Blogs

Saving some time with find . -name…

Sneaky tricks with ~/.ssh/known_hosts.

Once you find the right image, you’re in good shape.

This took a bit to figure out.

It’s easier in Docker.

Very nice. Self hosted. Not too bad.

DHCP? Why would systemd pay attention to DHCP?

Welp. That was (mostly) easy.

Good shirts. Bad pockets.

It’s a podcast. You don’t need that much quality.

I got a great new monitor. That didn’t talk to the Intel driver on OpenBSD.

These aren’t documented too well, so I’m collecting them.

Not sure if it’s X or 24.04, but you need to do a magic tweak for Wine.

You can get APKs from an Android phone. AABs, not so much.

I made things slightly better.

I bought an e-book that didn’t come in PDF format, but that doesn’t stop me.

Keeping as much of the mess off your machine…

astro-micro-academic doesn’t appear to have code titles. Here’s how to add them.

I had to install X to use xcreensaver. That meant I needed a new version of VNC as well.

I built Emacs to diagnose a problem. Emacs wasn’t the problem. Here’s how to build Emacs anyway.

Something weird is going on between Emacs and Ubuntu. ‘Unlocking file: Invalid argument’ is the symptom. This is… not the cure, but a workaround.

Changing the MTA’s maximum message size (postfix)

Setting up and using Uniden Sentinel BCDx36HP on Ubuntu 22.04 under Wine

Stop “[Application]” Is Not Responding on Ubuntu 22.04/Gnome

Block Ad Sites and Nasties on OpenBSD 7.4

Setting up Wireguard on an OpenBSD 7.4 firewall device

Set up networking for an OpenBSD 7.4 firewall device

Setting up an OpenBSD 7.4 Firewall Device

Installing OpenBSD 7.4 for a Firewall

Buying new hardware for an OpenBSD firewall

Setting up DuckDNS on OpenBSD

Logging into Ubuntu 22.04 Remote Desktop

Ubuntu 22.04 logs not rotating

ssh unable to negotiate

Merging multiple PDFs

Building TQSL 2.6.4 for Ubuntu 20.04 (or TQSL 2.6.5 for Ubuntu 22.04)

Setting up Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Setting up NFS on Ubuntu 20.04

Mounting a partition from a raw disk image

Annealing PLA in powdered salt using sous vide

Persistent serial ports on Ubuntu

Finding the characteristic impedance of an antenna cable

Fixing a busy CP210x serial device on Ubuntu

Programing with a PICkit 2 on Linux

Mapping a USB volume knob into a keyboard on Linux for SDR

Updating OpenBSD

Using an esp32 as an iBeacon

Changing the search bar text outside of Thunderbird

Finding out which disk is which on Ubuntu

Fixing Brother printing on Ubuntu

Changing AllStar screen resolution

Let me know (mail me) when there’s an error

If the AP needs DNS and you’ve disabled DHCP, you’re going to have a bad day.

What’s up with mod_security and User-Agent? (406 Not Acceptable)

Setting a user and group for Samba drives

What the hell, Gnome? Canonical?

Updating to the latest TeX on Ubuntu 16.04

Upgrading Mythbuntu from Trusty to Xenial

US coin values by weight

Dockerizing TicketsCAD

Tracking and blocking BRW70188B

Translation of Evangeline Acadian Queen

Ubuntu 16.04.1 - cron mail not working

Making use of GIMP plugins

Building Signalink Cables

Mounting a Pi with Wheezy read-only

Turning a Raspberry Pi 2 into a packet station

Turning a Raspberry Pi 3 into an iBeacon

Increasing Netbook Screen Size

Controlling T-Series Vector Impedance Analyzer from a netbook

Setting up Raspian Jessie on a Pi

Formatting an SD card as exfat

Rescuing a hard drive with ddrescue

Unlocking a Windows 8.1 machine with MSN password

Changing user and group ID on Unix

Setting up a static IP for a Raspberry Pi over wifi using OpenBSD dhcpd

Samba - let Windows execute even if execute bit not set

Setting up a WD Red drive for use in a NAS

Setting up Direwolf/Xastir on a Raspberry Pi

Adding ATtiny support to Arduino IDE 1.6.1

Setting up Raspbian on a Pi

Foot Switch for the Insane

Using Cygwin git on Samba

Repairing a MFJ-259B Antenna Analyzer

Signal out of range on Soyo Topaz S

Trying to resurrect a dead Linksys WRT54GS router

The Netgear WGR614 has a bridge mode so you can use a single network for wired and wireless devices.

Hacking the APC Smart-UPS 1000

Renaming an Android shortcut in TouchWiz (the hard way)

Editions of ARRL Hints and Kinks Books

Optoelectronics Cub battery replacement

Using the TinyLoadr to program ATtiny84s

Upgrading Mythbuntu from Lucid to Precise

Standard for 12 volt DC Edison sockets

Connecting to HSMM-Mesh and the Internet from a laptop

Solving Firefox “window sent to back” when opening new window

Android superuser not coming up

Useful resources for filter design

Migrating from Lotus Approach to LibreOffice Base

Creating headers in LibreOffice