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Drilling a six inch hole
This is how I decided to drill a six inch hole into two blocks of wood. The drill bit doesn’t go far enough nor does the throw of the press reach far enough, either. I need to drill the holes clamped a d then unclamp them and finish the depth of the holes in the…
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Linux friendly JBOD controller? (Not LSI!)
I am refurbishing my ZFS on Linux backup box. It is an Asus/A2 motherboard chipset and runs slow but happily on two 3 four port sata controllers in a addition to all its server onboard sata ports. One of those sata crontrollers is on the PCI slot which will never run as fast. I can…
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Fixing SSH login long delay
Originally posted on In just five minutes…: For a long time I had a problem with ssh login on a Redhat 6 server – it was taking too long to connect to it, around 30 seconds. Normally it hasn’t been a big issue – after all, you connect once and work for all day as…
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Setup DNS Server step by step in CentOS 6.3/6.4/6.5 / RHEL 6.3/6.4/6.5 / Scientific Linux 6.3/6.4/6.5
Always good to have a nice reminder on how to configure a DNS service!
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Adware from your classic utilities? Arrrg!
So yesterday I whipped up a temporary virtual machine of windows 7 for a brief test run. I needed winscp and 7zip. I am STUNNED by how much adware landed with those installs. Arcade software? Pre-bundled Chrome browser? Toolbars for Yahoo, and google? I am so IRRITATED by this! Am also grateful I was running…
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Atom 8 Core — your next server?
I did not realize there were 8-core Atom server chips were a THING yet. They..are. Example: http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5018/SYS-5018A-MHN4.cfm and check this short-case 1U out: http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5018/SYS-5018A-FTN4.cfm It has QUAD Gig-E ports. Enough for you? 20W processor? That’s better than you can find with an AMD A-series.
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We tried it: Bullitt (with BionX electric assist)
Originally posted on Hum of the city: Hello, Bullitt! While we were in Portland, we rented bikes from Splendid Cycles for the week. They knew the geography of San Francisco, and their suggestions were that we try riding a BionX-assisted Big Dummy and a BionX-assisted Bullitt. The Big Dummy was an obvious choice, beloved of…
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Lorde’s Suppressed Grammy Award acceptance speech (Full Transcript) 26 January 2014
Originally posted on Snoopman News: Queen Bee Sting: Grammy audience told to read more Lorde: Thankyou soo much everyone for making this song explode because this world is mental. (Laughter). Planet Earth is run by psychopaths that hide behind slick marketing, ‘freedom’ propaganda and ‘economic growth’ rhetoric,[1] while they construct a global system of corporatized…
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