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Monday, June 4th, 2018I upgraded my 2009 Mac Pro to High Sierra today. What’s that, you say? High Sierra only supports 2010 and up Mac Pros? Hah. The Internet delivers.
Automating Handbrake
Saturday, February 4th, 2017Last night I wrote a script to automate HandBrakeCLI. I ended up needing to rip a DVD with many chapters that were originally individual movies, that I had foolishly lost the sources for. (Always keep backups of your source files!) Generally, when you rip a DVD, you want the Title to be one movie file, […]
Home Automation with HomeBridge
Monday, March 14th, 2016I found a cool project called Homebridge; it lets you bridge Apple’s HomeKit (and therefor Siri) to home automation items that aren’t natively HomeKit compatible. tl;dr I have my WeMo lights and my Craftsman AssureLink garage door opener added to my HomeKit configuration, along with my HomeKit native Ecobee 3 (which is not actually discussed […]
YouTube on AppleTV2
Monday, March 14th, 2016tl;dr: To get YouTube working on your AppleTV2, Install Plex Media Server, then PlexConnect (or OpenPlex if you have a Mac), then the updated YouTube channel. Continue reading for more detailed instructions. After Google & Apple disabled the YouTube app on my AppleTV2, I’ve just been sending YouTube videos over Airplay to it. My dad, however, was very […]
Comparing Epiphany and Midori on the Raspberry Pi
Sunday, September 7th, 2014I wanted to play around with the Raspberry Pi again, and what better opportunity than the release of a new browser choice? Since I’ve used the rPi, there’s really only been one good choice for a browser, and that’s Midori. I took the opportunity to run some benchmarks on both browsers, as I hadn’t seen […]
App Updates On A Schedule
Sunday, July 3rd, 2011This is a Mac-specific tip, if you don’t have a Mac, it might just be an interesting read for you. For the software that’s not available yet through the Mac App Store, use AppFresh. I have been using AppFresh for over a year, so I don’t worry that it’s still a Development Preview. Continue reading […]
Whew! (WordPress Upgrade)
Sunday, May 1st, 2011Well, that was strange. Some of you may have noticed my blahg was down for a day or so. I tried to upgrade WordPress (to the latest 3.1.2) using the built-in function that I’ve used many, many times now and it did not work. Everything seemed to go correctly, all the way through, including the […]
AT&T, Tethering, Data and my other devices
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011So, today I bit the bullet and gave up my iPhone 5GB “unlimited” data plan with AT&T. Previously, I was grandfathered into the “unlimited” plan, from the early days of the original iPhone. I looked back at my data usage since I upgraded to my iPhone 4, and only once have I gone over 1GB. […]
It’s Official… I Am Now A Mosso / Rackspace Employee.
Monday, March 23rd, 2009It’s official. As of about 8:30 am this morning, I am officially employed by Rackspace. I work in the cloud files division, called Mosso, as a Linux Systems Admin. Tomorrow, I get to find out exactly what that means. I spent the day today going through their “new-hire” process. It was actually pretty interesting. We […]
Bummer! HP replaces it’s 2605dn.
Thursday, February 26th, 2009Just found out while doing some research for a customer that HP has discontinued it’s 2605 series of printers. What a bummer! They were inexpensive, reliable printers. The good news is that they’ve replaced them with a new series. If you’re looking for an equivalent to the 2605dn, check out the new P2055dn. Hopefully the […]
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