Arch Linux Printer Install
Friday, January 8, 2021
Introduction I’m glutton for punishment. A couple months ago I took my stable and user friendly Ubuntu Linux install and replaced it with Arch Linux. Why? Please see the first sentence. Since then it’s been running really well. There’s a manual step to update things like Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Visual Studio Code because they come from the Arch User Repository (AUR). Today when I was updating Microsoft Edge I lost all my open tabs.…
Kubernetes Cluster on Raspberry Pi 3
Friday, October 9, 2020
There are a lot of guides on the internet describing how to build a Kubernetes Cluster on a Raspberry Pi. I’ve followed quite a few of them to build my cluster. A lot of those guides are out of date now since I want to continue using my Raspberry Pi 3 hardware. Last weekend I embarked on a journey to rebuild my cluster. I’m going to try and report the journey to you now.…
Windows Printer Install
Friday, June 5, 2020
A few months ago I was marveling at how easy it was to install my aging HP printer on Linux. Really it even got easier with Ubuntu 20.04. Astonished. So by comparison, here are the steps required to install that same printer on Windows 10. Go to Settings and type Printers & Scanners Click the button that reads “Add a printer or scanner” Wait for it to scan for a printer.…
Intel NUC 10
Sunday, May 3, 2020
I have been using an old Gigabyte Brix computer for about 7 years as a secondary computer. Mostly I use it on my Twitch stream to keep track of the chat. It does the job, but if I tried to do too many things at once with it, it would bog down and run really slow. It maxed out at 16GB of RAM and I had a 256GB mSATA drive in it.…
Cloning a Drive
Monday, February 24, 2020
One of the things you have to live with being a technologist is that you inevitably do tech support for family. My recent vacation to the Pacific Northwest was no exception. This time my aunt’s computer was out of disk space. We ordered a new 250GB Crucial M.2 drive to replace the existing 32GB eMMC drive that was in her computer. Easy right? Just open the computer, slap the new drive in it, copy the contents from the old drive to the new drive and then resize the partition.…
Printer Install
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
I have been playing with a few different distributions of Linux for my secondary machine. I have been on Ubuntu for a while and yesterday I installed Arch Linux. Today, I installed Linux Mint. Overall I really like the desktop environment that it comes with. It seems as polished as Ubuntu. Tonight I thought I would try installing my network printer to see how hard it is to install. I went to System Settings and selected Printers.…
Dual Screen or Foldable Screen
Saturday, February 8, 2020
Coming later this year is the next evolution of tablets. Windows 10X promises dual screen… er… single foldable screen… wait, both? But which do I choose? This is going to be tough. On the one hand you have the Surface Neo and on the other hand you have the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold. Ugh! Let’s start with Lenovo first. I had a first generation Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon back in the day.…
6502 Computer
Friday, February 7, 2020
Ben Eater has a series of videos building out a 6502 based computer. So far we have videos detailing how to print out “Hello, World!” on it. It doesn’t seem like much right now, but it was a really interesting process. Besides, just look at how cool this looks: There have been 5 videos detailing how to build this up from the processor to the ROM chip and the 65C22 interface chip.…
Asus Eee PC 1001P Hard Drive
Friday, August 19, 2011
I’ve been searching everywhere on the Internet for this information but I couldn’t find it anywhere. I even went to Central Computers hoping they’d have the answer. I got the truly unhelpful, “crack it open and look” answer. So I did The Asus Eee PC 1001P has a standard 5400RPM 150GB 2.5" hard drive in its belly. Also, you can max out the memory at 2GB with PC-5400 DDR2-800 memory.…
OCZ Vertex 2 SSD
Sunday, December 5, 2010
“All developers should have an SSD.” Have you heard someone say that before? I hear it about once a week. I hear the great amazing things about Solid State Drives (SSD - there’s no moving parts so the “drive” part of it is historical or maybe I’m wrong and it stands for “device” now). I finally fell prey to the ribbing about still using spinning rust in my laptop. After doing some research I eschewed the advice of experts and went with the OCZ Vertex 2 128GB SSD.…