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With a decision made to seriously consider Olympus, as I wrote about previously, it was time to rent some gear and give it a whirl. I looked over my calendar for a period of time that would give me a...
Quick post, which will hopefully be helpful to someone.. For the past couple of weeks I've been unable to update one of my Centos 7 servers. I chased it down this AM to the Nextcloud-Client software I...
Ok. It's time for drastic change. My gear is officially holding me back.
Using my (now aged) Kindle, I do a fair bit of reading. For some reason, whenever I finish a book I put it into a folder on my Kindle named for the current year. These folders exist only on the Kindle...
This was far more challenging than it needed to be. Cisco makes some SDK's available for use with Nagios but I was totally unable to make the system see them. They are just Python packages so I didn't...
Long story short, I changed jobs about 6 months ago and found myself in a new position without any appreciable monitoring of the hardware for which I'm responsible. That needed to change as soon as I...
I've been a happy iTunes Match user since the service was introduced. I have a large music collection and I don't always want to dedicate the required amount of iPhone and computer storage to keeping...
I remember the first time I saw a moment that I knew I had to photograph. I wonder if other photographers are the same. I was in Maine, spending a weekend with a friend at his lake side cabin. I woke...
I use rsnapshot, on Centos 7, to manage the vast majority of my backups across a myriad of linux servers both within my network and across the globe. I've never blogged about the entirety of that proc...
As often happens with computers of all types, log files build up over time. Generally speaking, the operating system will rotate these logs, which means it breaks them up into chunks, but it isn't usu...
I've been using Raspberry Pi computers for several years. A few months ago the Raspberry Pi B I had hooked up to my TV and running OpenElec, stopped working. The Pi was locked up and then wouldn't reb...
Maybe I'm alone here, but I still have occasion to install Windows 7 from time to time. For a while, that was no big deal; Install the OS, update, update, update and you're good to go. Lately though,...
I have a Thecus N5200 that was modified to have a VGA port. Though the machine will run a variety of current Linux distributions, I wanted it to run Centos 6. Unfortunately, the N5200 doesn't support...
Back in 2007, I bought a Thecus N5200 to use as bulk storage on my network. I've spent many years using and fighting with the unit but it wasn't until my storage needs out grew the 5 SATA disks it cou...
Having read countless accounts online from people who have taken various lapdocks and paired them with a Raspberry Pi, I thought I would give it a try myself. I went to Ebay and purchased a Motorola L...
I'm a bit of an aviation buff and have been known to spend a fair few hours playing flight sims. My favorite sim these days is X-Plane, and thankfully it runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. My current hos...
It seems like every year or so I rethink my photography equipment and make some changes. I've gone through many variations of my day-to-day photography kit but I seem to keep reducing the amount of au...
I was recently given an HP DL360 G4 server with two 36GB SCSI disks. At first blush the system is of little use in todays tech landscape due to it's low storage capacity and limited processor feature...
In recent years I've been more and more drawn to being closer to the food I eat. I've been slowly building my own garden and starting to plan for my own animals to be raised for me. A few years ago I...
My first chance to shoot with the Mamiya 645 on the road came a few weeks ago in the form of a local fair in the neighboring town of Kingston called 'Kingston Days'. Quite a creative name, I know. I s...