Category Archives: general
กรุงเทพมหานคร
Ever wondered why there are so many different types of Thai number plates? I thought I had it figured out, then I found a nice little reference which goes into great detail.
Displaying images from a USB stick on a Sony Bravia KDL-55HX750
I have a Sony Bravia TV that’s not very old and is supposed to have ability to display JPG images from a USB key. Well, it can display some images but in general I get an error message saying the image can’t be displayed.
Sound Shock Wave Approaching
Ok, it’s not the newest of news, but I only just saw this for the first time this morning. It appears to me the eruption cloud itself is even faster than sound as you can see the shock wave overtake it early in the eruption as the cloud rises. Easy maths challenge for the partners: How …
“Rihanna couldn’t sing to save her life”
Right or wrong, we’re all entitled to our own opinions.
Marketing vs Piracy
“Why is it ‘marketing‘ when a company helps itself to my information against my will and ‘piracy‘ or ‘industrial espionage‘ if I helped myself to THEIR information against their will ?”
Roads and Maritime Services—Online Renewals (Privacy)
Privacy statement as presented to me on 2016-04-26 to register a motor vehicle online.
2n+r rule
For vdevs in zpools, the optimal number of redundant drives can be calculated by the attached table.
md5deep and finding duplicate files
I did this in several steps: create an md5 dump of the files system in question. For this I used my favourite command line tool `md5deep`, sort the file based on file size then md5 hash (sorted from largest to smallest), and remove entries that are not duplicate entries. Although this could be completed in …
Needle in a Haystack
Don’t lose a teeny weeny surface mount resistor on a board full of teeny weeny surface mount resistors (and other components).