random notes, guides, and thoughts…
November 20, 2017
I have an Olympus TG5 camera, which has RAW support for Darktable, but only in the very latest (currently unreleased!) 2.3.0 version. Since I have Windows, I’ll have to build Darktable directly from source to be able to manipulate it. Here’s how you can do that.
August 31, 2017
If you have the newer (model 1708) XBox One Wireless Controller, you can get it to work with a Steam Link on native Bluetooth pretty easily. But if it’s straight out of the box, the rumble motor won’t work on the controller.
July 4, 2017
In case this is useful for anyone besides me, here is the correct way to thread the waist buckle onto a Scubapro X-Tek Pure Harness;
April 4, 2017
Quick one. If you have a heap of OGG music that you want to convert to MP3 format, and also want to conserve the metadata that’s in the music, run this from Ubuntu;
February 17, 2017
I use a RPi 3 as a secondary DNS and DHCP server, and time synchronization is important for that. Due to some technicalities with how my network is set up, this means that I need a real-time clock on the RPi so that it can have at least some idea of the correct time when it powers up instead of being absolutely dependant on NTP for that.
February 9, 2017
As part of my home DR strategy, I’ve started pushing images of all my virtual machines (as well as my other data) across to Backblaze using Duplicity. If you want to do the same, here’s how you can do it.