Category Archives: Tech

A 3D printed 6 switch panel for Jeep XJs

By | January 2, 2016

Alternate title: What I’ve been doing instead of blogging. We mentioned on last week’s episode of the GunBlog VarietyCast that I have designed a new lower switch panel for 1997-2001 Jeep Cherokees, known in JeepSpeak as the newer XJ. As of right now, I have seven different models for sale in my Shapeways store. So here’s… Read More »

Okay, Google. Start the Jeep!

By | August 15, 2015

So this happened: Now let me tell you how I got all that to work. Hardware: Raspberry Pi 2 w/Case 16GB Micro SD Card TP-LINK TL-WN722N Wireless N150 High Gain USB Adapter 5db Antenna SainSMart 4 Channel Relay Module Wire Jumpers 2A Car Charger Avital 5103L Remote Start Car Alarm Software: Tasker AutoVoice and the… Read More »

Slow load times, etc

By | September 17, 2014

All of the sites on my hosting account are getting hammered pretty hard by bots in China and Russia. This is resulting in some pretty awful site load times. I’m banning IPs as fast as I can but it’s not fast enough…

Some house keeping

By | July 9, 2014

If you’ve been hit by one of those annoying “please wait x seconds for a word from our sponsor” ads, please know that this is not intentional.  Turns out sitemeter has decided to turn into adware and inject this redirect code into our website.  At least, according to this site, and this site, that is… Read More »

Why did RAM prices double?

By | June 20, 2014

Two years ago I bought a pair of 8GB DDR3-1600 sticks for $86. Now, they’re $155. It’s not like DDR4 and DDR5 came out, and now I’m looking for stuff that’s no longer manufactured. What happened? (Hard drive prices are still higher than when I bought my last pair of 2tb drives, but there was… Read More »

Conversation with an Apple Fanboy

By | June 3, 2014

Yesterday there was some conference or something. Guy that sits next to me spent most of the morning reading Engadget and watching some presentation by that guy that’s not Steve Jobs. Him: OMG! The new versions of iOS and OSX will allow you to answer phone calls on your computer!!! Me: Oh, like Google Voice?… Read More »

Protip: Web Developer Edition

By | May 27, 2014

If you’re going to limit your password field to 12 characters on your login page, you should probably also limit your password field to 12 characters on your registration page. Related: As a general rule, if you’re going to have criteria for passwords, it’s probably best to let the user know that. That way you… Read More »

Well, that was short lived

By | April 9, 2014

Step 1: Read this. Step 2: Buy this: Step 3: 15 minutes after opening the box (click to embiggen)… Yeah, I probably had two minutes of flight before getting it stuck in the tree. The first time. Happened two more times after that before the battery died. Luckily I was smart enough to not get… Read More »