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mac: New uses of MBP 2014 for Photos, 2017 for Backups
OK, I did a complete rearrangement of my computing infrastructure (yes it is like I have a pet sheep flock). So here is what we are doing: MacBook Pro 2020 for Video Editing MacBook Pro 2017 for Backup and Backblaze As part of the 3-2-1 strategy (3 copies, 2 local and 1 offsite), I have…
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web: Finding new typefaces and logos
One thing that comes up a lot for me is starting new companies. We normally don’t have a lot of resources, so it is just me sitting starting at a new Google Doc, Google Slide or Hugo website template trying to figure out what fonts and treatments to use. Finding Google Font equivalent to Brandon…
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nas: New Synology tips, use SHR2/RAID6 and move shared folders in Control Panel
OK, I thought that I was nearly done. I had reorganized my machines so that I would have RAID10 partitions for half of each 12-bay Synology RP-2423+ and DS-2413+. But then I started reading and discovered that the new Seagate EXOS drives I’ve been buying at 1^15 unrecoverable bit error (UBE) drives even though they…
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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…
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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:…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…