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A Faster Hard Drive Makes Your Computer Slower

It sounds like the most counter intuitive statement one could make. A faster hard drive makes your computer slower. If you understand how and why you will understand it is a fact. A faster hard drive really can make your computer slower. This is more fallout from my Manjaro experiments. You really should read the previous post about the resume error on boot to get a full background no how we got here. I’ve always … A Faster Hard Drive Makes Your Computer SlowerRead more

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Boinc on Majaro

Historically, Boinc on Majaro has been a trail of tears for most users. Most other distros do a fine job of packaging Boinc for their flavor of Linux, but Majaro, not so much. There is always a bunch of manual tasks one has to do to make things actually work. Most of these are cloaked in mystery and most of the Websites you find will have out of date information. Search engines – the last … Boinc on MajaroRead more

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So You Can’t Get Your Qt Models to Work With QML?

This particular rant was started by my looking to divert my mind by answering a question on StackOverflow. Never ever ever go to StackOverflow. Kids today just don’t know squat and there is nothing you can do to help them. Let’s start with my initial response an a slightly improved image. QML is just a hand polished turd. There is no polite way to put it. Qt made a desperate ploy to attract script kiddies … So You Can’t Get Your Qt Models to Work With QML?Read more

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Github is trashed this morning

Gotta love it when you are greeted with an image like that! I tried from multiple computers and multiple browsers. Other websites look and work fine. Github is just trashed. In case you cannot see the featured image. I work up early and had a couple of hours to kill before I needed to leave. Planned on finishing a Fedora 33 dev VM for Diamond (possibly Red Diamond soon) and boom! Can’t get my git. … Github is trashed this morningRead more

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The Minimum You Need to Know About the Phallus of AGILE

At long last it is finally out! “A journey through IT history explaining why SDLC Waterfall Model is Software Engineering and AGILE will never be.” As distribution updates trickle out to other retailers you should see it at Barnes & Nobles, BAM and most other online book sellers. As of right now, these are the places Google finds it: eBay (not me) Adlibris Booktopia Now I can finish up with the Diamond text editor and … The Minimum You Need to Know About the Phallus of AGILERead more