Sigh… not sure why this was so painful. After years away, I thought it would be nice to re-visit FreeBSD on my dedicated malware analysis laptop. While I had used FreeBSD for over a decade on personal server systems, I’ve never really used it as a desktop system, but I’m tired of the Linux disto …
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There isn’t really a reason to read my install directions for nix, I just used the default install command for Linux/Mac OS X. To wit: curl https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh Except that I had to modify the .profile script to work in tcsh. Namely, I created a version of the default nix.sh file works for csh/tcsh: …
Ok, this is part of the regular series of these posts, and mostly serve as a simple record for my own use. If there’s anyone out there reading this, please disregard yet another TeX upgrade posting. I know I’m going to have to do this again in a week or so when BasicTeX 2016 hits, but …
I’m having problems with Plex using too much CPU to transcode files. Actually, I’m not sure why it’s transcoding to an AppleTV 4, it should be able to Direct Stream .mkv files. I’m trying to go ahead and use the QNAP hardware accelerated transcoding engine. First problem, all transcode requests are returning, “Failed: File read/ …
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Install the Python 2.7 from the QNAP app center. Install the following qpkg from the QNAP community app repository: GIT SABnzbdplus SickBeard Configure SABnzbd with Usenet servers, and SickBeard with shows to search. Make sure that SABnzbd is configured to post-process by using the nzbtosickbeard.py script.This will also require configuring the values in: /share/Download/nzbToMedia/autoProcessMedia.cfg. Specifically …
More than a year later, we have this scene from Christmas…
I don’t think I ever posted this photo taken somewhat before the baby’s first birthday.
We purchased a Rigidbot during their Kickstarter campaign last year, and it arrived in the middle of last week. It took 8.5 months longer than projected, but frankly by Kickstarter standards that’s not bad. Since it was so close to the end of the kids’ school year, I saved it as a project for the …
After 13 years, I finally bought a new car. After trying to hold out for Honda to lease me a Fit EV, I finally gave up and bought a new Nissan Leaf. With an EPA estimated range of 84 miles, it should be a perfect car for my commute to Towson. My first experimental trip was done …
Lately, I have been dabbling with retro-computing (actually as part of co-adivsing a student group). One of the old machines in my collection is an original Macintosh from 1984. For the sake of authenticity, I have been looking for the version of system software that shipped on release day – Jan 24, 1984. That early in the Macintosh …