Has anyone tried Movim? https://github.com/movim/movim
Chat and social on XMPP. Works with some of the best chat server tech in history (ejabberd, prosody, etc).
XMPP rocks honestly.
I haven't actually tried it, but did some research into Movim a while back.
Are you using it? Or thinking about using it?
#xmpp
I have a number of customers, usually with gaming laptops, that have had motherboard failures. I'm thinking that circuit level repair could potential fix some of these. I do some soldering, but this kind of work is outside of what I currently do (not opposed to learning new things).
Do you know anyone who does board level circuit repair on motherboards? Have any recommendations?
#repair #tech
My business website (not RetroEdge.tech) currently uses Hugo.
We are working on a replacement website, also written in Go but with custom functionality that will be a step up from what we have with Hugo right now.
I absolutely agree with you on most of the points you wrote. Hugo is a great tool for websites and produces much faster websites by default than Wordpress.
I'm using shred again today to secure erase an older 2.5 inch HDD with one bad sector. Customer requested that I just erase the data instead of recovering it for him.
#Linux
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I enjoyed reading this blog post about Void Linux. I learned quite a few things that I didn't know before, including that Void has a way to install .deb packages from Debian (and derivatives).
https://animeshz.github.io/site/blogs/void-linux.html
#Linux
On a Lenovo IdeaPad 3 laptop, I had to disable VMD in the BIOS in order for the m.2 nvme SSD to be visible to Windows.
Odd. I wonder how it got changed. Or perhaps the previous Windows installation had set up RAID and it needed VMD enabled. Not sure.
#Lenovo #Windows
This repair was a success. I followed up with the customer a while afterwards and she was very happy with how it turned out.
#repair #jbweld
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Have a good weekend!
JB Weld is useful stuff. Using it to adhere a DC jack back in place in a Lenovo IdeaPad after it was busted in and the original bracket destroyed.
Also used the heat of a soldering iron to push a brass anchor back into the plastic of the palm rest on the same laptop.
This laptop "experienced a fall" due to an overly energetic dog coming in contact with the charging cable.
I should be able to fix it. We'll see after letting the JB Weld epoxy cure overnight.
#laptop #repair
I'm working on refurbishing a ThinkPad P51 laptop with Xeon processor.
Impressive machine. Old enough to be affordable, still very powerful for the work that my customer is wanting to do with it.
I plan on replacing the screen, as it has a noticeable light spot. Will be upgrading with a new Crucial 1TB nvme SSD and upgrading the memory (RAM) to 32GB.
#ThinkPad
"Sales equal survival. If you want to survive, get better at sales."
-- Dan Koe
I'm delivering two refurbished laptops today. Both Dell laptops, but considerably different models in features and age.
The newer one is a Dell Vostro 7500 with Intel i7, tenth gen and new 500GB nvme SSD. The customer wanted a laptop with number keypad for data entry for their coffee shop business.
The older one is a Dell Inspiron 17 (model 3737) with Intel i3, fourth gen, 250GB SATA SSD. The customer is replacing an even old laptop that had a much slower processor and a completely failed hard disk drive.
Both of these laptops solve a need for each of these people at their desired price point. Selling them was as easy as being able to have the skills and knowledge to refurbish the laptops, talk with these people about their needs, and ask "Do you want to buy this?".
The answer was an easy "yes".
gparted and clonezilla are useful tools. Using them again today to clone a 512GB nvme SSD to a slightly smaller new 500GB nvme SSD.
Gparted to shrink and move partions, Clonezilla to clone (Expert Mode, option -icds, to skip check the size of the drive it is cloning to).
If a Window NTFS partition, run chkdsk in Windows after resizing the partition with gparted and before cloning with CloneZilla. Otherwise, the clone will fail (happened the first time I tried it, worked fine after running chkdsk from Windows on that partition).
#linux
Did some fun things with tech today... and had some frustrations.
The website that was supposed to "go live" today didn't. Works fine in dev server and on "live mode" with a different sub-domain... but will not load the css files when the actual final deployed domain name is switched on.
I am not the programmer, but the sysadmin.
Tested the "live" configuration with a different domain name and that works fine.
Due to testing, I think the PHP code logic that considers the domain name has a show stopping bug in it.
Programmer put some logic that changes how the website works based on what the domain name is. Being clever for different "dev" modes... but I wouldn't have done that. I would have had the result be the same, no matter what the domain name so it is predictable.
I documented my testing and emailed the programmer.
We'll see if my hunch as to the cause was right.
That may be the case. I thought it had affected regular people, too, even those who were not Crowdstrike customers... but maybe I didn't understand that part.
Regarding Crowdstrike:
I thought I had a customer call about the Crowdstrike issue, as his machine blue screened and he saw the news. He waiting over the weekend and then called me Monday morning.
At that point, that was the only customer call I thought I had gotten about the Crowdstrike issue.
I show up onsite, go through the steps to remove Crowdstrike problem files... but no Crowdstrike on the computer.
Turns out his problem was caused by a different Windows Update issue and not Crowdstrike.
So, as a computer repairman who has thousands of past customers not a single one has contacted me who was actually affected by the Crowdstrike issue.
I am getting ready a Dell Latitude 7490 laptop for a customer. I got two of them. I'm impressed with it's design.
They also have a 7390, a version slightly smaller with 13 inch screen. Very much want to get some hands on time with that model now.
That is an interesting idea. Let us know what you think of it after using for a bit. I may want to try that.