My Little Pocket Universe
Scott Garrett 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 The documents on Ubiquiti’s site are laughably incomplete (and generally way out of date).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
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