2022-05-11

Remove Opaque Overlay and Label Button in Gmail.

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Gmail now has an ugly overlay which obscuress any custom inbox image; this is a quick and dirty kludge for dealing with this $current_month ...
2015-01-15

Thinking about how many poisoned mushrooms are red.

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Question: In a forest 20% of mushrooms are red, 50% brown and 30% white. A red mushroom is poisonous with a probability of 20%. A mushroom t...
2014-12-07

Notes to Self: FreeNAS 9.3-Beta SMBD mDNS log spam

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smbd[28586]: dnssd_clientstub ConnectToServer: connect()-> No of tries: 2 smbd[28586]: dnssd_clientstub ConnectToServer: connect()-> ...
2014-07-28

Ugly Windows Batch Kludge - ffmpeg / tr /

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Dealing with certain Youtube files (ie, from Rhino Entertainment) requires trimming off the 15 or so 'also recommended' seconds at t...
2014-04-20

Uniform Server Zero + mod_wsgi + Falcon Framework on Windows 7

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Setting up a local test environment before deployment on shared hosting (Dreamhost / Phusion Passenger) (assumes python already properly ins...
2014-04-01

Boar on Freenas

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mount -uw / cd /mnt/dataset Method one (get valid token from 'Download') 1 : wget "http://boar.googlecode.com/issues/at...
2014-01-10

Using pre-formated text in a MediaWiki Template.

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I needed to use <pre> tags in a MediaWiki template, which turned out to be non-trivial.  Using <code> and <poem> both fail...
2013-06-12

Building a 14 Bay DISKLESS (Max 56TB) NAS For $480. (Reality &/|| Market Forces may apply.)

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L ike most people, I often find my high definition pornographic films - usually starring Scarlett Johansson  in full Black Widow costume and...
2013-05-13

Notes To Self: Attempting CIFS Performance Tuning

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Problem: Abysmal SMB peformance when using W7 as intermediate between EON and FreeNAS: 19.6MB/s. After Tuning: 25.8MB/s. (After Turning Di...
2013-04-20

Notes To Self: FreeNAS / ZFS Settings / BSD Commands

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Commands and output...  /# camcontrol devlist <ATA SAMSUNG HD502HJ 00E4>         at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,da0) <ATA SAMS...
2013-03-21

Sledgehammer Kludge: Make nfs-common install.

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Disclaimer: I'm clueless. I'm also tired. Having gotten to the point of downloading the nfs-utils-1.2.6 tarball and making it (and i...
2013-03-12

Notes To Self: NFS / ReadyNAS 600 / Windows 7

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Microsoft's done the usual outstanding job of quality work with their NFS client. ReadyNAS end settings: Frontview: Share Listings-...
2013-02-13

Engineer's Bench Gives Pleasant Trembling Tingles: Work At Intel (INTC) Still Wish I Do!!!!

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Sex Toys & Circuit Design! I <3 Intel! Well, it's been a duration of time which has passed and Intel hasn't yet hired me...
2013-01-23

PDE Malaise: How I wish I worked for Intel!!!

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Stalwart and Dignified. Managers are attentive and give personalized attention to every employee! Like any literate computer user...