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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Jan 2 2020

Well shit

Over my 4 day winter staycation the head gaskets in my car went out.  So I have a few options

  • Pay $2200 to have a shop replace them
  • Replace them myself (again, finding someone to mill the heads)
  • Put a used engine in it
  • Roll the loan balance into a new loan and get a new car

At this point I am leaning towards the used engine, and getting rid of it after tax time.  I really don’t want to end up paying way more for a car than I should for option 4 anymore.  Option 1 is just to damned expensive and option 2 has the chance of a mistake or picking a bad machine shop 🙁

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Dec 13 2019

Migraines

I officially believe migraines are the work of the devil now days.  I have been getting them more and more and I am flat sick of being knocked out for a day due to one Sad smile

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Nov 14 2019

Disney+

Wife and I subscribed to Disney+ yesterday. For the kiddos of course…..

So today I plan to start watching the Marvel movies in chronological order. I’ll use strikethrough when I’m done watching one.

  • Captain America: The First Avenger (takes place during WWII)
  • Captain Marvel (takes place in 1995)
  • Iron Man (takes place in 2010)
  • Iron Man 2 (takes place after Iron Man)
  • The Incredible Hulk (time unspecified, pre-Avengers)
  • Thor (time unspecified, pre-Avengers)
  • The Avengers (takes place in 2012)
  • Iron Man 3 (takes place six months after The Avengers)
  • Thor: Dark World (post-Avengers, pre-Ultron)
  • Captain America: Winter Soldier (post-Avengers, pre-Ultron)
  • Guardians of the Galaxy (sometime in 2014)
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (after Guardians)
  • Avengers: Age of Ultron (takes place in 2015)
  • Ant-Man (takes place in 2015)
  • Captain America: Civil War (post-Ultron, pre-Infinity War)
  • Spider-Man: Homecoming (post-Civil War, pre-Infinity War)
  • Doctor Strange (takes place in 2016)
  • Black Panther (takes place in 2017)
  • Thor: Ragnarok (post-Ultron, pre-Infinity War)
  • Avengers: Infinity War (takes place in 2017)
  • Ant-Man and The Wasp (ambiguous, but fits nicely between IW and Endgame)
  • Avengers: Endgame (starts in 2017, finishes in 2022)
  • Spider-Man: Far From Home (post-Endgame)

By • movies, tech • 0

Nov 7 2019

Support Us page

Well, I finally figured out what caused the issue on the support us page. It was a plugin I used to set the content security policy headers. Couldn’t white list Amazon. Plug is no longer in use.

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Oct 14 2019

Well crap

Over the weekend the PSU in my desktop at home decided to shit itself.  In doing so, it started to burn/melt the 4 pin CPU connector on the board.  Now running a Pentium Dual Core E5200 at home just so I can print and check email.  It isn’t fast enough to actually handle connecting to the VPN at work so I’ll have to use the spare sales laptop for now Sad smile

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Oct 11 2019

Home server blues

Well,

I am giving up on the KCMA-D8 boards.  Returned the last one and I will be getting an Inventec B800GF0.  Will take more RAM, has 10G networking, and uses Xeons instead of Opterons.  Cheaper too.  Of course it will have its own issues, but what doesn’t anymore?

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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

By • computers, networking, smart house, tech • 0

Jul 13 2019

Home server

Well,

Last night I moved my home server from an old crappy tower case to a Rosewill RSV-L4500 4U rackmount case.  No rack to put it in so it sits on its side but oh well.  So much room in it, plenty of room for my ASUS KCMA-D8 motherboard.  Will be really nice when I get the replacement board so I can use both CPU sockets and have 16 true cores and hopefully 128GB of RAM.  If not, I’ll have either 64GB (like I do now) or 96GB of RAM.  Both of which are a huge improvement over the 24GB I had before.

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