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Furry porn (well, not really, but close)

2018-08-152017-07-13 by Icedman

New toy I bought a used Sapphire R9 Fury Nitro to do a slight upgrade from my old R9 290. I made the purchase from a member of IO-Tech BBS and two days later, I’ve got the card. Here’s a picture of the box:

Upgrading my system

2017-07-032017-07-02 by Icedman

Introduction It’s been a long time since I posted, but there hasn’t been much anything post-worthy. In any case, most people know that AMD launched it’s Ryzen platform in the spring, and I’ve been drooling over either a Ryzen 7 system or a Ryzen Threadripper system to upgrade to – my old configuration has been … Read more

DRM / School booksales on digital editions / Opinions

2016-08-27 by Icedman

This is a rant about something that’s been going on around here lately. Not necessarily criticism on our recent curriculum reform, but on our local Printing and Publishing Industry and maybe something on our Government.

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I noticed a tweet from our local Pirate Party, about a news article on MTV3 (translation on Google Translate).

To summarize (You know, TL;DR) – essentially some local school book retailers have run out on Digital Edition books and the delivery time for new books is three weeks, just because they can’t print out codes to download books.

mRemoteNG Updated

2016-08-17 by Icedman

Back on my old server, I had a post about this wonderful tool called mRemoteNG. The stable version was long in the number 1.72, and required the older .Net Framework 3.5 to work. For whatever the reason, the development stopped and to get that version to work properly with multiple RDP sessions, you had to edit … Read more

Suprastick torn open

2016-08-102016-08-09 by Icedman

So, I opened the case, which looks like it’s essentially an electronics box meant for some indoor installations. After opening the box, I was greeted with this sight

My adventures with the Suprastick

2016-08-09 by Icedman

I bought a used Suprastick the other day, from a local (former) Soarer enthusiast. It was long weekend, but on Sunday I decided to take a peek at what makes this piece of work tick, as it didn’t have a serial port newer versions have.