I spent a few years wandering the world of tea, discovering many different styles and tastes, only to come back home to something simple with added quality — good iced tea. I’ve come to favor simple days of sun tea. My favorite is cold brew tea and I am going to teach you my technique: […]
Read MoreThe Best Hummingbird Feeder
I’ve been though many hummingbird feeders. Certainly all the ones at local garden stores and I think all of the the different designs available from big A. In my experience in southern California, if it’s not on my list, the hummers only give it a shot as a last resort. I will see them try […]
Read MoreLotto and Horse Gambling Advice
Here’s some advice from a multi-lotto winner, and a scammer on betting on the ponies. Richard Lustig’s Lotto Advice:
Read MoreRecommended: cool-retro-term
I love puppies… and cool retro computing things. This console program is terrific for having running full screen when the non-techs come to visit.
Read MoreTime for an Update
Yes, I know I haven’t written in a while, so I’ll post this quick update for all groupies*
Read MoreHow to test for open port without telnet
The telnet client is no longer being installed by default on secure systems. So, how do you check that you can get to a remote port, like a mail relay? There’s been a trick in bash for a while, that I didn’t know about. Here’s how to get an idea: 2014-04-05 07:35:56 ec2-user@ip-172-31-9-61:~ 0$ cat […]
Read MoreFACLs in OS X Mavericks
When I recently saw this output on my mac, I was shuffled back to the old days of Solaris 7 and FACLs: 2014-04-05 04:00:23 george2@g2mac:~ 0$ ls -alF -rw-r–r–@ 1 george2 staff 3569 Apr 5 15:47 test.py -rw-r–r–@ 1 george2 staff 146 Apr 5 15:47 test.txt
Read MoreI’m on GitHub
At this year’s SCaLE, it was requested of me to start putting my obscure projects on GitHub. I have started doing this and you can find my repository at https://github.com/TechTamer
Read MoreMy Talk at SCaLE 12x
I originally meant to sign up to help with the kid’s stuff at SCaLE 12x. If you have no other reason to go, go for game night – good times. However, on the kids email list, there was a call out for more volunteers for the beginner talks. Heck, I could do that! Right? Yes, […]
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