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2026
3
September
2
Don’t Trust Your Agents
September 26, 2026
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13 min
Reverse Engineering the EasyStart Bluetooth Protocol
September 16, 2026
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15 min
August
1
Moving This Blog From WordPress to Hugo
August 1, 2026
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19 min
2024
1
May
1
Yet Another Cloudflare Traefik Let’s Encrypt Guide
May 29, 2024
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6 min
2023
2
March
2
Mattos RGB Trim permanent roofline RGB pixel install
March 20, 2023
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5 min
Moving from UniFi-USG and Circle to Firewalla
March 19, 2023
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10 min
2022
3
October
2
Halloween pumpkins and lights
October 31, 2022
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3 min
Installing FLAIR Smart Vents to keep room temperatures balanced
October 30, 2022
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18 min
January
1
eNom Datacenter Move Borks DNS
January 17, 2022
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3 min
2021
4
December
1
Getting carried away with RGB holiday lights
December 22, 2021
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10 min
August
2
Trying to Keep my Garage Cool
August 11, 2021
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2 min
ESP32 Water and Gas Utility Meter
August 10, 2021
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3 min
March
1
Cooling an Overheating NVMe SSD
March 15, 2021
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5 min
2020
12
October
2
Using ESP to Debug an ESP
October 22, 2020
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5 min
Hot Water Recirculation Pump Controller
October 12, 2020
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5 min
September
2
Tuya to Tasmota to ESPHome
September 10, 2020
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12 min
Abandoning GreenEye for Sense
September 5, 2020
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10 min
August
1
Phyn Plus Smart Water Assistant - Early Impressions
August 25, 2020
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5 min
June
1
Moving from Unraid to Proxmox VE
June 21, 2020
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21 min
April
1
Unraid User-Share vs. Disk-Share SMB Performance
April 25, 2020
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3 min
February
2
Unraid vs. Ubuntu Bare Metal SMB Performance
February 3, 2020
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2 min
Recovering the Firmware on a Supermicro BPN-SAS3-846EL1 Backplane
February 2, 2020
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11 min
January
3
Unraid vs. Ubuntu SMB Performance
January 18, 2020
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2 min
Unraid SMB Performance: v6.7.2 vs. v6.8.1
January 16, 2020
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2 min
Unraid repeat parity errors on reboot
January 11, 2020
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11 min
2019
4
June
1
Unraid in production, a bit rough around the edges, and terrible SMB performance
June 11, 2019
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8 min
May
2
Unraid and Robocopy Problems
May 13, 2019
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4 min
Moving from W2K16 to Unraid
May 6, 2019
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10 min
January
1
Monoprice MP Voxel 3D Printer Setup
January 5, 2019
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6 min
2018
2
November
1
PurpleAir Sensor Installation
November 19, 2018
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2 min
June
1
eNom Dynamic DNS Update Problems
June 30, 2018
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4 min
2017
3
August
1
CrashPlan throws in the towel … for home users
August 23, 2017
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2 min
April
1
Razer BSOD When Driver Verifier is Enabled
April 26, 2017
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2 min
March
1
Razer Shoddy Support and Bad Software UX
March 28, 2017
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4 min
2016
4
December
1
Circumventing ThinkPad’s WiFi Card Whitelisting
December 23, 2016
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4 min
October
1
UPS Battery Replacement Turns Into Unrecoverable Firmware Update
October 15, 2016
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6 min
August
1
Amazon Associates Account Closed
August 31, 2016
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2 min
January
1
Ecobee3 WiFi Connection Troubles
January 30, 2016
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3 min
2015
3
September
1
Ecobee3 Thermostat with Remote Sensors
September 4, 2015
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7 min
August
1
MR16 12V Halogen to LED retrofit
August 2, 2015
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13 min
January
1
Nest Protect False Alarms
January 21, 2015
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5 min
2014
2
October
1
Rack that server
October 9, 2014
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9 min
April
1
Self Signed BitFury Drivers
April 17, 2014
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4 min
2013
3
November
1
Electrical Power Quality
November 13, 2013
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5 min
September
1
TiVo Roamio DVR vs. Verizon FiOS DVR
September 30, 2013
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11 min
August
1
Panasonic Lumix WiFi Disappoints
August 22, 2013
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4 min
2012
19
December
1
XBMC on NUC’s and Pi’s
December 26, 2012
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5 min
November
1
LSI turns their back on Green
November 21, 2012
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3 min
October
1
RIP Boxee Box
October 23, 2012
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2 min
September
4
Storage Spaces Leaves Me Empty
September 22, 2012
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9 min
XBMC for Linux on Pivos XIOS DS
September 9, 2012
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2 min
Koubachi Wi-Fi Plant Sensor
September 8, 2012
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4 min
Dyslexic Intel RSTe Driver
September 3, 2012
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2 min
August
4
Windows 8 VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE Madness
August 23, 2012
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9 min
WordPress.com 404 With Blogger Permalinks
August 7, 2012
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2 min
Windows 8 Install Crash With NVidia Quadro 5000
August 6, 2012
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3 min
Windows 8 Install Hangs Booting From LSI 2308 SAS Controller
August 6, 2012
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5 min
July
6
SuperMicro Beta BIOS supports Windows 8 and Server 2012
July 30, 2012
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4 min
XBMC for Android on Pivos XIOS DS
July 22, 2012
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5 min
Debugging Windows 8 Install BSOD
July 20, 2012
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4 min
Windows 8 and Server 2012 on SuperMicro results in ACPI_BIOS_ERROR BSOD
July 20, 2012
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5 min
CrashPlan Memory Utilization
July 15, 2012
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4 min
From Blogger to WordPress
July 15, 2012
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9 min
June
2
Looks can be deceiving
June 20, 2012
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6 min
Blogger Dynamic Templates
June 8, 2012
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2 min
2011
7
December
2
Iomega TV With Boxee vs. D-Link Boxee Box
December 31, 2011
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9 min
Rotation confuses face recognition
December 14, 2011
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7 min
July
2
Synology DS2411+ Performance Review
July 21, 2011
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2 min
Synology DS1511+ vs. QNAP TS-859 Pro, iSCSI MPIO Performance
July 6, 2011
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9 min
April
2
Archiving my CD, DVD and BD collection
April 23, 2011
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16 min
Unlimited online backup providers becoming extinct
April 13, 2011
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2 min
January
1
Delete, Are You Sure, Yes, Oh Oh
January 4, 2011
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2 min
2010
13
December
2
Trend Micro SafeSync, neat, but unreliable
December 31, 2010
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4 min
Will your online backup or sync and share provider survive?
December 31, 2010
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2 min
July
1
NCP VPN not quite Windows 7 compatible
July 21, 2010
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5 min
May
7
Zotac ZBOXHD-ID11 MKV H.264 Video Playback Performance
May 29, 2010
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9 min
Zotac ZBOXHD-ID11 Case Positioning Impact on Fan Noise
May 27, 2010
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1 min
Zotac ZBOXHD-ID11 Beta BIOS Reduces Fan Speed and Noise
May 26, 2010
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4 min
Zotac ZBOX Mini-PC ZBOXHD-ID11
May 26, 2010
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1 min
Zotac ZBOXHD-ID11 4GB RAM
May 19, 2010
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3 min
Zotac ZBOXHD-ID11 Fan Speed and Noise
May 19, 2010
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4 min
Zotac ZBOXHD-ID11 First Impressions
May 15, 2010
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7 min
January
3
Data Robotics DroboPro vs. QNAP TS-859 Pro
January 31, 2010
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7 min
NEC MultiSync LCD2490WUXi2 and LCD2690WUXi2
January 30, 2010
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6 min
Intel DP45SG and Lian-Li PC-C33B HTPC
January 4, 2010
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9 min
2009
14
December
1
DroboPro Impressions
December 24, 2009
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11 min
October
1
Hitachi Ultrastar and Seagate Barracuda LP 2TB drives
October 11, 2009
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4 min
September
1
Western Digital RE4-GP 2TB Drive Problems
September 22, 2009
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7 min
July
2
Power Saving RAID Controller (Continued)
July 18, 2009
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5 min
DELL 2408WFP losing settings on power cycle
July 5, 2009
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3 min
June
3
DELL 2408WFP and Spyder 3 Elite
June 14, 2009
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9 min
Amazon Unbox on x64 Vista
June 14, 2009
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4 min
Power Saving SATA RAID Controller
June 12, 2009
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5 min
May
1
How to install SQL Server 2008 on Windows Server 2008 R2 RC
May 14, 2009
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1 min
April
3
2008 VW Touareg Tire Pressure Discrepancy
April 10, 2009
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3 min
Archived Content and Templates
April 10, 2009
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1 min
Broken Symbol Proxy
April 9, 2009
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7 min
February
1
DxO Optics Pro and Adobe Lightroom on Vista x64
February 11, 2009
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8 min
January
1
Google Email Uploader on Vista x64
January 10, 2009
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2 min
2008
12
May
2
How difficult can it be to transfer a .name domain?
May 25, 2008
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5 min
Asus P5E-VM HDMI motherboard
May 16, 2008
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3 min
April
7
Getting Vista to go to sleep
April 13, 2008
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5 min
Installing Vista SP1 with an OEM key
April 12, 2008
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3 min
Intel DG33TL motherboard
April 2, 2008
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3 min
Microsoft Expression Media / iView Media Pro to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom converter
April 2, 2008
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4 min
Abit F-I90HD motherboard
April 2, 2008
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2 min
Antec Veris Fusion Black HTPC case
April 2, 2008
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4 min
Philips digital photo frame
April 2, 2008
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3 min
March
3
Printing from the network
March 31, 2008
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4 min
Vista SP1 and Intel GMA blue screen crash
March 31, 2008
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1 min
Getting my feet wet
March 31, 2008
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1 min