I took a laptop from the “used” stack when I took over as Commander of the local DAV. As it had belonged to one of our Chapter Service Officers, I didn’t even boot it to the OS prior to wiping the hard drive. Our older batch of laptops came with Windows 10 Home Edition and […]
MariaDB Root Issue
Recently I discovered that I had lost all root privileges on my MySQL (MariaDB) server. Now there are a number of reasons that this may have occurred. It’s possible that I pulled the privileges from the root user and set up a different one for security reasons and simply forgot. Or perhaps I was mucking […]
Corvette Audio Woes
Speaking of audio system repairs (in my last post), I have to do something with the sound system in the Corvette as it’s slowly dying. The radio works, usually, but the CD player is dead. I don’t even have cassette tapes any more, although to play stuff from my phone, I use a cassette tape […]
New Project….
As most of you know, the kids are growing up. Lily is 18 now and is taking her drivers’ license test very soon. She’s also working a bunch and that’s problematic as her mother and I are working a bunch as well. Usually in a different direction at different times. (Sunday, she was in at […]
Apples and Oranges
In this day and age of high-speed, low-drag technology, there seems to be a notion that wars can be fought without the collateral, non-combatant casualties that happen. Americans have forgotten that our armed forces have one basic mission: to kill people. That can be prettied up any number of ways, but the basic mission of […]
An Open Letter to President-elect Donald Trump
Mr. Trump, Well, sir, here’s your opportunity. The “whiny millennials,” who are legitimately frightened for themselves, their families, and the friends in their extended families are calling for leadership with their protests. Now, you probably know this already, but it’s not just millennials that you’re hearing from right now, it’s Americans from all over the […]
Me
I am not who I want to be is better I am so many things bad and good but mostly just me so many thoughts right and wrong so many impulses (un)controlled cowardly weak afraid liberal conservative conservative liberal privaliged token I am (not) alone in a world filled with hate and discontent
Server Upgrade: OS, Virtualbox, and MineOS
Warning: if you’re not into computers, or get annoyed by amateurs who are, you might want to skip this post! The new server is up and running with everything that used to run on the Raspberry Pi. My original philosophy for the unit as a whole was to run a very basic Ubuntu server install […]
Yet more technology
So. I bought a server. Wait: is too much. Let me sum up. Son got daughter and me playing Minecraft. Son wanted a server of his own to play on. Dad: “No problem.” Server 1 was a virtual machine on my desktop. Server 2 was an old Dell tower Server 3 is a Dell Poweredge […]
So many projects, so little time…
Just that. I hope this post finds everyone well. I just realized that I have three posts started, another two in the planning stages, and several other projects happening at once. When did this happen? Stay tuned for more on the Raspberry Pi changeover, a potential Minecraft server for my son, shaving related posts and, […]