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WARNING: Flashing a Video BIOS (VBIOS) carries a significant risk of permanently damaging your graphics card. This guide is for educational purposes only. Proceed at your own risk (YMMV). After a recent upgrade to an MSI B450 Pro Carbon, I attempted to reinstall Windows using a pure UEFI configuration. However, after switching the BIOS setting … Read more
In this blog post, I describe how to flash the Seagate Exos X16 to the latest firmware version. I recently purchased some of these Seagate Enterprise drives, and looks like they shipped with the SN02 Firmware. Upgrading on Windows is quite easy. Just be aware I tested with the drives still clean, while not in … Read more
I recently had an issue where I plugged in my headphones on the front audio connector but got not sound. At first I thought it might be because the headphones are out of battery, but after charging up, still no audio. Next suspect in line was my cabling and connections between motherboard and PC case, … Read more
The issue Sometimes it can be quite challenging to print a part. Take sweetie’s head, for example: This is quite a difficult print. If you try to use Slic3r’s support, you end up with something like this: Here is how much filament you’d use: The Solution Fortunately, you can use custom supports on meshmixer to … Read more
The Issue I noticed severe bleeding issues with the E3D Lite6 when combined with a multicolor device, like the Mosaic Palette. The Palette allows you to print in 4 colors instead of 1, opening up a world of possibilities: I fully calibrated the Mosaic Palette, and although it seemed spot on, I noticed a very … Read more
Introduction This is a quick and easy tutorial for those that are struggling to setup the Pi Hole with Asus Routers. I started by reading the Pi Hole documentation. This is sadly not optimal for those of us that have the Asus Router (in my case I have the AC1900), but fortunately after breaking my … Read more
The bell porting issue If you check redflagdeals, there are a lot of Koodo deals from time to time. They also suggest “porting out” the number to Bell with a prepaid SIM. I tried that, but got interrupted in the middle of the process, and when I tried to continue, I got the error: “The … Read more
The Issue Nowadays, it’s quite common to use SSL for everything. Currently, there is no easy way to generate a certificate request (CSR) directly from Azure Web apps, like you normally do from IIS or from Windows Certificate Snap In. So you’ll have a hard time with azure custom ssl support. The Solution – Generate … Read more
The issue I recently upgraded my wordpress blog from PHP 7.1 to 7.2. After that, I started getting an error on the top of the pages: “Warning: Use of undefined constant”, pointing at what I previously set on wp-config.php: DISABLE_WP_CRON I used this to disable the cron triggering with user access, instead I set up … Read more