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Oh PHP, how you vex me.
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“Universal filter failed” on CUPS Linux printing from evince
“Universal filter failed” on CUPS Linux printing from evince. Very specific but I suddenly was getting errors printing. Thought it was the printer driver/setup and fruitlessly reinstalled. No good. Finally found this obscure bug:...
Byte, Hypercard, and ANSI C, Oh My!
In 1988 for a school project, I made a Hypercard (“Inspired by a mind-expanding LSD journey in 1985“) stack summarizing hardware sales and costs in every Byte Magazine that had been released to that...
Democratic Sin Eaters
This is such a warped information space. You had Trump promising everyone everything — no taxes, lower prices, ponies for all — and never being taken to task about how to pay for any...
Podcasting: Cooked
I was amused at how similar Google’s NotebookLM generated, chirpy, facile podcast style is between these different topics: Unabomber Manifesto. James Holmes’s Psychiatric Reports. Peace of Westphalia. Steamed Hams.
UE Boom’s Perverse Firmware Logic
So I’ve had one of these original UE Boom portable bluetooth speakers for *ever*. Didn’t use it for a while & the battery completely discharged. Then it simply would not charge. Charge light blinked,...
Bye Vernor
Vernor Vinge died yesterday, 2024-03-20. I know others had wrote about a Singularity-like event happening, since the early days of SF — either psychic, robot brains, benevolent alien uplifts, biological/viral, etc. But Vinge’s Omni...
BTRFS My Sweet
Running out of space and have to clone to a larger SSD and, finally, setting up as BTRFS pays off with a simple “btrfs replace” command eliminating me having to futz with dd and...
New Printer Blues
Getting somewhat difficult to find supplies for my indestructible 20-year-old Dell 3100cn laser printer. Just had to replace a drum I last replaced 6 years ago. This thing is a tank that has travelled...