My Little Pocket Universe
Scott Garrett Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1 egg 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1 tablespoon malt (or substitute additional sugar) 2 tablespoons butter, softened 2 tablespoons shortening 1/2 cup half-and-half 1/2 cup milk 1/4 cup buttermilk 1/4 teaspoon vanilla Directions: Combine flour, salt and baking soda in a medium bowl … Read more
In playing with values for ffmpeg to try to get a similar output to my “standard” settings in HandBrake, this is what I came up with: ffmpeg -i “$1” -c:v hevc_nvenc -preset slow -profile:v main10 -rc-lookahead:v 32 -spatial_aq 1 -cq 29 -tag:v hvc1 -c:a libfdk_aac -profile:a aac_he -b:a 80k “$( basename “$1″ .avi ).mp4” This … Read more
By default ESXi is expecting to get its hostname from DHCP, and with Ubiquiti, the DCHP server is expecting the client to provide a hostname. So to fix it, you need to get on the ESXi host and use the commands esxcli system hostname set –host=hostname and esxcli system hostname set –fqdn=fqdn to set the … Read more
Since WordPress is stupid about limiting what kinds of files you can upload with no method of changing it other than installing yet-another-plugin™, there is a quick way to disable the checks entirely if you’re running your own server and are the only one allowed to upload. This fix is global to WordPress, so be … Read more
WordPress is turning out to be really annoying in the amount you cannot do without installing yet-another-plugin™. I understand why they pick some of the defaults they do, but to not give any ready way to adjust them is … irritating. So, to increase the maximum file size of an upload, and also the maximum … Read more
I used to use a real VT220 terminal way back in the college days, and I remembered that I rather liked the font. So I decided to make a linux console font to use it on the text console of linux hosts. Place the font file in /usr/share/consolefonts Edit /etc/default/console-setup to have the lines: CHARMAP=”UTF-8″ … Read more
You can send an SMS message to most carriers put putting the phone number @ one of these domains: AT&T T-Mobile Verizon txt.att.net tmomail.net vtext.com Example: 4101234567@tmomail.net would send a text message to the cell phone with the number 410-123-4567.
Add the following to the global section: min protocol = SMB2 ea support = yes vfs objects = fruit streams_xattr acl_xattr fruit:appl = yes fruit:metadata = stream fruit:model = MacSamba fruit:veto_appledouble = no fruit:posix_rename = yes fruit:zero_file_id = yes fruit:wipe_intentionally_left_blank_rfork = yes fruit:delete_empty_adfiles = yes fruit:locking = netatalk# Set character set so that international characters … Read more
For Ubuntu: Update /etc/default/grub and add the quoted text to whatever is already there. GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”consoleblank=0 vt.cur_default=6 vt.color=2″ This will also set it so the console never blanks; adjust “consoleblank” to your own tastes (in seconds). After updating, you need to run a command to commit the changes to the kernel at next boot: /usr/sbin/update-grub For … Read more
I used these two sites to figure out how to get DKIM working: https://wiki.debian.org/opendkim https://www.linuxbabe.com/mail-server/setting-up-dkim-and-spf Install opendkim and opendkim-tools cd /etc/dkimkeys opendkim-genkey -t -s mail -d technomancer.com Edit /etc/opendkim.conf: Domain technomancer.com KeyFile /etc/dkimkeys/mail.private Selector mail Socket local:/var/spool/postfix/opendkim/opendkim.sock # Specify the list of keys KeyTable file:/etc/dkimkeys/keytable # Match keys and domains. To use regular expressions in … Read more