Recent content by showard

The Coke cup on the right features Netflix "Stranger Things". So ... the upside-down burger is spot on.

A motherboard that expects PS2 keyboard and mouse. (Hey, Doc Brown. Is this 1955?) And you have 13 USB external drives? That's rubbish. You need someone to re-architect that box.

I know exactly what I'm talking about. Tape failure was a constant hassle for us back in our tape days. We couldn't afford to have a backup be defective without our knowledge, so tapes were scheduled for replacement based on age. New tapes were a planned item in the budget. And mind you ...

As if it needs to be said yet again: skip the tapes. Tapes are so 20th century. Tapes are VERY unreliable. Instead ... You can backup to the cloud. You can backup to an HDD. I use the latter. I do a full Macrium backup every weekend, and incrementals several times a week. The 8 TB USB drive...

Yep, jerry rigging will get you a kludge. Instead, dump the old and buy a proper new set.

Yeah, $350 for a POS table is silly. Just get table. Get mouse pad. Done.

I shun solid-state. I use steam. Gaseous-state is best.

That's a crazy high budget! With that amount of money you don't have to build. Just go online and buy the highest price gaming PC you can find. Done.

I don't much care about switch type. Mostly I want full-stroke keys that actuate at or near the bottom of the stroke. Ones that are as smooth and quiet as possible. I've come to like the slightly curved layout because it's easier for me. And I like having volume controls on the keyboard. As for...