My Little Pocket Universe
Scott Garrett Sometimes you need a way to get in to a system that is not accessible publicly, and for whatever reason, you can’t use a full VPN. This is a good time for the connectivity Swiss-Army-Knife, and your best friend, ssh and, if available, its companion autossh. And for you Windows people, I mean ssh, not … Read more
Sometimes I use external programs to update my Music files; specifically, I like using MusicBrainz Picard to add extra information. Once you change the info externally, you need to tell Music to re-read the file and update. You can always “Get Info” on each file individually, if you only have a few files to refresh. … Read more
Recently, I’ve been going through my Music collection and doing cleanup. I’ve been using iTunes and now the hot mess of Apple Music since the very beginning. Throughout the years, various tracks have randomly disappeared, or gotten corrupted in some way. I’m not entirely sure why, though I think it might have something to do … Read more
I am not advocating piracy here. This is just a method to remove the purchased flag from Apple Music/iTunes downloaded files, and make them show up as normal AAC files if you have some reason to do so. The shotgun approach is to just remove all the meta-data from the stream. This is simple enough … Read more
You have probably created nice icons for your volumes or folders, only have them get removed at some point that you cannot remember. To keep from losing it, you can easily keep a backup of it. You can keep it in icns format, or make a PNG out of it. From a command line (Terminal … Read more
Sometimes it’s nice to override the default icons for various folders and drives on your Mac. Fortunately, the Mac makes it trivial to do this, as you can just drag an image into the icon in the “Get Info” window of a file in the Finder. I used to just do that with empty folders … Read more
In setting up Zabbix to monitor my devices, I had to look up how to set up SNMP in VMware. My first mistake was assuming that vCenter, the central management system for VMware, would actually centrally manage SNMP. It does not. From what I can tell, you cannot set up SNMP from the GUI, and … Read more
Update (2022/02/08): Ubiquiti has acknowledged this is is a problem, and said it will be fixed in a future release. Update 2 (2022/03/04) Issue still not fixed with recent patches. No surprise. Update (2025/12/12) – Issue still not fixed, but the config was moved. The Ubiquiti UDM Pro is, over all, a fantastic device. But … Read more
Sometimes, especially with Monterey, I have had iCloud file syncing hang where it shows there are files that need to be uploaded, but for whatever reason it stops uploading the files; sometimes for a couple of hours, sometimes completely. And, of course it will do this when I have other projects open I don’t want … Read more
So you’ve bought that shiny 3D Blu-Ray, but they don’t make 3D TVs anymore. Now you have that shiny new VR headset, which just screams “Let me play my 3D movies!,” but alas, no such luck. Well, here is how to extract your purchased Blu-Rays (only use these instructions with movies you own, please!). You … Read more