Fixing unresponsive or black screen with Windows
The key sequence will restart the display process, and possibly the device driver, and will sometimes recover from a screen that has wigged out; like when a game crashes.
Scott Garrett
Installing Windows 11 With A Local Account
During the setup, you can press shift-F10 to start a command line. From there, enter the command This should work, but may not with the Home edition. You can, however, use Rufus to create an installer that creates a local account for you.
Fixing ssh-agent error
If you get the error: It is easy to fix. This happened to me when I installed the MacPorts version of OpenSSH on my Mac (because work blocks the native ssh app rather than the port; we won’t get in to the silliness of that). Rather than trying to disable the MacOS ssh-agent (which apparently … Read more
Devialet API Examples
I am fortunate enough to own Devialet Phantom speakers. These are crazy powerful speakers in a small size. I use a pair with my TV, which has an AppleTV and a gaming PC attached. The speakers support AirPlay 2, as well as an optical digital line in (it supports other platforms, but I don’t use … Read more
tmux vs. mouse in iTerm2
I have wanted to use the tmux integration in iTerm2 for a long time now, but whenever I would go in to iTerm2, it would change things so that the mouse wheel (trackpad scroll) would cycle through the shell history instead of scrolling back through the buffer. I cannot image any sane person would want … Read more
How to Create Spatial Videos from 3D SBS Movies
So you have an Apple Vision Pro, or its little cousin the Oculus Quest and you want to use the spatial movie format. This is not a new format, it has been around since 2014, but Apple is the first to start using it prominently. Sure, there is whatever they put on Disney+, or the … Read more
Keeping REDIS RAM Under Control
Redis is a wonderful tool, but (by design) it hoovers up all the RAM, and even dips into swap space on a linux host. In fact, the official documentation recommends that you disable swap entirely on the host. But in the real world, that is not always an option. Sometimes, depending on your application design, … Read more
Apple Vision Pro vs. Space Bar and TAB
A default setting for the Apple Vision Pro using an external keyboard was driving me mad; the space bar and the tab key were hijacked to serve as Accessibility functions, which meant that in may places where you wanted to type, hitting the space bar would perform the “Activate” function rather than acting as a … Read more
Converting Ubuntu Desktop Install to Server
These procedures were performed/tested on Ubuntu Desktop 22 LTS. On other versions, YMMV. I like to use ZFS on the root/boot volumes, however with Ubuntu (as of 22), you can only install it that way with the desktop installer. But that, of course, installs all the Desktop stuff I do not need on a server. … Read more
Stop (or at least reduce) Nanoleaf Spying
I bought a Nanoleaf 4D light strip for my television. As installed, it works just fine. However, if you are a good sysadmin, and you block it like you block all of your IoT devices from accessing the network, you will run into a problem. The firmware cannot cope with not being able to access … Read more