The millennial car conversation. Instead of “Are we there yet?”, Now you get: “Can you please turn on the WiFi?
In Conversation 14
A conversation in the car while on the way to morning breakfast. Son: “Why must I go with you? Why can’t Sis go? Why can’t I stay back and enjoy all the comforts of home (and WiFi)?” Me: “You want…
Going to the cloud
I was using an Excel spreadsheet to track my projects. Sometimes I forget to save and my changes are lost. Or the file got corrupted because I did not close Excel properly. Then I will get version problems. The most…
Google Pay on Mi MIX 2S
I wrote about getting the Mi Mix2S as a replacement for my trusty Redmi 1. After some investigation, the phone was sold with a MIUI 10 Global Beta loaded on a Chinese model. This is suppose to be a bad…
Sometimes you end up referencing yourself
I was trying to configure the Cisco LMS Topology Services to use SSH. I quick search on Topology Services and SSH returns “campusmgr” Drilling down returns a link on how to do this. Written by yours truly. I have read…
Substratum theme engine
After watching from the sidelines for nearly a year, I think it is time to try the Substratum theme engine. Quick take, it is fun, but do take care with Notification settings! Substratum places an overlay over the icons, menus,…
More Spectre-like fun times with Intel
Security researchers have discovered more speculative processing bugs with Intel CPUs. The bugs go all the way back to dual core models. The researchers have named this SPOILER. Hah! This bug requires the attacker to have some local access to…
Mi Mix 2S
When I first got my Mi Mix 2S, I decided to keep the MIUI in place. I have used third party builds (aka ROM but this is sooo wrong) for the longest time. Nice things like EAP-SIM authentication for Wireless…
Retiring the Redmi 1S
I got the Redmi 1S in early 2014 as a backup phone, in case my flashing of CyanogenMod accidentally brick my Samsung Galaxy S2.
Google+ is shutting down
The much-derided Google+ is shutting down in April 2019. This is after some security vulnerabilities were found.