New Site - Again
Jul 22, 2024
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1 min read
Here I am - once again - wanting to build a personal website that I don’t hate to use. I’ve tried hand-created HTML, dokuwiki, and wordpress - hated them all. Trying Hugo external-link now since its a static site generate that lets you write in markdown. I already write all of my own personal notes in Joplin external-link using markdown and I document my code using markdown, so maybe I will actually stick with this since the site is built in markdown and I don’t have to put any thought into the actual site design itself.
12v Device: Hitec X1 Pro Multi-chemistry Charger
Oct 15, 2020
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5 min read
Hitec X1 Pro Multi-chemistry Charger I stumbled across a DC powered, multi-chemistry charger that has become absolutely indispensable to me. I use it to charge many types of batteries and battery packs that I have around the house. The charger is the X1 Pro multi charger made by Hitec RC. Unfortunately, they no longer make this particular charge but, from what I’ve seen, they have some with the same capabilities to replace it.
Very Useful Utility: Plop Boot Manager
May 27, 2011
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4 min read
A couple years back I stumbled across a very handy utility written by Elmar Hanlhofer called Plop Boot Manager external-link . As the name suggests, it is actually a very small boot loader that is packed with uncommon features. Just a couple key features: 1
USB boot without BIOS support (UHCI, OHCI and EHCI) Start of the boot manager from harddisk, floppy, USB, CD, DVD Starting from Windows boot menu Starting from LILO, GRUB, Syslinux, Isolinux, Pxelinux (network) It can be integrated into the BIOS as a PCI option ROM Full list of features… external-link Right about now you may be asking yourself “What’s the big deal?