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After a good decade and a half of planning and saving, my wife and I were finally able to visit Hawaii. We traveled to Maui and spent a week on the eastern shore, in a region called Hana. There's basically one hotel there, which used to be the Hana Hotel and is now Travaasa Hana. If you're thinking of traveling to Maui to visit Travasaa or Hana, read on!

Enterprise grade servers tend to have an embedded computer that keeps track of the server's status even when it's turned off. This sort of thing is called "out of band management". Now that we're fully in the "internet of things" era, there's really no reason why we can't all have the benefits of such a system. In this article, I'll document my "system monitor" that keeps track of my primary PC, even when I'm not around.

Here at WOTS, we stream to our YouTube channel via an nginx relay. Out of the box, nginx doesn't support RTMP, though. There's a module you can download - but it's source only. Since nobody is currently making a PPA for nginx with RTMP support built in, I build mine from source. It's not as hard as it sounds - anybody can figure it out! In this article, I'll archive my scripts for building nginx with the RTMP module the Ubuntu way.

While at SxSW last month, EBongo and I stopped and spent some time going over the Logitech G-series lineup for 2016. Since the con floor really isn't the best place to get a good impression of an input device, I asked Logitech if they'd be willing to ship me a G502 Proteus Spectrum that I could use for review. I've spent a week with it, and now I'm ready to pass my verdict! Is the G502 Proteus Spectrum worthy of your monster gaming rig? Let's find out in my G502 Proteus Spectrum review!

As you know, one of WOTS' major events every year is the SxSW Gaming Expo, a three day event that brings together big names from the gaming, anime, and board game vendors under one (very crowded) roof. This time around, EBongo and I set our sights on Logitech, who brought a massive booth to the show in order to demo their gaming-oriented G series keyboards, mice, and headsets.

We met with the fine folks at Kingston/HyperX at PAX South 2016. While we mostly talked headsets, I did follow up with HyperX about their other gaming-rig-related products. They offered to send me a HyperX SSD to check out, so I've put the Savage through its paces as part of my streaming machine upgrade. If you're interested in the HyperX Savage line, check out my review!