Tag Archives: Calin

Summer Vacation 2023

Posted on 19 May 2023 by matthannan

Legoland in Upstate New York. Definitely a good time.

The park was much larger than expected, and it is built on the side of a mountain, so it was easy getting to the lower level early in the day, but oh so rough coming back up at the end!… Read the rest

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A New Toy: HP EliteDesk 800 G4 Mini PC

Posted on 8 July 2022 by matthannan

I just bought a thing.

It has been a refresher lesson in Intel CPUs for me, as well as a revisitation of what my financial pain threshold is. Even this ($288) is a bit above what I wanted to comfortably pay, as I need to drop more RAM into it.… Read the rest

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Enter the Heat-Pump

Posted on 18 January 2022 by matthannan

Today the line-sets went in, as well as the massive heat-pump.

The covers on the channels are a great sign. These are paintable, so we’ll be shopping for some grey paint come Spring. They put a vacuum on the line-sets and they are all sound, so they charged and primed the system.… Read the rest

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And the Next Day, Mini-Splits

Posted on 17 January 2022 by matthannan

Everything happens at once. Yesterday we took down a 75′ spruce tree, and today they started installing our ductless mini-splits.

Today, they installed the four head-units, the backer plates for the exterior channels, and the pad for the outdoor compressor. Tomorrow they install the line sets and hopefully the outdoor compressor.… Read the rest

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Modernizing My Temperature and Humidity Sensor

Posted on 18 September 2021 by matthannan

My basement temperature and humidity sensor has been up and running for 2.5 years now with hardly a hiccup at all. But, it is time for an upgrade.

I’ve made some tweaks to the page over the years, but I ‘ve grown less and less happy with the matplotlib implementation.… Read the rest

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Synology NAS VPN Server

Posted on 9 May 2021 by matthannan

It has been a long while since I wrote about VPN servers. This is because of the change of job, and then working from home for over a year because of COVID-19. But I have kept playing with the technology over the years.… Read the rest

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The Tale of the Two NAS Boxes

Posted on 2 April 2021 by matthannan

Wow, what a run this was! I got tired of waiting for the WD MyBook or whatever it was called to be back in stock, so I started looking for better solutions. OpenMediaVault was not really getting things done for me.… Read the rest

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Andromeda at 50mm, again

Posted on 18 October 2020 by matthannan

Went out on the 14th and took a quick 470 pictures of a blank spot in the sky. Actually, they were 4 seconds a piece, so just over a 30 minute exposure. Stopped down to f/2.8 and tried out reducing to ISO 640.… Read the rest

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Shooting the Milky Way

Posted on 10 August 2020 by matthannan

I hadn’t tried to shoot the Milky Way yet, so after Calin went to bed last night, I snuck down to the park to avail of some reasonably dark (no street lights right in my southern view) and open skies. I was down there about an hour and a half, snapping away like a nut.… Read the rest

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Comet NEOWISE

Posted on 21 July 2020 by matthannan

This thing was in the sky for about a month before things lines up enough for me to get a glimpse of it. Never could see it with my naked eye.

Most folks say binoculars are the sweet spot. Guess what I do not have.… Read the rest

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