SSD upgrade

The Dell came with a 128gb SSD, which was business sexy several years ago when it was new. I’m dual booting win7 and Debian Linux on it. Enough room for that but I want to use it as a mythtv back end. It’s already running most the time lately, controlling a small cryptocoin miner ASIC.

Cruise control – road trip to El Paso

A bunch of things are happening right now.  Might end up in a mad flurry/launch or just a blip on the radar.  Much thinking will be required. It starts with a road trip to El Paso in July. To that end, I ordered the Rostra cruise control for the Promaster.  I’d been putting it off

overhead storage in PM

Note:  I originally tried to post this on CRVL, but the borked forum software has stopped parsing clickable thumbnails and displaying them.  So pasting the post here. Been a while since my last update. Work has been weird, then I got Lyme disease a coupla weeks ago. Not as much fun as it sounds. I

tiny tiny rss, php7, mariadb

I had a virtual server instance that I hadn’t yet upgraded to the latest Debian stable (9/stretch).  There was a reason for this but I don’t remember what it was. When I upgraded it made the switch from MySQL to MariaDB, which is said to be a drop-in replacement.  I was skeptical.

working on the Chinese scooter

I plan on taking a lightweight scooter or dualsport bike with me when I hit the road.  My current road bike, a Honda NC700x, is too heavy at 500lb+.  I’d much rather load/unload/pick up a 200# bike than a 500# one.  I don’t care about liquid cooling but I would greatly prefer fuel injection. My