My Little Pocket Universe
Scott Garrett Traditionally, on *nix systems, cron (or one of its derivatives) is used. It’s possible to use cron on the Mac, but it’s deprecated. launchd is the preferred method. The set up is a little more complex because it’s a bit of XML code, but it’s very straightforward. See the launchd.plist man page or the launchd … Read more
There are a lot of tutorials out in the netland, but almost all of them are out of date, or didn’t address my use case. I run my own domain (can you guess what it is?), and I wanted to allow a couple of users I have that don’t have static IP addresses to be … Read more
This is a simple, but useful one. If you hate ADs as much as I do, this is a quick solution that gets rid of most of the advertisements in the Apple News app on the Mac. All you have to do is add/modify a line in your /etc/hosts and send traffic for news.iadsdk.apple.com into … Read more
For some strange reason, in the land of the internet when people create books with flowable text (i.e. novels), they use the PDF format, which is simply awful for the medium. Yet when they have a content that lends itself perfectly to the PDF format, like comics, they instead use an unnecessary made-up format that … Read more
Steps I do when I am setting up a new Raspberry Pi. If using the official LCD screen, for some unknown reason, it still defaults to an upside-down orientation when hooked up. This is simple to fix. Edit /boot/config.txt and add the following line: lcd_display=2 The 2 rotates it 180º (the most likely choice for … Read more
Deprecated – This Command Appears To Have Been Removed Doing it this way allows you to restart the UDM Pro’s “brain” without having it reset all your network connections. It is not uncommon for the UDM to lose its interface while still passing traffic properly. It is still very much a beta (alpha?) product. Start … Read more
Install gpsd and chrony (chrony should already be installed) Connect your GPS and determine its device name. If it is a USB GPS, the easiest way to do that is to do an ls in /dev, then plug in the device, and do another ls and see what changes. The device name will likely be … Read more
This is a recipe I got from my grandmother that she used to make for us as kids. One piece is enough to give you diabetes, but it’s sooo good. 5 cups sugar Dash salt 2 sticks butter (not margarine) 1 can carnation evaporated milk (large) 18 oz Hershey’s milk chocolate 1 jar marshmallow creme … Read more
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