I have my laptop plugged into an External monitor on my desk with a really long timeout before it goes to sleep but sometimes I want it to sleep sooner. At those times, I may not want to walk up to my desk, grab the mouse and then click through menus just to save a few Watts. It’d be great…
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Ubuntu 18.04 Initial Setup
On my vSphere 6.7 host, I frequently need to setup a new VM for various projects — some long term, some short term. Since this doesn’t happen too often, I tend to need to lookup a few configuration steps every time. List Available Timezones: timedatectl list-timezones Set Timezone to PT sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/Los_Angeles Update system packages: sudo apt-get update…
Read MoreDoE Flame Effects Receiver
In Collaboration with the Dragons of Eden and Illumination Village, we have created the first revision of a standardized wireless controller for Flame Effects Devices. While it’s targeted at flame effects, it’s also a robust and inexpensive platform for other IoT use cases.
Read MoreSynology SSD Cache on External Devices – Part 2 – Forced Failure
After the write up on using external drives for the SSD cache, I shared the article with the wonderful community on Reddit for feedback. As a point of order, the intention of this research is to enable the support of an SSD cache. While this does also enable the ability to extend the volume with external drives, that is out…
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