I was recently shooting some videos on my phone to share with someone else and accidentally flipped the phone before filming a clip. I never film vertically as I know…
Category: technology
I tinker with tech…
Linux – Batch Convert .wav to .flac
I ran into a weird issue the other day where SoundConverter, a GUI for converting audio files, was generating flac files that my audio player couldn’t see. I’m still not…
LibreOffice – KDE Integration Package for Skinning/Color Management
Super simple note for future reference and for anyone else running into this issue. I upgraded my version of LibreOffice in Kubuntu 20.10 to a pre-release version to fix a…
Linux Server – tar files and directories
I recently had to move all my websites from one virtual private server (VPS) to another. When I only had a few such websites, I was okay with using SFTP…
ASUS Router – VPN with Android phone
I have a specific use scenario where I need to be on my home network to control a device but may want to control that device when I’m not home….
Plex – Export Playlists to M3U
I spent the last year or so cleaning up my music library. It is now organized how I want it to be. I use two software packages to play my…
Linux Server – Adding a New Domain and WordPress Site – Linode VPS – Ubuntu 18.04
I have a VPS server with Linode that I use to host about a dozen different websites. All but one of them run on WordPress. Occasionally, I get a request…
GPRENAME – removing text up to a space using regular expressions
For a recent project, I came into possession of hundreds of photos, each of which was named according to the settings the person who take the photo with their phone…
ZFS Snapshot Management
With my new fileserver/NAS, I am using a ZFS raid array for my file storage. One aspect of the ZFS file system that I didn’t really investigate all that closely…
Long Term Storage of Gmail/Email using Mozilla’s Thunderbird (on Linux)
I have email going back to 2003. There have been times when I have actually benefited from my email archive. Several times, I have gone back 5 or more years…