Trying to undo a corporate corner I painted myself into fifteen years back...

I wrote a webpage:
cat index.html | wc --> 3,827 characters

Used wkhtmltopdf to convert it to PDF, then used Word to turn it back into a webpage:
cat index.html | wc --> 6,646,652 characters


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Travel ready; new disk added to pool and full remote access to my systems:


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It wasn't really fun, or easy, or even really necessary if we're being honest. Mostly because UNRAID isn't much of a hypervisor, and I'm really not into that whole "Docker" thing - which looks freaking awesome if it like, worked and stuff. But I'm a sysadmin - I have needs. Things like access, and tools, and the ability to manipulate things ( Read more... )

When macOS can nslookup, but returns the following error when attempting ssh/ping:

ssh: Could not resolve hostname unraid: nodename nor servname provided, or not known

Simply run:

% sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder

# cat /etc/hosts | grep backendNAS
192.168.0.3

# for x in {4..62} ; do echo "192.168.0.$x backendNAS" >> /etc/roundrobin_nas
# chmod 644 /etc/roundrobin_nas

# cat /etc/dnsmasq.conf | grep addn-hosts
addn-hosts=/etc/roundrobin_nas

# systemctl restart dnsmasq

# nslookup backendNAS
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Had an idea that would require learning how to utilize AI for text-to-speech projects, but I had to learn some things first. There's an Nvidia-specific application which sounded fun (Tachatron 2), but the RTX4090 is Ada Lovelace architecture and the app only supports Volta, Turing, and Ampere and the next one which looked interesting was ESPnet, ( Read more... )

IF:

Failed to attach disk 'C:\Users\howto\AppData\Local\Packages\46932SUSE.openSUSELeap15.5_022rs5jcyhyac\LocalState\ext4.vhdx' to WSL2: The system cannot find the file specified.

THEN:

> wsl --unregister openSUSE-Leap-15.5

> wsl --install -d openSUSE-Leap-15.5

OR IF:

Error: 0x80070422 The service cannot be started, either because it is ( Read more... )

rmt:/var/lib/rmt/public # for x in `find . -name "*aarch64*" | sed -r 's/.{2}//'` ; do rm -Rf $x ; done
rmt:/var/lib/rmt/public # for x in `find . -name "*s390x*" | sed -r 's/.{2}//'` ; do rm -Rf $x ; done
rmt:/var/lib/rmt/public # for x in `find . -name "*ppc64le*" | sed -r 's/.{2}//'` ; do rm -Rf $x ; done ( Read more... )

# systemctl stop systemd-resolved.service
# systemctl disable systemd-resolved.service
Removed "/etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.resolve1.service".
Removed "/etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/systemd-resolved.service".

# ls -al /etc/resolv.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Mar 21 2023 /etc/resolv.conf -> ../run/systemd/resolve/stub- ( Read more... )