Computing

For some (frustrating) reason the packet filter way to balance WAN connections did not work for me. Both Speedify and NetCombiner want me to pay monthly for the option to just do WAN balancing locally. I’m not making an apple account; adding a payment method; signing up for a subscription and then cancelling it for a week or two. If either of these apps offered a buy-once method for just the WAN balancing (and no VPN crap) I would have bought it straight away as it would have been far easier. ...

I picked up a Mac Pro 2008 2.8GHz model locally, and it worked well when I first powered it up and loaded snow leopard on it. However, I then upgraded the GPU in it (for fun) and the PSU went bang (loudly). As new PSU’s are hard to come by / expensive locally (and I couldn’t find an easy issue to fix upon opening) the Mac has been upgraded to instead recieving a refit of new insides. ...