Tech for me...and you too...I guess
Windows 10 1709 & Public Samba Shares
Most users have already upgraded their Windows 10 PCs to Windows 10 1709 a.k.a. Fall Creators Update…who names these things?Hopefully everyone came out of the update unscathed and still have a working PC. Now that you’ve got the minor issue of booting out of the way, some of you may have noticed that you are having problems connecting to Windows File Shares or as us Linux guys call it, Samba ...
Automatic Webmail Notifications in Linux
I use webmail for all of my email accounts as I find it much more convenient than setting up a local mail client like Thunderbird. For what seems like forever, I had been using a Firefox Add-On called X-notifierto alert me when I receive new mail. It was a cool little utility that allowed Firefox to regularly notify me of new mail from my various email accounts. User submitted scripts provide ...
Safari & Full Height Flexbox Children
As some of you may have noticed, I recently did a slight redesign of this site. I picked up some new CSS tricks and definitely upped my JQuery game in the past year and after taking a long hiatus from posting to this site, I noticed how unhappy I was with its look. Please go easy on me as this is only the 2nd website I’ve ever built.
One of the changes I tried making last yea ...
Migrating From MySQL 5.7 to MariaDB 10.2 on Ubuntu 16.04
For those unfamiliar with MariaDB, it’s a fork of MySQL that is dedicated to remaining free to use. It was created the day Oracle bought out Sun Microsystems in 2010 who had previously acquired MySQL in 2008. MariaDB was built by the very developers who worked on MySQL and for most users the transition to MariaDB should be fairly painless. All of the clients and tools that work with MySQL wor ...
unRAID NVIDIA GPU Passthrough Fix (QEMU)
I tried out unRAID last year as an alternative to VMWare vSphere because getting non-server hardware to work with vSphere is getting more difficult with each release. Now I know that unRAID’s bread and butter is functioning as a NAS, but in recent releases they’ve added a ton of features, one of them being VM hosting support via QEMU. One of the surprising features that led me to eventually pu ...
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