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Perl link extractor

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Colin Faber
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Below is a simple script I use almost daily which I thought I would share with you all. The script fetches various URL’s then extracts all hyper links from the fetched data. It cleans them up a bit and prints … Continue reading →

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Finally finished with FP836 restoration

Posted on August 11, 2014 by Colin Faber
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Well I finally had some time at the end of the day today to finish the FP836 front panel restoration. About the only thing it needed was two new LED’s for the faults. Unfortunately to my dismay the thermal fault … Continue reading →

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Custom wiring harness for Supermicro FP836 front panel module

Posted on August 7, 2014 by Colin Faber
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So after sorting the pin out of the FP836 module here, I’ve created a new wiring harness. It’s reasonably simple with IDC single pin connectors and 1 IDC 2×8 16 pin male header. This allows me to connect directly to … Continue reading →

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Pinout for Supermicro FP836 front panel connector

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Colin Faber
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Recently I purchased a used SC836 Supermicro chassis, it was pretty much stripped to the bare bones. My plan is to make this into a file server, however I don’t want to utilize a Supermicro motherboard. Lucky for me it … Continue reading →

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EeePC upgrades

Posted on May 24, 2014 by Colin Faber
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For a while now I’ve owned an older EeePC 1005PE. I love the thing, running kubuntu 12.04 LTS it’s been a work horse for me. Recently I noticed that my wireless was becoming less reliable, plus it lacked 5GHz support … Continue reading →

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Gopro LCD touch bacpac burn in issues

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Colin Faber
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So interestingly on my recent trip to Key West, while my Hero3+ silver was charging, I had the LCD touch bacpac on it, unfortunately for me this resulted in burning in the warning icon which comes up on the screen … Continue reading →

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Hero3+ Infinit Focus issues

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Colin Faber
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So the wife decided that I needed a GoPro, she ordered me the Hero3+ Silver. After some initial fiddling I noticed that the overall video quality and camera quality, etc. was not exactly as good as I was hoping. After … Continue reading →

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Valve rocks, finally quality FPS for Linux!

Posted on March 21, 2014 by Colin Faber
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After years of only being able to ‘work’ on my Linux desktop I’m finally able to play some of my favorite games again. These are provided by Valve through Steam for Linux. I’ve noticed a few minor issues here and … Continue reading →

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Busy few weeks… New keyboards again!

Posted on August 16, 2013 by Colin Faber
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Well, after a very busy few weeks I’ve finally had some time to my self to get somethings done. One of those things was to replace my favorite all time wireless keyboard / mouse (The Monual MK700) with something new … Continue reading →

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My Beloved Logitech K800 keyboard and it’s recent failures….

Posted on June 24, 2013 by Colin Faber
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So after a few months of being carefully packed up (and turned off), I finally had enough free time to unpack my office again and get things going. To my surprise the keyboard wasn’t working correctly. Even though it was … Continue reading →

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