Author: Jack M. Off

I’ve been skiing for nearly 40 years now and have gotten the family into it a lot. We’ve been skiing a lot in South Lake Tahoe and trying to figure out the best parking spots has been a bit of trouble. Here is what we have coming up with this far: Sierra-at-Tahoe If you follow […]

Thanks for this Evan! Great stuff. https://evanmccann.net/blog/2021/11/unifi-advanced-wi-fi-settings

I never remember so I’m writing it down here. ?

Got tired of not being able to update my BIOS via the BMC on my Supermicro boxes. Apparently this wasn’t a well kept secret. Thanks to Peter for this and sorry he had such a bad time, but good news is it’s now an easy fix. His post is here. Below if you just want […]

So having a dedicated macOS machine to do Time Machine, iMazing, Security Spy, PhotoSync and Printopia sucks so I’ve been using ESXi with macOS running on it. Having grown tired of VMware’s HCL I decided to try Proxmox. Luckily I got to stand on the shoulders of giants to get me started. First Nicholas Sherlock’s […]

Probably not needed soon, but I needed it so here it is. For CentOS 6 add: To your kernel. The OS will take care of setting up getty, etc. That easy. Note that this assumes you want serial on ttyS1 and at 115200. Don’t forget to reboot. CentOS 7/8 add: Don’t forget to run: or, […]

My Foodsaver recently started pulling a vacuum, but not starting the sealing process automatically. Finally pulled it apart to find some extra blood in the works. Pulled out screws here: I’m pretty sure the main issue was with the sensor shown below. I use a Q-tip to rub a little rubbing alcohol on and in […]

Got tired of crappy PG&E power messing up my filesystems and got an APC UPS. Next step was getting it setup to shutdown all of the VMs and then the VMware host. I used an Ubuntu 18.04 VM. First thing is to pass through the APC USB connection. This can be done just from the […]

I needed and alias setup for my macOS mail recently. I tried to use https://support.apple.com/lt-lt/guide/mail/mlhlp1205/mac but the aliases didn’t stick. Finally after consulting the Console I got an error saying that there could be only one account with that name (thanks Highlander.) I checked my Internet Accounts and found that there was indeed a second […]

If you have a DirecTV DVR and are tired of the ads during pause here is what I found to block to stop the ads. I use the great OPNsense, but any firewall will do.