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Veterans Day 2020

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Happy Veterans Day brothers and sisters. Had I the ability, I would buy you all a beer today.

Excellent article by a fellow Virginian (yeah, I choked up when I read it):
What Does It mean to be a Veteran – David Reavis
“Being a veteran is being part of a brother/sister hood, it is something that you carry with you for the rest of your life. The experience’s that you live through which you are very thankful that you did are life-altering events and can change a person within a split second.
Being a veteran means learning that the measure of a person is WHO they are not WHAT they are. Learning that the person who is a little different from you, is really just like you. They love, they fear, they care, they laugh and they cry…”

According to the Census Bureau there are 17,418,351 veterans that make up 6.9% of the adults in this country.
Period of Service
Gulf War (9/2001 or later) – 3,772,708 21.7%
Gulf War (8/1990 to 8/2001)- 3,834,993 22.0%
Vietnam era veterans – 6,192,877 35.6%
Korean War veterans – 1,156,096 6.6%
World War II veterans – 380,327 2.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau – Veterans Day 2020: Nov. 11 and the spreadsheet below I made was from https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=veterans&t=Veterans&tid=ACSST1Y2019.S2101&hidePreview=true
My spreadsheet: https://www.tweakhound.com//files/usvetstats2019.xlsx

Site Dimension Changes

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I’ve changed the dimensions of the site to a larger size. I’ve also removed the sidebar of the Win10 Tweak Guide.
This site and my guides are screen shot heavy and I want to be able to provide larger images for clarity.
Please let me know if you have issues.

Site Update

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Thanks for the folks who inquired about me. All is well it’s just that life has been very busy. It’s starting to calm down a bit now.

In my spare time I’ve upgraded one system and added another.
I bought a Gigabyte Aorus Z390 Elite motherboard and I7-9700KF CPU off of Craigslist for a sweet deal. A side benefit to this was the original owner had activated Win10 on this board. So, when I installed Win10 it activated automatically.

I disassembled my ASRock Z77 Extreme4 secondary computer. If it doesn’t sell at a good price I may turn it into a NAS. Really all I need is is 3 drives and I’m set.

I put the I7-9700KF in my old computer running a Z370 AORUS Gaming 7 motherboard. (Not sure what to do with the I7-8700K that came off it.)

I put together the new mobo with:
I9-9900KF
Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2x16GB) 3200MHz C16 DDR4 DRAM Memory Kit
Samsung 980 Pro SSD.
the XFX Radeon RX 580 GTS Black Edition I already had
(Would love to upgrade to something like the XFX RX 5700 Xt Thicc III Ultra 8GB but I’m not paying that kind of $ for a video card. Maybe we’ll see what Black Friday brings).

There is no super overclocking. I’ve bumped both up to 5GHz on all cores locked. The RAM has been set to spec speed and timings. Both rigs water-cooled.

As always, these rigs are built to be all-purpose workhorses, not “gaming rigs”. The old rig will be doing a lot of ripping and video stuff.

I now have 3 rigs on Win10 20H2. They are running like a Swiss watch. That means a new tweak guide should be available by years end (hopefully sooner).

Newest rig:

Old rig updated:

RIP Little Richard

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“Little Richard, a founding father of rock and roll whose fervent shrieks, flamboyant garb, and joyful, gender-bending persona embodied the spirit and sound of that new art form, died Saturday. He was 87. The musician’s son, Danny Jones Penniman, confirmed the pioneer’s death to Rolling Stone, adding that the cause of death was cancer…Little Richard’s influence was massive. The Beatles recorded several of his songs, including “Long Tall Sally,” and Paul McCartney’s singing on those tracks – and the Beatles’ own “I’m Down” – paid tribute to Little Richard’s shredded-throat style. His songs became part of the rock and roll canon, covered over the decades by everyone from the Everly Brothers, the Kinks, and Creedence Clearwater Revival to Elvis Costello and the Scorpions. “Elvis popularized [rock and roll],” Steven Van Zandt tweeted after the news broke. “Chuck Berry was the storyteller. Richard was the archetype.”
His music is from another generation but it had a profound influence on everything Rock-N-Roll that followed. Respect and godspeed sir.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Richard

V-E Day May 8th, 1945

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“On May 8, 1945, both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine during World War II.”
V-E Day is celebrated in America and Britain
Wikipedia – Victory in Europe Day
V-E Day 1945: The celebration heard ’round the world
https://www.google.com/search?q=victory+in+europe+day

World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. An estimated total of 70–85 million people perished, which was about 3% of the 1940 world population (est. 2.3 billion).

I heard on the radio today that we are losing U.S. WWII vets at the rate of 300 a day.
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/newsroom/releases/2015/cb15-tps41_wwii_graphic.pdf