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Crashplan, I choose you

Back at home I use Open Media Vault as my NAS (Network Attached Storage solution to store and serve up my media and documents to my computers and devices. Open Media Vault (OMV) gives me all the things I need with one single exception; that’s backups. So at home I backup to USB disks, but what if there was […]

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Dear Moma

There isn’t a card I could by to express the love I have for my mom this mothers day. Rather than use the words of some hallmark card, I’ll use an abridged version of a song I know: “Dear Moma” When I was young me and my mama had beef Seventeen years old kicked out […]

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This is water

“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.” ― David Foster Wallace, This is Water Below is an abridged version of the original audio […]

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Keep Calm and

The British government in 1939 during the beginning of the Second World War, intended to raise the morale of the British public in the aftermath of widely predicted mass air attacks on major cities by posting signs that read “keep calm and carry on”.  The intent was to strengthen morale in the event of disaster. […]

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“┓┏ 凵 =╱⊿┌┬┐”

I just watching a long awaiting episode of Doctor Who “The Bells of St John”, and while I am not to give away the plot (no spoilers…) I will touch on an Wifi SSID used during episode that I found to be intriguing; why have I not thought of doing this in the past. Would be a  beings are using […]

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Set the Date and Time on Honeywell Security Pad

I had a need to check and possibly change the date and time on a Honeywell Security System via the Security Pad. Here are some generic instruction steps to check or change the settings: Enter your four-digit security code and press “#” and “63.” Press “*” when the date/time displays on the screen. Enter two digits […]