Category Archives: Technical

DLink DIR-601 A1

Posted on January 28, 2017 by larry

This is an older router, but I wanted to put a serial connection on it anyway. I have done it in the past, I think to this one but the prior ones did not have a console soldered on. Also … Continue reading →

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Dryer Giving My Heartache and Headache

Posted on January 26, 2017 by larry

Been struggling with our dryer for the past week now.  It stopped heating for some reason (turned out the heating element failed) when I got a new one, I installed it and it immediately blew out. Finally got a new … Continue reading →

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Some Days Things Go Right

Posted on January 22, 2017 by larry

Felt like a lot of good stuff happened today. Restored most of the data lost from the failed drive Got some rest House stayed clean Rebuilt some VMs Nagios Monitoring clear all around Gonna cut it short, enjoying the day.

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Modding some of these routers

Posted on January 19, 2017 by larry

I got another router modified and it looks good.  Almost looks like it is supposed to be there. I am going to try and get 5 up running this weekend ready to go. Thinking of doing so cleaning up of … Continue reading →

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Clean Hardware Mod

Posted on January 18, 2017 by larry

Took two days but I feel like my head is clear again.  The cough medicine did a number on me. But today my head felt much clearer and I got to work on some things. Here is a mod of … Continue reading →

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Trying To Resurrect Server

Posted on January 16, 2017 by larry

I think I am a day too late, but the main exchange server I got went down again.  This is too much. At the moment I am moving it to a new host.  Going to take hours. Hopefully I can … Continue reading →

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First Gym Workout of 2016

Posted on January 12, 2017 by larry

Horrible workout in the gym today if you compare it to past performance.  But good in that I am finally hitting the gym. Just did 15 minutes on the treadmill, my legs sure did feel it though. Also been considering … Continue reading →

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Sore Legs

Posted on January 8, 2017 by larry

Yesterday I went to the Seahawks game, I wore snow boarding boots to keep my feet warm, but we walked quite a bit and it worked my legs.  So now my legs are tired. Also I decided to retire my … Continue reading →

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Netgear WNDR3700v2

Posted on January 3, 2017 by larry

Got my hands on an Atheros based Dual Radio router. I have to admit it was hard to flash.   I finally got it to, the trick was to use an older version of DDWRT.  Also this was one of … Continue reading →

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New Pi Media Center

Posted on January 2, 2017 by larry

I set up new media center on a Pi2 today.  This time it is meant to be mobile so I can bring it in the gym. Still running a few tests on it, at least I got the IR remote … Continue reading →

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