Category Archives: Technical

Media Converters Are In

Posted on October 31, 2013 by larry

Yay, I got my media converters in today. These convert 5v to 3.3v and back so the arduino and raspberry Pi can communicate. These may prove to be valuable, I hope so.   I won’t be able to give them … Continue reading →

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Unetbootin not working

Posted on October 29, 2013 by larry

Starting to loose faith in unetbootin, not sure why but my laptop is not booting with a USB drive built with unetbootin. It’s annoying.  I am going to try another one, really would like Ubuntu on my laptop. Just doing … Continue reading →

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UEFI sucks

Posted on October 27, 2013 by larry

New laptop has fast boot in the BIOS, but I don’t like Windows 8 which is what it came with. I loaded up Windows 7 and the fast boot option along with UEFI had to be turned off. Now it … Continue reading →

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New Personal Laptop

Posted on October 26, 2013 by larry

It is not the greatest, but it was my first personal laptop in over 5 years.  I went for what I needed which is not speed or capacity, but portable and cheap. I got an asus for sale, if it … Continue reading →

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New Cisco Router

Posted on October 25, 2013 by larry

Found this little gem at Goodwill for 7.99. I didn’t think it would work but I got it home, reset it, and flashed the firmware. I have read the reviews on this and some say it started failing.  Hopefully this … Continue reading →

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Figured out the Manifest Issue

Posted on October 23, 2013 by larry

I figured out what I had to do, basically a jar file can be opened up with a zip utility. Look for META-INF/MANIFEST.MF and add Permissions: all-permissions Codebase: https://zm.example.local/ And it zip it back up in to the jar. Ran … Continue reading →

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Java Cert Error

Posted on October 22, 2013 by larry

Finally figured out how to clear out this error.   Took a while to figure out though, it required signing the java app with a CA, when I tried the java app again   It was asking for access not … Continue reading →

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Second Meetup Done

Posted on October 21, 2013 by larry

I think this meetup went OK.  I was a little bit more prepared but my printer decided to stop printing cyan.  So my handouts looked weird. Anyway, it is done now, gonna take a long breath and chill. Hitting some … Continue reading →

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Old Van is Back

Posted on October 18, 2013 by larry

Took possession of our van again.  Kind of nice having a new vehicle and a beater. If the old van lasts another 2 years then I will call it good on it. I forgot to mention last night I tested … Continue reading →

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Automating Raspberry Pi Build

Posted on October 16, 2013 by larry

One of the things I need to do is mass produce Raspberry Pi SD cards. My processes are a little rough, I need to clean it up. Most of it is figured out though.  Hope to go in to production … Continue reading →

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