Podcast Friday: Polygon - The History of Fun 🎙
“Each week, a new exploration of the hidden backstories behind the things you love to do.”
Owning way too many domain names finally “paid off”! I just finished a transaction selling a domain for the first time! 💰🎉
No Signs Allowed In This Area
Hello 11.3. 👋📱
Happy Birthday @alcedine!!
🎉🎂🎁😀🎈❤️
A tiny envelope would have been fine.. ✉️ 📦
With all of the data and tech Amazon must have, it amazes me that this can even happen.
Is Discord another Slack?
If I ever needed “intro music” for myself it would probably have to be Slam by Pendulum.
What would yours be!?
🚶♂️🎶
New Art Installations In SJ 🐻
There are new art installations popping up around downtown San Jose! This is a giant bear made of pennies!! 🐻 💰
Happy to see @kimonostereo on this week’s @monday microcast! Can’t wait to listen.
Movie Night Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 🎥 🍿
Run Log Update
Calendar Week: 12
Total Miles
This Week: 7.82
This Year: 82.86
Notes
😴 Nothing really to note this week
Goal For 2018: 250 Miles 🏃♂️
Top Down Kitty
📷🐱
New Bubble Tea place!! It’s delicious! Check it out if you are ever in downtown San Jose!
Tea Alley
Gun vloggers turn to PornHub after YouTube ban
This is more appropriate than I ever could have imagined!
You know what is never in my timeline on @microdotblog.. Ads! Not even one!
Podcast Friday: Originality 🎙
“The most common question creative people get asked is, “Where do you get your ideas?” That’s what Originality is all about ”
We got a new bed (matress)! Let the 100 night ‘trial’ begin! 🛏️ We went with The New Purple Matress. 🤞
Doing things manually is boring! 🤣
Made a small ‘app’ to enable posting of live stream announcements to micro.blog more automated!
Steps:
- Create script
- Package as app
- Create icon
- 🎮 😃
GitHub Code & Instructions are here.
Super cool tech from https://haptx.com!
micro.blog has only been upvoted on Product Hunt 11 times!? Let’s get to work micro.bloggers!! 😀👍
Top 5 “social networks”
- micro.blog
🦁☁️
Streaming Live on Twitch!
Mac Pro Upgrade Project - Part Two: Hardware (Planning)
In Part One of this upgrade, I updated all the software (and firmware). Go check that out to get caught up. Now it’s time for the hardware, which as the name suggests, will, in fact, be harder. In this post, I am going to cover the “plan” for upgrading hardware on the system. Let’s jump in!
The table below shows:
1. The various components of the system
2. What is currently installed
3. What I plan to replace it with
4. The priority I am placing on each upgrade
| Original Part | Upgraded Part | Upgrade Priority | |
|---|---|---|---|
| CPU | 2.93GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon | 3.46GHz 12-Core Intel Xeon | 3 |
| GPU | ATI Radeon HD 5870 | Radeon PULSE RX580 8GB | 1 |
| RAM | 8GB 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC | 32GB 1066 MHZ DDR3 ECC | 2 |
| HDD Bay 1 | 1TB 5400RPM | 240GB SSD (Boot Drive) | 1 |
| HDD Bay 2 | 1TB 5400RPM | 4TB 5400RPM (Storage) | Already Done |
| HDD Bay 3 | 1TB 5400RPM | 6TB 5400RPM (RAID 0) | Already Done |
| HDD Bay 4 | 1TB 5400RPM | 6TB 5400RPM (RAID 0) | Already Done |
| Optical Drive (Upper) | Apple SuperDrive | N/A | N/A |
| Optical Drive (Lower) | Apple SuperDrive | N/A | N/A |
| WiFi | AirPort Extreme 802.11N | OSXWiFi 802.11AC | 4 |
| Bluetooth | Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR | OSXWiFi Bluetooth 4.0 | 2 |
| USB | USB 2.0 x5 ports | (add) USB 3.0 PCIe x4 ports | 1 |
Notes
- The graphics card will give excellent performance while being very compatible out of the box. This will enable Metal support on the system. The current 5870 card does not support Metal.
- The memory will be stuck at that clock speed no matter what since the CPU governs it, so there is no reason to get “better” RAM.
- I already have the hard drives that are going in Bay 2-4.
- I have no plans for the optical drives at this time. I could replace one or both with Blu-ray drives for ripping, but I haven’t done that in a long time, so they will just stay Super Drives. One side benefit is being able to use ‘Remote Disc Sharing’ with macOS for any system in the house that should need to access data on a CD/DVD.
- WiFi is a VERY low priority since I have it connected via gigabit ethernet.
- USB 3 ports are going to be very helpful! I forgot how SLOW USB 2 is!!
There you have it, that is the list! Pretty doable I would say. In the next (and final) part of this post I will cover how the actual upgrades went, what worked / what didn’t, and of course “Was it worth it!?”. Until next time..
[Question? Send me a message!](mailto:?subject=burk.io Question: Mac Pro Upgrade Project - Part One)
jason at burk dot io
