by bgrolleman | May 29, 2016 | Hacking, Lifehacking, Polyamory
These are my personal guidelines when using chat, I’m putting them in writing to avoid confusion. Some things like ping and afk might look strange to those that missed the IRC age. It’s mostly for one on one chats but they work with group chat’s most...
by bgrolleman | Nov 8, 2015 | Hacking
So, this issue seems to come back on my QNAP when using rsync for backup. It seems to be a bug that returns but the main issue is that the system doesn’t allow enough inotify watches resulting in this error. Best would be a good fix to avoid needing so much, but...
by bgrolleman | Dec 1, 2014 | Hacking
I found a few solutions on the net, but people just attach the last 2 digits and I would like to avoid issues like this where 10.0.1.11 and 10.0.11.1 would both produce server-id 111. So to fix that, I seperate the IP and multiply the 3rd digit by a 1000. $serverid =...
by bgrolleman | Nov 16, 2013 | Hacking
So, wife want’s to transfer from Spotify to Google Music. Luck would have it that there is a tool to do that. Quick disclaimer, These are the steps I did to get it to work on my Ubuntu 13.04 install Portify isn’t fully stable, it stopped/hanged a couple of...
by bgrolleman | Apr 18, 2013 | Hacking
I love playing with autokey-gtk, as it saves me a lot of keystrokes and helps improve my workflow. It’s also the main reason I will not be switching to any other OS like ChromeOS I’ll try and post a few of my scripts once in awhile, it uses python code so...
by bgrolleman | Jun 18, 2012 | Hacking
So, I hate Apple with a passion. They make great hardware, but you are limited in choice and if something breaks you can bet your sorry ass that your system is under repair for a couple of weeks. I run Ubuntu, thank you very much. But, my wife Maaike Appels has to...