After my last post questioning homework for elementary school kids, we’ve done a lot more reading and researching on the subject. A lot. Since the last fight, we took a stand — our first grader won’t be doing any more homework. While dropping him off one morning, she asked him for his homework folder and I calmly and… Read More »
This is quite the detraction from the normal types of posts I make. I typically try to put things that are tech related or other “hobbies” of mine up here. But this is something I’m feeling very strongly about, so I wanted to share and possibly get feedback from. Long story short, I’m in my mid 40’s and… Read More »
I didn’t really want a new phone but my HTC One M9 was starting to really irritate me. Specifically the battery and power usage. It got to the point where I was having to charge it at least 3 times a day or I would run out of power. I was able to watch the battery tick down… Read More »
Media players are a interesting topic. Over the past couple of years, we’ve tried a variety of them. The first one was back in 2007 and was the D-Link MediaLounge DSM-520 that got its media from a UPNP Media server. It was designed to fit into a home entertainment unit, the typical ~19 inches wide and looked a… Read More »
I just thought I would put this out there in case anyone else had the same problem as I did as there is surprisingly little out there. I just recently switched back over to using Redmine from Jira, this time via a Docker image. Its nice and clean and avoids the various problems I was having with Apache… Read More »
UPDATE – Dec 1, 2018 – I’ve Finally installed Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on the Asus ZenBook UX501VW First off, let me first say, what a nightmare this was. After the relative ease of installing Ubuntu 15.10 on the ZenBook I was more than a bit disappointed with how difficult it was installing Ubuntu 16.04. The stock Ubuntu 16.04 spin would… Read More »
Update 2016-04-25, this post is obsolete. I now have information on installing Ubuntu 16.04 at https://marclewis.com/2016/04/25/installing-ubuntu-16-04-lts-on-asus-zenbook-ux501vw/ After writing about installing Ubuntu 14.04 on the ZenBook Pro I used it for about a month or so, but was not really happy with it. Nothing seemed quite right. Fonts were off, cursor sizes were off, applications didn’t look quite like they were… Read More »
I thought I would put this here in case anyone else has been experiencing the same thing I have been. Start up a JetBrains product, any of them — PhpStorm, WebStorm, CLion, DataGrip, or any of the others and it will start up, start indexing files, and then freeze. The only way to recover from it is to… Read More »
After I purchased the new ASUS ZenBook, I went looking for another power supply for it, one to keep plugged in at my desk at the office, and another one for my backpack. One would think that would be easy to do, right? Not so. ASUS decided to do something very odd, and rather stupid. They changed the… Read More »
The infrastructure I’ve had our media setup on has changed quite a bit over the years, too. When I first started streaming stuff, I was using UPNP servers to serve a D-Link streamer. It worked pretty well for the first generation of this type of product. I used DiVX to encode our DVD collection, and things weren’t bad.… Read More »