Where Tech Isn't So Technical…
Here is the gaming PC I built for my nephew. The Parts: MSi Radeon RX570 GPU, AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF, MSi B450 Tomahawk Motherboard, Corsair CV650 (650W) PSU, Seagate Barracuda 2TB SATA HDD, Silicon Power 256GB NVMe PCIe SSD, Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8GB x2) RAM kit. This is a budget build but it has…
INTRODUCTION So, I have had this machine for about 7 months now. It has been a great machine. Now, it’s time for me to do a little review. Previous to this iMac, I had a 2013 Base Model with a Core i5-4570 and a fully specced out 2012 model with a Core i7-3770 and the…
During the quarantine and my furlough from Fry’s Electronics, I have decided to use my time wisely. I began studying for my CompTIA Network+ certification. But first, I needed to renew my CompTIA A+ certification. I realized that by obtaining my Network+ that it would also renew my A+. Unfortunately, I did not have the…
In this blog post, I will go over managing users in an Active Directory environment. Figure A. From the Server Manager, select Tools. Under tools, select Active Directory Users and Computers. Figure B. Active Directory Users and Computers Dialog. Here you can see my created domain, molenda.hme. This is where the users and computers will…
In order to create the Lab environment for Active Directory, the server must be promoted to a Domain Server. In this blog post, I am going to show how I promoted this server to a domain server while installing Active Directory Service. The first thing we must do is assign a static IP address. Severs…
This is a post on how I accomplished installing Windows Server 2016 (Evaluation Version) in VirtualBox on an iMac. At the end of the post, I will share with you my sources that I used to help me accomplish this task. Additionally, there will be at least 2 more entries in this series of posts:…
First thing is first, we have to dispel the “Apple Tax”. Let’s look at the 3 systems below. System 1 (iMac i9) is the reference Mac in this article. This is the high-end model with the Core i9. Of note, the machine at this price has only 8GB of RAM. I upgraded to 24GB. System…
I will be the first to admit that I had forgotten about this project. Sony had it built into the PS3. I did run it on my PC but not near as much as let my PS3 just run it when I wasn’t playing games. The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust Folding @ Home back into…
This is a look back at my favorite build of 2019 from working at Fry’s. None of these parts were purchased at Fry’s and most of them are not carried there, anyway. Look at these parts… the customer who put these parts together did his homework. Not just because these are quality parts but: He…
I had to replace a Godlike motherboard in one of my customer’s computers… Did I really want to do that? Of course, I did! I felt like a YouTuber! I never get to unbox such expensive parts… (with the rare exception of Core i9 CPUs, which is what was installed here). This motherboard is approximately…