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AMD Kabini Athlon 5350 review and overclocking

Friday, 2014.04.18 J.D. H. Leave a comment

I finished my new AMD Kabini Athlon 5350 build yesterday. Here are the specs: AMD Kabini Athlon 5350 at 2.1GHz (overclocked from 2.05GHz) Stock cooler 4GB Kingston Blu DDR3 memory 64GB Lenovo SSD MSI AM1I mini-itx motherboard Mini-itx case Windows 7 So far I am impressed with the system. It boots in < 10 seconds and is very responsive. CPU OC screenshots: http://www.eteknix.com/amd-kabini-am1-athlon-5350-apu-fs1b-review-winning-sub-60/12/ http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1390-page5.html http://www.overclock.net/t/1480711/various-socket-am1-kabini-apus http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2377334 http://www.anandtech.com/show/7933/the-desktop-kabini-review-part-1-athlon-5350-am1 http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/athlon-5350-am1-platform-review,3801-9.html Top Search Terms:athlon 5350 overclock (20)kabini overclock (12)amd 5350 overclock (10)athlon 5350 overclocking

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Turnkey SSH tunnel for MySQL PHP access

Thursday, 2014.04.17 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Very useful examples at the Linux Journal: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/creating-secure-tunnels-ssh and I finally found a connection specification that would work: root@lamp ~# mysql -h localhost -P 3308 -u root -psomepassword vlmdatabase ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysq ld.sock’ (2) root@lamp ~# mysql -h localhost -P 3308 -u root -psomepassword vlmdatabase ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysq ld.sock’ (2) root@lamp ~# mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -P 3308 -u root -psomepassword vlmdatabase The last one

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Keyboard not working Windows 7 [solved]

Monday, 2014.04.07 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Q. My keyboard just stopped working and I have tried plugging in other USB keyboards to no avail 🙁 any suggestions? -Steve A. Check and see if ‘Filter Keys’ is enabled! Use your mouse to: Click the Start Button Select ‘Control Pane’ Select ‘East of Access’ Select ‘Easy of Access Center’ Select ‘Make the keyboard easier to use’ Uncheck the ‘Turn on Filter Keys’ box Hopefully that will help 🙂 Followup from Steve: That worked. Thank you! More info: Top

Fidelity Communications internet and phone service down

Thursday, 2014.04.03 J.D. H. Leave a comment

The internet and phone service was down in Salem MO this morning for customers of Fidelity Communications. It was quite perplexing at first, because I was working on a wireless upgrade at the Crossroads Inn & Suites hotel in Salem. During the middle of the upgrade, internet connectivity was lost. Eventually we determined that it was not our system’s issue but rather Fidelity’s. After contacting them we learned that a router went down in Kansas City and that caused widespread

Salem MO hotel with good internet [Crossroads Inn & Suites]

Saturday, 2014.03.22 J.D. H. Leave a comment

This past week I worked from Tuesday through Friday in Salem MO. I stayed at the Crossroads Inn & Suites and had a chance to test their internet over the course of my stay and my work. Here is the speedtest.net result for their free wifi: This result puts is at equal to or better than most hotel’s that I’ve stayed at in Springfield MO (another area where I work regularly). They also have (5) dedicated wifi access points for

Maximum Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro and Yoga 13 SD card capacity?

Wednesday, 2014.03.19 J.D. H. 2 comments

If you are wondering what the max SD card capacity is for the Lenovo Yoga series, I can confirm that both the Yoga 13 and the Yoga 2 Pro support 128GB SDXC cards. Woot! 🙂 Top Search Terms:lenovo yoga 2 pro sdxc (3)lenovo yoga 3 maximum sd card size (3)lenova yoga 2 11 maximum sd card size (2)lenovo yoga 2 13 sdhc (2)lenovo yoga 2 13 max sd card (2)ideapad yoga 13 sdxc 128 (2)lenovo yoga 13 sd card (2)lenovo

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AT&T is down in Salem MO today (cell phones and land lines)

Wednesday, 2014.03.19 J.D. H. Leave a comment

AT&T is down in Salem MO today 🙁 It is definitely affecting cell phones and also seems to be internet/DSL/land-lines, bummer! This is wreaking havoc with a lot of people and businesses. Example: Subway cannot accept credit card orders b/c their line is down. Thankfully, Verizon and other internet providers are still up 🙂 Top Search Terms:att outage branson mo today (1)att outage salem mo (1)salem mo newspaper att outage (1)

Ordering the Oculus Rift Development Kit 2 (DK2)

Wednesday, 2014.03.19 J.D. H. Leave a comment

I received a tasty email in my inbox this morning, The Oculus Rift 2 is up for preorder!!! However, upon attempting to place my order I encountered some wonkiness in their ordering system (using both Chrome and Opera). Thankfully I eventually figured out how to place my order: After you enter your shipping/billing info, you should eventually make it to a screen that looks like a final ordering screen. But if you scroll down it looks like there no ‘order’