Saturday, August 30, 2025

Ayaneo Next Lite Stick Calibration, and Other Complaints

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A few years ago, I bought my daughter an Ayaneo Next Lite , which is a low-end, but fairly well-made Windows handheld. She loves the device,...
Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Custom Fonts for GRUB

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Have you ever looked at the GRUB boot menu, and just felt bored? Or, more importantly, been completely unable to read it? I have been in bo...
Thursday, January 30, 2025

Immigration, Illegal Aliens, Dehumanization and Money

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I'm going to again depart from the tech-focused nature of this blog to comment on an issue that was brought to my attention, on Tuesday,...
Monday, October 14, 2024

Compiling Software that Uses the GNU Build System (autoconf, automake, etc.)

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It used to be that almost all open-source software for Linux used the GNU build system . Anytime you saw that ubiquitous 'configure'...
Monday, September 30, 2024

PowerDNS and MariaDB (MySQL) Replication - What do you do when things get out of whack?

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I use PowerDNS to manage my fairly extensive home lab environment's DNS. Because DNS is needed for not only the lab, but also so that my...
Monday, September 2, 2024

The Plague of Education Debt

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Today, I responded to a Facebook comment that complained about the difficulty of repaying graduate school education debt. The original poste...
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Creating PDFs of Vintage Manuals - Harder Than it Appears?

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I have accumulated quite a bit of documentation, over the years. It's always been on my "things to do someday" list to scan wh...