We Hire Bloggers Who Immediately Stop Blogging Years ago in 2007, when I first joined Canonical as a staffer, I attended their yearly in-person all-hands meeting during my second week of employment. During the opening plenary, after the icebreaker where all new employees were asked to stand up and explain the history of their IRC pseudonym, the presenter lamented, “We hire bloggers […]

Create Shell Scripts to Implement Your Own Local Fix for Poor App UI/UX Repository: Sean Sosik-Hamor’s Snippets-Collection on GitHub.com – Newsvoice.com I’ve recently started submitting summary posts to Newsvoice.com to expand my journalism portfolio for Hamor Photography in Pelham, NH. But, like many web-based services, the web app doesn’t implement the same feature set as the smartphone app and vice versa. More frustratingly, neither app seems to allow […]

Configuring a TFTP server on Ubuntu for switch upgrades and maintenance Note: Community TFTP documentation is on the Ubuntu Wiki but this short guide adds extra steps to help secure and safeguard your TFTP server. Every Data Centre Engineer should have a TFTP server somewhere on their network whether it be running on a production host or running on their own notebook for disaster recovery. And […]

Is Google Chrome running obscenely slow on your obscenely expensive Mac Pro or Retina MacBook Pro with 4K or UHD monitor? Fear not… My shiny Mac Pro just arrived along with a pair of Dell 28 Ultra HD (P2815Q) Monitors (2160p). I anxiously plugged everything in, fired up Google Chrome, and waited…and waited…and waited…and waited. The dreaded spinning pinwheel of death greeted me and it took minutes for each page to load. Not even the chrome://settings/ or chrome://version/ pages would load. Chrome was basically unusable. […]

Wi-Fi regulatory domains are a pain Managing multiple facilities across multiple continents can be a pain especially when Wi-Fi is involved. Different regions use different frequencies depending on regulatory domain. And, depending on your hardware vendor, compliant hardware could be backordered. In my case, the Cisco Aironet 1140 Series Access Point (AIR-AP1142N-T-K9 802.11a/g/n Standalone AP; Int Ant; Taiwan C) is backordered by […]

Pulling the Karakoram out of storage Since Operation Stop Being a Fatass 2.0 is progressing rather satisfactorily (down 15 pounds this month) I’ll be pulling my trusty 1992 GT Karakoram Full Rigid out of storage so I can give it a proper tuneup and start hitting the trails again. With the exception of racing my nephews up and down the cul-de-sac I haven’t […]

Operation Stop Being a Fatass 2.0 is well underway It’s been seven years since I mused about weight loss on this Blog. And in that seven years I’ve embarrassingly regained almost all the weight I so elatedly lost and enthusiastically wrote about. An unfortunate combination of work, stress, and a complete lack of healthful motivation turned those seven years into a crash course of unhinged […]

HP Mini 1000 and 110 batteries on sale For you mobile geeks out there HP Home currently has 3-cell batteries for the HP Mini 1000 and 110 on sale for 60% off as well as a $15-off coupon you can use (ACY93421). No idea how long this is going to last. HP 3-cell Battery for Mini 110 Series (BX03) (NY221AA#UUF) HP 3-cell Primary […]

How to murder a Blog Short of a server going down, one of the quickest and most effective ways for a Blog to die is for it to drop out of search engines. Sure, you might have a ton of repeat visitors, but no search ranking means no new visitors because, well, no one can find you. What a blinding […]