Category Archives: Technical

Amazing Cisco DSL Modem

Posted on January 18, 2016 by larry

This modem I have for my DSL line is over 10 years old, I wouldn’t doubt it is closing in on 15. But it still outperforms a new Actiontec I purchased. With the end in sight for my DSL line, … Continue reading →

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Dev Environment Up

Posted on January 17, 2016 by larry

But it is actually on older hardware. This new Hardware I got is pretty amazing for $99.  I have enough RAM to bring it up to 48GB and it has dual power supplies and tons of storage, although I don’t … Continue reading →

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Need A Dev Environment

Posted on January 16, 2016 by larry

It is clear that I need a development environment.  I picked up a physical box that may do the trick.  The deal is it needs to hold a lot of disk. Once it is online, I am going to move … Continue reading →

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Retiring DSL Line

Posted on January 13, 2016 by larry

After nearly 15 years (maybe over 15 years) with this DSL line, I think it is time to retire it.  At least the static IPs. After just a day with playing on AWS I would say price and reliability are … Continue reading →

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Getting In To The Cloud

Posted on January 12, 2016 by larry

I got some interesting stuff going.  I have finally took the leap into the AWS cloud. It was actually incredibly trivial.  I asked a bunch of questions, but hard to really understand till you drill down and do it. I … Continue reading →

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A “Meh” Meetup

Posted on January 11, 2016 by larry

Had another meetup today.  For the most part it was a mediocre meetup.  But two cool things made it worth it. A college aged kid learned a lot about the Raspberry Pi. Made a possible contact if I want to … Continue reading →

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More Roughness With DSL

Posted on January 6, 2016 by larry

Today the whole Century Link went down. Such a pain in the butt, I did get a new DSL router up and going last night but the trouble I think was the actual link. Not sure if Century Link did … Continue reading →

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Rough Day With CenturyLink

Posted on January 5, 2016 by larry

I must say, they suck. I tried to get my bill paid and had to go through a bunch of BS to get it paid. I finally got through, but not after it left a bad taste in my mouth. … Continue reading →

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Felt Sleepy All Day

Posted on January 3, 2016 by larry

Weird, I had a long sleep, I wore a CPAP, but today I was sooo lethargic. I did get at least the base set for my sensenshow display going. Also I redid some of my hacked motion sensors. Still I … Continue reading →

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Different Models of Motion Sensor

Posted on December 30, 2015 by larry

Recall this sale from last week Well I had a 62447, and it is the most hackable of the three I have.  This 61910 is good too but the signal pin is really hard to solder. I hope to get … Continue reading →

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