Drilling holes without much mess
I learnt this from a friend. If you fold a post it note like a V or check mark sharp and stick it below where you want to drill a hole in the wall, it…
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Fastest SD Card Reader
I just got the IOGEAR SuperSpeed USB 3.0 SD/Micro SD Card Reader / Writer yesterday and it's the fastest SD card reader i have ever seen. This was very cheap too, you can get it for…
Running a Ubuntu server on VirtualBox
I created a virtual Ubuntu server on my Windows HTPC box using VirtualBox and VBoxVmService. This is a great setup as I can have a HTPC that's always on with a Ubuntu server running on top. The…
Nagios
I Nagios is a wonderful tool to monitor your network devices. Nagios is a powerful monitoring system that enables organizations to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems before they affect critical business processes. Designed…
Latest Toastman Tomato Firmware
The latest version of Toastman Tomato Firmware is really nice (i'm using 1.28.7500.4). You can now monitor IP Traffic by IP, so you can find out if you have a rouge device on your network…
Being a teacher for the first time
I was called to be a Primary teacher in December in my local LDS church, which was a surprise to me as I have never taught children before. So this January 2012 was I big…
kmod-Nvidia and Centos 6
Centos 6 comes with the nouveau which doesn't work very well for my needs and the Nvidia driver works better. So heres the step to install kmod-nvidia as root. run "rpm -Uvh http://elrepo.org/elrepo-release-6-4.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm" run "yum…
AirPrint and Ubuntu 11.10
In Ubuntu 11.10, setting up AirPrint is easy. 1. Have a Standard install of Ubuntu Desktop 11.10. 2. Go into the CUPS interface and make sure "Share published printers connected to this system" is enabled…
Ceiling Fan
Today I finished installing a ceiling fan in my son bedroom. This was a new experience and a first for me, it took a few hours and a lot of hard work. We got the…
System Administrator Appreciation Day
Today July 29, 2011 is System Administrator Appreciation Day. So Happy SysAdmin Day everyone. More information on SysAdmin Day can be found at http://www.sysadminday.com/