Review: Royal Kludge RK61 Bluetooth mechanical 60% keyboard

So, when I decided that it’s time to move away from my Sidewinder X4 a couple years a go, I also decided that I would  like to try a mechanical keyboard. Coming from my use of  the excellent Logitech K800 wireless,  my wish list for an ideal keyboard are: Mechanical switch,  because I write quite…

If you really, really have to use Facebook

That ominous feeling of being stalked, have you ever feel it? I have, oddly by an ad for gaming mouse sold by Lazada when I was reading news on a indonesian news site. The same ad popped somewhere else, and follow me around that day. How did that happen? Well it was actually Facebook, among…

WebRTC-based Video Conference with Jitsi

So the company i’m working for regularly held a grand meeting where participants from multiple cities Indonesia log into the meeting with Skype via crappy DSL lines. The result of course was far from satisfactory. So I searched around for a solution that I can deploy locally (since we do have stable, private connection to…

Review: Pixco Pentax K to Sony E-Mount adapter

So I’ve been trying to find an E-Mount ultrawide lens as a counterpart to my lovely Pentax SMC-DA 14mm. The SEL 10-18 F4 is within my price range, but it lacks large aperture, and its’ minimal focus distance of 25cm is a far cry from my the DA14’s 17.5cm. Samyang/Rokinon 12mm F2.0 is actually a…

Review: Plantronics BackBeat Pro 2

First thing first: Plantronics’ decision to use the BackBeat Pro series as their ANC headphone line instead of creating a separate line of product is commendable. By doing that, Plantronics avoided cluttering their offering with overlapping stuff and customers that are considering to upgrade from the original Pro will have an easier time to pick…

Java 1.7 64-bit on Solaris 11 and “java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError: java/lang/Object” error message

My Solaris 5.11 install came with java version 1.8. Surely the dev wants a specific, obscure version of java for his application, so I had to do the extra work on hunting for the installation package for that particular version, and install them on the box Update to Java 7 are no longer publicly available,…

Samsung Galaxy S7/S7 Edge not detecting 5GHz Wireless AC Access Point

If you happen to own a Samsung Galaxy S7 and just recently purchased a brand spanking new AC wireless router (mine is a TP-Link Archer C2 AC750) you  might be surprised to find out that your spiffy phone doesn’t detect the 5GHz access point while the cheap android box sitting under your tv can. Well…

Review: TX5 Pro Android TV Box

My Dune TV101 has been tirelessly serving me as my main media jukebox. Unfortunately the tiny little fighter is starting to show its’ age. You see, for the purpose of space saving and improving quality, I’ve been slowly moving my video collections to X265/HEVC and the TV101 just can’t keep up. So I decided to…

Review: Lenovo N700 Dual Wireless Mouse & Presenter Combo

The N700 is a usb/bluetooth 4.0 combo wireless mouse,  as well as  a combo of mobile mouse and a laser pointer equipped wireless presenter. Does that sound confusing to you? It really isn’t. Basically you connect the N700 to your PC or laptop either with the included USB dongle, or by pairing it your laptop…

WannaCry|WannaDecrypt0r patching notes on Windows Servers platforms

So we just finished rolling out updates to a bunch of our Windows 2012 R2 servers, right in time for the WannaCry malware breakout, which exploits a vulnerability on smbv1 protocol.  If you haven’t been keeping up with security patches, these are the list of patch that you need to get for Windows Server 2012…