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It’s always hard to know the best time to buy things. But for electronics the main question is how rapidly the technology is evolving.  For things that are moving fast it makes the most sense to try to buy “ahead” because the software typically will end up depending on new…

Ok I’ve been trying to be good and use the bus and run to work. One strangeness with the Orcacard. If u get down to zero balance and have autologous enabled you can actually get on the bus. Auto load only triggers if u get to zero and the refills. …

Wow what a confusing set of ideas. With these modern graphical operating systems, making character or terminal applications look nice takes you back literally 40 years.  Here’s the scoop for pretty terminal colors for developers.  The default colors in vim are pretty bad. http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized has devoted way too much time…

There doesn’t look like any way to create a bootable Mac Linux USB Drive from Mac OS X right now. Unetbootin, USB Linux (only works for Mac boot themselves) all fail. Rufus on Windows works and hopefully Ubuntu Disk Creator.

Ok, so if you are a real nerd, here is how to make all this work. It maybe the Holiday season but Ebay seems pretty broken. Right now I can’t buy either staples or Best Buy gift cards. Goes into cart but on checkout says unknown failure. I wish they…

Ok this has got to be the most underrated carrier. Their pricing is pretty amazing at $20 per user. $10 for data but no minimum. If u don’t use data they tefund you the $10 or any part of it. Most people like me end up 20% under because overage…

So you want to give gift cards, well here are some ways to stack bonuses and get some big savings according to Frequent Miler. This isn’t manufactured spend but legitimate use. The biggest problem is that the Ebay site is just very broken. For two days the Paypal connection didn’t…

Well this has been an incredible time for monitors. Basically after a long multi year period, it is getting interesting again. There are two pieces of news and some new recommendations from 4k.com and tomshardware.com 4K monitors These are now affordable and wow, if you are doing spreadsheets, writing software…

Well, I thought we were set for computes, but turns out that we do need to get two more. Just missed the Black Friday sales, but I don’t think these components are going on sale. Still, this is an incredible machine mainly because of the new SSD that is going…

I’ve spend the last six months getting deeply into programming again and over and over I find that I learn differently than the way most tutorials take you. So here’s a quick list of new things I’ve learned and the fundamental idea that (at least of me cracked the nut)…