[Music] HARD.mp3
I made this track for my brother on his birthday. He likes songs that go HARD! Here’s the “radio edit” HARD.mp3 Here’s the loopable version HARD_loopable.mp3
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[Music] Lazer
Here’s another LMMS creation. It’s a Work-in-Progress, but it’s so cool sounding that I wanted to share. download UPDATE I improved the synths and did some level adjustments download
Read More »[MUSIC] Steamtrain
It’s been awhile since I posted anything music related. I jumped back into LMMS recently and it’s actually kind of therapeutic. Sitting there, producing a tune and jamming with my headphones on is challenging and gratifying, but it doesn’t feel like work. Here’s my latest track, Steamtrain. download
Read More »How I am learning Japanese
Japanese anime has been an obsession of mine for my entire adult life. From cute, funny, sad and sexy, each series I watch draws me into the unique and sometimes wacky Japanese entertainment culture. Don’t get me wrong, I know most is just fantasy and the “real Japan” isn’t like it is in anime, however […]
Read More »Install magic-wormhole on Windows 7
magic-wormhole Is a CLI program to quickly, securely, and easily transfer files from one computer to another. I thought the README.md for magic-wormhole was lacking some details on how to install the program on Windows. This sort of thing is probably obvious to any Windows Python dev, but I’m a Linux guy so I was […]
Read More »Birthday Trip 2017
I wanted to do something for my 30th birthday. Originally I was thinking of going somewhere like an anime convention, but the only one that was happening around my birthday was in Minnesota or something, and it seemed like a smaller event. I was looking for something big! Somehow I heard on short notice that […]
Read More »Nagios snmp_get CRITICAL – Plugin timed out while executing system call
I started up a new Naemon (Nagios fork) server, and I came across this error while monitoring a Cisco switch.
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chris@machine:/usr/lib/nagios/plugins$ ./check_snmp -H 192.168.1.62 -C public -o sysUpTime.0 CRITICAL - Plugin timed out while executing system call |
I researched a bit, and found lots of unresolved forum and mailing list threads about the same issue. It wasn’t until I found this blog post which came up with a workaround. Their workaround […]
Read More »DYMO 4XL on Ubuntu 14.04
Prerequisites
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sudo apt-get install build-essential libcups2-dev libcupsimage2-dev |
Set up CUPS driver Download the Linux toolkit from DYMO Extract
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tar xvf dymo-cups-drivers-1.4.0.tar.gz |
change to directory of extracted files
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cd dymo-cups-drivers-1.4.0.5/ |
configure the CUPS driver
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./configure |
compile the driver
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make |
install the driver
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sudo make install |
Now you can go to http://127.0.0.1:631 and add the printer. Use your Ubuntu username and password when it asks you for […]
Read More »Linux – How to mount an OSX dd disk image
My 2011 Mac Mini was running so slowly, that I decided to back up it’s entire hard disk, and switch to Ubuntu. For the backup process, I opted to boot into a live Ubuntu environment, then use dd to copy the entire hard drive to a USB external hard drive. I can’t remember the exact […]
Read More »League of Legends on Ubuntu 14.04 (September 2016)
I’m switching from OSX to Ubuntu, and I’d like to be able to play my favorite game. Playonlinux has an install script for League of Legends, but it hasn’t been maintained in awhile, and there are some show stopping bugs. Here is how I got League of Legends to run on Ubuntu 14.04 in September […]
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