Left Twitter for better pastures. Managed to grab a few great deals from @letgo app. Just a few reminders to self: a 2.5″ HDD with macOS High Sierra installed originally from an MBP Early-2011 does not boot properly when used with a MacPro5,1 – you’ll have to select the drive and run Startup Disk > […]
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AirPort Time Capsule 802.11n (2nd Generation)
Opened up a used AirPort Time Capsule 802.11n (2nd Generation) unit to discover it has shiny 1TB @westerndigital Black Caviar drive with the Apple logo. I pulled it out and Airport Utility immediately detected the anomaly of the missing drive but provided an “ignore it” option.
Dirt Pot Christians – sermon by Dr. Jim Binney
Christ Is the Solution – sermon by Dr. Jim Binney
installing FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE on a Toshiba Satellite 325CDS
The Toshiba Satellite 325CDS was sold back in 1996. It sports a 233Mhz Pentium processor, PCMCIA bay (2-slots), 3.5 floppy disk drive and a CD-ROM drive that doesn’t support DVDs. I was fortunate to acquire a well kept unit for about $25 – it had Windows 2000 installed on the primary 2.5″ IDE harddrive. Via […]
updating an iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2011) to mac OS High Sierra 10.13.6
There is no direct software upgrade path to mac OS High Sierra (10.13.x) for an iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2011). Besides that, major updates usually have BOOT ROM / SMC action involved. Can’t miss those! 🙂 Internet Recovery managed to grab OSX Lion (10.7), updated to the latest then my backup copy of Mountain Lion (10.8) […]
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Notice: Undefined index: a:1:{s:3:”ssl”;b:1;} in path/to/wp-includes/class-requests.php on line 213 If you’re getting the above error, login as an administrator and go into Appearance and select any stock WordPress theme. See if that resolves the issue with WordPress 5.4. It did for me.
How Do You See God – sermon by Dr. Jim Binney
FreeBSD ppc 12.1 & iMac PowerPC G3 DV
Just recently got an iMac G3 DV 400Mhz and I want to repurpose it to run FreeBSD as light-weight server at home (rsync, squid, reverse SSH tunnels, et al) Hardware Overview: PowerMac 2,1 PowerPC 750 (83.2) Boot ROM Version: 4.1.9f1 RAM: 384MB CPU Speed: 400Mhz Here’s what I have tried. Used the ppc (boot only) […]
Vultr, Websockets & Squid
I use Squid on my Vultr VPS. But recently, or at least to my understanding, Vultr switched from using wss:// with CONNECT or plain https:// for their “View Console” feature to wss:// with UPGRADE which is not supported yet by Squid, according to Amos Jeffries. View Console is useful when you need to perform rescue […]