Technology

What is my router IP address?

Do you remember what your router’s IP address is? Just use this web-based tool to quickly determine what your IP address is. Simply click on the link and it will take you directly to your router. This tool is a snippet of what’s available. Click here to see more info on you Find my router […]

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See what information websites can see about you

Have you ever wondered what type of information that websites and apps can collect about you? There are various techniques that they can use to track you and tell who you are, even if you are behind a VPN. Please take a look at what information I have gathered about you. Please also try hiding […]

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How to take full page screenshots from list of URLs

Do you have the need to take full-page screenshots from a ton of URL’s? Well you are in luck. I have tried many methods to get the best outcome that correctly captures web pages (including javascript-based pages that cause problems for many automated capturing methods). I also take care of ‘lazy loading’ web pages that […]

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Zoom Background: Maui Ocean Front Balcony

Here is a short clip I created that loops to allow for a fun Zoom virtual background that looks like you are working on the 6th floor balcony of the Honua Kai in Kaanapali, Maui, Hawaii. There are two versions of this Zoom Background you can download: And don’t forget to throw on the requisite […]

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NAND Flash / SSDs | Technology

Best Online SSD Cost Calculator

This is an online SSD Cost calculator that calculates the detailed costs of an SSD (NAND, DRAM, Controller, Other) at various capacity points. You can view the graph/table by $/GB, Unit Costs, or % of Total. Please give it a try. (Bonus: It is mobile and printer friendly) Tip #1: You can scroll down to […]

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NAND and DRAM Prices Collapsing

Flash and DRAM demand has apparently been weak. This is a great opportunity for you to negotiate lower prices with your favorite #semiconductor company. Give your local sales person a call and ask for a revised quote. From what I can tell, weakness was led by the following players: The largest NAND Supplier in June (more in […]

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U.S. Highest Recent COVID-19 Cases by County

My Tableau visualization will allow you see the current hot spots (sorted by highest [7-day] average number of new cases in the last 15 days) in the United States. This has all 3,000+ U.S. counties and shows you the average daily new confirmed cases (moving 7 day average). Additionally, the color of the graph indicates […]

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U.S. COVID-19 Infection Rates by State and County

If you have been wondering what the infection rates for COVID-19 are in your state or county is, you found the one place on the internet that will cover just that. After analyzing numerous antibody studies, filtering out the non-scientifically approached ones, and correlating that with (1) other studies that looked at asymptomatic infections and […]

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America The Unintentionally Beautiful

Click here to enlarge the picture Sometimes when you are playing with visualizations you run across something that captures your attention. This happened when I was looking at the over 3,000 counties in the United States, using population density. In effect, the image you are looking at above is the United States. I normally don’t […]

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COVID-19 Infection Rates Over Time in the U.S.

Hit play to see my estimate of infection rates over time for COVID-19 in the US: This is a race chart I put together using Tableau that illustrates my estimations on what each US State’s COVID-19 infection rate is on a given date. The estimation is based off of comparing many antibody tests versus actual […]

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Did the COVID-19 Shelter-in-Place even work?

In this post, I look at all states in the U.S. by date, days since each state hit 500 cases, and days since each state’s respective shelter-in-place order. Each of these comparisons provide a unique way to accurately look for correlations. I then identify where each state’s peak is, and then compare how the U.S. […]

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US COVID-19 Map Visualization on Tableau

This visualization shows the growth in COVID-19 cases in the US (and the rest of North America), at the county level, from March 15th – April 15th. If you hold your mouse over a given county it will show you the cumulative cases/deaths, new cases/deaths, and ICU beds, in each county. You too can create […]

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401K Employee Contribution Calculator

Download the 401K Employee Contribution Calculator now Ever wonder what the ideal percentage you should be contributing to your 401K is?  It’s more difficult than you may think and you might accidentally be losing out on employer contributions. Things you need to consider: Employer Matching level (e.g., 50%, 100%) Max Employer Matching (e.g., 4%, 5%, […]

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Robots are ready to take over retail

On a recent trip to Las Vegas, I encountered a few robots.  No, it was not street performers and no it wasn’t a comic convention. 🙂 You know, I can read about tech taking over jobs all day long.. but when I see two instances of it on one weekend trip, it really got me […]

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Finance | Technology

Pure Storage Acquired Compuverde for $47.9M

Although Compuverde was acquired in April 2019, I have not seen any coverage over the acquisition price. I happened to stumble upon it while combing over the 2Q’FY20 Pure Storage 10Q statement so thought I’d quickly share with you; I really do need to find some late-night shows to watch; any recommendations? From Pure’s 10Q, […]

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Pure Storage Number of Employees
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Pure Storage Number of Employees

This post is an excerpt from Part 1 of my deep dive on Pure Storage. This post will just discuss the number of Pure Storage employees. You can find way more details on Pure Storage in Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 of my deep dive. To gather the detailed number of […]

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Linux | Technology

Over 100 Linux Commands for Hardware Geeks

This list of linux commands, scripts, and tips was created by me (Ryan) over 10 years ago. They were useful when working with various hardware components, such as peripheral buses (e.g., FC, SCSI, SAS) and devices (e.g., SES, SATA, SAS). There are also general purpose commands mixed in there as well. Since I created this […]

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Hard Drives | Technology

How I analyzed Backblaze SMART Data

This post briefly explains how I took the raw SMART data (drive health data) from Backblaze and turned it into insights on my previous post. Backblaze posts all of its SMART data on the following page: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html I downloaded the zip files and imported the data into MySQL. After importing the data, I used the […]

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Finance

Advanced Paycheck/Tax Calculator by Ryan

Download the Excel-based Paycheck and Tax Forecasting Tool by clicking here For those that know me, one of my passions is personal finance (along with public speaking, influencing, practical applications of technology, data analysis, helping others). As I have grown older, I have come to appreciate the importance of planning taxes and choices around income/deductions more […]

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Over 26K Salaries Exposed! Here’s What I Learned.

About a week ago, askamanager.org (with 2 million monthly visitors) collected over 26,000 salaries from ordinary people like you and me. And Alison Green was kind of enough to share the Google spreadsheet of all the submissions. Although there are some issues with the data collected (which I’ll talk about at the end of this post for those that care), […]

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NAND Flash / SSDs | Technology

SSD costs exposed: How to buy like a pro

What you will learn in this article After reading this article, you will learn: All SSDs in all verticals (e.g., PC, Retail, Datacenter, Enterprise) should be priced the same ($/GB); The key to understanding this is looking at non-NAND related costs over different capacity points, while considering the current average capacity point in each vertical. […]

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