2024-05-31 12:00
vncviewer via X11 forwarding over SSH tunnels
There have been situations where I've needed to access applications that run on my home network, or on Linux from a Windows machine. I found a way to make this work via vncviewer, vncserver, SSH, and X11 forwarding. This is likely a convoluted setup, but it works in a pinch …
2024-04-02 12:00
Scrobbling Records to Last.fm or Listenbrainz
I recently got into vinyl records by way of Taylor Swift. If you know me, you know I'm a huge Swifty.
Well, with the release of 1989 Taylor's Version, I decided to start collecting some of her records. I have most of the 1989 Taylor's Version variants.
But the challenge …
2022-12-24 23:30
Hugo Pagination on Sections
I run another blog that is built using Hugo using the "personal-site" theme.
Basically, I use "sections" to create custom lists of posts on that blog. However, they weren't paginating with this theme.
I found a way to make it happen.
I created a section with a _index.md file …
2022-10-12 15:00
WSL2 Custom Windows
UPDATE: As of Summer of 2023, if you update WSL2 to the latest update, you NO LONGER need vcxsrv or similar applications to do this!
Recently I've upgraded from Windows Subsystem for Linux v1 (WSL1) to WSL2 and in the process I had to change how I launch xfce4-terminal on …
2021-08-18 02:00
Download All Debian 11 Bittorrent Files from Debian Repository
I love mirroring Linux distributions via bittorrent from a seedbox. When Debian 11 came out I wanted to make sure I was mirroring all those bittorrents.
Previously I was manually going through cdimage on cdimage.debian.org trying to find all the *.torrent in a browser.
Eventually, I thought there …
2020-11-12 15:00
Ohio Library Consortiums & Networks
These are the following library networks (or library consortiums) in Ohio:
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ClevNet
- Libraries included: Cleveland Public Library
- Apply for library card
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Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library
- Libraries included: Cincinnati Public Library
- Apply for a library card
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Cuyahoga County Public Library
- Libraries included: only Cuyahoga County Public Library
- Apply for a …
2020-11-11 14:00
Windows Subsystem for Linux "Restart"
Assumptions this post makes:
- You are using WSL1. Not WSL2
- You are using WSL1 on Windows 10
After doing a kernel update for Windows Subsystem for Linux, the subsystem needs to "reboot" in order to use the latest kernel. You don't need to reboot Windows 10 to accomplish this. You …
2020-09-10 13:00
Ciphers and Settings for Web Servers
I've been using a web server on Linux in some fashion or another for nearly a decade. I remember making the jump from Apache to Nginx. One thing I ran in to while configuring both of them is: what SSL (TLS) settings should I be using?
Years ago, I came …
2020-06-11 13:00
My Favourite Fonts
Here is an incomplete collection of fonts I enjoy to use for various purposes:
- InconsolataGo or Inconsolata -- This is an excellent monospace font. It's designed for print and terminal applications. I love the use of a slash in the 0, and I love the flow of the font. It looks …
2020-03-24 19:20
Microsoft Outlook Find and Replace with a Style
This took me a while to figure out, but I finally did it!
Let's say you want to encapsulate data in backticks and apply a separate styling. For example, like what backticks do in Slack.
You can sort of do this in Outlook 2016 / Outlook 365.
- Open up an e-mail …
2020-03-22 19:58
YouTube Channels
Science / Education
- AsapSCIENCE
- small bitsize videos on random science topics
- Ask A Mortician
- "Mortician in Los Angeles. You got death questions, we got death answers."
- CGP Grey
- medium length and extremely detailed videos on difficult to understand topics
- Computerphile
- detailed coverage on conceptual computer paradigms and topics
- exurb1a
- "Universe is …
2020-03-22 19:50
Windows Subsystem for Linux with Custom Windows
These steps assume you have already gone through the steps of enabling the Linux Subsystem for Windows 10 and that you have installed a distribution, preferably a Debian-based distribution such as Ubuntu.
- Install VcXsrv Windows X Server, https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/
- Enable WSL
- To enable WSL, Open a Powershell …
2020-03-22 17:00
Lost My Blog
This is a re-build of my website. I lost quite a bit due several catastrophic things.
First was a catastrophic hardware failure on my RAID and then a failure on my backups.
I lost quite a bit, but I've put in place things to prevent that from happening.
If you …
2017-08-10 12:00
Recommended Browser Addons/Extensions
Updated: 2017-08-10
MUST HAVE
The "MUST HAVE" extensions and addons are those that I would recommend every browser have installed. I would not surf the web without these.
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