Using the famous 7.9GB bluemarble image – I ran the vips-bench on my 12 core AMD 7900X to see how linear the speedup is with threads/cores – it speeds up well to 12 threads – but is really at full speed with only 8. What should be amazing is that we can process these huge files in only 5s !
System has 32GB DDR5 and was reading/writing to files in /tmp. I used a 3s pause between deleting output and running next thread-count.
Having moved the broadband router to one corner of the house it was time to put a separate wifi AP in. The EAP610 from TP-Link was so good I have turned off the extra AP on the draytek router. Its also faster than mains networking (800 vs 400 Mbit/s)!
sadly I had to remove the motherboard to put this in but it was worth it for the quiet running
its a cool master hyper 212 by the way.. I also removed the noisy rear fan as this blows air out anyway
After weeks of kitchen work – we needed a better wifi link so I went for a TP-Link RE-450 which is a small plug-in unit which I hooked up to the ethernet point and setup in minutes. Nice design!
I’ve been experimenting with homeassistant – to link up various IoT devices.. ikea, tp-link, philips, sonoff
I finally got around to adding a usb zigbee dongle (CC2531) with mqtt2zigbee and added a temp-hum sensor fairly easily. Next steps: moving hass to an ssd for safety and slowly removing philips and idea hubs!
I finally found the right torx tool (right angle thing I normally open hard disks with!)
Open hood about 70cm, undo velcro straps, Loosen the screw:
Which releases the elastic
and outside its very easy to sew on a replacement a similar length. Clip back over screw and tighten! Hood now closes without catching on the sides! Previous fix only lasted 6 months (staple elastic over old one – as seen on youtube)
just back from an external examining trip to Kathmandu
It was a great adventure!
After one year – Boxster’s intake noise has become boomy again – which I think is a sign of a dirty filter. So I did a quick swap. Of course quick isn’t really fast – half-open top, unclip hood, bungee it all back, remove speaker, remove soft cover, undo torx30 bolts (memo to self: find short torx30 first!). remove metal cover, remove air box cover, unscrew filter, swap plastic holder, push back in, reverse everything else.
Well my desktop finally sucumbed to the nvidia driver issue where the driver seems installed but not working. I turned to a couple of blogs people made and followed the driver unininstaller way with DDU, which deleted all traces of nvidia drivers, clicked on the fresh install from the nvidia installer and its back to normal at last!