Not From The Wirral
I have a JetBrains All Products license. It currently costs $173 per year. I love their products, and I am fortunate enough to afford it. Lightroom+Photoshop is $240 per year. My cloud compute bill is about $50 a month ($600 a year), which I use for various convenience things like file transfers, an offsite NVR […]
Bucket list item checked – visit this bridge.
Here is an Ansible playbook to set up a server as an IMAP server hosting email for multiple domains. Just bring your own server! https://github.com/shuchow/postfix-dovecot-virtualhosts Features: 1. Host email for multiple domains on one single server. 2. Emails and Domains are managed by MariaDB/MySQL. 3. Uses Ansible Vault to secure sensitive information. 4. Uses Let’s […]
I’ve been on a mission to replace all MP3 with lossless and have been culling my collection, stored in Music.app and before that, iTunes. I’ve been an iTunes user since Day 1. There’s always been complaints about this and that, but I’ve never paid attention to them since it “works for me!” Sure, the cloud […]
There are two serendipitous things that happened from my sophomore year in high school to freshman year in college that put me down a path in software engineering. The first one was from an after school job in a law office. WordPerfect 5.1 on DOS was the word processing program that ruled the world at […]
Somewhere in 2011, a patent t… excuse me, a “non-practicing entity,” sued Apple. Apple counter-sued to invalidate the patent. I just found out that Apple entered my mashup book from 2007 as an exhibit in the case. Awesome.
Some friends and I were talking about civil litigation earlier this week, which made me wonder if anyone at HN would be curious about my experience with arbitration as a civilian. Right before I went to sleep, I submitted a link to last month’s post to HN and went to bed. The timing would have […]
It went pretty well. Last Fall, my hot water heater started to leak. I called my home warranty company, (Hereafter, HWC. I KNOW, I KNOW, HOME WARRANTIES ARE NOT WORTH IT.) and due to a computer system failure that spanned multiple days, they were unable to send a contractor to fix my water heater. With […]
The photos are Here. The Galapagos is often a once-in-a-lifetime trip. So, in preparation, I wanted to get it right for photography. I did a bunch of research beforehand, and found some good tips and not good tips. The bad ones will show up in google searches, so be careful. You have no control over […]
And spent almost two weeks total with Kali Linux on an old MacBook Air as my only computer. People are often warned that Kali should not be considered as a normal everyday laptop due to hardware compatibility issues, so I was curious how true that was. Why Linux and Why Kali? I wanted a laptop […]