My father bought this Syncmaster 933 monitor around 2008. It’s likely an LED monitor. Last I used it was around 2023, and it had no visible flaws in the screen (both when turned on or off). It was as good as new. But then, nobody used it, and it was […]
Monthly Archives: September 2026
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How can I recover the original working directory of a running Python -m uvicorn main:app --reload process on Windows? I have an interesting Windows debugging puzzle. I discovered that something on my machine is listening on 127.0.0.1:8004. I can identify the process and its Python executable, but I cannot determine […]
As part of my continuing efforts to pull all my data off of Amazon Web Services, I’ve had to create a new Amazon EC2 instance so that I can download all the data off of my two existing Amazon EBS volumes. Using the command line (and SSH), I was able […]
I am using an AllWinner H618 Development board running Ubuntu 20.04 Jammy. Connected to this is a RPi Pico running as a web server on port 80. Using a Chrome browser and http://192.168.0.101/index.html, being the IP address of the web server I get 192.168.0.101 refused to connect. I have tried […]
I use ubuntu on a Lenovo Ideapad. A mysterious certificate is listed in the Firmware Manager: “Joe’s Software Emporium”. It seems it is some incorrectly signed certificate using a Microsoft signing tool. But what is even stranger is that there are 2 settings in the Bios: Restore Setup Mode and […]
My Dell laptop with Windows 11 is currently having NPP of almost 944 mb. Is this NORMAL ? Checked with PoolMon; nonpaged pool is highest in first 3. ismc 336,666,624 bytes EtwB 283,181,312 bytes (Source: nt!etw; Source description: etw Buffer) ConT 71,921,664 bytes
On Windows, Edge can integrate recent browser tabs into the OS Alt+Tab switcher, so tabs and normal windows appear together in one list. I got very much used to this. I want the same behavior on Linux: browser tabs should appear as separate entries in the system Alt+Tab UI. I’m […]
Every once in a blue moon an system automount failes with: Aug 7 14:10:18 cfdhn systemd[1]: etc-qlustar-common.automount: Got invalid poll event 16 on pipe (fd=141) Aug 7 14:10:18 cfdhn systemd[1]: etc-qlustar-common.automount: Failed with result 'resources'. The .automount does not retry or respawn so after this the mounted filesystem is no […]