I finally was able to use a custom bios for my HP N36L microsever. I got one from the bay. No I can use the 5th SATA port not just for the optical drive but for another hard drive. I also bought an e-SATA to SATA cable adapter so I can add another hard drive,…
I recently got a new Late 2013 Mac Pro. So far it has been a great upgrade from my Dell T3600 at work. I took a few pics of the external and some internal. Good amount of ports. 6x Thunderbolt 2 4x USB3.0 2x Gigabit Ethernet 1x HDMI The outline of the ports light…
I have finally found my replacement for my old, broken E-350 HTPC. I tried the AM1 platform with the Athlon 5350 but support was lacking so I returned it. This time I went with the Intel 1037U Celeron and so far I’m pleased with the results. It’s a nice motherboard design. It has more than…
I’ve been playing around with Laravel 4 for a few days now and have been very impressed. Once I figured outhow to install it, so far the learning curve from Codeigniter seems to be small. Right now I’m taking an existing project written with Codeigniter and creating a Laravel version for it. I got the…
Phalcon is a PHP Framework I wanted to play with. I have recently switched one of my PC from Windows 8.1 to a Linux distro – for development and everyday use. Slowly but surely I’m finding alternative software and loving it. I’m only going to use Windows for gaming. For now, I will be using…
After a day with my new AMD Athlon 5350 and MSI AM1I motherboard, I’ve had nothing but problems. I’ve tried running Linux Mint 16 and Ubuntu 13.10 with the hopes of running XBMC. Nothing but driver related issues with the video card. I even tried with Windows 7 Professional 64bit. Also problems with the video…
AMD recently released the AM1 platform. It consist of 4 new processors. My old HTPC no longer works. I think the humidifier in the room may have something to do with it. So I decided to pick up the 5350 and a MSI AM1I MS-7865 motherboard. Newegg had an extra $15 off for the combo….
In the past it was always a bit challenging to get WIMP installed, at least for me it was. I ended up using installers for PHP and even then which version would I use, fast cgi or that other one (can’t seem to remember the name, it’s been a while). Recently, I had to create…
I’ve been curious about Laravel and wanted to set up a virtual machine to get an environment for it. I will go over what I used and how I managed to finally get the environment working. Here is a list of what I will be using. I am including the version numbers just to add…
I’ve been playing around with other frameworks and Laravel caught my eye. But every time I try to install it, I get an error. Mcrypt php5 is required. Script php artisan clear-compiled handling the post-install-cmd event returned with an error I know mcrypt for php is installed but I guess it’s not enabled. I found…