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Recent Comcast outage and lessons learnt about Netgear R8500
I wanted to share some experiences with the Netgear R8500 router that we’re using at home. For several months now, we have been happily using the router; we have 30+ devices at home… Then Comcast outage hit our area, some 900+ customers went out for 4+ hours. While outages do occur, when Comcast did restore…
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Azure: Switching Between Hot/Cool/Archive Storage Access Tiers
In this post, I’m going to provide PowerShell examples of how to switch Access Tiers of an Azure Storage Account. First, let us provision a Storage Account with Access Tier set as Cool: PS C:\> New-AzureRmStorageAccount -ResourceGroupName testRG1 -Name teststa112 -AccessTier Cool -Kind BlobStorage -SkuName Standard_LRS -Location WestUS To show that the change of Access…
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Moving packages / applications to another volume on Synology DSM
Recently I experienced a disk failure that forced me to relocate folders to another volume. Turns out there were bunch of installed packages like HyperVault that also needed to be moved. Unfortunately Synology doesn’t offer any user interface for performing this. Thankfully Andrew McLean put together this guide that took care of the problem. Linking…
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Soft resetting Surface Pro 3 or 4
If your Surface Pro stuck on Surface logo screen, you may be able to recover by simultaneously pressing and holding Power and Volume Up buttons. Specifically: 1. Keep power plugged in. 2. Press and hold power to shut it down. 3. Press and hold power and Volume Up. Keep holding Volume Up until BIOS screen…
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Places we like to go as a family around Bay Area
I wanted to compile the list of places we as a family like to go around the Bay Area and also use this opportunity to gather recommendations from you. We are a family of 4 with 2 kids. I’ll update the list as we discover new places. Hidden Villa (link) Why we like it: Great for…
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3D Printer Design Software Decision Tree
There is no shortage of 3D printing related content on the web. One that I came across was quite useful — https://www.gliffy.com/go/publish/5271448; it’s from the blog post http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:232578 by Gilles Pinault. Thank you for putting it together Gilles.
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Lenovo Horizon and Windows 10 Notes
I had the Lenovo Horizon v1 27″ PC since it came out.. It was the last PC to get the Windows 10 upgrade, unfortunately the experience wasn’t smooth. This post is about the progression of my upgrade process and some tips that might help you along the way. Initial State Back when Windows 10 was…
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Synology DS1815+ and double-disk failure on a SHR volume
Yesterday my DS1815+ sent an email alert telling me one of the volumes on my NAS entered into degraded state. Minutes later, I realized one of the 3TB drives registered 8 bad-block errors in the log, at which point DS decided to put it in Crashed state. I quickly checked the warranty on it, of…
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Synology DSM 5.1 and Volume Migrations
For the past week or so, I have been experimenting with 2 Synology units, DS1812+ and DS1815+. I had about 5.5TB of shares and LUNs to move around. I have made some observations and wanted to share those with you. At first, I thought that SHR with 1 disk redundancy would fit my needs. So…