HP 3PAR arrays format their drives with 520 byte sectors, which are incompatible with standard operating systems. There are many guides online for reformatting 520 byte drives to 512 using sg_format, but HP 3PAR HGST drives with FIPS encryption (model HSCP0920S5xnFMRI) are particularly stubborn. T...

I just built a router which is overkill. I'm going to be using pfSense as the operating system and I'll have security utilities like Snort running on it to protect my network. The main idea for building this with the specs I went with is I can expand. If I wanted 1Gb/sec, it can handle it. If I want...

This little board is a cheap serial to WiFi device that allows hooking up devices like the Arduino to WiFi for wireless control.

I plan on using this for my room lighting whenever I get around to playing with it.

I haven't posted in a long time, so may as well post images of my desktop internals.

They have nice specs. They run UNIX/Linux 90% of the time. The gaming machine is the only machine that runs Windows and it runs it with the web browser sandboxed and in an standard user account. I don't want those...

Decided to do a review for my favorite gadget.

New light design works great! Basically my issue with why the lights all turned on when you turned on another color was just an issue of the tops of the MOSFETS touching each other. Separating them out fixes the issue.

I gone ahead and bought a power supply which is made for these sorts of things...