Good luck struck me recently and I was able to get my hands on the brand new Asus ROG Swift PG27UQ display. This 27″ LCD can do 4K at 144Hz and features NVidia’s GSync technology. It’s not an inexpensive display at $2000. Nor is it readily available yet. I was fortunate enough that my local Microcenter had six of them…
Streaming With a Mackie DL32R Mixer
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Introduction In my Twitch Streaming Setup entry, I spent a section discussing my Mackie DL32R rack-mounted mixer, and how I have it connected up between the 2 PCs. The purpose of today’s entry will be to discuss how I have the DL32R actually configured from an input, output, and routing perspective. I understand that the audience for this one will…
Twitch Streaming Setup
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Introduction Over the last couple of years, I’ve written a few articles here about my adventures streaming to Twitch (and YouTube before that). Recently, I’ve made some significant changes to my hardware and software setup to handle the streaming and recording. Since I haven’t been writing and publishing a whole lot on this site in ages, I figured it…
Proper IT Security: Build a Fort Not a Prison
Like the rest of the posts on this blog, this is an opinion piece based on my 2+ decades on the industry. Some will agree, others will disagree. Let’s get started. Definition of IT Security When I say “IT security”, I specifically mean that which secures your office place. The PCs, laptops, Macs, and the networking that your employees use…
Battlefield 1 and the Changing of the Franchise
I’m thinking about making a Battlefield 1 video on YouTube, and have collected my thoughts here. Read on. The meta topic here is Battlefield 1 and my opinions of it and the franchise. Before we get into that, let me provide some background so that you can understand where I’m coming from. As of this post, I’ve just turned 44. …
Updates to Hardware Theft and Using FreeBSD to Stream
This is just a quick update to two of my previous entries. Hardware Theft In this entry I documented how a new 1TB Samsung 960 Pro SSD was stolen from me. Specifically the actual drive was removed from the Samsung box before the box was put into a shipping box and sent to me. This likely took place at the…
Using FreeBSD to Stream to YouTube and Twitch
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Introduction In a previous entry I discussed the differences in streaming game play to YouTube vs Twitch, as well as the differences between using hardware versus software h.264 encoding. The conclusion that I came to was that I was going to continue streaming to my YouTube channel until I decide to buy and assemble another PC specifically for Twitch…
Hardware Theft
Nope, it’s not what you think. Nothing was stolen from my house, thankfully. Rather: it was stolen before it got to my house. First a little back-story… My gaming/editing rig’s operating system drive (C: in Windows-speak) is a Samsung SM951 M.2 AHCI drive. It’s 500GB in size and is quite quick in comparison to most SATA SSDs and HDDs. But…
Streaming to YouTube vs Twitch
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I’m Back(?) It’s been almost a year since my last entry which would imply that this blog isn’t that important to me. I’d say more accurately, it’s less important to me than other things in my life. Those would be things like my job, raising my dogs, taking care of my house, enjoying my new Corvette, etc. It’s not…
Blocking Spammers at the Router: IPFWMTAD
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Assuming you’ve followed my spam-fighting adventures, you’ll know that I have a fairly successful installation of Neal Horman’s spamilter running in a FreeBSD jail, and his ipfwmtad daemon running on the jail’s host. Meaning the ipfw rules being added by ipfwmtad are done on a server different from where spamilter is running. Along with all of that, you’ll recall…