So I bought myself a 3d printer. I decided on getting an AnyCubic i3 Mega printer, which was pretty cheap considering. Reviews were fairly decent.

My father asked me to update the maps on his Garmin Nuvi 1390 on Friday evening.  This did not go so well.  Using Garmin Express, I applied the updates, unplugged it when it said, and it sat there with a black screen saying “Loading maps.” and that was all.  Nothing else.

I’ve recently changed my ISP to AussieBroadband.  Since I’m now working under a quota, I want a way to monitor my quota in CheckMK.  Enter a bit of python.  If you want to use this, you’ll need to adjust the hashbang to suit your actual OMD site, and then pass a parameter which is your username:password to get onto your ABB account.

EDIT:  No longer required.  Since Darktable 2.4.0, there’s an official native Windows installer for it.  Use that instead.  Easy!

I’ve recently changed my core router over from OpenWRT to pfSense.  I was pretty happy with OpenWRT, but I wanted something more powerful since it was running in a VM anyway.

Trap for young players.  Ubuntu replaces the default interpreter for /bin/sh from Bash to Dash.  This was done for performance reasons, but certain scripts really don’t like this.  You can easily change it back with;