Category: Ramblings
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TV woes
Thanks to some lucky bitcoin investments, I decided it was time to finally upgrade to a 4k TV within the last few weeks. And since I try to do all my shopping online, I opted to take the risk, and try a online order for a wide screen TV – understanding the risks associated with…
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DNS issues resolved
After writing my prior post, I of course kept digging, and surprisingly quickly managed to find a solution. Turns out my issue was not with DNS, but rather with needing a Rewrite directive in my Apache configuration.
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DNS challenges
I continue to tinker with the website, trying to add features and options, and continue to struggle a bit with the DNS record configuration. In my case, I utilize GoDaddy for my domain registration, which works well, but my custom configuration is challenging, as I found out today after trying to make modifications. In parallel…
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Webserver troubles
It may have been noticed, but my website was offline for most of the night yesterday. I have been reconfiguring my home theatre system, which runs partially on the same system. In my solution, I have a FreeNAS server, which holds a pair of Ubuntu virtual machines, each of which run pieces of the overall…
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Getting old
Apparently, its a sign of old age, but after nearly 45 years, I finally need glasses. By no means is it an extreme prescription, but my eyesight has always been excellent. However, I have been noticing headaches and blurriness in recent months. Most noticeably, it has become an issue with my recent painting efforts. So…
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Adjustments to settings so that Facebook cooperates
So I found that my auto-linking to Facebook (visit me here) was having difficulties with the various thumbnails I had been posting. Apparently there is a restriction on Facebook that images need to be larger than 200×200 pixels, and my thumbnails were sized at 150×150. As a result, each post would get an error on…
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Motivation is lacking
Over the last week or two, my motivation has been lacking significantly, mainly because of my “real” job during the day. I still find this effort, as well as my podcasts and gaming activities interesting and rewarding, but when the other job wears you down and keeps you running from sun up to sun down,…
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Rise of the Runelords – the lost episode
So I am rather behind in my podcasts and videos, thanks to various distractions and procrastination. In particular, I am now 2 episodes of Rise of the Runelords, and after this weekend, 2 episodes of Hero System behind. Unfortunately, in my struggle to keep the files straight, I erased one of the episodes of RotRL…