3 Ways of Motherboard Identification in Windows

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My personal favorite, the command-line.  Type “cmd” into your Windows search (or use your shortcut!): Then issue the wmic command like so: Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.14393] (c) 2016 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. c:\>wmic baseboard get product,Manufacturer,version,serialnumber,Model,Name Manufacturer Model Name Product SerialNumber Version Intel Corporation Base Board DH77EB BQEB219007QS AAG39073-304 A good option I’ve used […]

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Parasitic Battery Drain Test | Parasitic Draw Test | Honda Element

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Parasitic draw, Parasitic Drain, Unwanted current loss. Whatever you want to call it, when its your car’s battery – proper testing is crucial to finding the problem. The Honda Element has a notorious knack for killing batteries & this is the best & most detailed testing video on this problem I have found to help

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Brake Flush / Brake Bleed – Honda Element | DIY | How to Bleed | How to Flush | Easy

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How to do a one-person Brake Fluid Flush / Brake Bleed as demonstrated on a Honda Element. Learn how to do a complete brake system flush to replace the old, dirty and contaminated brake fluid with fresh & clean DOT 3 brake fluid. The two-person method is discussed and the one person method is shown

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Linux – Switching to zsh

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zsh (“zee shell”) is awesome.  Alas, its still not installed by default in most Linux distributions.  Here’s how to install & configure zsh on Debian 9: grokman@li598-26:~$ sudo apt-get update [sudo] password for grokman: Ign:1 http://mirrors.linode.com/debian stretch InRelease Get:2 http://mirrors.linode.com/debian-security stretch/updates InRelease [94.3 kB] Get:3 http://mirrors.linode.com/debian stretch-updates InRelease [91.0 kB] Hit:4 http://mirrors.linode.com/debian stretch Release Fetched

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Linux – How To Create a Sudo User

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For admin work, using a non-root user with super-user privileges is good practice.  This user has to be created.  Let’s see how its done with an example on Debian 9: First we SSH into our target machine: $ ssh root@grokshop.tv Enter passphrase for key '/c/Users/[user]/.ssh/id_rsa': Linux li598-26.members.linode.com 4.9.0-9-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.168-1 (2019-04-12) x86_64 The

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GoLang Programming: Gitea Open Source Patch – Improving Startup Robustness on Synology Linux

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Software Engineering: Open source project Gitea is forked & a minor GoLang code change affected to improve the startup sequence timing & robustness as pertains to the ORM layer and database connection. The overall Synology-linux debugging process is examined including upstart log analysis, process log analysis, Github source cloning, Go Programming Language coding, GoLang make,

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Synology Diskstation Self-hosted Git: Migrate From GitLab to Gitea Setup

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Self-hosted Git: How to migrate from resource-hungry GitLab to a lightweight Gitea. Gitea setup. I build the SPK & try several different databases including MariaDB before settling on Postgres in a Docker container. Performed on a Synology Disktation DS1815+ LINKS: https://github.com/flipswitchingmonkey/gitea-spk.git https://github.com/flipswitchingmonkey/gitea-spk https://github.com/SynoCommunity/spksrc/wiki/Architecture-per-Synology-model https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases

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