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There s a new internet service provider based out in Timaru called Quic. I only found them because I was on the look out after my old ISP kept increasing the prices. Quic is a kind of no-frills ISP, they have low overheads because they don t have a call center. You can still submit a support Read More Quic Broadband Internet Review
I picked up 4 of these off an auction site the other day. They are so much fun! The LTTO guns take 6xAA. This is designed for 9V. I started using rechargeable AA 1.2V NiMH cells, but my charger can only charge 4 at a time. As I had 4 taggers, that would be 4 6=24 Read More LazerTag Team Ops (Hasbro/Tiger) Battery Saver
TLDR; Increase Firewire buffer size beyond maximum level set by ysfwutility.exe. Having setup the N12 (https://adriangin.wordpress.com/2024/10/20/yamaha-n12-setup/) and SW1000XG (https://adriangin.wordpress.com/2024/10/05/sw1000xg/) I set about installing FL Studio to test ASIO performance. After installing the N12 Yamaha Firewire drivers (v1.66 x64…
As mentioned in a previous post, https://adriangin.wordpress.com/2024/10/05/sw1000xg/, I was on a quest to install both a Windows 32 bit and Windows 64 bit OS on my PC both running at the same time so that I can support the Yamaha N12 and SW1000XG. While the N12 can work with a 32bit machine, the OS would Read More Yamaha N12 Setup
I was browsing ebay the other day for gear and I became fascinated with the idea of creating music from equipment that would have been really expensive a few decades ago, but could be purchased relatively cheaply these days. The Yamaha SW1000XG came up and I got it for about 50 quid. Thing is, the Read More SW1000XG
The application I build run on both Linux and Windows, and because of this, often my build pipelines consist of jobs on Linux and Windows machines. By default the builds directory is located on the hard drive. If we do not care about the object files, we can run the build on a RAM disk Read More Optimising Gitlab runners with RAM disks
Following on from my previous post. Here is how setup the router to have a VPN server, allowing Roadwarriors to connect to the local network and access local resources. https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Interface/L2TP#Basic_L2TP.2FIpSec_setup I used this link as a guide and: https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Interface/L2TP#Connecting_Remote_Client For a bit of background, here is how you…
A while ago, I had a go at setting up a router using Linux. I used a Rock64 with a USB3 Gigabit NIC along with it s built in Gigabit NIC. While it worked quite well for several months, the hardware was not quite up to the level of performance I would expect or would use Read More RouterOS Setup for Internet and Services
If you were able to follow part 1 (https://adriangin.wordpress.com/2020/05/07/getting-started-with-docker/) read on to see how you can use Docker to setup other useful services. I personally use both Github and Gitlab, however there are times when the services go offline due to upgrade / maintenance. During these times you re generally unable to push to your repository Read More Getting Started…
You may have heard about Docker and how it s a container for application / services as well as how it s more efficient than using Virtual Machines. Of course, all the cool web tech people have adopted it, but what about everyday normal people? Turns out docker is for everyone. The following is my journey with Read More Getting started with Docker