When building out an environment of any kind, you need to have a good starting base, a strong foundation and the same holds true for many things. It's no different when building a virtual machine (VM) template to deploy in your environment in a repeatable fashion. Recently I spent some time developing a generalized/sanitized VM template for Red... Continue Reading →
Fix and Repair a Dead Hard Drive
Everyone's got a story about losing important data one way or another, whether it's from the accidental deletion of some files, a stolen computer, or more commonly a failed hard drive. To be honest I've never been a casualty to lost data, I always kept backups... probably too many backups... like backups of backups. To... Continue Reading →
Install Dash Cam (Aukey DR-H1) in 2012 Honda Civic (9th Generation)
Recently there's been a lot of buzz around Dash Cameras with many "interesting" videos popping up all over YouTube. As a techie it's always cool to fiddle around with new stuff and I wanted to put such a camera into my daily commuter, a 2012 Honda Civic Sedan. I wasn't dying to get a dash cam, but... Continue Reading →