If you’ve ever wondered how you are able to communicate with another server in a different part of the world, it is mostly underwater cables that cross continents to deliver packets to and from your computer. I am not surprised…
Can Google’s Quantum Computer mine the remaining Bitcoin in 2 seconds?
3 Million Bitcoin in 2 Seconds: Google Quantum Computer If Sycamore does a hit and run, the ASICs will not be able to handle the difficulty when the next difficulty adjustment occurs. You don’t care your mempool transaction won’t be…
Save Outlook attachments using VBA.
You can set up Outlook desktop using Outlook VBA to save attachments to your local folder. You may need to lower the security of Outlook to allow VBA to run. If you receive attachments via e-mail, you might want to…
How do I make Date & Time appear in Windows 10 system tray task bar?
You might be wondering why only the time shows up on your system tray. Isn’t there a way to make the date appear as well? Some people suggest making the task bar area two rows and that will certainly work.…
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…
BiblePay partners with CameroonONE to sponsor orphans through the BiblePay crypto wallet
On 5 Sep 2019, BiblePay is kicking off a partnership with CameroonONE to allow sponsorship of “orphans” using the BiblePay crypto wallet. Along with paying for sponsorship via BiblePay (BBP), you can also donate using traditional fiat means such as…
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…
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…