It’s mid-April, which means it’s time for my annual post about spring sports and Linux upgrades! š First, sports … For the first time in four years my Tampa Bay Lightning are not in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. They were in last place back in February and just missed squeaking into the last wild card …
Over Christmas vacation I had a network outage that left me without remote access to my home network for a week. While I was at my in-laws, unable to connect to my server or cameras, I started researching options for out-of-band management of my home network.Ā I started with cellular devices like this, but they all …
There’s no shortage of Bluetooth trackers out on the market. These are small devices you can attach to your car keys, wallet, pets, etc. and then pair to an app on your smartphone so you can presumably find them when they’re lost or misplaced.Ā I recently picked up three TrackR BravosĀ (one for my keys, one for …
Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) was released almost two months ago, but I only just realized I hadn’t upgraded yet (this happened to me during the last .10 release as well). This upgrade was a little smoother thanĀ last time, but not without its hiccups. The upgrade processĀ uses screen to keep everything running separately in a separate …
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I seem to be saying goodbye to a lot of long-used software this week … first Trillian, and now Evernote. I’ve been an Evernote user since 2009, and a Premium annual subscriber since 2014. Their recent price increase announcement, however, would cause my $45/year subscription to jump to $70 next February when my renewal comes …
I’ve been a Trillian Pro user since 2004 but the time has come to drop my favorite cross-platform instant messaging client. Apparently Yahoo is shutting down the legacy servers that run the old Windows/Mac client versions of Yahoo Messenger (in favor of the webĀ andĀ mobile versions) on August 5 so Trillian will no longer work with …
Now that I have an Amazon Echo in the house, I wanted to be able to play my music collection by just asking Alexa to do it. Since the Echo relies on the cloud, it can only play local music when it’s paired to a device as a speaker. So I could pair my iPhone …
For Father’s Day I got an Amazon Echo, Amazon’sĀ voice-activated smart home speaker. You may know it (her?) as Alexa. If you’ve followed the blog, or even just glanced at it, you know I love tech gadgets and am also no stranger to dabbling in home automationĀ so the Echo has been a fun toy to play …
Ah, April. The Stanley Cup Finals have started and my Tampa Bay Lightning have already advanced to round 2. The NBA Finals have also started and my Cleveland Cavaliers are looking to sweep the Pistons on Sunday and move on to the conference semi-finals. We’re about a month into the new baseball season and both …
A recent server upgrade (to Ubuntu 16.04) that included PHP 7.0 seems to have broken WordPress. I’m working on it!