RackNerd | KVM VPS Special Deals

Hosted VPS is the new hip homelab, now that the plebs are homelabbing. RackNerd has some great prices on hosted VPS using the link below.

Also should mention Oracle’s Free Cloud Tier where you can get a 4-core, 24GB machine with 200GB storage for free. I’ve had one for three years without ever being charged.

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Brave enough to run Vivaldi Browser | Powerful, Personal and Private web browser

I really am trying to improve my attitude about things… as one ages it seems there is a natural tendency to become somewhat jaded, and as I’ve never been one to jump on board a trend, I’m gonna try and fight it.

To that end, fuck edge and chrome.

Those sonsofbitches can suck a stone. […]

Topic: How to force the Windows 10 ESU @ AskWoody

The forum over at AskWoody has some interesting takes on getting ESU working on Windows 10.

Source: Topic: How to force the Windows 10 ESU @ AskWoody

reg.exe add “HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Policies\Microsoft\FeatureManagement\Overrides” /v 4011992206 /t REG_DWORD /d 2 /f

 

NetWorx : bandwidth monitor, connection speed test, data usage log

New Tool Day!!

How’d I miss this all these years?! So cool – have it monitor a switch and see entire network load!

Source: NetWorx : bandwidth monitor, connection speed test, data usage log

OPen SOurce NVR

Network Video Recording has a growing Open Source community with a few compelling releases that I want to check out:

Viseron: https://viseron.netlify.app/docs/documentation/installation

Frigate: https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate

Maybe something that ultimately will tie into Home Assistant

Source: Installation | Viseron

X5 E70 Cargo

Really tired of looking this one up….

The BMW X5 (E70, or second gen from 2008-2013), can fit boards up to 81″ long with the front passenger seat moved fully forward.

That is all.

Roberto’s Ramblings: August 2023

This year we will also continue to offer Linspire for free on December 25. Christmas day the download is made available free of charge for 24 hours. We have done that every year since we started making Linspire. We will continue to do so for as long as we make it.

Source: Roberto’s Ramblings: August […]

John J. Lumpkin – “Through Struggle, The Stars” and more…

 

GitHub – microsoft/edit: We all edit.

MS-EDIT IS BACK!

Are you shitting me?! Someone at MS still has brain activity??? Yes!

Source: GitHub – microsoft/edit: We all edit.

OpenSpeedTest

OpenSpeedTest.com has all of your Internet Speed Test needs covered! They have needs covered that you don’t even know you have. Also, they have tools for measuring speeds on your own networks, wired and wifi. An impressive amount of polish here.

Source: Free and Open-Source Self-Hosted HTML5 SpeedTest

Free Courses | Harvard University

Looks like Harvard is sticking it to The Baboon by giving away free knowledge. Harvard has committed to making many (more) courses available for free. Yep, that is right, FREE. I have not looked into the details this time around, but in the recent past Harvard allowed Audit level attendance to courses gratis, with certificates […]

howto install crt in lmde

If you are behind a corporate type firewall, here are the steps I had to take to get the firewalls certificate into and working with LMDE 6.

To install a .crt (certificate) file in LMDE (and Debian-based systems), you’ll need to add it to the system’s trusted root certificates. This involves copying the certificate to […]

Windows “inetpub” security fix can be abused to block future updates

SWEET! A official way to block Windows Updates. Although I still will be using WUB, this will be a handy tool for sure. Thanks, Microsoft!

“After installing the updates listed in the Security Updates table for your operating system, a new %systemdrive%\inetpub folder will be created on your device,” confirmed Microsoft.”This folder should not be […]

Search Engines that are not Google!

Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them…Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other valuable information.

Keep a list of sites you never heard of!

www.refseek.com – Academic Resource […]

Microsoft PowerToys Cheat Sheet: How to Get It, and What Can It Do?

So many great tools! Always can use a reminder to check it out.

Source: Microsoft PowerToys Cheat Sheet: How to Get It, and What Can It Do?

ouch!

4tb Seagate HD running in a 2 bay Buffalo desktop NAS running at 136f!

 

 

in a 60 degree room. Great, now I need to monitor them?

Check if your USB 3.0 device supports USB Attached SCSI (UAS) Protocol

When used with an SSD, UAS considerably increases the random read and write speeds compared to BOT. To see if UAS is being used by Windows, do the following.

Press Win + X keys together on the keyboard and click Device Manager. Expand the “Storage Controllers” node and see if it has a “USB Attached […]

How to Run a Local LLM in Linux

I am using LMDE6 and a Nvidia RTX 5000 16gb to run various Local LLM A.I. models. I have been following this guide with good success: How to Run a Local LLM with Ubuntu

Other links:

https://ollama.com/library/phi4https://www.baeldung.com/linux/genai-ollama-installationhttps://community.aws/content/2eojjD2E7TBgPFJmB2FGAtrSSBh/the-rise-of-the-llm-os-from-aios-to-memgpt-and-beyond?lang=en

Libre Hardware Monitor

Source: Releases ยท LibreHardwareMonitor/LibreHardwareMonitor

How to generate a Battery Report on Windows 10 and 11 | Windows Central

Source: How to generate a Battery Report on Windows 10 and 11 | Windows Central