Ubuntu-Ryzen-UEFI Madness (Solved!)

I have probably installed some variant of Linux at least 70 times in my lifetime – probably much more. I had just purchased two sets of components for my home-made Render Server Farm. The motherboards were Biostar and the CPUs were A10-9700G AM4 by AMD. The initial installs went without a hitch using Ubuntu Server …
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NodeMCU (ESP8266) upload sketches wirelessly

More on the NodeMCU (V1)…..  This little booger is great!  I have tried all kinds of wireless upload solutions with Arduino (Olimexino with ESP8266, Nano with various wireless devices) and the end result of actually uploading the sketch never succeeded.  It all had to do with the reset aspect which causes the bootloader to accept …
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LuxRender Progressing Like Lightning…..

I have been doing all this coding for Blender and LuxRender via my Converter, which takes Blender Internal materials and converts them to LuxRender materials suitable for rendering.  The last LuxRender plugin for Blender I installed had an update feature found in the ‘User Preferences’ section, so I went ahead with updating.  To my surprise, …
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