Category Archives: New Toys

Roads Getting Better

Posted on February 14, 2019 by larry

Just our street sucks, less than 100 yards to good road. Still too much for one person to shovel. At least both cars can get out without chains. Daughter and I were shoveling snow late at night though, nice large … Continue reading →

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Cool Password Check Tool

Posted on January 23, 2019 by larry

I wanted to check my passwords to see if they were compromised but really didn’t feel safe having a third party check them. https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords Luckily they provide a large 10Gb file with hashed SHA1 passwords. I can simply run echo … Continue reading →

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CentOS on Brix

Posted on January 15, 2019 by larry

Kind of disappointed that I can not easily install CentOS 7 on my Brix computer, Looks like I will reach out to community and try and get it to work. BUT for what the primary purpose, running a VM, yeah … Continue reading →

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Moving to Office 365

Posted on January 13, 2019 by larry

Got most of the group on to Office 365 Essentials. Kind of nice having One Drive integrated across everything. Trying to figure out what skype does too. Did more work on the Gigabyte Brix, actually got a VM to run … Continue reading →

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Brix Small Computer

Posted on January 12, 2019 by larry

Found this deal on Frys weekly ad (in hindsight it was a meh deal) It is a Gigabyte Brix Celeron 4105 barebone PC. The computer and the SSD was a good deal at $125.oo but you have to add RAM … Continue reading →

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Little Optiplex Won

Posted on December 29, 2018 by larry

I got NVidia NVENC encoding working, and an optiplex with a lower end Quadro video card beat an 4 core Xeon. Trick is you need to compile your own Here are the details Here are the results of different versions  … Continue reading →

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New Keyboard

Posted on December 12, 2018 by larry

OK, so a keyboard is not that great of something to review, but I heard of das keyboard being a good one. I finally got a hold of one, and it seems durable. Its a a loud keyboard, but feels … Continue reading →

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Wish I purchased more

Posted on December 4, 2018 by larry

Here is another product I would recommend, the FLIRC It is one extremely nifty piece of tech.  Like the ordoid go, wemos d1 mini, and Silicon Dust, I would recommend this. Now what is it?  This is simple device you … Continue reading →

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Firewall Built

Posted on December 1, 2018 by larry

OK I have the new pfsense firewall build on pfsense running on it. But now comes the hard part, getting all of the rules in to the new server. This will take a while. Also found two dell monitors.  But … Continue reading →

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Adding Plex To New Server

Posted on November 30, 2018 by larry

Been frustrating trying to get plex working within a VM.  Also the physical plex server I have now does not seem to have enough CPU. So I am going to add the plex server to my new production host. It … Continue reading →

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