark it again with an upgraded Crucial P1 1TB NVMe SSD. The video also shows a very Read more…
If you have not heard of Harmony it is a renaming of Huawei’s Linux based operating system that will replace Android on Chinese made products to comply with both the Chinese Government demands and US President Trumps banning of the export of Android. In previous internal iterations Harmony was named Read more…
Intel Turbo Boost is a hardware technology that Intel uses to put additional electricity into its CPU’s to have them temporarily operate at a levels above their traditional specification. You might be tempted to call this “overclocking” and while the concepts are very similar, they are definitely not the same. Read more…
At first glance all Solid State Disks (SSD’s) might look the same. Instead of having two or three spinning disks inside small metal box (traditional hard drive), SSD’s have memory chips in a small box (or just on a tiny 2280 circuit board). In fact there are many other factors Read more…