Ideas, and reference material I find useful

Had some worn outlets, house is 13 years old… so, turn off the breaker for that circuit, and replaced the unit. The issue was when I plugged one of those “outlet” testers in, it told me I had an open neutral. Well, WTF… I plugged it in the other side, and then a bunch of…

If you got one or two files, just use an online converter… however, if you have several hundred files you wish to convert, use imagemagick. You first need to install it… on OSX, use homebrew. $> brew install imagemagick. this will give you the “convert” command in the command prompt. Now, to do it manually…

I’ve had a duplex automatic document fed scanner for close to a decade. Original a FUJISU Snapscan M1500, which Fuijisu ended support for a few years ago. Friend helped me obtain a Panasonic scanner, same form factor, but newer, faster. Network based. My original workflow consided of: scan documents, which automatically converted to OCR sandwiched…

This works for me on OSX Catalina 10.15.4 Summary: If you wanted to automated include files, you can use the script shown to help automatically gzip, and convert bin to hex string representation for inclusion into C/C++ headers. Automating the process. This post explains the process to take html/css/icon (what have you) compresses them to…

this was working as of 2020-05-23 Test the system to ensure it’s working. Start terminal windows… term 1 – subscriber to the topic “test” term 2 – publish something to the topic “test” Create a user/password edit the file as root, /etc/mosquitto/conf.d/default.conf: Restart test pub/sub in two terminals. That’s the setup of MQTT Tasmota portion:…

I recently swapped servers, as my old one was running Ubuntu 14.04, I decided to just swap out the server completely to Ubuntu 20.04, port the data… hence the recent rsync post. The process was simple: create new server setup apache (vhosts), mysql, php, etc… firewall rules should be the same, so you could use…

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 why you should have a WiFi network dedicated to IoT devices on a separate VLAN.…

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 uid/gid values by user/group name–delete – delete extraneous files from destination dirs–info=progress2 — show progression-e…

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 for a while and was ready, as he could ride a few meters without either…

[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, and then the SSL… but since you’re defining them by macro’s it’s not so bad.…