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OK, for the third time this year, I’m outfitting someone’s home with enough of a backend that they should be relatively stable, here’s a guide to how to do this: The right NAS Synology DS216J. There are a host of models that Synology has, but even the most basic $170…

Well it’s time once again to make USB boot disks, I’ve been using Diskmaker X forever, but with Sierra, there are some idiosyncratic things: Download from the Mac App Store the Sierra download. This will take a while as it it is over 4GB, but this is the image that…

For a while I could not get file transfer to work from an Android phone. Tried: Take a movie and use Google Photos to upload, this was incredibly slow trying to get 4GB up there. Same with a OneDrive upload Airdroid uses Bluetooth to do the same and it was…

Ok, when you get a new car, here are some tips and tricks: If you have a fancy high resolution GPS like the Vsport, then you will see lots of dropouts, so you need a GPS antenna and ideally it should be on the roof. The so called ground plane…

Nothing like waiting 30 years between buying bikes. Finally brad got me back so I’ve been trying bikes for theee days solid. Great interval training! Thoughts are to read the reviews. There are many good ones so I’ll stack rank the important things Budgets. Well this is the hard one…

This is the first time I’ve had this problem, but basically Spotlight indexing is working, but Mac Mail doesn’t seem to ever find anything. I’m not the first person with this problem. But the fix doesn’t seem to work. Doing a rebuild and then deleting the index doesn’t help. I…

Been outfitting a car so get to learn about Gps antennas. The one hertz ones in phones are fine and use all kinds of damping 2 to get higher precision you need a better box. Vbox is 20 hertz. But often disconnects. Try an MCX connector to an external gps.…

Ok I’ve loaded way too many apps. 42GB worth to be precise. One side effect is that spotlight search gets really slow. I’m sure there’s a bad app in there somewhere but try to keep it down. 

Ok, some projects for this year; 55″ Gaming Monitor and nVidia 1080Ti. Last year, we discovered thanks to rtings.com that televisions are great displays. Ended up buying 40″ 4K Samsung monitors for $600 that are just awesome for showing 4 or even six full windows of code. This year, the discovery…

With an Apple phone you can recover through iCloud, by with Google Nexus 5 (as well as Pixel) you can still Go through the debug sequence. Which at its base involves turn the phone on with the sequence by holding volume down while pressing power. This will put you into…