Furthest Shores

Remove Opaque Overlay and Label Button in Gmail.

2022-05-11T04:05:00.025-06:00

Gmail now has an ugly overlay which obscuress any custom inbox image; this is a quick and dirty kludge for dealing with this $current_month Google UX mandatory decision (via developer console):document.querySelector('.bkK>.nH').style.backgroundColor = "rgba(0,0,0,0)";document.querySelector('.aAw.FgKVne').remove();"transparent !important"; works for the backgroundColor, but not, for some reason

Thinking about how many poisoned mushrooms are red.

2015-01-15T14:15:00.000-07:00

Question: In a forest 20% of mushrooms are red, 50% brown and 30% white. A red mushroom is poisonous with a probability of 20%. A mushroom that is not red is poisonous with a probability of 5%. What is the probability that a poisonous mushroom in the forest is red? ¹Answer: 50%.Which is well and good, but I wanted to understand why, and my ability at math is somewhere between 0 and taking off my

Notes to Self: FreeNAS 9.3-Beta SMBD mDNS log spam

2014-12-07T03:33:00.000-07:00

smbd[28586]: dnssd_clientstub ConnectToServer: connect()-> No of tries: 2 smbd[28586]: dnssd_clientstub ConnectToServer: connect()-> No of tries: 3 smbd[28586]: dnssd_clientstub ConnectToServer: connect() failed Socket:32 Err:-1 Errno:2 No such file or directory Despite having mDNS turned off, smbd seems to want to talk to it. (Looking for avahi?). Seems unchecking "zeroconf share

Ugly Windows Batch Kludge - ffmpeg / tr /

2014-07-28T00:30:00.000-06:00

Dealing with certain Youtube files (ie, from Rhino Entertainment) requires trimming off the 15 or so 'also recommended' seconds at the end of every video. The number of seconds and starting position varies, so it'd be tricky to script (perhaps with -af silencedetect), so I'm doing it manually. And on Windows, for some reason. (Obviously, this is all trivial on 'nix, without requiring

Uniform Server Zero + mod_wsgi + Falcon Framework on Windows 7

2014-04-20T04:20:00.000-06:00

Setting up a local test environment before deployment on shared hosting (Dreamhost / Phusion Passenger) (assumes python already properly installed): Install UniServerZ: Uniform Server - A lightweight mobile WAMP Server Solution. Download1: mod_wsgi library, extract, and copy .so to UniserverZ\core\apache2\modules Install Falcon: python -m pip install falcon Edit httpd.conf:

Boar on Freenas

2014-04-01T04:20:00.000-06:00

mount -uw / cd /mnt/dataset Method one (get valid token from 'Download')1: wget "http://boar.googlecode.com/issues/attachment?aid=920000000&name=install_boar.sh&token=XXXXXXXX" -O install_boar.sh Method two: cat >> install_boar.sh #!/usr/local/bin/bash # # Install boar on FreeBSD # Writen by: Kellen Fox # if [ "$(whoami)" != "root" ]; then echo "You need to be root for this

Using pre-formated text in a MediaWiki Template.

2014-01-10T21:50:00.001-07:00

I needed to use <pre> tags in a MediaWiki template, which turned out to be non-trivial. Using <code> and <poem> both fail to wrap single lines, as did the custom <div> styling. It was easier to figure it out than add a bunch of <br>s to the source text. For those looking for an ugly kludge, here you go. Enjoy. (Non-salient bits removed: I do

Building a 14 Bay DISKLESS (Max 56TB) NAS For $480. (Reality &/|| Market Forces may apply.)

2013-06-12T02:13:00.000-06:00

Like most people, I often find my high definition pornographic films - usually starring Scarlett Johansson in full Black Widow costume and Hayley Williams (in full clown costume) penetrating each other1 and simultaneously being explored by an assorted collection of ibices, Macrauchenia, and guitarists - take up a bewildering amount of hard disk space.2 As I post this in

Notes To Self: Attempting CIFS Performance Tuning

2013-05-13T13:02:00.000-06:00

Problem: Abysmal SMB peformance when using W7 as intermediate between EON and FreeNAS: 19.6MB/s. After Tuning: 25.8MB/s. (After Turning Direct W7 -> FreeNAS = 42.1MB/s) Wireshark Capture Filter: host x.x.x.x and (port 139 or port 445) Windows Registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\LanmanServer\Parameters\TreatHostAsStableStorage = 1 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\

Notes To Self: FreeNAS / ZFS Settings / BSD Commands

2013-04-20T04:20:00.000-06:00

Commands and output... /# camcontrol devlist <ATA SAMSUNG HD502HJ 00E4> at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,da0) <ATA SAMSUNG HD502HJ 00E4> at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (pass1,da1) <ATA SAMSUNG HD502HJ 00E4> at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass2,da2) <KINGSTON SH103S3120G 502ABBF0> at

Sledgehammer Kludge: Make nfs-common install.

2013-03-21T02:13:00.000-06:00

Disclaimer: I'm clueless. I'm also tired. Having gotten to the point of downloading the nfs-utils-1.2.6 tarball and making it (and installing it. and having it not work), I'm no longer concerned about The Right Thing(™) so much as "Just Fucking Work Already". Background: try googling up nfs-common FAIL. It's a good fun time, with bug reports years and years old, most mentioning portmap or

Notes To Self: NFS / ReadyNAS 600 / Windows 7

2013-03-12T20:13:00.000-06:00

Microsoft's done the usual outstanding job of quality work with their NFS client. ReadyNAS end settings: Frontview: Share Listings->Share Name NFS Default Access: Read-Only Write Enabled Hosts: Self explanatory. Root privilege-enabled hosts: Blank (unneeded) Advanced Options: nobody/nogroup Set ownership and permissions ... -> Apply Squashing isn't needed on the ReadyNAS... Via ssh to

Engineer's Bench Gives Pleasant Trembling Tingles: Work At Intel (INTC) Still Wish I Do!!!!

2013-02-13T02:13:00.000-07:00

Sex Toys & Circuit Design! I <3 Intel! Well, it's been a duration of time which has passed and Intel hasn't yet hired me, despite my strenuous efforts to convince the hiring managers (who I'm absolutely certain are reading my blog with breathless anticipation) that I'm destined to be a valuable asset. I sought out further material to help my understanding evolve on this matter, and I

PDE Malaise: How I wish I worked for Intel!!!

2013-01-23T01:23:00.000-07:00

Stalwart and Dignified. Managers are attentive and give personalized attention to every employee! Like any literate computer user, I've always been in awe of Intel. I've sometimes wondered, what if? What if I could work there? What if I could be a part of the company that brought us modern computing? Naturally, these fantasies are quick to dissipate, as Intel's such an established, big

Attenuating Linux dmesg USB Spam

2012-08-30T04:28:00.000-06:00

For some reason, my usb mouse and keyboard, hooked up to a kvm, freeze intermittently when switching back and forth to the system. After wasting way too much time trying to figure out why, my workaround is to switch to a console before switching off system. However, the console becomes flooded with the USB modules noisy spam, as does dmesg, of course. Here are my naive, uninformed, lazy

A Sledgehammer For Chrome

2012-05-23T04:20:00.000-06:00

I upgraded Chrome in my VM, to version 19.0.1084.46. Which, apparently, forces use of the GPU Process task. And, in a nice lovely screw you from the kind folks at Google, there's no way to disable this. The end result is having the VM slow to a crawl (2 second pause between mouse movements, ignored clicks, etc...). Fixable by the agony of getting to the task manager and killing the

Using Conky's Template[x]

2012-05-15T04:20:00.000-06:00

Conky's neat, but doesn't appear to allow user variables, and the documentation leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to templates. I found myself desperate for some way to clean up a .conkyrc when using Teo's weather scripts. (They work well, but are insane to edit by hand --- and the gui program (conky companion) appears to require using a mouse to drag. every. single. element. to

Notes to self: ICH7 - i975x - BIOS

2012-04-20T16:20:00.004-06:00