Category Archives: Technical

Garage Sensor

Posted on September 28, 2015 by larry

This is my first official device of my sensenshow project.  It is a garage sensor to see if the garage door is open, and if there is motion. Another thing it will monitor is temperature and humidity so my dog … Continue reading →

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Washington State Fair 2015

Posted on September 26, 2015 by larry

We made our annual visit to the Washington State Fair today.  It was fun, at a lot.  Instead of doing rides though we ended up playing some games.  One of my daughter’s wanted to do rides though, so maybe next … Continue reading →

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Got Some New Stuff In

Posted on September 25, 2015 by larry

My caddy came in for my laptop.  Now I am in the hunt to get couple of more Dell E6410 to finish off my training lab. When I get 5 of these Dells I will consider my lab complete. Good … Continue reading →

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Getting Late Again

Posted on September 24, 2015 by larry

Days are getting shorter and I am not sure if I can run in the evenings.  I need to look at running in the mornings. Need to get to sleep earlier though. Today worked on getting Windows 7 pro on … Continue reading →

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Another Meetup

Posted on September 21, 2015 by larry

Was nice to get another meetup going.  Not sure what I can do to improve attendance though.  Just 3 people attended. Still, I was able to setup quickly and breakdown. Need some additional things though,  like extension cables. I did … Continue reading →

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Laptops Almost Ready

Posted on September 19, 2015 by larry

I have all my gear ready for class, I even got some new cases to use. Tomorrow I will create an inventory list of what I got. Wish I didn’t need to use the netbooks, they are there though.  They … Continue reading →

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Windows 7 Takes a LONG time to update

Posted on September 18, 2015 by larry

God forbid I have to do a Windows 7 again, on my netbook it is taking hours, I am watching the clock and it looks like it is about 10 hours now. Why oh why does it take so long. … Continue reading →

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Got My Clonezilla Images

Posted on September 17, 2015 by larry

I finally got my clonezilla images for my training next week. Took way longer than I expected. Just doing pushups and situps.

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Finally Virtualized

Posted on September 16, 2015 by larry

I have an old crusty laptop that I was able to virtualize.  I did not want to install VMware converter on it, also I wanted to see if it was possible to virtualize from a clonezilla image. But there was … Continue reading →

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Buggy Main PC

Posted on September 15, 2015 by larry

My main PC has been acting up lately, it has been randomly rebooting and the C: drive seems corrupt. I suspect heat issues, but also I know my SSD needs a firmware update. As I post I am doing a … Continue reading →

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