Category How-To
Automate AWS Cost Reporting with Serverless Solutions
A guten voch! This evening, drawing inspiration from reading about mechanisms that went into building of the Mishkan, I wanted to answer a simple question of what my AWS bill was for the past year. Earlier in my career, a wise manager taught me to “make easy things easy”. Those of you who know me […]
Battery-less Blink doorbell
I love my Blink doorbell. And like any relationship with technology, there’s always an element of desired improvement that’s lurking around the corner. With the doorbell model that I’ve got, such improvement is my desire to not have to periodically swap batteries. Until such a time when (and whether) good folks at Blink will introduce […]
Solar is serious, bank on it!
Tired of all the headlines of banks going belly up? Interested in taking control (of rising energy costs) into your own hands? Have personal sustainability goals and are looking for actionable, measurable steps you can take now? I previously wrote about our journey to residential application of solar energy that we’d started seriously researching in […]
Solar is serious: 2013-2023
In 2013 I began investigating solar technologies. By mid-2015 I was saving 50% monthly. The topic of going green has always been near and dear to my heart. As technologists, we consume and benefit from so much tech that we rarely stop and think about environmental impact. Whether we each can make a small difference, […]
WinNT4 server file shares accessible from a Windows 10 desktop
A few weekend’s ago I had an opportunity to delve into a part of Microsoft Windows security policy land that posed a realistic challenge that is surely faced by many people going through migration activities. Problem statement: Allow Windows 10 systems to get access to file shares created under Microsoft Windows NT. After doing a […]
DIY monitoring made easy – my 8 reasons that make it so
Like many of you, I have been looking to modernize my home alarm monitoring experience. Over 10 years ago I signed up with a local alarm company who provided a First Alert/Honeywell system at practically very little cost in exchange for a heftily priced 5-year contract. A few years later, when I opted to have […]
FIX: Netflix hangs on Panasonic TVs
I have a Panasonic SMART TV that’s 2+ years old and one of the built-in apps is a Netflix viewer. (I smiled when I noticed a little GNU/Linux license enclosure when I’d been unpacking the unit sometime ago). Being the holidays and all, decided to give it a go but noticed that the Netflix app […]
FIX: DVD player unable to play DVDs
Sometime ago I had expanded a Macbook Pro by adding a 2nd internal hard drive in lieu of the built-in DVD drive. Attaching an external DVD drive worked for data DVDs, however once I tried to play a DVD movie, I got a “Valid DVD Drive Could Not be Found [-70012]” error. A bit of research on […]
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