johnk
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w32tm reports the computer did not resync because no time data was available
I got the message “the computer did not resync because no time data was available” after running “w32tm /resync /force”. I had followed the various howtos out there*, and checked them against each other : as expected, they differed slightly, but none of them worked for me. Well, it turned out that I needed to…
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Debian and Ubuntu Networking Configuration /etc/network/interfaces with a Static IP Address
This is easy to find anywhere, and it’s here too. This one includes the dns-* lines that will be read by resolvconf(8). root@server:/etc/network# cat interfaces # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface…
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MS Access: VBA CRC32 Function
Here’s a CRC32 function based on the work at: cCRC32. The main difference is that this is a function, and the crc32 table is not recalculated each time. If there’s a way to do constant arrays, I’d like to know. I haven’t found anything online.
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Make Meme/LOLCats Text with the GIMP
This tutorial explains how to make the “LOLCats” or “Meme” font so popular with the kids today. You can see a lot of these on the 4Chan /b/ channel, but don’t go there if you have any illusions that our society isn’t full of degenerates. The meme font is Impact Condensed, but to get the…
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Magic Folder to Convert DOC and OpenOffice to PDF
Most of the information in this post is derived from http://www.tech-faq.com/convert-word-to-pdf.html. The code’s reposted here as a service, because the code there needs some editing. Also, a useful thread about executing OOo macros is at http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=2619. Here’s the code to automate the opening and saving of a file as PDF, using Open Office. Paste this…
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Exiting Amazon (Again)
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China and Least Developed Countries Free Trade; Cal Gig Worker Law; Running Down the Walls
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Inventing Black and White
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Two Videos of People with COVID-19, from Early 2020
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DIY Dustpan or Daspan
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Civil Rights Unionism
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Prompts to Discover an LLM’s Training about the Anti-Chinese Movement
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Old Articles about anti-Zionism and Zionism by Jewish Communists
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WordPress Custom HTML Block Strips the LINK and SCRIPT Tags; Workaround with WP-Coder
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Getting Meta’s AI, Imagine, to Produce NSFW Images
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Hikes, Walks, and Bookstores
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Some Yelp Reviews
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Good Summary on Bastard Urbanism
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January 2018 Links
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Capitalism, Socialism, Cars, Fascism; Asiaphobia in the Black Community; Tipping; Masking; Kamala
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Letter to Garcetti about Shipping Container Homes
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Python Data Science Study
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Los Angeles Typographical Union ITU 174 at Angelus Rosedale Cemetery
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Alice Johnson is Out, but what about Street Dealers?
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Protected: What the Heck is Wrong?
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How to Use the New AI Chatbots, ChatGPT and Bing Chat AI
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Henry George’s Racist Screed Against Chinese People in California, New York Tribune, May 1, 1869
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Get in Touch
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How is that Asian students both international and Asian Americans are so good in college?
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Treasure Chest, Robert Louis Stevenson Jr. High School Yearbook, 1939
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Selected Posts from Facebook from January 2020
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Prompt Engineering References and Programming
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ChatGPT on Nationalism
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Facebook 2009, Part 1
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Gubernatorial Candidate Villaraigosa Should Love Ranked Choice Voting (Upd. Jun. 7)
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Professions in Decline, and Some Growing
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DALL-E has Problems with “Race Mixing”
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Racist Housing Policy Made Your Neighborhood
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Meta-Assited WordPress Plugin: Corrections 4
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The Current Effort to Deny Citizenship to Undocumented Immigrants or Spouses Has a Precedent
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Meta-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 5
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The Lotto and Voting Machine Meme is Bugging Me