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I never thought I would see the day when 1gb Ethernet would be slow. But moving around 160GB training data sets isn’t fun. So looks like it’s time to look at 1000baseT networking. Also we have quite a few Poe devices now and our old linksys sge2000 literally started crashing…

I’ve always used core i5 k processors for my builds. With most gaming an overclocked core i5 at 4.5ghz for $220 is all you need. And the other features don’t matter.  The lone exception is a cheap Xeon file server where based on vlads advice we went with a six…

Well this is supposed to be the most powerful setup box made, but argh, is it hard to setup.  It requires that you logon to Google and it is really pleasant, asks you to use your phone or your laptop. Here is what I found: The http://g.co/AndroidTV is not compatible…

I think I’m a little scared I have over the years I’ve accumulated all this gear and it is the same as the wirecutters recomendations  Lowepro 350 aw. Nearly the perfect stealth bag for camera equipment. I’m on my third one. Great protection and even carries a 15 laptop. The…

Ok so now that we are getting to just internet here are the tips tricks and traps Wow Comcast customer service has really improved. Actual smiling people. And retail locations that’s great. The main optimizations are getting rid of television. If you love sports this is hard but otherwise it…

So how to make it all work. Rather than wait for my new hardware, I thought I might as well start with the hundred or so Raspberry Pi Model Bs we already have. Here’s a recipe for how to get it all running: Hypriot: The Operating system Hypriot are a…

Wow what a great day for low cost processors. The conversion to 64 bit is on and that means much simpler software development. We are moving away from the strange hybrid architecture of the original Raspberry Pi (ARMv6 with hardware floating point) to 64-bit and fast GPUs. Also the busses…

OK more than a day, but there was a bad update where Apple accidentally blacklisted their own driver (ugh, I’m sure someone is getting yelled at right now). It should be fixed automatically if you are using the automatic update feature. Mine was broken at on Friday and fixed Saturday…

Well, we got a pretty amazing server two years ago and it is interesting to see how little has changed, most of the parts are still good (Haswell-E), but the main thing that has changed are: SSDs in Server NVMe. Wow boot drives and cache drives are much faster. With…

Wow the service run by Obitalk is pretty incredible. It has some incredible features using Google Voice and it works with a burglar alarm as well. It also has no FCC fees as well and you can hear your voice mail on Google Voice. Of course who knows how secure…