Fri 4 Jan – Visiting Aileen in OPRS
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Thur 3 Jan – Improvement!
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Bed ridden on New Years Day
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WTF is UTF?
UTF stands for Unicode Transformation Format. The most popular version is UTF-8 which represents 8 bits or 8 one’s or zero’s. (11111111 -> 00000000). The secret though is that it uses up to 4 bytes. We know that 1 byte = 8 bits so 4 bytes gives us 32 bits. 8 bits can represent 255… Read More »
What does > /dev/null 2>&1 mean?
Here is a great write up explain what the cryptic symbols mean. https://medium.com/@codenameyau/step-by-step-breakdown-of-dev-null-a0f516f53158 Combine this with command -v to bypass “normal function lookup” from https://askubuntu.com/questions/512770/what-is-use-of-command-command we can use this to check if certain applications exist.
How to install Ubuntu Guest Mode on Virtual Box on OSX
If you are running Ubuntu on Virtual Box you will want to make sure you can copy and paste between the to environments. Simply turning on Bidirectional won’t work using a normal Ubuntu ISO. You need to upgrade to Guess Addition. Guest Additions provide additional capability to a guest virtual machine, including file sharing and… Read More »
pretty json format in Sublime in 60 seconds
If you are working with json and want to view it in a pretty format within Sublime, you can install an extension very quickly. The long way on a Mac is to navigate to ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages and run this command from a terminal: git clone https://github.com/dzhibas/SublimePrettyJson.git Restart Sublime and the open up some unformatted json… Read More »
Where did h1. in Confluence go?
If you love Confluence shortcuts and use h1. My heading as a shortcut and discovered it no longer works, you are not the only one. It took a bit of searching to find out if “h1 in confluence still work?” The actual search term would be “Confluence Wiki Markup for Headings doesn’t work”. The docs… Read More »
Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari
An easy and fascinating read of a brief history to human kind. Definitely worth a read. There are four main periods highlighted in the book: The Cognitive Revolution (c. 70,000 BC, when Sapiens evolved imagination). The Agricultural Revolution (c. 10,000 BC, the development of agriculture). The unification of humankind (the gradual consolidation of human political organisations towards one global empire). The Scientific… Read More »
What model Raspberry Pi do I have?
Run this command: > grep Revision /proc/cpuinfo and you should see some code print out like: Revision : a22082 Go to the site: https://elinux.org/RPi_HardwareHistory and search for the revision number. Done!