I have been working with a Printrbot Simple Metal. After completing the assembly, I had quite a few problems to start. My biggest problem was getting filament to extrude before we were halfway through the second layer. After tweaking and retesting I eventually ventured to the internet for help. This ...
Today I move this site from a complicated wordpress setup running on nginx/ubuntu to a GitHub Pages static site. I decided on Pelican as my choice of site generator. It is easy to use and relatively easy to setup. I was tired of keeping the whole web server stack ...
Project all closed up and ready to be connected.
This projected was created to help my brother monitor and time his Bearded Dragon's lights, temperature, and humidity. Unfortunately this project got put off for awhile, but thankfully it is all finished and just needs to be installed. I didn ...
I came across this awesome list of free eBooks for programming. They cover a little of everything from Android and Awk to language agnostic books. It has grown considerably from just eBooks to Meta-lists, Mathematics, and other Misc literature. No matter what language you are an expert in or never ...
I was just asked by a long time friend what software I recommended him to install on his fairly new iMac to control the fan speed. As many iMac owners know after swapping out your hard drive for a fancy solid state drive or just replacing your bad hard drive ...
Sticking with the topic of Microsoft Windows, I have an update on password removals. One of Mark and I's problems we had just before we left our last place of employment was trying to reset the password on a windows 8 machine. At the time windows 8 came out ...
So I built someone a computer this week, a pretty basic system with Windows 8.1 and a Samsung 840 EVO SSD. I had some vague recollection of a conversation Josh and I had about encryption being enabled by default, so I decided to look into that a bit.
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I just found out about two really cool and interesting MOOC classes. For those of you interested in digital currencies and/or cryptography these are two introductory courses you should sign up for! I am currently in both and waiting for one of them to start. The Cryptography class at ...
During my employment at my last job as an anything and everything Technician with my good friend Mark. We ran into, as you can imagine, a lot of hard drive problems. Sometimes our last resort to get data back for a customer was to run a program called SpinRite. This ...