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OK, I confess, in our organizations, we typically have a single organization zoom account since there are not enough meetings to justify everyone having a paid account. This leads to all kinds of issues because of different defaults, but the short note is that you want Zoom meetings security to…

OK, this thing actually works pretty well, here are some notes: Wow, it is way more dynamic than fixed watering so as the temperature shift here (Seattle is pretty unprecedented, in the old days, getting into the 80s was warm, but it’s been 109F and next week it will be…

Wow, things are about to change alot in the communications business. There are two big things happening: Wifi 6E at 1GHhz at 6GHz. Ok, this has a horrible name, but basically, the US is about to open up 1GHz worth of spectrum in the 6GHz range. The implications of this…

Well, in the never-ending quest to be efficient, one this that is a pain is that in normal vi, if you want to say change things inside a set of quotes, you have to go backward to the first quote with F” and then change to the next quote with…

Well, I’ve always had good luck keeping Mac hardware going. In fact our MacBook 2008s still run (they are just so slow it’s not really worth it), but I encountered my first real hardware failure where it would not even boot into recovery mode. But if you get these symptoms,…

Ok, getting down to the last licks on HomeKit devices, but here is the next batch. RainMachine is great, HomeKit glitch First of all, we’ve been using the RainMachine over the weekend and I have to say I’m impressed, it automagically works remotely without having to do a sign on…

Well, it’s iPad Pro (3rd Generation) since 2018 and have just loved it. There have been improvements with cameras and performance, but since this is mainly a read the Internet and research papers machines it has been great, even three years later. Smart Folio Keyboard good but not great When…

OK, we are in the heart of the summer and I’ve always wanted to really smoke. Just to define terms, what most people call a BBQ is actually a grill since it applies lots of direct heat, then there is a real barbecue which is low temperate heat for a…

Well, time once again for the bi-monthly update on home automation. The main things are that we now have four different houses laid out with Apple Homekit as a base and here is what is working, some tips, tricks, and some traps that cover how to handle multiple homes, multiple…

Ok, in trying to finish gracetong.com, I’ve had a lot of little glitches with the template that is Wowchemy. This is a really nice quick and dirty way to get a resume up, but one big thing you give up when going to WordPerfect to Hugo is that many of…