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Backblaze – A Review

Stuff happens to your computer. Especially if you’re traveling, like that time my SSD inexplicably failed even though the SMART status looked fine. When you’re traveling, you probably also don’t have an external backup drive with you like you should at home. This makes it especially…

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On Wireless Charging

The other day, I was at Starbucks, and I noticed this thing: Over the country, wireless chargers are starting to pop up in Starbucks, with some dongles to plug into your phones. One of my friends had a wireless charging enabled phones, and it seemed…

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AwesomeMath is Coming Soon!

I know that I mostly post about tech stuff, but today I wanted to spend some time talking about where I’ll be spending the next three weeks of my life. Some people might know of the AwesomeMath Summer Program. AwesomeMath is, if you can read…

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Thoughts on DBAN

Before my post, I just want to say that I missed my post yesterday, so this will serve as yesterday’s post. Let’s get started. Yesterday, FedEx came through and I got my server, a PowerEdge 1950. I’ll be running Ubuntu Server 16.04 on it, which…