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Before Our dresser as shown above in the photos went through a major makeover. This was always the plan, when we bought this used dresser off Craigslist. The original tan color was all worn out, and had marks all over. Worse thing is that the drawers were in horrible shape, with the old fashioned rails which were broken and would …
Over the weekend I decided to try out Apple Music. We’re invested in Apple ecosystem – have 2 Apple TVs, both wife and I have iPhones, and Apple Watches. I own MacBook Air, and a Mac Pro, and recently we bought a HomePod mini getting rid of all Alexa’s. With the HomePod mini, received a 6 month trial of Apple …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …