This is a quick guide on how to get started with Matrix chat for the Jupiter Broadcasting shows. It is also in video form here: Instructions You will need a client, and you can use a web-based one by going here:https://app.element.io If you don’t already have an account: Choose to “Create Account” Choose “Advanced” (Other […]
Author: Jay Tuckey
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Update on the Elephant’s Ear (Alocasia)
IT’S ALIVE!!! And growing nicely, which I’m somewhat surprised by, but pleased. 🙂 It now has two leaves, and a third is sprouting. For previous pics see: https://jaytuckey.name/2020/08/04/the-new-plant-an-elephants-ear-aka-alocasia/ I’ve also given it a friend, a Spathiphyllum, commonly called a Peace Lily:
I got a new plant – $2 from Bunnings. It’s looking a little sad at the moment but I hope it will recover and grow.
I’ve been trying to use OneDrive as my restic backend – which is supported through the rclone backend. Using this, restic can use any backend that rclone supports, which is very cool. However, it has revealed that the OneDrive API is very buggy and unreliable! I’m surprised by how many issues I’ve been getting. I’m […]
This script is very simple. It will scan a network range attached to the device it is run from, and will turn what it finds into a list of reservations for the Kea dhcp server – https://kea.readthedocs.io/ You run it something like this, giving it a network range to scan. Then network should be a […]
Commands were found here: https://www.dell.com/community/Isilon/Unlock-locked-file-on-Isilon-Share-via-MMC/td-p/7094821 My first thought for finding the open lock was to just use the MMC console on windows to find it, like this: However, it turns out that this will only show you the locks on a specific node, not the whole cluster. What you need to do is instead hop […]
When trying to find why my ospf configs were not sending the correct costing from Linux -> Cisco devices, I found some useful commands that I thought I would note down for future reference. Linux – Using vtysh My ospfd.conf looks something like this: You can see the costs on linux using the vtysh command: […]
I have a Lenovo X1 Carbon 4th Gen, running Ubuntu 20.04 – it’s a great laptop, with a 14″ display and a 1080p screen. However, if you run it at 1X display scaling, everything is just a bit too small for comfort. I have found the best display scaling factor for it is 125%. Ubuntu […]
This is a simple ansible config that will set your machine to use the bfq scheduler: Put this in a file called enable_bfq_playbook.yml and then run it with ansible-playbook: Reboot, and you should now have bfq enabled on your disk:
Here are some tools that I really like using when I’m working from the command line: Fish shell The fish shell is an awesome shell with loads of autocomplete and helper tools: https://fishshell.com/ Mosh Mosh is an SSH replacement that has a much lower latency implementation: https://mosh.org/ Restic As the tagline says, backups done right! […]