Thoughts, rambling, projects, misc.
Can you run Autel MaxiTPMS Pad on a mac? Directly, no. Through virtual box, yes. Install virtualbox and Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack, both from: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads Download the windows 10 trial image/iso/dmdk/ovf, which is free, from Microsoft. linke: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/ After you’ve unzipped […]
Controllers: Raspberry PI for the logic. it’ll have it’s own 802.11n USB adapter Project Ideas: The promise, is to use an ESP8266, to control a bunch of relays. Using the Raspberry PI for logic control. DIY 1 plug relay […]
Add these flags, to set the target permissions, and ownership –chmod=a+rwx,g+rwx,o-wx –chown=OWNER:GROUP the chmod is 774.
FROM unix to excel date. [plain]=CELL/(60*60*24)+"1/1/1970"[/plain] From excel date to unix time. [text]=(CELL-"1970-01-01")*60*60*24[/text] where “CELL” is your excel cell you’re trying to handle. CELL can also be replaced with the NOW() function.
I was looking around, and couldn’t find anything. Lots of people on home-depot felt that these things were not the greatest. Problems that people ran into, where reusing the old tubes. These are meant for a complete system. It’s […]
Objective: Allow Ubuntu to start BTSync on reboot. Server create an EC2 instance, with appropriate storage space. Ubuntu LTS 64bit (currently 14.04) download the BTSync client http://www.bittorrent.com/sync The 64bit linux version. dump the btsync.conf ./btsync –dump-sample-config > btsync.conf edit the btsyn.conf […]
Things of importance Family photos/videos Documents scanned docs license/registration information for software Everything else. How to backup, rule of 3-2-1 3 – (three) copies of everything of importance. 2 – (two) media types at least. Remember floppies? Remember […]
I couldn’t find any information as my search terms were incorrect. My google-fu was off when I was searching. My objective was to make http://*.localhost.com go to /var/www/*/www, where * is a wildcard. I’m hoping that this will help others; […]
The plastic T-connectors broke over the winter. Not very hardy. Use the internal ones with hose clamps. The solenoids kept up, so far. Lost the code to the automated system. GPIO pin 7 – Far East solenoid – […]
Are you having issues When I ran: $> sudo apt-get install mosh Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done The following extra packages will be installed: libio-pty-perl libprotobuf7 libutempter0 The following NEW packages will be installed: […]