Outdoor Technologist

Random thoughts spewed in the digital realm

Julia – Modify 3D Background colors

Julia allows for you to customize plots to meet customer’s requests. This came in handy, but it was hard to find for this novice programmer. This link helped me solve the problem: https://plotly.com/julia/3d-axes/#background-and-grid-color My task required printing from 3 dimensional temperature data, rather than an equations, so I couldn’t follow the exact method shown here….

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Making Windows 11 useful for me!

Modifications for Windows 11 Laptop Windows Terminal System Clipboard suggestion – get rid of it!

Installing Windows 11 w/o Microsoft Account

I make machines for temp use and I don’t want to attach my account to them, but Windows 11 makes it more difficult to do this… but not elbissopmi! I found the info here

Remove SSH known hosts on Windows

The quick: Open a Windows File Explorer and type: This brings you to the .ssh directory that has the known_hosts file in it. Open the known_host file delete the key that is causing you problems. Source: https://superuser.com/questions/311886/where-is-the-known-hosts-file-for-openssh-for-windows/318749#318749?newreg=7793b32b40354caeab6d06206035d9f0 A bit more bloggy: Due to the nature of the work I do, I often use the same…

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Most useful answer on Microsoft Help

Direct link: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/useful-microsoft-download-links-for-office-direct/7bcaa971-9493-44b6-a1ba-0db4c6957c47 I copied it below so I could find it easy. Useful Microsoft download links for Office (direct links) Office Home and Business 2016 64bit:  https://c2rsetup.officeapps.live.com/c2r/download.aspx?productReleaseID=HomeBusinessRetail&platform=X64&language=en-US&TaxRegion=pr&correlationId=6c9987bc-6b60-435e-bd02-55bbd2f99308&token=faaf32f6-6d4e-437a-8829-62f924252076&version=O16GA&source=O15OLSOMEX Office Home and Business 2016 32bit:  https://c2rsetup.officeapps.live.com/c2r/download.aspx?productReleaseID=HomeBusinessRetail&platform=X86&language=en-US&TaxRegion=pr&correlationId=7b126833-942c-436e-8cdf-ad9d938e4923&token=faaf32f6-6d4e-437a-8829-62f924252076&version=O16GA&source=O15OLSOMEX Office Backup Setup: http://office.microsoft.com/backup OFFICE 365 HOME(Direct Download LINK):- 2013 version: https://c2rsetup.officeapps.live.com/c2r/download.aspx?productReleaseID=O365HomePremRetail&platform=X86&language=en-US&TaxRegion=pr&correlationId=7e21dd05-491e-4160-9092-2def0c1f1548&token=03ec93e1-7670-4b54-ae66-c70b47d595b2&version=O15GA&source=O15OLSOMEX 2016 version: https://c2rsetup.officeapps.live.com/c2r/download.aspx?productReleaseID=O365HomePremRetail&platform=X86&language=en-US&version=O16GA&source=O15OLSO365 Office 2013  Office 2013 Pro Plus:  http://care.dlservice.microsoft.com/dl/download/2/9/C/29CC45EF-4CDA-4710-9FB3-1489786570A1/OfficeProfessionalPlus_x86_en-us.img…

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Unifi Updates and Issue Notes

I’m starting this because I have had some issues with Unifi – not enough to get rid of it, but enough that I want to keep these notes on it and I figured it may help other people. Most recent events will be at the top: 2024 01 09 2024 01 05 Noticed U6 Lite…

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Jira Priority Change

It took a while to find where to add a priority so here is the partial link: https://YourSubDomainHERE.atlassian.net/secure/admin/ViewPriorities.jspa Replace your subdomain and you should be able to add any priorities you want. I have a ‘ColdStorage’ priority for items that have been looked at, and may be done by anyone with spare time.

Kanban – Adding Columns

I use online JIRA and I needed to add another column to the view so I could track my project better. The interface has changed, so I had to search harder to to find where to add the column. Find Add Column! They changed the navigation path to add columns. The video below helped me…

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Adding users to BlueSky

This is the location I learned about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueskySocial/comments/15my6r8/see_who_migratedis_on_bluesky_from_twitter/ This is where the magic is: https://skeet.labnotes.org/?index NOTE: Do NOT put your bluesky password in as the password. They want you to Create an APP password & use that! It only found me 1 follower 🙁

Docker Setup

Instructions from: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/debian/ Setup apt repository Install docker Packages Latest Version: Verify

MQTT Setup

Create Directory Structure – mqtt – config – data – log Create file: mqtt/docker-compose.yml Create file: mqtt/mosquitto/config/mosquitto.conf Startup service:

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