My Little Pocket Universe
Scott Garrett If you use a Mac and create SAMBA shares on linux hosts, you’re bound to find lots of .DS_Store files. They are, in and of themselves, harmless; they just store custom window information for the MacOS Finder. But if you prefer to have that information not saved rather than finding those files, you can prevent … Read more
Finding good documents on how to set up a site-to-site VPN with a Ubiquiti UDM to a non-Ubiquiti node (i.e. linux) has been a challenge. The documents on Ubiquiti’s site are laughably incomplete (and generally way out of date). So I am working through each of the steps and trying to shoe horn in a … Read more
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 In the individual shares if you want … Read more