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How to Install a Comodo Positive SSL Certificate on Nginx

April 30, 2016June 5, 2017 Sam Kear 2 Comments

Earlier this week Namecheap sent me a reminder that it was time to renew the SSL certificate for my website.  Honestly I’m not sure why they use the term “renew” when essentially you have to go through the entire process over again which can be a huge pain. Namecheap offers PositiveSSL certificates from Comodo for $9/year which […]

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An In-depth Analysis of the Arris VIP2250 DVR

April 24, 2016April 25, 2016 Sam Kear 25 Comments

In this post I’ll be taking an in-depth look at the Arris VIP2250 DVR.  The VIP2250 is one of the DVR models AT&T is currently using for their U-verse digital TV service. You may notice that some of the VIP2250 boxes carry the Motorola logo, which newer versions are Arris branded.  The reason for these […]

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Upgrading the Ubiquiti UniFi Controller Software on Centos

February 19, 2016November 11, 2019 Sam Kear 8 Comments

Update: 11/11/19 – Brandon contributed a super handy function you can add to your .bashrc file to automate the entire process below. I recently completed a deployment of several Ubiquiti UniFi UAP-AC-PRO access points and so far I’ve been very impressed with their performance. One of the best things about Ubuqiti is that the UniFi controller software is […]

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Top 10 Tech Gift Ideas for 2015

November 26, 2015November 26, 2015 Sam Kear Leave a comment

Looking for a holiday gift for the technology lover in your life?  In this post you’ll find my top ten best tech gift ideas for the 2015 holiday season. 1.  Roku 4 Streaming Media Player Roku just released their 4th generation wireless streaming media player which is their most powerful media player yet.  The most notable […]

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Filco Majestouch 2 Ninja Mechanical Keyboard Review

November 21, 2015November 22, 2015 Sam Kear 1 Comment

 In this post I’ll be sharing my experiences with the Filco Majestouch 2 Ninja keyboard as well as some general knowledge I learned about mechanical keyboards during my search for a new one. I recently purchased this keyboard to replace my aging Logitech membrane keyboard I’ve been using with my home workstation. After using a mechanical keyboard at […]

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The All New FreeNAS Mini – DIY Build Parts List

November 15, 2015November 22, 2015 Sam Kear 10 Comments

The All New FreeNAS Mini In this post I’ll be analyzing the parts used by iXsystems to build the all new FreeNAS Mini so you can decide if it’s better to buy their NAS or build your own. It’s been 3 years since I last looked at the FreeNAS Mini from iXsystem’s. Since then the […]

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Fixing Palo Alto Firewall Support in RANCID Version 3.2

October 14, 2015October 14, 2015 Sam Kear Leave a comment

RANCID is a simple but useful utility for backing up configuration files from network devices.  I’ve worked with RANCID for many years and for the most part it tends to work well but occasionally I encounter problems when adding devices from new vendors. I recently ran into an issue while attempting to add some Palo […]

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Building a Raspberry Pi ADS-B Ground Station

August 9, 2015July 19, 2016 Sam Kear 3 Comments

In this post I’ll show you how to build a Raspberry Pi powered ADS-B ground station receiver that can track aircraft over 100 miles away using a small USB software-defined radio dongle. This ground station is very easy, and inexpensive to build and it will open your eyes to some of the amazing uses for SDR. Plus, […]

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Time Warner’s New Enhanced DVR the Arris DCX3600-M

June 21, 2015November 22, 2015 Sam Kear 153 Comments

Time Warner Cable recently started rolling out their new enhanced DVR service in Kansas City and many other markets across the country.  In this post I’ll be sharing some information about the hardware Time Warner is for this new service, the Arris DCX3600-M advanced video gateway. Upgrading to Enhanced DVR Once I heard this box […]

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How to Enable SPDY on Nginx Using Ubuntu 14.04

May 30, 2015June 18, 2015 Sam Kear Leave a comment

Enabling SPDY is a relatively simple way to improve the performance of Nginx and reduce the time it takes for clients to load pages from a web server. SPDY is a web transport protocol developed by Google that reduces page load times using stream multiplexing, prioritized requests, and HTTP header compression. SPDY is already well supported […]

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