Too much technology, too little free time
I recently was trying out a GlusterFS replicated volume on a couple of Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS VMs, and it was a complete failure. After mounting the new volume, I could add small numbers of files, but when I dropped 25…
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Continuing my geeking-out of my aquarium, I wanted to have temperature monitoring. I have a pile of Dallas-Maxim DS18S20 1-wire temperature sensors left over from when I added temperature monitoring to my house, but the bare DS18S20 is not going…
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The new aquarium I am setting up has dual 250W Visa-Therm (now Marineland) Stealth heaters to keep the temperature up at around 82F, even though my house is often only 60F when I am too cheap to run the heat….
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As seen previously on this blog I had a 30 gallon (36″ x 12″ x 17″) aquarium in what is labeled the ‘Family Room’ in the floor plan for my house. The tank was about 4 feet from a 35000…
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As part of an on-going effort to reclaim my garage from the hoards of clutter in it, I mounted my kayak to a garage wall this weekend. To do this I had to remove a shelf that a previous homeowner…
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After the success of the upgrade of an aquarium light from 30 watts to a 55 watts, today I crammed the leftover 30 watt light into a 20 watt light that I use on top of my 30 gallon aquarium. …
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A common problem for fish is not being able to find the bathroom when the house is dark. To solve this issue, various manufacturers market “Lunar LED Lights” for aquarium use. I have purchased two separate makes of these, and…
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Drs. Foster and Smith, from whom I order far too much fish-related equipment, use biodegradable packing peanuts in their shipments. This makes getting rid of the peanuts easy, if you don’t want to reuse them: just put them in in…
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I have a 2002 Subaru Impreza TS (which is the wagon model), it has been a good car, I have driven it around the country, and back and froth to work a few times too. I also have a kayak,…
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I have a 54 gallon corner aquarium, that came with a little All-Glass Aquarium twin tube light (24″ tubes, 15 watts each), which isn’t much light for a fairly large/deep tank. A friend of mine who is very fishy-equipment-smart suggested…
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