The Bleeding Edge

I got a malware infestation. Not a terrible one, just a browser hijacker, but one that proved really difficult to keep from re-installing itself. I decided to revert to a stored restore point. The system looked like it was hung, but I went off and did something else for a few … [Read more...]

I've been using Backblaze B2 for cloud backup for the better part of a year. I started out accessing it over a 50 Mb/s link. A couple of months ago I upgraded to a 250 Mb/s link, and I was interested in seeing how that affected my upload rate. Today I got around to looking at … [Read more...]

This is the fourth in a series of posts about my out-of-box experience with a Dell T7920 workstation. The series starts here. I copied over the Lightroom catalogs from the old workstation. I had made sure to install the photo files on drives with the same letter and in … [Read more...]

This is the third in a series of posts about my out-of-box experience with a Dell T7920 workstation. The series starts here. In the previous post, a SATA III Samsung 860 Pro SSD yielded this performance: I installed another, and used Windows 10 software … [Read more...]

This is the second in a series of posts about my out-of-box experience with a Dell T7920 workstation. The series starts here. There are three kinds of disks on my new workstation. SATA III-attached spinning-rust 7200 RPM Seagate Enterprise 10 TB He SATA III-attached … [Read more...]