Category Archives: Technical

More Shopping Today

Posted on December 9, 2017 by larry

I was able to get a 50% coupon on everything I purchased today at Goodwill. I got some cool stuff, one of them was a projector for $20, looks new two. But the big disappointment was some monitors I got.  … Continue reading →

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Surprising Performance on Bargain Rig

Posted on December 6, 2017 by larry

I thought adding a discrete GeForce 8800 GTS would improve performance on the gamer rig. Here are the settings with the descrete card Here it is without it, using the integrated graphics card. Across the board everything is better by … Continue reading →

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Kingwin Power Supply Tester

Posted on December 5, 2017 by larry

Wasted enough time trying to find my power supply tester so I ended up buying one. I got the Kingwin KPST-01 power supply tester Not much documentation, but I will try to add some. Normally you would plug this in … Continue reading →

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Benchmarking Computers at home

Posted on December 2, 2017 by larry

I started tracking a bunch of passmark settings on my computers as home. Of course my personal rig is the fastest, but I was surprised which machines were second. Also my machine was a clear #1 in all categories, over … Continue reading →

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Bad Hard Drive

Posted on December 1, 2017 by larry

Didn’t know a bad hard drive could slow down a computer so much. I finally figured it out on one of my rigs, now it is going to get repurposed for my son. Kind of sad, but needed to be … Continue reading →

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Fixing Domain Irks

Posted on November 29, 2017 by larry

Went to mxtoolbox.com to check out my main domains, apolonio.com and lunakoa.com, found out there were some minor warnings.  Not huge, but got them fixed. Was kind of bugging me.  At least it is all good now

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XMas Lights and ESP8266

Posted on November 27, 2017 by larry

Cool, I am able to turn on and off the Christmas lights using and ESP8266 and a 433Mhz Transmitter. I wish the light setup I had used different code to turn them off and on, it basically toggles the on … Continue reading →

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Outside Decorated and Cleaned

Posted on November 25, 2017 by larry

Worked on cleaning the outside of the house today.  Was surprised at how there is still a lot of leaves on the ground. While some of us were doing that others put some Christmas lights up. I also moved off … Continue reading →

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Starting Real Build of Server

Posted on November 22, 2017 by larry

Got a few things going today, one of the important ones was building the backup server. Will start putting it together now.  Targeting going live before the 4 day weekend is out. Also tried to get an old printer going, … Continue reading →

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Day Slowed Down a bit

Posted on November 21, 2017 by larry

Yesterday was crazy, today had its moments though, a little busy. Patched a VMware cluster, had a final Parent Teacher conference, and went Thanksgiving shopping.   But one thing I did look in to was a new vulnerability against the … Continue reading →

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