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Many people now have Amazon echo/dots / Google home / Apple HomePod, smart TVs, smart thermostats, etc… What happens if one of those get hacked? They’re already on your system? they’re authorized and allowed on your network… now what? That’s […]

TL;DR; rsync -aHAXxv –numeric-ids –delete –info=progress2 -e “ssh -T -c aes128-gcm@openssh.com -o Compression=no -x” <source> <target> options: a – archiveH – preserve hard-linksA – preserve ACLSX – preserve extend attributesx – don’t cross filesystem boundariesv – verbose–numeric-ids – don’t map […]

It’s been a while since I posted anything… Kids/family have taken up a lot of time. Dylan’s started to ride two wheels, learning about the Pedrin method was a little too easy to teach him. Dylan was in training wheels […]

[update: 2020-05-20] There does seem to be a conflict with Let’s Encrypt certbot. You’ll need to manually run updates. I’ll update once I figure it out, how to do it more automated. Looks like possible race condition for the ghost, […]

Having trying to debug without xdebug felt like my hands were being tied behind my back. Took a while, but my friend Bart was able to help me get this up and running, after lots of trouble shooting. The way […]

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 […]

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 – […]

Some people love it.  Some people hate it. To get rid of new car smell… Febreze your car.  Just got these from home depot ($6.00 CDN + tax).  New car smell, by the next morning, gone/masked.  Two things: it smells […]