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  • nas: New Synology Volumes, Storage Pools and Shared Folder and WOL tips

    OK, I am getting Synology to operate daily. With three NASes, it’s a little complicated and the documentation is there, but hard to read, so let’s go topical and talk about some key tasks. Moving data when Volumes get full OK, I think this is a typical problem, but the main one is how you…

  • nas: Latest Synology adding a new RS2423+ and Drive reorg tips

    There are a few of these. The big ones have to do with migration because you have to remember a bunch of things. The first is that when you are moving to a new server and want to keep your old one, you have to break all your replications. So the main plan is to:…

  • Protected: fam: dct5. Dave Wisdom rules

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  • wp: WordPress admin way too hard to find things

    Man, this is a good example of what AI is about to do, right now to maintain and edit a WordPress site is just so hard. Every command is somewhere, but it is buried in some place and then another place. So here are notes (for the future AIs of the world to scrape) on…

  • tech: More Benchmarking of Disks on Intel Mac

    Since I did the whole series of benchmarks on a MacBook Pro 2021, I was curious what the performance is on the MacBook Pro 2017 Intel Mac, so here’s the test series MacBook Pro 2017Razor Thunderbolt DockMBps (R/W) Full Connection Sequential QD32 Rand 4KiBQD32 Onboard 1TB SSD 80% NVMe 2,745/389 441/60 ThunderBay 8 RAID108 x…

  • av: Love the old BrainWavz B2, Vsonic VC-1000 and need a headphone amp

    Well, as you can tell, I’ve been thinking about audio quite a bit. With the new Podcast studio coming online, I discovered the Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 is a great XLR to USB ADC, but the headphone amplifier is not that great. I’ll do a separate post on this topic, but it reminded me that I…

  • Tech: Grade and label USB cables right now

    Man, this is such a complicated topic that I’ve talked about before. But to review, if you are like me, you have a whole box full of cables and they all look more or less the same. Here’s a decoder ring and recommendations for what to do which is basically to make a shoebox and…

  • ht: New list of great Bass tracks for Home Theaters

    OK, we finally figured out why the subwoofers stopped working. Silly, but after 15 years, apparently a common problem is that the auto-power-on circuit fails. That is what happened with our JL Audio Fathom f112 subwoofers. They are an incredible 1,800 watts of power per subwoofer, so they are pretty mean and have a 3-inch…

  • mac: New recos for SATA to USB for SSD on Mac

    Well, I ended up with a bunch of different drive technologies here are the results so here are the results using three different SSDs against three different SATA to USB 3.0 adapters. And also my new ZikeDrive Z666. What we want to do is figure out what combination of old drives in the dustbin and…

  • home: How to buy Tubular LED bulbs

    OK, we had another strange bulb go out. It has a medium E26 base and is about 5 inches long, so how to get a replacement? This led me back to the whole shape vs. base labyrinth that is light bulb sizes, so as a refresher, E26 means an Edison base (which is also called…