Ansible is well known to have a less than simple precedence rule set, which is born of necessity.
For the majority of tasks, this complexity can be handled by having separate variable names when two ansible groups need to both set a variable, and them combined via a template or …
-->While there are many solutions for remote access to a home network, such as TailScale or other VPNs, my needs are much more simple; only needing SSH access back to a single workstation.
As I already have a host with a static address on the internet from Digital Ocean, lets …
-->As I don’t care for the noise of an optical drive while going to sleep, have been transcoding a few favorite DVDs to USB sticks.
ffmpeg is a versatile tool, but does not support import directly from DVD media.
mplayer does however, and can stream dump.
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function …So the majority of the NIMH packs have given up the ghost. May they rest in peace.
After much hemming and hawing, decided to replace them with Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) in a 12s1p configuration of Headway 40152S Cells. 15Ah x 36v. Not quite as energy dense as polymer, but …
-->Spent late June down in Mexico; Diving out of Xoc-Ha, with still photography by SJ Alice Bennett.
Had such a great time that we booked another trip within 2 weeks of leaving!
-->As part of an ongoing contract, there was a need to parse and specifically classify traffic from multiple common log format files. As the rest of the stack in play was using Perl, the utility written to do so was also written in Perl. Yes, I know its 2020.
For …
-->My wife and I purchased a set of 3 used Cuda 400 DPVs which included 6 NiMH battery packs of various age and abuse. Prior to purchase the battery packs were float charged on the shelf for half a year without a full discharge cycle. First test outing we had …
-->After being left stranded on the side of the road with a failed TFI… AGAIN. It’s time to pull the trigger and move to d585s LS2/Truck coils.
-->Jayme and I ran away from the cold this year, and jumped on a Blackbeards Cruise. Had a great time, and did not break the bank in the process. Unfortunetely had some issues with the photo settings on the GoPro, but the video worked fine.
-->Went down to Saba / St Kitts / St Maarten with https://www.explorerventures.com/saba-st-kitts/ and Immersion Divers.
Had such a great time the first week, decided to stay another!
-->Again for 2017, Jayme and I spent a nice relaxing weekend up at Gilboa Quarry. Thanks to Jon for heading up and getting a day of dives in! Passed dive #200 on Sunday, and finally caught a proper sight of the paddlefish to boot!
-->Gilboa was a bit more crowded this weekend, but got in quite a few good dives. Temps were in the mid 70s above 25’, and high 60s down to around 40’.
-->Saturday, Fezzik got the conversion bed and chair removed and a queen sized bed installed.
-->Jayme and I spent a nice relaxing weekend up at Gilboa Quarry. Very little crowds, and got to meet some very cool people! Thanks to Evan for the great dives, and thanks to Tracy, Ryan, Caitlin, and everyone else for the good conversation!
-->Moon and Saturn from 2016-06-13. Cannon T3i, 2X teleconverter, Meade Lightbridge 12”. no post.
-->Had a great trip out west to Denver. Lots of time spent enjoying the sights and sounds of the city and the surrounding areas.
-->Thanks again to Sea Hawk Divers for hosting us down in Isla!
-->Finally picked up an IrDA transciver based on mcs7780 chipset for getting Subsurface working with our Lunas. had a bunch of trouble getting it working with Linux, but found a wonderful walkthrough at kartadmin that laid out how to get it all working.
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In a previous life, I had built and deployed a partial yum mirror to speed up, and simplify, kick starting and deployment of supporting packages for an application stack. since there were multiple upstream yum repos that needed to be consulted (centos base, couchbase, epel, pgsql, etc), it made sense …
-->keeping state on the server side is a common hindrance to scaling out beyond a single server. anything you can have the client keep track of, you do not have to worry about synchronizing across nodes on the server side.
without getting into crazy stuff like ASN.1, wanted to …
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