Category Archives: General-Tech

ThinkOrSwim: Line Tracks Current Price

Posted on December 27, 2022 by swinful

Often I find it helpful to have a continuous current price line in my chart to easily follow the current price of a security within ThinkOrSwim. One of the ways to add this script is to create a custom Study … Continue reading →

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PC Engines – The Best Economical Firewall Hardware: apu4d4 APU.4D4 4GB/120GB

Posted on December 10, 2022 by swinful

Just received from Switzerland (PC Engines) a backup firewall ready to receive PfSense — apu4d4  APU.4D4 4GB/120GB SSD. This unit will provide high availability once coupled with the existing unit. Quick specs: CPU: AMD Embedded G series GX-412TC, 1 GHz … Continue reading →

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PKTD: Running Full Node on FreeBSD

Posted on October 24, 2021 by swinful

For kicks, compiled and ran #pktd, the daemon that helps verify transactions within the #PKT network. Fairly straight forward. However, you may run into a build failure, for which a submitted a pull request that was recently merged, during your … Continue reading →

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Cardano: [FBSD] Update FreeBSD Relays to v_6 (alonzo V2 (1.30.1))

Posted on October 2, 2021 by swinful

September 11, 2021 brought the Alonzo hard fork allowing the implementation of smart contracts on Cardano mainnet in order to enable a host of new use cases for decentralized applications (DApps). Stake pools are encouraged to update all nodes to … Continue reading →

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Cardano: Now fully decentralized (D=0)!

Posted on March 31, 2021 by swinful

Today, March 31st 2021 marks the day, the Cardano network is now fully decentralized. As stated by the team at IOHK: Cardano is a proof-of-stake blockchain platform, founded on peer-reviewed research and delivered through evidence-based software development processes, by a … Continue reading →

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Cryptocurrency: Cardano (ADA) — Setting up a PoS Node

Posted on March 12, 2021 by swinful

Looks like I went down this rabbit hole that is Cardano, so much so that I am in the process of setting up a stake pool. A stake pool for the purpose of helping decentralize the blockchain network. As of … Continue reading →

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[Swift] expressions require OS X 10.10 / iOS 8 SDKs or later

Posted on September 27, 2014 by swinful

The successor to Objective-C, Swift was announced by Apple in 2014. Instead of waiting I decided to start learning this language in order to add it to my “bag of tricks” as one of my professors would say. Considering I … Continue reading →

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[Futaba] 14SG Transmitter Programming Tips

Posted on August 12, 2014 by swinful

I came across this very useful video the other day, Futaba 14SG Radio Programming Tips. It is extremely useful for anyone with a Futaba 8FG [Super] or 14SG transmitter. I initially thought the two dials (LD and RD) were useful for … Continue reading →

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[Panasonic] Another Television For the Holidays? I Think Not!

Posted on November 17, 2013 by swinful

On October 5th 2011 we purchased our very first flat screen television. After weeks of researching and speaking with colleagues I decided to go with Panasonic. We purchased from the Electronics Expo a Viera 50″ G25 Plasma (TC-P50G25). The whole … Continue reading →

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[RC Heli] How I got hooked on RC Helicopters

Posted on September 15, 2013 by swinful

Devo 12S?, Mini-cp? Well, if you have been reading my blog for some time this is definitely a post out-of-the-norm, but I think you should no longer be surprised to see posts about rc helicopters here. I caught the “heli … Continue reading →

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