OK now. You heard me describe in my last post how my raspberry pis don’t hold a wifi connection persistently. This weekend, after a little googling, I believe I have found the answer to that problem. Well, technically, 2 answers. And I am not sure which one works, so I am using them both 😀 […]
So, for a long time, I have wanted to be able to host a publicly viewable website from my machines @ home, but I have been prevented from doing so because I am behind a NAT. For those of you not in the know, being behind a NAT is the typical setup for internet providers. […]
Some of you, I hope, will be familiar with a command called “virsh”. This command in Linux is the shell command to control KVM VMs. It works great, if you know how to use it and, for the record, KVM is a fantastic virtual host environment. Although I have run my home server infrastructure on […]
In an absolutel flurry of new posts (2 in 1 day – whoa!) I wanted to drop in a nugget of wisdom. I have seen a lot of instances where people are trying to remove stickers and sticker residue for a variety of reasons and I am always telling them that they need to use […]
Amazing. Amazing on two fronts. First that I have actually gotten off my bum and decided to make another post, and secondly that I have finally decided to pull the trigger on getting a new laptop. I am one of those guys who likes to talk himself out of making a purchase, even though I […]
That’s how long it took, and that may be overestimating things. I opened the box, pulled out the unit, plugged it in, switched it on and noticed on the top there was a touch sensitive display that said “Link” so I touched it and then poked the bluetooth icon on my phone, paired the device […]
I am no stranger to replacing bad equipment in servers, desktops and laptops, but some laptops don’t make it easy. This was one. A couple years ago I swapped out an aging hdd in an older Dell Inspiron with a new ssd and, boy, the performance improved drastically. Lately, I have been using a new(er) […]
I was on a trip to visit my uncle recently and while there and talking shop (he’s a techie kinda fellow) he started telling me about this old tablet he had that I could have if I could get it fixed. It seems he purchased a tablet years ago, didn’t like it, then the os […]
A few years ago when I was in the market for a new laptop I picked up one of the then wildly popular and cheap Dell Inspiron 1545. There are gobs of these running around now and you can find them cheap if you look (click the pic for links to Amazon). I used this […]
A long long time ago, I virtualized all my home infrastructure onto an ESXi 4.0 server. It has run perfectly fine, minus one hard drive failure, for quite a few years. Lately, though, I had been wanting to upgrade it because it’s not terribly fast and I have run out of resources to be able […]