Asus S400ca SSD Hybrid Hard Drive Speed
My new ASUS S400CA touch laptop came with a hybrid HD that I’ve been quite impressed with. To be honest, I never thought much of the hybrid drives thinking it was more of a marketing hype. My old desktop had a full SSD drive that is a fraction of the size and probably cost just as much as this hybrid. Speed wise, I honestly [...]
Half Height Drives
This issue only comes up for a select few people that are trying to cram way too much into too small of a space. You often see what some manufacturers sell as “half-height” drives, but its not what you think. When comparing hard drives, you will find drives that are shorter than others. And since the term [...]
AVRDUDE: stk500_getsync(): not in sync
AVRDUDE: stk500_getsync(): not in sync This error comes up quite a bit if you are doing prototyping and your Arduino suddenly stops wanting to upload newer program. It’s a confusing error because it lead many people to believe that the Arduino chip itself is damaged and not responding to the upload command. What is [...]
Light Bulb Temperatures
So I got bored one day and happen to have an infrared thermometer. I thought it would be interesting to know just how much heat comes off light bulbs. Its more than you would think. But keep in mind, this is an IR thermometer being pointed directly at a light source that could throw off extra IR emissions. The numbers might not be the [...]
Biopunk: DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life Review
Biopunk: DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life by Marcus Wohlsen This book is an interesting overview of the DIY BIO movement and a quick ~200 page read. Each chapter is a new topic/interview of some part of the DIY BIO movement and the author does a pretty good job balancing bias by showing the good it can do and the safety [...]
Dual Bay NAS Test Run
If there is one thing to learn from working in IT, it is that technology doesn’t always work the way you plan. I recently upgraded a single drive 2TB Iomega NAS (network attached storage) with a dual bay Buffalo Linkstation NAS because I was concerned about the safety of the data being stored on it. When I first started [...]
Server Virtualization with Proxmox on an Intel Atom
Let’s be honest, no one is going to promote doing this. But I wanted to run a development server in my bedroom — I want something silent and something that run 24/7 without being noticeable on my electric bill. It is only going to be used in development so it doesn’t need too much processing power, just the [...]