Windows to Russia

By Svetochka…

Hello,

Friday this week (Feb. 23rd, 2026) we have traditional Day of Man in Russia. It’s official name is Defender of the Fatherland Day.

From my Soviet childhood I remember this day [A Day of Soviet Army and Navy Day]. This day we congratulated our men-teachers and our boys class-mate [because all men suppose to served in the Soviet Army at least for once, and all boys were considered like defenders of Motherland in the future]. That was a Soviet tradition what we still follow now. And even so we don’t have Soviet Union and Soviet Army anymore we still have this tradition and honor our men. We appreciate that people who took away another Soviet holidays, allow us to have this one. They renamed this holiday to Defender of the Fatherland Day and I think that is a very good name! Yesterday we had a small office party for our men at work. Year by year we make a little concert to honor and congratulate our colleagues-men. That is not very easy to make something special for each of them because they are 90% of our IT Department, but our colleagues-men always appreciate all what we do for them at 23 of February. How we know it? Because they congratulate us very warm and nice at the 8 of March (INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY) 🙂 .

Best wishes for all! I wish be strong, wise and healthy to all men who read our blog. Because every man is defender he was created to be 😉 . And for me 23 of February is a Day of Real Men! It does not matter in what country they live, all of them have a nature to be defenders of their families. And when their countries are in danger they would go and defend their countries and their family what lives there. So I wish you all Peace and I wish wisdom for Rulers of our countries to keep this world in Peace.

Sveta

Thank you Sweetheart… Kyle at WtR

Shingles

Yup and no easy way to fight back…

Sveta got me valacyclovir the best Antiviral medication for Shingles and darn and dang it, if Shingles hasn’t smacked me silly with pain…

Now I have just been reading and find out that if you’ve had chickenpox in the past, you can get shingles. Because? Well, just because that is the roll of dice we call life…

I had chickenpox a very long time ago, and I do remember being stinking covered in red spots. I also remember calamine lotion all over my body…

Darn and dang it. What the heck that something from when I was a little tyke comes back to haunt me…

Ugh…

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Big as a Raven or Hawk…

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Ended up as of today at this very minute what you see below…

Specs White: Xeon E5 – 2650 v2 / X79 MB / DDR3 – 32GB RAM / 512GB SSD / RX 560 4GB / 600W PSU / Windows OS / Ms Office / Wi-Fi / Warranty 1 year

Specs Black: Xeon E5 – 2680 v3 / X99 MB / DDR4 – 64GB RAM / 256GB SSD / RX 580 4GB / 850W PSU / Windows OS / Ms Office / Wi-Fi / Warranty ~0~ year

Mrs. White was 38,000 rubles and Mr. Black cost me myself to put together 40,000 plus rubles in parts. So the same in the end…

Why?

Biggest issue is RAM. DDR3 is dirt cheap (700 rubles a 16GB stick)and DDR4 (was 17,000 for 2 sticks of 16GB) 34,000 rubles just for RAM on Mr. Black. CPU, Motherboard and cooling systems are virtually the same and cost literally nothing. Under 10,000 rubles for MB, video card, WiFi dongle, etc etc…

and an other high expense is… SSD’s are screaming in price. A 256GB decent speed SSD is 15,000 rubles. Mrs. White has a 25,000 ruble very very decent speed SSD in her. Color me Surprised!

Mrs. White is a damn good deal and the X79 board is high quality. Bottle necks? None…

Mr. Black is a low level X99 board and it is a board that I had to do work on to get up and running. I actually had to solder on this board. But it has inherited bottle necks in the X99 chip set and runs only a bit better than the X79 board. Maybe some my fault? I resurrected this board. CPU is where the two devices part ways…

The company that we bought the white computer at was located upon Wildberries Internet store and called Robocomp. The computer came fancy, but I do not like all the lights and stuff so I gathered stock items for future builds and made Mrs. White lean and mean…

The case for the black computer came from Ozon and is actually a very very nice case. Also dirt cheap. RAM, motherboard I had and spent a fortune years ago upon. But prices are higher now. Yet all in all I have two wonderful fast computers…

Mrs. White is my stable never changing Windows 11 IOT Enterprise LTSC and is my workhorse computer. Buying it as a pre-built was something I just don’t do and it made me happy. Very nice unit and very fast actually. The RX 560 VC and the 2650 v2 CPU seem to live very happy upon the well made Chinese MB. I am getting ready to purchase 32 more GB of RAM and that will max her out…

Mr. Black never has the same OS and he is a Linux fan one day and a Windows lover the next and sometimes he embraces both in many variety of ways. Dual booting, virtualization and whatnot. The video card actually is overkill, yet that card is easily accepted by anything that I throw at it OS wise. 64 GB of RAM (it will hold over a terabyte)  is perfect for everything and anything I do…

Actually Mr. Black is all around more powerful than Mrs. White. Just don’t tell Mrs. White that. As long as she is happy…

If you are not having fun you are doing something wrong.” – Groucho Marx

Oh and one last thing. Little Blue (named because he has a blue bow tie) is a family member and good luck charm. He has his own computer, bed, and whatnot’s. So, no picking on Little Blue! 🙂

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Tech Time: “Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC” to the end…

As I have said many times…

The USA is a very ill country…

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/16/open-letter-to-the-world-from-the-island-from-cuba/

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and walking 7 to 10 kilometers to do it, kinda helps also…

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https://sputnikglobe.com/20260214/europe-decided-to-go-to-war-with-russia-by-2030-already-preparing—orban-1123633961.html

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Saturday that Europe has decided to go to war with Russia by 2030 and that preparations are already underway in certain European countries.
“Europe has decided that it will go to war [with Russia] by 2030. Not that it wants to, might, or plans to – it has decided. It has made the decision,” Orban said.
Preparations for war are being carried out across Europe, except in Hungary and Slovakia, he added.

Well they want that war…

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It must!

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