We want to try out JSE Coin as a way to prevent spam and as a way for visitors to support the site. Running a blog has some cost involved, so being able to offset the bills is awesome.
Scaleway Bare Metal Servers AMD Epyc 7401P
Scaleway’s hourly rate is on par to packet.com’s spot instance rate Last year, I wrote a comparison between packet.net and Google Computing. I was so impressed with AMD Epyc 7401P 24c/48t at packet. I see that Scaleway also offers Bare…
Mesh network for better wifi coverage
Tenda MW6 Nova Wave 2 802.11AC, Mu-Mimo Whole Home Wi-Fi Mesh System, 3-Pack I bought a three pack tenda wifi mesh network for $129 Amazon. I’ve been wanting a set ever since Google announced theirs but didn’t want to pay…
Use Outlook Google Calendar Sync (OGCS) and sync multiple Google Calendars to Outlook
Download a portable installation of Outlook Google Calendar Sync. https://phw198.github.io/OutlookGoogleCalendarSync/ The software is free, but if you get it to work, tip the man a pint or two! I have an Outlook calendar for work, and two read-only links from…
Packet.net AMD EPYC 48-core Review
Thanks to this zdnet article and packet.net, I was fortunate enough to receive a $250 trial of their bare metal server (Dell PowerEdge R6415) with the AMD EPYC CPU (24-core, 48 threads). packet.net c2.medium.x86 AMD EPYC intro Persistent versus spot instance…
Is Bittorrent good for live streaming?
For streaming, being able to send file pieces sequentially is essential. In my experience, I’ve never gotten peers to send pieces quickly enough to stream a 720p/1080p video without interruption. Since most consumer broadband in the USA focus on download…
Moving from Dropbox to Google Drive
I’m disappointed with Dropbox — they created another tier called Pro to give more storage 2TB and placeholder for cloud only files. I’m researching other businesses for my cloud storage. Google Drive is looking very attractive these days. I used…
Installing OpenVPN on Gullo’s hosting – 256MB plan on Ubuntu 14 32-bit
Installing OpenVPN on Gullo’s hosting Others have claimed you can install OpenVPN on 128MB of RAM on Ubuntun 16 using Gullo’s hosting. If this is the case for you, I’d love to hear from you. I tried 128MB plan with Ubuntu…
How to change the time and “target date” on a retirement countdown clock.
One of my colleagues decided to retire next month. We got him/her a retirement clock to display the number of days remaining before the target date. Setting today’s time was easy enough, but many people were having trouble setting the target…
Quicken 2012 Release 5 Update – Addresses Some Bugs
Quicken 2012 Release 5 addresses some bugs that were prevalent in the first release. Primarily, One Step Update was causing forced quits which could lead to corrupt data. I use Quicken 2012 not because it is well written software by…