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Fun with Sensors
I started woodworking some more in the garage, since I plan on doing this for decades to come I should worry a bit about air quality. I found a cheap sensor on eBay that can read particles the size of 1.0 μm, 2.5μm, and 10μm and provide both the AQI for that as well as…
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Alt+Drag for Windows
I found a program named AltDrag recently that I find really useful. Its a small program that lets you hold the ALT key and left click and drag windows around. Now you don’t have to find the top part of the window to drag and makes it easy to rearrange windows quickly. Check it out…
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Nexus 6P Screen Replacement done!
I just got my phone back from Huawei with a brand new screen. I called Jul 20th to support to get the ball rolling, sent it out shortly thereafter to Texas, and I just got it back today. So about 3 weeks to get a phone screen replaced and a cost of $163.46 for the…
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Adobe Account Snafu
I’ve been a Creative Cloud member for over a year without any problems whatsoever. I am in the process of retiring an old e-mail address and went to setup the new one on Adobe.com. In the process my account has disappeared! I specified a new account id and an alternate, now none of them work…
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Brand new server
So it was costing me the price of a dedicated server to host in the Google Cloud so I switched back to Linode.com for this blog. I’ve spun up a new server to teach myself containers and have docker running 3 at the moment. This new blog should be alive soon after DNS settings propagate.
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This is running in a container
Kuberenetes on Google Cloud specifically. Just thought I’d see how it looks and works. Now I’ve moved my production blog over from my self-hosted linode. Running WordPress in a container with a separate MySQL container is working well! Some features I really like over my roll-it-yourself approach: Upgrades are now seamless, no more update notifications,…
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Openstack Server
I’ve been playing with Openstack a bit at work and at home. I purchased an Lenovo TD340 a while ago and have been playing a bit with Devstack. Right now I have neutron networking and glusterfs installed on it. It took a bit of work to get it working so I thought I’d share my…
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Very Strange DNS Issue
I have a unique setup at my home with fios, I have the fios router connected to a netgear 600 with dd-wrt installed. The speed is perfectly fine but for whatever reason DNS is unbearably slow. I’ve configured the Google DNS servers to try and speed things up but those appear to be slow. Sometimes…
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My Chunkhost server got all messy
For some reason I had an issue with my Chunkhost server that hosts www.technobadger.com, my empty forum. So I had to restart the system a couple of times to get it working again. I took the opportunity since its mostly a graveyard over there to upgrade the vBulletin on there to the latest patch and…
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Just a speed test & some thoughts on internet access in the USA
Netflix internet streaming is finally good. I watched a movie two nights ago and it streamed to Super HD within in a couple of seconds. It stayed nice and swell for the entire thing too. Today I decided to see how much an internet upgrade would cost me. After trying to do it myself online…