madphilosopher

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by madphilosopher 4y ago
redis - for simple, reliable interprocess communication cron - gets things done on time, every time chrony - simple, no-nonsense NTP supervisor - keeps my processes running tinc VPN - all my servers and services happily meshed together Ardu
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by madphilosopher 4y ago
There is a utility called InControl [1] that will manipulate some registry keys for you to pin your machine to a specific major version and feature update release. In other words, it can prevent automatic upgrades to a future Windows versio
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by madphilosopher 5y ago
Have a look at Opalstack [1]. They are a hosting platform for developers, and their tools include DNS hosting and email hosting. You can have your email hosted and routed in Germany. I use them for myself and about a dozen clients of mine.
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by madphilosopher 5y ago
"Our call volume is currently very high and the wait time is X minutes. Please press 1 if you would like to be put in the queue and have an agent call you." I wish more companies did this so that I can actually get on with my day
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by madphilosopher 5y ago
I grew up with a Commodore 128, and it had two screen buffers---one for 40-column mode and one for 80-column mode. I remember listing some code on the 80-column side of things so that I could edit it there and insert it into the code I ha
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by madphilosopher 5y ago
ReiserFS is my favourite Linux filesystem. I use it where most people just use the default ext4. I was originally attracted to it for the large-number-of-small-files support it had. I appreciate the ability to shrink/grow an existing R
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by madphilosopher 5y ago
I opted for a low-power FM transmitter fed by the music player daemon (mpd). Zero latency, always synchronized, works with any stereo receiver I want, plenty of clients to choose from (web-based, mobile, etc.) to control the mpd.
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by madphilosopher 5y ago
I use tinc VPN [0] to connect a bunch of separated LANs together, and a built-in configuration directive GraphDumpFile = /etc/tinc/network/graph.viz will generate a real-time network graph using the Graphviz DOT
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by madphilosopher 5y ago
My choice is paper, too. For that, I really like the Pocketmod [0] system. I generate my own Pocketmod booklets using PostScript [1]. [0] https://pocketmod.com/ [1] https://gist.github.com/madphilosopher&#x2
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by madphilosopher 6y ago
Olfa Touch Knife. Pocketmod PDA.
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by madphilosopher 6y ago
My wife, who used to work in an airport tower, gave me this tip about reading windsocks: Imagine a tiny aircraft coming out of the mouth of the windsock---that's the direction a real aircraft will use to take off and land.