The Bleeding Edge

I needed some more backup storage space, so I got another Synology box. This time I thought I’d spring for the rack mount version, to get a couple more drives, ease of stacking with my rack mount servers, and maybe a little more reliability. I get the RP2212+, forgoing the much … [Read more...]

When I first started to use Matlab for image processing, I used to save off intermediate images so that I wouldn't have to recompute them for downstream processing. I've since changed my approach, and compute everything as I need it, saving nothing but potentially final … [Read more...]

Ever since I loaded Adobe Creative Cloud, I've been in the following infinite loop. Every couple of days, I see this:           I click, and the following opens in my web … [Read more...]

It's been a couple of days, and I haven't heard from AT&T. That's the bad news. The good news is that the dropped packet problem has gone away:         I guess I should be thankful. … [Read more...]

I’ve noticed recently that more and more big downloads were failing. I bought a bunch of Dobro lessons that were delivered via download; each lesson was about half a gigabyte. The server didn’t support multi-part access or resuming. Over a period of several days, I was able to … [Read more...]