Category Archives: New Toys

I have everything I need in my office now. Just need to organize everything, move things in the right spot. Hoping to clean it up a bit tomorrow. Did not gain or lose any weight, that is good I guess. … Continue reading →

More desk organizing (some day will post more pictures), but got my third monitor in which is actually my second monitor. Changing the way I do things though, monitors 1 and 2 are permanent on my main machine, and the … Continue reading →

Today I moved my main PC in to my new office. So I am officially in my new room. Still working out some of the kinks, also it does get hot in here. But with the window open and fan … Continue reading →

Yay, time to move in. I am actually posting from my office now. Weight: 325.6

Always wanted a way to access the outside of my home, so I installed an access panel and routed it to a keystone port. I now can access the outside, still need to make holes and figure out how I … Continue reading →

Doctor said I needed more fiber, but I think she meant food not my network connection. I tested the fiber and it does communicated at 10Gb I did a direct connections and it was slightly faster at 11.0 GBytes transfer. … Continue reading →

Starting to reconfigure one of the bedrooms in to my office. Office is ready. Tomorrow, testing Weight: 325.0

Finally got 10G to work on my network. But not without some hoops. I got this Dell 10G card, apparently it is a Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599ES, or an Intel X520-DA2 10Gb, apparently it is picky on what GBIC … Continue reading →

So I did not know it, but kasa is actually supported, it is just that they python code needed some tweaking. Got in to gym again today, feeling good. Need to go to bed early long day. Weight: 320.4

Pretty disappointed with kasa, looks like they have locked it down so you cannot modify it for local use with python. I will probably return what is unopened and go something that can be flashed with tasmota. Pretty disappointed with … Continue reading →