Long Strange Trip

  • USB-C portable monitor and Linux play (mostly) nice

    USB-C portable monitor and Linux play (mostly) nice

    Recently I acquired a ZenScreen MB16Ac. Its a single cable (USB-C) 15″ monitor that you travel with. It has a unique feature, it can do USB-C ALT-MODE (e.g. act directly as a monitor), or become USB 3.1 and do DisplayLink (no where near as good). Since my laptop supports ALT-MODE, it works out of the…

  • Identity theft and safety in numbers. Poe’s purloined letter applications.

    There have been a lot of very public hacks recently which made off with entire user databases. The most recent, Equifax, saw hundreds of millions of users have their personal financial information leak online. Ooops. As an end user, you can use best practises (e.g. don’t share passwords across sites, use 2-factor, etc), and still…

  • Storage expansion: method chosen, input discarded

    Storage expansion: method chosen, input discarded

    [ps a lot of people were asking ‘how do i subscribe to blogs’. The most convenient option I find to aggregate a lot of content is feedly. You make a page there, and it subscribes to all the content from various sources you consume. But you can use any RSS feeder from the main page…

  • The beast of the basement gets more storage

    The beast of the basement gets more storage

    OK, some believe that my basement has more disk storage than it should. But, that is primarily spinning disk on this Norco RPC4020, With 6x6TB and 6x4TB it has some space to grow I guess. But sometimes you need MOAR speed. The big machine in the basement is in a Thermaltake x9 case, about the size…

  • After 25 years, my old friend is gone

    After 25 years, my old friend is gone

    in April of 1993 I obtained gainful full-time employment (HP), and shortly afterwards, did what all early 20 somethings do when they start to have visibility to regular cash: spent it w/o planning. In my case, a 1993 Mazda Miata LE. It was impossibly expensive (high $20K range) and the payments nearly killed me. But…