Upgrading an Imac
This is a tale of upgrading an imac… a 21.5″ late 2015 imac to be precise. We bought it, we used it, it started slowing down.. a lot. various upgrades…
SSD upgrade
Wow. This is for any imagers in particular out there, with a desktop of laptop computer with a spinning hard drive. Replace it with a Solid State Drive (SSD). Now!…
Linux Fedora 29
This website has been running on linux fedora forever… at least 15 years if not more. Back in the day we started with 32 bit linux, as that is all…
linux fedora grub
For many years now, one linux fedora server I maintain had issues with every dnf upgrade that involved a new kernel. It would not place configuration information into boot/grub2/grub.cfg and…
Pi backup
MFLASH 5000mAh Rubberized Power Bank – has been added to a raspberry pi as an uninterruptible power supply (UPS). It was on a Black Friday sale for $10, down from…
Fedora double upgrade goes well
In a recent audit, we came across a linux fedora server that was actually two versions out of date, not just one. Somehow it was missed, or something went wrong…
Linux Fedora 29
Another six months, another release of Linux Fedora. We are up to version 29 now, and with each version the problems are fewer and the results are faster. We are…
seti@home
I first joined the distributed computer project SETI@Home back on 1999 April 12th. That means early next year will be 20 years. Wow. Very few things survey for 20 years…
ssd upgrade
Solid State Drives (SSDs) are one of the best upgrades you can get for your system (server, workstation and laptop). One of the issues they do have however, is that…
More Linux fedora 28 upgrades
It’s been 24 hours now and the first linux inplace upgrade from fedora 27 to fedora 28 is still working well. So well that I started more upgrades. The first…
Linux Fedora 28 locks up after upgrade
Executive Summary: Fedora 27 to 28 upgrade leaves desktop locked up. Linux Fedora 28 was released yesterday and I missed the note! So first thing this morning I sit down…
System upgrade
This site just had a nice upgrade from a 320GB spinning hard drive hosting the operating system, web server and web content, to a smaller 240GB SSD hard drive. Performance…
Windows 10 kills another computer
Microsoft Windows 10 just did another update on one of our old data logging computers, a Toshiba Netbook NB305. After the reboot, it was unresponsive. Many reboots later it was…
linux fedora 26 server upgrades to v27
From: http://news.softpedia.com/news/server-edition-of-fedora-27-linux-is-finally-here-but-it-lacks-modularity-518967.shtml Three weeks after the launch of the Fedora 27 Linux operating system, the Fedora Project announced the release of Fedora 27 Server edition, but it’s not what you…
Memory woes
There have been server issues for the last few days… hard to troubleshoot and diagnose to be sure. Thought it was a bad mariadb database, maybe bad guys getting into…