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I Spent $600 on a 13-Inch CRT to Feel Something Again
I spent $600 on a CRT to feel something again. Turns out I don’t miss the Atari—I miss when computers were legible, mysterious, and didn’t demand a subscription.
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MacOS “Big Sur”
MacOS Big Sur (11.0.x) brought another scare to my direct attached storage. Time to consider a migration. Not urgent, but needed none the less
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Cloud File Sync
My file syncing had gotten messy, and more than a little replication. Time to coalesce, condense, and bring some order to the chaos
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Maintenance Day
I have been busy this weekend. Some changes, some consolidation, and more to come. First, I have exported all the posts from the sister site, tralfaz.org. That was my original home (and my original domain, as the .com variant was being hogged for a long time). All those posts are here now, and searchable. Almost…
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Goodbye to a Friend – Oregon Scientific Thermometer
An old friend, an indoor/outdoor temperature monitoring station, made by Oregon Scientific. I am pretty sure I bought this while I lived in my first Condo in San Jose. An impulse buy on one of my trips to Fry’s Electronics, it has a head unit, and one remote sensor. The remote sensor communicates with the…
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Getting my online properties in shape
Having started with my web hosting at Media Temple, and their managed offering, their “Grid” platform. Circa 2010, it was state of the art, and worked very well. Apart from some shared MySQL database that had a couple of hogs who affected performance early, it was flawless. Then in late 2014, I got the notice…
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Interesting Project – SSL on Digital Ocean
The advent of Let’s Encrypt means that there is no real excuse to not have SSL/TLS encryption enabled on your website. Now I do on my Ghost properties As someone who has long run his own websites, first with managed hosting, and now with VPS instantiations, I have wanted to take the SSL/TLS plunge. But,…
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A fun afternoon (attacked website)
Thursday, December 15 was a day like any other until the afternoon. Then I got the notice from the Jetpack plugin for one of my WordPress sites that it was down, and couldn’t be reached. This happens occasionally, so I wasn’t too upset. Pointing my browser to the site Home2Baja gave a Database connection error.…
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Next up on the Raspberry Pi
Last week, I wrote about how I on a lark bought one of the raspberry pi single board computers. The first round of goodies for it was a SD card (to write the OS to and boot from), and a HDMI cable to connect it to my Samsung monitor. Got it fired up and all was…