Monthly Archives: January 2013

Tools Required for Sight Replacement on a Walther PPQ — Sometimes I write product reviews on my blog, and sometimes I write about DIY projects. This post is a little bit of both. I recently purchased a pair of Walther PPQ 9mm pistols. I love them. I’ve owned a Walther PPK for years, and as much as I love it, […]

Installing Trijicon Night Sights on a Walther PPQ

This entry was posted in DIY Guns Product Reviews and tagged factory sights Meprolight night sights PPQ PPS sights Trijicon Walther Walther PPQ on January 30, 2013 by Steve Jenkins

Potential and Kinetic Energy — I received a comment on a previous blog post recently arguing that “gun’s don’t make us safer.” By extension, I’ll link that to an even more general argument I’ve heard lately that “guns aren’t safe.” Oh… guns are dangerous, you say? Well, um, yeah. No duh. They’re literally designed to […]

The Argument that Guns Don’t Keep Us Safe

This entry was posted in Guns Personal and tagged dangerous gun control gun laws guns guns are dangerous kinetic energy potential energy on January 19, 2013 by Steve Jenkins (updated 4114 days ago)

I’m writing this post on January 16, 2013 — the same day that President Obama released a document entitled Now Is The Time: The President’s plan to protect our children and our communities by reducing gun violence. The full text of the document is available here. This blog post isn’t […]

Guns, Assault Weapons, and the 2nd Amendment

This entry was posted in Guns Personal Rants and Raves and tagged 2nd Amendment assault weapons assault weapons ban Bill of Rights Constitution gun ban James Madison Obama right to bear arms Second Amendment on January 16, 2013 by Steve Jenkins (updated 4116 days ago)

Upgrade from Fedora 17 to 18 with FedUp — Fedora 18 (codename Spherical Cow) was officially released today, and there’s a mad scramble to figure out how to upgrade to this latest Linux desktop from Fedora 17. Previously, you’d have to either do a fresh install with a CD or DVD, or you could use the built-in PreUpgrade method. […]

Upgrade from Fedora 17 to Fedora 18 with FedUp

This entry was posted in Linux Reference Technology and tagged Fedora Fedora 17 Fedora 17 to 18 Fedora 18 fedora upgrade 17 to 18 fedup FedUp Install Linux PreUpgrade update Upgrade on January 15, 2013 by Steve Jenkins (updated 4118 days ago)

Blackhawk 410610CBK Double Mag Case — Since I own a few different Blackhawk SERPA CQC retention holders (in carbon fiber finish, natch), I decided to pick up the matching Blackhawk 410610CBK Double Stack Double Mag Case. Up to now, I’ve been using a Safariland leather double-mag case, but the snaps are a bit difficult to manage so I […]

Review: Blackhawk 410610CBK Double Stack Double Mag Case

This entry was posted in Guns Product Reviews and tagged Blackhawk carbon fiber double mag double magazine double stack Glock mag case mag holder magazine holder review SERPA on January 11, 2013 by Steve Jenkins (updated 4122 days ago)

Winland Electronics WaterBug Sensor — I’ve already written plenty of posts about my experiences with the Ecobee Smart Thermostat. To say I’m a fan would be putting it mildly. But today, I became an even bigger fan after extending the functionality of my Ecobee Smart Thermostat by connecting a water sensor to it. My basement […]

DIY: Connecting a WaterBug Water Sensor to an Ecobee Smart ...

This entry was posted in DIY Home Theater & Automation Product Reviews Technology and tagged alarm dry contact ecobee how to product review review smart thermostat water sensor WaterBug WB-200 Winland Electronics on January 10, 2013 by Steve Jenkins (updated 4123 days ago)

WiFi connection on iPhone 4 — UPDATED Dec 21, 2016. This post is a reference post for those looking to squeeze maximum speed out of their Cisco Linksys E4200 v1 wireless router running DD-WRT. The DD-WRT build I currently recommend for this router is K2.6 30880 (by BrainSlayer). IMPORTANT: My testing shows that DD-WRT K2.6 builds are much faster on the […]

My Cisco Linksys E4200 DD-WRT Settings for Max Speed

This entry was posted in DIY iPhone Linux Reference Technology and tagged 22000M big BrainSlayer configuration DD-WRT ddwrt E4200 fiber Fractal Heartbleed Kong Linksys mega nas OpenSSL OpenVPN optimize settings speed std TCP Congestion Control Transmit Power usb WiFi WiFi speed wireless wireless speed on January 10, 2013 by Steve Jenkins (updated 2682 days ago)

Setting up multiple WLANs in DD-WRT — Even for the extremely ungeeky, having WiFi available throughout your house is pretty much standard these days. And while the next logical step of securing that network via encryption (WEP is for n00bs — those in the know use WPA2-AES) may not be standard, it really should be. Assuming you do […]

Use DD-WRT to Create a Guest WiFi Network and Block ...

This entry was posted in Linux Technology and tagged block br1 bridge DD-WRT firewall guest network iptables Linux Skype WiFi on January 9, 2013 by Steve Jenkins (updated 3357 days ago)