Posts from the 'Gadgets' Category

Remarkable Paper Pro – how to enable Developer Mode (and mini review)

I got a chance to evaluate reMarkable Paper Pro for business usage. Some of the colleagues are more paper oriented, so we went on and got an eink devices for some of our larger projects and to test them out and see how the devices fit our business workflows. I’m also huge fan of reading and writing on eink, so I was excited to test the devices out. One of them is a new reMarkable Paper Pro. Let’s quickly see what it can do, and how we can enable Developer mode on it.

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Lenovo Thinkpad ESC + F1 + F4 led blinking

I got Lenovo Thinkpad P16V Gen1 for testing and work – I got Intel i9 model with 32GB of RAM and 1TB of SSD – first thing I did is get new RAM and disk and get to update it. However, after I upgraded RAM with new (Crucial) sticks, on boot I got blinking ESC + F1 + F4 on keyboard. First ESC, then F1 and then F4 key. This is going on and on… Let’s check what I tried so far.

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Netgear Switch loud fans – How to silence Netgear Switch?

Before we even start – HUGE WARNING: with this mod, you are voiding your warranty. Also I will not be responsible for any kind (material, physical, mental) of damage you do by following this tutorial. 

Now, let’s do the work, I’ll demonstrate you my trip to silent Netgear switch. JI’ve got few Netgear 10Gbit switches for testing and for some scenarios even a production purpose. Mostly I don’t care about noise of the switches because they are in the server room, and they are supposed to be loud because it is very hot and tight in the server racks and hot air needs to be pushed out of the switch.

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Supermicro motherboard loud fans

From time to time I need to work with Supermicro motherboards, usually on custom server/workstation builds. One thing with Supermicro motherboards (in my experience) is consistent – loud fans / fans that are spinning up and down whole time.

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