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Brother HL-L2380DW CUPS printer on Unifi Network to Apple and passing Bonjour
Ok some quick notes, if you have a Unifi network. If you have a network printer or an Apple TV, one big problem is that they have enabled an optimization called Multicast and Broadcast filtering’ which basically disables the ability for a wifi client to broadcast things like Bonjour or mDNS messages. You want to…
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Mindless entertainment
If you need something to distract you and you want to see what Dave calls “clinically correct” gun-fu, then here four great choices; Old Guard. This just came out on Netflix. Charlize Theron is like the female John Wick and it’s nice she’s been practicing so much. And it looks like they are ready for…
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Ugh WordPress database crashes
Ive been trying to be cheap with my DigitalOcean WordPress installation. I use a $5/month 1GB memory droplet which works pretty well. The problem is that if you run out of physical memory, then MySQL will crash and you get the dreaded, “No database connection message”. Here is what I’m doing about it:I created a…
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The Saga of LG C6 and Unifi Continues
Well network stability remains. I think the fast roaming was the problem, but who knows. But the LG TV still can’t connect. Trying more Google fu, I found: I did get it to connect to 2.4GHz, but while it said it got an IP address and the DNS and I could it was connected, I…
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Slack Hacking
Well, I use Slack a lot particularly for development projects. The integrations really make the difference. That said it is a super quirky application because it sprays settings across the mobile and web application. It’s confusing because they have two completely different technology sets (even in the 2020s!) so that (like Zoom), some settings are…
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More on Unifi and that darn LG TV
Ugh, this is just a sea of settings, so it is hard to know what has been causing access losses, but something I did seems to have worked: The apple devices no longer get disconnect messages. I’m going to start turning things back on and see what is broken. But I turned basically all the…
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Unifi Instability with Reconnects and Lost Passwords
This has been pretty strange and I’m pretty sure it has to do with the zillions of settings in the Unifi controller. I’ve been pretty aggressive about hitting every box for our home network, but here are some learnings from reading troubleshooting tips from Unifi: The symptoms: Devices will refuse to connect to our network…
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(Solved) Kindle Won’t Turn On
Ok the main fix seems to be that and it worked for our paper white. There is not much you can do but charge it and hold the power button for 40 seconds. Our original kindle appears dead though 🙁 10 years old and it was still downloading. Pretty impressive but then charges but that’s…
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Making Windows 10 with nVidia RTX 2080Ti work with an LG C9 UHD TV in HDR
This is actually way trickier than it looks because to take full advantage of 4K UHD HDR means you need to get the nVidia card means tweaking both in the graphics card and with the LG C9 television itself. If you are naive about this, you will find the TV keeps popping between HDR and…
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Saving dollars with T-mobile
It’s amazing what they don’t tell you, but if you are a T-mobile customer some promotions that can save you money. The best way to do this is to periodically troll through the billing menus: Quibi is free for a year. You have to go to one line and it activates for all. And yes,…
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Argh: iOS Mail chews up half you phone
Argh, this has really been a problem. I’ve constantly found that with a 64GB iPhone X, I’m running out of space all the time. I’ve kicked off a huge number of applications, but I’m constantly 99% full. In looking at Setttings > General > iPhone Storage, almost 40% of the system is taken up by…
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#Allinwashington and congrats
Wow, congrats to friends Tony and Michelle and everyone else for a cool concert, nothing like seeing 30K simultaneous views and some great music too. https://www.twitch.tv/amazonmusic is the streaming location To check it out. at https://allinwa.org to donate and I’m having some trouble streaming from that site, so use the first link Nice work all
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Great but not expensive Scotch
Well, I guess you can always buy a really expensive Scotch in the hundreds of dollars and of course there are of course less expensive. But if you want a good bottle as a gift, there isn’t a lot of help. Scotch Noob I think is a good intermediate site for this. He has a…
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Life suckers: Run don’t walk to calling Comcast Downgrade
Ok Comcast is constantly lowering prices but they don’t tell their current customers. There is the reverse of price protection. Old customers pay more. So call a special number 1 (800) 934-6489 and not the main Comcast one and select ‘down grade service’ This will get you to some reasonable. If you ask for it…
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Getting ready for Summer Room Air Conditioning
Well, many folks are going to be holed up in their apartments instead of offices, so time now to get a room air conditioner. Even when you get one, you will want to make sure it has a good seal. You need three things A mount so the thing doesn’t fall out the window. Although…
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Yet more light bulb types S8 and more
Ok just when I thought I knew everything. From knowing that a light bulb shape such as E26 is the common lightbulb base (mean Edison screw type with is 26mm wide) also know and medium to the light bulb shape (an A19 which is the familiar “normal light bulb) A shape. There are many more…
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Why are all these numbers so close? Relationships, genetic diversity and survival minimum
Genetic diversity shows you need need 50-500 people to maintain enough diversity to prevent gene drift and too much inbreeding Social relationship. The number of relationships you can keep in your head is about 150 called the Dunbar number. The number is actually between 100-250. So surprisingly close. Tribal relationships. The smallest size is 50…
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Best CO Detectors, replacing Kidde CO and Smoke Alarms, Chopping Boards
Ok I’ve been busy so this is a combo post of all the questions I’ve been asked this week: Smoke Alarms. Our Kidde COSM-IBA finally started beeping. It wasn’t the battery, turns out that it will die seven years after being plugged in so you need a new one. I don’t know if this is…
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Comcast downgrading is hard a guide
Wow, they are such a piece of work. First of all during this COVID-19 thing, suddenly the bill rises 40% without any notification (I’m sure I rolled off of some plan). It is so difficult, here are some things to know: Add a notification on auto payment. Comcast does not provide any notification when you…
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More Vim tricks with Python
Well using Python quite a bit more and while my Vi was well tuned for Javascript there are some things to know with Python. First somethings that are reminders of features of Vi that I don’t use enough: gqq which means reformat the current like, this let’s you do rewrapping properly particularly in README.md files…
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If you are doing a quick resume
Not that anyone should need it any more, but LinkedIn does a nice job of spewing your profile into a PDF, it’s available in the More tab of your profile. If you then push this into Google Docs, they can read PDFs decently well and you can hack from there.
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iPod and iPhone Nostalgia
Well, I’m finally having (no) time for old projects, but sometimes they beckon. In this case, I have a very early iPod with a Touchwheel. Actually, I have two. But the very most original one from the original HP partnership seems to have a crashed drive. But the second with the original skin and songs…
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Silicon Valley Bank Discounts
Wow, SVB sure has a great collection of discounts for startups. These are mainly about existing programs, but there are some good ones: AWS. They have a startup program that gets you $1K off on the first charges. Google Cloud. Similar one, up to $100K depending on how much they like you. Zoom. 20% you…
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More Vi tips get the pipe output of a command
OK, this is kind of a neat trick. If you want to get the output of a shell command into Vi for further editing, there is an extension to the read command where you can say take the output of a pipe. What this says is to do a read like a traditional file, but…
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Editing Markdown with Vi and copying in Email
Many times, when you are documenting a project, you just want to copy in some email. This turns out to be quite difficult to do, so here’s a guide: If you do a simple copy and paste into a text file, the indents are going to be horrible as is the word wrap. A simple…
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Using DocuSign as a repository for startups
Well, if you are not going to pay for DocuSign in all it’s glory, here’s a simple way to manage critical documents. That is things with signatures for your startup that you are worried about. Send from admin account but don’t sign there The process is a little convoluted because you want to make sure…
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Using Google Colab with Github
Ok this is a pretty awesome tool, you can use a free virtual machine with GPUs and TPUs for small Jupyter notebooks. Some quick notes on how to be successful with it: They include full version control in the Jupyter Notebook itself, but if you want full version control, the best thing to do is…
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Google Calendar does not handle multiple identities well
Ok, this thing is super confusing because Google Calendars are super unclear on how auto accept invites works. They change in April 2019 their options, so there is no more specific “auto accept invites”, it just says “yes” accept which The current defaults for in https://calendar.google.com/calendar/b/1/r/settings and you can see Automatically add invitations and you…
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Cleaning your Black & Decker Hand Vacuum
It seems nuts in this crazy time of COVID and unrest to talk about your Vacuum cleaner, but maybe that’s because I have to find something to do. First of all, we’ve had this for ten year and have always shaken it loose But finally there is just no suction. Come to find out that…