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Tinkering with Microcontrollers, Arduino + Beaglebone, frustrations

Posted on November 22, 2014 by admin

Two primary lessons I’ve learned Don’t work on the wiring aspect of electronics past 1am or so. The chances of you shorting something out approach 100% as you get closer to 3am Servos have more torque than you think and … Continue reading →

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Converting Bitnami VMDK to Hyper-V VHDX files

Posted on September 28, 2014 by admin

Converting Bitnami VMWare VMDK stack files to Hyper-V VHDX hard disk image files using powershell and Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter. Continue reading →

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Bicycles and Cats, and why bicycles self-steer themselves (and cats always land on their feet)

Posted on April 12, 2014 by admin

I’m curious, how does stem length impact steering feel? I realize that steering feel is almost 100% impacted by trail (how far the contact patch is behind the line of the head tube) but for example, on my project bike, … Continue reading →

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NIC Teaming on Windows 8.1 (really)

Posted on March 1, 2014 by admin

So there is a way to get NIC Teaming to work in Windows 8.1. WS2012 R2 has dead-easy way to team any two nics (effectively giving you 2 gigabit eithernet if the other end also has at least 2 gigabit … Continue reading →

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Intel’s Galileo Ardunio and Powershell

Posted on February 2, 2014 by admin

Intel’s Galileo is a pretty neat piece of kit. However it won’t always connect on the same COM port (typically COM3 or COM4). The only way the tutorials tell you to check this is via a menu deep inside the … Continue reading →

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Red Green Show now on YouTube (Legally) in all it’s glory

Posted on November 21, 2013 by admin

Friend of mine sent me this: I listed out all the play lists for my dad for the red green show because youtube’s ui on the playlists is kinda funky, here it is, every episode by season play list. 91 … Continue reading →

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Removing the redundant “google doodle” in Chrome

Posted on November 17, 2013 by admin

Sometime this fall Google pushed out a change that puts the google logo/search bar in the tabs home page. Clicking on the search bar in the middle of the page is just a dirty trick, it redirects you to the … Continue reading →

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Setting up Windows Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 in a workgroup

Posted on September 14, 2013 by admin

Setting up Windows Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 in a workgroup All of Microsoft’s server stuff is designed to work within an already existing Active Directory environment. Most home users don’t have an Active Directory server, unless you are running SAMBA … Continue reading →

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Intel i217-V network drivers for Windows Server 2012 R2

Posted on September 14, 2013 by admin

Intel can eat a bag of dicks. Here is the driver you need to run Server 2012 on the i217-V chipset. For some reason they released the i217-V (desktop) and i217-LM (server) versions of their gigabit ethernet chip. They are … Continue reading →

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