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In my teens I was thinking about becoming a professional photographer. With the overly generous help of my mom and dad I gathered up some nice semi-pro 35 mm gear. There was a store going out of business and I … Continue reading →

Hope that everyone had a great Christmas and that the upcoming new year will be peaceful, healthy, happy and maybe profitable! I also managed to get my weatherstation working directly through ESXi 5.1 via USB. I don’t know what I … Continue reading →

From the website: Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop. Conky is licensed under the GPL and runs on Linux and BSD You can find more information on http://conky.sourceforge.net/ A great site for … Continue reading →

Let’s see… It has been some time since I have updated this blog and a number of things have changed. My home virtualization solution of VMware ESXi 3.5 (32-bit) on a IBM x225 (dual Xeon, 2GB RAM, 146GB RAID-5 storage) has … Continue reading →

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I have had an issue with media files not indexing once I copied them onto my Synology DiskStation NAS. I often copy files from the NAS to do media conversion on an old Ubuntu box for .mkv (Matroska) encoded (or … Continue reading →

I was working on a DD-WRT firmware’d router and could not get the port forwarding to work. Anyway, the solution is as follows:  In the Control Panel click on “Administration” then on “Commands”. Copy and paste this inside the Commands … Continue reading →

This is a really funny article in The Globe and Mail on 2012 May 12th entitled “What would Canada look like in 2015 if Harper is still Prime Minister?” by Denis Smith. Sarcasm at its best, for example: “When the … Continue reading →

LOS ANGELES – May 11, 2012 – Carroll Shelby International, Inc., announced today that Carroll Hall Shelby, a man whose vision for performance transformed the automobile industry, has died at age 89. In the 1960’s Shelby’s company created the Shelby … Continue reading →

I have been looking for how to set up OpenVPN with Network Manager under Linux Mint 12.I think that everyone has found that you cannot use the client.ovpn configuration file that OpenVPN.  After much searching I found the following guide … Continue reading →