Monthly Archives: June 2016

Today was the day I was supposed to install three water coolers in my computer.  I bought one for the CPU and the GPU, and I also bought a used GPU and water cooler from Ebay.  I was going to be styling with dual R9 290s and an I7 6700 – all water cooled.

Well, things never turn out the way you plan.  Although I bought the smallest water coolers I could find – Corsair H55 – I can only fit two of them in my case.  Just barely.  I actually had to take power tools to it to make the second radiator and fan fit.  I connected both of them to my GPUs (which bake with the heat of the sun) and I’m in the process of installing new drivers right now.  Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like I’ll be able to monitor the temperatures anymore, because I had to plug multiple fans into the same motherboard plug.  I won’t need any tools to figure out if it works.  Honestly, the noise and the heat blowing off the fan of that R9 290 was amazing.  I should easily be able to tell if it is working.  I hope.

So, if anyone needs a water cooler, let me know.

I was messing around with some video recording software, and I stumbled across something called OBS studio.  It can record your screen and video from a web cam. I decided to try it out while I played Doom.  This is the first attempt at recording audio and video from both the PC and the webcam, so it’s not the best mix.  Also, the webcam picture is a little oversized.  I figured out why it keeps doing that after this video was recorded.

Background on the video.  I really didn’t expect to keep this video.  I thought I was just testing the software, but I miraculously defeated the boss monster that has been kicking my butt!!!

If you listen closely, you will be able to hear Michalina whispering in the background.

I’ve been using WordPress for my school blog since February 2011.  It’s always been a simple, reliable piece of software that has never given me much trouble.  So, when my website crashed again, I decided to toss up a WordPress site as a place holder until I found a better CMS (Content Management System) to replace the defunct system I was using.

However, I noticed that WordPress has a host of extremely useful and easy to install mods (they call them plugins).  For example, there is a simple plugin that allows you to add a YouTube channel to any page.  Another one lets you add a gallery, and another allows you to add a page for downloads.  It even has an event calendar.

I was also able to add a simple forum.

Another plugin lets you add random pictures:

Another lets you add a single YouTube Video:

[embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7u8_69KBpY[/embedyt]

Another feature it has, one that I will most likely never use, allows you to add a table to a post.  In fact, there are so many different features, I’m finding it hard to finish my homework with all of the distractions.

I should have done this a long time ago.

P.S – I’m still backing up the site to the root directory, but I’m looking at ways to automatically backup to Onedrive.  Hopefully, I won’t ever have to redo the website again!

If you haven’t noticed, my website crashed again.  I’m not exactly sure what happened, but it seems that the root directory somehow became corrupted.  That’s unfortunate, because I saved my backups to the root directory.  When I restored the backups, they didn’t work either.

The website has been acting weird lately.  When I tried to publish something the other day it kept crashing.  I tried posting something again yesterday morning and it crashed again.  When I checked back yesterday afternoon, the site was spewing errors all over the place.  I kept getting memory errors when I tried to restore the backups, and I even got a few when I installed this WordPress site, so I think my host’s server may have taken a dump.

So, here I am debating what to do next.  Unfortunately I don’t have the time to keep trying to fix this.  I may just leave a WordPress site up with a simple forum.  More to come!