Category Archives: Technical

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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Awesome Uptime

Posted on October 15, 2013 by larry

Bummer, after over 600 days of uptime, a power outage seemed to have rebooted my server with the longest uptime.   One thing to note is that server is OLD. Not ready to put it to pasture yet. Hitting some … Continue reading →

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