My Little Pocket Universe
I just installed ProxMox Backup Server (4.1.1), and am setting up tape changers with it. Unfortunately, they offer no support for automatically overwriting foreign media (i.e. media that was written to by any other application). I am moving away from Veritas Netbackup and VMware over to ProxMox, so I have a number of tapes that … Read more
MacOS has a built in NFS client, but the defaults in the latest MacOS versions prohibit it from working as it should. As Apple encourages the use of the SMB protocol, they seem to have stopped paying attention to NFS, which is a shame considering in the real world, NFS performance blows SMB away, especially … Read more
So you have been playing Borderlands 4, and you’ve heard some of the usual hysterical dialogue that makes you lauch, and you think, “Hey, I’d like to make that into a ringtone!” Well, so did I, so I figured out now to extract the sounds and make an index of them. To do the entire … Read more
You can use the linux qrencode command as so:
Youtube uses cubic projection for its videos, but most other things, like VR headsets, natively use equirectangular. Yes, there are players that will play either, but I am shooting for the native format of my Apple Vision Pro. A quick way to convert them is with ffmpeg. You can tune the parameters to your liking, … Read more
I have a 6″ can light installed in the ceiling, which has been working fine. But I have been upgrading all my bulbs to Nanoleaf Matter controllable bulbs, and they only make a 4″ canless downlight. This, of course, does not fit into a 6″ hole. I could repair the hole, but then I’d have … Read more
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
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
Add this code to the functions.php file of the active theme: When this is in place, a normal user will not see the URL field. If you get messages posted that still have a URL, you know it is SPAM and can junk it.
This is just a quick page where I am collecting various bits of info available on Asus’ page, and other forums. Remember, this is a portable device running Windows. It is not going to be easy or pretty, but it can be made into something useful. The easiest thing to make it Steam Deck like … Read more