Finding stories in everyday adventures
For a long time, the hot tub in our patio was a luxury that we could never enjoy. When we bought our Chesterfield house, we had high hopes that the hot tub will work, but it never did. When we got it looked at by a skilled technician, we found that it has a leak which will take a lot of $$$ to diagnose and fix. We even had home warranty for it, but it …
Just randomly the Chauhan household minus the dogs decided to make a day trip to Port Austin, and The Thumb area of Michigan. If you don’t know what The Thumb is check this out. Port Austin is about 2 hour drive from Chesterfield, and the drive is mostly Hwy 53 with some gorgeous country side views. Along the way there were lots and lots of agricultural flat fields which makes sense considering this region has …
Quick commands to create user and group in macOS with specific uid and gid, and to add a specific user to newly created group. Add group sudo dscl . -create /Groups/<name> gid <gid> Add user sudo dscl . -create /Users/<name> sudo dscl . -create /Users/<name> UniqueID “<uid>” sudo dscl . -create /Users/<name> PrimaryGroupID <gid> Add existing user to new group sudo dscl . append /Groups/<name> GroupMembership <user> Wish macOS actually used useradd/groupadd like linux systems, …
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I learned this at a former organization. It is a good framework for decision making, and to understand slow vs fast. Hopefully, it is beneficial.
Many a times we believe there is a secret special sauce to being a leader, and to motivate people. Reality is that, there is no single sauce. In fact, there are many tiny droplets of flavor into play, and that many of those we already know/do. Take for example, a simple gesture of saying good morning to your team every single day, either in-person or on your company’s instant messaging tool. That simple gesture goes …
My 2021 reading challenge was 8 books. I ended 2021 with only 6 books read, that’s 75% of the goal and 1 book every 2 months. I seem to have failed in my challenge and for sure I would be considered one of the slowest readers out there. However, 2021 was also one of the toughest years. While for the records, pandemic was still ongoing, which adds to stress in itself. My family in India …
If you have an immediate need to reboot your TV Tuner but are feeling lazy to not go down to basement to your server room, then fear not, there’s a CLI called hdhomerun_config Download the binary from HDHR site: https://info.hdhomerun.com/info/hdhomerun_config Run the command hdhomerun_config 1076C29C set /sys/restart self
Current Modem Xfinity xb7 Firewall / Router / DHCP eero 2nd gen mesh wifi (6x units throughout the house) Local DNS & Ad Blocker (pi-hole) Dell 9020 SFF Intel i5-4570 8GB RAM 120GB SSD Network distribution HPE V1910-48G JE009A Switch (48-ports Gigabit) for wired ethernet eero 2nd gen mesh wifi (6x units throughout the house) Cat5e Ethernet wiring to home office, media room and living room Primary Server HP Proliant DL380p G8 2x Intel Xeon …
HP V1910 is an excellent enterprise grade managed switch for homelab usage. You can easily get it for cheap on eBay. Now, as I was messing with management UI, I noticed my settings weren’t being saved. Well, it turned out that I needed to hit the Save button (!) This took me several frustrating hours to figure out, after my settings weren’t being persisted post-reboots. You’re welcome.