computers

Feb 25 2020

Car & Stuff

Well,

 

I bought a 2007 Pontiac G6 GT to replace the Impreza.  It isn’t perfect, but it doesn’t have leaking head gaskets so that is a plus.  The boys love the sunroof too.

 

I have embarked on a task to reduce the amount of space used on the home server.  To do this I am taking all movies & TV shows stored on it that are above a certain size (not sure the cutoff yet) and re-encoding them to H265 files using the video card on my desktop.  So far I’ve saved at least 1TB of space.  It will make backing up my server much easier on my crappy connection.

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Jul 29 2019

Home server update

Just a quick update on my home server.  I finally got a chance to try out the replacement KCMA-D8 board I got.  Sadly it does not have working video.  Thankfully the seller is shipping me another one.  I also talked to my wife and she agrees that we can mount it on the wall in the mechanical room to reduce the temperature in the crawlspace under the stairs.  While not an ideal location, it is better than where it sites now since the mechanical room is always open (litter boxes for the cats).  I am hoping it won’t get too hot in there in the winter with the server, the water heater & the furnace in there.

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Jul 29 2019

Temperature & Humidity Sensors

I’m planning on starting to make some 433MHz temperature & humidity sensors based on this Instructable.  I will also have to build a programmer, based on this Instructable.

Parts list for the programmer (Amazon works best for me) is as follows.

The parts list for the sensors is as follows

As you can see, I made some substitutes to work with what I can find on Amazon but for the most part it is the same component.s

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Jun 19 2019

funtoo Linux

I’ve decided that I really have no reason to have Windows on my laptop since I don’t use it all that often so tonight I’m going to embark on installing funtoo Linux on it.  It will most definitely be an interesting time but given the age of my laptop shouldn’t have to many surprises.

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