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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Read More »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 […]
Read More »League of Legends: One for All is a special, limited time, featured game mode where everyone on your team plays as the same champion. The latest iteration of One for All happened between August 5-8 2016. The champions are chosen by a voting system. During pre-game, a random player from each team gets to ban […]
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I have an ASUS K35e which has been a great laptop for the past several years. Recently I got into using virtual machines for many tasks, and the stock 4GB of RAM no longer cut it; my computer ran very slowly during this work. I did some research and I couldn’t get a straight answer […]
Read More »It’s flammable, so there is that risk, yes. It’s not going to explode on it’s own though. You might want to take a look at some videos of people shooting propane tanks. Simply shooting them isn’t enough to make them go boom, you actually have to put a road flare or sparkler (ignition source) near […]
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