Jordan Introduction I found myself defending Lenovo ThinkCentre against some of the mini-pcs that are going for absolutely insanely low prices on Ali-Express and sometimes on Amazon. So I thought I would provide my take on the situation, granted it will be biased towards Lenovo. This is a Draft I’m starting this as a draft and … Read more
Introduction I’ll update this page regularly from deals I see online. I mostly find these deals on https://redflagdeals.com Things to consider on Black Friday Important! A lot of manufacturers and retail stores now sell ‘Black Friday’ models that are lower quality, or have some tradeoff. Additionally, many retailers up the price ahead of this season, … Read more
I posted this on Facebook, because I had to clean up my Google Drive due to lack of storage and sort through dumps I did onto Google Drive. Some of the dumps included video footage. I’ve been going through video footage from 2015 and putting up on Youtube. Starting to get the hang of Davinci … Read more
What is DASH? This is what Lenovo says Dash (desktop and mobile architecture for system hardware) is a set of specifications developed bydmtf, which aims to provide open standards based web service management for desktop and mobileclient systems. Dash is a comprehensive framework that provides a new generation of standards toprotect the security of out … Read more
Too many Facebook Messages I had a ton of Facebook Marketplace messages that I was annoyed with and wanted archived. So I found many resources online on using the Chrome console to run javascript to archive the messages. Javascript Gist and More I found a gist with the needed code, but it didn’t work. Upon … Read more
Importing a large Gmail or Google Workspace calendar that, when exported as a .ics file and larger than 1MB, will fail. This is due to the Gmail interface’s 1MB limit on processing .ics files. The solution is to split up the .ics file, which you can do manually or using the following python script.
If you’ve ever had to utilize a hosting provider that offers the option to buy extra IPs or failover IP addresses, you may have observed instances where these IPs shared the same gateway as your original IPs, rather than being part of the additional IP network. Here are some of the providers I’m aware of … Read more
If you read the Monit documentation, it tells you exactly how to use Monit environment variables when using exec. No environment variables are used by Monit. However, when Monit executes a start/stop/restart program or an exec action, it will set several environment variables which can be utilised by the executable to get information about the … Read more
I was having issues migration the “Sent Items” folder on a hosted Exchange 2013 account to Microsoft 365. The hosted Exchange 2013 server was returning a “NO Server Unavailable. 15” error when trying to select the “Sent Items” folder with 33,000 messages. Digging further, I couldn’t find anything until I stumbled upon this thread on … Read more
Introduction Someone posted on a Facebook group looking for the cheapest means for cold storage backups. I did some research and collected some data. Response Tapes All depends, if you have a petabyte or half a petabyte it might work. It might be cheaper to just sync data to another data center. LTO8/9 are 12/18TB … Read more