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Sourdough in Virginia

Starter I used the following sourdough recipe from King Arthur Flour. I struggled at first, but mainly because I wasn’t doing regular feedings every 12 hours. Once I did that I had a starter within four days. Also, I found that it was not critical to have unbleached flour. I got a vigorous starter using…

July 10, 2016
My DIY Little Bits

I whipped up some quick LED modules and my own power module using some proto boards and components I purchased from amazon. I haven’t branched out to more complicated module types, but these ones work well. I think each module cost ten cents or so, rather than the 10 dollars little bits charges. Note that…

July 10, 2016
Measuring raspberry pi performance

I initially had high hopes for the raspberry pi 3 and snapped up three of them. I hoped to see one take the place of my media center, another two for monitoring tasks. Unfortunately I became less than enthused about the pi for a media center as it has no good way to stream of…

July 1, 2016
WiFi Performance on Raspberry Pi 3

I purchased a couple raspberry pi 3s. The major draw is that you no longer need an external wifi adapter – yet the cost is the same as the older pis. The very first thing I noticed is that ssh traffic was stuttery. This cleared up after performing an apt-get update/upgrade. Everything seemed silky-smooth thereafter.

March 21, 2016
Exporting Paths for QNAP Albums

As nice as the photo station is inside of the QNAP, sometimes you just want to do your own thing with your photos and videos. But what if they are organized into albums on the QNAP? Couldn’t you just pull down the photos/videos in the album? Or, better, get local paths on your QNAP network…

March 14, 2016
2015 Review of Open Source Media Sharing Software

Open source software rules the internet. The majority of website are supported in some form by open source: be it linux, apache, or some open source library or language. Surely, then, we could find an open source alternative to social media websites like Facebook, instagram, and Flickr… right? Here are my requirements: Server-side import. I…

January 9, 2016
Good Settings for QNAP

The last few years of using my QNAPs have been great. QNAP isn’t perfect but it is a good, quiet, Linux-ish platform for serving up files. Since some of my family are buying their own, I thought I would document some of the settings I commonly change: General: I force HTTPS (its silly and unsecure…

December 31, 2015
Learning Log: React.js and HTML5 video

Carson’s Web Development Maxim: If you don’t like any of the web toolkits that are available just wait a few months: there will be ten new ones waiting for you. I like, and still use, Angular, but I wanted to try something new. Enter React: a framework from the Facebook side of the fence. What…

December 29, 2015
Containers for Fun and Profit

With all the whirl about containers I decided I could wait no longer to join the fray. Here is a log of some of the things I learned. Basic test, e.g. what the heck is this? I spun up a cent7 vm several months back. Apparently my repos were a tad old and things didnt…

December 29, 2015
Migrating QNAP Static Vol to Storage Pool

WARNING: This is risky. Just assume that you would only try this if you were ok losing your data. When I got my first QNAP almost two years ago it didn’t support storage pools (or if it did I was oblivious). One of the advantage of storage pools is that they enable QNAPs snapshot replica…

December 26, 2015

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