Recent content by Mercutio

If you were at all worried if the RAM crisis is a real thing or not, I just traded a G. Skill 2x32GB DDR5-6400 kit that I think I paid about $150 for a year ago for an Asus TUF RTX5070 Ti.

Today in useful things for Windows Admins to know, here's the recipe for putting the Windows Recovery partition at the beginning of your drive. This is super helpful if you are maintaining disk images or Windows virtual machines. This is assuming there's only one drive in the system and you're...

Greg, do please go be an admitted racist someplace else.

I will leave this here without additional comment. 😔

The Ideapad 1 systems I've been buying and reselling by the dozen for the last couple of years are now being sold with 4GB (soldered!) RAM and 128GB SSDs for the ~$300 SKU, while the previous $319 SKU with 8GB/256GB is currently selling for $380. Yikes.

My musical taste can largely be described as "things wealthy Europeans liked 120 years ago", but I do enjoy a certain amount of jazz, definitely including the previously mentioned Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson. William Grant Still is the only African American composer of Classical music I can...

The great Satan has sold every drive it was going to make this year.

I am really impressed with how far I've been able to push Wazuh as a fully cross platform SIEM. Built in Compliance reporting and everything. Goddamn.

"This page does not exist." I can't wait until that applies to the rest of Twitter as well.

Svideo output is a substantial improvement on Composite even on VHS-C sources. VHS-C is still going to look like ass to us, spoiled as we are by 1080p videos, but someone who maybe only watched their old home movies on the same crappy 2 head VCR everyone else had will be surprised that it can be...

I did it with TDARR, where you can specify templates that give the encoder something to do. My rules basically look at the source video to decide if it's progressive scan (i.e. analog source) or not and then upscale based on that. TDARR is interesting in and of itself because it just sends out...

This is EXTREMELY out of left field, but it's fascinating to me, a long form interview with minimalist composer Steve Reich, about his well known (for people who like late 20th century classical music, anyway) piece Different Trains. It's from a podcast called Song Exploder, which most often...

She likes to climb and she's made herself a little nest on top of my fridge. RIP my Flour Jar. She's also claimed my ENTIRE couch. The other three cats are holding the line at keeping her out of my bedroom though. She doesn't sit still very much, so I've had a hell of a time getting a decent...

An additional kitty has entered my life. I found her out by the dumpster at my office, snuggling a bigger, lifeless cat. She squeaked, but didn't even try to move. She was covered in blood and at first I was afraid she was also mortally injured, but I think she just didn't know what else to do...