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The Apple Value Myth – Part 2 – Maybe Worth The Price

It’s Upgrade Time About one and a half years ago, I bought my wife a mid-2012 MacBook Pro.  I chose carefully.  I got her the 2.5GHz i5 processor, 8GB of RAM, and 120GB SSD drive.  I’ve really glad I...

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How to Test a Raspberry Pi Powered by Alkaline AA Batteries

This article is a continuation of a failed attempt to test a Raspberry Pi by AAA Batteries. My original test was flawed, but I seemed to have corrected the methodology and have performed an accurate...

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Rona in Aurora Ontario – The Death of a Big Box

It seems to me that maybe this Rona is one of the final big box victims of the 2008 economic bust.    I guess someone thought the homebuilding would continue forever.  We’re not protected here in...

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How Much Bandwidth does a new Apple TV (and Netflix) Take?

Boy, It’s a good thing i tacked on the extra 10 dollars for unlimited bandwidth usage from my ISP  – Rogers!! I was previously told that there would be an initial surge of data while the AppleTV...

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How Much Does Electricity for a 100W Lightbulb Cost in Ontario?

I was considering ditching the old desktop PC and considering using just a laptop from now on.  They consume way less power and I was curious as to how much electricity REALLY costs where I live in...

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Frost Quakes in Ontario CryoSeismic Event

After a mostly sleepless night (Jan 2-3, 2014) due to Frost Quakes, I thought i’d investigate more and find out if the USGS or the Natural Resources Canada to see if these seismic events actually made...

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3 Reasons Why KickStarter Projects Fail

I love kickstarter.  Recently I funded the LOIRP project and actually got an original negative back from the project as promised. Today I decided to cruise around kickstarter and ended up wondering...

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Grocery Store Tricks, Priced in Imperial, Weighed in Metric

So the other day i was purchasing some cherries, when I ran into a problem.  I had no idea how much the darned things were gonna cost me.  I went to a Loblaws SuperStore in Aurora and spotted these:...

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MicroChip PicKit 3 Review – and Bizzare Response

While exploring various options for programming the MicroChip PIC12 , i ran into this review.  Old, but noteworthy.  This is not a typical Public Relations response. This respected auzzie reviews the...

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Mail In a Box on EC2 with S3 backup script

I wanted to break free and set up my own email server on Amazon’s AWS cloud. After signing up for a one year free trial, creating my mailinabox server on a T2 Micro instance with Ubunut 14.04LTS,...

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phpMyAdmin and CentOS and EC2 and RDS – fixed!

If you’re reading this and it matters to you.  I’m about to save you hours of go-nowhere research.  Nowhere else have i found the solution.  So here you go world. I can describe the problem as this:...

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QN: 127 People will choke on spinach while reading this…

this is just a quick-shot quick numbers.

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QuickNumbers: Saturn V rocket can lift a third of a million pounds into Low...

It’s amazing, isn’t it?

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KVM and Ubuntu Basics – How to Properly Backup your XML Files

So in finicking around with KVM on my Ubuntu 16.04.1 for a little bit, and i’d like to share something that may really save you a lot of time and effort when it comes to those pesky xml files that...

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KVM Host- Read your hypervisor’s Performance using Top

How subscribed is your server? Here’s a sample of top output.  Here’s some key things that beginners need to know about how your host “sees” the VM’s.  My example is KVM on LTS.  This example is based...

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A Conversation about Video Meta Data

[10:42:56 PM] Me: scrub the video clip before uploading! [10:43:40 PM] Chet Wanger: what do I use to clean a video clip? and what is online with my current videos in the metadata? [10:44:14 PM] Me:...

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1950s Aerial Survey of Ontario

Lovely.  1954 survey done at 2 meter resolution.  I’ve seen 172’s outfitted with magnetometer mapping equipment for mining surveys before, but never a keyhole-style film optical capture setup. Have fun...

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Ubuntu Landscape Problems

I ran into a problem a short while ago with Landscape clients unable to connect to my Landscape server, and just recently figured out what’s going on. Essentially PyCurlError: Error 60: server...

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Grocery Store Tricks, Priced in Imperial, Weighed in Metric

So the other day i was purchasing some cherries, when I ran into a problem.  I had no idea how much the darned things were gonna cost me.  I went to a Loblaws SuperStore in Aurora and spotted these:...

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MicroChip PicKit 3 Review – and Bizzare Response

While exploring various options for programming the MicroChip PIC12 , i ran into this review.  Old, but noteworthy.  This is not a typical Public Relations response. This respected auzzie reviews the...

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