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Now for something a little different… Earlier today I heard a “strange” aircraft. I was not quite sure what it was but quickly forgot about it. I happened to be out by the airport when I noticed a couple of … Continue reading →

The last part of the network upgrade was to upgrade the Ethernet switch from an unmanaged (dumb) switch to a managed (smart) switch. For Christmas, I picked up a TP-Link TL-SG1024DE. It was okay… sort of. It has a GUI … Continue reading →

Wow! Two posts in two days 🙂 The second network upgrade was on the WiFi side of things. Again, I am blaming this on Tom Lawrence‘s YouTube channel where he reviewed the Ubiquiti access points. As I noted in Part … Continue reading →

As I keep saying, I am not a blogger and I do not post very often or with any regularity. Sometimes I use this blog for posting items that I would like to remember later and had a hard time … Continue reading →

Just a few pictures of Bowring Park on the night of 2018 December 9… All lit up for Christmas.

Well, the duration – for me -was not short. It was about two weeks of living in Google.  Here’s the setup: I have a couple of servers in my DMZ that I want share out. Some places do not let … Continue reading →

So, I’ve been having this issue with upgrading MySQL 5.7 on a Ubuntu 16.04 server. It kept erroring out. Even uninstalling MySQL and reinstalling it did not help. Until I found this post by iqbal_cs: If the error(1819) is raised, type this … Continue reading →

One of the “big” things of late is the push to have all websites use HTTPS to encrypt traffic to websites. As Stefan Stienne of The Verge noted in the may May 2018 article Google Chrome is removing the secure indicator … Continue reading →

Mental note 🙂 VMware Workstation 12 Pro on Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia does not install correctly. This apparently is not a Mint issue so much as kernel 4.13.x issue. Spent some time in Google University trying to figure it out (maybe … Continue reading →

It is true: Time waits for no one. My old Synology DS211j that I bought back in 2011 finally showed that it is in its not-so-golden years. With every firmware upgrade the DS211j was becoming slower and slower. File shares … Continue reading →