Welcome to Puget Systems first quarterly newsletter! We want to share with you the new and exciting things that are happening with us.
Reducing Distractions
A few years ago, the owner of Puget Systems told me about a product that had helped him focus on his work. I’d been feeling less productive and more distracted when trying to work, so I decided to install the application he recommended which is called Rescue Time. I installed the free version, and let it do its thing in the background.
My 5 Favorite Products of 2016
With 2016 coming to end, I thought it would be interesting to look back at some of my favorite products of the last year.
I prefer products that seamlessly blend into my life. That means they shouldn’t require a lot of updates or ask me to change my behavior very much in order to enjoy them.
With that in mind, here are five of my favorite products of 2016:
Update Woes!
I had a client who recently contacted me over the weekend in a bit of a panic because he had just upgraded to the latest Adobe Premiere CC 2017 and that caused him some grief.
GPU Sag
How the weight of a video card can affect a PCIe slot
Visiting Supercomputing 2016
I made the trek to Salt Lake City to attend the Supercomputing conference. I’ve attended conferences both large and small going back 20 years, but nothing could prepare me for what I saw at Supercomputing. If you’re not familiar with Supercomputing, it’s an annual conference where scientists, researchers, and engineers gather to discuss high-performance computing, network storage and related technologies.
When stock solutions just won’t cut it
Thought and work behind getting a problem fixed with one of our bigger chassis.
Person to Person
Yesterday, I awoke to the sound of my phone buzzing on the nightstand.
I answered it assuming it was another automatic message from one of the schools my kids attend. But this time I was jolted awake when the person on the line said, “Your bank account has been hacked.”
I grabbed my phone, punched the app to my bank and there it was: my account had been drained.
[BuildLog] 10Core i7 Workstation
A series showing the assembly process of customer machines here at Puget Systems.
This time is an i7 with Quadro GPU inside a Fractal Define R5.
Backup Your Critical Data in 5 Minutes
At least once a year, I take a call from a friend or family member who is despondent because they’ve lost pictures or video or other critical data stored on their computer. Sometimes they accidentally delete a file or a directly. Or worse, a hard drive dies, taking all their data to the grave.
I listen and try to have empathy. I really do, yet I can usually predict the answer to the question I’ll ask next: “Did you have a backup of your files?” It’s probably a good thing they are explaining their situation to me over the phone when they tell me, no, they did not have a backup.
