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Dasung Paperlike Pro: the best (and only) e-ink monitor out there?

January 1, 2020 / Leave a Comment

Do you like staring at flickering bright lights all day that emit detrimental blue light? Not me. Introducing the Dasung Paperlike Pro with the following specs: Screen: Max 13.3-inch E Ink screen (Carta) Connector: HDMI. Power supply: USB (5V-1A) Aspect Ratio. 4 : 3. Display: Reflects ambient light (no backlight) Resolution: 1600×1200.resolution. 800×600 to 1600×1200. … [Read more…]

Posted in: bits of technology, Blog Tagged: dasung, e-ink, eye strain, monitor, not bad, paperlike, pro, review

CICD and my blog

November 3, 2019 / Leave a Comment

Why containerize my blog? Mainly because its an interesting exercise in CICD. If you’re in IT, most likely you hear docker and CICD, continuosly. Does this make sense? Imo, no. Generally a personal blog is not a good candidate since I’m not making code changes to the site and I don’t need to ensure a … [Read more…]

Posted in: bits of technology, Blog Tagged: CICID, ok blog, why?

How to break…downgrade EA4 to EA3

June 22, 2019 / Leave a Comment

Due to unpopular demand, I’ll show you how to downgrade to an unsupported version of cpanel’s panel software. You will basically, need a donor ea3 system. Step 1: Grab cold beer from work fridge Step 2: Get a copy of /scripts/migrate_ea3_to_ea4 (I have a copy still but cpanel has been nuking them) Step 3: Copy … [Read more…]

Posted in: bits of technology Tagged: because client, dumb ideas, why?

wordpress cleaner python script fun

January 16, 2019 / Leave a Comment

oh hello bots! Lets be real: What’s the point of a 12+ character password that you’ll just forget and then reset it back to your old insecure but trusty “password123”? So while I was working on my script to replace and harden wordpress after a hack, I decided to include a password generator, which was … [Read more…]

Posted in: bits of technology, Blog Tagged: lol, lol no i'll just use password123 because i'm client, python, secure passwords, wordpress cleaner

A post about KVM to sound smart

November 1, 2018 / Leave a Comment

Studying…It’s like an STD; could have been prevented if I were actually smart. But here are all the issues I’m running into with RHCSA: virt-install –name-test.example.com –ram=1024 –vcpus=1 –disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/test.example.com.img,size=8 –graphics=spice –location=ftp://192.168.100.219/pub/ –os-type=linux –os-variant=rhel7 results in “Error validating install location” (definitely accessible via ftp) all selinux commands    

Posted in: bits of technology, Blog Tagged: Centos, frustrating, reading a how to that is missing the how

seriously government

October 4, 2018 / Leave a Comment

China embeds surveillance chips on Amazon/Apple server motherboards and we store our most confidential data on their servers. Seriously? https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2017/09/amazon-web-services-can-now-host-defense-departments-most-sensitive-data/140973/ https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/04/chinese-spy-chips-are-said-to-be-found-in-hardware-used-by-apple-amazon-apple-denies-the-bloomberg-businessweek-report.html and yet we wonder why there is so much hacking and theft. why is any confidential data even allowed to be stored on a public network anyways? and on servers with questionable hardware? unbelievable. … [Read more…]

Posted in: bits of technology, Blog Tagged: so dumb

Verizon FIOS’s 100mbit

July 23, 2018 / Leave a Comment

Is it any wonder why Americans dislike their ISP? Here is Verizon FIOS’s 100Mbit connection tested: That happens to be the exact speed I was getting on Comcast’s shitty cable internet at the same exact price point. Oh so you’re thinking that because it’s over WIFI, I’m not getting an accurate speed measurement. Well you’re … [Read more…]

Posted in: bits of technology, Blog Tagged: slower than comcast, verizion fios?, wtf

2018 New Year Resolutions

December 31, 2017 / Leave a Comment

2017 Resolutions Recap:  1. RHCE certification: (in progress) 2. Home network: (in progress) I didn’t complete my 2017 resolutions, so I’m adding them to my 2018 resolutions as follows: 1. RHCE/RHCSA certification 2. Home network 3. Python system admin tool suite This should be doable for 2018. Time to study!

Posted in: bits of technology, Blog Tagged: need to focus, rhcsa, study

MH Cache WHM plugin

December 10, 2017 / 1 Comment

So it’s finally done! Well mostly done. There are two things left to do. Test the RPM install and hope for the best. So why’d I make this plugin? The main reason is apache’s cache has two main benefits over a proxy cache such as nginx: it doesn’t require another service and therefore, SSL installation … [Read more…]

Posted in: bits of technology, Blog Tagged: aquire coding, career, disregard females

RPB25: the worst sounding bluetooth speaker?

October 29, 2017 / Leave a Comment

I haven’t written a tech review in a while, so it’s only fitting, that I inspire all you bots with my technical prose and invaluable insight once again. Today, I’m reviewing Rockville’s RPB25 portable bluetooth speaker. Just like how I approach women, lets take a look at the RPB25’s tech specs (?): 15 watts with … [Read more…]

Posted in: bits of technology, Blog Tagged: bad, don't buy, portable bluetooth speaker, rockville, rpb25
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