I’ve missed playing with 3D printing since I mothballed my printer years ago. It was shelved over major pains in getting the extruder to work properly. I also wasn’t especially fond of working with ABS plastic, which feels pretty toxic to me. A few weeks back I decided that my old printer, while in bad shape, was …

I often find myself banging my head against a wall watching tar compress with a single execution thread. PBZIP2 is the solution to that problem. Here’s my few recipes for using this: Compress: tar cf archive.tar.bz2 –use-compress-prog=pbzip2 archive/ Uncompress:�pbzip2 -dvc archive.tar.bz2 | tar x Enjoy!

In my quest to keep my 2008 era Mac Pro (MacPro3,1) reasonably well suited to my needs, I recently decided to attempt to add USB 3.0 support. I recently bought myself one of these babies, Inateck KT4004. I like that it has 4 ports and no external power required. The Amazon page claimed this card is for the Mac Pro. I …

To the chase… It took me a long time to find this, but someone’s made a guide for building Ubuntu 14.04 from scratch for the Utilite. But better still, they’ve included a dropbox location to fetch images from. Here’s the URL to the build guide. Here’s the URL to the download directory. For installation, I’m�ripping-off …

I’m a fairly heavy user of trac. I’ve got various software projects I organize using trac. I decided to upgrade one of my Ubuntu 12.04 servers to Ubuntu 14.04 and of course ran in to the typical apache2 headaches that are born out of this particular transition. After remembering to rename my virtual host files with …

Here’s the tale of getting USB 3.0 working in a tolerable regard on my 17" MacBook Pro. In short, it cost me about $10 and I had to install a custom, but generic kext to enable USB 3.0. Thankfully, all the heavy lifting was done for me by people with far more free time (lucky freaks). Here’s a visual of my final …

Home, End, Pg Up and Pg Down, keys I use like a crazy-person. And yet, for reasons probably designed to break my mind and will, Apple opted for a fairly different and totally varying use for these keys. I wager it’s some sort of nod to super old-school Unix practices. Nevertheless, I’ve ripped out some hair over this …

I’ve recently sufficiently mastered rsync to use it everywhere, constantly. ESXi doesn’t have rsync bundled, cause you know, when 16GB flash drives cost $8, you need to keep your hypervisor footprint down to a few MB? I dunno. Anyway, here’s where to download a build of rsync that’ll work on …

Here’s my notes on how I approached installing�OSX 10.9 on my Late 2007 MacBook (MacBook3,1). Note I did most of this on a current Mac running 10.9. Also, this kind of worked. I got the install to run but it wouldn’t boot after install. I’m probably quite close to it working. I’ll update this post with notes if I work …

Here’s my diary from the “epic” experience of simply trying to upgrade Alfresco installations from 4.2.c to 4.2.f. I found the community documentation to be dated and had minimal confidence in its current validity. Still, it helped. These are my final notes on the process and in actuality there were a lot of wrong …