Category: Computer

Fix stuttering video audio on iTunes under Windows 8

I just bought an HD movie on iTunes, and much to my chagrin, I wasn’t able to watch it. The video was OK, but the audio was out of sync, and constantly stuttering. Here’s the solution: Control Panel -> Sound Right click the speakers you’re using, hit “properties”. Click the “advanced” tab. Choose “24-bit 44100Hz”…



Adding new VLAN to SEA

I have a 2 VIOS SEA failover setup. When adding a new VLAN to the SEA, I create a new Virtual Trunk adapter with the new VLANs to be added. This process has worked well, however the most recent time I performed it on 4 servers, 2 had problems – no traffic whatsoever to the…



Alternative to LogMeIn’s Cubby

I was using Cubby over the past year and I’ve loved it. There were 3 reasons why I loved it: It allowed me to sync specific folders It allowed me to sync folders without some pesky “cloud” intermediate storage in the way (though this is possible with the same app) It didn’t require me to…




Configuring Intel SRT on an Asus P8Z68-V Pro without reinstalling Windows

I just picked up a cheapo 32Gb SSD and wanted to try out Intel’s Smart Response Technology.  Here’s how I did it: My system drive is a 1TB Western Digital Black.  My SATA controller was configured as AHCI in the bios/efi.  Changing this to RAID (as required by SRT) causes windows to barf.  Here’s the…