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Continue reading →: Various Vim and Bash tricksOK, if you are doing some major hacking with vim as your toy IDE, here are some advanced things: Rewrapping text. There are a bunch of tricks here, the most important is to put in .vimrc the lines set tw=79 wm=2 which means wrap around line 79. If you need…
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Continue reading →: Making your MacBook a home stationWell there a few steps in this long COVID-19 isolation to make your MacBook Air a nice workstation. This has gotten much easier with the advent of USB C and televisions that works monitors, but here are all the pieces that you need: I will put on tongfamily but does…
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Continue reading →: Ubiquiti Unifi Tuning Part Trois: AP Selection, Placement, Dream Machines et alWell, we’ve always been a sort of half Synology and half Unifi house. That is we use Unifi APs and Synology does the data storage and video cameras. It’s sort of worked well with some notable failures: I bought a Cloud Key v1 to manage the Unifi APs, but this…
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Continue reading →: Blown Line Conditioner, Blown Pre-Amp RIPArgh, this is definitely a first-world problem, but when you Audio Video Receiver breaks down and you are living in COVID-19 hibernation, it seems like a life crisis. We bought a nice set more than 10 years ago when Dolby 5.2 was super amazing as was HD at 1080p and…
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Continue reading →: T-Mobile CallerID plus Amex promotions and Credit ReportsWell as T-Mobile continues its merger with Sprint (sad that there is one less competitor, we need more for telecom :-), they are adding a few things: Scam Saver. You download this on your phone and it is supposed to block more scams we will see. Caller Id. This caused…
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Continue reading →: Backup LG Magic Remote CompatibilityOK, this is a confusing topic, but if you have an LG television and lose it, you can’t actually turn the TV on. I know this because I spent 30 minutes looking for a remote that was under a chair. We wanted to figure out what backup remote to buy.…
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Continue reading →: Unifi Hacking Around V3OK, so I’ve still been having problems with our Wifi. The big insight has been the turning on of Wifi AI and that at least our Windows machine can’t handle the so called DFS channels in 5GHz. The other thing is that I suspect there is a problem with longer…
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Continue reading →: A Good Laptop is you don’t want to spend a fortuneWell the choices are a little complex right now. Having gone back to Windows 10, I can say that you will get a low cost option, but you will have problems. If you go with Apple it will be largely trouble free, but expensive. So what’s a person to do.…
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Continue reading →: Car washing and geek materials for windshieldsI finally had a chance to wash our very dirty cars. Finally cleared up and to get the windshield washer fluid up to snuff. Here’s the quick (distracting from the COVID-19 epidemic list):OK, if you are going to get started, then if you love your car at all, getting a…
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Continue reading →: Windows Networking Still so clunky, big disk problems with Windows Server and 5GHz WiFi DFS ProblemsMan, I don’t use Windows too much any more, but somehow I would have thought that simple things like discovery in a home network would be fixed by now. With a Mac, it is trivial to discover a server with something claleedd Bonjour (or mDNS Responder) for power nerds. This…
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