Month: August 2018
Tales from the road: the jamaican hotel switcheroo
Jamaica. It conjures up images of crystal blue beaches and rum drinks with umbrellas. Well, it may for you, I’ve been.
Changing the WiFi / Bluetooth in Asus x470-I motherboard
After the ‘desktop that couldn’t AVX‘ issue, I swapped it out for a Ryzen 2700X-based Asus X470-I. If you are looking to kick ass and take names in a cost-effective desktop, look @ Ryzen! However, there was one minor flaw with the Asus. It had this Realtek RTL8822BE WiFi + Bluetooth setup. Blech. It did…
LoraWeb of bike trust ‘lojack’
LoraWAN lojack for bike thiefs, crowd-sourced network. Who’s in?
Tales from the road: the shit-shoe scam
This happened a while ago on a trip to Rio. I’ve just arrived, its a long flight (~12 hours), but is in the same timezone. I land in one of Rio’s two amazing (not) airports and get a taxi in to the hotel. On arriving at the hotel, I do my usual and go for…
Bike 2: the sequel
You remember that really great movie, the one that tied it all up perfectly and you said, well, they should never make a sequel? E.g. no-one would do Schindler’s list: the sequel. Well, tonight I bought a new bike to replace the stolen one. I paid … are you ready for this… less than 1%…
