A Wee Bit More Dangerous…
January 26, 2022
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Five months ago I began running my first internet-facing server in ten or fifteen years. I’ve been running a number of blogs during that time,
Category: Hardware
Blink and It’s Done
November 11, 2021
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I was saddened to learn my five or six year old computer couldn’t upgrade to Windows 11. So I bit the bullet and built a
Adventures in Networking
March 24, 2021
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My friend Tom recently touted a new-to-our-area fiber-optic service provider, Sonic, as having a great product offering very high access speeds, great customer service and
Getting AT&T Fiber to Play Nicely
May 22, 2019
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Morals: Don’t run router/firewall devices in series Don’t let the AT&T Fiber installer fob you off with an Arris 5268ac or equivalent Do insist on
6 Trillion Bytes in the Palm of Your Hand… Almost
May 8, 2019
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I had reason to dispose of a couple of hard drives, but I didn’t want to throw them out with the data they contained. Unfortunately,
Buddy Can You Spare a Few Bytes?
May 7, 2019
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Another day in the Maelstrom of Badly Designed Software, this time involving not just an operating system function but also boot firmware. Geez, if you
Thanx, Greenbow! But Not You, Cisco and Microsoft…
June 24, 2016
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I’ve owned a Cisco Small Business router, model RV-325, for several years, and it’s worked very well as a firewall/router. So well, in fact, that
Keeping It Alive
June 16, 2016
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I posted this on nVidia’s support forum, but felt it worth perpetuating somewhere else. === I was greatly relieved to see how nVidia is doing
They Have World Class Talent and This Support Site?!?
April 16, 2016
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I bought Barbara an Intel NUC — a tiny (5 inches square, 1.5 inch tall) computer — a couple of years ago. It’s fast, quiet,
Less Noise Is Good News
August 10, 2013
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In preparation for moving to a new home I’ve been going through my stash of surplus motherboards, hard drives, etc., and getting them ready to
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