HackSphereLabs – Weekly Update – 2014.11.10

Another HackSphereLabs post…

What to say…what to say. It has been a busy week. Getting ready for my move to AZ and general travel requirements. Past that, getting general stuff done. A lot of tasks completed and I am sure there will be many more.

I have been looking into USB 3.0 vs eSATA for the below Blu-Ray stuff and I would have to say that USB 3.0 opens up some possibilities. Sure there is hotswap eSATA but USB is a bit better for portability. The faster speed really helps and I can, if I want, use 1 to 2 TB drives to backup to…with parity of course. (bit rot anyone?). It looks like the Chocolatey project is making progress. Hopefully I can use it soon to manage all this Windows machines that I need to update.

Work is going to get busy, really soon. We have to move the project too.

I have been messing with the tools to build an Archlinux live CD…I want to start making a custom live CD for my needs and hopefully others. I discovered that parted magic is no longer free. This sucks as it is a good product…it looks that the guy has even raised his prices. I was just looking into it because it has nwipe installed, but so does system rescue disk…so whatever. Gparted here I come…I may still purchase a copy.

The Amazing Amazon Echo!
http://imgur.com/pwqXvYU – Enough Said.

Blu-Ray
I have been doing some research on Blue-Ray because I am about to purchase a Blu-ray drive. So confusing, not really confusing…but a decent amount of information from competing copy protections and formats. The standard stuff, firmware to unlock regions along with a neat riplock protection that on some drives will slow down the read of a video disc. How nice huh?

Take a look at some of the notes on the page if you are interested.

External Drive Box
Coming from my look into blu-ray I have decided that it would be best to get a full size drive. There is more support for them overall, they are faster, etc. I was looking for an in expensive esata drive case and I cannot find much in the optical drive range. 40$ for the cheapest and $84 dollars for the good stuff.

What a joke…I just want a metal box, power supply and a e-sata cable. No circuits. (Except in the power supply). I am looking into building my own here: http://wiki.hackspherelabs.com/index.php?title=Optical_Drive_Box

Looks like I am going to get WH16NS40 and a Vantec NST-530S3-BK. After talking to the folks over at Vantec all I have to do is take out the USB to SATA PCB bridge and put a SATA to eSATA cable in. Really. Simple. It will save me over 40$ on an enclosure. The only USB 3.0 enclosure I can find, where I can do the same thing, and still have USB 3.0 is the $83 Addonics enclosure SESU3CS. It is nice, but too much.

The next thing I need to figure out is media.

Trailblazer
I changed a fuel pressure regulator in the Trailblazer and tightened up some pre vacuum lines that come off the resonator box and head to the regulator and crankcase….night and day. I think it has also solved my bucking and chugging with regard to cruise control. I have to update the post at gmtnation and a few other places.

DDWRT
I will get replies to my DDWRT post. I hate forums.

LINKS
http://shinytoylabs.com/jargon/#RUN EVERYTHING AS ROOT

Vids
Hard Ticket To Hawaii
I cannot wait to do stuff like this
Let’s See if This Works
I still have to watch the WWII stuff
Stuff About Vietnam
This is Smart
Oliver and Lowes, Home Depot
GM is Stupid
ALEC
Daylight Savings Time
Useless Wireless Hat
John Oliver – Lottery