A blog about curiosity being a good habit
The time has come for the biggest Naze32 challenger yet. Dominic Clifton, of CleanFlight fame, has now produced his own board to go along with his terrific, open source software platform. Credit is due to Baseflight, of course, and all the contributors and, especially, TimeCop, for opening the doors to an amazing board that was… Continue reading Seriously Pro F3 Racing Board
FireHost takes a little getting used to if you’re used to having actual root access and complete control over your or your client’s hosting environment. While some call them Draconian, FireHost leans to the very conservative of the security spectrum. They also require a dubious amount of tickets you have to open. That said, it’s… Continue reading Working with FireHost
IIS Crypto, Great tool for reducing cipher exposure on your Windows boxes. Note: you may need to disable TLS 1.0 at this point, something that is not included in the “Best Practices” button of the tool. I expect they will update this eventually. https://www.nartac.com/Products/IISCrypto/
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I remember a time when I dreamed of being able to watch this and learn how to start a commercial jetliner. It is this kind of video that reminds me of the incredible world in which we live today. These simple things…
I was about to write about maintaining LiPos when I stumbled up this very detailed and very thorough Instructable. It is so well written that I don’t need to explain anything! http://www.instructables.com/id/Lithium-Polymer-Etiquette/ Here are the batteries I currently have. Currently. Lumenier 2250mAh; 3S 3 Cell; 11.1 volts nominal; 35-70C discharge Charge Settings: 1 AMP Charge… Continue reading LiPo Batteries Explained
A couple handy scripts to help tune MySQL https://answers.launchpad.net/mysql-tuning-primer/+question/166577https://launchpad.net/mysqltuner https://answers.launchpad.net/mysql-tuning-primer/+question/166577 Update: not worth using these as the actually end being self-defeating. They use the very same resources that they suggest modifying and can skew the results. Apparently, tuning your db should be more about configuring your db for your purposes. http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/45551/how-to-optimize-table-cache
Over the years, I’ve experienced many times where developers tend to underthink the utility of workflow of the clients to the point where their singular focus of features leads them to dismiss or entirely forget about the needs of the interface workflow, i.e. the ability of the client to easily search, find and use the… Continue reading Drupal 7 Minimum Install
Sometimes such a simple thing makes the difference when you’re staring at a lot of data in Excel. I always set this just in case I’ve got some duplicate records that were missed on a data dump.
You output 5000 rows of data into Excel for a client to review and need to make them all HREFs. The records in the excel come out of the database which their site uses and includes ArticleIDs that their site uses a URL variable to select the correct Article. We have this: ArticleID URL 456 And… Continue reading Automatically create a URL/HREF in an Excel field