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For the longest time I’ve used Kodak i900 scanner — works well with a Xsane driver… recently had to upgrade my machine, and didn’t find my notes on how to get the i900 driver working. Also the i900 was a bit finicky starting up — you’d have to flip it open/close a number of times…

The days of paying $250/year for a certificate are over. The Urge to build your own self-signed certificate (that only works for your own browser) are gone. Trying to work without a certificate, and having every browser flag your site as bad… Enter Let’s Encrypt — First thing you need to down load certbot from…

Setting up a PBX system is far simpler than you thought… all you need is a NUC (mini computer) and a decent network connection (at least a few hundred kbps). The rest is just a provider to the telephone network, such as LES.NET for a few dozen dollars per month, generally cheaper than a PacBell…

Here are the scripts (Bash, Python and Tcl/Tk) to get this done First the Python3 & packages… sudo apt install python3-pipsudo apt install python3-tksudo apt install python3-pygame Then we need the sound-effects, let’s put them in Share/Audio-Samples Now for the bash script to launch the app ( sound-effects.sh ) Remember to change the script to…

Pictures and procedures of my wife rewiring the apartment to CAT5e with zero cost. All it’s going to cost you is a bunch of cat5 plugs, possibly a cable crimping tool, and a cable tester (optional). NOTE: remember to get permission before doing the work from apartment managers — best approach: “Hey I want to…

Actually the domain name got its start because a colleague of mine, one day sent me a bit silly email — he forged the address as manager@pointyhair.com, which gave me a good idea. I checked if pointyhair.com was available (it was!) I registered the domain immediately, pointed it to my servers, created the name manager@pointyhair.com…