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Well when you get beyond AAA batteries (I think the Chinese and Japanese systems are a little simple D is type 1, C is type2,.. You enter the world of strange numbers and letters. Here’s decoder ring for just one type R44. As an aside, the code is the type of…

Well we’ve been using Docker quite a bit in production and it has been a learning experience for sure. A good one in that you start with a simple Dockerfile which looks a lot like a shell script and then realize how powerful the ideas are. The main confusion is…

As Duncan says, I don’t get out much 🙂 so here is another post in that series. In this case getting Docker to run on Raspberry Pis with the latest Hypriot releases. The guys over there are doing amazing work getting this to work and are right now on their…

Ok, I realize that I should just be incredulous that a 7 year old piece of hardware actually still works, but it actually does. Actually every device with a HDD has now failed. It is the worst part of computers and Apple buries them inside the Mac Mini and iMacs,…

We’ve been using with great success the 40″ Philips BDM4064UC monitor. It is 4K and it is terrific for writing software. You can have a huge number of terminals open which is just great. The price is quite high. About $800 and now about $700. The other thing that is…

There is not much posted about how to actually get a high performance yet cool 4-way machine to work. I’m working on this build at Pc Parts Picker. It is definitely a niche product but here are the goals: Reliability. If you are running two week ML jobs, you do…

The area of pci express has always been incredibly confusing to me. And there isn’t much written about it for laymen. But an old anandtech piece finally made is clear what is happening. Modern intel processors are directly connected to memory and to peripherals. The smaller processors have 28 serial lanes…

Ok so maybe I’m not a genius but felt pretty accomplished doing an incredibly nerdy thing. Getting four Ethernet ports on a supermicro server board running Ubuntu  to work bonded together over a Cisco sg200-50p switch.  What’s going on is a little complicated but here’s the quick summary Most devices…

I had a great conversation with a long lost buddy and it reminded me of passion and wanting to follow it. It reminded me some of the things that are really important to me: True friends and family. As one fellow put it. Not acquaintances or “business” friends but people…

So some quick notes on cool ideas: Docker-machine is only designed to work on a single client. So if you want multiple users or you have a home and work machine it is actually very hard to get the configuration right. There is a magic configuration json that does this…