Mount a Raid1 drive from a Dell Perc S100 Windows in Linux 22 Aug 2013 | 09:30 pm

This was a challenge given to me by one of my employees, he forgot the admin password of a windows7 machine that was running on a PowerEdge T110 II using a perc s100 raid card in raid level 1.  He wor...

MySQL show slave status as it applies to change master to 17 Jul 2013 | 08:18 pm

I got this from this link Basically: “When you’re using CHANGE MASTER TO to set start position for the slave you’re specifying position for SQL thread and so you should use Relay_Master_Log_File:Exe...

Drill Head and Drill Bit 26 Jun 2013 | 09:51 pm

I have build the drill head and the Drill Bit. This is the Drill Head, I will attach two garden hoses to this. This is the Drill Bit, notice the set screw. Another view of the Drill Bit.

Started digging! 24 Jun 2013 | 09:50 pm

Well, just a jump start hole anyway. I made a start hole using a fence post shovel and put in a 8inch pipe – the pipe is about 6 and a half feet long but is only sticking out of the ground about 3 fe...

Purchased breaker box and breakers for the basement 12 Jun 2013 | 03:35 pm

So, part of my basement solar project plan means that this year I will be running the basement off solar power. The tricky part is that I only have one breaker box in my house, for all floors! I have ...

gpg2 – notes 13 Mar 2013 | 01:06 am

Well, it is that time for me again, to create a new gpg key. I store it on an encrypted file system and I usually use it to securely send passwords to the people I work with, or I use … Continue readi...

New purchases today, for a company I do work for. 4 Mar 2013 | 10:00 pm

IP camera 5 Feb 2013 | 10:27 pm

So I am thinking of getting one of these, or a few of these:

Bug out Bag components list 14 Nov 2012 | 11:32 am

Well, I am back at it…. You didn’t even know I was at it in the first place! About a year ago, or more, I had my car broken into – it was in my driveway!  Along with other items … Continue reading →

Arduino + LCD + GPS 30 Oct 2012 | 11:53 pm

Well it is that time again, got excited about electronics and started playing around. My end goal this time is a robotic RC car, but we will get to that later. This post is about the GPS and the LCD …...