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2023December 2nd  Docker system prune – not always what you expect
November 25th  Pixel 1 data recovery.. (backup your data)
October 27th  Running Selenium testing in a single Docker container
October 12th  Update:  Managing docker containers with makefiles
September 7th  Debugging your network
August 23rd  Review: AKIYO O1 Mini Projector
August 10th  When Mirrors Break: RAID1 failure and recovery
July 31st  Array Game
July 15th  OpenWRT Travel Router
June 16th  Pixel 4a Screen Protector
May 26th  GL.iNet GL-AR300M16 with OpenWRT 22.03.05
May 22nd  OpenWRT 21.02 to 22.03 upgrade
January 30th  Brother Colour Laser Printer (HL-L3270CDW)
January 19th  OpenWRT – VLANs for Guest and IoT networks
2022December 29th  OpenWRT: Dumb AP
December 22nd  OpenWRT – LuCI missing DHCP and DNS menu option
October 28th  OpenWRT as a wireguard client
October 13th  Wiistar HDMI Audio Extractor teardown (WS-E11B)
September 14th  Knowing when to update your docker containers with DIUN
September 8th  Hacking an old HP Chromebook 11 G5
June 2nd  When rate limiting (and firewalling) goes wrong
May 3rd  Lint – the unseen foe
April 3rd  Samsung Galaxy S7 Battery Swap
March 14th  Tasmota, MQTT and Prometheus
February 21st  Learning Rust by (re)writing a prometheus exporter
February 11th  Using Docker to isolate development environments
January 23rd  Ripping CDs to FLAC on Linux
January 18th  Consumer Electronics and Leaky Batteries
January 8th  2011 Macbook Pro – A1278 keyboard replacement
January 5th  Goodreads – 2021
2021December 26th  LIRC vs ir-keytool
December 21st  Wireguard – self hosted VPN
December 4th  Flashing Tasmota over serial
November 8th  Ubuntu adding a 2nd data drive as a mirror (RAID1)
November 1st  Tasmota firmware (pwn your IoT)
October 20th  OpenWRT Guest Network (and beyond)
October 10th  OpenWRT 19.07 to 21.02.0 upgrade
October 6th  A Tale of Two Macbooks
September 7th  Moving things along
July 28th  Managing docker containers with makefiles
July 23rd  Installing docker-mailserver
July 10th  DNS for lowtek.ca
July 5th  Pi-hole Ubuntu Server (take 2)
July 3rd  Pi-Hole – a Black Hole for Advertisements
June 30th  Raspberry Pi Ubuntu Server
February 15th  Correct Playlist – Segment Map for Bluray
February 10th  Link Dump
2020November 25th  Google Pixel 4a
October 4th  Docker and macvlan networking (IPv4)
October 1st  Milestone Birthday..
June 16th  Upgrade Pixel XL to LineageOS 17.1 (Android 10)
May 22nd  Moar Speed: Faster Internet
May 13th  Hello FreshRSS
May 8th  Bye Bye TT-RSS
April 28th  Windows 10 Family Controls
March 30th  Roku Premiere Review
January 23rd  The Culture of Disposable Technology
January 9th  Goodreads – 2019
2019December 7th  WordPress migration
May 17th  Google Pixel XL
March 4th  Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 rebuild with new SSD
2018November 12th  Switching from DSL to Cable
September 14th  Home Theatre Seating – Octane Contour HR (Review)
2017May 28th  Returning a Nexus 5 to ‘stock’, including re-locking bootloader
March 11th  Server Upgrade Part 5: rsyslog
February 24th  Server Upgrade Part 4: systemd and docker containers
January 8th  Server Upgrade: Part 3 – email server in docker
January 1st  Installing custom firmware on Nexus 5
2016November 26th  Server Upgrade: Part 2 – Basic OS setup
November 14th  Server Upgrade: Part 1 – the build
August 5th  JavaScript and the Single Threaded Lie
July 20th  Bosch Error 43
April 28th  SSL for everybody
2015October 14th  Arduboy Developer Kit
July 17th  Bluemix Virtual Machines
January 16th  Adding a package to boot2docker
January 8th  Musings
2014June 19th  Review: Seacans PLA filament
May 3rd  Goodbye NCF – Hello Teksavvy
January 30th  Printrbot Simple – Software setup
2013December 20th  Printrbot Simple – part 4 – build complete
December 19th  Printrbot Simple – part 3 – more building
December 18th  Printrbot Simple – part 2 – the build
December 17th  Printrbot Simple – part 1 – ordering
September 30th  Removing Greylisting
July 21st  Replacing iPhone 4 screen
June 29th  Tiny Tiny RSS as alternative to Google Reader
May 29th  Fixing a fake USB flash drive
April 13th  Low cost APC UPS RBC33 replacement
February 20th  Repair Acer AspireOne 532H Netbook Screen
February 11th  DIY Repair Nikon Bayonet Mount
2012December 30th  Add drive to RAID5 on Ubuntu
November 28th  How to: Dell Inspiron 1525 repair
October 31st  Installing a custom ROM on the SGH-I727R
October 17th  New Phone: Samsung Galaxy S2 LTE
October 10th  How To: Jenkins with Apache controlled authentication
October 3rd  Makejail – limited SSH account on Ubuntu
September 29th  Ubuntu server 10.04 LTS upgrade to 12.04 LTS
September 1st  Ubuntu server 8.04 LTS upgrade to 10.04 LTS
August 24th  A Dog’s Life
August 8th  How To: Spectroscope from common items
August 1st  Restricted shell file server with scponly
July 18th  Thoughts on Cloud
June 29th  Review: Patriot microSDHC
June 13th  Review: Kobo Wifi
May 30th  Building PDFs with ImageMagick
May 23rd  How To: Add 2nd drive to LUKS on Ubuntu
May 4th  When Ubuntu fails
April 11th  Review: OCZ Vertex 3 120G SSD
April 4th  Flour Tortillas
March 28th  How To: DD-WRT on the Netgear WNR3500L
March 21st  Restore Rogers Galaxy Tab 7 to stock
March 14th  Creating DVD Videos with Ubuntu
February 23rd  Review: Filtrete 3M-50 Wifi Thermostat
February 15th  Windows Vista Recovery
February 8th  A mini-roundup of webmail software
February 1st  8GB Memory Upgrade / PAE Mode
January 26th  Review: Harmony Link
January 19th  Review: CitiGeeks.com screen protectors
January 12th  Ubuntu Apache2 “trusted” SSL Certificate from StartSSL
January 5th  i9000 ICS – CyanogenMod 9 Alpha
2011December 29th  Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot
December 23rd  no-www
December 7th  Unlocking Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant (Bell)
November 30th  Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant: CyanogenMod 7.1
November 23rd  Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant Recovery / Download mode
November 17th  A $200 tablet
November 9th  How To: Migrate from Raid1 to Raid5
November 2nd  Surface Mount Soldering: Repair Harmony 659
October 26th  BlackBerry Bold 9700: JVM Error 102
October 19th  Kingston RAM
October 12th  HTC Desire S-OFF
October 5th  Drawdio
September 28th  Review: TPU GEL Case for HTC Desire
September 22nd  Your old car: Sell or Trade-in?
September 14th  Nexus One vs. HTC Desire
September 5th  Replacing BlackBerry 9700 keyboard redux
August 25th  Greylisting with Postfix and Ubuntu
August 10th  Ubuntu Bluray success with makemkv
August 3rd  Ubuntu Bluray Woes
July 27th  OTA HDTV in Ottawa
July 20th  HP Color Laser Printer (CP1518NI) Refill
July 13th  iPhone 3G with 4.2.1 – jailbreak and unlock
May 31st  Self Promotion: Web Video Interview
May 26th  Cyanogenmod 7 and sshd
April 29th  KeePass: password management
April 19th  How To: Replace BlackBerry 9700 Keyboard
March 30th  How To: Acer AspireOne RAM upgrade
March 24th  Squeezebox Classic Repair
March 17th  Installing IBM Support Assistant on Ubuntu
March 13th  Convert DVD for PS3 with 5.1 under Ubuntu
March 2nd  How to: Cleaning a Nokia 5310
February 19th  Review: Nexus One
February 10th  Review: ADATA microsd 8Gb class 6
January 10th  The Energy Detective
2010December 2nd  More RAM for your G1
November 10th  MythBuntu 10.04
November 1st  India
September 17th  Unlocked iPhone 3G with 3.1.3
August 1st  Goo Gone
July 7th  When Android Fails
June 30th  Review: Cooler Master Elite 335
May 29th  How To: Reliquify Honey
May 3rd  Android 2.1 on G1
May 1st  Core i3 frugal upgrade
April 23rd  Life with Droid
April 20th  Ubuntu on Core i3
April 9th  You can run, but you can’t hide from the cloud
April 4th  How to: resize a mirrored volume
March 27th  Earth Hour
March 21st  Google Android Dev Phone 1
March 15th  First sale on eBay
March 6th  Mirrored Drives with Ubuntu
February 23rd  BitPim and the Samsung M300
February 15th  Beachcombing
January 21st  Free Airport WiFi
2009December 30th  Earning Trust for Your Email Server
December 20th  Nokia 5310 Review
November 27th  Wake On Lan
November 24th  Ubuntu 9.10
November 12th  SpeedTouch 516 DSL metrics
November 1st  TED 5000 – Installation
October 30th  Review: Zipit Wireless Messenger 2
October 26th  Firestarter
October 25th  Review: WD Caviar Green 1TB
October 8th  iPod Touch location service: Skyhook
September 30th  Samsung/Vodafone H1/M1 with J9
September 24th  iPod Touch firmware upgrade with VMWare
September 20th  Growing a WindowsXP VMWare GuestOS in Ubuntu
September 14th  Hacking Scrubbing Bubbles Automatic Shower Cleaner
August 19th  HP Colour Laser Printer (CP1518NI) Review
August 12th  UPS Monitoring
August 10th  eXtreme Blue
August 7th  Tool in Concert
August 4th  Offline Maps on a MIDP enable Cell Phone
July 26th  Book Review: Roo’d
July 18th  Roo Demesne
July 11th  iPod Touch 3.0 Upgrade
July 8th  Writing better JNI code
July 5th  Managing Cable Clutter
June 26th  iTouch
June 22nd  Beware the Browser
May 31st  JavaOne
May 17th  Mounting a Wheelbarrow Wheel
May 13th  Tweet
May 9th  It’s a boy!
April 21st  Time Machine and Linux
April 2nd  Reading Material
March 31st  The New Server
March 23rd  eWaste and Nostalgia
March 17th  Chromium on Ubuntu
March 12th  iPod earbuds disassembled
March 10th  Time to upgrade the server
March 3rd  Exit Review: Nokia 6585
February 27th  Playing in the Cloud
February 23rd  Ubuntu with Apple’s Time Machine
February 18th  Mac Mini Upgrade
February 16th  World of Goo
February 12th  K3B – Burn Baby Burn
January 29th  When DNS Fails
January 28th  Deleting Channels From MythTV
January 12th  Future of Java Embedded VMs
January 9th  Nintendo DS Lite (NDS)
2008December 29th  Slow Cooker
December 22nd  DVD vs Blu-ray
December 15th  Joining the club
December 5th  IR4PS3 Review
December 1st  Plasma vs. LCD
November 25th  64bit Follow-up
November 19th  Samsung ML-2010 Toner Refill
November 19th  PlayStation 3
November 18th  Roo in Japan
November 16th  Burned by Chrome
November 2nd  FrankenPod
October 31st  Java Performance in 64bit land
October 27th  Retrospective
October 26th  A Tale of Two iPods
October 24th  Fantastic Contraption
October 22nd  Ubuntu and the default keyring
October 13th  Wikipedia
October 1st  My day so far..
September 19th  AspireOne fixing MPlayer..
September 3rd  Installing and Using SlimRIO
September 2nd  Mom Knows Best..
August 27th  iPod woes
August 24th  Adding MythTV to the AspireOne
August 20th  Solo 5150 Revived
August 1st  Sharing a Mac printer with Linux
July 31st  Acer Aspire One – Initial Impressions
July 25th  Pad Sew
July 20th  Kids Picnic Table
July 14th  CoolMax 3.5″ IDE Enclosure Review
July 7th  Reverse DNS
June 30th  NCF DSL Review
June 25th  Puppy Linux 4.00 with VMWare Player
June 23rd  DIY Solid State Drive
June 17th  The Optimal eBay Experience
June 13th  Turbo Slug
June 10th  Butterflies And Zebras – Live
June 6th  Not my day..
May 25th  Skullcandy Ink’d Headphones Review
May 22nd  Playlists
May 18th  Slimdevices
May 9th  Travel & WiFi
May 1st  WordPress Exploit
April 28th  xkcd
April 23rd  Screen size, resolution and viewing distance
March 28th  Mysterious AMD USB drive
March 10th  Epson 1080 UB: Convergence
February 27th  Not User Servicable
February 24th  Oppo 980 Review
February 19th  Blu-ray wins!
February 11th  Spyder2
February 8th  HDMI Cables
January 31st  1080UB Colour Calibration
January 28th  The Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD “War”
January 27th  1080UB colour measurements
January 20th  DIY Ceiling Mount
January 16th  Epson 1080 UB: Brief Initial Viewing
January 15th  Epson 1080 UB unboxing
January 14th  Retro Computing
January 7th  “So, you’re buying another one…right?”
January 4th  Hello World!
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