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Continue reading →: scan: new Vuescan Multicrop vs. Cropped Area, Image Type, and Loud Buzzing fixesI’m not quite sure what I did, but when upgrading from Vuescan 9.8.27 to 9.8.28, my Minolta DiMage 5400 developed some major problems. On initialization, it would just emit a horrible buzzing (as a motor is just flailing away). This is a 20-year-old piece of hardware, so I think I…
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Continue reading →: mac: MacBook Pro 2014 OLCP Maps, Safari Render VenturaWell, OLCP has been working remarkably well on all my machines. Since disabling the dGPU on our MacBook Pro 2010, this has worked just great. Even though the fix was for a MBP 2011, this one had the same problem. The MacBook Air 2011 has also been running well if…
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Continue reading →: scan: Vuescan tips for 35mm negative and 3×5 photosWell, it’s been literally years since I’ve scanned in photos, but with the move of the MacBook Pro 2014 upstairs, I can begin again. The main issue I’m having right now is that with OpenCore Legacy Patcher on this machine, Sonoma is not working with certain graphical applications like Safari,…
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Continue reading →: dev: Strange pipenv bugs and dealing with dependabot
Well, it’s been a while since I’ve had my development environment running. It is crazy how things can devolved. To remind everyone, in my normal world, I use asdf, direnv and pipenv (and now poetry and conda) to manage things. The basic idea is that when I switch to a…
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Continue reading →: nas: Moving from Synology to TrueNAS or QuTS and DYIOK, now that our Synology DS1812+ and DS2413+ are old, we got a new Synology RS2413+, but the DS2413+ is going to go end of life soon. So time to think about how that replacement will go. Make no mistake just like we used the Drobo 2008 and Drobo Pro…
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Continue reading →: mac: New uses of MBP 2014 for Photos, 2017 for Backups
OK, I did a complete rearrangement of my computing infrastructure (yes it is like I have a pet sheep flock). So here is what we are doing: MacBook Pro 2020 for Video Editing MacBook Pro 2017 for Backup and Backblaze As part of the 3-2-1 strategy (3 copies, 2 local…
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Continue reading →: web: Finding new typefaces and logos
One thing that comes up a lot for me is starting new companies. We normally don’t have a lot of resources, so it is just me sitting starting at a new Google Doc, Google Slide or Hugo website template trying to figure out what fonts and treatments to use. Finding…
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Continue reading →: nas: New Synology tips, use SHR2/RAID6 and move shared folders in Control Panel
OK, I thought that I was nearly done. I had reorganized my machines so that I would have RAID10 partitions for half of each 12-bay Synology RP-2423+ and DS-2413+. But then I started reading and discovered that the new Seagate EXOS drives I’ve been buying at 1^15 unrecoverable bit error…
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Continue reading →: nas: New Synology Volumes, Storage Pools and Shared Folder and WOL tips
OK, I am getting Synology to operate daily. With three NASes, it’s a little complicated and the documentation is there, but hard to read, so let’s go topical and talk about some key tasks. Moving data when Volumes get full OK, I think this is a typical problem, but the…
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Continue reading →: nas: Latest Synology adding a new RS2423+ and Drive reorg tipsThere are a few of these. The big ones have to do with migration because you have to remember a bunch of things. The first is that when you are moving to a new server and want to keep your old one, you have to break all your replications. So…
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