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SC23

Posted on November 30, 2023 by Colin Faber
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Lots of neat stuff at the HPC trade show this year “SC23” Continue reading →

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Oneplus 6 phone dialing issues

Posted on May 30, 2023 by Colin Faber
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When your OP6 phone dialing dies, check this as a possible solution. Continue reading →

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Extremely useful .htaccess ReWrite validator

Posted on November 22, 2022 by Colin Faber
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So as I was working on one of my many web projects, I needed / wanted a faster way to validate my Apache web servers URL rewrite rules. This site did the trick and worked great: https://htaccess.madewithlove.com/

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less Tips and Tricks

Posted on October 28, 2022 by Colin Faber
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The less tool can open multiple files in order, I find this useful when comparing sets of logs. For instance Which will open the first file it finds and hold the rest in reserve, switching forward and backwards through this … Continue reading →

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AT&T, 3G shutdown and the Oneplus 6

Posted on September 8, 2021 by Colin Faber
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Ugh, AT&T, Oneplus 6 and the looming 3G shutdown. Continue reading →

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Understanding Lists in the Perl programming language — great read!

Posted on February 2, 2021 by Colin Faber
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Perl’s aggregate data types are the array and the hash. Each is constructed from a list. The actual definition of a list covers quite a lot of cases—a lot of ways in which these can be constructed. However, the basic … Continue reading →

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Imagemagick

Posted on January 19, 2020 by Colin Faber
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Imagemagick can calculate the best resolution and quality for JPEG type files with the -define jpeg:extent=SIZE optional argument. An example of this would be to reduce the size of a multi-megapixel image by half and targeting a desired maximum file … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Outlook 2016… Sigh…

Posted on September 6, 2018 by Colin Faber
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As part of my day to day work I find my self forced into a Windows 7, Microsoft Office environment. This is already painful enough having to slog through the crippling security restrictions imposed on me by corporate InfoSec and … Continue reading →

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SSL, Finally!

Posted on September 6, 2018 by Colin Faber
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So I’ve noticed that my el’cheapo hosting provider now provides SSL service for those who enable it, via Let’s Encrypt and I’m taking advantage, so UNIXgr is now an https haver.

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XPS 13 and M3800

Posted on March 7, 2018 by Colin Faber
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So very recently my beloved 2013 era XPS 13 developer edition finally failed. The HID controller failed and that’s pretty much it for these things. As a result of this I ended up switching back to my spare laptop (well … Continue reading →

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