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Man, those guys are smart. They now charge $10 a month for a modem and an additional $10/month for a wifi access point built in. So what’s a person to do. Well, just buy your own modem and then hook it up and you get rid fo the charge. Comcastapprovedmodems.com…

Not to say that Synology doesn’t do a great job (heck I have two of them), but sometimes it is nice to know how to roll your own. Anandtech explains how using a low cost Baytrail chip (vs an expensive Xeon), the right motherboard and the right chassis

Well the cost of these accessories has really collapsed, but here are the must haves: Tempered Glass screen protector. The glass is so strong now I don’t know if you really need one, but it for just $7 from Tensdar, you can get a tempered glass protector and never worry…

Man this is way more complicated than it should be, but to summarize if you want to edit your google documents offline here is what you have to do from PCMag.com Use Google Chrome Make sure the Google Docs offline extension is loaded If you have multiple google account (eg…

Well digilloyd and mingthein are both saying it, with the improvements in Sony, it looks like a goto place for the pros. The A7Rii looks like the ideal landscape high resolution system and Zeiss lenses, but then the question is what is the long term path to make sure your…

I had not realized how many fixes were in there…but thanks to Tom’s Hardware that is clear: Six digit PIN. You should move to that or use Touch ID Two factor authentication. You need to have another device to login to El Capitan or iOS 9. Although a pain, it…

I was wondering when this would happen. We have had great success with using an aquarium chiller in a mineral-oil cooled PC. Keeps the temperature down to 70C from 80C for just oil bath or 90C for air cooled even with the best cooler made (Noctua DH-14).  Sso phonoroic Hex…

It was kind of fun to do a series on what my life has been like in different things I’ve used… My life in languages: Shanghainese, Mandarin, English, French, Russian, PDP-8 Toggling, Basica, Mac-80 Assembler, C, Pascal, Mandarin (again!), RPL, C++, 1-2-3 Macros, Excel, HTML, PHP, Mandarin (again!!), Bash, Python,…

OK, maybe it is just a philosophy, but I do think that everything you need to learn is already in a book somewhere. After all with 7 billion or so people alive and billions who have written books literally, the only problem is finding the right one, so here’s my…

No one is getting any younger, but Calvin mentioned in a a very cool webrtc conference call (appear.io is incredible) that his grandfather worked on information theory. It is one of those things lost in time, but 60 years ago was an incredible time for the basis of information theory.…