JM showing how to use LibreOffice to create a graph of airplane acceleration data from the WarThunder game.

Using Lua to access a sqlite database

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A terminal dashboard using lcurses (Lua bindings for curses).

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Is your hard drive failing? Even just one bad sector is too many!

I show one of the ways that I test for bad sectors on a drive. I also talk about better ways to make sure that your data is in more than one place.

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This project builds upon our previous video that displayed the server status on the screen using Conky:

https://video.retroedge.tech/w/mDhhaBzomWmZn7Yg3DUnxE

This time we are crossing over to the physical world using arduino and red and green LED lights. Green for okay and red if there's a problem.

This was a good exercise to show that Lua and Arduino can be used together, with Lua on the computer side talking using serial over USB to the Arduino.

Creating a server monitor using Lua and Conky

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I find Intel's stock CPU cooler to be frustrating to install. Here's what I've found to work much better.

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From my experience as a computer repairman, and also from selling refurbished computers, here's why I do not recommend "all-in-one" computers.

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This video shows a summary of the process of creating a Minetest mod, giving the player the ability to have "emotes" like dance moves or waving goodbye.

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This is an inexpensive HP laptop. With a slow spinning hard disk drive and 4GB of memory, this laptop would be frustrating to use.

It can be upgraded... and it is worth doing. This videos shares my thoughts on that.

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