Computing
2023
A brief look at my new NAS - The Asustor AS6604T 4-bay NAS
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I’d been meaning to buy a NAS unit for some time, but it never materialized.
2021
Replacing the stock Ryzen Wraith Stealth cooler with an ID-Cooling SE-224-XT
A year back, I’d rebuilt my desktop with some components from home and most others bought here.
2020
2017
Of Z-Wave, SmartThings, Amazon Echo, Google Home, Kwikset Deadbolt and the colossal failure that is connecting them all – aka “Home Automation”
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This is a huge rant I sent to Jo.
2016
New desktop for the house
Jo’s been inquiring about a new system since quite some time - her current laptop is in a state of broken mess(half the keys don’t work/battery ded etc) and she’d require me to give up my desktop if she needed to work on something for a bit.
2013
Hellforge: my desktop after a long time
I’ve been tinkering with computers for well over 15 years now - and since 2007 I’ve been using laptops almost exclusively - prime reason being space(or the lack of it) since I moved away from my home, to a new city.
Slides from my talk on “Password Management & You” at Barcamp Bangalore
I’ve been going to Barcamp Bangalore since quite a while now, and it was only at last time’s Barcamp Bangalore that I actually gave a techlash session on Automated backup.
2011
My unmonitored Gmail account gets compromised
Today seemed like just another day.
Installing the Kingston v100 SSDNow 128GB SSD on a HP Envy 14
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Quite some time back Kingston was kind enough to send me their v100 128GB SSD for review.
2010
Batch file to delete files older than x days
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At work, I have bunch of batch files which take an export from Oracle database, compress them and move them to their respective folders.
HP Envy 14 Review
After a long (happy) time with my Dell Inspiron 1520, my previous laptop’s age was catching up - the processor was a bottleneck, the 8600m GT was akin to an oven stove.
Creating and Editing Parameterized Queries in Excel 2007
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I spotted this question on Super User about creating parameterized queries in Excel 2007 and attempted to answer it - as I thought it would be pretty easy.