Lloyd Leung

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]