I’ve been having trouble for several days with a PC (let’s call it “PC1”) with Windows 10 Enterprise on an AsRock A55M-VS. Why enterprise you may ask? Because I already tried Pro, Home and even windows 11 of the same variants and with the same end result. I always get […]
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I’m trying to script a tmux key binding that, upon being pressed, sends the current word to a command as an argument. So far, I’ve come up with bind -n -T copy-mode M-d send-keys -X select-word ; send-keys -X copy-pipe-and-cancel ; run "dict -d gcide $(tmux save-buffer -)", where dict […]
I’m intercepting packets on a toy packet sniffer I have that just pulls all traffic off a TUN device. I’ve setup a default route to the TUN on my mac via: sudo route -n add default 10.1.0.10 where 10.1.0.10 is the IP of the utun5 device. While I can see […]
Google decided my Asus Chromebook Flip C302 (CAVE) was EOL. Fine. I flashed coreboot (Thanks, MrChromebox,tech!) and installed Chrome OS Flex. Before, I spent most of my time booting Linux from the microsd card slot. As with a Raspberry Pi, it is not fast, but let me keep multiple OS […]
I have a font called ‘me_quran’ that looks like this: me_quran font on wordpad Unfortunately, when FFMPEG renders it, the vowels (the little lines you see) are either too high or too low on the letters. ffmpeg rendering the me_quran font I think this is due to the way FFMPEG […]
In the latest Midnight Commander version (4.8.30) installed with Brew on Mac M2 compare files doesn’t work. Seems it tried to call diff with unrecognized option. command diff --version show: Apple diff (based on FreeBSD diff)
I am trying to disable SMART on a Samsung SSD, to follow the advice in this question. I run the following command: sudo smartctl --smart=off /dev/disk4 smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [Darwin 21.4.0 x86_64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF ENABLE/DISABLE COMMANDS SECTION === […]
Im running a ftp server using vsftpd. this server is an anonymous public server with all the content on it only being able to be downloaded. I want to create a new “uploads” folder, which would allow anonymous users to upload to. but i want them to only be able […]
I have a (generally) off-network machine that has time info streaming through serial from GPS. I’ve captured that info and I’m trying to automatically update my system time using timedatectl set-time and it keeps asking me for a password. I’ve gathered that I’m supposed to be updating the sudoers file, […]