Apple DuoDisk Troubleshooting
A friend of mine very generously gave me his childhood Apple IIe for the price of shipping. I have been really enjoying exploring it, and
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Enabling telnetd on Raspbian
I am setting up a Raspberry Pi to be a remote server (you know, a mainframe) for ancient computers that don’t have the CPU power to use S
Expanding this Site
I recently read Cory Doctorow’s post about using a blog as a personal
Smart HDMI Switch
I wanted an HDMI switch that worked with Apple HomeKit so that I could include it in Scenes. Manually switching things is a drag and I wa
Avoiding List Tab Download Crashes in Maximo
Recently we observed JVM crashes on one of our UI servers that we traced back the XLS emitter, triggered by downloads from the list tab.
Maximo Installation Command Reference
Personal reference for useful commands. <a href="#Bypass-verificatio
Maximo Automation Scripting Practices
I hesitate to call this post a “Best Practices” post, because who am I to prescribe a best practice? I won’t call it that. Instead this i
Seemingly Silly SQL
Recently I had to fix a report that was broken from some changes we made while implementing a new financial tracking process for our cust
Installing an SSD in a PowerMac G4!
All computers must use an SSD now. It’s the law. Even an Apple PowerMac G4 Quicksilver from 2002! OWC, of course, sells a <
Using OpenCore Legacy Patcher on my 2012 Mac Pro
I have a deep interest in using computers well beyond their expected shelf life. I am writing this in 2023 and have a 2012 iMac that has
Maximo 7.6.1 OOB Help Settings
Here are the Out-Of-Box online help settings for IBM Maximo 7.6.1 PROPNAME PROPVALUE <tr
This site: Hexo on Vercel
UPDATE Nov 2024: I have since moved this site to DigitalOcean. Nothing wrong with Vercel, but DigitalOcean provides more general cloud se
Maximo database refreshes
While developing for Maximo you will sometimes need to refresh your development environment from production so that you can have fresher
WebSphere manage profiles interactive tool
I recently got a tip from IBM support about a friendler tool to use for creating WebSphere profiles. Previously I had used the graphical
Maximo custom cron
If you need to create a custom cron task for IBM Maximo using Java here is some code to get you started. <figure class="highlight jav
Experimenting with the vagrant-qemu-provider
Today I came across a qemu provider for Vagrant. I have a PC set up with Proxmox, however; I kind of don’t want to have this machine hook
Diving into DevOps - Proxmox SSL
Today I learned that for self-signed certs you need to add the root CA of your server to Vagrant’s cacert.pem On my system this fi
Diving into DevOps - Vagrancy
Ahh yes, the everything-as-code infrastructure dream. I have been familiar with the concepts for a long time, and know the names and func