So, I have been pretty sure for a while that the main Hard Drive in my desktop was going out. It’s probably the oldest drive I own and occasionally it got feisty during reboots. For a variety of reasons, I kept putting off replacing it. … and putting it off…. and putting it off… Then … [Read more…]
I’ve neglected posting much lately, not so much because I haven’t been doing anything but more because I’ve been busy and not really with anything deserving of it’s own post. I hope to remedy this a bit next year but for now I just wanted to run through some recent projects I’ve been working on. … [Read more…]
I’ll try to remember to do an update post if things iron out but I wanted to throw out my experience so far with Cloud At Cost, a VPS provider that charges a one time upfront fee for their VPS, as opposed to a monthly subscription or other reoccurring cost. They had a sale for … [Read more…]
I’m not sure what it is about mobile operating systems, they just don’t always clean up after themselves and seem to be awful about eating up their limited space sometimes. I can only assume that there is some sort of glitch and a large batch of updates or temporary files don’t get deleted properly. In … [Read more…]
There was a post that came across on Medium recently, How to Make a Twitter Bot in Under an Hour. It’s pretty straight forward, though it seems to be pretty geared towards non “techie” types, mostly because it’s geared towards people making the bot on a Mac and it uses something called Heroku to run … [Read more…]
It seems like there is an increasing amount of hacks and leaks lately. These also seem to be larger and higher profile targets more and more. Recently I’ve been seeing stories about Last.fm and Dropbox accounts apparently being compromised as well as a vulnerability in vBulleten, a popular Message Board hosting tool. For the most … [Read more…]
As part of the recent Windows 10 Anniversary update, Skype was updated to Skype Preview. Part of the preview is the new Skype Bots system. Bots are the new Apps, which are the new Websites, or something… Everyone is doing Bots these days. These early bots are about what you might expect, simple interactions that … [Read more…]
So, right up front I want to say, I’m not trying to sell this as the most amazing machine ever or anything. I mostly just want to give some thoughts and sort of initial impressions. I’ve been previously using an HP 311 Netbook as my laptop. I would argue, at the time, that it definitely … [Read more…]
Something like ten years or so ago, I built my own hardpad for use on Dance Dance Revolution and Stepmania. Most of the pads that are easily bought are “soft pads”. These vary in quality, I have a couple of pads that are pretty light weight and plastic I used ages ago. These pads tend … [Read more…]
So of all the things on the network, the DNS and DHCP server are pretty important. Especially because my experience has been the router the ISP provided is kind of mediocre at doing the DHCP job. So when the Raspberry Pi I’ve tasked with doing the work started flaking out I was a little worried. … [Read more…]