Category Archives: Hardware
Fixing the flashing red alert light on an Altus 1600 SS
Don’t know how many of them are still out there, but my school had a couple of Penguin Computing Altus 1600 SS 1U servers when I arrived. One was offline and the other was being used as a sendmail/dovecot email system. They might have come shipped with Fedora back in the day. I setup the [...]
Problems with Lacie iamakey USB Flash Drives fixed
I really like the design of the Lacie iamakey and related USB flash memory sticks that look like actual keys. I was thinking about moving off the consistent performers I issue to employees, faculty and staff from Sandisk. So, I got an 8 gig and 32 gig to test over the last couple of months.
I [...]
Great solution instead of long VGA cable
We have a theater projector and have a long run to the control booth, but this is not optimal for a presenter on the stage since we don’t have a VGA cable run to the stage that would allow the speaker to operate their laptop from the stage. After replacing the projector with a more [...]
Reasonably Priced Wireless Speaker System
In looking at replacement for fully-wired speakers in classrooms, I ws finally able to find some speakers that are under $200, wireless and have good sound quality. These speakers are from Cables Unlimited / Audio Unlimited and seem to be a great little solution. The speakers can use batteries or be plugged-in and wall-mounting is [...]
New Life for Linksys WRT300N with DD-WRT
My Linksys WRT300N has been a good router for home but now that I needed a some more routing options, I really needed to decide what to do. I don’t need a full-blown router since I am not dishing a routable class C or anything, just a couple of IPs to for servers.
I have known [...]