Its_All.Lost

Because hope just breeds everlasting misery…

Goodbye Clear

I’ve fucking had it. Between my Comcast internet constantly dropping this week and all the bullshit ClearOS continues to throw at me I’m fucking done. Went to bed with no intarwebs, woke up with no intarwebz, spent all day yesterday without it… and for no “clear” fucking reason (see what I did there?). I gathered all the wireless AP’s, cleaned em up and redistributed them around the house in a more orderly fashion. Replaced an old failing Linksys, and ripped ClearOS to the fucking curb! Sadly it is still running, but at as a standalone server now, gotta keep the domains up right. I imagine in the next few days I will probably dump Debian on it and finally be fucking free. I did have to go back to a commercial router solution (using a Buffalo WHR-300-HP), which I am still not happy about but fuck it at this point. Next machine I get will become a dedicated UFW box. No, it will not ClearOS. Fuck that shit with a stick.

Sweeet

Righteous, get out of the hospital and come home to a DDoS. Thats now fixed, everything should be good again. But why isn’t OpenVPN or SSH or FTP working. Fuck you ClearOS. Fuck you.

Site Unreachable

Apparently the IP for my domain had changed, and I was not notified as usual. After I found out I thought I had changed my DNS entries, missed Itsalllost.com. Oops. Should be back up now, well no shit – if you’re reading this.

May the odds be ever in your favor

Sweet. Yes. Fate actually worked for me this time, if you can fathom that. I had a Samsung Note 8 tablet, which I loved. The S-Pen is great, it’s what made me decide to get a Note 5 phone. Well this last Father’s Day at like 3am during one of my awesome morning stints the fucking thing fell over. I have been trying to better myself and got back to lifting weights (which I’ve also already dropped HA) and I decided since I was up that I should be productive and lift. So as I stood there with a barbell a cockroach crawled across the floor. I decided in my infinite wisdom to try and step on it. During so (which I failed to do) I hit the ottoman the tablet was standind on, yes standing – I am an idiot. It rocked. Tablet fell. It tipped right over and smack. Crack. Shattered the screen right above the power button. Fucking sweet.

So I looked around and found on eBay, a replacement screen for $30 and a battery for $25 plus the chance that I would fuck it up, or that it would never be the same again because let’s face it eBay is chinese shit. I decided to see what it would be like to put in a claim with my carrier. Well the tablet isn’t made anymore, and it’s old. Duh, it’s not made anymore. So they wont refurb it. They’ll swapp it for a Galaxy Tab S2. What? Yes. They’ll swap a currently rated $180 tablet with a currently rated $400 tablet. Fucking sweet sauce. I’ll take it. No swapping a battery, no swapping a screen and removing adhesive. And now no longer stuck on Android 4.1! I get Marshmallow now! For once something bad turned out to be good. That’s fucking rare…

Bringing back the old laptop

Spray Lubricant
Spray Lubricant
So I have a laptop, it’s an older one. A Toshiba Tecra, decent machine Intel i5 2.somethingGhz, 3GB RAM and a laptop that was free. BOOM. Sad part is that the palm rests were a little worn. I had cleaned them with some rubbing alcohol but all that accomplished was making the pads turn white from no more oils in the plastic. They were already white which is why I was cleaning them, just cleaned too good I guess haha.

So how to solve this? Well I know liquid silicone will do the trick, but I don’t have any. I have used it on car parts before with good results. So I had the next best thing, a Headlight Restoration kit. I used the spray lubricant from the kit to bring back the plastic on the laptop. I wish I had a better before picture but I didn’t think about it till after I applied the first coat. But trust me it does work, and it does not leave an oily finish either. Lets see how long it will last.

Before
Before
After
After