What have you done (Tech Related) today?

[Joshndroid]

Hey all,

 

I thought i would start a thread topic based on what you have done, specifically relating to tech, today/recently. I see that there are various other threads relating to purchases, etc however I don't see anything relating to enable users to share what they have done tech related day to day. I tried to do a search and there was only a marginal related topic from over a year ago and it was not specifically tech related. So with that in mind i thought i would start my own topic.

 

Please share anything that you have done tech related today, or recently. It doesn't have to be mind blowing, doesn't have to be technical. Maybe you just learnt how to write your own program, maybe you learnt how to overclock your CPU, maybe today you just completed your first custom loop. You could have just built your first pc, managed to Photoshop a great picture you took, or created your first video. These are just some examples.

 

I would encourage anyone, where comfortable, to maybe share their achievement not only by posting about it but to provide maybe what point the subject just 'clicked' with you or a picture or link to a video, etc.

 

I'm very interested to see what people get up to in their spare time relating to tech as I usually am browsing or trying something myself to better my knowledge during my spare time.

 

The more we all share the more we could potentially help each other to enable each other to attempt something new or get better at something tech related.

 

I'll obviously start,

 

As i have said a few times on the forum, I device maintain an android rom for a few devices. That entails me troubleshooting, building, distributing the roms to hosters, forum, etc. This process is very time consuming and any automation i can have greatly improves my ability to get updates out in a timly manner. Last night and today i have been able to create an interactive bash script that I can build for all devices, a combination of device or single devices, check whether the file was created successfully and have a plan in place if it didn't, find the release version within a file and import it into the file name, move the file to a specific location and then upload the file via ftp to my hosting service all being completed via terminal in linux. This allows me to cut maybe 15 or so commands and manual searching, changing by hand, manual uploading with external programs, etc to do it all automatically with about 3 commands. It's not fully completed and tested but at the moment im close to 1000 lines thus far. Now it's not very complicated compared to programming but all in all its the largest thing i have created from scratch.

 

Second thing I can add is, due to being on a roll sort of thing, I finally properly setup my backup environment for my media usb, via ftp. Using at batch script, appropriate text file and Winscp i can now monitor either my local backup location in my media/backup pc or the local ftp location (external usb attached to router) and sync the files back and forth to keep both locations current. I then (once my initial sync is complete) will further add in my second backup drive into the mix to further have an exact backup of my local hdd so then i have 3 drives with essentially the same data (a original, a backup and a 'external' backup). I will be further adding the script to check for a log file, its modification date, to trigger whether the script shoudl further run on each boot so for example on boot up of my media pc, if the log file was created more than 7 days ago the script will continue and the entire sync/backup process will commence.

[ThatGuyNamedKasper]

I turned on my laptop

[burnttoastnice]

Chuck a bunch of ethernet cables into my Amazon cart... Migrating dropbox to my nas

[monaka25]

              Um... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM Wow, a day I did nothing... BESIDES USING PC'S, but as far as tinkering with tech, I touched a fried gpu I has near my desk just now.(XFX R5 230 2GB)

[Joshndroid]

I turned on my laptop

 

not exactly what i had in mind however in some of my states, turning the computer on is an accomplishment in itself

Chuck a bunch of ethernet cables into my Amazon cart... Migrating dropbox to my nas

why did you decide to ditch drop box? not enough storage? dont like being online for backups? dont trust online? (in other words, care to share more? as i indicated im interested lol)

[SPG]

my day started 2 hours ago
I was writing my daily log for friday in a google doc while listening to pandora

and today will be playing witcher II so I can play witcher III...and I might have to make something in maya

[Samppa221]

Rolled back my nvidia drivers because it didn't stretch my cs:go anymore

[Nexxus]

Play alot of Metal Gear....must finish it all before mgs5...

[fl4ilinat0r]

found an old small fan and made it run of usb power.

[QueenDemetria]

I browsed the internet today, was an amazing feat.

[Imabigmac]

Explained to my boss what 2.4GHz and 5.0GHz WiFi is. And when I got home I swapped a power supply for friends rig and stress tested that very PC.

[burnttoastnice]

why did you decide to ditch drop box? not enough storage? dont like being online for backups? dont trust online? (in other words, care to share more? as i indicated im interested lol)

 

NSA+Dropbox+PRISM program (http://www.zdnet.com/article/snowden-wannabe-prism-partner-dropbox-is-hostile-to-privacy/) as well as my phone not being large enough to store my music collection and pictures. Also need quick access to archives of old files which I wouldn't want to store on Dropbox anytime soon, as well as needing to share private files with various friends. Even though Dropbox user-encrypts content, I'd rather have my own content encrypted at my house accessible through my own system (Will be building a web interface for it, and various mechanisms to keep out malicious users)

[Joshndroid]

NSA+Dropbox+PRISM program (http://www.zdnet.com/article/snowden-wannabe-prism-partner-dropbox-is-hostile-to-privacy/) as well as my phone not being large enough to store my music collection and pictures. Also need quick access to archives of old files which I wouldn't want to store on Dropbox anytime soon, as well as needing to share private files with various friends. Even though Dropbox user-encrypts content, I'd rather have my own content encrypted at my house accessible through my own system (Will be building a web interface for it, and various mechanisms to keep out malicious users)

sounds reasonable and actually kind of cool. Is your 'nas' a built little pc with something like freenas or you pick up a reay bought solution?

 

i originally had a d-link 320L but got sick of it being so buggy to connect to so the 1tb external usb to the router then setup as a ftp and media server works far better for me, Ideally i would like to build a mini freenas pc (maybe when i get my own house) lol.

[JohnnyCorporalTech]

Moved my old HDD to my PC and began coying all files over to new WD Black edition HDD.

Updated my friends PC to Windows 10.

Used Sony Vegas Pro Production Suite to edit a video.

Finally got round to Overclocking my GPU. Yep Haven't done that yet.

Read some WCCFTech posts.

fixed the the stuck pixels on my monitor.

[burnttoastnice]

sounds reasonable and actually kind of cool. Is your 'nas' a built little pc with something like freenas or you pick up a reay bought solution?

 

i originally had a d-link 320L but got sick of it being so buggy to connect to so the 1tb external usb to the router then setup as a ftp and media server works far better for me, Ideally i would like to build a mini freenas pc (maybe when i get my own house) lol.

 

At the moment I'm using a Raspberry Pi (which currently doubles as my webserver). In the near future though I'll be moving the NAS to an old netbook, and the Pi will act as a web proxy to the NAS. I haven't decided what OS I'll be using on it though, I'm split between Windows 7, Server 2012, FreeNAS and Debian Linux. I might try all four and see which ones get the highest throughput.

 

My router has a USB 2.0 port on the back, but the drive read speed is absolutely horrid at 2MB/s, whereas my laptop's USB 2.0 reads the same drive at 15MB/s. I get faster read speeds over the internet (6MB/s) than my router gets from its USB port

[evinta]

Designed some graphics, looked at power supplies for tiddles and wondered what kind of fan should replace the faulty fan that i have in her right now.

 

Prayed that my only HD that has no backups.....keeps going till i get another HD to backup to.

 

[TroubleKlef]

Performed a speed test at my university and was please to see a 10 mbps upload

[Joshndroid]

At the moment I'm using a Raspberry Pi (which currently doubles as my webserver). In the near future though I'll be moving the NAS to an old netbook, and the Pi will act as a web proxy to the NAS. I haven't decided what OS I'll be using on it though, I'm split between Windows 7, Server 2012, FreeNAS and Debian Linux. I might try all four and see which ones get the highest throughput.

 

My router has a USB 2.0 port on the back, but the drive read speed is absolutely horrid at 2MB/s, whereas my laptop's USB 2.0 reads the same drive at 15MB/s. I get faster read speeds over the internet (6MB/s) than my router gets from its USB port

 

very nice, do you have a single usb into the pi? with that connected to the router?

yeah i think my router's usb is usb2 as well but i use it to stream to my media pc which runs perfect and via ftp im getting up to around 5mb/s which is okay for just file transfer of maybe a few files here and there im not doing 100's of megabytes a day.

 

Designed some graphics, looked at power supplies for tiddles and wondered what kind of fan should replace the faulty fan that i have in her right now.

 

Prayed that my only HD that has no backups.....keeps going till i get another HD to backup to.

 

 

you going a 2 pronged approach with a fan and a new secondary HDD i hope. New HDD shouldn't be too expensive hopefully you can pick one up soon.

 

Performed a speed test at my university and was please to see a 10 mbps upload

 

you suck.. university far better than my home internet connection

[AlwaysFSX]

I rebuilt a laptop with a new CPU, it still doesn't turn on.

[Joshndroid]

I rebuilt a laptop with a new CPU, it still doesn't turn on.

same but new CPU, different CPU? what else do you believe is wrong, maybe motherboard related?

[Silyy097]

Telling my friend that he should get a 980Ti instead of 3x980s (Performance) or the 390x (More VRAM).

[AlwaysFSX]

same but new CPU, different CPU? what else do you believe is wrong, maybe motherboard related?

Socket might be broken, I'll take it apart and reseat the chip later today after I wake up. The thing has been dead since December and gave me a CPU related error so I don't ever expect it to turn on. If it does, great! If not I'm borrowing my friend's rifle and practicing my aim on it.

[burnttoastnice]

very nice, do you have a single usb into the pi? with that connected to the router?

 

The pi has a bunch of USBs connected to it, one to store files and the others as backups. When I move the NAS setup to my netbook I'll be switching to a spare HDD that I have.

The pi is currently connected to the router via a Wifi extender, as the router is in a very inconvenient location at the moment. The ethernet cables I ordered will be running from the router to the pi, as well as the netbook NAS when I have that up and running.

I also just ran a read speed test on the command line and the Pi manages to read the usb (Sandisk Cruzer) at 20MB/s

[TheGeeker]

I am working on a nas. I installed freenas and got it on my network but cant find it. Still working. I also repaired my whole room speakers and fixed my 3d printer. 

[Joshndroid]

The pi has a bunch of USBs connected to it, one to store files and the others as backups. When I move the NAS setup to my netbook I'll be switching to a spare HDD that I have.

The pi is currently connected to the router via a Wifi extender, as the router is in a very inconvenient location at the moment. The ethernet cables I ordered will be running from the router to the pi, as well as the netbook NAS when I have that up and running.

I also just ran a read speed test on the command line and the Pi manages to read the usb (Sandisk Cruzer) at 20MB/s

 

really should pick one up, maybe a pi2 i think, they are too good and cheap enough not to waste some money on. you've confirmed it.

 

I am working on a nas. I installed freenas and got it on my network but cant find it. Still working. I also repaired my whole room speakers and fixed my 3d printer. 

 

what kind of specs you running for your nas? i have been thinking already of grabbing a i5K and retiring my 4 weeks old G3528 to a dedicated nas setup