For those of you who have followed me, it’s no secret I am a fan of Netbsd. I have been using it since v1.x and it’s not at v9.x. Anyhow, I have been playing around with putting it on a spare laptop lately and though this would be a good place to share some notes.. […]
I mentioned before that I was dissapointed that burrow.io went down. Well, I totally forgot to mention when the came back up again, like a week ago. I also wanted to mention that when I finally got ahold of them via email, they were super nice and apologetic. Seems they ran afoul of a couple […]
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 😀 […]
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 […]
Yup, that’s right I’m a slob. It has been rightly said before than I often wear my dinner. I don’t think I have ever worn a white shirt without some kind of tomoto sauce stain on it, and certainly not more than once. So, that brings me to this post. Many years ago I smartly […]
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 […]