Teksavvy IPv6
Teksavvy now has a beta of IPv6 service over DSL. It seems to work reasonably well. As of today, it appears the IPv6 transit is provided by Hurricane Electric. No surprise. From what I can tell,...
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Cardboard Boxes
Seeing as Engadget can get away with posting old news about computers in cardboard boxes, I will too Here are box (bottom) and box2 (top). Despite size and cost being the main objectives, I claim...
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Gigabyte GA-Z77M-D3H Motherboard
Gigabyte Z77M motherboards: No VCore adjustment Gigabyte makes several similar MicroATX motherboards with the Intel Z77 chipset: GA-Z77M-D3H GA-Z77M-D3H-MVP GA-Z77MX-D3H The only difference between the...
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Intel HD4000 QE/CI Acceleration
Graphics acceleration (Core Image, Quartz Extreme) for Intel HD Graphics 4000 (on Ivy Bridge processors) works in Mac OS X! The drivers are included in the MacBook Pro (Mid 2012) Software Update 1.0,...
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Replacing VIA HD Audio Codec Chip
Gigabyte’s new UEFI BIOS is particularly well-suited for building Hackintoshes. However, many of Gigabyte’s recent motherboards, including all of the MicroATX Z77 and H77 boards, use the VIA VT2021 HD...
View ArticleJMicron JMB363 Add-on Card AHCI mode
The JMicron JMB363 is a 2-port SATA + 1-port PATA controller chip often found embedded in motherboards and in low-cost add-on cards. The chip supports operating in IDE, AHCI, and RAID controller modes....
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More Cardboard Boxes
After having built small cardboard cases for single computers, I tried building single cases for multiple machines. The idea is to share the power supply to reduce cost and increase packing density....
View ArticleASRock H81M-ITX Overclocking
The ASRock H81M-ITX does support adjusting multiplier ratios for K series Haswell processors. Oddly, this works in BIOS version 1.90, but not version 2.00. My boards came with version 2.00, and I had...
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A Cardboard Haswell Box
So this post is almost four years late… This post is about a cardboard computer I built in 2015. It served as half of my simulation cluster during the latter half of my Ph.D. work. This is a...
View ArticleCalculator
I wrote a calculator that can do decimal and hexadecimal arithmetic conveniently. https://calc.stuffedcow.net/ (New window) As a computer engineer, I often do calculations with a mix of decimal and...
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