Had the most frustrating time grading projects this semester. Since I got a new laptop just before the semester ended, I held off migrating until classes were over. I took advantage of the time between classes and exams to migrate to the new laptop. Big mistake. I had to finish grading projects on the new …
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New Mac – Lots of Pain
After too many years of upgrading from one Mac to the next, I’m starting from scratch with my latest Mac(book Air). It’s an opportune time since Mac OS X Catalina (10.15) deprecates 32-bit applications. So far it’s been lots of “fun”. All my apps have been re-downloaded, but I’m only installing them as needed. Lots …
Installing JDK 14 & JavaFX for IntelliJ
Download the JAVA SDK. I used JAVA 14 (jdk-14.0.1_osx-x64_bin.dmg) and installed. Download JavaFX, here I use v.14 (openjfx-14.0.1_osx-x64_bin-sdk.zip). Uncompress and install JavaFX: Add the following to .tcshrc (or other shell initialization file): 5. In IntelliJ, set a Path Variable for JavaFX: Follow the directions in the JavaFX documentation to configure projects to use JavaFX: https://openjfx.io/openjfx-docs/#IDE-Intellij …
Compiling cpuminer on a RaspberryPi
I just spent the last bit compiling cpuminer on the RaspberryPi, and here’s my notes: sudo apt-get install automake libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev ./configure Edit the compat/jansson/makefile and switch ar and ranlib to gcc-ar and gcc-ranlib make strip cpuminer
Is DIY-BIO the Personal Computing of the 21st Century?
Last last year I ran across the following article in IEEE Spectrum: Tools for Would-Be Biohackers. Since I have a daughter with interests in Biology, I considered getting her one of these “mini-labs” as a Christmas gift. The high cost had me wondering if this was an outrageous idea. It works out that adjusting for inflation, …
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Getting FreeBSD 11 working on my Asus Zenbook UX31A
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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Installing the Nix Package Manager
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: …
BasicTeX 2015
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 …
QNAP 451+: Hardware Accelerated Transcoding
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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QNAP 451+: SABnzbd/Sickbeard setup
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 …