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Cactus Con 2017

Cactus Con is a fun conference I have attended a few times in Phoenix. This was at the Phoenix convention center, and on saturday they have an event specifically for children / young adults (under 18) that want to get some cool info. Check them out –  2018 is slated for September 28-29. https://www.cactuscon.com/ If you […]

LED light bar for Joyner Sand Viper 250 Installation

The installation of the LED light Bar is pretty simple.  The only tough part is figuring if you are going to hook up other lights with it 🙂  My kids and I decided we were going to do some fun LED lights on the interior as well as the LED light bar.  The below are […]

Random Thought for the day – Xbox 360 Kinect Just Dance 4 and JDTV

Not sure how many people actually know this (I would guess most since it says upload to JDTV on the Xbox 360), but when you finish dancing at Just Dance 4 for the Xbox you get to see / edit a video of yourself.  When finishing you can upload to the Just Dance TV station […]

Acer C7 Mostly Working Virtual Box 4.1.12 in Chrubuntu 12.04

Trying to get Virtual Box 4.1.12 from the software center is not a basic download and run.  You can download it, you can run it but when you try to start a machine you create it crashes… always. *PLEASE NOTE* This instruction set is for educational purposes only.  If you follow these instructions and something bad happens […]

Chromebook C-7 Running Ubuntu 12.04

I finally got my hands on a Chromebook in November of 2012.  I enjoyed the idea of a quick simple PC and wanted to get one for myself so I did.  I purchased an Acer C7 Chromebook.  But not just to run ChromeOS, I wanted it to be a multi-boot machine so I could do […]

Fun with Virtualbox and Error with 64bit Hardware Acceleration on Lenovo T420

So I was having some fun installing Virtual box on my Backtrack 5 R3 install on a new SSD that I am running for a laptop of mine and found an interesting error. error: “VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration has been enabled, but is not operational. Your 64-bit guest will fail to detect a 64-bit CPU and […]

Getting Virtualbox running on Backtrack 5 R3 Gnome

For fun (and obvious reasons for being able to take snapshots) I wanted to run virtualbox on my Backtrack 5 R3 64bit Gnome setup.  I did the standard looking for it by doing – sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.0 and getting an error was kind of what I thought would get. Google being […]

Magic Box IP Subnetting

  So  a random discussion whilst I play Call of Duty:Black Ops was IP subnetting and the CCNA test.  So IP subnetting, basic base 2 math, is actually very simple to accomplish.  The tough part is trying to QUICKLY attain this information while testing. I was taken back when I was asked how I did […]

WD Hard Drive Moving files internally thru SSH

So I have about 550GB on a WD My Book Live NAS and I realized I put it on the public folder.  Well that\’s not very secure so I moved it.  Typical me understanding that it will take it forever to copy from the drive, to my computer, back to the drive was wondering if […]

Cool new program for M$ PC Mouse sharing / File copy

So I read an article about a new project called Mouse without Borders on LifeHacker. I\’ve been using Synergy for years and mainly at home I have the multi-OS so it works great to go between computers there. At work we are pretty much a windows shop so having this mouse sharing WITH clipboard makes […]