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Wed, 15 May 2024 06:10:14 -0700

Andy from
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I suffered a catastrophic computer failure yesterday with my workstation and
have been recovering

It all started when the Nvidia driver I tried to install refused to work.  I
kept rebooting and somewhere in there, I corrupted the system disk.  Although my
web and email servers were unaffected, I lost all day yesterday fixing this
shit, and now it finally works again.  I lost all my programs, which of course I
can reinstall, and oddly enough this will be better than before because I
discovered the official Nvidia driver repository, which means it will
auto-update in the future and I won't have to manually install the driver every
time the kernel changes.  That's my long way of saying this is actually a good
thing that caused me to extend my computer systems integration capabilities. 
But it's still annoying having to reinstall all my apps.

#Technology 

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Wed, 15 May 2024 11:00:12 -0700

Andy from
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On the plus side, now I can actually play videos on Instagram because the HEVC
decoder works now.  Lol.

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Thu, 16 May 2024 02:00:57 -0700

2tierreality from private IP
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It's interesting you chose to auto-update Nvidia drivers. In the old days, every
Nvidia driver update would cause a system crash and require roll-back to the
previous driver, but that was probably windows XP, and sometimes my brain is
still living in 2010.  But now it's 2024, I'm running Windows 11, and Bill and
Melinda are ignominiously divorced.

Gotta admit, semi-disappointed you aren't running some custom-built linux
distribution, "Andy's Own Ubuntu" or the like. 

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Thu, 16 May 2024 04:51:55 -0700

Andy from
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Check out my battlestation: https://www.andrewwatters.com/law/office/Andy-office1.jpg

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Mon, 20 May 2024 09:15:44 -0700

2tierreality from private IP
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Red stapler!

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Thu, 30 May 2024 15:39:31 -0700

Andy from
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I repurposed a Zeiss CP.3 cinema lens that I had and got a Blackmagic Micro
Studio 4K camera to try out for the Trial Laboratory.  This is the world's most
expensive, most overkill webcam.  I look very cinematic and sharp on Zoom now,
especially with the shallow depth of field and adjustable iris.  Color me
extreme.

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Sun, 02 Jun 2024 10:54:43 -0700

Andy from
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I installed a new network switch today.  There may be a couple of brief outages.
 This thing is a beast at the entry-level enterprise level, and it crushes my
former small business switch.
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