Category Archives: Reviews

Reflections on 2021

Posted on December 31, 2021 by larry

If there was a label for a year, this would be a year to forget. It felt like 2021 was trying compete with 2020 as being the worst year. As we bid good riddance to 2021, I recall having the … Continue reading →

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Review For the EZ Outlet

Posted on June 18, 2019 by larry

Posted a review on the EZ Outlet device Hope it benefits someone out there. Did not proof it completely, but I did run it through Grammaly, aweseom little tool. If I do more posts, I think I will get the … Continue reading →

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New Smart Switches

Posted on June 16, 2019 by larry

My smart switches came in today The pair of TPlink ones were cheap, about $25 for two, the one on the right is a not so common one called an ezOutlet2 EZ-22b which is nearly three times the cost (6 … Continue reading →

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Linuxfest 2019 Day One

Posted on April 26, 2019 by larry

OK, we left Renton earlier this year, and got to Bellingham at a decent time. Unfortunately, the hotel I got was not what I expected. It is nice, but it is off near the airport, and my mifi signal strength … Continue reading →

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HP Slimline 260-A010

Posted on February 17, 2019 by larry

Yesterday I mentioned I got a new HP Small Desktop Its actually an HP Slimline, I am going to use it for testing UEFI booting and testing. Price was really cheap at $69 plus tax and it feels like a … Continue reading →

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Windows Installed

Posted on December 22, 2017 by larry

Finally the Windows are in, bringing to an end weeks of anxiety. I think I was afraid with how things were going to go down, the price seemed a little high, but when they were installing the new Windows, I … Continue reading →

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Asus Chromebit Review

Posted on December 19, 2017 by larry

Finally got a chance to unbox my Chromebit CS10 Not much to the box Here are the contents an HDMI extender about a foot long, power supply, some round stickies, and the device itself. I thought it would be the … Continue reading →

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First Star Wars Opening Night

Posted on December 14, 2017 by larry

I got invited to a vendor pitch for the Star Wars The Last Jedi Premier. It was pretty darn good.  Felt like s similar plot line to the original 3 Star Wars movies (Starting with New Hope), but there were … Continue reading →

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Kingwin Power Supply Tester

Posted on December 5, 2017 by larry

Wasted enough time trying to find my power supply tester so I ended up buying one. I got the Kingwin KPST-01 power supply tester Not much documentation, but I will try to add some. Normally you would plug this in … Continue reading →

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New Zoneminder Rig

Posted on August 25, 2017 by larry

I never did a proper review of my new Zoneminder Rig which is based on an older Dual Socket Xeon Proc with 4 cores each. Currently this box has Dual Xeon Quad Core E5606 CPUs and 12GB of Registered DDR3 RAM … Continue reading →

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