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How to upgrade the memory (RAM) in your Unibody Macbook Late 2008, Macbook Early, Mid, and Late 2009, or Mid 2010 Macbook

Posted on by Jeffrey Hein

These chips also work for: Macbook Pro Unibody Late 2008, Early 2009, Mid 2009 They all support up tp 8GB of RAM (Unofficially) 4GB kit –>             8GB kit –> Instructions for Macbook Unibody Late 2009 and 2010 While you’ve got the back off you might as well replace the battery –> Read more about How to upgrade the memory (RAM) in your Unibody Macbook Late 2008, Macbook Early, Mid, and Late 2009, or Mid 2010 Macbook[…]

How to extend your network 300 meters over your electrical system without Wifi for $30

Posted on by Jeffrey Hein

This one seems like the best value. It has a filtered plug so it is ideal for plugging in directly to your router.   These TP-Links devices are a good value as well. They offer more options: Refer here to TP-Links product FAQ: www.tp-link.com/en/artic…          $30 used you still get Prime shipping. | 3 for $40 Read more about How to extend your network 300 meters over your electrical system without Wifi for $30[…]

How to mount an additional persistant storage disk to a Google Cloud compute engine running Ubuntu 15.10 wily

Posted on by Jeffrey Hein

From: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/persistent-disks#create_disk sudo mkfs.ext4 -F -E lazy_itable_init=0,lazy_journal_init=0,discard /dev/disk/by-id/google-example-disk echo ‘/dev/disk/by-id/google-example-disk /mnt/example-disk ext4 discard,defaults 1 1’ | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab

How to fix the “device or resource busy’ error when trying to mount your Google Drive on your headless google cloud compute engine server running Ubuntu 15.10 wily [SOLVED]

Posted on by Jeffrey Hein

I wanted to mount my Google drive onto my Google Cloud compute engine running Ubuntu 15.10 wily.  I also have my Google Cloud storage bucket mounted using gcsfuse. I tried all sorts of manual ways to validate the API keys the below is the only way that worked. The solution was to install lxdm, x2go, Read more about How to fix the “device or resource busy’ error when trying to mount your Google Drive on your headless google cloud compute engine server running Ubuntu 15.10 wily [SOLVED][…]