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Category Archives: Musings
Oneplus 6 phone dialing issues
When your OP6 phone dialing dies, check this as a possible solution. Continue reading
Extremely useful .htaccess ReWrite validator
So as I was working on one of my many web projects, I needed / wanted a faster way to validate my Apache web servers URL rewrite rules. This site did the trick and worked great: https://htaccess.madewithlove.com/
less Tips and Tricks
The less tool can open multiple files in order, I find this useful when comparing sets of logs. For instance Which will open the first file it finds and hold the rest in reserve, switching forward and backwards through this … Continue reading
AT&T, 3G shutdown and the Oneplus 6
Ugh, AT&T, Oneplus 6 and the looming 3G shutdown. Continue reading
Understanding Lists in the Perl programming language — great read!
Perl’s aggregate data types are the array and the hash. Each is constructed from a list. The actual definition of a list covers quite a lot of cases—a lot of ways in which these can be constructed. However, the basic … Continue reading
Imagemagick
Imagemagick can calculate the best resolution and quality for JPEG type files with the -define jpeg:extent=SIZE optional argument. An example of this would be to reduce the size of a multi-megapixel image by half and targeting a desired maximum file … Continue reading
Microsoft Outlook 2016… Sigh…
As part of my day to day work I find my self forced into a Windows 7, Microsoft Office environment. This is already painful enough having to slog through the crippling security restrictions imposed on me by corporate InfoSec and … Continue reading
SSL, Finally!
So I’ve noticed that my el’cheapo hosting provider now provides SSL service for those who enable it, via Let’s Encrypt and I’m taking advantage, so UNIXgr is now an https haver.
XPS 13 and M3800
So very recently my beloved 2013 era XPS 13 developer edition finally failed. The HID controller failed and that’s pretty much it for these things. As a result of this I ended up switching back to my spare laptop (well … Continue reading