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Objective: Allow Ubuntu to start BTSync on reboot.   Server create an EC2 instance, with appropriate storage space. Ubuntu LTS 64bit (currently 14.04) download the BTSync client http://www.bittorrent.com/sync The 64bit linux version. dump the btsync.conf ./btsync –dump-sample-config > btsync.conf edit the btsyn.conf […]

Things of importance Family photos/videos Documents scanned docs license/registration information for software Everything else.     How to backup, rule of 3-2-1 3 – (three) copies of everything of importance. 2 – (two) media types at least.  Remember floppies? Remember […]

The plastic T-connectors broke over the winter.  Not very hardy.  Use the internal ones with hose clamps. The solenoids kept up, so far.   Lost the code to the automated system.   GPIO pin 7 – Far East solenoid – […]

Some people love it.  Some people hate it. To get rid of new car smell… Febreze your car.  Just got these from home depot ($6.00 CDN + tax).  New car smell, by the next morning, gone/masked.  Two things: it smells […]

Someone cracked my site, and started running a litecoin cpu miner on my server. I didn’t know how to remove them, thought I patched up the system. If you found out your site is hacked: Calm down Back up the […]

I was getting “Unable to contact YouTube”. I believe my current version as of writing is 1.0.4. This is how I fixed it. I change the DNS settings on the PS3, to point to 8.8.4.4, and 8.8.8.8 (google’s DNS servers). […]