Future Story Ideas

Incorporate Demon Hunter introduction.

Maybe play on DK vs DH. Hotplate vs Demon Hunter.

Could be a conflict with Bob? Or, have Bob welcome DH, like he did with Hotplate. Eventual romance between Hotplate and DH? Might be a bit cheesy, but kind of fits, both "forever" changed.

Think on it a bit.

[Windows 7] Recover window from "off-screen"

Found this tip from: http://www.virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=228

Basically:

• Right-click on the window caption on the taskbar, or select it and use Alt+Space.
• Alt-Space worked for me, but right click did not.
• If the Restore option is available, select it to pop the window out of minimized or maximized state.
• Choose the Move option.
• Hit an arrow key.
• Move the mouse.

[ServerFarm] Todo list

Home lab todo list:

1. Set Up home DNS server                      - Done
2. Check if Valkyrie2. is operational        - Done, unsuccessful
3. Re-thermal paste Pegasus
4. Re-Thermal paste Galactica
5. Get 1-3TB drive for Hiigara                  - Done. 1TB datastore
6. Activate Windows on Squirrel, virtual-1, and saarkin-cho
7. Reformat Pegasus, windows side
8. Upgrade Mini to T7600
9. Fix pi's Kodi subtittle handling 
1. Done. But Chinese Characters still not working
2. Installed OpenSubtittles using SuperRepo
3. Done, installed Chinese fonts into Raspbian Pi sub-system
4. Upgrade to Raspbian Jessie. 
10. Add license to ESXi on Hiigara

[HOWTO] Install Kodi on Raspbian on a RP2

After my HTPC (valkyrie) died from a tiny fall, I've been using a Fire Stick as my Kodi player in the living room. While a nice bit of kit, its not without its disadvantages. Its most definitely a temporary solution.

I'm trying to fix Valkyrie, but that's proving annoying and time consuming. I needed a more permanent solution, in case I don't get it fixed. My first plan was to use a Mac Mini. In fact I recently bought a used Core Duo Mac Mini circa 2007. Unfortunately again, its not due to arrive for another few days, and I'm a very impatient guy.

I then remembered that the Raspberry Pi 2 makes an excellent Kodi player Better yet, its already running 24/7 monitoring my humidor, a task that doesn't even begin to task its 4 cores. So I decided to install Kodi, on Raspbian.

Why not use Openelec or some other Kodi-centric distribution? Simply because I already had the humidor setup running on raspbian and didn't feel like redoing it. 

First to get my up-to-now-headless Raspberry Pi 2 ready, I had to get its HDMI output running correctly.

• Fix Flashing Menu Bar:

• Add your used to the video and audio group 

sudo usermod -aG audio myUser

sudo usermod -aG video myUser

Fix Resolution on HDMI

• Find the correct resolution:
• tvservice -d edid 
• edidparser edid
• Set bootargs to boot that resolution
• sudo emacs /boot/config
•  hdmi_group=1
• hdmi_mode=16
• Install Kodi
• Follow instructions from: http://michael.gorven.za.net
• 
  

[RECIPE] Twice Fried Chicken Wings

Quick Recipe, hopefully have pictures and more detailed directions later:

20-24 Chicken Wings, separated into drumlets and wing sections.
4 Tablespoons of general purpose flour
3 eggs
1 Teaspoon of Thyme
1 Teaspoon of Ceyenne Pepper
1 Teaspoon of Salt
1 Teaspoon of Pepper
1 Teaspoon of Soy Sauce
1 tablespoon of lemon.

1. Thoroughly thaw the Chicken Wings.  
2. Heat deep fryer on high. 250-300F at least
3. Mix the breading
• Add the flour to a large mixing bowl
• Add the 3 eggs, scrambled first
• Add salt, cayenne pepper, black pepper and Thyme
• Add Lemon and Soy Sauce
• Mix thoroughly with a spoon/fork
4. Pour breading over Chicken Wings. 
5. Mix thoroughly with hands to ensure full coating.
6. Let stand for 10 minutes, or until oil is ready.
7. Drop a single wing, and cook thoroughly ( 6-7 minutes). 
1. Taste and adjust Salt/Pepper/Lemon as needed. 
8. Drop 4-5 wings into oil at a time. Cook for 2.5-3 minutes. 
1. Wings should be light brown
9. Remove from oil and put on strainer to cool. 
10. Repeat for all Wings. 
11. Once all wings are done, refry the first set another 1.5-2 minutes. 
1. Wings should come out darker brown
2. Allow wings to rest for 5 minutes, that should make the outside very crispy
12. Repeat for all wings.
13. Enjoy. 

Recipe: Cast Iron Skillet Steak

Defrost.

Season with Montreal + Cumin

Preheat oven to 375, with Cast iron skillet inside.

2 minutes on one side.

Flip

2 minutes on other side

8 minutes in the oven.

Will update as I tweak the recipe.

Adjust for size of steak. 3/3/10 with 1+ pound steaks were medium-well.

Export SVN externals into a file called externals.prop

 svn propget svn:externals > externals.prop


Import SVN externals from a file called externals.prop

svn propset svn:externals --file ./externals.prop .

Enable Remote Desktop from command line or SSH

Found this recently, and its very useful if you have SSH/CMD access to a box, but forgot to enable Remote Desktop.

C:\>netsh firewall set service remoteadmin enable
C:\>netsh firewall set service remotedesktop enable

Tested in Windows 7, but resulted in a deprecated message. Still worked though, so probably ok for now. Windows 10 users might need something else.

Original post:

http://superuser.com/questions/181242/enabling-rdp-or-installing-a-vnc-server-on-windows-7-from-the-command-line

[Linux] CentOS Find what package provides a command

sudo rpm -qf $(which command)

HowTo: Fix a 2 drive failure in an MDADM Raid5 array ( continued )

Happened again to the raid array. Found that my previous instructions weren't 100% correct.

The command to use is:

sudo mdadm --examine /dev/sdb1 ( not --detail )

Here is the stackoverflow post:

http://superuser.com/questions/603481/how-do-i-reactivate-my-mdadm-raid5-array