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WordPress Comment Spam

Posted on December 29, 2020 by tim

A quick note on WordPress spam in comments – Starting 2020 November 26th and continuing until 2020 December 17th, a spammer created a bunch of comments on the one page that had accidentally allowed comments – “About” In total, there … Continue reading →

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RetroPie Raspberry Pi 4

Posted on September 15, 2020 by tim

Item Product Cost Pi 4 CanaKit Raspberry Pi 4 Basic Kit 1.5GHz 64-bit quad core ARMv8, USB-C 3.5A Power, USB-C Power switch $55 MicroSD SanDisk 64GB Ultra microSDXC USH-I $12 Case RETROFLAG NESPi 4 Case with SSD Case, USB-C Power … Continue reading →

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FreeNas 11 ZFS Replace Failed Drive

Posted on August 8, 2020 by tim

This documents the steps to replace a failed drive in a mirror configuration in FreeNAS 11.1-U7. This process is really easy with FreeNAS. This scenario is in contrast to replacing a failed drive before it fails (in a Centos “ad-hoc” … Continue reading →

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Crossword Puzzle Data Format

Posted on May 13, 2020 by tim

The biggest crisis in computer science today is the lack of a good crossword puzzle data format. There are some existing formats: XPF Universal Crossword Puzzle Data Format – XML based, minimal redundancy, answers summarized in grid Yet Another Crossword … Continue reading →

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jq pattern for terrible JSON

Posted on May 10, 2020 by tim

Many JSON formats are completely brain dead. Instead of the natural { key : value }, these formats go “all meta’, using { Field: “name”, Value: “amateur” } or { “name” : “name”, “value”: “amateur” }. This “meta key-value” approach … Continue reading →

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GraphQL with curl examples

Posted on January 22, 2020 by tim

GraphQL curl command examples, showing you both the curl command and the graphql schema. Project link: graphql-java-codegen-gradle-plugin This is documentation for the combination of: A realistic graphql schema An actual Java server that implements that graphql schema Using curl to … Continue reading →

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AMD Ryzen Build

Posted on December 21, 2019 by tim

Some facts on the CPU: it is currently #135 on PassMark [16,9499] cpubenchmark.net. The video card was the least expensive PCI available at Micro Center. This build is intended for two distinct purposes. The first is a general-purpose, install linux, … Continue reading →

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ZFS replace drive before it fails

Posted on October 12, 2019 by tim

The main Virtual Machine Server was seeing hardware failures and ZFS “scrub not zero bytes”. One of the (cheap) Hitachi Ultrastar 2TB disks was starting to fail, after only 1.5 years. Smartctl was showing 53 recent errors. pool: vmstorage state: … Continue reading →

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Core i7-9700K Build

Posted on December 30, 2018 by tim

Some facts on the CPU: it is currently #67 on PassMark [17,329, single thread 2,909] cpubenchmark.net. It was launched 2018 October. It used 14mm architecture and does not have hyperthreading. Since the “i7-9700”, i.e. non-K, does not exist (and may … Continue reading →

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CPU Comparison

Posted on December 8, 2018 by tim

The table includes both “as built” and “dreaming only” CPUs. Rank2018 CPU PassMark Benchmark 2 i9-7908XE@2.6 27,786 36 i9-9900K@3.6 20,156 38 i7-7900X@3.3 20,046 67 i7-9700k@3.6 17,329 96 i7-8700k@3.7 15,960 264 i7-4770k@3.5 10,091 401 i7-2600k@3.4 8,444 510 i5-6500@3.2 7,240

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