When I lived in Tokyo I had this weird habit of picking up umbrellas that people left behind on trains and busses. With a spare umbrella I could always offer a stranger an umbrella, share a smile and continue my day. Then I found out that bars would throw away hundreds some nights and this...More Please

A memory I had when I was gathering supplies to wire up my police buzzer and brake light disable switch in the El Camino: When I was a kid my school had the D.A.R.E. program. My school had Sargent Joe Rindosh. He taught us how and were to buy drugs and how to tell the...More Please

BYE BITCH #!/usr/bin/env bash CMD=$1; if [[ `id -u` = 0 ]]; then echo “You mustn’t be root when executing this script”; exit; fi function usage { echo “Usage: $(basename $0) COMMAND COMMANDS: stop Run sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.opendns.osx.RoamingClientConfigUpdater.plist start Run sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.opendns.osx.RoamingClientConfigUpdater.plist restart Stop umbrella, then start again. status Is umbrella running?...More Please

I remember when I was a kid I’d look up and see stars in the sky. Then over the years they slowly disappeared. Now we’ve made our own stars to see in the sky. Thank you Starlink.

To configure In Outlook enable the Developer option on the ribbon under File > Options > Customize Ribbon.  Check Developer in the right column. From the Developer tab select Design a Form Pick message and open. Select the Actions tab, then select the line with Reply to All and click Properties. Uncheck the Enabled box...More Please

Woke up face down on my uncharged mobile phone. Went to Lowes and bought some nice planks to put on top of a broken glass table I found. Discovered one of my push button hood pins on the Dodge don’t work right, the fun way. Bought bright green tie down straps for the Dodge. Verbally...More Please

I did something really really dumb last night…. I made my new Plex VM on my ESXi environment that I recently stood up on an R820 with 1tb of ram to move away from my old R910 with 256 gigs.  Anyways, I got all the automated stuff working right at the system level so all...More Please

My PLEX host has RAM, it’s currently a Dell R910 with 256 gigs of ram. I don’t want to murder my twin 1tb SSD’s doing all that fancy transcoding so I have mine use 50 gigs of ram as a temporary folder. You can use much less but I on average with 3 streams going...More Please

I learned the hard way that my Dell PowerEdge R910 with 48 cores and 256 gigs of ram doesn’t support VT-x… It runs Ubuntu Server 18.04 currently and I decided to put Virtual Box on it because that has the easiest work around to get virtualization going on an unsupported processor. Virtualization is enabled in...More Please

Welp, I’m nowhere near my server which runs Debian and I want to iDRAC in to do things but I forgot the password or never set it but I’m cheap and buy used so I guess I’ll just reset it remotely…. Here’s how. sudo apt-get update -ysudo apt-get install -y ipmitool Now that that’s loaded....More Please