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Paradise Hills Springs
This is a historical location that used to be visited by silent-movie stars. In the distance you can see Cyote Lake.
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Replacing a loud fan in my home ZFS NAS
The blue-LED fan I have in my ZFS on Linux NAS is a bit louder than the other fans that I’ve been hoping for. I am going to replace it with a 600rpm fan. You will notice that I have drilled extra ventilation into the top case panel. Notice the clear-plastic fan. It…
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Want a quiet Thinkpad fan
I wish the fan in y T430 was this quiet. The laptop fan spins at over 2500 rpm.
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Windows OEM License
So it turns out you can destroy a windows virtual host really quickly, just by moving it from one host system to another host. This is something I’ve done with Linux virtual hosts many times, and it seems like an intrinsic way to manage resources. But not with Windows. They really expect you to take…
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Backups failed last night? Oh, yeah–blame Comcast
This is not the first time I’ve had mysterious backup transfers fail. So I installed Smokeping. And it was clear that Comcast dropped Internet at our office.
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Parenting and Teaching Programming
At what level of programming are we actually imparting the philosophy of human thought? Or, another way, a basic program that prints out a few numbers is truly trivially basic: it merely teaches some programming syntax. However, contrast your smartphone apps to your old DOS/Windows apps. A significan understanding of human haptics and intuition have…
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Tweed ride thots
Thots on 2015 tweed ride possibilities Non-facebook page. FB is convenient but not all-inclusive. Blog? – historically appropriate venue: Roeder Home – keg – invite a photographer with a field camera (WCC) with polariod back and demonstrate a phosphorous flash – kids crafts table before hand – start ride at library? – have handouts on…
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