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11/19/2023

Lol

07/30/2023

Old DVR connected to a Blue Iris Server NVR. Using RTSP I am able to stream the 8 cameras to the BI server.

07/26/2023

Techie work today. Fixing UPSsss..... blown recterfier. Love this florida power.

05/29/2023

New Gaming Rig Build - DaFfoli-1 MSI and RTX3070 - Lets gooooooo. Angie Toffoli

04/05/2023

Western Digital network was compromised on Sunday. Monday morning they decided to disconnect their MyCloud service effecting Consumer and Business clients worldwide. Check your stuff people.

12/25/2022

Dell Micro and Minis pm if you need... visit aprice4u.com for great deals

12/04/2022

It comes after Apple demand 'safety' for all apps 😯

12/03/2022

Dealing with a batch of Hard Drives which are showing up in the BIOS incorrect size. As it turns out they are cinema hard drives distributed to Theaters. Apparently they Protect an area of the drive that will not be visible to the BIOS or any partition manager. After a little research you can remove the protection and make them usable by doing the following: (Data will be lost!)

hdparm provides a command line interface to various kernel interfaces supported by the Linux SATA/PATA/SAS "libata" subsystem and the older IDE driver subsystem.

Boot up your favorite flavor of Linux on a stick with the hard drive attached of course.

hdparm -N /dev/sdx

Where x is the hd in question. (-N) Get/set max visible number of sectors, also known as the Host Protected Area setting. We are only getting the info we need at this point.

Output:

/dev/sdx:
max sectors = 312581808/312581945, HPA is enabled

We are only using the second number reported back by your device in our case 312581945

Now we can remove the protection:

hdparm -N p312581945 /dev/sdx

Output:

/dev/sdx:
setting max visible sectors to 312581945 (permanent)
max sectors = 312581808/312581945, HPA is disabled

A reboot is required but should now see the full capacity of the device!

Link to a really nice article on this below:

Background: I got some malware in Windows, possibly a rootkit or bootkit. I didn't want to take any chances, so foolishly wiped my drive with DBAN (PRNG, 8 pass). Later came to know that DBAN does...

11/23/2022

Lots of GPUs for sale PM me

07/27/2022

Something new!

04/12/2022

Home Depot upgrades

03/05/2022

Lenovo Core i5 All In One soon for sale.. New LCD